Last week Vladimir Putin announced that he was calling up 300k reservists to fight in the war in Ukraine and is threatening nuclear action once again.

So how concerned should we be, and is Putin "a cornered rat?"

We speak to Peter Hartcher, the international editor of The Age and SMH newspapers and ask has Vladimir Putin become more dangerous, more desperate or both?

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Dangerous or desperate? Putin's double down in Ukraine