as it happens, dictatorships and authoritarian regimes can offer that kind of stability if they're not built on a tinderbox. exxon mobil's official approach to this is what you saw in that footage in russia. they follow what used to be called the prime directive. we're here to get the oil out of the ground, we'll take our part, you'll take your part, and the rest of it really is not our business. as he said, sanctions are a question for government. that has been the way exxon mobil has lived in the world, and for a leader who spent four years at the corporation, grew up there shaped his ideas there, then spent ten years as the leader of the corporation to now start approaching those kinds of environments with the values of the universal human rights and defense of free societies against dictators and the