All right, Alexander, let's talk about Germany and the news that U.S. medium, and I believe long range as well, missiles are going to be stationed in Germany.

This is big news that not many outlets in the collective West are talking about.

What do you make of this announcement of missiles being stationed in Germany, medium and long range?

This is ominous, ominous news.

The Tomahawk, I believe.

The Tomahawk cruise missiles, it's ominous news and it's also astonishing that it's happening

without anybody apparently noticing or talking about it or being concerned about it.

Now, I am old enough to remember how in the late 1970s, early 1980s, there was a plan by NATO by the United States

to install Tamahawk and Pershing missiles in Germany and I believe the Netherlands and Britain.

And there was an enormous outcry about this.

There were huge protests against these deployments in Germany,

led by the Green Party, which in those days was a very, very different party from the one it has

become. There were huge protests in Britain. There was a peace camp made up mainly of women

outside the air base of Greenham Common,

where the Tomahawk cruise missiles were going to be located.

It became for a time the single biggest political subject in Western Europe.

And it undermined ultimately the ability of the Western powers to proceed with this,

because there was so much opposition to these cruise missile and Persian missile deployments,

that very grudgingly and against the wishes of the Pentagon,

the then-President Ronald Reagan proposed what was called the zero option,

whereby NATO would scrap these weapons if the Russians scrapped analogous medium-range weapons of their own,

the so-called SS-20s.

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