meeting. among them, the issue of a global 15% corporate tax rate. no small thing in the world of business. we have natasha bertrand with us as we wait for president biden toe merge. it's interesting, we were talking earlier about the u.s. and russian leaders establishing clear red lines on issues like cyber. echos the cold war, does it not, right? this idea that they have to set these red lines in part because they're concerned about genuine escalation. the danger of escalation. and it peaks to, as i mentioned, both biden and putin describing the relationship today, as the worst it's been in some time. >> and further escalation, for example, along the russia/ukrainian border. further incursions into, you know, western countries, into eastern european countries. these are all things that the biden administration is trying to limit, let's just say, for lack of a better word. they are trying to make it so russia does not engage in more