jon: any chance putin loses power as a result of this invasion? yes. there are large elements of russian society which are being disvarnged and believe russia s policy is not work. a tweet by marco rubio indicates that putin s position is unstable. although we don t know the full details of that, because it s a non-transparent regime. we can assume there is a lot of infighting at the kremlin. that means vladimir putin has a low threshold of risk. which means he can do something to surprise us, including use his nuclear weapons. their doctrine is to deescalate to escalate. we should be object a much higher level of alert right now. jon: gordon, thank you.