All right, Alexander. Let's talk about Macron's interview. I was under the impression that it was going to be a speech, but I was wrong. It was actually an interview in about a 30-minute interview with French media and French television. And what were your thoughts?

I saw it as a train wreck.

And I wonder who is consulting Makon to actually come out and do these things.

That kind of left me thinking, who's giving, who's consulting him and saying this is a good idea

for you to come out and give a speech or an interview or whatever and talk about Russia and

Ukraine and possible conflict with Russia and troops in Ukraine? I mean, it was, it was not a good

look. It was a very, it was a very, very sad, pathetic, but in a way also entertaining

30 minutes. I have to admit it because it was so out there. Anyway, those are my initial thoughts.

I think I'm right about my assessment of the interview of my view on it, but what are your thoughts?

I think train wreck is an understatement. I think it was an absolute complete and total shambles.

Now, I should say that all the indications that I'd seen over the previous couple of days were that

we were going to get a formal address by Macron yesterday to the French people.

So, you know, I was expecting, you know, we'd have him on television addressing the nation

from the Alisei Palace, the way that, you know, de Gaulle used to do, and the way which

Macron has done himself in the past

and the way that French presidents do. And all the expectations were, at least that was my

expectation, that he was going to announce some kind of deployment of French troops to Ukraine. I mean, it, everything that he'd been doing over the

previous two weeks seemed to be leading up to that decision. And then instead of that,

we got this shambolic press conference. And I mean, it really, to me, looked absolutely shambolic.

And it made no coherent sense.

Because on the one hand, he said, you know, we can't let Putin win.

It would be an absolute, the end of Europe as we know it.

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