All right, Alexander, let's talk about the next EU sanctions package, which I believe is going

to be revealed any day now, but it's going to be approved on February 22nd or 23rd, so it can

coincide with the fourth anniversary of the special military operation because you've got to have

the media optics, of course.

But they've got the package pretty much prepared.

They're going to go after Russian aluminum and fertilizer, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles.

And they're not going to touch LNG, or they're going to let the LNG kind of slip through,

which is very interesting.

On the flip side, you have Denmark giving permission, giving a permit, I believe,

two gas prom, so that they can maintain whatever's left of Nord Stream, which is interesting.

And you also have a Financial Times article talking about what if, what if there is a deal or ceasefire or something?

What if something happens to resolve the conflict in Ukraine?

Maybe we can restart our cooperation with Russia on the energy front.

So you have two different things going on.

What are your thoughts on?

Well, what is happening is that Ursula and her allies who still have the ascendancy

are going full steam ahead.

They're still trying to sanction Russia into crisis, as they say.

They're trying to stop aluminum import and PlayStation exports. I mean, it's an always comic thing, actually.

And especially if I have to say, after the deep strike revelations in with China,

with which Russia now has extremely good economic relations,

that they continue to think that this is going to somehow affect or demoralize the Russians.

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