All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Germany. We will have elections,

most likely February 23rd. Olaf Schultz has lost the confidence vote. Mertz is considered

to be the most likely next chancellor of Germany, very hawkish Frederick Mertz.

The interesting part is that he will most likely have to enter into a coalition with the SPD

and Schultz to govern, which is interesting.

And we have more bad, very bad economic news and forecasts for Germany. The

German economy does look like it is heading towards some sort of a slow protracted collapse.

What are your thoughts on what's going on in Germany?

This is absolutely true.

And of course, it's the last problem, the crisis in the economy,

which is in effect creating the entire political crisis that we have seen. I mean, the reason there is a,

there is, there is, the elections are happening now is because the German economy has in effect

been in a kind of recessionary situation for some years now, ever since they started to impose

sanctions on Russian energy back in 2022.

Of course, they have been doing things with the numbers.

So even as German industry has been contracting, they've been denying that they are in recession.

But they actually are.

And because there's been this recession,

and because they've been spending money on Ukraine,

and they've been spending money on all kinds of other things,

which we were going to discuss,

some of our green policies and that kind of thing,

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