Says it will take $7 billion a month to rebuild his country and this war would have been overhead he got the weapons he needed sooner. try to me right now s a former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe to weigh in for a job is great to see her this morning but thanks so much for being here. can you assess the u.s. as a response to the war on ukraine? yes, and partially encapsulates the sad state of american foreign policy under the biden administration for they are sending secretary blinken and secretary austin to project american strength in this situation for these are the two guys there were the architects of the most embarrassing military retreat and surrender frankly in afghanistan in american history. but there are really no good options are you going to send joe biden kamala harris to project american strength there s a problem with capacity of the biden administration to project strength around the world in these situations.