All right, Alexander, let's talk about Trump's truth social post and the comments that he made

during meetings he held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly event.

So the debate about that Trump truth social post, which is getting everyone's attention is whether Trump meant it or whether

he was being sarcastic. What's your take on it?

Well, I have no doubt at all that he was being sarcastic. In fact, I think if you read it

carefully, it's absolutely clear that that is what he thinks. He intends. I mean, he starts the true social post by saying that he's now finally got to fully understand the military and economic realities of this conflict. Now, I mean, that is absurd.

I mean, I don't think anybody takes that seriously, and I don't think we are intended to take it seriously.

We've just had this whole procession of claims and statements from Kellogg, from Zelensky,

from various European officials, that in fact it is Ukraine

that is winning the war, that it is Russia that is losing it. We have endless claims from

Kaya Kallas, Ursula von the Lion and others about how the sanctions have brought the Russian

economy to the point of crisis and total collapse.

What Trump is doing here is he's taking all that narrative and he's turning it round

and he's throwing it into the faces of those who are saying it.

He's saying to them, look, if things are as you say, if Ukraine is really winning the

wall, if Russia's economy is really in the mess that you say, why do you need security

guarantees, more weapons from me and extra sanctions, because all of that is unnecessary.

Just go on, just go on pushing a little longer, and you will win, and he'll get all the things

you want, and you don't need any further help from me.

And there is a very interesting article today in the financial giants, in which they,

it says that that is what European officials and leaders are saying to each other.

They were, they heard what Trump said to Zelensky. They read that truth social post, but they're all

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