All right, Alexander, let's talk about Blinken's trip to Kiev.

An interesting trip that Blinket made to Kiev.

What do you think this was all about?

Well, this is the most interesting trip.

I mean, it's come out of nowhere, but then, of course, we never get many announcements.

He's apparently not gone by himself.

He's got the Danish Prime Minister there with him, which is interesting.

He's staying longer than usual.

He's staying overnight.

Now, if you go to the US media, there's clearly a concerted effort to tell us that all is well,

that he's gone there to reaffirm Americans, you know,

support for Ukraine. There's an American official, quite probably, Lincoln himself,

telling the New York Times that Ukraine is going to outlast Russia.

Now, when people start saying that, when they start saying things of that kind, in the context of a visit like this, I think you need to be particularly careful and particularly wary because that's clearly, to my mind, a sign that we're trying to be, somebody's trying to reassure us that nothing much is changing when a great deal is in fact changing. Now let's take a few steps back. About

three weeks ago, there was a meeting between General Millie and various other Western military

chiefs and General Zillusioni in which they discussed the offensive.

And Milly basically tells Zilluzni, we don't like your tactics, we don't like your strategy,

you're attacking on too many front fronts, we want you to focus everything you've got on the

southern front lines, we want you to break through the southern front lines in Zaporosia

and drive on towards Tocmach and Militopol and ultimately the Sea of Azov. That's the area of

decision. And we don't like the fact that you are wasting time in Bahmut and other places.

And supposedly, Zalusely pushed back a bit, but eventually agreed.

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