understands that he would suffer terrible retribution from nato, that his armed forces are incapable of defeating the ukrainians, how are they going to fair against nato military. so i think, you know, we should certainly be cognizant of not trying to escalate the war too much, which is why president biden has said that we re not going to impose a no fly zone or have u.s. military direct combat with the russians but i think anything short of that is fair game. could we look ahead to monday, victory day. we ll see that big parade across red square. president putin will be giving as he does every year a big speech. do you believe he will announce some kind of victory? and is there potential for him to announce some kind of escalation as well to change his terminology from this special operation that he s been calling it to actually formally declaring war against ukraine? i don t know what to expect exactly. i think we re getting conflicting reports on that. certainly i do expect that