provide both a carrot and a stick. we've heard a lot about the stick the past few weeks. basically since the concerns about russia's intentions came into focus just before the holidays. the united states has been telegraphing that it is prepared to take sanctions measures, for example, that it hasn't before. but i guess on the other side of this, you need to give russia something where i think we all remember russia has come out with a series of demands of nato that it's going to bring to these meetings. they've published those demands as well and they're nonstarters. we've heard this much from officials, from blinken on down. blinken on friday called them gaslighting. the united states needs to show up at these meetings with something that russia might want, something historically that we know russia is very interested in. his arms control talks, specifically focused on anti-missile defense deployments. so it appears the play going into this is to try to offer russia one of these things that historically we know they wanted in the hopes that this is really more than anything else, russia