i think he has also been given very bad information. there are reports suggesting that he has been told that ukraine is actually just waiting to be invited back into the soviet empire and he will be greeted as a liberator. um, so i think part of this stems from sort of his completion of a legacy project. but part of this is also due to, you know, his -- his bad advice. and the last piece of this is that he knows the time is running out. ukraine is getting more anti-russian, more interested in joining the west every single day. there is not going to be an election which results in a ukrainian leader ultimately deciding to do an alliance with russia. the only way they can force ukraine back in his orbit is through his own use of force. so he's gotten to this point at which the only thing he can do is to propose and move forward with an invasion like this. we have just got to make sure that we raise the prospective costs. >> you sit on committee of foreign relations obviously. do you feel as though the united states and european allies are on the same page when it comes to how to deal with the threat from russia?