Greetings. I do not want to do this frankly, but my conscience compels me to.

Each time I do a frankly on the Russia situation, which is almost two and a half years unfolding,

I swear to not do another because it's not my wheelhouse. It's extremely polarizing. There's a huge

information gap between what we hear and see in the media and what's actually happening.

And then two months later, we're in a worse spot. And I feel like using this tiny little platform, this sandbox, which is this frankly playlist to share some thoughts and questions with the viewers.

To be clear, I do not want this channel to sell fear or be a catastrophe channel.

My goal all along is I want this channel to stay rooted in science and current events and offer these

dialogues to cover all facets of the human predicament.

Geopolitics, potentially World War III, is a huge piece of the conversation about sustainability.

And as long as things are moving in the direction they're moving, I'm going to keep commenting on it because I think it is the mother of all elephants in these conversations.

Okay. So let me start with an update. And then I'm going to offer seven questions

on war and sustainability and our civilization and the future.

If you've been paying attention,

and it actually surprises me how few people know the things

I'm about to say, and I don't know why that is.

But in the last couple weeks,

Britain, France, the United States, and the NATO general

on Jen Statenberg all announced that they're planning to rescind or walk back the rule

of not using NATO weapons and technology to direct attacks inside of Russia.

When this was announced, Russia called the ambassadors for these three countries to a meeting

and handed them a diplomatic pouch, a demarche, with legal language saying, if you do this,

we will retaliate in kind, meaning we will retaliate not in Ukraine, but against you. So there's that.

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