take advantage of this more, perhaps push ukraine to push harder in their counteroffensive, et cetera. but the white house seems to have made the opposition decision. first of all, they don't have the power to control events is their perception, but they don't want to be seen as owning this. is that a debate taking place inside the administration at all? >> i'm not so sure. i think what this episode shows us, and we should see it as the latest indication of the disaster of the ukraine war for this russian regime. we saw, you know, it was so far away from the delusion of the de-nazification, special military operation. we've now seen the russians get stuck fighting ukrainians, the russians now fighting essentially the west as well to a certain extent. and now the russians are fighting the russians, and this weekend has kind of really hammered home what a disaster this has been for putin.