They ve been taking, so i mean i hope that the warnings that we ve been hearing from places like the british defense ministry and some of the, you know, concern among the russia watchers, i hope that s all wrong, but, you know, that s why we re all kind of holding our breath to see what happens on may 9th. i don t think putin is just going to walk away here. i think, you know, no matter what happens, it s this isn t going to end and we re not getting to the end of this. i want to read more from your piece and then i have another question for you, tom. you write this, if putin doesn t announce ang escalation what else might he say? one option is to declare a limited victory and then go back to grinding away at the ukrainians as he has done in the ukrainian east since 2014. he may simply announce in the spirit of a day devoted to the end of hitlerism he has, indeed, de-nazified ukraine given that precious few nazis were loose in ukraine in the first place. he might say that victory i