foreign policy and military experts, everybody says there's a series of both sort of military and diplomatic, call it military-diplomatic, hyphenated, steps that would be taken that still have yet to be taken that could ratchet up the diplomatic pressure through those military channels. whether it's forced appointments or positioning of planes, a series of steps if the u.s. wanted to send increasing military signals as well as some of those diplomatic options we're talking about like more secondary sanctions, more pressure on china. so the rhetoric is definitely attention getting and is making some people very nervous. but the subtext of the rhetoric and the space that's left in between is probably still quite significant. >> do you think that's the way it's read? i mean, chris cillizza, we were talking earlier, does that mesh with diplomacy using language that sound like the title cards for ufc fights? fire and fury, locked and