tremendous misinformation campaign how kyiv is going to attack the border territory, they need to evacuate people and so on. and i think the concentration on that part rather than a big invasion in dealing with incremental putin's biting off ukraine is more important than discussing the invasion and going into kyiv. . >> so the boa constrictor squeeze, or as david writes, the python squeeze, makes more sense now. this one big massive nationwide attack we heard david describe there is what administration officials and the biden administration think is more likely. why do you think there's a difference? what is the difference in the calculus between what you're saying and what they think is more likely? >> we've seen it many times in putin. he's a judo master. he goes for the opening when