This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Judy Damse of Carnegie Europe.

Writing a column about what has just happened in the Brandenburg State, a small rural state

rural state wrapped around Berlin so this is Prussia and get out your

maps you can see Prussia is east of Berlin but we're now looking at something that is pan-European, NATO, EU, even the

parts of Europe that are not participating in other organizations, and that's the war in Ukraine Ukraine because it's an energy war.

And the question now is with this vote in Brandenburg and the gaining of momentum by IF alternative for Deutschland AFT. That's an anti-war vote. That's a pro-Russia vote. That's

a pro-US politic vote, I believe. So are we looking at Judy, remember how we used to talk in the early

moments of Schultz's sudden conversion to war fighting? We used to talk about how Us Politique had a certain group that was hanging on in

Berlin and other major manufacturing cities saying, someday we'll get German, we'll get Russian

energy back.

Is that part of the conversation at AFT

and is that part of a trend in Germany?

They went back the old days.

No. No, they don't want back the old days, they want to end the war and they are

to end the war and they are certainly pro-Russia and they are actually quite anti-Ukraine.

This is the first thing. Secondly,

Shultz now is quite under pressure given the results in Brandenburg which was so it was tipping for

the SPD or the AFD that he now has to play a kind of cautious Ukraine card. He was at the United Nations General Assembly and he gave a statement to the press this morning Tuesday saying that well you know we're not going to

deliver certain weapons we have delivered enough to to Ukraine if the if the United States agrees to send special missiles that can go

outside Ukraine and hit Russia we're not going to go along with this he's incredibly now

conscious about the the anti-war movement in the AFD and in Saravagan

the next party. But this is just a small constituency. For the moment the German public as a whole is holding strong

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