michael mallos, a former senior security policy analyst of the u. s. secretary defense. he believed it was washington's decision to break the principle of nathan non expansion towards russia. it's actually the united states was the one who was leading this effort, going back to the clinton administration, to go against an agreement that bill clinton gave to, to, to, to russia. that it would not seek to expand but all the while it was. and now we're seeing that nato is looking for a new agenda. and we saw it just very recently in there for closing statements up there now, and not only including the arctic, but also china as something to keep an eye on. and russia has, had, had made it clear this latest last december, in, in statements to the united states, united states, i don't think the europeans would have done what they, what has now occurred. if it weren't for the united states and the neo cons with neoconservatives within the u. s. government pushing, pushing, pushing this agenda and trying to take advantage of it, probably thinking that nothing whatever that russia