preparing to use military action. we don t know whatn t they re going to do, but they re talkinknow butalkingg o it. ti and at the same time, putin is able to distract us . sous i think actually people are saying, including a lot ofin republicans are saying, hey, we have to defeat russia in order to focus eventually on china. i think that s a delusion. del laura .e ch the reality is at thisin point, the chinese are helping to prope eurohe russians to distract the americans in europe, and that s actually playing intoying i their strategy. and one of two things happens for the chinese. i think, in this sort of approach. one is either the americans coow down inget bogged europe and sort of play along, as you ve seen from kirbyr is and others, the other is that ce there s a settlement that basically the chinese are the criticalal pathway, tween the critical broker, and then they ve driven a wedge betweenus europeus and europeans. so, i mean, i really it sreache astounding that we ve reache