because he cannot be rewarded for aggression and the signal that is "happening now," to these authoritarian regimes is aggression is rewarded and that is a terrible thing. there were huge failings in 2014-15 when vladimir putin was not taken on over what was happening, that is why we have ended up where we are with the invasion of ukraine so we could have learned about the lessons of history but we went through this in the 1930s for the sake of commerce, with germany and thought hitler could be maintained and we ended up with the second world war and we are in a dangerous position. paul: as you look at the