they are aggressive in europe. so i think the president will be fine, politically, on this. what he hasn t disturbed is the washington elite, and he has never really been comfortable with him to make them come and he is not comfortable with them. shannon: on both counts, i think it was a piece you had written this week talking about the president seeing the value in using our economic strength and leveraging those kinds of things on trade, those kinds of policies. just as much as using our military in that i think one of your lines was banks versus bombs. not just solely focused on military incursions. i think the president looks at it more on a spectrum, it s not just economics as one thing in war as another. when it comes to setting back china, it is not just a bigger military budget, which the president has achieved, 1,700,000,000,000 in his career, although that might be a high watermark with nancy pelosi