the sovereignty of our three baltic nato allies. these are countries that join nato and the 2000 when president george bush was in office. george w. bush. and, you know, these three countries are small. they ve been for a long time nervous about russia. they were one of the first to be subject to cyber attacks by russia. again in the 2000s. so now we re sending more force there s. it s really important to deter russia from taking any military move towards nato. then we ll real you be at war, no cudding with, russia. the that is something we don t want any under circumstance because of, of course, nuclear power. but we will future russia. that s whole deal. that s what collective security is all about. it s been exacerbated by the new movement of troops and developers. because belaruse shares a border with one of the baltic states, with lithuania and poland.