times from secretary blinken including in europe this week is this idea of, you know shoulder-to-shoulder unity with our nato and european allies in deterring russia and threatening these swift and, you know, massive sanctions that secretary blinken keeps warning of. i think the reality when you look more closely at it is that there is not unity on how to respond. france and germany in particular have a lot to lose from an economic fight with russia. they are heavily dependent on russia economically. the germans get a vast amount of their energy supplies from russia. that's one reason we are seeing this nord stream ii pipeline, and one factor there is that germany is moving away from nuclear power and so more dependent on things like natural gas. so the germans and french, nobody wants a war with russia, but the germans and french stand to lose a lot from an economic war with russia. the united states has very few economic ties to russia, and we wouldn't have actually lose all that much as a result, and you