All right, Alexander, let's talk about the political situation in Germany.

Ola Schultz's approval rating is as low as can be.

Well, maybe he can find a way for it to get even lower,

but he's like hovering at like 20% approval rating.

And they tried to go after the AFDE.

They're still trying to go after the AFDE, but it looks like the AFDE is starting to

recover from some setbacks that it had a couple of months ago.

And we can talk about the rise of Sarah Wagenacht, who has always been a prominent politician, but

seems that she's getting more attention with each passing day.

What's going on in Germany?

Well, I think you've described the situation quite well.

First of all, Olaf Schultz. He is deeply unpopular. He is leading a government that is extremely fractious. The FPD, the liberals, in other words, are now showing signs of getting closer to the CDU, the main opposition

party. In some respects, of course, politically, economically in terms of economic thinking,

those two parties are closer. So there's already that going on. And Schult himself just went to China. He met Xi Jinping there.

Xi Jinping threw the book at him over Ukraine. Told him, you know, you've got it all wrong.

You should stop sending weapons. You should sit down and talk, you should give up this idea of trying

to defeat the Russians. If you read the Chinese read out, it's fairly clear what Xi Jinping was saying.

But in terms of German politics, the most interesting fact about this visit by Schultz to China

is that we were told that large numbers of people from the business

community would go with Schultz fewer did the many expected and the Greens

Robert Harbeck and Annalina Behrbock the one the economics minister the other of the foreign minister they didn't go with him probably the case and Annalina Baerbach, the one of the economics minister, the other of the foreign

minister, they didn't go with him. Probably in the case of Annalina Behrbog, Schultz wouldn't

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