u. s. as advantage anthony blinking admitted as much i think it is an extraordinary opportunity or something like that. and it in and it was obviously a frontal attack against germany making any kind of a move to, to make some kind of overturn towards out of moscow to, to finally put this thing to an end. but no, that's been taken off the table. so, i mean, there's no way back from that. i mean, i find it truly incredible philip, that the, the, well, it, us western, now i actually trust washington right now after that. well, i think the, the allies, if you're talking about the leadership of those countries that's a given except that they don't really trust washington and the, and increasingly in europe, the people are rising up and protesting about this. one of the astonishing things is that the climb down on alternative views here in the united states is really quite limited. there is no big piece movement surfacing and apart from the occasional critics coming from the right like corporate carlson, there is there are no effective voices out there getting a, a substantial audience to tell them what the, what the story is. you know, brian, you know, i, i, i tend to