All right, Alexander, let's talk about the U.S.-Russia negotiations that are unfolding.

We had the historic, it was historic, Alexander, the historic 15-minute meeting between Trump and Zelensky, absolutely historic meeting.

The world has changed because of that meeting.

And then we had Lavrov, the full interview on Face the Nation.

The segments of the interview were published on Thursday,

but we actually got the full 40, 45-minute interview.

And Lavrov said many interesting things in that interview, which is significant because it is the foreign minister of Russia appearing on collective West mainstream media, which must signal something.

We also have some statements from Rubio,

and we also had a Lavrov Rubio phone call. And Trump also commented on the meeting that he

had with Zelensky and a lot of talk about Crimea, hyper-focused on Crimea, which I think Alexander is a red herring.

If that's the correct word to use, I do believe that Crimea is something that Russia never

asked for.

It was never part of their terms.

No.

And all of a sudden, it's what Trump is talking about. It's, it's what the

collective West Main Street media is talking about. It's what they're trying to get Zelensky

to bend on, just accept Crimea as part of Russia. And then we could move forward with the Kellogg

plan. Anyway, get into all of this that is unfolding. The whole thing is, the whole

process of the last week is strewn with red herrings. You're absolutely correct. Crimea is a

red herring. Crimea is, it's not the substantive issue that we are constantly being told that it is. Or to be more precise,

American recognition de jure, that Crimea is part of Russia, is a complete red herring,

because as you rightly say, the Russians are not demanding that the United States recognize

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