is that half of their natural gas comes from russia, that is a major concern as we say, there is no pentagon briefing today. the information coming from the pentagon is coming right here, admiral, appreciate you coming on. point out of the 8500 troops committed to the region, you know, we are being told that when you say putin will be sorry if he crosses that line, we are being told those troops can t do anything without nato s approval, has nato penned you in a bit on this? no, no, no, quite the contrary. these 8500, just a slice, we have tens of thousands of troops already in europe, permanently and rotation nally. the 8500 are on heightened alert for a possible deployment, the american contribution to the nato response force, which actually totals 40,000 multi-national troops, we want to make sure if the alliance calls on us we are ready to go.