does that stuff matter? yeah, he s not making friends here, chris. and the thing is these are our allies. i want to say a few things. first, on the optics and the substance, the guy that he pushed to the side, this prime minister markovich the relatively new prime minister of montenegro, the russians put on to try to prevent montenegro from becoming the 29th nato member. so, i think the optics also sort of collided with the substance. i agree with everything that mike just said, ambassador mcfaul just said. i would add that what the nato members, what our allies wanted to hear, the majority of them are worried about russia as the biggest threat. and, so, article 5 actually mattered because in the context of a threat from russia, that russia might send little green men over your borders or interfere in your politics, even more aggressively than thus far, you know, what they want is the united states to say that we re