A fellow at the strategic and International Studies and he has a myriad of books laying out his worldview and he has been a frequent guest of morning joe and his works are published in russian and english and this is similar to Foreign Affairs and also fiona hill, who is a former National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia. Really quite recently. She is head of the center of u. S. And europe at brookings and she is coauthor of a recent book called mr. Vladimir putin operative in the kremlin, which the review said was not just another Vladimir Putin biography but a psychological portrait. So we only have an hour and we want to save 20 minutes or so for audience questions. So lets get to the question. Russia never left the middle east. The middle east is right next to russia and the first of all, i think the russians have a defensive interest and if there is an explosion in the middle east, it will spread throughout the region and that money may involve saying goodbye, but it co