John Bickley

And he goes, I really need you to do it.

And they come back and say, OK.

So, you know, it's a little bit like NATO spending.

They know it's the right thing to do.

They know they should do it.

And now they're going to find a way to help.

So we're going to have the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany.

and maybe Denmark coming along with us to help.

They all have competent navies.

That's important.

But then for a country like Japan, which since the Second World War, for excellent reasons, has had very limited military capability, you know, they say they want to help.

What can they do?

They can provide minesweepers.

That's something they have because it's something they're concerned about in the event of conflict with China.

And it's a

important topic more broadly because Prime Minister Takeichi has been working with her parliament to change those constitutional restrictions, increase their military capability.

They can be a really key partner going forward for the United States, and they're signaling the willingness to do this as a really good sign for that relationship.

Final question.

Is there any sort of timeline for when gas prices could return to what they were before the strikes started?

Well, I don't know that we're going to get quite as low as they were because of the disruption of the war.