nato alliance looks, again, putting troops on the border of -- borders of those countries that we all were just discussing, sends some strength, at least it looks strong, but, it's pretty clear that there are underlying tensions that are significant and that were exposed by putin's actions on border of ukraine. >> john: you have got to wonder if you are vladimir putin and looking at troop movements. you say to yourself they are not going to ukraine. i only want to go into ukraine. they are not that much of a deterrent. i want to change gears here. the news yesterday at about this time that johns hopkins study, which is really landed like a bombshell that there was only a 2% a .02% reduction in code deaths because of all of the lockdowns that we experienced. listen to what anthony fauci said about that two years ago. >> the fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of