mentality. his view that the russian speakers in the eastern part of the country belong with russia, under pressed. even the victims of genocide by the governments in kyiv. but, that never came to pass, because the fact of the matter is this country, even russian speaking parts, which i'm no longer it in, even they see themselves very much as ukrainians. the problem is, for vladimir putin, that if you wanted to unite ukrainians, he did exactly that, by attacking them. he brought them all together, and you saw that on an international level to by attacking ukraine, he also breathe new life into the nato alliance that he so despised. he brought it back from the brink of a relevance, and made it more immediate, and more necessary. so a lot of this, just as you're talking about the battlefield stakes and lack of gains that he really should've maids. and even from the beginning, this was putin's war through lose. everything so far seems to be going against what he wanted,