from its forward expansion of decades ago post-cold-war expansion towards russia, poland, and other countries. now, you know, blinken has just told us there s now a threat to ukraine from the north, belarus, where there are joint military exercises between russia and rel bus, as well as the south and east. and now russia has to step back and has to agree to some conversations on confident-building to inspire more trust on arms control , that we re willing to talk about missiles and, you know, other armaments from both sides, but not willing to redefine the terms of the nato agreement, which goes back 70 years. richard, the ukrainian government was alarmed by president biden s earlier comments this week saying the response to any russian invasion