begging nato to, you know, remain united. he is not having a question of certain nato countries peeling off at the moment. >> willie. >> jay, you write in your piece about the encouraging response from the american political class. you have a line, "for many years a lot of americans and others have played kissy face with authoritarians and semi authoritarians and aspiring authoritarians. maybe maligned liberal democracy is not so bad after all. save former president trump and former secretary of state mike pompeo who called putin a genius, which is a wrong analysis if you look at what he is doing here, what do you see as a response from republicans who, as you point out, played kissy face with putin and stepping up and saying, no, we're on the side of zelenskyy.