All right, Alexander, let's talk about the possibility of France sending troops into Ukraine.

About two weeks ago, Macron was really talking this up.

Then NATO member states told Macron to forget about this idea, and now all of a sudden it's being

talked up again. And it looks like Macron is going to go ahead and send troops into Ukraine.

And it looks like he is going to do that with the support of Lord Cameron and the UK.

So what is going on here?

Yeah, I mean, he's completely obsessed with this and he's determined to do it.

And he's been told by the Germans and the Americans that they don't want him to do it.

The native bureaucracy for once doesn't seem

too keen on this idea either. It's now absolutely clear that the purpose of his call, of the call

by his defence minister, Sebastian Leconi, to the Russians, the one that took place last week, the one that

came out of the blue, in which Lechonou called Shogu. I mean, partly, it was what we discussed,

it was the freeze, the whole idea of freezing the conflict. But it seems that as well as seeking a freeze for the

conflict, what happened was that the French basically tried to tell the Russians or told the Russians

you're going too far unless you freeze the conflict. Now, if you continue to advance westwards, we will

commit troops to Ukraine. And apparently, Shoygu responded, well, if you do that, their targets,

which was not what the French were hoping to hear, but that was what Shoygoo said. So the French seem to be, Macrole personally,

seems to be committed to this. And he's going around now trying to find allies. So he's gone to

the Baltic states and of course they are allies up to a point, but not in a big way because they don't have armies.

The Finns have sort of dithered about this, but basically overall, they're not really up

to doing this either because their military is quite weak. The Germans are totally opposed.

I mean, they are completely against this whole project.

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