because the commitment has been upped so much and so now they are. and i was very firm yesterday. you have to understand, i know a lot of the people in the room. i was here last year. i let them know last year in a less firm manager but pretty firm and they raised an additional $33 billion. the united states commitment to nato is very strong. but as you pointed out the president s pronouncements about increased spending was rebutted almost immediately by the french president emmanuel macron. i don t speak about what happens behind the scenes but president trump never in public or private threatened to withdraw from nato plus i believe that the united states are the only country to have used article five and so nato must not be that bad a deal for them, and i think that that is also good for the united states of america. to be clear, the final communique following the nato summit said that every nation in