This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Mary Kessel, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State,

now Executive Vice President Stevens Incorporated, the Financial World, the global financial world.

Answering the question, are the corporate leaders

paying attention to Ukraine, to they ask questions about Ukraine, do they worry about Ukraine? It has the easy potential

according to a new essay by Professor Hal Brands at Bloomberg Opinion of

taking us deeper into a global conflict, pitting autocracy sources democracies, disrupting

all supply lines, not just a few.

And Mary answers in great detail about the Sea Sweet and Ukraine.

Here's Mary Kistle. More of this tonight. But that being said yes, many Sea

Suites and you know, board directors are calling me and asking me regularly about the war in Ukraine because they do recognize that it has implications far beyond Ukraine's borders.

They recognize that it sends a signal to our other enemies, namely China, and they're

concerned. These are things that most American chief

executives and boards don't think much about haven't had to think that much

about over the past three or four decades and so they're they're looking for frameworks for

how to understand it and how to understand the risks that not just they face

operationally but that there their people also face because many of our clients are global businesses.

They physically have people in places like Ukraine or in China and elsewhere.

So it's certainly an important topic. It's not going to drive all of their decision making, but it's certainly key to it's a it's a key piece of the puzzle.