by changing that deterrent balance in ways that advantages them given that they're the ones who have an aggressive posture toward their neighbors and are looking as they did in crimea to take more territory. so i don't know if it complicates the narrative or not and you have an overlay of two different things. you have the trump/russia issue and you have people like john bolton, the hawks, who just don't like treaties, period. so i don't know how all that nets out, but the decision-making process in the administration does not inspire confidence that there is a sound strategy behind this. there could be, but i don't think many people take that for granted. >> we've learned a lot about this administration's hunger for or lack thereof of intelligence. and how the administration is