and obama administration of making member of nato. we should have invited them to do so. they re a, quote, partner, which means nothing under the nato collective forces act. putin knows we only have two carriers at sea. one in the indian ocean, and the other off the atlantic coast. remember the other day in the budget talks. he said, we have 11 carriers, we don t. we only have 10 and only two are actually deployed. putin with closegistw jigistics impose real sanctions to all of us that the chinese and iranians are watching this feeble response as we re gutting our defenses and they re planning their own next moves. it s not a good picture. colonel, we know that president obama and president putin spoke on the phone for about an hour and a half. do you think president obama understands the gravity of the situation and how important ukraine really is? no.