conversations with china. and what they re trying to say is, if you try anything in the u.n. in the u.n., it s going to be vetoed by the russians and by china. so it kind of closes off any u.n. security council resolutions. so i think the russians kind of feel they re ready to go forward, and it s very clear that putin has his war paint on. he is really resolved to go ahead. so the second set of diplomacy will be whether there is anything left between kiev and moscow, whether they can work out any kind of deal. and certainly what we re hearing about crimea, first of all, the expected autonomy resolution there. secondly, what the russian duma is doing. and sometimes they ll be outflanking putin on the sort of nationalist side. so even if he doesn t want to do all of the things that duma wants to do in terms of annexing crimea, he s going to have a tough time slowing down that freight train. so the issue is a lot of things going on right now, and moving very fast. and before everyone i