right, let's discuss all this now with mike my lou for my pencil. gotten senior security policy analyst joining me right here in just to do, mike is good to have you talk me in the studio like it always stops online, but you, you are the student with me. thanks for him. now, i know you've been following this development, and as today's, through this whole escalation, washington has put the blame squarely on moscow. despite been the 1st to authorize the use of long read myself against the roster ad through your grade. now that's ticket less than to describe before i even ask the question. escalation at every turn at every step is coming from russia. they're the ones who escalate this. they're the ones who started this war is because of their aggression into a summer territory. ukraine. and this war can, and today you hear, say this over and over again. it can, if russia would stop the war and stop what they're doing with their aggression. so this is an aggression from their side. for a long time, the white house are using these long ridge type into rush into a type target and say, rush,