they sent the deputy mayor of beijing to meet with the mayors are really important. michael beloved joins us as well. michael, to the idea that we would create a scenario where the weapons that you and i pay for with our taxes are being used to kill civilians and russia is not something i ever thought that i would see in my lifetime. and it scares the hell out of me, shouldn't it? yes, we shouldn't even be involved. but given the politics and they have a lucian of where we are today, you can see why that's happening, why we're also now deeply involved in another term while in the middle east. i think one of the, uh, zalinski is problems, is that so much is of the of us ordinance now is going to israel and not to him. yeah. but is it but, but my point is this, and it's a fine one. is this not a bridge too? far, i mean, it's one thing to support ukraine and say, we're going to give you money so you can defend yourself against an invasion from russia to another thing to say, we're going to give you money. and if you're okay to use it to bomb russia, a country with more