well, professor gilbert of tara wrote that book and people, a visiting scholar at columbia university's herman institute joins me now from the capital of brussels in belgium. the doctor, welcome back to the show. you know, before we even get into the nitty gritty, here i understand the new volumes by you are appearing in 2025 or a shed. you'll do war diaries more referring to the proxy war in russia through ukraine. what did you make a red road munich? summit haig said that brussels in front of nato defense secretaries appearing to say, you know, of the 1000000 dead ukrainians. 25 percent directory gone. so $7000000.00 plus displays bankruptcy. if you grain, no nato membership, no, you security guarantees. if anything, $500000000.00 a debt in minerals to the usa, know it's stream bombings and nothing is regards germany. and basically, that's it. the nato troops are not going to be in ukraine. and ukraine has to give up. the land are the is, there's a lot of news, the sector, the, the journalist of the world, overwhelmed by the initiatives. not sure, always you call them journalists, pro

here with the author of does rush, i'm a future and for the challenge of the russian book, and let's reprise progressive gilbert golf, tara president, taro, we were talking about the minerals in the the end of thought. one you were saying actually it's reading the over rag, this idea that it's all in the russian. now, lots of russia pods of you. great. uh there are rarer minerals will trump, uh, get ahold of them. you were saying that there uh they haven't been really that developed a since developed will came down and before your way to. busy because they're not worth developing. there are many minerals, all kinds. they're a 100 cards and all kinds spread over the whole group. but there are very few concentrations of whether extraction and they're ex, drafted where's commercially viable is not commercially viable to extract from the ukraine. the geology such doesn't pay to do it if it pay to do it. so it sort of done images. so this is not here. it is a distraction from the real issue of do we supply adobe supply arms to ukraine? and if it's, if the issue is, is advanced, if they say that there's something to, to extract

here with the author of does rush, i'm a future in full, the chairman of the russian book, and let's reprise professor gilbert gulf tara professor, dr. o, we were talking about the minerals in the, the end of thought one you were saying, actually it's reading the over rag, this idea that it's all in the russian. now, lots of russia, a bunch of you. great. there are rarer minerals. we'll trump, uh, get ahold of them. you were saying that there, uh, they haven't been really that developed since the available came down and before or you're where to go because they're not worth developing. there are many minerals all kinds. they're a 100 cards and all kinds spread over the whole globe, but they're very few concentrations of where they're extracted and the extracted where's commercially viable is not commercially viable to extract from the ukraine . to geology is such that it doesn't pay to do. it isn't paid to do it, so it sort of done images. so this is how there is a distraction from the real issue of do we supply adobe supply arms to ukraine? and if it's, if the issue is, is advanced. if they say that there's something

i'm a future and full, the chairman of the russian book, and let's reprise professor gilbert gulf tara professor, dr. o, we were talking about the minerals in the, the end of thought one you were saying, actually it's reading the over rag. this idea that it's all in the russian now, lots of russia pods of you. great. there are rarer minerals will trump, uh, get ahold of them. you're saying that there. uh, they haven't been really that developed since the vailable came down and before they were to go because they're not worth developing. and there are many minerals all kinds. there are a 100 cards, all kinds spread over the whole group, but there are very few concentrations of whether extraction and they're distracted . where's commercially viable is not commercially viable to extract them and ukraine, the geology, such that it doesn't pay to do it? if it pay to do it, the soviets would have done images. so this is how there is a distraction from the real issue of do we supply adobe supply arms to ukraine? and if it's, if the issue is, is advanced. if they say that there's something to,