that s what our letter calls for is an expedited all of government, all of alliance effort to train the pilots, find the f-16s, and transfer them either directly from the united states or a transfer from one of our allies, as there s f-16ings throughout the nato alliance in several countries might be able to transfer them much quicker than we could. but also train the maintainers. these are sophisticated aircraft. that s why they re so good. they require a tremendous amount of back-end support and sustainment. so we re going to train the mechanics, get the fuel supplies going. there s a lot of things that have to happen now so that six months, nine months from now these aircraft can be flying over ukrainian skies. that s what we re pushing the administration to do. the russian foreign minister said f-16s could accommodate nuclear weapons. he s clearly sending a message here. what is he really saying? as you see it, and does that dissuade you from pushing for this? fwirst of all,