All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine.

And it looks like we may have a venue for possible Trump-Putin-talks baby.

Maybe a venue.

Slovakia seems to be a place where Putin has stated could be a possible location for a Trump-Putin summit.

We have a lot more to talk about when it comes to Ukraine.

But let's start from the statements that Putin made about Slovakia,

which actually opens the conversation up to the various statements that he made

at the conclusion of the Eurasian Economic Summit.

Because Putin did say a lot, and then we could talk about everything that is going on

with Ukraine and Russia and the incoming Trump White House.

Absolutely. Well, I think my own view is that we are hearing an awful lot of noise, mostly coming

from Europe, but also from some people in the United States, ideas about sending European

peacekeeping forces, all those sort of things.

But I think I'm starting to get around to the view that we need to put all of that aside because the action is quite different.

And we need to focus, we need to home in on those people who really matter, which is Trump and his immediate team, Putin and his immediate team.

And those people who are acting as intermediaries who are clearly the Hungarians and the Slovaks.

Now, Trump, a couple of days ago, said that there needs to be a meeting with Putin.

So he is now clearly flagging the need for a summit meeting with Putin.

And he's made it fairly clear, if you look at his comments,

that he's not going to come up with any detailed plan until that meeting with Putin takes place, which is absolutely correct.

That is exactly as it should be.

So we then have, we've already had a telephone call from Auburn to Putin, lasted an hour.

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