keeping putin on his heels maybe isn t the right way to describe it. it s not clear that he ends up on his heels very often, but to make public everything that we know in the spirit of what julia s describing, if we think he might go to war on wednesday, we say, prepare for war on wednesday, and at least buy ourselves and our allies some time. what is your sense of the white house using all the levers of power at their disposal to stave off war? the administration officials i have talked to the last couple days say this is very deliberate. let s remember, of course, putin, ex-kgb, ex-intelligence officer. they think it would rattle him to be putting out in almost realtime the intelligence the u.s. and its allies are collecting. they know how important that is to putin. it started a few weeks ago. the uk put forth information that moscow had a plan to install a puppet regime in kyiv if they were to indeed go in, and now we ve heard from jake sullivan and others stateside, doing the sa