US POLITICIANS ARE SLEEPWALKING TOWARD THE NUCLEAR ABYSS

Having Eyes, They Will Not See

This is quite the admission by the US Secretary of State with the audience applauding him as he continued saying “It’s – it was like – We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American Experiment.”

Glory? How sick is that?

Americans forgot the US went to the United Nations Security Council using FAKE Intelligence Saddam had WMDs, asking for the Legal Authority only the UNSC can give to invade Iraq and change the regime. That legal authority was denied.

With the delusional belief in it’s own exceptionalism, the US invaded anyway in violation of the same International Law they accuse Russia of violating, undermining the Rules based Order as represented by the United Nations since WWII, ushering in the Law of the Jungle to the Middle East and the World.

Americans loved and supported Saddam when he invaded Iran in 1980 in violation of International Law, starting the brutal 8 year War to nip the 1979 Iranian Revolution in the bud.

Americans forgot the US Government, CIA and Pentagon told the People they were winning the $2 Trillion, 20 year War and occupation of Afghanistan, one of the poorest 3rd World Nations, until the lie was exposed last August with the humiliating frantic hurried exit of the most expensive Military Force in the History of Nations.

Even with that History the American People believe without question, all the War Propaganda of lies and misinformation in the current US Tug of War with Russia over Ukraine leading to that Nuclear Abyss.

Did US GOV Sacrifice Ukraine To Get Putin?

It’s taken over 2 Generations, but on September 13, 1976, The Kansas City Times was quoting me, these being only a few excerpts from the much longer Historical Newspaper record,
“He came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD’S BIDDING: To tell the World, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered […] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. “The gold dome is the symbol of BABYLON,” he said.” […] He wanted to bring to the Public’s attention an “idea being put out subtly and deceptively” by the government that we have to get prepared for a War with Russia.”

That 1976 FUTURE is NOW with the Revelation of the details GENERALLY unfolding in the spirit of the letter. The World is waking up to see Americans may hasten “its days are numbered” part of the 1976 Vision, and waits with bated breath.

With the benefit of 46 years hindsight, the last 8 years of intensified Military, FBI, Intelligence and Think Tank “experts” on TV constantly, unanimously, demonizing Putin and Russia, the People have been prepared for the War that finally arrived. The MSM, Propagandists for the US War Machine, the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse, have prepared the People to sleepwalk into the Abyss with them.

Before the War started, I went to the OSCE website daily to see the number of Truce violations between the Ukraine government and the Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donetsk who refused to accept the 2014 US orchestrated Coup/regime of the Elected Russian friendly government they voted for, replacing it with a Neo-Nazi anti-Russian government headed by the man US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape saying she wanted to head the changed Ukraine government even before the regime change was completed, precipitating the 8 year Ukraine Civil War.

There was a dramatic increase in Ukrainian government shelling of the Civilians in the Donetsk that provoked Russia to enter Ukraine to stop it. US/NATO War Propaganda does not inform the Public propagating the lie the Russian invasion was totally unprovoked. This article confirms the fact of the increased shelling

The Military Situation In The Ukraine

You can watch the Swiss Intelligence Officer and Former Advisor to NATO who wrote the article above in his own words

The Kansas City Times did a followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976 with the picture of me standing before the pillar of the Liberty Memorial Mall.

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The TV movie ‘THE DAY AFTER’ Kansas City was destroyed in a Nuclear Holocaust appeared 7 years to the month later on November 2, 1983.

Pretty much anywhere you look in the Bible you find seven. The number seven is mentioned over 700 times in Scripture. The Book of Revelation alone contains dozens of sevens – churches, bowls, lamps, seals, and the list goes on. In ancient Israel, the number seven was thought to be a symbol of divine perfection, as opposed to other numbers which derive their power from human endeavors, seven comes from God.

At the End, the movie pauses at the same destroyed pillar of the Liberty Memorial Mall except I wasn’t in that picture frame. THE DAY AFTER will be TOO LATE!

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Those 2 Historical records point to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES this Material World has finally arrived at, and what’s the possible unintended consequence with this War and the escalating tensions without any Good Faith Diplomacy to reduce them and that’s because the US doesn’t want to negotiate a Diplomatic resolution. It wants to drag the the War out to the last Ukrainian standing.

For behold, the Lord shall come with FIRE, and like a tempest,
His chariots, to render His anger with FURY, and His rebuke with flames of FIRE.
For with FIRE, will the Lord contend, and with His sword with all flesh, and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
Isaiah 66:15-16
With the introduction of Nuclear Weapons to this Material World by the US, ours is the 1st Generation in Human History to make that Biblical Prophecy come to be.

