international community led by the us and others to try and isolate russia, make russia pay a price for its blayton and unprovoked. busy invasion of ukraine, so this is unfortunately being played out on the syria theater. but the, which brings me to my next question. in fact, because i wanted to ask you as a former ambassador to the united nation, give us some insight into what would be going on right now. particularly in the, in the context of the war and ukraine that involves rush. i mean, how would you describe relations amongst the security council members? well, the way these are negotiate when i blew up on friday, when the russians vetoed the resolution, they're scrambling all weekend me to try and cover together an acceptable piece. there's lots of phone calls. these are not negotiated in new york to negotiate isn't capital, it's about what's acceptable. and when the russians came back and said 6 months, they thought, well, we don't want to spend too much time putting these lives at risk. let's take the 6 months and live to fight another day of the war and ukraine is still going on, and russ