 All right, let's just jump into the news. Zelensky is on a plane, maybe he's already here, but he's on the way to the United States. This will be his first trip outside of Ukraine since the war began. He is going to probably, well, he would bite in, but he's probably going to speak at a joint session of Congress either today or tomorrow, and then he'll fly probably quickly back to Ukraine. At least that is the, that's what it seems like right now. Of course, those kind of plans can change. Why is Zelensky coming? What's going on? I think basically he's coming because his allies and he are afraid that the United States might not continue its support of Ukraine's war effort. You know, he is desperate in particular to get Patriot missile systems to try to knock down the missiles that the Russians are using to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, electricity, power all over Ukraine is dramatically crippled. Heating is dramatically crippled, the ability to produce heating. So he is coming to, I think, show up support in the United States, you know, both the left wing of the Democratic Party and the elements within the Republican Party are opposed to U.S. support, U.S. providing military equipment to the Ukrainians. And I think the view is that, and I think this is right, that politicians speak, you know, they can talk, but when actually confronted by a world leader who's famous and they get to shake his hand and they get to schmooze with him a little bit and he actually makes an appealing person, they cave. They're just not gonna stick by their thing. So I think he's coming, he's coming to schmooze, he's coming to shake hands, he's coming to, you know, present the case for why this is in the United States self-interest to support Ukraine. I happen to agree with him. I think it is in the U.S. self-interest to support the Ukrainians. I think Putin is, given his attack on Ukraine, made himself clearly an enemy of the U.S. and a threat. And this is a relatively cheap way to handle him and to deal with him. I think there is significant American interest now in seeing Putin's regime toppled and having Ukrainians fight the fight for us and just providing them with sophisticated weapons is a relatively inexpensive way to deal with something that could be very, very expensive. And if Putin's regime did fall and if we got a friendlier regime, that's a lot of ifs there, then you would get a significant, you know, a significant benefit for the United States. Yeah, and I think it was so free. It cost money to provide weapons. So nothing is free, but the upside, it's an investment because the upside of seeing Putin defeated is huge. It would take, rush off the map in terms of a strategic threat to the United States. It would take, if Putin ultimately is replaced with a more friendly regime, you could actually see more investment in Russian natural resources, which would lower natural resource prices. You could see a lot of dramatic improvement globally. If this nationalist trend, this nationalist BS in Russia was crushed. So the good news is, you know, Putin is losing. Putin is not losing the war. He is losing the economy. He is losing on every front. NATO will come out of this dramatically stronger with Sweden and Finland added to it and potentially Ukraine. And in every dimension, Putin will lose ultimately he, if the world, I mean, think about one of the most interesting things about what's happened is how creative the Europeans have become, have gotten in diversifying their natural gas supplies so that whatever happens in the future, Europe is gonna be a lot less dependent on Russian natural gas. And therefore Putin's market for natural gas is gonna shrink significantly. He's gonna have to build new pipelines, maybe to India, which is very difficult or to China, which has its own risk. The reality is that the Russian energy industry is being crushed by what's happening. There was this an explosion in Russia that destroyed a pipeline that ships natural gas to Europe through Ukraine. That means Europe is getting even less natural gas from Russia. And yet Europe will survive this winter to a large extent because it has now more LNG ports now than it did at the beginning of the war. Many, many more ships are transporting natural gas to Europe from all over the Middle East, from the United States, from Norway has increased the amount of natural gas that it's pumping out and supplying to a variety of different countries. And of course, don't forget the fact that a number of countries, including Germany have delayed shutting down the nuclear energy plants. So Europe is in a much better position. Russia has been dramatically weakened and whatever happens in the next year or so of this war, Russia is in deep, deep trouble. Economically, energy-wise and militarily, it basically will end this war with no military capacity, no non-nuclear military capacity. All that I'll have is a nuclear arsenal, but no conventional weapons. The weapons are basically being destroyed on the battlefield. It's so pathetic. I mean, just think about pathetic as a country you are when you are relying for your military equipment on Iran and North Korea. All right, so Zelensky, so it's gonna be interesting. It'll be interesting to watch. It'll be interesting to see his presentation. He is an incredibly impressive war leader. He's good on his feet. He's good present. He's an actor, after all, who tend to be good public speakers. It should be an interesting speech tonight. And I think the schmoozing will work. I think you'll see a lot more Republicans and left Democrats who suddenly will find them in them to allocate a significant amount of, in the military budget, a significant amount to supporting. And in this actually temporary budget, the $1.7 trillion that Congress is gonna pass any day now as a budget, they're gonna find a little bit of few crumbs to send over to Ukraine to help defeat, help withstand the winter and hopefully continue defeating Putin. Okay, so that is Zelensky in the United States. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. 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