Let's talk to me to Hitchin.

Let's talk to Peter.

Very good morning.

Good morning.

Where to begin?

I mean, I suppose it would be pointless to ask you what you think of Donald Trump's intervention here, because, I mean, everybody can see what Donald Trump is doing. The question is, is he doing

something that will work, I suppose? Well, we know, don't we, that he likes to do these

disruptive things. He might equally well have said that he wanted to turn Crimea into a

world holiday resort run by himself. It would have the same effect of just making people follow his agenda

in what comes, because now he's disrupted totally the idea that Bolandmier Zelensky is a

sort of new Churchill by calling him a dictator. I mean, even though he obviously is not a dictator, in fact, rather the reverse of poor old Zelensky has for some time been a manipulated puppet of much more powerful forces in Ukraine.

Remember, Volonio Zelensky was elected as a peace president and tried to his great credit for some time to achieve peace

and was completely frustrated by forces in his own country, including his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko

and the ultra-nationalist. So to call him a dictator is obviously absurd. He isn't that,

and it's not unreasonable for a country in the middle of being invaded to suspend elections.

As has been many times pointed out, this country has suspended elections during the Second World War.

That's not unusual or particularly bad.

But what Trump has done is he started people thinking about, well, obviously, Zerzansky is not a dictator, but what exactly is he?

Yeah. And what has Ukraine been doing to achieve peace over the past several years? And how did

this combat originate? What he can't say or won't say or perhaps doesn't know, I'm referring

here to President Trump, is that this war was really the,

ultimately the creation of an American decision to push NATO relentlessly eastwards.

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