michael garcia, if ukraine continues to feel that europe in the united states are not looking out for them on this issue. does that risk join them closer to china's or bit as has been suggested by some? yeah, absolutely. i think the feeling in ukraine is i've recently returned from there is that it's been thrown under the bus, the bought it and ministration, which by the way, has very few foreign policy wins, has chosen to improve relations with germany. it has chosen to do some kind of research with relations with russia and in return. and as i said earlier, creighton feels very vulnerable. it doesn't have many options. but yes, one of them is actually improving relations with china. in fact, president lansky recently had 1st a conversation what she's paying over the telephone. and they, there was a very good call from both sides. and the landscape said that it pretty much to the fact that ukraine has no better friend than china right now, at least an economic partner. and i think this was done in part to kind of put pressure on washington to look again at relations with ukraine and