been trying in the past. >> yeah, but what are the chances, given what you know about president putin and having worked in moscow, you know the mentality here, what are the chances that putin is going to say, i'm not invading and i'm going to prove this american president and the nato leadership is wrong, by not invading? >> i mean, that's the best hope right now, that the americans and western allies have right now, that putin wouldn't want to seem like he was simply proving biden right. but that may not be enough. that's the problem, it's not really up to the americans or the west, it's not up to ukraine, right now it's entirely up to one man, vladimir putin. i've been thinking about this in the last few days, why would he want to do this? you would think this wasn't a good thing for the russians, putting aside effect western sanctions might have, having a war against 40 million people who aren't going to accept you with open arms has not been a good thing for other countries that have tried it in the last