 Peter, let's dive right in here. This conflict which started, this war which started in February 24th, has been a strain on the entire world, certainly on Europe, and of course its most populist, most affluent member, Germany, particularly within your government in place since December, which was confronted with this war right away. Germany has been somewhat criticized in Europe but also beyond for not doing enough, for not stepping up to the plate, for not sending the necessary equipment that Ukraine needs. Give us a sense from Berlin, the view from Berlin at this particular moment. Thank you very much. Delighted to be here also with this exceptional panel. So to your question, yes, by the way, I'm now in the opposition that we lost, so I'm not the translator I recorded any more. That was a government position that I enjoyed to have for four years. But yeah, we are like 10 months into this war and the German government certainly, like many others, never expected anything to happen like that, to have an underground conventional war in Europe. So nobody was really prepared. Although I have to admit there was enough sufficient intelligence months before that nobody really should have been surprised by the time of February 24th that actually Russia invaded Ukraine. There was a lot of material, satellite and everything, pictures that we had intelligence briefings on. So actually it's something like, well, surprise, surprise, something, we woke up to a war by the end of February this year. I don't buy that. But within your German government, just having come into office, just like two, three months after that, of course, it took them completely unprepared. And I think everybody needs to understand that apart from political party issues that, as I said, I'm in the position now, I'm not part of the government anymore, we fully have to understand that for Germany it was a completely confrontation with everything with their core principles because we had to make a decision to turn 180 degrees around with regard to deliver weapons at all, be it normal weapons or heavy weaponry all the way up to battle tanks, which we have not yet delivered by the way, which I criticize my government of not doing enough indeed, but we had one of the core principles was not to deliver any kind of weapons into any conflict or even war zone. And with regard to our history in Ukraine, in the second world, where we, the German Wehrmacht back then, the army killed millions of Ukrainians, yes, it was difficult for us to be the first ones to deliver weapons to Ukraine, but I don't buy that. We're still lacking behind half a year ago, six months ago. We should have made quick and the right political decisions like delivering heavy weaponry, deliver airspace defense, which we now did, but there's always this narrative that I keep hearing and which actually my American friends were confronting me with earlier this week, I spent three days earlier this week in Washington D.C. and the administration, but also my friends on the Hill on both sides of U.S. Congress, who were in session just a month after the midterm elections, were asking me questions, do we have a German problem? They appreciate that we are delivering now, but this narrative that, well, if we deliver the Leopard 2, which they desperately want, and I think they need the Ukrainians, where it takes a lot of training, maintenance, and all that ammunition, yes, that's exactly why we should have decided to deliver that half a year ago, because we know it takes a lot of time. It's not easy. We have enough of these battle tanks, which could make a difference in that wall. And let me finish now. We should never forget who caused all this. It's Putin's Russia. It's the Kremlin with his dictator hiding behind the Kremlin walls, who initiated this completely unprovoked aggression against Ukraine and you were quite right, Ali, when you commented in your introductory remarks saying it is not only an aggression against either Ukrainians, which would be bad enough, it's an aggression against all of us, at least against those who believe in universal values like rule of law, democracy, human rights, and all these things. So we are defending, or actually Ukrainians are defending on Ukrainian territory our core values. So for me, it's absolutely no brainer to make quick and right decisions and to support Ukraine as much as we can to bring them into a strong position. There cannot be peace negotiations now. So clear and very stern words from Peter Bayer, as far as the German perspective is concerned. Of course, we are here today to discuss the future of the European Union and European security after the Ukraine war.