All right, Alexander, let's talk about the meeting with North Korea and Russia.

Kim and Putin said to meet.

And the U.S. says that this meeting is about Russia begging North Korea for weapons and ammunition

because Russia is riding out of weapons and they need North Korea to

provide weapons for conflict in Ukraine. And the other narrative, which you've talked about,

I've also mentioned, is that perhaps this is not so much about what North Korea can give Russia,

but maybe this is about what Russia can give North Korea. I think

that's what's really going on here. Anyway, what are your thoughts with this?

Absolutely, that's exactly what I think. I think people are getting this completely the wrong way around.

I think that what's now happened is that with the breakdown in relations between Russia and the West,

the Russians are now mending their fences with all their former friends.

They've been making big moves to develop their relations with Cuba.

We've talked about that in programmes.

I mean, there's been, again, on spat, there's been talk about, you know,

human trafficking rings trying to get Cubans to fight in the special military operation.

Nobody should get overworked up about this.

This is not having any underlying effect on Russian-Cuban relations.

But the Russians are now looking for an increasingly powerful ally,

one that gives them leverage in the North Pacific,

one that gives them leverage over the United States,

one that potentially gives them a great deal of leverage

over South Korea, which has been drifting away from Russia.

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