in eastern europe, in the baltic states, near ukraine and it would also make sense to have that presence there so that nobody goes into invade you from the west. that was an argument used during the cold war with the soviet union and also something that i think would perhaps, as kind of a long shot type effort of convincing the kremlin that it could be a good thing. but the russians will say that is not something that we wanted. in fact it is the act opposite of what putin has asked for and putin basically playing to putin s hand to some extent saying that woe be able to say that, look, this is what the nato folks are doing, they re increasing their forces on our borders, they re obviously dangerous and it could work in that way. so it would be something that the kremlin would look at, i