really supported by other g7 members. >> you know, i think so because i think that basically biden has a number of important advantages right now. the problem is that putin has thoroughly penetrated europe and so biden is not going to have the support of germany on important things. remember the u.s. relieved the sanctions on the in order stream 2 pipeline. that probably was not a good move but certainly made putin happy. it made germany happy and one other thing that probably had a china connection because if biden is going to forge a coalition on china, he's going to need, as you point out the cooperation of continental european countries and he probably got a little bit of that cooperation by relieving those sanctions. there was some beneficial effect for something which is extremely controversial. >> gordon, before i let you go, i want to shift quickly to north korea. there have been some eyebrows