All right, Alexander, let's talk about Saudi Arabia.

And we have Lavrov, Rubio, a Russian delegation, a U.S. delegation heading to Saudi Arabia.

Most likely they will be preparing the way for an end of the month summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

What are your thoughts about all of the breaking news with this preparation of a big summit?

I mean, this is going to be huge. Actually, I would like to say that it's a Russia-U.S. Putin-Trump with a little bit of MBS,

Saudi Arabia, summit, which I think is important that Saudi Arabia is going to be in the mix.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? It is absolutely essential. And just to say very quickly that

MBS is going to host, is hosting this meeting that is taking place currently in Riyadh, but he's also

going to be hosting the summit meeting between Putin and Trump, all the indications are

that that's going to happen in Riyadh as well in perhaps a week or 10 days time.

And he's apparently going to be participating. There's talk that he's

going to be acting as some kind of, fulfilling some kind of mediation role. Now, by the way,

just to quickly finish on NBS, this is an enormous personal boost for him. His father, the king, is said to be quite unwell,

very unwell if I mean, I even heard stories that the king is in a coma. I don't know whether

that's even true. But I mean, but there is likely to be a succession process in Saudi Arabia

before long.

In Saudi Arabia, successions are never entirely smooth between one king and another.

And MBS is still very young, so some of the princes might be worried about the fact that

if he becomes king, he will be king for decades, and that could be,

you know, a source of some tension. But with the Americans and the Russians backing him,

it's going to be very easy, much easier for him to be able to manage this transition and

to succeed his father and to become king himself.

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