notably, i want to get your thoughts on this, something that senator marco rubio posted last night about the russian leader. he said something is off with vladimir putin. and it would be a mistake to think that putin would act the same way he did five years ago. do you think something is different about vladimir putin now? >> right. i mean, you don't have to be a psycho-analyst to understand that putin is getting worse. his actions are getting more reckless, more bloody, more evil. and that's clear because of what we see on our tv screens. the syria example is really relevant here. because in 2015, when the russians started killing syrian civilians, they were doing it a few at a time. seven years later in 2022, they're doing it dozens or hundreds at a time. they're testing weapons in syria, chemical weapons stockpile weapons, they're hitting hospitals, they're hitting schools. right now we see that in kyiv,