Bridget bink, it is official now. good show producing here. i want to get to something here. there s been a lot of talk about may 9th, victory day. you re a history professor. you know what it meant the end of world war ii for the then soviet union. officials i spoke to say they don t really see that putin would use that day to escalate violence. but they do wonder if he d try to claim a hollow victory, perhaps a hollow progress report. they note, with amusement, it d be hard to have a military parade in moscow when your tanks are blown up in ukraine. what might putin do to save some face? i do think you can always hope you can have a cease-fire, where putin could declare a victory that is not really a victory, but allows sort of a cease-fire line in which there is some control in eastern ukraine by the soef j soviets -,