I think that's one of the challenges of having all these ships—the frigates, the support ships, the icebreakers—being built all at once. We can't really do it all at once, and that's a challenge right now, right? So it does seem to me that building icebreakers is a priority. Building ships that can handle the north is actually perhaps a greater priority than others because it's something that is lacking more than anything else.
I would put a caution on the discussion about Russia's spending increasing by 10% or 20% per year. That is from a lower base. When we think about increasing spending, they're starting from a baseline that's much lower than the United States'. Somebody last week put it that the cuts the United States are making this year are the size of the German military budget. On the one hand that seems like a really big cut, but it suggests that the United States has a lot of capability.
Conversely, Russia is building from its low ebb in the aftermath of the Cold War, so it's trying to recover from years of neglect. The Chinese have a much more robust military program than the Russians. I'd say that we need to be concerned about their investments in the north, but as expensive as it is for us, it's expensive for them. If they're putting a lot of resources into building a lot of ports in the high north, that may not be a bad thing from our perspective because they're wasting money. They're spending a lot of money on that, just like they spent $50 billion on the Olympics that got them no reputation in the aftermath of Ukraine. If they want to waste money on things, then we should let them. We need to invest a little bit, but we need to think about a lot of perspective—