inability to recognize that there's a very simple fact here, which is the ukrainian people want to create their own nation. there's no kind of mathematical logic to why one nation should be one way or another. but if a bunch of people decide they want to be a nation, we've generally said that that's appropriate. the best response to vladimir putin came ironically from the most extraordinary place, which was the kenyan ambassador to the united nations. and the u.n. security council, the kenyan ambassador in rejecting putin's logic and voting against putin's demands, said look, all of africa is made up of -- we're all artificial nations. we were all created out of artificial boundaries that were drawn by colonial powers. but we decided that we are not going to alter these boundaries by force. we are not going to go to war to