that emerges. but we can have influence in the containment of the decay, which is very much what is underway in russia now. we can argue that russia has destabilized right now. we are here, we are in this moment so how do you deal with it? i think what we saw in the past few days as we don t have great visibility all the time on what is going on. we don t have the immediate ability to predict who will be a victor in a situation or what the end state will be. i think what we saw is a system that has a lot of fragility, a lot of brittle news. what is sort of amazing is within that weak system, a weakening system of total control, putin still managed to pull this one out and survive. i think it gives us we really need to reevaluate sort of how we are looking at the end state and that was probably a mid point in what is happening in russia. but i think we really need to be prepared to not just analyze
RICHARD EDEN: Princess Diana s butler Paul Burrell might reasonably hope for a more tranquil life now that he s reached the age of 65. Alas, it seems he is to be disappointed.