rather than less. but it is worworrisome. i believe a part of this is a problem on the far side. we haven't seen much of them since the poor performance of this military, and one has to wonder what that means. >> nobody wants to try to figure out what's going on here, but, you know, and i know russia has said he's just busy, that's why you haven't seen the defense minister. it is obviously hard to take anything the russians say at face value. we assume putin is looking for a scapegoat. could this be it? >> well, i don't know, but you also have heard that at least one of these individuals has suddenly developed a heart problem, so, you know, i just wouldn't believe anything right now. i'm pretty sure that mr. putin is extremely unhappy with the performance of his military right now, and we haven't seen much from his civilian military leader or his uniformed military