for reshaping the international system, the demands for ukraine outside of nato, frankly smoke and mirrors, has nothing to do with ukraine and nato. ukraine is nato is probably quite some time off, even under optimal circumstances. it is all about folding ukraine back into its orbit. one thing we need to remember, right now vladimir putin is holding the initiative for the past year. he s been calling the shots, he s been orchestrating these different probing attacks, and the response has been mainly unbalanced toward reaction. and i think we need to start really seriously considering and i know there are many voices that are starting to think in this direction about graduated response options, graduated costs and position measures so that russia starts to feel some pain from this, not just a small hit in the pocketbook from deploying all the forces, but something to indicate that russia can t maintain this at a