and even though he has tilted towards lessausterity, he talked about defense be t furth. so i know you are going to probably say, or i think you might say, we will have to wait and see what the post election relts a realities are. since we are here on stage and you are such a good source, how do you analyze this? >> of course, we have to wait and see. but i think -- one of the -- one of the unique features of sna tsna -- of nato it is 28 democracies. this is hardly the first time a government has changed while, while i have been there or indeed which is happening all the time. 17 governments have changed in the time i have been here. and this is just the latest. the french socialists -- are not strangers for -- for the united states. they shouldn't be strangers. it's been true that, it's been 17 years since the socialists were in power, had the presidency. of course, they ran the government. about a decade ago, when another was in power. we have always had a very good relationship with any government that, that is there in france. i am confident we will have a good relati