That may be what we re looking at here. what stood out he to me what he said was the facilities sis on the donbas region, talking about that in particular, conflating the fighters in the donbas region with the russian forces talking about their sort of collective homeland and what they re fighting for. that seems to be the major hint that we re getting about the path forward on the battle field because if you look at what russia has done on the ground in the sort of relatively few pl places where they ve made gains is consolidate those gains, russian road signs, restoring soviet monuments, even places like kherson trying to introduce the ruble in a traditional phase. they re trying to the areas they re taking over. he didn t go as far as some speculated announcing annexation or going further in terms of sort of speaking about territorial gains, but i think the way that he talked about it in the sort of conflation of the russian troops with the fighters in the donbas and talking about