I was 32 then, and now being 78, it’s much more interesting for me to watch all this unfolding from CanaDa, than for most others, including Biden, Putin and the Pope.

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” – George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia [1938]

In War, all the Democratic Values we hold as Sacred during Peace are turned upside down.
Killing on an industrial scale is totally acceptable. Wanton destruction of property is the norm, and exercising Democratic Freedom of Speech and Thought against a War is considered Traitorous.
Blessed are the Peace Makers for they shall be called the Children of God and they have no voice since all the US/MSM War Propaganda shuts them out, and is solely devoted to magnifying and inciting the Children of War.
The US is the Biggest Arms Merchant in the History of Nations for the love of money and jobs in America, as long as those Wars are contained ‘over there.’
This War will not be contained ‘over there’ and is already having consequences World wide.
Most Christian America sees no contradiction with this insight in all their Bibles, dismissing it altogether as irrelevant to the practice and implementation of their Christian Faith, “Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by My spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts.”
The American People mirror that love of weapons having more of them in private hands than any other Nation or Society on Earth.
President Biden is describing President Putin in terms that preclude any possible Peace negotiations in Good Faith to resolve the issues in the Tug of War between US dominated NATO and Russia. Escalation and hatred is on the increase.
President Biden blames the increased inflation in the US on President Putin and the War. As the Economic straitjacket tightens, this will be a long hot murderous Summer with the American Carnage Trump introduced in his 1st Presidential speech on American streets.
The following reply to US Congressman Swalwell is self explanatory.
Hello Congressman Swalwell,

I was surprised to receive your email March 31, especially since I never contacted you on Ukraine. I do vaguely recall writing to you sometime in May last year long before Ukraine replaced COVID as the 24/7 MSM story manipulating the Minds of the Masses inciting for War as the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse.

I did send a Message to all 100 Senators on Ukraine between 3-6 of February before the War started. On the day I got your email, I also received emails from Senators Josh Hawley and Joni K. Ernst, the 14th & 15th Senators to reply to the February Message. That Message was not necessarily Pro-Putin but Pro-Peace.

Not surprisingly, all those Senators reflecting the equal Democratic-Republican make up of the Senate, had the rare bi-partisan unanimity usually reserved for any issue concerning Israel or raising the the DoD Budget.
They all had the usual anti-Russia/Putin talking points. I answered them all except for Senators Hawley and Ernst since the Message obviously has fallen on deaf ears as the US, in the delusional belief in it’s own exceptionalism and BLIND patriotism, is leading this World to the End of Civilization as we know it.

You can read what I wrote to the Senators in February, and my replies to Senators Feinstein of California and Cornyn of Texas, posted to my Blog, HAVE WE ARRIVED AT ARMAGEDDON/WWIII? There is not much more to add since it’s obvious the US dominated NATO is forcing Russia into a corner of EXISTENTIAL THREAT, oblivious to the fact that by doing that, the chances of Armageddon/WWIII happening are increasing tremendously. The US isn’t interested in any Diplomatic Resolution, willing to expend Ukrainian lives as the Sacrificial lambs in the US War with Russia that has taken some form or another since the end of WWII.

Also read the latest Blog post, ‘THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY……Russia is angry. The US is angry. Ukraine is angry. The 30 NATO Nations are angry. China is angry, The People are angry, and hatred is on the increase.’

Just before the War started, I went to the OSCE reports of truce violations between the Ukrainian government and the Russian speaking Donbas regions in the East daily, and there was a dramatic increase in Ukraine government shelling of the Civilians that provoked the Russian invasion US/Ukraine War Propaganda never mention.

That 8 year Civil War was precipitated by the 2014 US orchestrated Coup/regime change of the Russian friendly government the Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East and Crimea VOTED for, installing a puppet Neo-Nazi anti-Russian government headed by the man US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape saying she wanted to head the changed Ukraine government before it was changed. This was not a co-incidence but long planned to bring about Zbigniew Brzezinski vision who said “Ukraine should not be allowed to side with Russia. With Ukraine, Russia is a great power, while without Ukraine, it is a regional player.”

It seems you were successful urging the President of Finland to join NATO on your recent Congressional tour, reading this morning Finland seized artwork en route to Russia as part of E.U.-imposed sanctions. The paintings, sculptures and antiquities were on loan to museums and galleries in Japan and Italy, and are worth 42 million euros ($46 million). It seems Finland is no longer Neutral.

