tremendous misinformation campaign how kyiv is going to attack the border territory, they need to evacuate people and so on. and i think the concentration on that part rather than a big invasion in dealing with incremental putin s biting off ukraine is more important than discussing the invasion and going into kyiv. . so the boa constrictor squeeze, or as david writes, the python squeeze, makes more sense now. this one big massive nationwide attack we heard david describe there is what administration officials and the biden administration think is more likely. why do you think there s a difference? what is the difference in the calculus between what you re saying and what they think is more likely? we ve seen it many times in putin. he s a judo master. he goes for the opening when
have any leverage to persuade them. and maybe they ve learned to see that their society has changed, at least in the urban areas, and with society now having access to technology. i don t know the answer to that. i don t think anybody knows. but we re in a position to like a python squeeze them economically and diplomatically and ultimately from an intelligence point of view, certainly not bring any assets to bear that might help them in the future that they may need. yeah. and one final thing. we haven t talked about covid. we ve talked about covid here in the united states. we haven t talkeanistan. i don t know how many coming in. i hope they re all being checked for covid coming into our country. but if covid is spreading in afghanistan, they re not going to be able to carry on as a society if they re dying. so we have some leverage to be sure, some help to be sure, that they re going to need in order to survive as a functioning government. and we ll have to wait and see how tha