All right, Alexander, let's talk about the E3 meeting in Paris, Mertz, Macaron, and Stammer,

along with Whitkoff and Kushner, and Zelensky, also there, so they can sign a letter

of intent, which basically commits the Europeans to provide some sort of a security guarantee to Ukraine if there is a ceasefire.

That's the plan. If there is a ceasefire, then the UK and France, they claim they will definitely put boots on the ground.

Germany might jump in, but it'll create a presence on the borders of Ukraine, and it also

might send in troops and whatever other countries in Europe want to pitch in to these

coalition of the willing forces, entering Ukraine, building a military hub, manufacturing weapons, if there is a ceasefire.

The United States did not sign up to this. Your thoughts? Yes, I think let's just talk about

Germany. Can I just say straightforwardly, Friedrich Maths is aching to join this coalition of the willing and to send German troops to Ukraine

and if possible to tangle with the Russians. I mean, if you listen to his rhetoric, if you listen

to what he's saying, I mean, it is absolutely clear to me that this is absolutely what he wants to do.

He has a massive problem in the German society is solidly opposed to it.

Young Germans are becoming increasingly radicalized because of their opposition to it.

And there's now conflict with sections of the SPD, his coalition

partner, which understand that this is going to be deeply unpopular. And some people in the

CDU, increasing numbers of people in the CDU are hostile to this as well. So he's coming up

with these formulas. He says that he wants to

keep the Germans out, Germans on the border, but not inside Ukraine itself and all of that.

But there is no doubt at all that if he were able to get his way, which by the way he probably

won't,

he would get those troops across the border into Ukraine as soon as he could.

That, to me, is clear.

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