professor. good to see you. merry christmas to you as well and to all of yours. let s talk about a bit about this arm sale.e. .50-caliber sniper rivals is really what they are talking about her that s the decision the administration made to sell to ukraine, $40 million with, when you include the assessor is an admonition. later in the week, they agreed to sell javelin antitank missiles to ukraine as well. what does this signify to you, what s the intention of the administration? speak of the his secretary of state andec secretary of defense have wanted him along with the security and counsel many months ago and it s really a a response to what s going on in the ground. the russians have pulled out of the joint russian ukrainian observation growth, and monitors are saying that a cease-fire violation happening in the last few days in staggering numbers, around 16,000 of them. the russians will not attempt to