vladimir putin, will say or will, you know, kind of hold as true and that means that everything below him is even easier. so deception operations are engrained into russian kind of strategic operations. so the fact that they're saying one thing about withdrawing forces and in fact they're -- merely repositioning forces is not a surprise. yesterday they kind of try to sense some interesting signals about the first tank army starting to retro grade back to bases. there is no evidence to suggest that. it seems like more repositioning. and the only forces that may be going back to bases are the ones that are really close to the ukrainian border and can easily be moved back forward. so i think we're still in this very, very dangerous phase. we will need to seeing some far more concrete than the limited withdraws that we're seeing right now to believe what is going on. with regards to the graduated response options i'm suggesting,