why advisers are reportedly misleading putin about how this war is going? if they tell putin the truth, they fear putin s reaction. well, you know, i think advisers are not telling them the truth because in moscow, if you do so, you somehow full out of an apartment window. this is almost self-preservation. ultimately vladimir putin has a serious problem. there are rifts forming within his security services and within the ministry of defense on the war aims and this attack by the ukrainians just exacerbates that. at the end of the day, we re going to have a situation in which the ukrainians are going to be able to do this more often, we re also going to have more of our authorized disclosures of intelligence that show these rifts within russia and so vladimir putin has a problem, we re going to exacerbate it with our own information operations and this is for the betterment of ukrainian warrings. colonel jacobs, how would you