Look firstly at what we saw the us presidentjoe biden do this week. a lot of muscle flexing, a lot of showing of strength of the various alliances. what is your assessment of where the us— you eu relationship is now? in a certain way it is in very good shape. there is nothing is good shape. there is nothing is good for a relationship is finding an enemy and they have found an enemy in russia and vladimir putin and that has definitively bought them together. these summits in some sense a lot show we are and a lot easier with a lot grander language than they used to be. but there is a difficulty at the core of it which is that increasingly in part because of what is happening with russia europeans have come to depend evermore on the united states and yet at the same time the united states is less and less certain to be there for them after the next election or even regardless of how that comes out into the distant future. so