All right, Alexander, let's talk about the resignation of Victoria Newland.

It's been a couple of days since we got the news that she resigned.

You've done videos on her resignation on your channel.

I've done a video on her resignation on my channel.

And we've had about three, four days to just kind of think about what's, what this means for, uh, for the state

department, the U.S. State Department, um, Russia and of course, Project Ukraine, which she effectively

birthed. I mean, this is her, this is her child. Project Ukraine is her creation for the most part.

What are your thoughts on Newlands resignation?

I've increasingly come round to the view that this was a resignation that was insisted upon by powerful people within the United States, within the

government of the United States. And the way it was, you know, suddenly announced was very

strange. I mean, you know, this thing came completely out of the blue.

Usually when somebody is retiring, you know, we've given some advance notice that, you know,

and why would she do it just now in this, you know, sudden way? Why not say, you know,

that she's told Lincoln that she intends to leave office, leave the State Department,

say at the end of the year or at the end of the presidential, the current presidential term.

We're not suddenly coming along, telling Lincoln,

I'm going to leave it once.

And there may be, you know, there may be explanations.

It may be that there's something personal that's happened,

that she's ill or something of that kind.

But go to the statement that Blinken published thanking her, you know, well, announcing her resignation.

I want to talk about this because, first of all, it refers to the fact that she's resigned.

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