as someone who served as a senior diplomat for so many years, how powerful is it to hear the secretary of state say, yes, he believes russia and putin are committing war crimes in ukraine? >> well it is powerful. and he was personally agreeing with his boss. who is also powerful statement when the president of the united states said that president putin is a war criminal. so it has an effect. it does have an effect on the reputation, on the self image of president putin who does want to see himself as a great historical figure but not in the way that he wanted. >> but you mentioned president zelenskyy, today he addressed the german parliament saying, and let me read the quote, he said, this is to the german parliament, every year politicians say never again. now i see that these words are worthless. in europe, a people is being destroyed. do you think that the west will look back on this moment and