I ve been at cnn and i ve been covering this. but this has new added significance this year, isn t it? sure, and the fact those nuclear weapons are being paraded so brazenly which is chilling. president putin has threatened to use them, his saber rattling. something that sends a chill down the spine of western leaders. that s why you don t have troops on the ground. the other thing, other kind of soft weapon the west has been using, are the sanctions that max referred to. yeah. and i think those will take a long time to really make a heavy impact. the economist has been describing the sanctions as a flush word. the russian economy is actually bouncing back. of course, there have been things, problems like inflation and firms having problems paying wages, but on the most part, i don t think they ve been as effective as western leaders had hoped. the reuuble is doing quite