joining us now is david rothkopf, analyst and columnist for usa today on a daily beast. accessible and so well produced, and so fully understands the 21st century communication, but no one outside of viewers in russian state tv could taken what vladimir putin had to say. whether we miss by not hanging on every word of vladimir putin speech? >> we don't miss much, because a lot of it was retreats from passed such speeches. for many years, we were accustomed to watching soviet leaders stand and troops parade by. of course, when we saw those troops operate by, we thought that represented a powerful army. the past two one-off months of taught us that that army is deeply flawed. there were a fewer troops there yesterday than usual because many of them were in ukraine being defeated, largely, by the ukrainians. there was no flyover yesterday by russian air forces. nobody could figure out why, they said it was the weather, but it was a clear day. putin had nothing new to say. the speech will slogans about russian nationalism and hollow phrases in which he said, we must do what