peace. we better just buckle our seat belts because this is going to get worse before it gets better. josh, you have a really interesting piece in the washington post that suggests while vladimir putin fumbles the invasion of ukraine, someone else is watching. someone else is president xi in china and he is watching and he s learning from putin s mistakes in case he ever decides to invade in taiwan. of course, he would deny that he has any plans, but explain that a little bit. explain your theory. right. well, vladimir putin denied he had plans to attack ukraine until he attacked ukraine. we re seeing a similar scenario play out in china where the leader is preaching to his people about historical grievances with the west, and using that to menace his democratic neighbor taiwan. the terrible part for the taiwanese is that vladimir putin had to go first. so he made a lot of mistakes. xi jinping is learning from those mistakes. and according to u.s. officials i talked to, xi jinpin