because with increased investments by the europeans and with the deployment of european and american troops flashed forward in eastern europe, we have bolstered defense and we have a stronger and more capable nato. last question here. i want you to look at this summit in concert with the one that comes after it, being president putin. writing in the new york times about how this could be an effective meet fg he took the winds from the summit, and rode that into helsinki. if there was a unified voice he used with those allies, that would be a different things entirely. how optimistic are you with that second summit t o, the one taki place in helsinki? it depends very much on how he manage the first summit. if we come out of the brussels meeting with the allies fully united and the president claiming a big win, which he can by saying the europeans are