All right, Alexander, let's revisit the grain deal, the collapsed grain deal.

And it looks like the EU was more reliant on Ukraine grain than they led on to be.

What is going on here?

Well, this is absolutely correct. And we can see,

as a result, a massive campaign to try to press pressure cajole the Russians into rejoining the

grain deal. Now, you know, there's been floods and floods and floods of articles appearing in

the Western media. There's been comments by people like Yosef Borrell.

None of them, I have noticed, ever address the complaints that Putin has been making

about Western non-observance of the grain deal.

The fact that the West never in fact implemented the various promises

that it was supposed to implement.

Guterres, who's the UN Secretary-General, has said that the Russian concerns were valid,

and I think we should remember that.

And by the way, so has Erdogan.

So just mentioning all of this.

But it is now clear to me that Ukrainian food,

and I should say food, not just grain,

most of this food is animal food, by the way,

was absolutely essential for keeping food costs in the EU area down.

And this is something I had not fully appreciated.

It's not been widely spoken about before.

It also turns out that the EU was heavily dependent on Ukraine for certain essential oils, food oils, sunflower oil in particular.

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