I think it's an irrelevant question. I think in foreign policy, it's not about trusting. It's about action. It's about things that you do. So in the end, on something like this, you can't just say you want peace. You have to do peace. And that's true for both sides in any conflict, in any war, in any engagement. So I think ultimately, all these things, I would just encourage you guys, if we're going to be serious about foreign policy, to sort of navigate away from some of the, this is not a reality show. This is not about personalities. This is very simple. You either do things or you don't. There are things you are doing and things you're not doing. And that's what foreign policy is driven by, and that's how our decisions should be driven by. So unfortunately, in foreign policy, oftentimes, you will have to work with, I'm not talking about President Putin in particular. I'm talking about generally. You will have to work with people you don't like in foreign policy. And oftentimes, you will have disagreements with people you like. Sometimes you will have to figure out how to work together with nations that are not aligned with you on most issues. And in other cases, you may find yourself unaligned on an issue with a nation that you work with very closely on a bunch of other things. That's not just now true today. That has been true throughout the history of mankind and certainly the relations between nation states. So I think it's important. I get there's this temptation to cover foreign policy the way we cover domestic policy and the way we cover other things in our society. But foreign policy about nation states pursuing what they have interpreted to be in their national interests and balancing that is what the art of diplomacy and the work of foreign policy is all about. So we need to sort of be mature and open eyed and realistic without losing our idealism, without losing what we hope the world will look like and want to shape it and be a part of. But by the same token, we have to make pragmatic decisions every single day. And that's not true today. That's always been true. Always.
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