prepared to deploy. let me play for you how he said it. we re being nothing but transparent about what we re doing militarily. a couple days ago we announced the beginning of an aircraft carrier exercise called the neptune strike in the asiatic sea. what you do you think major kirby is saying there, general? the challenge i have with that is when you declare your sp intentions clearly, you ve also declared what you re not going to do. that s what we heard from the president, that u.s. forced deployment has never been on the table. you want to make sure your opponent has to deal with a whole lot of unknowns. that ambiguity remains unknown. we see france is soft on russia,