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Senator donnellys question about your concern about count fitted parts. And i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. I just wanted to ask you one question though. You do have a concern about counterfeit parts. I i heard that correctly. Yes. I was wondering if you are aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure it is not a counterfeit part. Senator im not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. What i am aware of is that our Quality Control folks at places like crane indiana that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. I am aware of a particular product i would love to talk with you further in a different context. Regarding your Energy Efforts we do need a sustained longterm commitment to research and development in this area and meeting our Energy Security needs and preserving the superiority of our forces in the face of Energy Supply challenges in the 21st century are
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There are Russian Forces in ukraine, we believe they are responsible for commanding control, arming, financing directing of this conflict. We also believe there are many hundreds of russian dead in ukraine edit does pose a vulnerability for the kremlin politically at home. One quick point. I read in your statement, is its not accurate that as these bodies are returning to russia, russian families of the dead shoulders soldiers are told do not comment on it or they are denied death benefits . Yes. Thank you. Senator mendez had a closing question. Thank you. Madam secretary the budapest memorandum was basically a way to entice the craniums to give up their nuclear weapons, is that it are statement . At the time, the primary intent was for russia to get russia to a short ukraine it would not seek to take advantage of ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity if it gave out its weapons. There was never an intent to have treaty obligations. You said it was a political agreement, right
Kremlin is making. When you hear the secretary talk about inflation at 15 17 . When we have statistics of skyrocketing food prices across the russian space, 20 40 in some places. We know that average russians are having difficulties paying for apartments and cars. We see imports way down. That goes to the point that the kremlin has prioritized their International Adventure over the quality of the life of their own people and at what point that has an a political effect, we will see. The question about where will oil prices be in a year. This is something we should be wary about. There are people that have to make that speculation. Some of the productions that projections that the oil prices would stay the same. If we are a year and the oil prices have stated this historically low level, talk about what you would predict that you would see in terms of the internal russian economic dynamic and we can draw the line between that and likely political feelings. I think it is important to rec