donetsk asking for recognition and the night ended with now i would say the infamous speech, where putin essentially laid out a deeply paranoid and grievance filled view about the west. about addressing what he saw as a laundry list of wrongs committed against russia that need to be addressed. and he really kind of whittled away methodically at the idea of the concept of ukrainian state hood and left it at saying russia created ukrainian. this is russian territory. and ukraine is now a threat to russia. it points to a man who has a very specific read of russian history, ukrainian history. i brought up the security council meeting because it also paints a picture of a man who's very isolated. it's historically not a great mixture. >> matthew, let me ask you about this protection of the show. the stage craft and everything's