with the troops. every president wants these images there. wonderful. it's not because the president makes the troops look good. it's because the troops make the president look good and here we are a month into this thing and he's not gotten any sort of bounce out of any of it. and i think that the white house is literally getting desperate and we're talking about the smallest of small ball. they're getting desperate about poll numbers at home and that's why they're doing this right now and the the danger is that he's going to bumble us into something far more dangerous than we're already in . that's exactly right. one miscalculation and a step away from that chemical attack that he said we would respond in kind. and there's also rumors that a change in language we may change the way we view usage of nuclear weapons. but matt , i want to go to you on the idea of deterrence because we heard for months and months the word deterrence tied to sanctions that that's how we're going to prevent vladimir putin going to hold off until it looks like