it provides some balast. i'll give you an example. u.s.-chinese trade is about $500 billion a year. what that means, when there is a sharp dispute between the u.s. and bay ying and washington, people think, we have to be careful here, because there is a lot of money at stake. when you look at the low-level reaction between russia and the united states, we don't have that balast. i think that's something important and that's missing from the relationship. i think there have been some success stories. i think boeing is a prime example of what the united states and russia can do together. there are too few of those success stories. part of this position does turn on as russia decides what kind of investment. i still hear from some that russia is too hard of a place to do business. as russia can deal with some of those issues, a fair court system, end of corruption, i hink you will see some of that trade increase. sergey and i first met when we were arms controllers. i i served in mos moscow where i had the arms portfolio. and he was here in washington on his first or second tour, i thi