attention they crave doesn t de-escalate or avoid conflict, but the opposite. apparently biden also craves a status boost, but this is also the opposite. you also wrote this. for those who still don t understand, putin stays in power by keeping the cash flowing and his oligarchs happy. to do this, he needs to be irreplaceable, the big boss, no better way than one-on-one talks with the u.s. president. so gary, i m assuming you don t agree with the notion of the president taking this phone call with putin. yeah, first of all, happy new year. i m not sure it s a happy new year for our friends in ukraine and of course not for millions of my com patriots in russia. it s president biden and the white house, they owe us an explanation about the summit in june and another phone call. so we heard it in june, biden made demands. in phone call, the first phone call, he made an ultimatum. now, why was the third call