built billions of dollars off this violent regime, no more. john: the united states and allies are trying to squeeze russia and putin and lavrov personally, economically, the same time we see the brave resistance by ukrainians across the country. how effective do you think that two-strong strategy will be at blunting putin s advance? so far so good. i think putin is way out on the ice. just for the first time becoming increasingly likely, not probable yet he may not be able to come back from this. he s miscalculated. turns out the will to fight is much more important than the capability to fight. he thought he was going to invade ukraine and it was going to be similar to his earlier incursions in ukraine and georgia. he did not realize the sanctions that he would receive, he thought those would be slaps on the wrist. so, he s increasingly isolated, sanctions are working better and i hope that he will remain a