u. k. stefan wolf, professor of international security at the university of birmingham and co founder of the pod cast, navigating the vortex dot com one. welcome to all 3 of you. thank you so much for joining us on inside story. so give me a call. let me start with you. there's so many moving parts to the story so much to on cover. i want to ask you 1st about the situation in russia. is it back to business as usual for the kremlin is present, put in front of main control as a whole? uh, of course, uh, a sufficient now quite, quite rodney google funding call us, which is why as a say, understand the people uh, if you uh, twice confident about, uh, no, uh, but uh, not a certain time for them to send a zip is this was a big big cottage across this is means that a russian government suspicious specifically emitted to the zone is sufficient or far from me on dysfunction. me find a cause a few of the month rooms of president uh uh, to uh, to make a security falls as the file uh more time from now. okay. and also i, you, me to put you on. uh, we'll have to see, i see is policy. because i wanna