you know, if you look around the world, marine le pen, eric zemmour donald trump, viktor orban, a lotaders of these populists, these new populist movements all expressed sympathy for putin at some point, you know, some earlier point, and many of them have been forced to retreat from that because it's obviously, you know, just a very cruel and kind of absurd position to take, in light of what people can see, you know, through their own eyes on their television screens. so i think it has imposed a kind of moral clarity on the world where people could imagine that putin was just a nationalist like them but, you know, still basically not that terrible a person and now i think they see the direction this kind of populist politics is leading. ok, let's talk about that moral clarity that you talk about, because 30 years ago, you said western liberalism had triumphed over all its ideological competitors and would end up as the single form of government over the long term. in your latest book, liberalism and its discontents, you recognise and analyse why liberalism has been in retreat. do you