I certainly don't want to speculate in terms of U.S. elections. What I would say is they just celebrated the 75th anniversary of NATO in Washington, and when you're looking at real alliances versus when you're looking at alliances—the nations that are coming together—that Russia is picking as its friends, we're clearly in a world in which NATO is still very relevant. I don't think, notwithstanding any posturing or any kind of comments we may be hearing for political purposes, that NATO is at any real risk in terms of continuing to serve our respective nations.
We all need to burden share. I think there is a certain continuity with the comments that the former president made, in terms of the countries of NATO sharing the burden. The United States has obviously been the backbone of the western alliance, so we all need to do our part.
I think that extends into other parts of the world, and to the partners with NATO in the Indo-Pacific as well where we have partnerships now with NATO—with Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand—to recognize that the world is moving in a way where we have the friends and we have those who are not friendly.
From that sense, I would hope that NATO will continue, or should continue, in my view, as being very relevant for the problems of the 21st century.