prevents the risk of some kind of a nuclear threat or worse. that's one way of answering, because the issue with setting out all of the points that he made to president putin and saying, i believe that president putin listened to me, and we'll see what happens in the years a ahead, we could say we know what's in the years ahead, that putin fails to negotiate. in the years gone by, his pattern is to threaten, to deny, to negotiate it all and then use that leverage to build his position on the world stage. the other thing biden was saying was that president putin's reputation is damaged, and i'm not sure president putin sees it