still no comms? okay. david ignatius continues to watch with us. i'd love to get you on the record of the last conversation we had here. the relative size and strength of the russian economy, especially when compared to the united states. and just matters of stature and balance and whether the u.s. in having -- in holding any of this event is punching down. >> i think that's really an important point. the russians and especially vladimir putin have a real chip on their shoulder about having lost what they thought of as superpower status. the reality is the russian economy simply hasn't modernized in the way that so many people expected. it's still largely a one-commodity export commodity. it produces oil and gas and