forces that they have amassed at the border and just leave a fairson almost indefinitely to keep their guns and missiles pointed at kyiv, as a threat of psychological warfare and likely a scenario in the short term and as you pointed out and as i have been reporting, ukrainian officials have almost unanimous in thinking this whole thing was a bluff. they believe they understand russian president vladimir putin's psychology a lot better than we do. they think this is just his way of conducting brinkmanship. at the end of a bayonet or a barrel of a gun to gain concessions from kyiv in terms of reincorporating occupied territories in the east, to influence a russian direction for the company and remit gated 1989 and 1991, and the western security posture and so on. >> there are very few bright