invasion, almost world war ii-like against ukraine is very much alive, totally consistent with what mr. putin has said and written, consistent with their military buildup, and what didn t happen at the time of crimea, he thinks, yeah, he old have to face some economic sanctions, but he is not expecting, i would sthink anything but a ukrainian military response. one nightmare scenario that s been mentioned to me by a number of people briefed on the intelligence is a possibility of two things happening at once, and that is that russia acts on ukraine and china perhaps acts on taiwan. no hard intelligence on this but just viewed as what would we do if? what do you view the current threat to taiwan from china, which has been rattling the sabre about taking over or reclaiming, as it says, taiwan for a number of years now, but the u.s. pentagon views as a very imminent threat?