underscore a point alex just made, colonel vinman made, we worked together in moscow so apologies for the informality there, alex. between doing nothing and the scenario of a full scale invasion that puts russian soldiers in kiev, he has multiple different things he can do. cyber attacks, limited aircraft attacks, artillery attacks, seizing donvas, attacking and retreating without bringing soldiers in and i personally do not know what he s thinking the option he likes to do now, i think he likes the fact we re in a moment of uncertainty and therefore negotiating with ourselves. well, i mean ambassador mcfall, i know it was a different comment from president joe biden that got the attention but his analysis of putin was your analysis of putin, depending what side of the bed he gets up on, that is what vladimir putin will do, it sounds like that is the