divisions among nato. it is a good question whether president trump was volatile enough that president putin didn't know how he would react to, you know, something more aggressive in ukraine, but also getting what he wanted in ukraine, in the sense that nobody was trying to reverse what he had already done. he had already seized crimea, already annexed it, already had taken in effect to some extent parts of luhansk and donetsk to the separatists, you know, enclaves in effect, without anybody in the united states doing much about it during the four years of president trump was in office. it is a fair question to ask why he didn't do it while trump was in office given what close relationship the two had and a fair question to ask why he chose to do it now. i think he's at a point in his career, 23 years in power, about to turn 70, two years isolated in the pandemic where he stayed apart from most other human beings, more than most world leaders, he seems to be thinking about his legacy a lot now and the legacy he seems to want is to be the leader who brought