Fiona Hill

He's not out and about, you know, kind of being a man of the people.

You know, he's not doing the kind of things that he used to do.

Yeah, he gets out there and he goes to Kazakhstan and, you know, Tajikistan and he goes to China and he does this and that.

And then to COVID, he didn't go anywhere.

I mean, very few places.

And so he's got stuck.

And that worries me a lot because you could see before that he had a bit more of flexibility of thought.

And that's why nobody should be in place forever.

You should always kind of like get out there and go out there and learn a new skill.

You know, you need some, it needs to sort of, you know, you need to get out more and do something different.

Yeah, I've said that in some of the other interviews.

Yeah, that's true.

Because their election is going to be pretty much at the same time.

Oh, that'll be before.

I mean, because it's sometime in that early part of the year of the presidential election.

We're in it now, aren't we?

I think it was one of the reasons why Putin invaded in February 2022, because it was going to be two years.

I mean, he thought it'd be over by March of 2022.

And he got two years to prepare for the election.

And he got a big boost.