he's now a senior fellow at the university of pennsylvania center for energy policy. it's also a member of the council of foreign relations benjamin. it's good to have you back on the show. it's a big week in the baltics of latvia, stoney, lithuanian, or cutting off their electrical grid from their former soviet partners, russia and bella roofs. that's right, brand, it's great to be here. and it is a frankly historic week. right now we're seeing that the baltic states are ready to finally after many years of preparation. and some of this was already being prepared when i was back in the state department of doing diplomacy, energy, diplomacy, directly with those 3 baltic countries. they're trying to get away from the old rail network, the uh, bellows, rush, or lafayette with we need to. sonya network. that was the soviet era electricity grid on, in synchronized, finally with the european grid. and that's really important for cyber and physical security of energy infrastructure. and it's also something that we saw that had to happen within 48 hours with respect to ukrain