All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in Venezuela.

The official results from the election committee is that Maduro won, 51%, the opposition.

They got 44%.

Many analysts call the opposition the U.S.-backed opposition.

That's what they're referred to.

An interesting term to label them, but the U.S. backed opposition or the U.S.

supported opposition is what they're going with, which consists of Maria Corina, but she

cannot run in the elections.

And so she has placed a surrogate and a stand-in,

who is the 80-year-old Gonzalez. And they got 44, 45%. Obviously, the Collective West,

they're saying this is a rigged election.

Supporters of Maduro, they say he won.

And so here we are in what could be a regime change effort.

Maybe he'll try to regime change Maduro.

Maybe not.

Maybe he'll get through these elections and we'll just see more sanctions and pressure

placed on him.

What are your thoughts on the elections in Venezuela?

I mean, I think you summed it up very well.

Now, I don't know exactly what happened and see these elections in Venezuela, because, of course, I haven't been following Venezuela hugely closely, neither of us have done.

There are objective reasons, or so it seems to me, why Maduro might have won these elections along the lines that people say.

I'm not saying, you know, let's just put aside, I'm going to say there's objective reasons why he might have won and there are objective reasons why he might have lost.

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