given that this this whole business of quid pro quo was being pushed by a sitting US president do think that somewhere along the line that emboldened Putin in in what he has done today, Yes, I don't think there's any question ballot. I don't know that it was the most important factor, but it was certainly a factor. I think in conversations with Putin, Trump didn't convey respect for Zelinski. Think Putin could easily have take that A and he could see Putin could see the trump had no interest in our appreciation, the geopolitical realities that Ukraine faced and that could in danger. NATO members like Poland, even though Ukraine is not a member of NATO, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Republics obviously and other Eastern European countries are So I think Putin could see that he had an advantage here. He was wise enough from his prospective not to do something in the middle of the American presidential election where he couldn't predict the results. But I think he felt that if Trump won reelection, he would have four years to be able to exploit what he had learned about Ukraine
