germany, the uk, turkey, georgia, romania, and italy at the time of the nato summit were upset that president biden had not coordinated with them as much as they thought they should have in terms of the drawndo drawdown, but in talking with these partners, because these were my former partners as u.s. army europe commander, they were all in agreement with the drawdown. they welcomed it. they were ready for it, and they thought it was time. they also had spent 20 years in this country, and they were seeing, hey, it's about time that we take the so-called training wheels off and let the afghan army defend their own country, let the afghan government run the operations that they needed to run in order to protect their women and their populous. but unfortunately, don, within the last week, we saw that flat-out didn't happen. that contributed significantly to the chaos we saw today.