where prigozhin either has something on putin, or he s got enough leverage where we can actually control some of not only the narrative, but also what putin does next. think about what they have, for example, in africa. you ve got the wagner group all over africa, in syria. that s a huge arm of russian foreign policy that s sitting right there. and if that is somehow stopped or doesn t work as well as it once did, that creates a real problem for the kremlin. and putin can t afford to have that problem, in addition to the problems that he has in ukraine right now. keep your friends close, your enemies closer, right? exactly. and beth, that brings me to my next question. our ben wedeman called this a little bit of a soap opera. if you re u.s. intelligence at this point in time, how are you kind of watching, analyzing what s been happening and trying to draw some conclusions about what this may say about next steps for president putin and russia? well, you break it down into the t