having been ridiculed for so long for his weakness in front of vladimir putin is now not only stepping up with the rest of the international community and the nato countries and doing things like blocking the nord stream 2 pipeline, another node of conflict between himself and the other european powers, but now, he might even be taking the lead. katy? >> we keep showing, courtney, the strike of that missile on an apartment building and it's not to be gratuitous. it is at least in part because it's the reality of the war there. and you know, it's unusual to get this sort of imagery from the moments of the war, almost immediate moments of the war. this broadly. but because we have social media, we can see what's happening, and i wonder, from an -- a u.s. intelligence perspective, when they look at what's on the ground there in kyiv and they see that the russian army, which was, by all accounts, supposed to easily run over the ukrainian army quickly, they're still not in kyiv. what does u.s. intelligence make