the first is if, in fact, putin does not pay a significant price, then he's repeated what happened when he annexed crimea in 2014. second, the president can only go as far and as fast as his allies do. if the united states announces major sanctions, and the allies are not willing to go along with those sanctions, then it is going to be relatively easy for putin to evade them. and the third problem is let's say they do everything now and then he does go in with the much bigger force and he does, you know, end up killing thousands of people as he tries to surround or take kyiv, the worst case scenario that we have discussed before, what does the president do then if he has basically unleashed all of the economic sanctions he has? he's left with not much except helping arm an insurgency. >> but, what if the staggered of