crossed and he is professor of national security and director of academic transformations at bowie state university. and in montreal we cross the bank or he is a canadian foreign policy institute, fellow journalist and author, or a gentleman cross type roles and the fact that he's gonna jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate, aaron, let me go to you 1st. i mean stilton bird, he's not the brightest guy. that's probably why he has the job because he usually just repeats talking points written in washington. but he did kind of slip off by saying that the, the reason why russia entered ukraine last year is to prevent nato expansion. while we were told that was an unprovoked attack. that's what they keep saying over and over again. but you know, they sell to bird has a habit of doing this. he said, you know, from 2014 to 2022. they were arming ukraine to the teeth. i mean, they can't keep their narrative straight. and i want to talk about later how the world doesn't believe it. your thoughts, aaron, as well, it's pretty clear that nato expansion has been well underway since the end of the cold w