but i'll, let's bring in a joshua tucker. now he is a professor of politics and the director of new york university's jordan center for the advanced study of russia, george now from shang dac in, in new york at thanks so much for being with us. so, let me ask you, 1st of all, from a familiar military point of view when day 2 now of russia's large scale attack on, on ukraine. are we getting a clearer picture at this point about russia's intentions and what it ultimately aims to do and, and what kind of resistance the ukrainians are offering? yes, i think so. i mean there were 3 sort of big picture options on the table. one, the troops were being mass just for leverage and negotiations that's obviously long gone. the 2nd idea was that the troops would just go into the breakaway republics in the southeastern part of the country. and i then ask in lieu, hans, that no longer seems to be the case at all. so this looks like a full scale full on invasion. so i think the 3 options we were...