at all. he blew right through. 's be when you hear that u.s. intelligence and british intelligence is saying this is going much slower than russia had anticipated, may be russia had anticipated, what do you think? >> listen, i've been a long history the background of intelligence myself, but you see intelligence get it wrong over and over again and that's why they had recommended a longer burn before the collapse. it is not surprising that what we have learned last week was there were amassed troops on the border. you can almost disregard this. this is a ground fight that is bloody, vladimir putin is extending his lines to penetrate the interiors of ukraine. that's a difficult prospect and i will take you back to iraq, afghanistan, the united states with hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground. they found themselves in a slugfest fights inside the city's.