All right, Alexander, let's talk about the European Union and Russian sanctions.

Ursula gave a pretty amazing, I was going to say, incredible, amazing speech at the W.E.F.

Where she said, very much like Olaf Schultz was saying in Germany, and continues to say

that Russia cut off the gas supplies to Europe, and that is why there are high prices,

and that is why there is inflation. But she did admit, to her credit, she did admit that the EU

economy is undergoing some challenges.

And people in Europe have to deal with high prices and deflation because of Russian energy being blocked into the European Union.

But she just decided to lie just a little bit

and claim that it was Russia.

Putin that blocked the Russian energy to the EU, not that it was the EU sanctions,

or that perhaps maybe a big pipeline was blown up by someone. Anyway, that was Ursula's

admission, a little bit of truth, actually a lot of truth from Ursula, inflation, high prices,

things are bad. But of course, the reason for all of these things has nothing to do with her

policies, has nothing to do with the European Union. Putin

woke up one morning and just decided, hey, I'm going to turn off the gas to Europe because

that's the way Putin just is. That's the way he makes decisions. Anyway, your thoughts.

It's incredible how these narratives are constructed. Now, bear in mind that throughout 2022 and much of

2023, Ursula and the European Commission were seeing a completely different story, that

you know, they'd managed to cut off, that managed to end dependence on Russian gas and oil.

Yes, there'd been some difficulties in adjustment, but overall the process had been managed

far more successfully, defectively than anybody had expected, and this was all because of

the tremendous actions and concerted actions taken by European governments, organized and led by the European Commission and its leader

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