the biden administration is how we manage that going forward. it feels like biden's backed into a corner. i don't know if these people going to russia are russian speaking or if they could be used as hostages. but now we hear we hear talk of chemical weapons. we hear talk of nuclear weapons. if he feels like he's losing, what are the possibility of what he may attempt to unleash? and maybe it is to entice a wider war . we can we know at this point i don't think we really know, pete. i think what we really have to do is try and discern what his objectives are. we don't know what these are. he hasn't made it clear. clearly they didn't achieve the objective of toppling the ukrainian government within three to five days after the invasion started. at this point, i think what we're going to have to do is continue to get as much lethal weaponry to the ukrainians as possible to create the standoff distances that are going to allow them to hit the russians harder, faster, more often and begin to start pushing them first toward