attacks, economically destabilizes the country to some extent. so we ought to be prepared for a long haul crisis rather than for something sudden. the russians today submitted their 11-page written response to the u.s. after the u.s. sent their thoughts, their statements, to the russians. it took a weekend for the u.s. to reply to russia. russia took three weeks to come back with an answer. and it seems like it s just written statements of what was discussed in person. they have their demands. the u.s. is not going to meet them. any surprise here? what s the relevance of this paper traffic? there is no relevance. if diplomacy is going to work, it s not going to happen in formal written statement. it s going to happen because putin essentially tells us sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, to cut a deal and he ll give them certain parameters. this is theater to either