is, assuming there are going to act as one, but they are not at the moment. there is a little bit of difference and some of it is coming from germany, which seems to have concerns about taking to heart a line on this right now. >> i am not sure if that is entirely correct. first off, thank you for having me on. it is a pleasure. and it is nice to see the admiral again. from what i can see, and i think i have been watching this closely, the german policy makers, implementers into the machine room, have been working really closely with the administration for months. designing a whole array of extensions, which is quite a technical business. and i think the corporation there has been very, very close. there are a couple things that the germans are not keen on and that is weapons deliveries. there, they disagree with other allies. and that is, among other things, because that is in the coalition agreement, the treaty on which --