For as much as US Propaganda demonizes Putin for not tolerating any dissent from the Official narrative, The Washington Post does exactly the same EVIL thing, deleting my comments on the alleged Russian massacre in Bucha this morning, these 2 being the latest among many the Post deleted since the War started.
Truth is the 1st casualty of War, especially in this one.
After introducing Nukes into the World, the US was the only Nation to use them needing only 2 to kill over 200,000 innocent civilians, and since WWII, the US, with the most expensive Military Force in the History of Nations, invaded and bombed only poor, 3rd World Nations resulting in the Death of MILLIONS, and couldn’t get a win in any of them, the hurried, frantic evacuation of Kabul being only the latest example.
On the way out, the latest violent War Crime we know about is the slaughter of an innocent civilian Family of 10 including 7 children by a remote controlled drone. No American is held accountable.

The American Oligarchs must be rubbing their hands in glee with the increased Weapons sales because of the US Tug of War with Russia over Ukraine, President Biden says is the cause of US inflation.

The US is the biggest ARMS MERCHANT in the History of Nations, and the American People mirror that love of Weapons having more of them in private hands than any other Society on Earth.

Americans can expect a long hot murderous Summer of American Carnage on the streets, when the Economic straitjacket tightens here, as the US/NATO wages Economic War to tighten the Economic straitjacket on the People of Russia, as it is written, ‘what you sow, so shall you reap.’

They also deleted this comment this morning among other comments,
Twitter suspended the account of Scott Ritter because he Tweeted this,
“The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against Humanity in Bucha. Biden, in seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders onto Russia, is guilty of aiding and abetting those crimes. Congratulations America…we’ve created yet another Presidential war criminal!” The specific Twitter rule justifying the suspension is “You may not engage in the target harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm” That “Rule” is exempted when Putin is the target.

Because of push back by so many other Twitter users that suspension was lifted.

In the Timeline that can’t be changed, the Russians pulled out of Bucha on March 31.
“The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, confirmed that the Ukrainian military had expelled the Russian occupiers from the city. The liberation of the village began yesterday, March 31. He noted that “this day will enter the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community.”

There was no mention of bodies littering the streets on that glorious Day. The bodies appeared days later after the National Police arrived. If they were left on the streets on the day the Russians left, the Mayor would have noticed and said something about them on that Glorious Day, but he didn’t.

Americans don’t need proof or evidence. They’ve been brainwashed and indoctrinated to believe Russia always lies, and is 100% Evil, while the US always tells the Truth and is 100% Good. Such one dimensional delusional thinking!

The Washington Post suspended me for a week February 28, just for making the comment posted in THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY…. linked above.

The 1st Time I was sent to jail in my Life was by an Ottawa Court in 1977 for violating a 1 year Probation with only 1 condition typed in the bottom of the form with these EXPLICIT Words, “not to attend on the Sparks Street Mall or any other street in Ottawa for the purpose of SPEAKING or shouting” and that was in a Democratic NATO Nation!
This was after US Authorities deported me to CanaDa as an ALIEN in 1976 for reaching such a high level of Visibility at the 1976 Republican National Convention and the City after the Republicans left Town.
I’m accustomed to people not liking me telling it like I see it as is my Democratic Free Speech Right.

Peace

RayJC

Ottawa-Hull, CanaDa

THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY……

Russia is angry. The US is angry. Ukraine is angry. The 30 NATO Nations are angry. China is angry, The People are angry, and hatred is on the increase.

Multitudes, multitudes in the Valley of Decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the Valley of Decision. Joel 3:14

—— Original Message ——
From: ray ray
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Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 6:46 AM
Subject: ARMAGEDDON/WWIII
Whether you’re a Believer or an Atheist, if you believe the 24/7 News Today, this world has finally arrived at this point of the Living Bible and the Revelation of Jesus Christ,

And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth […] Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. (the kingdom of heaven is WITHIN you) Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

The steady escalation Day by Day is inevitably leading this World to the fulfillment of these Biblical Prophecies as written, ‘Behold, I come as a thief – For behold, the Lord shall come with FIRE, and like a tempest, His chariots, to render His anger with FURY, and His rebuke with flames of FIRE. For with fire, will the Lord contend, and with His sword with all flesh, and those slain by the Lord shall be many.’

That will take this form, never possible before our Generations:

The attached files are the Historical SIGNS of that possibility if the Direction is not changed.

RayJC

The Kansas City Times, September 13, 1976, ‘Prophet Chooses Park For Vigil’

The Kansas City Times, November 2, 1976, (ALL SOULS DAY) ‘Prophet Plans Appeal Of Conviction’

The US put “FIRE and FURY like the World has never seen” on the table in 2017, and it’s still there. The US is the only Power to drop nuclear bombs on Civilian populations when it was the only Nation to have them. If it happened once already, it could happen again.

