 All right, friend of Aristotle. Friend of Aristotle, man, this guy's old. Sorry if this is off topic, but do you consider the Russian debt default worse because other countries are unwilling to take their money rather than Russia not having the money to pay? What do I think of the Russian debt default? I mean, I think that Russia, the debt default, you're saying that other countries are unwilling to take their money rather than Russia not having the money to pay. I don't know if that's the case. I don't know exactly what brought about the default. The default of Russian debt in this context is not that economically meaningful because it is the reflection of these sanctions. Look, the Russian economy, in spite of everything that you might be hearing out there, is a disaster. Quality of life standard of living isn't declined dramatically. The country is having a hard time creating enough to produce and to sustain any kind of reasonable standard of living. The economy in Russia is going to shrink by something like 10%, take a 10% hit to a standard of living quality of life. And part of that is the default. Now, the only reason Russia continues to have any kind of economy and to sustain it in any way is because Europe continues to buy natural gas from it and other countries around the world continue to buy oil from it. So the only thing that's sustained is sustaining the Russian economy is natural resources. And unfortunately, there is no complete embargo. There is no complete embargo on natural resources. So the Russians don't sell their oil to Western Europe because Western Europe is boycotting it, so they sell it to India or they sell it to China. They're still getting money from it, so they still have income. But how does that income filter down to the average Russian? It doesn't. The oligarchs are still rich. The oligarchs are doing great. The people in power in Russia are doing fantastic. Doing fantastic. But the Russian people in horrible shape, the Russian people are losing everything. And Russia is a disaster zone. Russia is, as I said before, losing this war really on every front, really, even though they've gained territory, they're losing the war. They might be winning some battles, but they're losing the war. And they're losing it from an economics perspective. They're losing it because NATO is expanding. I don't know if you read today. As I predicted, I predicted this war almost perfectly. As I predicted, NATO and Turkey have come to a deal where Turkey will not object to the addition of Sweden and Finland into NATO. So the Russians have lost because if their purpose was to hurt NATO or to cause NATO to have smaller borders with Russia, NATO's not going to have bigger borders, longer borders with Russia. Russia is going to be more at risk. They're losing because they have to take, they have to mothball T-62s. They have to bring out of storage T-62s because they've lost so many T-72s in the battlefront that they have to bring out a tank that hasn't really properly been used in battle since, I don't know, since the 70s. And they're bringing out to the front. Now that the Ukrainians have longer-range missiles and have the Western artillery, I mean, it's not going to be easy. And you know, Ukraine could fail in pushing the Russians back, but there's a really good chance that they get pushed back completely. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook 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 iranbookshow.com slash support. By going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.