recent times, talks about it civil war to with former senior pentagon security policy analysts, mike maloof, he told me, natal appears to be engaging in the very behaviors accusing russia of i don't think the russians are planning any expansion anywhere. but nato certainly is. and nato is, is being defiant. it, that's unfortunate. and it's bringing about the greater instability in the region as far as i'm concerned. and as far as other observers are concerned because it, it's define certain rules that were laid out years ago about indivisibility for of security, for both countries. namely, that security in one area will not be bolstered at the expense of the other. and that's what we're seeing right now. and with these exercises that we're now seen by russia, which are annual. but in that, in that area, i think it's is to demonstrate that there are areas where the united states, particularly and russia can negotiate. particularly on intermediate range, missiles and, and, and creating buffers. buffer zones for out true for trip deployments, as well as over flights of strategic bombers as wel