All right, Alexander, let's talk about the U.S. Russia diplomacy, the meeting, actually, that is taking place in Istanbul.

Both the Russians and the U.S. State Department, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department,

they have said that this meeting is not going to be about Ukraine. It's going to be

about the embassies, about normalizing relations, and stuff like that. But still an important

meeting. And it shows that the way forward is, at least when it comes to Ukraine, is the Russian approach, which

is let's normalize relations between us. Let's get everything on track. And yes, we will

sort out Ukraine as well. We're going to take the time. We'll sort it out. But what we have

to do is we have to get

the general relationship between the United States and Russia back on track because three,

four years of, four years of Biden did a lot of damage to the relations between the two countries.

And that is the Russian approach. Because you could say it's a holistic approach to Ukraine and to everything that is going on between the United States and Russia.

That's a good thing because the more you have meetings like what you're going to have in Istanbul,

the less we can talk about the bonehead idea of Kellogg and these guys, which is the whole

ceasefire phase one, phase two, phase three thing. We need to move away from that. That's a no-go.

And we need to follow, the United States needs to follow Russia's lead on this, which is the

normalization of relations between the two countries.

Your thoughts?

No, I completely agree.

I think one thing one has to say is that the Kellogg-Walt's approach has effectively

already failed.

We had a meeting in Riyadh between Karasin and, what was it, Pek, and Anton, the American officials.

It was apparently a chaos, we're gradually getting to learn, at least on the Russians,

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