evening, russia time, celebrating the anniversary, the 88th anniversary of the victory of soviet troops in the battle of kursk at the same time this was going on. brought up this frame of reference, kind of like the scene in the godfather i where michael is at the baptism of his child, and the meantime all the families of the heads of the families are getting executed. so putin is at this grand celebration and his chief rival is taken out of the sky by a soviet ground to air missile. it s a soap opera. that s the image he wants to convey. he sees himself as a godfather figure and he appeared to be weak when prigozhin did the rebellion. he was not prepared. he had to negotiate a settling down, put up proshenko, neither