Begin this month in geneva. the u.s. and russia and then other groups of counterparts trying to get at these issues. as you know so well, russia has complained about the u.s. and western powers wanting to have more of the nato presence closer to the russian border. they view that as threatening. of course russia s behavior with thousands of troops amassed and a posture they ve taken is viewed as very aggressive, and that that is a threat, and so how to try to deescalate that, and can they negotiate a way out of this at a time when it feels like this is really add a tinter box level. so president biden using some personal diplomacy with these phone calls. the first one requested by vladimir putin, we don t know exactly the circumstances of how the zelensky call came about but trying to make certain that he was in on this. as you also noted, the nothing about you without you, this notion of not making any decisions on behalf of the