needs access to european marketed and access to the u.s. dollar their stock market almost crashed just on rumor of potential u.s. sanctions so they are going to play a double game here and try and walk a fine line. but, make no mistake, brian, i think longer term chinese banks are going to see a buying opportunity in russia. buying up critical minerals, buying up mines and buying up that energy sector as they continue to try to dominate around the world and i think xi sees an opportunity to put putin in his pocket and create a dependency there literally. >> brian: well, at what cost? because they have never seen a more united europe, a more united nato, there is very little friction between the allies even us here in the west. i'm just looking at some of the rhetoric from the state run news, vladimir putin, it looks like he is not even mentioning kyiv anymore and need to have