All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the summit that is going to be taking place in Alaska

between U.S. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

What are your thoughts on the summit that is going to be taking place this Friday?

A lot of anger and panic and pushback from the European

Union, from the UK, from Ukraine, and also from the collective West mainstream media.

And I would say a lot of mixed messages coming out of the Trump White House as well.

A lot of talk on territory.

Actually, the entire focus is on territory.

And I think that's a mistake, actually, because there's a lot of issues that need to be discussed.

But anyway, what are your thoughts as we

head into the week of the big meeting? Just to come back to what you said, I mean, just limiting

it to territory is a massive mistake. It completely misjudges the origins of the wall, which, of course,

it's taboo to talk about in the West,

and they probably don't even talk about it very much with each other.

But the reason for the war was NATO expansion, and the fact that Ukraine was drifting, it wasn't drifting.

It had become heavily involved in a military alliance with the West.

And that is what caused the war. That was what caused the original Maidan revolution of 2013, 2014, which, to be clear, was an extremely violent color revolution, packed by the United States.

It was what provoked the uprisings in Crimea and then in Dombas.

It was what led to the war.

It was what caused the Russian intervention.

And if you follow closely the diplomacy in the weeks leading up to the start of the conflict itself between, well, April

2021 and February 2022, you could see again, NATO expansion was absolutely the centre stage

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