All right, Alexander, let's talk about Putin meeting with Lukashenko.

I believe we're going to get some more tactical nuclear drills going on.

Doesn't surprise me, given the rhetoric that is coming out of the United States,

especially from, from Blinken, about U.S. weapons being used to attack inside of Russia.

So it looks like Putin is going to start, the Russian government is going to start sending

signals and warnings to the United States in

much the same way that they sent signals and warnings to the UK and to France.

One of one of the warnings that they sent to the UK and France was calling in the ambassadors

to the foreign ministry and outright telling them that if they continue to escalate,

well, Russia is going to retaliate. So the U.S., I imagine, is not going to take into consideration

anything that the Russian government says. So where are we heading in all of this? Obviously,

Putin is game planning things out with Lukashenko and with Belarus.

Where are things heading towards?

We're heading towards an ever greater and more dangerous crisis, just to say that first.

But let's just talk about Putin's visit to Minsk.

Now, Putin and Lukashenko meet continuously.

I mean, you know, they have one meeting after another.

Why is this one different? Well, the answer is it's very different. And I explain why. Firstly,

it's the second trip Putin has made since he was re-inoruated president of Russia. So first he

went to China and then he went to Belarus.

That signals who are the two most important countries for Russia at this moment in time.

One, obviously, the mighty superpower on the eastern border. The other, the fraternal Slavic ally on the western border.

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