regime under control, because if he doesn t, you know, he s toast. there will be a palace revolt and he s done. and he he has to really walk a fine line, because he put himself into a situation now that is very difficult for him to get out of. if he thinks he can occupy ukraine and declare victory, he is wrong, because i ve heard other people say what i said right when this thing started, ukraine will be defeated. you cannot, you cannot defeat a country when you fight the entire population. lost vietnam, lost afghanistan, soviets lost afghanistan. this would be a very prolonged, very bloody partisan kind of fight where too many, you know, russian soldiers would be killed and come home and eventually