Thank you very much.
I think we have finished all the rounds of questions, but we do have a little tradition here that the chair has the prerogative to ask a question if he wishes. I'll ask a general question.
Recently Ms. Gallant and I were in The Hague for a NATO parliamentary association, and we talked about the post-Wales discussion about arms spending. I had occasion to look at some of the absolute numbers for defence spending and discovered that the Russian budget, even though it has increased, the spending by the Russians on defence is about the equivalent of the total of Italy plus France, or Italy plus Germany, which granted is increasing quickly by the number you used.
I also was reflecting on a comment made by an analyst scholar to another PA meeting in Vilnius who said in talking about Russia and China that Russia was now a regional power acting as if it were a world power and that China was a world power acting as if it were a regional power.
Do any of those comments make any difference to your analysis? Obviously we are dealing with actors who are acting opposed to their relative strength. Would you care to comment on those observations?