difficult question, then. should we have nato police no—fly zones that would involve nato shooting down russian planes? again, you're asking me tojump into an operational decision, and i'm saying first ask ourselves what do we agree should be our policy to stand up to russia, for which a no—fly zone might be part of that aspect. it could be that we do rule it out. what i'm saying is every time you're asked a difficult question, don't stand up and say to russia, "we're not going to do a no—fly zone. "we're not going to send in a force prior to the invasion "to actually protect ukraine," even though they requested this. we're actually explaining to russia what our red lines are. no general on the battlefield ever declares what they won't do. so even if we were not going to do it, you still keep the other side guessing. so, all right, let me give you a quote from john kirby, the us pentagon spokesman who is talking about why the proposal to transfer polish fighterjets from a us base in germany to ukraine, why they decided against that. "the intelligence community has