you re having an arms race between them, you re having their relationship be the center of the universe. molly, you re shaking your head. why? i m laughing because it s true. if you think about what president obama said at his final press conference of the year, he basically said, russia, they re insignificant. they don t mean anything. they don t produce anything we want. maybe they have oil, but really they don t matter. i think that that s one of the reasons why we have seen the russian government, led by vladimir putin, assert itself, and you know, it s unclear whether, if and when, how they affected our elections, but it s something we re talking about now, and congress is going to investigate, it looks like. i agree. ruia has definitely, you know, reasserted its presence on the national psyche, which is interesting because meanwhile, you have china kind of coming up over here on the side, so it will see which one takes pres