All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation with Project Ukraine and the diplomacy

around Project Ukraine.

And I guess a good place to start is with Lavrov's latest interview.

Lavrov does not hold anything back.

He seems to get it.

I think he understands what's going on. Obviously, he's got a lot more

information than any of us do. But this is the first time that I've heard Lavrov put it all

together and express it in a way that gives you a good idea as to how he's seeing the negotiations

progressing, how he saw the Alaska meeting go down and his belief in what the Europeans

are planning to do, what the collective West is planning to do, as well as the United States.

I think he's the one Russian official right now at the moment.

Maybe Medvedev is also part of that.

But he's not really drawing so much of a distinction between the Europeans and the United States.

He's not kissing up to the Trump administration.

He's basically looking at the collective West with the United States. He's not kissing up to the Trump administration. He's basically looking at the collective West with the United States in the lead role as trying to exert their dominance,

not only over Russia, but over the world. And he just came out with it and said it that the United

States and the collective West is looking

to control energy.

They're looking to control the world economy, trade, and they're doing it in a very unfair,

very aggressive way.

And it was quite an honest and I would say at times his expression wasn't angry, but you

could tell that he's frustrated and angry with a lot of what's happening.

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