All right, Alexander, let's talk about the escalation in Ukraine.

Let's talk about Putin's warning when he was in Uzbekistan for a two-day visit.

And we have to talk about the New York Times article, which is basically signaling that Biden will give his okay for the use of American

weapons to hit Russian territory, his permission for Ukraine. Ukraine to hit Russian territory.

As Putin said in this statement, Newspakistan, everyone knows that the U.S. is going to be

providing the surveillance,

targeting, maybe even the personnel to operate these weapons. So it's very much a U.S.

attack on Russian territory. I think that's the big story here. Anyway, what are your thoughts

on Putin's message and on the

news that biden is going to yeah it looks like bidez going to move forward with permission this has

been the strongest message that putin has ever given and it is very very clear but i think it is

important to understand again what the Russian red line is because

if you read what Putin said and the Kremlin has provided a complete transcript the

weapons that he is concerned about and the weapons that the Russians are concerned about

and what I have been saying by the way for, for the better part of a week now,

is cruise missiles. There's the issue of border clashes of Ukraine using artillery and things like

that along the border. They've been doing that for well over a year,

and that has not been a Russian red line.

Missile strikes deep inside Russia

using attack him's missiles or storm shadows

or tourist missiles, if they ever come, those are absolutely for the Russians.

That is clearly a red line. And there's two reasons for this. Firstly, the missiles themselves,

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