of the black sea is what you would call the russians would call novai rosia, new russia, and if you go to their maps, go google new russia in a map, you see a swath of red sort of, of what that was going all the way back to katherine the great, so there s the aspirational goal from a military attack, occupy, it s 260 miles from crimea to tiras pole, the capitol if you will of the break-away region. that s a long distance for russian forces already stretched to go, but again, that is aspirational and needs to be watched and potentially very dangerous. i mean, if the russians are being relatively open about their plans, i mean you have this kind of obscure russian general saying, talking about building, you know, a corridor all the way to transnistria, why