I talked to the Big Kahuna on the phone today, and I asked about his opinion on Prime Minister Putin's reluctance to believe Iran was a nuclear threat, and about the President's trip to Belgium to promote European cooperation in the Middle East. His answer was pure Big Vin Wisdom, he said "You know Russia doesn't make any cars. France makes what...the citroen? I know Renault is gone now. Even Germany can't afford to make cars anymore; Mercedes is owned by Chrysler, BMW is really a Ford. These countries are suffering, they got no money. The US, Italy, Korea, Japan, these countries still make cars. Even Poland is starting to industrialize, and Italy too. France hates that, hates that they can't seem to be an economic power." The political science think-tanks sometimes refer to this as The Mastandrea Euro-Auto Theorem.