the Secretary General of NATO, President Duda of Poland, and the Director of National Intelligence of the United States, Avril Haines. Please come up. Let me begin Avril Haines with you if I may. American intelligence these days has a justified reputation for being very good, having very accurately predicted what was going to happen in Ukraine last February. So much so that I remember this well, that people in Ukraine did not believe it. People in the West, in Europe did not believe it. But you continued to press that that was, in fact, what was going to happen, and it did. So what's going to happen next? Where does it look to you like the war is headed? Well, first of all, thanks very much. And it's a great honor, frankly, to be on the stage with all of the participants, including Euphorida. I think we should be humble about, honestly, our capacity initially in identifying the threat. And, you know, even for ourselves, it took us a while to really adjust and absorb the fact that this was a real possibility that Putin was considering. And as we went out and we talked to our colleagues, obviously, in Ukraine, but also in the rest of Europe and around the world, we learned a lot from them. And ultimately, obviously, came to the conclusion that this was real and continued to push on this issue. In terms of what's next, I mean, I think it's very much the way we would say it is not a stalemate, but really a grinding conflict at this stage, where quite literally, we're talking about hundreds of meters being fought over in the context of the front lines. And, you know, and I think very much, again, as President Zelensky noted in our own analyst note, is that during the winter, we expected the tempo essentially to be reduced to some extent. And we're watching, nevertheless, I think, some just brutal fighting on the front lines in the space. But I do think in many ways, and, you know, my Ukrainian colleagues, the Prime Minister and others will have a better sense of this. But I think, from our perspective, both militaries, obviously, have challenges. It will be extremely important for Ukraine to receive, essentially, military assistance and economic assistance moving forward in order for them to be able to continue to manage what they have been heroically doing. And on the Russian side, we see also significant challenges, ammunition, supplies, morale, exhaustion, some dysfunction in the leadership, and so on, things that are, I think, making it more difficult for the Russian military as well. But I think I'll leave it to that and let others... But I thought we might get the view from Ukraine, because it does seem to me that what Putin is doing now is he seems to have decided he cannot defeat the Ukrainian army, but he is going to try to crush Ukraine, to defeat Ukrainian civilians, as it were, by massive bombardment of, you know, civilian housing, power stations, water treatment plants. Can you describe for us exactly the nature of the devastation and what can Ukraine do? Can it manage to keep life going? So, yes, Ukraine keep fighting and keep developing, and what we recognized during these 329 days that we got a unique knowledge, and I think that you feel it that we can... Our army trained to use military technology very quickly. We know how to use military tech on the battlefield, and we want to use this knowledge, and we want to share this knowledge with the global world, but as I think that it's a unique experience for Ukrainians as we can maintain energy grid under the constant missiles attack. Our teacher provided a lesson for the children, despite of the shelling. You know, our trains come in time, 96%, and I think that it's a unique knowledge, and I think that this knowledge can share with the global world, as global world will require the new skills, and Ukrainians during this war, I agree that it's another perspective and it's not a look at the wartime, but still we can offer to the world a new skills and new Ukrainians that were born in Ukraine right now. So that's why I think that it's something we can offer to the world and something that can attract foreign investment today, even during the wartime. So we are very grateful for the IFIs that provide us with financial aid last year and President Zelensky noticed, and it helped us to keep macro financial stability, but what we do next, we need to start this early recovery, and of course we're not able, like a developed country, to provide some incentives for companies, but we're able to provide this new energy, we're able to provide these new skills that we get through this 329 days of the wartime. President Duda, it seems it is striking to me how strong the West has been in other parts of the world as well in supporting Ukraine. Do you think that the response is strong enough and more importantly what everybody worries about is it will it stay strong? Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice wrote an article recently in which they said Putin's goal, his strategy, is that he will outlast the West. The West may be strong now, but it will start splintering as an energy crisis happened, as financial crisis happened. Do you worry about that? First of all, I would like to thank you for your invitation, me to sit here with such a distinguished group of the participants of the panel and with the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and in this very room with the first lady of Ukraine, Owena Zelenska. Thank you for coming. I know that here in this room there is a lot of real friends of Ukraine. I see also the president of Latvia. Thank you for coming. Ukraine, Ukraine, I know very well that, you know, I know very well not only because we are talking about it all the time here, but I know very well because five days ago, six days ago I talked in Lviv with Volodymyr Zelensky and I know very well that Ukraine needs weapon, weapon, as I said yesterday and once again weapons. Weapons are crucial now because, because this war is really very difficult. This is not the end of the war. Russia is not defeating. There are, they are still Russians. They are still very strong. There is a lot of Russian soldiers in the front line. And we are afraid that they are preparing, now they are preparing themselves to the new offensive in a few months probably. So this is crucial to send now additional military support to Ukraine, especially modern tanks, especially modern missiles to defend Ukraine. But first of all, to stop Russian offensive. And this is, and this is crucial element. Is it enough? This is the question. I'm afraid it's not that this assistance we've just sent to Ukraine is still not enough. Ukraine needs more our efforts, it's more our aid and we should mobilize ourselves to help them because the situation is really difficult. And I'm afraid now it is and it will be in a few, maybe months, maybe weeks a crucial moment, next crucial moments of this war. And this moment will answer for the question will Ukraine survive or not? I'm a neighbor of Ukraine. I'm a president of Poland. Poland is, as you know, member of NATO and member of European Union. We understand Ukrainians. We know that they really want to be members of the Western society, members of the Western political community, members of the Western security zone, security area. So they want to be members of European Union. They want to be members of NATO. But first of all, they have to survive. They have to maintain their country. They have to maintain their sovereignty. They have to remain free and now this is crucial. We have to help them. They want to have democracy and we are members of democratic countries. So for us, this voice, voice of Ukrainian society, they will, should be crucial. They will is to be part of the European, real European society and part of the North Atlantic society. We should hear them. We should listen their voice. Thank you. There are two deputy prime ministers on the podium. I hope you don't mind, Christa, if I call you Christa. How would you respond to this question? Do you worry about the staying power of the West?  But I think we're going to do it.  I am ultimately extremely confident and I am extremely confident first and foremost because of the magnificent, magnificent job Ukraine is doing. We saw President Zelensky just now. I think it's right for all of us to honor Olena Zelenska who is here with us and of course Yulia and the people of Ukraine. And, you know, President Duda said something very important, many important things. One was we need to listen to the Ukrainians. And Yulia said it too. We need to get out of a mindset which I think a lot of us had when the Soviet Union first collapsed. We were the smart guys and they weren't such smart guys. I also apologize to the Latvians for this attitude. And we need to realize there's a lot we can learn from what Ukraine is doing right now. And that is ultimately the reason that I think we should have a lot of confidence. I think Ukraine is teaching all of us again the true strength of democracy. Something that in good times it's easy to not think about that much free. And I think what we see in Ukraine is people who are free. People who understand what they're fighting for. And I think very critically people who have social solidarity. You know, it is so important that President Zelensky is there. That you have millionaires, multimillionaires and their sons and daughters in Ukraine and on the front line. This is a fight of the whole country. So that's the first reason I'm confident. But the second reason I'm confident is, you know, President Duda quite rightly pointed out that this is a fight ultimately about values. And it is. But I think we in the West also need to understand that victory that President Zelensky spoke about and that time which he said we need to use. It's not about doing Ukraine favors that we're talking about. Supplying Ukraine with weapons and as President Zelensky very crucially pointed out. Supplying Ukraine with the money it needs to win the war is ultimately in our own self interest. So I'm a finance minister. And if you were to say to me, what is the one thing that G7 finance ministers, G7 governments this year could do that's actually in our power, right? We don't control COVID. We don't control global supply chains. We don't control whether there will be immaculate disinflation or not. One thing where we have some real practical levers is we can help Ukraine win clearly definitively. And if we do that, if that happens this year, you know it as well as I do. That would be a huge boost to the global economy. So I do think Ukraine is going to win. I think Ukraine is going to win because the Ukrainians have shown total commitment and determination and they've shown they're smart. I think we're going to win because our people, like I think, which is so often the case in democracy, people are smarter than their leaders. Certainly speaking for Canada, Canadians got this on day one. They understand that we need to stand up for democracy and democratic values. But they also understand our economies, our security, the fact that nuclear deterrence actually works. All of these critical things are really being decided on the battlefields of Ukraine right now. So I am of course worried.  