are people in the congress and some of them on, some of them republicans who have always expressed some concern about spending in terms of spending money on this, on ukraine but we have 6 trillion-dollar budget. it is actually larger than that but a few hundred billion. we've invested, i mean invested $66 billion in ukraine this year and that is like 1.1%. what are we getting for that investment? we have putin, who we were dismissing for years, and not taking seriously despite georgia in 2008, despite syria, despite crimea, and eastern ukraine in 2014, because he is a declining power. he has got, economy is in the tank, one economy economy, we had tendency not to take him serious yet all the time he has been talking about ukraine is a part of russia and i'm going to make it a part of russia. president xi says the same thing about taiwan, by the way. and also, and this is the important part, that his design to bring back under the umbrella of russia the former soviet republics now in...