great czar. he often talks about peter the great being his role model and he wants to unify the russian people. behind all that is a particular animus putin has, which is a very dangerous one, which is he sees russia as the great victim. he sees russians as being the great victim. that quote, the greatest geopolitical tragedy that the west has wronged russia. whenever you hear that, i don't make hitler analogies loosely. but these are the kind of things when people start thinking of themselves as victims, as having been humiliated, strips of their lights and dignity, it tends toward the feeling that anything justifies their actions. and clearly, what putin is doing is in a sense very much out of that playbook. think about the destruction he is leveling on ukraine for an operation that he claimed, anderson, was a special military operation to protect the people of donbas, of eastern ukraine.