okay, let's go back to daniel lake jackson, m e r. stockton, bergen, he's. he's very pissy. i would say when he speaks, he and i know if he of notice is this kind of nato ease that he's always talking about did didn't really make a whole lot of sense. a lot of it is circular reasoning, but this is what he had to say in bucharest, on his anniversary visit from 2008. he was there, he right, whom reminds us, president putin cannot deny sovereign nations to make their own sovereign decisions . but i guess that doesn't apply to russia. thoughts, daniel, sovereign peoples, you know, y'all made a great point about nato's existence. it's only to expand. it's kind of like the sam bank mon freight of military alliance, isn't it? i was wondering who is going to come up with bad connection in this program? you were the 1st one, go keep going. you have to keep pulling in new suckers to keep, you know, surviving. and, you know, i mean, nato is the home of failed scandinavian politicians, and that's the case. and when you let these people of the politics in the scandinavians make your defe