europe and i maintain that that s in part because both the president and congress has taken a strong stand in pushing the rest of ukraine towards us. i mean, all of this partisan on behalf of romney and others is just politics. i think most people see through that. you sort of anticipate the question i was going to ask you, whether you thought that russia putin s move pushed ukraine further into the arms of europe. let me ask you another question and that relates to the concerns of the nato allies. as we have been reporting vice president biden has been in the region visiting our allies. do you think that the concerns of states like poland and lithuania, estonia, are there concerns about putin s next move valid? so i don t think that there is any reason to be concerned that russia is going to move on the baltic states or poland today. that being said they are right to, you know, cross their ts and dot their is to make sure their