whether it ends soon or later. what i'm hearing from sources in both washington and moscow is that this is going to go on for a long time. one source said months, if not years. but again, nobody knows. what i'm worried about is what we're seeing out of moscow is a kind of retrenchment, and even those people in the elites who were really upset by the invasion, who were stunned by the sanctions, who were really unhappy with how things are going are now rallying around putin. the population seems to be rallying around putin in a closed dictatorship. and the country is kind of coming together and wanting vladimir putin to pursue this to the end. some of my sources in moscow are saying we hope the negotiations don't work. we hope they fail. we don't want a negotiated solution. we want to achieve our aims. we want to taip take kyiv.