All right, Alexander, let's talk about the French elections, which the first round is right around the corner.

And Macron has been criticized by Bloomberg in an article the other day saying that he's toxic.

Bloomberg is reporting that Macron is toxic. He's toxic in France that he's toxic. Bloomberg is reporting that Macron is toxic.

He's toxic in France. He's toxic in the European Union. No one wants to be around Macron.

So we're going to be talking about a macron curse or something? He's toxic. He went from being the ultimate globalist to now being toxic because of all the

decisions he has made over the past month.

You're absolutely correct.

You're absolutely correct.

When he was elected in 2017, he was the globalist golden boy.

I remember reading all these enormously flattering, laudatory pieces about him in places like The Guardian.

Back in 2017, that he was going to bring a new type of politics, that he would be the French, Justin Trudeau.

And in fact, there are some similarities.

Anyway, there were all kinds of expectations of Macron. And, well, France, as I've

always said, very different country, very old country, various powerful traditions, and it's all

falling apart. Now, you know, we're getting opinion polls coming out of France. And of course, opinion polls in France are not always

completely reliable, just as they're not in most places. But if what they show is what turns out to be

the case, then I think that there is now a possibility that the Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen's party,

might actually get a majority in the French National Assembly.

I mean, they seem to be pulling ahead.

They are now polling at around 36 to 38% of the vote, which is a significant increase

over the 31% that they got in the European Parliament

elections. So, you know, they're surging. The interesting thing is that the left, the combined

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