This is CBS High on the World, but I'm John Bachelor with Antonio Colabasano, who is

very generously from Bucharest, helping me understand the quandary that Europe is in

because of the Middle East War, the North African migrants, refugees fleeing sometimes

traffic, sometimes just getting out of the Sahil because of the wars of North Africa.

And now the question is to what is to be done in Europe, but at the same time, Ukraine

War.

And Antonio, we last spoke when you would visit at the Danube and the crossing from Ukraine

to get the grain out, and since then we've had the explosion and in the Middle East

and the challenges we've just worked through.

Right now, is your sense in Romania, your new prime minister, your public, are they still

stoutly behind the Ukraine government and participating in the war?

Because there, I will tell you candidly, there is doubt here in America, the American

public is now only about 50% in support of Ukraine war.

What is it in Romania?

We have a couple of minutes.

We are strongly supporting the war in Ukraine, and in fact, the public opinion here as well

as the political establishment, I would say, sees the war in Ukraine interconnected with

what is going on in the Middle East now.

So in other words, we are kind of looking from Romania to the Middle East as a new flank

that has been opened up, not necessarily by enemy Russia, but because it has been opened

up.

And it creates an opportunity to lessen the U.S. attention to the war in Ukraine.

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