relations committee, studying the situation in ukraine crossly and attended a classified briefing today on iran, a briefing he described as quote sobering and shocking, and i want to talk to you about that as well, senator, but let s start with russia, good to have you here. thanks for joining us. senator, we ve got diplomacy, we ve got ready for, you know, readiness for military action, and in between there, there s variations on appeasement and sanctions. tell me where we are on the continuum of an invasion and engagement with russia because of it. let s step back for a second and frame this up. this is a signal of russian weakness, this potential invasion of ukraine. this is a former russian republic, a former soviet republic, a country that was under the thumb of russia, just a decade ago, when russia had a proxy government installed inside kyiv, and today, russia has lost ukraine, ukraine people have decided that they want to