to be psychologically damaging to the people there. and so if there is not a way of resolving that, the eu said, we want to have a backstop mechanism in place there to be able to ensure that we don t need to have those checks on the border. and finally, if you were watching this as an american, why should you be interested in this? why should you be concerned? uk is our closest ally and they are completely focused on this internal domestic challenge, which means they re not able to work with the united states on any of these other areas that we care about. and if they are not able to satisfactorily able resolve this, the peace deal in ireland which we ve spent decades on. if they crash out with no deal, it could be disadvantageous to american companies that are operating. we saw this have a hit on the stock market yesterday, so there would be economic challenges if