medea benjamin, co-founder of antiwar group codepink. she is in havana, cuba.eebe, is grand strategy director at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. his recent piece is headlined "tell us how this war in ukraine ends." he is the former director of russia analysis at the central intelligence agency and was special adviser on russia to vice president cheney from 2002-2004. he is the author of the 2019 book "the russia trap: how our shadow war with russia could spiral into nuclear catastrophe." george beebe, let's begin with you. you wrote the piece "tell us how this war in ukraine ends." why do you tell us? the latest news is it may well be a russian president vladimir putin will announce the war on ukraine on may 9. victory day in russia, when they beat the nazis in 1945. >> well, i think that is quite possible. the russians have been speculating for quite some time that putin might take the step of moving from what he has called the special operation in ukraine into a full-fledged and declared war, which would mean a national mobilization. widespre