it still seems to me plausible that we -- we end up in a situation where, at the very least, you know, the russians get a kind of favorable -- um -- diplomatic agreement out of this. it's also equally plausible to me that we see, after a few weeks, the russian army collapse entirely. i -- that is still a very wide spectrum of possibilities to me. >> yeah, still a bit too early to obviously predict the future. and we've -- so many people got it wrong four weeks ago, when -- when many of us believed that russia would not fully invade the country, and start striking targets as they are now because really it's a huge country. uh, it didn't make much logical sense. they are taking huge losses. i mean, even that russian tabloid that headlined 10,000 russian soldiers. it -- it was taken down. but there is a realization inside of russia that the troop lossless are absolutely tremendous. when you say there is a possibility of a russian