and i can now speak to christine bertina. she is the managing director of the german marshall fund north and joins us tonight from washington. d, c was for xena, good to see a thought broke says weapons are the way to peace. now that france, the u. s. and germany are providing armored vehicles and a patriot missile system. how much closer are we to piece? all of these are really important developments to get to a reality that is better for ukraine, which is necessary to get to a piece negotiation table at the end. in those remarks that secretary general st oldenburg gave in oslo. today, there is a discussion of the fact that, yes, most wars and in the negotiation negotiating table, but it's important for ukraine to have successes in order on the battlefield before you get to that table. and that's what these weapons are about. there's a lot of warnings on, on what he said about having peace, just where it stands right now and what's not being said, but what the undercurrent is, is that russia has to lose. that is, is somethin