this war started. so it s done, the white house probably would be better off just moving on from it instead of wrapping iticideself into a pretzel trying to walk it back. russia will say this is escalation and this has been a time for almost the past five weeks now, the biden administration has de-escalated every single time russia escalated. biden has de-escalated. every time putin, for instance, brings up and starts talking about his nuclear toys and says i have them, i have them, the united states has ignored that and just moved on and de-escalated. now we have slipped a little bit, but what s done is done. it s not as if anybody here in the u.s. actually wants to see putin remaining in power, so well, and i want to kind of pull on that thread a little bit, because how does this world