about afghanistan. twice you ve drifted into ukraine. i would be remiss not to ask you why. if putin were to win or if ukraine gets split into east and west, how much of that hurts our geopolitical strategy? well, bill, you just look at a map. if he is able to gobble up all or just half of ukraine which he might settle more half, it just changes the geopolitical land landscape. it does reignite something like the cold war. putin senses that we re weak, and what i m hearing here in washington, all these people talking, well, it doesn t make sense for him to go in militarily. piewt p doesn t operate on our logic. he s emotional, he s vindictive, he s hateful, and he is now humiliated and embarrassed by events in crew crane, and he wants ukraine, and he wants to reestablish the empire of the czars. bill: this is something we will continue to talk about. ralph peters out of washington today. good to have you back. martha: well, he rocketed to