and it not getting involved. they wanted to reset. and what's they ended up doing in the middle east is they didn't engage in syria, they allowed the russians, who again, allies with iran, to really take it control. it now they are in charge of that region, into the united states is no longer a player. a-determiner >> laura: when i hear all that i do about russia, i always say okay, now apply that analysis to china. china is building islands in the south china sea. they are stealing our intellectual property. they stole 50 million personal background files from the office of personnel management. china is forever hacking into our systems. they have terrible human rights violations. and they have a 2025 planet to dominate most major industries. but we have no problem having constant dialogue with china, wanting to work with them appeared to china, china, china. russia is bad.