good morning, richard. thanks for being here. the reality of what is happening and what putin is saying are two different things. what will putin have to do? is there a way he could get his plan back to track and actually line it up with his narrative? >> i don't think there's anyway, jonathan, he can get his original plan back on track because that ship has sailed. he was counting on very little resistance from ukraine. he had no respect for zelenskyy. he thought the united states after afghanistan had no stomach. europe he also had contempt for, particularly germany. so he underestimated his opposition, overestimated the capability of his own forces. now we are clearly on plan b. now he is basically turning to quantity, if you will, more than quality to essentially level big parts of ukraine. but because he is who he is, because he is an autocrat, he has to be infallible. he can never admit that he made a mistake, so that's what you