boat as china. with china, you have a communist party, you have a marxist, leninist ideology that's transmitted through the party in the schools. in russia you have more of a gangster regime. that means these are guys who respect the language of power. that's what the realist analysis is all about. give a large country, russia. then a grizzly bear and then you have this small little puppy dog, the ukraine right next to it. essentially what mearsheimer is saying that it imposes on the ukraine. learn to get along with this big grizzly bear. saying that the neoliberals in the west have now for 20 years been sort of urging the ukraine to poke the bear. poke the grizzly. we are on your side. you join the west. we are going to form an invincible alliance. putin is on his way out.