simmons, but it's somewhat, i don't know, what to call it, to say that nato has done this before trump comes comes on board, i mean we're looking at eight months now, if that were to happen, and between now and e months from now, including april, lot of things could happen when it comes to nato and russia, given this... aid were to happen or not, we're still looking at the tensions there that keep ratcheting up, what type of confrontations do you for see or where do you see this going in terms of the military aspect of it? well, i think the main problem is the level of unpredictability, and the unpredictability comes from the collective west, because what you have here is a bunch of med. politicians at best who have bruised egos, they predicted that russia would be defeated, that ukraine would win, they've done everything to try and do that, yet this is not the case, so there, it seems their egos are worth more than a major military confrontation that nato initiates with russia, so this level of emotional... investment in it from them makes it very unpredictable, the predictability com