communicating, you know, senior leadership communicating by currier as well as over the internet. this kind of public gathering flies in the face of this. it's sort of puzzling why they would do this. and clearly based on the events of this weekend, it may have been a bridge too far. it may have been a risk for them to have done this kind of very public gathering since, you know, we're not -- these strikes are quite unusual. we've seen strikes before in the past where they might happen, you know, on sequential days. sometimes even on the same day. but to see this level of strikes within the space of a weekend is pretty unusual. >> you see this pretty much as a message coming from the u.s. if you're going to flex your muscle, then we are going to take drastic action to make sure that you can't? >> yeah, it could be a message. or it could be we gathered a