a significant land grab on one end of the spectrum. that s not that should not be discounted. on the other side of the spectrum, what you have is a major demonstration that gets the u.s. to say, well, you know what, we don t need this other headache in ukraine. we can back off. we can focus on china. this is the opportunity to step back from ukraine, but that s app appeasement. that s not the way the situation gets resolved. the way it gets resolved is to change the military calculus in ukraine. do you think the russians took the overall presidency as a sign of weakness from the u.s.? and what happens if trump runs again? what do the russians see? i think they see an enormous opportunity for another trump administration. i d say it s longer, unfortunately, than president biden s tenure. president trump s tenure was a huge boon but they suffered consequences for the war in georgia. they ve basically not been