member nations must pay their fair share. it makes the alliance stronger, chris, if everybody does. and that sends a message to russia that this is a stronger alliance. meanwhile our military has the largest budget it's ever had. and we are a stronger military. we have exercises going on all across western europe. we're in the face of russia. we have attacked syria, a russian state, for lack of a better term, that russia has a naval base right close to where several of our attacks came in. we killed about 200 russian mercenaries and didn't apologize for it. we just steam rolled right through. we've been very tough on russia. >> i hear are are yyou, general. i'm just saying it's been a mixed picture. i'll have you come back to help us make sense of it. general, thank you. >> thank you, chris. so russia says its