The United States has been arming and training Ukrainian fascist combatants in secret locations.

  • The CIA training program began in 2015 which suggests there must have been a plan for goading Russia into invading. Nothing would have been left to chance. Strategic planners must have settled on what provocations they would use. (like the threat of NATO membership)
  • Official Washington never thought the Ukrainian army could prevail against a conflict with the Russian Army, which suggests that the media’s stories about “the brave Ukrainian resistance” are reckless propaganda designed to garner greater public support.
  • The country of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people are of no interest to the United States. Ukraine is only valuable in as much as it provides a staging ground (and the manpower) for Washington to prosecute a war against Russia.
  • The clear strategic objective of the CIA program is to create an “Afghanistan-type” quagmire for Russia that will deplete its resources, inflict massive reputational damage, and kill as many Russian servicemen as possible.
  • The ultimate goal of the CIA-generated insurgency is to destroy the Russian economy, isolate the Russian leadership, and send home as many Russian boys in body-bags as possible in order to affect a regime change that will replace arch-rival Putin with a compliant stooge like Ukrainian Puppet Zelensky.
  • All the evidence suggests that the developments on the ground– including the luring of Russian troops into Ukraine– is part of a long-standing strategic plan to prevent the economic integration of Russia and Europe in order to control China’s development and preserve US hegemony into the next century. Thus, current US foreign policy can be summarized in just 10 words: “We’ll deal with Russia first, then move on to China.

For the last 5 years, I’ve commented regularly in The Washington Post in many articles on the US-Russia War since the end of WWII.

February 28 I posted this comment,

When Western governments declare it’s goal and objective is to destroy the Russian Economy without using bombs, Armageddon/WWIII already started.
History proves it’s much easier to start Wars than to end them. It took 20 years and $2 TRILLION for the US to extricate itself from the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.

I expect Putin will use the ‘nuclear option’ in the Economic War and will turn off Nordstream I, and all oil and gas pipelines passing through Ukraine to keep Western Europe Economies going.

The question will be who can endure material privation and want longer? Russians who are accustomed to it, or Western Europeans who aren’t, when both the Russian and European Economies crash?
https://rayjc.com/2022/02/28/have-we-arrived-at-armageddon-wwiii

The comment was deleted instantly, and I was suspended from making any other comments for a week.

In the past, when I posted a clear incisive comment, The Washington Post just deleted it along with the whole thread in response.

So much for the accusation only Putin censors dissent from the Official Propaganda narrative.

I’m accustomed to that kind of silencing or Cancel Culture. In 1977, I stood up on the Sparks Street Mall in Ottawa, CanaDa to exercise my Democratic Right of Freedom of speech to growing crowds who stopped to listen. The Police stopped the speech even though the Ottawa Newspapers reported the crowd demanded the Police leave me alone to continue speaking.

I was arrested for “shouting causing a disturbance” and locked up in maximum security, solitary confinement, for 5 days before appearing in front of a Judge.

I had about 12 charges at trial, convicted, and put on probation for 1 year with only 1 condition typed in at the bottom of the probation form with these explicit terms, “not to attend on the Sparks Street Mall or any other Street in Ottawa for the purpose of SPEAKING or shouting” and eventually sent to jail for the 1st Time in my life for breach of that UN-Democratic probation.

Getting out of jail, I phoned the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper saying to the News Editor, “you projected a positive image but now would you like to talk about the substance?”

The answer was direct, “you’re not news anymore.” At least in Ottawa. That was not an absolute since after that, newspapers in  CanaDa chronicled my personal Voyage of Faith coast to coast spread over many years.

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Continue reading “THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY……”

GOD ON OUR SIDE?

All US Politicians are obligated in most Christian America to end their speeches with ‘God Bless America!’ President Biden limits that to ‘God Bless OUR Troops!’

The US is the biggest ARMS MERCHANT in the History of Nations, and US Christian Leaders remain BLIND and OBLIVIOUS to this Vision in their Bibles, “‘Not by Military Force, and not by physical strength, but by my Spirit’ says the Lord of Hosts. Mirroring the US government, there are more weapons in private hands than for any other People on Earth reserved unto that Day of Judgment when they will be used by Americans against Americans

Bob Dylan, Masters of War, and the Ukraine Crisis

Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war

Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:

I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.

