minister was in kiev and repeated the position not to sell lethal weapon to ukraine. and germany is one of the largest arm sales country in the world. so again, words, promises, crippling sanctions, but i do not see any document that will tell vladimir putin beyond any doubt that the cost of invasion will be too high. and if he doesn t believe that the cost will be too high, so his experience tells him that it s only lip service mean invaded republic of georgia in 2008. he helped bashar al assad and invaded ukraine in 2014. so far nothing happened. y why does he believe these words today? secretary of state antony blinken is headed to ukraine to meet with the ukraine president. just yesterday a bipartisan delegation of seven u.s. senators also met with ukrainian