now, to el rasmussen, executive vice president of the razor center. welcome to our t. l. thanks for joining us. now, the german chancellor show salts has said that berlin is try not to escalate the ukraine conflicts into russia, nato war. what do you make of that statement? we do know the german germany has been fairly hesitant initially to send support to keith or peter, i think i really think, i think mr. shalt is getting a lot of pressure, obviously, from other natal certain other nato members to provide it. and we've seen the quite arrogant and insulting comments from the ukranian side about that. but germany has done a lot like he said, and they've provided a lot, but i, you know, historically, i think germany is quite i think they're quite concerned. as far as, as far as expanding and extending beyond the ukranian into, into european proper area the and across into germany would be a directly impacted potentially. also, we know that the, the german business community is really, really not supportive of the sanction. and many, many german businesses are going to go b