aggressive action outside of ukraine? >> you know, i can't speak for vladimir putin. that's one of the things that has been the open question throughout this crisis is what is vladimir putin going to do next? all we can do is present him with choices and the choices we tried to present him from the beginning is that one path was a diplomatic way forward, and the other way, if he chose it was a military route, if he took military action there are things we could do with our allies and partners to respond. we could impose devastating economic consequences on him and on the russian economy and those oligarchs closest to him. at the same time i want to make clear, president biden made clear from the beginning, we are not going to send u.s. troops into ukraine. we are not threatening russia. we never threatened russia and have not done it from the beginning and at the same time we want to make sure rereinforce our allies and make clear to russia we will uphold our treaty obligations, and one of the