ah. crossing the situation in ukraine, i'm joined by my guess, daniel mc, adams in lake jackson. he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity in tens mania. we have ted see, he is a conflict consultant and a retired u. s. foreign service officer. and here in moscow we have maxime suits. gov. he is the director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute for international relations. i gentleman crosswalk rules in effect. that means he can jump in any time you want and i will appreciate it. i said, all 3 of you before we get started, we live in very tragic times. we did, we cannot predict the future, but we saw how it failed international order brought about a catastrophe for just about everybody involved. i just want to say that up frontier, daniel, i'm in my introduction. i said we're at the end of the post cold war era. am i right? or am i wrong? go ahead. now you're absolutely right and there isn't that, you know, there's a temptation to be too dramatic, but i don't, i don't think you're being over dramatic. i think t