that he would invade by just not taking nato advancement off the table, and he made that bluff, and now he went across. so we dare not do it again because, look, putin is completely committed to this. his to whole regime now rests on it. it would be a bad gamble to think he would back down from a no-fly zone. more than likely, he would ratchet up and accelerate. and we don t want to put him in that position, ironically, because it could backfire on us. and as bad as we sees the here, we don t want to see a polish city having these kinds of destructions or slovakia, hungary or anybody e else in nato and then potentially, god forbid, nuclear exchange. that is not out of the question, and we don t even want to take take a chance of that because of the catastrophic if results. eric: an even more dire ahead, lieutenant colonel dan yell davis, thank you for your service and thank you for your insight today.