an air missile campaign would be followed by, would soften the battlefield for a ground invasion with the intention of crippling this country, a good half to 2/3 of the country based on, again, the u.s. assessment that that is what is being looked for right now. right? the ground forces coming across. just one note about those sirens we ve been hearing in kyiv. the u.s. assessment has been that the targets of the russian aerial campaign, a shock and awe campaign it s been described to me by u.s. military officials, the targets would largely be military targets, things like air fields, aircraft. and as matthew chance was noting there s an air field quite close to the capital which is a ukrainian military air field. but also the possibility of hitting infrastructure. it was the u.s. assessment that russia would not attempt to bomb cities indiscriminately. however, with this important caveat, that from the u.s. perspective russian targeting is