my 1st guest tonight is liz shaka. she's a policy analyst at the global public policy institute in berlin. she joins us tonight from washington. d. c. let's. it's good to have you on the program. the german chancellor. oh, schultz. he has been criticized a lot over his government's response to the war in ukraine. he's even been accused of not wanting ukraine and to when, when you consider the language years to day what he said was it strong enough to dispel the doubts the doubts? i have been so long coming and so large that i'm not sure it's going to be seen as nuff, he's our to give in his watershed moments speech, which really raised a ton of house, only to see action really not line up with it. in addition, one of his foreign policy advisors just a couple of days ago, gave some really troubling remarks about prioritizing the relationship with russia over the need to send arms to ukraine. so i think this is a very admirable and speech and commitment you by all love shall see. there is widely pointed out that he's goi