and if they don't agree to those conditions, hooton's gonna continue to push, push forward on the battlefield. listening to you, john, are you saying that you expect donald trump to fail in achieving a piece of chord between ukraine and russia? yes, i don't think you're going to get a piece of court. i think what you're going to get is a frozen conflict. in other words, i think the russians are eventually going to reached a point on the battlefield, where it's clear they are victorious. and the conflict will stop much the way the korean war ended in 1953. you'll get some form of armistice. but i think it is. and i'm choosing my words carefully here in light of your question. i think it's virtually impossible to get a meaningful piece agreement where we shut down this war and ukraine and the west on one side and the russians on the other side work out a modest band i that last i don't think that is possible. now i want to emphasize that i've been wrong in the past, and i may be wrong here, and i hope i am wrong, because there's nothing more that i'd like to see then a meaningful piece agreemen