because of the russian threat. i think is always a twid, pardon t quid pro quo, pardon the expression, but a lot of money trading places in nato's interests. the biggest problem other than the split between the american military view that russia is a bigger threat than the europeans perceive, is our operations in the middle east. you know, we talked earlier about the change in the american attitude in our deployments in syria. the president wanted to take everybody out of there. and in fact ordered that to do so. not long after that, we went back in -- or we with drew in syria and then went back in