Okay, we're live, Alexander, back again.

We are waiting for Garland.

There might be a time mix-up, but we decided that we'll go live and hopefully Garland joins us soon.

But there's a lot of news that we can talk about,

Alexander, as we wait. So Project Ukraine Risk of Collapse. I took this title pretty much from

the Politico article. What are your thoughts on that?

Well, I think that is what the article's title is, but I would actually correct the title

if I was the editor of Politico because it's not saying to me that it is at risk of collapse.

I would say it is collapsing because this is the most extraordinary article up to now

that we've seen produced in the Western media since the start of the special military operation

back in February 2022 because it is based on interviews with, we are told, senior Ukrainian military officials.

So these are Ukrainian military officials.

And we are told that they're connected to General Zillusini.

I actually believe that one of them is General Zoluzally, the former commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

I mean, it's very typical of him, by the way, to hide, you know, while he's telling us things.

But anyway, the long and the short of the article is that Ukraine is losing the war, that there is nothing that can be done to change the situation, and that the Ukrainians are outgunned, that the Russians have more men, that they are, if they launch an offensive this summer, Ukraine doesn't have the means to withstand this offensive,

that the $61 billion appropriation in Congress, if that is authorized, is not going to make any

difference. That the F-16s are not going to make any difference, that the Russians will be able to shoot

them down, that there aren't enough weapons in the West to make any difference, that Ukraine

would need a minimum of around 4 million shells to be able to hold its positions.

And of course, there aren't that many shells in the West or in the

international arms market. So effectively, what this article in Politico is telling us is that

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