All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on with Project Ukraine, and let's focus

in on the diplomacy in and around Project Ukraine.

And let's start things off with the Trump administration lifting sanctions against Hungary,

against the Pax II nuclear facility, the civilian nuclear facility that Hungary was about

to build with Russia, and then Biden on his way out decided to block that project. And Trump has now

lifted those sanctions on the Ps too. And this is a big deal.

I think it signals something very big with regards to the U.S.-Russia relations and normalization of diplomatic ties.

But on the other side of things, you have Lindsey Graham saying that the bone-crushing

sanctions against Russia are ready. He has 84 senators. The bill will be passed in July,

but there's a caveat to Lindsey Graham's bluster and his threats about

bone crushing sanctions against, well, it gets China and India, really, bone crushing sanctions

with regards to Russian energy and countries that decide to purchase Russian energy, the caveat is that the bill would

basically give Trump the option of whether he wants to implement those sanctions.

My thinking on this is that Trump will go along with this and he'll tell Lindsay, fine,

go ahead and pass this bill, but it'll sit in Trump's

lower drawer of his desk in the Oval Office somewhere underneath a whole bunch of other

papers because anyone that would implement these Lindsay Graham sanctions would have to be

absolutely crazy because it would harm the United States more than any other country out there.

So your thoughts on these sanctions that are being implemented or being lifted.

Indeed. There's been an article apparently in The Washington Post, which makes exactly the point that you've just made.

Do the people who author this sanctions bill to really understand what its effect would be

if it was ever passed and implemented in the way that they say they want?

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