Speeches from putin. he sounded defiant. i, too, was expecting more. he didn t mention, he didn t say war. he didn t call it a war. he still continued calling it a special military operation. but like you said, i wrote down that almost he s attempting to justify his invasion of ukraine to his own people. and i think that message, like you said, it s critically important as we know that the losses that have occurred here in ukraine. what do you think that would translate to, though? are we mobilization of forces? how would that be received back home, do you think, jill? well, you know, he didn t do that. and, of course, there was a lot of speculation that he would. so what do we draw from that? well, at this point he doesn t feel that he can do it. and if you look at some of the polling, although polling is very difficult right now in russia, people can t express their opinions, but it appears that there wouldn t be a lot of