brent: for more on today's speech i'm joined here at the big table by janis kluge. is a russian expert with the german institute for security known as the swp. janis, it is good to have you on the show. let's talk about this speech. president putin used the address to warn that there would be serious consequences if the u.s. puts any new missiles here in europe. how serious is this threat? janis: well, i think that any threat like this is obviously serious, but we also have to consider that everything that he said today was not news. all of that we heard before in different speeches. so, it is important to consider that the speech was primarily targeted at the domestic audience. in this case, putin used the opportunity of the united states exiting the inf treaty to portray russia as a great power in this speech. it was only a small part of the speech, only the end, but he used this opportunity. brent: last weekend at the munich security conference there was talk about the inf treaty dying and a new arms race taking place. do you see that happening, and can russia af