we have richard cook. he is a former us federal policy analyst as well as author of our country that in now and here in moscow we cross the patrick headings and he is the editor in founder of the 21st century wire. originally cross lock roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate it. all right, let me go to you 1st here. i know i live very far away and maybe because of distance, i don't have the great the same amount of focus, but you have a job. i didn't really spend a lot of time on ukraine. it was 1st on the, on the shopping list there. i mean, is that america is most pressing problem right now. after all, it was the state of the union. the, the speech indicated not the ukraine worse top of the list to preserve the regime, but rather than the democratic party and joe biden, or top of the list preserve the regime. it was quite a shouting match was actually an embarrassment. the best was about ukraine was particularly center call. uh we're gonna, i'm gonna support t