"ALL IN" STARTS RIGHT NOW. healthy GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK, I'M CHRIS HAYES. THE VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE IS ESCALATING, WITH RATIONALE BOMBING CIVILIAN TARGETSWhat was so scary about Tesla’s ideas? Decoded ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CITY OF AND ONE JOURNALIST ON THE GROUND TELLS NBC NEWS THAT THE DOWNTOWN LOOKS LIKE A WAR ZONE, WHICH, OF COURSE, IT IS. THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE SAYS THAT MORE THAN 228
UKRAINIAN KILLED, MORE THAN 520 INJURED IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK OF FIGHTING. WE KNOW THAT THAT IS LIKELY AN UNDERCOUNT. ONE UKRAINIAN WOMAN WHO FLED KHARKIV DESCRIBE WHAT SHE EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND TO NBC NEWS. >> I LEFT KHARKIV TWO DAYS AGO, WHEN THINGS GOT WORSE. AND MY HOUSE GOT BOMBARDED BY BOMBS AND MY LOVED ONES DIED.
>> WHO DIED?
>> MY FRIENDS. IN BASEMENTS. THEY WERE HIDING IN BASEMENTS. BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT IS SO HARD. THEY USE SOME KIND OF NEW FORBIDDEN BOMBS THAT DESTROYED EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IN A BIG DISTANCE. SO, IT'S PRETTY MUCH -- MY WHOLE CITY IS JUST DUST. >> MY WHOLE CITY IS JUST DUST, THAT SENSE OF HORROR AND DESPAIR APPEARS TO BE RUSSIA'S EXPLICIT GOAL. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S
REPORTING THAT PUTIN HAS MADE A SHIFT IN TACTICS TOWARDS TARGETING CIVILIAN SPECIFICALLY AS A WAY TO DEMORALIZE UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE. THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE AND THE OVERWHELMING REBUKE FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. BECAUSE HE BASICALLY HAS DONE THE SAME PLAYBOOK TWICE ALREADY. AND ESSENTIALLY GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT. FIRST, BACK IN THE LATE 1990S, WHEN RUSSIA INVADED CHECHNYA, A BREAKAWAY WHERE PUBLIC. IT WAS UNDER THE GUISE OF AN ANTI TERRORISM OPERATION, LEADING TO A BLOODY CONFLICT, WHICH LASTED YEARS AND LEFT THOUSANDS DEAD. THEN, AGAIN, IN SYRIA IN LATE 2015, WHEN RUSSIAN FORCES INTERVENE IN THAT COUNTRY CIVIL WAR IN ORDER TO KEEP DICTAT OBASHAR AL-ASSAD IN POWER. FOR THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE, RUSSIA HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF BOMBING CIVILIAN TARGETS IN SYRIA, INCLUDING SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS, FACING RELATIVELY LITTLE OUTCRY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. CERTAINLY, NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW. AND SYRIA IS ALSO WHERE PUTIN TESTED OUT INTERNATIONALLY THE DISINFORMATION TACTICS THAT RUSSIA IS KNOWN FOR TODAY,
MUDDYING THE WATERS ABOUT ASSAD'S CRIMES AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE AND THE NATURE OF RUSSIA'S MILITARY TARGETS. AT ONE POINT HE EVEN PAINTED HUMANITARIAN RESCUE WORKERS AS TERRORISTS. ON THE ONE HAND, YOU CAN SEE WHY PUTIN THOUGHT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH IT. AND WOULD SEND HIS TROOPS IN ON A MADE-UP CHARGE OF FIGHTING EXTREMISM IN A WORLD WHERE --IT MADE A SOVEREIGN COME VERY COUNTRY RELATIVELY IN CHECK UNCHECKED. THAT'S NOT HOW IT PLAYED OUT THIS TIME. THERE ARE REASONS. FIRST, LET'S BE HONEST AND CLEAR HERE. THEY ARE TRANSPARENT ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS BIASES AND BIGOTRY IN BOTH CHECHNYA AND SYRIA, WHERE PUTIN CLAIMED HE WAS FIGHTING A WAR ON TERRORISM. HE WAS APPLAUDED BY MANY IN THE WEST FOR DOING SO. BOTH CHECHNYA AND SYRIA HAVE MAJORITY MUSLIM POPULATIONS. THEY ARE SUBJECT TO A KIND OF SKEPTICISM THAT MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE NOT. THE SAD TRUTH IS THAT THE MORAL LOGIC OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR ESSENTIALLY LABELED CERTAIN CIVILIANS EXPENDABLE IN THE EYES OF MANY. THE EYES OF MANY. THAT HAS BEEN TRUE FOR U.S. ACTIONS IN COUNTRIES LIKE AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AS WELL. IN UKRAINE, PUTIN'S ATTEMPT TO PAINT THE GOVERNMENT AS
EXTREMIST -- RUNNING THE SAME PLACE BOOK, THIS TIME WASN'T ISIS, IT WAS THE NAZIS. HE'S GOING TO DO NAZIFY UKRAINE. IT'S FLAT. RUSSIA'S DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WAS NOT GIVEN THE REASONS, INCLUDING THE TRANSPARENCY OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN THE RUN UP TO THE INVASION, WHICH FINALLY SAID IN REALTIME THAT THIS WAS RUSSIA'S PLAN AND WE ARE PROVEN BASICALLY RIGHT AT EVERY JUNCTURE. THERE IS ALSO THE FACT THAT UKRAINE IS IN EASTERN EUROPE, AND THE SITE OF THE WORST OF THE WORST BARBARISM IN HUMAN HISTORY, THE MOST HORRIFYING WARS AND A GENOCIDE. AND THAT PUTS THE INVASION IN FRONT OF MIND FOR MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES ON A CONFIDENCE THAT HAS BEEN BLOODIED BY CONFLICT OVER THE CENTURIES. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, UKRAINE IS ALSO THE RICHEST COUNTRY TO BE SUBJECTED TO THIS KIND OF ATTACK IN THE DIGITAL AGE. SMART PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA ARE UTTERLY UBIQUITOUS. THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT IS OBVIOUSLY OUTMATCHED IN TERMS OF
NUMBERS AND WEAPONRY. IT IS THE ONLY REMAINING TOOL IT HAS TO CONSTRAIN RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, TO BASICALLY WIN OVER PUBLIC OPINION GLOBALLY, THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF PEOPLE.
