have common ground here. you have some issues on arms control, on missile deployments, on these sorts of things, concerns that you have, and we can get to those, you know, discuss them. and this is in essence what president macron of france is coming to moscow to talk about with president putin. but there's also a sort of hurdle for president putin, and that is, you know, to get into this discussion in a meaningful way, to show serious commitment, the expectation is that he needs to signal a way that can be understood in western capitals that he is de-escalating the tensions around ukraine, that he is reducing that threat, not making it appear as if he's preparing for a potential invasion. whatever he says publicly about not doing that. so this track of diplomacy has an opportunity. president macron of france has said he's coordinating very carefully with other european and nato leaders and has spoken