georgia. we see these as essentially trojan horses for nato's military power and u.s. influence subversion and so forth. he then turned to several upper opportunities -- other opportunities. most recently with president biden in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean out eastern ukraine of any opposition forces whatsoever. and to put his forces in a position vis-à-vis nato to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change ukraine and effectively applied -- for the projection of u.s. and western power into russia. now his goal as we see at the moment is to seize the entire area of eastern ukraine. that is very clear. near kiev that he has moved and is preparing to go in and captured that city entirely. and that point, he has to decide what else she wants to do.