to be. well, here's how i look at this from both perspectives, and this is why i think the summits are so important, despite the challenges america has and despite the challenges that europe has. we desperately need each other. like, whether or not we have challenges with one another�*s policies — and look, i think this defence issue, which is real, gets overstated because here's why we desperately need each other — the big things that are out there that need to be dealt with that had been underprioritised, what do we think about a rising china? what do we think about how to deal with, regulate emerging technologies from social media to artificial intelligence? what do we think about how to deal with climate change in the world? how are we going to try to mobilise collective action to vaccinate the world so that covid doesn't re—emerge in variant after variant? we just can't do these things alone. i mean, the united states couldn't solve those problems alone, neither could europe.