that was president zelensky there. meanwhile, the question of how the west arms ukraine and with what has reared its head again, as the german chancellor olaf scholz ruled out sending fighterjets. ukrainian officials have asked allied nations to create a fighterjet coalition to help them further repel russia. but in an interview with the newspaper tagesspiegel, the german chancellor urged western nations not tojoin a bidding war for more sophisticated weaponry. last week, germany announced it will deliver its leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine after weeks of pressure from nato and european union allies. for more on this, we can speak now to the author of the russia trap: how our shadow war with russia could spiral into nuclear catastrophe, george beebe, who was also a former cia russia analyst and now director of grand strategy at the quincy institute. it is wonderful to get you on the programme, george. in the first instance, just to get your thoughts on how effective the strategy