anyway, this is going to be an interesting parry, don't you think lula melick now let's get back to our and so we're back with the stairwell and got a video to talk about this and. and by the way, um, we apologize for the connection with this dave on, it's a little fuzzy. he's coming to us today cuz he's in lebanon and not exactly the best technical set up there. but it's more important to be able to understand what you have to say because you're such an experienced journalist and you know a lot about this particular topic. so let's go back to that real quick as i've been thinking of my latino american. and i think there may be a lot of people like me out there that when they think of russia and china, the 1st thing they think about is, you know, going east. and they were told that if you're a part of that system or rush or they don't believe in don, and we'll take your children away, you know, all those missed that are out there. how, how much will that interfere in latin america's relationship to forge these relationships with countries like china and russia and iran in india and whoe