All right, Alexander, let's talk about U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's speech at Johns Hopkins University.

An interesting speech from Blinken. He actually tweeted out many of the points that he made during this speech because I think it was very proud of the foreign policy agenda that he

laid out during this speech at Johns Hopkins University. What part of the speech do you want to

start with? Of course, there's Russia, Ukraine, multipolar world.

This is the speech where many people say, Lincoln acknowledged that we have a multipolar world,

even though he didn't say it like that. It was an acknowledgement that we have a multipolar world.

There was a lot of praise for Jake Sullivan.

What else?

What other parts of the speech did you find interesting?

Well, let's start with the admission that the unipolar moment has ended, because, of course, that is there.

I mean, he has, let's start with the best bit first.

He admits that the unipolar moment has ended.

He doesn't talk about it in that way.

He says that the post-Cold War era has ended.

It's a wonderful period of history, in the post-Cold War period, full of optimism and hope.

We were moving stodily forwards towards the sunny uplands of democracy and human rights and all of those things.

Of course, there were a few, you know, small problems along the way.

You know, there was Iraq, there was Afghanistan, there was 9-11, there was the global financial crisis and all of

those things. But everything was going so well until these horrible people in Moscow and Beijing

came along and spoiled it. But we have to accept that they are these horrible people, they

are very powerful, especially the horrible people in China.

And the result is we now have to accept that we are in the post-post-Cold War period.

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