c. robert hunter, a former us ambassador to nato, joining us from moscow. andre bucklin off was the chairman of the board of the association of russian diplomats. i thank you so much for your time with us on inside story. ambassador robert over to you, young thornburgh has just said that nato is not part of the conflict. nato is a defensive alliance. we don't seek war or conflict with russia, but the longer this goes on, what does nato do? then? the native commitment under article 5 of the treaty of washington is to defend countries that are formerly members of the lions and everybody, nato was trying to get across to mister potent, that whatever happens in ukraine, and i'm sure we're going to be talking about that. he'd better not make any mistake, as to put it by the american secretary of state. any russians coming into a nato countries, nato coding in states is ready to respond. so it's going to be a very firm, defense of all nato. it comes to that at the same time, while a number of countries are providing weaponry to do your grading and no, no, no country is prepared to go to war for yo