All right, Alexander, let's talk about the drone attack into the Russian Federation that happened over the weekend.

We can discuss the damage that was done to Russia's nuclear assets.

And I guess the first question that I'm going to ask you is, has Russia's red line been crossed?

Right?

I mean, yes.

Has Russia's red line finally been crossed?

I doubt it, actually.

And I know that's going to sound surprising, but I actually doubt this.

The Russians have never at any time said that they would regard attacks on any of their air bases as crossing a red line, at least not if it is apparently done by Ukraine.

Of course, if NATO is involved, and there are many people

right across Russia who say that NATO was involved, there might be some, you know, crossing

over a red line in that respect. But I doubt that the Russians are going to treat it in that

way. I suspect that, again,

maybe to the disappointment of many, many people, the Russians are going to take this in their

stride and for a multiplicity of different reasons. And if I can just go through them, first of all,

first of all, I think it's an important thing to say that this is a very complicated and very, very daring operation that the

Ukrainians carried out.

But it took them 18 months to do it.

They're unlikely to be able to duplicate it again. They've given away how they did it.

It's not going to be easy to pull off the same trick a second time. And in terms of Russia's

strategic aviation, its air assets, only a certain amount of damage has been done.

We don't know how much, but for various reasons that I'm going to go into later in this

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