viewing this invasion of ukraine? do you think that they could potentially become even more barbaric, mormon e monstrous asy achieve this artificial objective. yeah. and it s an artificial date. the date is based on germany s surrender to the soviet union in world war ii. it is certainly a symbolic date. there is a big celebration in moscow for this date. i would let the operation play out and move in a natural direction, whatever that might be. but having said that, i think it is very possible that putin thinks that s the date that he wants to symbolically close this campaign at. and if he does that, he will be able to not only declare victory in his view if he s successful with the eastern part of ukraine, but the other thing he