notice he's also recruiting in syria for foreign fighters, practiced in urban warfare, sounds like nonsense also. you've got 60% of his ground combat power inside ukraine, half the air force. he's in over his head already. his logistics system has broken down. it looks like, at the operational level of war, his commanding control has broken down. they're not fighting very well and they look indisciplined and hungry and looting things, so this is a mess. i don't see how he backs out of that. at some point, one can only hope that his own military leadership approaches him and says, you're deepening the disaster for russia. he's had to arrest 15,000 of his own citizens, brave people, incredible to stand up to russian police, but this is a downward slide. will the europeans in particular