silver lining right now at this moment, again, time stamp 7:12 eastern time is that vladimir putin both hasn t shown additional ambition yet for other nato countries, rhetorically not talking about it there is always bluster. but there is no real indication at this point. if anything, the only thing he is trying to do get belarus to send more troops into ukraine. he is calling in more reinforce. s into ukraine. to your point, the more is he bogged down there, the less powerful the argument is that poland is next or latvia is next. if you can t even control ukraine, what makes you think you are going to go further west. so that quagmire does become strategically significant. which is why stopping them or slowing them significantly in ukraine does have significant ramifications. rachel: you talk about the product that is for. will: knee on. rachel: knee on for the chips. also not forget look at that map, ukraine, moscow, massive producers of wheat and how will
military in the south. fascinating note how this effects the world at large. knee on, i didn t know knee on was a major world product we make. knee on is used to make lasers which the world and china uses to in turn create chips for our computers. for our phones and cars. something like 50% of the world s knee on supplies come out of mariupol and odesa, those two plants right now are shut down. there is reserves of knee on so it can continue making chips. but over the long term we are already having problems. i don t know if you have tried to order a car in the past year you are four or five months out you can t get the chips to get your car. ukraine a major supplier what goes into making that by the way, here is the bigger map that shows nato commitments where we are troop levels around ukraine of course poold is the big focus, 4700 u.s. troops added look at poold and germany.