johnny us from paris out to discuss the stories political alice, nicola markovich. mcclurg, thanks so much for joining us here. archie. interesting times are, are having here. now, what was your reaction to this need to achieve those again, still timbers later statement? well, i don't think we should make much out of it. nato is desperate. we're wondering what nato is doing and ukraine does not forget that there is a partnership between ukraine and nato, but in no means has any sort of treaty or which would justify nato's intervention know now or through anglo miracles. i would say recent testimony and also to push ankle ukraine's previous president that the west has been using the means piece agreement to buy time for the ukranian army to be trained funded to receive weapons from nato. and now nato is saying that russia is advancing on, on it's on it's offensive and it's military offensive. this makes no sense. nato fuel, this war does not forget that there was a acquitted time 2014, then they don't train ukrainian army. now the full fledged war is not forget that this war did not st

earlier we told c political analyst, nicola markovich, who says that lobbyists are influencing the you more more? well, this is a huge blow. we're talking about the vice president of the european party, and we're talking about the different members of the european party parliament. a lot of people are saying today that if we pull the strings a bit more, we will be finding commissioners or people working with the commissioner is. and this is we're talking about a lot of money over a $1000000.00 and a half euros in cash. and we know that there are thousands lobbyist and brussels today. each one is defending his own view, his own opinion. and if we find out that there are so many and we probably will have a lot of the decisions taken in brussels, are done under the influence presenting for management of corporate money to sway the decisions of the european parliament. dissuade this isn't especially with the commission in europe. we must not forget the importance of the commission. this means that we are extremely far from the dream of the european parliament and of assembly of european pe