war. so while cutting off their access to the international banking system seizing assets will have the desired long-term effect of sapping the russian government and the russian economy from the necessary means to continue waging this war, unfortunately, it's not going to stop the action and mass casualties in ukraine today. neil: but, pavel, in the early days 20 years ago and when he was coming to power, vladimir putin did need those oligarchs and need people like your dad. i'm wondering now if the message is, i need my military advisors far more and that's changed. do you think that's what's going on here? >> i think putin has become very disenfranchised and realized that a lot of the information that he has been receiving from his top military command has been false. he has spent-- >> he's mad at them, too, he's