Good, everyone. My name is Glenn Dyson, and I'm joined today by Alexander McCurris.

And joining us from Rieszen Oblast in Russia is the former foreign minister of Austria, Karin Knaisel.

And I guess as a background for our viewer, Karin Knaissel belongs to, I guess, a previous generation of diplomats from a time

when diplomacy entailed to speak with your counterparts. That is, gain some mutual understanding

and look at ways for living peacefully on our shared European continent. And when Knaisel served

us the foreign minister of Austria, she even invited President Putin to her wedding and that it's very well known in Europe that they danced together, something which should have been seen as a great diplomatic moment, but instead created an uproar in Europe.

So I guess largely due to the fear that showing respects to our counterpart risks

legitimizing them, which is a big no-no these days in the game of narrative control.

And anyways, Karin Knaisel was eventually chased out of Austria and now works in Russia

on topics such as sanctions, countering sanctions.

And I personally find this extremely interesting as the efforts, not just in Russia,

but China and other places around the world to counter sanctions really intensifies

this push away from the Western-centric international economic and financial system.

And it also lays the foundation for the new multipolar system.

But anyways, before we get to these issues, I was hoping that the two of you could maybe share your perspectives on what's happening in Europe.

And I apologize for opening with such very, such an open end,

a big question. But how are you interpreting the, I guess, the panic in Europe now? Is it

the military defeat of NATO in Ukraine? Is it economic decline in Europe? It's a fragmentation of the

West, political instability in Europe, geopolitical insignificance of Europe. How can we make sense of

everything that's happening so very, very fast at the moment? Good afternoon, Professor Dyson.

Good afternoon, Alexander McCurray. Thank you very much for inviting me again. And thank you for

this very nice introduction. You nailed it.

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