counterparts. you'll recall that ever since the cold war, there have been a wide variety of sort of hot lions, red telephones on people's desks so that nuclear strikes don't happen, so that both sides understand clearly what the intentions of the others are. and the russians have stepped back from that. but you know, again, it's more, when it's at the general-to-general level, it's more, again, for transparency to try to make sure there's no surprises and there's at least some strategic predictability if it comes to weapons of mass destruction. so, you know, i think the russian military is sort of on its heels and trying to figure out, where do we go from here? when you're in that stage, you probably don't want to be on the phone with an american general who's going to ask you, so, what are you guys up to? >> good point there. michael, to you. a first today. the russian stock exchange was opened. it wasn't a full day. the first time since the start of the war. foreigners couldn't sell stocks, couldn't sell their shares. only allowed 15% of listed shares to trade. the market actually closed higher because of all of these