yesterday we announced actions against agents of russian influence who are acting in ukraine and who are acting to destabilize the country and we've made it clear to russia that they will face swift cost cost to their economy if they move forward against ukraine as well as nato reinforcement along its plank. we've engaged in diplomacy. that's my job. but at the same time, we are embarked on a path of defense and deterrence. these things are not mutually inconsistent. in fact, they reinforce each other. even as we're talking, if the russians are continuing to escalate and to build up, we are continuing to strengthen everything we're doing in terms of the assistance we're prying to ukraine for its defense, in terms of the work we're doing at nato to prepare, as necessary, to further reinforce the at license and continuing to define