feel the price of her actions. so over time, hope from inside russia is coming to ameliorate it. it is decades of containment. and george kennan predicted in 1947 that russia will eventually fall of its own weakness internally, it cannot sustain its domination. so i think the europeans are faced with needing to set boundaries for vladimir putin, increase sanctions or whatever, add a containment element, and hope that, eventually, no further encroachments by russia will occur. we hope for the best. we cannot be sure. but if we insist on setting the boundaries for russia, maybe we might deter putin from tearing further. john, i wonder what your thoughts are on that. i think actually the best hope