i think the amount that has been done for ukrane despite the fact that they aren't a nato member, is kind of astonishing. Does anyone believe we would defend lithuania? Yes, we have troops on the ground in the baltic states. And here i'm talking about the destruction of the russian economy including freezing a majority of their central bank assets. There was no one credible on this issue that believed that the united states would do that. Even though you and i clearly had hoped that 30 years ago, when the wall came down, we had a peace dividend and we could stop worrying about that an, the reality of this war in ukraine is that the