Demonstrates that that deterrence is having an effect. we need to strengthen it and make shure we stand that. i spoke to a european diplomat who said at the end of the day we don t really know the status of the fight on the eastern front. to some degree we have better insight into russian losses than ukrainian advances. we played it earlier, ukrainians will release a lot of successful attacks on ukrainian tanks and ships et cetera. they ve had enormous success, but is it possible we don t know the true state of the battle there? we have a partial picture, and i think part of that is because of the operational security that the ukrainians are maintaining, and the decisions that we at the institution for the study of war and others have made, you know, not to publish on what the ukrainian attempt at advance is, what their operational plans are, you know, inso insofrgs they can be deceiscern. you can layer that and get a sense that the russian military, again, still is not bringing an