the past 30 years. are they accusing president biden truly such the fact that sanctions were eads on nord stream 2 and the withdrawal from afghanistan, which was widely criticized. how do you respond to that criticism that president biden is being too weak to mr. putin? smr i think three points. the first is that vladimir putin standing behind then president mcdebta in 2008 invaded georgia when we had 150,000 troops deployed in iraq and afghanistan. the question between our foreign wars and calculus when it comes to the post-soviet space, there is not good evidence to support that. number two when it comes to nord stream 2. the fact is the gas is not flowing through the stream 2 pipeline, which means it is not operating. which means it is not leverage for putin. indeed, it is leverage for the