have turned into an aggressor nation. it s syria. it s chechnya. it s georgia. it s 2014 seizure of crimea. now this massive military assault on a sovereign nation of ukraine. putin, unbounded, has become a threat to western europe and certainly to u.s. national interests. the biden team, lloyd austin, tony blinken, treasury, cia, have actually done a remarkable job pulling together a coherent strategy. they have resourced it. they brought together 40 contact nations. they have done a great job. the russians are now at check, not checkmate. i think there s another major offensive coming, probably in the spring, in which putin is strongarming belarus in