So i think if you overlay that on some of the shift away from nato, and away from foreign alliances in the republican party, you layer on top of that a president who has in some degree, has called into question the alliance. and according to his own advisers, considered pulling out of it in the second term, i think that there really has a lot of unintended consequences when it comes to how this might play out. even if that might not ultimately mean that this is any real danger of feeling in the u.s. senate. it was interesting, i think it was important that you noted that just last week there was that vote, again, a symbolic resolution expressing support for nato. where we had 30% of the house republican caucus vote no on that, even though it was not binding, even though it wasn t going to effectuate anything in the real world, simply to to show the spirit of the united states of supporting the alliance, as a stand united against the russian invasion. did you hear around that vote,
Conventional wisdom is that republicans in congress more broadly would sign off on this, on a pretty bipartisan basis. but remember, this is something that requires two thirds majority in the senate. this has been a consensus issue in the past, in 2003 and 2000, four it was actually unanimous when there were seven countries joining. in 1999, 98, it was an overwhelming vote, 80 to 19. but that was an interesting one, because while it ended up being a very significant majority in favor, if there were concerns about this being provocative to russia. those were bipartisan concerns. so i think if you overlay that on some of the shift away from nato, and away from foreign alliances in the republican party, you layer on top of that a president who has in some degree, has called into question the alliance. and according to his own advisers, considered pulling out of it in the second term, i think that there really has a lot of unintended consequences when it comes to how this might play out.