jamie mcintyre with the "washington examiner." on twitter it's at jamie g mcintyre, easy enough to find. question for you first from twitter, this from the libertarian saying this proves the russian conventional military threat was a largest paper tiger in history and we can stop spending so much money on the military. on that your thoughts assessment. >> guest: well, i agree with the first part of that. the russian military did turn out to be a paper tiger, or as i wrote in my magazine article two weekss ago, putin's army look like it was very formidable but it wasn't. >> host: explained that term. >> guest: it is going to cause nato to reassess how it defends against a potential russian invasion into nato territory. something that was really the founding principle of the nato alliance was to stop the soviet union, , or to counter the sovit union if it had designs on things. a couple of years ago the rand corporation reviewed some of the wargames that the u.s. does to sort of game out how a conflict with russia might play out. in the wargames russia was ab