have a symbolic tiny doe employment in europe which wouldn t signal much of anything. i think this is a sizeable statement of deterrence. it doesn t spend a lot of money. it s not provocative so i think it was a really good outcome. in the short run, the russians have 120,000 troops poised to come in from russia and belarus. they could take down ukraine 90 days. tactically. there will be a big fight. the ukrainians are going to fight. it s not clear what putin is going to do. the larger purpose is to shatter nato and to run the u.s. out of europe. so i think these secretary blinken, secretary austin and the president s purpose right now is to try and keep the allies together, to fracture the group. the germans have no combat-ready forces that could realistically affect it. the french are independent and