because general walters, the supreme nato commander, made a comment the other day about, well, our -- our miscalculations on the capabilities of the russian army was perhaps due to a collection gap. i mean, inherently intelligence is always incomplete so it's imperfect. there is always a collection gap but let's say the cia, which is a strategic collector, did its job to the utmost and it had eyes and ears all around putin. and we were hearing and seeing everything putin heard. well, if we are getting the same intelligence on which putin made his miscalculations, we would be coming up with the same assessments. so i think there is something to be said for what the united states has recently declassified that putin has been getting bad intelligence. i think that's -- that's been evident from the beginning. but that is a culture that he has created, that hubris, that sort of emperor with no clothes persona that nobody really wants to tell him bad news. no one wants to argue against his predetermined conclusions. >> yeah, fascinating. i was going to ask another question but you just answered it so we'll leave it there. always good to have you on,