All right, Alexander, let's talk about the meetings between Macron and Trump and Stamer and

Trump, the peacekeeper meetings, or actually I should probably say the reassurance force meetings,

a plan hatched by Stamer, which Macron is going along with. But Macron doesn't seem so invested into this as Stammer.

The UK is really invested.

Stommer, at least, is really invested in Project Ukraine.

Actually, the conservatives as well.

The entire political elite in the UK is very invested in Ukraine, and then they're itching for

a fight. They're itching for the US to fight on their behalf.

That's what they would ultimately like, the US, to fight on the British establishment's

behalf.

But the goal of the meetings, both Makron and Stammer, is to convince Trump to provide a backstop,

security and support guarantees, a backstop

so that the UK, France, and other European countries can send their soldiers to Ukraine,

which the Russians have said is a no-go. Anyway, what are your thoughts on this?

Absolutely. I mean, the starting point in this should really be what the Russians are saying. Now, the Russians

have spoken about this many times. They say that this is supposed to all happen at the conclusion

of negotiations and that they're supposed to agree to this.

The Russians have said that they're not going to agree to this, that this is no way that

this can happen.

Lavrov has made some very, very strong comments about this recently.

So have other Russian officials.

Lavrov, his latest comments suggested to me that he's actually getting angry, that this

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