when the protest, you know, the protest coup, whatever we want to call it occurred, and then had this bizarre two months back and forth, and him showing up and disappearing and moscow and in st. petersburg and belarus, and there s a whole other piece of it. no, this is regime, i believe, did it. they will have the deniability, the ambiguity, which means they will never agree that they did it, but it is a tap on the shoulder to everybody. you re disloyal or a traitor, we re eventually going to come for you. that s the first message, and that should be one that we take as those of us, and i have been on the side that s tried long and hard to negotiate with the russians but certain aspects, you re dealing with an absolute