>> yeah, extraordinary assessment there. so if the outlook for russia's initial plans are as bad as you say, what is a plan b for vladimir putin? you have worked with nato. you have been leading the charge in europe. you have studied russia. how is he going to come away from this? >> it's very difficult. this is the dilemma because i certainly don't see any indication that he's really into self-reflection and hey, maybe i got this wrong, and so i think what he's resorted to is traditional russian medieval approach to warfare, which is smashing cities, murdering civilians. creating massive refu...