it can expect very severe consequences. not just financial and economic consequences from the united states, from europe. and by the way, from the g7. which has some other members that are not part of europe or the united states. it s a global approach. but they ll also get some things they don t want. if they go into ukraine, then we have already said that we are going to have to reinforce our eastern flank of nato. they say they don t want nato forces closer to their border. well, then don t go into ukraine, because that is what it will end up doing. so i do think that they do have to think twice about what they are going to do because they will face very severe consequences in several areas. all right, thanks very much. let s go to our next question from ulia koltac. what do you want to ask our panel, ulia? if a military conflict cannot be avoided, | what consequencesl for russia, ukraine,