The Russian Pyrrhic Victory in Bachmout

One immediate, one imminent. The question is whether or not we are going to get into a more direct conflict with China militarily in and around the environs of China. We are going to have to project power far from our borders, which is very expensive and very complicated and requires sustained increases in defense spending over many years. And that's not happening here because we have a 2.5% growth, something like that, in the current fiscal year, and then a 1% growth in the next fiscal year.