Mark Montgomery

And then the second part is what you said.

Even if they did, even if we had a deal and they did, they would back off the minute we began to reduce our assets in theater.

And this is not something we can do for 18 or 24 months with the current force structure we have, the Navy Air and the Naval Aviation, which is Air and Navy, and then the Air Defenders, which is Army.

This will break those branches of those services if we have to do this for 18 months.

We did it before in 2014, 2015, and it broke those services.

Yeah, exactly right.

I think they'll show up to enforce a peacetime agreement.

But the minute it goes kinetic again, I'm not sure we can rely on them.

So we'd have to have the merchant readers would insist that our Navy come back and do it again.

And I have to be honest, part of the not spending money on defense that happened in Europe over 30 years, the service that's punished the most of the Navy because it's high, it's expensive, high end purchases that have to be maintained.

So the truth is the French have a tiny bit of a Navy.

The Brits, the Royal Navy is a shadow of its future, of its former self.

They have a couple of ships and that's about it.

I mean, you know, the Japanese and Koreans have much bigger navies.

I did.

I got back from a couple weeks on a training run there.

I do training every quarter with a...

a U.S.

nonprofit, and we train their elements, different units in their military, usually the core brigade or task force level on operational planning and mission command.

And I just got back from a visit there where I was up in Kiev, but also in Kharkiv.