look, i think if you go back to october and november, weeks and weeks ago, when we started talking about this, we laid down a very clear, straightforward line and we have stuck to that line day in, day out, week in, week out, no matter what the russians say or do. and that line involves two basic thrusts. one thrust is to indicate to the russians that there will be severe cost to pay if they go ahead in ukraine, including economic costs, force posturing, capabilities moving east and support to ukraine. the other thrust is a diplomatic thrust to say that we are prepared, along with our allies and partners to talk about i issues related to european security. at this point, we re ready either way. if russia wants to continue on the path of diplomacy, we re ready to continue on it. if russia wants to move forward with a military escalation, we re ready to respond. so my view is that we ve had a clear, firm and consistent policy and, in fact, have been out front in raising the alarm about