regime. they want to be prosperous in a way. thal tes thal tesh tough doesn t the alternative doesn t bear contemplation. juror there is concern it would follow the path of east and west germany and you are suggesting it would be more difficult than that. absolutely. before the collapse of the berlin wall, western estimates of the cost of absorption of east germany into west germany were grossly underestimated. and that was actually fiscally a disaster for west ter d west