however, the russian system is not a well oiled machine, where boudin pushes a button and suddenly the entire thing snaps into motion and is exactly what he had in mind. it operates in a more byzantine fashion, with bureaucracies that are relatively in competition with each other, innovate and improvise, and try to impress their bosses and so on. the expense in terms of concrete tactics played out, it's probably some lit mix of these elements. one thing that's important to note, here, is that it was relatively, we talk about because of the sensitivity, it's needing political sanctions, but it was cheap. we are talking about, based on these indictments, a couple of dozen people operating over the course of, at most, a couple of years. with relatively low budgets by american standards. the effect that is difficult to measure, they achieved, is another thing, it's so easy and cheap and this information to have, to strike back at your adversary, to a certain extent, this kind of thing was that russia was prepared to take more assertive steps in light of its heightened perceptions, as i men