AND YOU ARE SEEING AN UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF FOOTAGE FROM REAL PEOPLE IN REAL TIME AND IT IS PROVIDING UKRAINE WITH ITS ONLY REAL HOPE OF FIGHTING BACK AGAINST ITS OCCUPATION.
IT'S RALLYING GLOBAL PUBLIC OPINION TO EXERT PRESSURE ON PUTIN, BY THE INFORMATION WAR. AND SO FAR, IT'S BEEN AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY.
VIDEOS OF UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE ARE EVERYWHERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS, THEY ARE PUSHING A CONSISTENT NARRATIVE OF A COUNTRY HEROICALLY FIGHTING BACK AGAINST A BRUTAL OPPRESSOR.
WE SHOULD NOTE THAT NONE OF THE VIDEOS WE ARE BACK TO SHOW YOU WERE SHOT BY NBC NEWS THERE. ? POSTED TO SOCIAL MEDIA. WE CANNOT VERIFY FOR CERTAIN WHERE THEY WERE TAKEN BY THIS VIDEO WHERE I AM ABOUT TO SHOW YOU, IT'S FROM SATURDAY, A GROUP OF PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO PHYSICALLY RESIST WHAT APPEARS TO BE A RUSSIAN TANK IN A CITY OF ABOUT 115 MILES NORTH OF KYIV.
WHEN MILLENNIALS IN FRONT OF THE TANK AN ATTEMPT TO STOP IT FROM MOVING FORWARD. WE ARE CALLING THAT FAMOUS IMAGE
FROM CHINA, IN TIANANMEN SQUARE.
SIMILAR SCENES ARE PLAYING OUT FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LIKE IN MARIUPOL, WE ARE A GROUP OF PROTESTERS CALLED RUSSIAN FORCES OCCUPIERS, ATTEMPTING TO PHYSICALLY PUSH THEIR TRUCKS AWAY, AS A RUSSIAN SOLDIER FIRES AGAIN INTO THE AIR. THIS VIDEO WAS VERIFIED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES INVESTIGATION TEAM.
A GROUP OF CIVILIANS STOOD UP TO RUSSIAN TROOPS, MARCHING THROUGH THE STREETS HOLDING GRENADES.
THE CROWD COURSES AT THE SOLDIERS, TELLING THEM TO PUT THEIR WEAPONS AWAY AND ULTIMATELY FORCE THEM TO RETRIEVE RETREAT. THE TOWNS MAYOR ASKED IF THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT.
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THAT IS AN IMPACTFUL, INSPIRING CALL TO ARMS. IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS IS ALL ESSENTIALLY WAR PROPAGANDA. IT'S PROPAGANDA IN THE SERVICE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE CONFLICT. IT'S A TOOL THEY HAVE. BUT PERHAPS NO ONE HAS BENEFITED MORE FROM UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT, VOLATILE MAYOR ZELENSKYY.
THE FORMER ACTOR-TURNED-PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KEEPING IN FREQUENT CONTACT WITH HIS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, FIRST IN A SERIES OF FORMAL ADDRESSES AND THEN VIDEOS TO FOLLOWERS ON HIS TELEGRAM CHANNEL, WHERE ZELENSKYY PRESENTS HIMSELF AS A FIGHTER ON THE GROUND READY TO SACRIFICE FOR HIS COUNTRY.
IT IS ALL PART OF AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD, PERHAPS ESPECIALLY THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, TO OPPOSE THE WAR, AND IT'S A SENTIMENT ECHOED EARLIER TODAY BY U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN.
>> THIS IS PRESIDENT PUTIN'S WAR. THIS IS NOT THE RUSSIAN PEOPLES WAR. IT IS BECOMING CLEARER BY THE DAY THAT THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE OPPOSE IT. AND MEMBERS OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY OPPOSE IT. AND THEY HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY WERE BEING SENT TO DO THIS.
AND NOW THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR LEADERS CHOICES. SO, MY MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA, IF THEY ARE EVEN ABLE TO HEAR IT, AS THE KREMLIN
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