The decision related to AWACS was made while I was in Brussels, and only for budgetary reasons. Nevertheless, NATO could not use those airplanes because some countries among the many participants felt that those operations were not appropriate for NATO, especially those against refugees in the Mediterranean.
So I am not sure that our contribution to those multilateral or multinational missions is appropriate. For a few decades, our contribution was about $1 billion, but the operational capacity deployed was not at the same level.