Okay, we are live with Alexander McCurice in London, and we have the pleasure and honor to have with us for the first time on the Duran.

Commodore, Steve, Jeremy.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

How are you doing today?

Yeah, pleasure, Alex.

I'm always a bit shocked when used the title, so please, please call

me Steve. I'll get very confused otherwise.

All right. Fantastic.

And before we get started and talk about everything that's going

on in the world, let's just say a quick hello to everyone that is

watching us on Rock Finn, on Odyssey, on

Rumble, on YouTube, and our amazing community on locals,

the durand.com. And a big shout out to our amazing moderators, Valies, Peter.

Good to have you with us, Zareel, also in the house. Thank you to our moderators in the chat for everything that you do. Good to have you with us. Zareel also in the House. Thank you to our moderators in the chat for everything

that you do. Good to have you with us. So Alexander, Stephen, let's talk about all of the news

that is happening with Ukraine, Russia, the United States, the EU, NATO, Trump, so much to discuss.

Let's just jump right into it, Alexander.

But let us in fact focus on the military situation, the military balance in Europe.

I would call him now Commodore Steve Germany because it is the fact that he has been a senior military officer in the Royal Navy,

and he served with NATO, he served with obviously the British military.

And he is very familiar with the situation generally in militaries,

but also he's been writing very incisively about the overall military picture in Europe.

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