blockade. we could bring in japan, south korea, australia, new zealand, singapore from asia. i am quite confident nato members would come and participate in this. we need to get this conversation off the u.s. versus north korea and make it the world versus north korea, a maritime operation would be the way to do that. as to the second point i'm quite confident that the navy will get to the bottom of these two terrible collisions we've had and emerge stronger on the other si side. good thing about ships, mike, you know this as a former marine yourself, you can flow them. we can replace the ships we've lost with other egis destroyers even coming from the atlantic fleet. >> any indication you see that the chinese are being impacted by the current debate and situation or are they in their normal mode of not particularly interested in helping? >> this is the gut question. i feel like if it's dialed a