military in ukraine. it will not, you know, krincrea this confidence that the russian public and russian elite putin relies for his power have in his ability to hold things together, even if putin does see off this challenge. it may actually only be the first of a number of challenges to come. yeah, that is the question, and then, you know, i m wondering if there is a way out here, i mean, the fsb, the federal security service initiated a criminal case against prigozhin, and as i understand it, that can t happen without putin s approval if it wasn t done under his direct orders. so, all of this, with that, and everything that putin said, do you think that means the rift between prigozhin and putin is too wide to be repaired, that there isn t a climbdown possible here? you know, look, i ve learned to retain the capacity for surprise over the last year and a half, but i think the reality seems to be that there is no way