spending and more activity for nato. how much bad blood is there how damage to our bilateral relations when you undermine the trust and the the predictability of any agreement it takes a very long time to rebuild its knowledge of question is really whether or not the president will come back and build on that relationship that he has achieved attention by all the bar parties of nato in fact as the chancellor just said after the invasion of ukraine and then accession of crimea the europeans of cells understood that there was a threat and before that they did not believe there was a threat coming and have taken action to increase their defense spending and their capabilities to support their own security. how confident would you say is terms today that the u.s. will stick with nato. i think he has introduced a very significant question about whether or not the united states would stand by