 Thank you so much for that context. And I do want to get into Europe as a vassal or a U.S. colony in a second. But I also want to talk about because it seems very clear that the U.S. is not going to win this proxy war. It's the old adage, like, don't go up against Russia. You know, Napoleon learned that. Hitler learned that. But as you pointed out and as you've written in Geopolitical Economy Report, a recent post here,