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I think it removes the times, I think, to many allies of Ukraine, unthinkable fact that the delivery of these urgently needed Patriot interceptors and batteries was something essentially that the United States was holding up by not agreeing to it. Now they've reversed that position and done so in such *** way where it's going to be European money paying for it. That's gonna certainly please President Trump's MAGA base, and it seems like it's possible within *** matter of days, according to President Trump, that more interceptors and possibly more Patriot batteries. He suggested One nation had 17 of them that were essentially going spare, way more than Ukraine in fact has said publicly it needs. These could all be headed over quite fast. That's, of course, *** huge boost to *** capital like Kiev that has been struggling with its air defenses to hold back these extraordinary onslaughts from Russia, particularly the ballistic missiles that only US patriots can take down. So certainly urgent need there being realized by Donald Trump and fulfilled. It may possibly broad. in the future to more types of weapons. There were no specifics to exactly what the limitations on the kind of weaponry being delivered was going to be, and it sets up *** mechanism there essentially where America gets to make money by selling weapons to other members of NATO that go to Ukraine. So *** potential future there in that. But also too, remember, we are still left with this President Trump position where he simultaneously believed that he's been played along by Vladimir Putin, but also is constructing yet another deadline. Uh, after which he might potentially then cause some kind of action unless Vladimir Putin goes along with the diplomatic scheme that Trump has complained he doesn't want to go along with. So some jumble there in the thinking and reticence perhaps to implement these secondary sanctions. Look, they are essentially about levying huge tariffs against China and India for buying Russian energy. That in itself is going to have an enormous impact on the global energy market. That's going to hit the United States too. It's gonna complicate an already messy. Trade market across the world that's already in significant turmoil. So I can see the reluctance to do that there. What we have essentially now given is Moscow 50 days more breeding space. They are, by many accounts, likely to soon try and prosecute some kind of summer offensive. They've got now till September to potentially do that. Their allies, China, well, they have some space to rethink perhaps their position, but it seems unlikely they're about to abandon Moscow and India, *** US ally, well, they're deeply reliant on Russian energy, frankly, so they're going to have to do *** huge amount of fast work to reduce that kind of dependency. So it is the fact that these sanctions are something kicked further down the line that I think will disappoint Ukraine. It is again an echo of the Trump thinking that he doesn't want immediate action against Russia, but does at the same time believe they could potentially be forthcoming in some kind of diplomacy. So some jumble there essentially, but if we just step back. And look at the past couple of weeks. We've seen President Trump going from *** very negative posture towards Ukraine to essentially now replicating Biden's position when it comes to arming Kiev, and that will be *** huge comfort to Ukraine and its allies, but there is still certainly some ambiguity and confusion as to the policy going forwards, and that ultimately is going to play into Vladimir Putin's hands. He's been buying for time here for 6 months. Now he's got till September.