You know, it’s a big issue, and there are quite a few members of Congress, just like members of the European Parliament, who are quite seized on some of these issues and how to be supportive. But one of the things I’ll say, we’ve had a spirited debate in the United States about how to be engaged in the world, what kind of assistance to provide, how to support. One of the things that I see coming out of this is an opportunity to break a little bit of the model and mindset that happens too much in established democracies, whether you’re in North America, in Europe, in the Indo-Pacific, is a sense that if we’re going to support you on the ground, we’re going to come with the idea in Washington or in Brussels or in Tokyo, and we’re going to fund you to implement our idea to do this.

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