a little bit looking like, a war of attrition, does that play into putin's favour? i think it does. one of the things that putin has told people and it seems to have worked in terms of his rhetoric domestically, is that this is not a waragainst ukraine. a war of attrition against a much smaller and theoretically weaker country would be an embarrassing thing, but a war against a west that is hell—bent on the destruction of russia, a war that is extension —— existential the survival of russian society, as putin has painted this, is one that will continue to motivate politics and sacrifice from everybody in the system. for quite some time. if this war were to end tomorrow, and it would then become clearer that frankly there is not, you know, a whole lot more that can be fought for at the moment. then putin is it in a different