large-scale use of chemical weapons is forthcoming, they need to know that the war changes. that our calculations will change. that our willingnesses to engage will change. as a result of that. and that s the kind of message that i hope we re is sending quietly. no necessary to doso openly. but it is a message that needs to be sent. and as a 230r78er nato ambassador, would you support from the u.s. perspective, the admission of finland and sweden? oh, absolutely. i think our problem over the last 30 years isn t that we haven t we ve gone too far when it comes to nato enlargement. i think the war in ukraine shows we haven t gone far enough. the countries that are members of nato are protected. if finland and sweden want to join, who are we to say no? their security requires, if they
was an important dealmaker and ultimately persuasive on the court. not as simple as replatesing a liberal with a liberal? i. would say, when diane and i clerked and we were around at the same time in the late 80s, beginning of the 90s, justice stevens was known as a maverick on the court and the marshal chambers would often be upset with the justice because they didn t think he was a reliable vote on the liberal side. the distinctive thing about justice stevens, hard to replace, his attention to the individual case and willingnesses to decide it in a way that really isn t determined by ideology. in recent years that has been because of the cases that have come before the court he s basically been the leader of the liberal side the court and his intelligence, of course, made him a very important contributor to that, but i think it s really that distinctive afleech will be toughest to replace. i ll let you wrap it up for us, diane. i think i would add the fact