now, professor charles, cochin, he is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and a professor of international affairs at georgetown university professor. it's good to have you on the program. again, i know that you have written, you've argued that nato should now push for a diplomatic solution to the board and ukraine. you say partly in order to protect trans atlantic solidarity, but also to guard against to home grown threats to liberal democracy. i don't think these ideas are going to be very popular in keep to you. i would say that's an understatement. he, at least as far as we know from public statements wants to keep fighting. they believe that they can attain military victory to find is expelling russian troops from all of ukrainian territory. and if not, that at least getting back to the february status quo, the territorial line that began before this new invasion. you know, i don't think that kime is on ukraine side. i think that the war has shifted its momentum toward russia. it's going to be very hard to push russia out from the areas of dun boss they've taken, so i