Yemen. They're supporting different actors in Syria. There's also a lot of domestic spending needs. And so it's hard to find things to trim. And at the same token, there's a lot of competition for new capital and for new investments and the like. So I think we will see privatizations. Will they get the valuations that they were touting? I'm skeptical. Will they manage to meet all the planned 2030 targets? I'm a bit skeptical. Will they get partway there? Yes, probably. But this is going to be a challenging period of time. Rachel, we're going to have to wrap it up. But I want to let my audience know the reason that we covered, we usually cover these sort of macro topics. We got a little into the weeds here on a lot of stuff that I normally don't get into with our audience. But I think it's also important for people to recognize, we don't have to give out any kind of specific projections. If, you know, these are very difficult markets to predict. I think what's important and the reason I (44/45)
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