Thank you very much, Chair.
I think another way of responding to John's concern is simply to note that, even if there's, as you were saying, downward pressure on the U.S. defence budget, it's not at all clear that they would fail to prioritize NATO. They are talking and acting more and more as if their reliance on allies and multilateral frameworks is going to stay the same or even increase in some ways.
On the whole question of the party circuit, though, I do need to mention that you don't know what it's about unless you've seen Mr. Storseth after a hockey game on one of those rare occasions when his team has won.