putin's decision. and he is the uber decision maker in russia. he gets a lot of advice. i think that he has a lot that is driving him. there is this cold war baggage, the breakup of the soviet union exactly 30 years ago. and a lot of -- the whole ukraine/russia history. but this -- he has taken them to the edge, his leadership is with him. i'm not completely convinced that the russian people fully understand what is going on when they get in the details. i listen sometimes to the russian media. the narrative there is that you have 110,000 ukranian soldiers on the border of eastern ukraine and they are ready to invade. that stokes things up. now, there is a lot of rhetoric, there is a diplomatic off-ramp. people are talking. the russians have made their point. they can go and back off and