The russians . Since you cant, then its how you do it with the russians rather than whether you give the russians a role or not give them a role. And nobody here is, looking at age bracket here very few would be naive, frankly nobody here believes that any of us pursue policy without an interest. We obviously have an agenda. Be obviously have an interest. But the Positive Side i see in all of this is we all know we cannot do alone. So there will be a point in time we will have to start engaging the other. And probably there will be setbacks where we move away. I am from my contacts with russians over the last year, they now clearly that there are major operations are not sustainable long term. That they need to move from that phase to political phase. And i would argue also, i dont think that the vienna talk ss took us to a new level, but theres no question that the intervention by the russians created a sense of urgency be it that the west got scared that theyre going to play their ro
underdeveloped areas and putin has put his own weight behind it. if he s successful with that, he s probably going to become more popular than today and the opposition has to deal with that programmatically. i m just saying, why is this such a dramatic thing that you think he will not last out his term when he has been elected with a significant majority. he does have a program. if the program doesn t work, he ll be in worse shape. if it does work, he ll probably be better off. how do you deal with this? he has won the electioning. thanks for the question. do i need the mic? well, first, on several points, on luke shen co. if you were beaten to blood with batons on the street of moscow for coming out,ed you not think it s a far fetcheded. comparison. if you re one of those people like the man thrown into jail 15 days for working down moscow central boulevard, you would not think it s a farfetched conclusion. the only difference is you can shen cole did allow when we remembe