and shed understanding it was an american and american diplomat, george keenan, who wrote a long telegram back to the united states that become the foreign policy of containment of russia. added crossing that policy, which was a shed policy. we understood 2 things. we understood, and sadly putin is indicative of this, there is a source tradition that he's leaning into paid of the great nicholas to fast in the west of that period and imperial limits and visions. and there is a soviet to tradition. let's remember he's acute k g b agent is the amount of the section adding, negotiating with him. we have to understand that and relate to that. and of course, what we know is, it's usually will that stops that on bishop to the south, the crime in the, to the east, the russian for with japan and to the west, the cold war. um, we should be deadly serious about those imperial ambitions. and i said in the house of commons, as someone who's assessed its face down, imperialism, but we have to be real about that threat, which is why roddic is right. and all american friends are right. and they've been r