his promise as a candidate. as a candidate, he promised he was going to reknit together the alliances and coalitions on which we've relied since world war ii. he didn't really handle that very well in afghanistan. not only was the withdrawal chaotic, but the process was chaotic and allies felt sleighted. in this case, however, he's been much closer to the biden that he promised on the campaign trail where he wise worked effectively to keep the western -- the broad western world together, united in outrage against what's being done. moving forward on severe sanctions that go beyond what were considered possible, i think, before all of this began, channeling a significant flow of arms into ukraine and, in some ways, being very deft about allowing other leaders in germany and france the opportunity to play leading roles themselves and not try to have everything run through him. a hidden-hand presidency as they said of eisenhower. you know in the '50s. so this has been, i think, much