of your allies is vitally important. but some are more vitally important than others, john. that's what the french have just lived. the pivot to asia that barack obama talked about during his presidency is actually happening in the biden presidency. and that means when you pivot, you are turning your back on someone. and what they were learned here was that the british and the australians are more important in the biden view of the universe than the french are. and that's a hard thing to swallow. and in some ways, i think, rough as it is to lose a $60 billion plus contract, to discover you're not really in the inner circle of the alliance, that's another. and the french were sort of going that way with their talk of strategic autonomy, separation of the u.s., even before this. >> and i know a lot of european allies looked at the biden administration hoping that it would be different than the