pretext forward. do you see any scenario in which russia chooses not to invade at this point? >> well, i don't think that decision has been made yet. there's a lot of us that believe that, if putin sees weakness, if he sees bumbling, ineptitude, if he sees indecision, he will take advantage of that. i don't think he's made a decision to do that yet. what bob and i and our coalition of bipartisan senators are attempting to do is to project the resolve that we have as americans to see that he doesn't do that, to provide the strength, project the strength and convince him that this would be a very, very bad idea and it's going to be extremely painful. this is not the same as crimea, when he did this last time. there is substantially, substantially more worldwide