putin has a whole hierarchy of different approaches he can take. president zelensky is very much in the cross hairs as well, but he also has a bigger game, which goes beyond ukraine and think about how he can shift the united states onto the back foot in europe and change the whole positioning of nato forces, membership, looking forward as well as backwards. in many respects he wants a redo of the dissolution, on a path to independence. what we have to do as well is reframe this. putin has done a good job of making us look like the aggressor, putting people on edge, and basically being the one who is choosing from an al acart options of what he can take. i think we need to take it to a what will happen in ukraine, no matter how putin approaches this, if that s the