Fatalism is easy for the laptop warriors and blow-dried studio pundits who keep insisting on the need to get tough with “the Russians,” by which they mean the Russian government. Actual people who suffer and die in war easily become faraway abstractions. “And you never ask questions / When God’s on your side.”

During the last six decades, the religiosity of U.S. militarism has faded into a more generalized set of assumptions—shared, in the current crisis, across traditional political spectrums. Ignorance about NATO’s history feeds into the good vs. evil bromides that are so easy to ingest and internalize.

On Capitol Hill, it’s hard to find a single member of Congress willing to call NATO what it has long been: an alliance for war (Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya) with virtually nothing to do with “defense” other than the defense of vast weapons sales and, at times, even fantasies of regime change in Russia.

The reverence and adulation gushing from the Capitol and corporate media (including NPR and PBS) toward NATO and its U.S. leadership are wonders of thinly veiled jingoism. About other societies, reviled ones, we would hear labels like “propaganda.” Here the supposed truisms are laundered and flat-ironed as common sense.

Glimmers of inconvenient truth have flickered only rarely in mainstream U.S. media outlets, while a bit more likely in Europe. “Biden has said repeatedly that the U.S. is open to diplomacy with Russia, but on the issue that Moscow has most emphasized—NATO enlargement—there has been no American diplomacy at all,” Jeffrey Sachs wrote in the Financial Times as this week began. “Putin has repeatedly demanded that the U.S. forswear NATO’s enlargement into Ukraine, while Biden has repeatedly asserted that membership of the alliance is Ukraine’s choice.”

As Sachs noted, “Many insist that NATO enlargement is not the real issue for Putin and that he wants to recreate the Russian empire, pure and simple. Everything else, including NATO enlargement, they claim, is a mere distraction. This is utterly mistaken. Russia has adamantly opposed NATO expansion towards the east for 30 years, first under Boris Yeltsin and now Putin…. Neither the U.S. nor Russia wants the other’s military on their doorstep. Pledging no NATO enlargement is not appeasement. It does not cede Ukrainian territory. It does not undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty.”

Whether or not they know much about such history, American media elites and members of Congress don’t seem to care about it. Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war.

Speaking Monday on Democracy Now!, Katrina vanden Heuvel—editorial director of The Nation and a longtime Russia expert—said that implementing the Minsk accords could be a path toward peace in Ukraine. Also, she pointed out, “there is talk now not just of the NATO issue, which is so key, but also a new security architecture in Europe.”

Desperately needed is a new European security framework, to demilitarize and defuse conflicts between Russia and U.S. allies. But the same approach that for three decades pushed to expand NATO to Russia’s borders is now gung-ho to keep upping the ante, no matter how much doing so increases the chances of a direct clash between the world’s two nuclear-weapons superpowers.

The last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union before it collapsed, Jack Matlock, wrote last week: “Since President Putin’s major demand is an assurance that NATO will take no further members, and specifically not Ukraine or Georgia, obviously there would have been no basis for the present crisis if there had been no expansion of the alliance following the end of the Cold War, or if the expansion had occurred in harmony with building a security structure in Europe that included Russia.”

But excluding Russia from security structures, while encircling it with armed-to-the-teeth adversaries, was a clear goal of NATO’s expansion. Less obvious was the realized goal of turning Eastern European nations into customers for vast arms sales.

A gripping chapter in “The Spoils of War,” a new book by Andrew Cockburn, spells out the mega-corporate zeal behind the massive campaigns to expand NATO beginning in the 1990s. Huge Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin were downcast about the dissolution of the USSR and feared that military sales would keep slumping. But there were some potential big new markets on the horizon.

“One especially promising market was among the former members of the defunct Warsaw Pact,” Cockburn wrote. “Were they to join NATO, they would be natural customers for products such as the F-16 fighter that Lockheed had inherited from General Dynamics. There was one minor impediment: the [George H. W.] Bush administration had already promised Moscow that NATO would not move east, a pledge that was part of the settlement ending the Cold War.”

By the time legendary foreign-policy sage George F. Kennan issued his unequivocal warning in 1997—“expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post-Cold War era”—the expansion was already happening.

As Cockburn notes, “By 2014, the 12 new members had purchased close to $17 billion worth of American weapons.”

If you think those weapons transactions were about keeping up with the Russians, you’ve been trusting way too much U.S. corporate media. “As of late 2020,” Cockburn’s book explains, NATO’s collective military spending “had hit $1.03 trillion, or roughly 20 times Russia’s military budget.”

Let’s leave the last words here to Bob Dylan, from another song that isn’t on radio playlists. “Masters of War.”

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?