territory and don t send their military in to grab more territory and violate borders, we want to get back to that, we have to respect sovereignty. we don t go along with the spirit of influence, which is what president putin has been talking about, and others in this city are talking about. that s not where we are. that s not what we believe in today. we believe that nations are sovereign. the other thing, nicole, is that russia is not just president putin. the russians, over centuries, have been aggressive, have been aquiztive, have been expansionist, have been autocratic, and so with exactly what general mccaffrey said, when those nations became free, after the soviet union disappeared, and just before that, the wall came down, those nations, knowing russian history, they immediately wanted security for themselves, and they applied to nato.