But I am ultimately profoundly confident. Mr. Secretary General, you heard the President of Ukraine say he would like to be a member of NATO. Will you let him in? NATO's position remains unchanged and that is that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Then of course the main focus now is to support Ukraine to ensure that Ukraine wins the war and prevails as a sovereign independent democratic nation in Europe. And that's the reason why NATO Allies partners are providing unprecedented military support to Ukraine and why I am travelling around to NATO capitals and calling on them to do even more and why I welcome the recent announcement of more armour, more advanced air defence systems, most recently by Canada with 200 armoured vehicles and also Poland delivering more weapons and of course the US leading all these efforts in this what we call the Contact Group or the Support Group for Ukraine. And as Christa just said it is extremely important that President Putin doesn't win this war partly because it will be a tragedy for the Ukrainians but it will be very dangerous for all of us because then the message to authoritarian leaders not only to Putin but also other authoritarian leaders is that when they use brutal force, when they violate international law they achieve what they want and that will be a very bad and dangerous lesson. It will make the world more dangerous and us more vulnerable and that's the reason why if we want a negotiated peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine we need to provide military support to Ukraine. That's the only way. Weapons they are the way to peace and that may sound like a paradox but the only way to have a negotiated agreement is to convince President Putin that he will not win on the battlefield he has to sit down and negotiate. Nobody knows how this war will end. Most likely it will end around the negotiating table. What we do know is that what happens around that negotiating table is totally dependent on the strength of the battlefield and if we want Ukraine to prevail then they need the military strength. Then let me add one more thing and that is that we are all encouraged, inspired, we admire the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian political leadership, the Ukrainian armed forces. At the same time I think it's very dangerous to underestimate Russia. They have mobilized 200,000 more troops. President Putin has demonstrated a will to just sacrifice thousands and thousands of Russian soldiers. They are now acquiring more and more weapons reaching out to other authoritarian regimes including Iran and they are planning new offensives. So it is as President Zelensky said there is an urgent need, time matters. We will meet in Ramstein NATO Allies in the US led contact group for Ukraine with all the many partners and the main message there will be more support, more advanced support, heavier weapons and more modern weapons because this is a fight for our values, this is a fight for democracy and we just have to prove that democracy wins over tyranny and oppression. Avril you are President Biden's senior most representative here at Davos. What would be your message in the context of what President Duda and the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and the Secretary General of NATO said what would your message be to Ukrainians about what America will do to help the Ukrainians? About what? What the United States can and will do to help Ukraine. I mean so I'm the intelligence community and I don't do policy but obviously President Biden and the United States have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars weapons and in fact billions of dollars in support for Ukraine and honestly I mean I think maybe one way to think about it is on top of everything else that's been said about the impact for the world in the event that Ukraine does not succeed are a series of other things. There is clarity about the fact that honestly the conflict in Ukraine has global implications beyond the rule of law, beyond even the values piece all of which I would prioritize in many respects but for economic implications it has consequences for us in thinking about the strength of our alliances. It has consequences for us in thinking about how it is that we're going to manage crises in the future where we have actors that violate the rule of law and the charter and the order that we have set up. It also has consequences from a proliferation perspective which is to say that the nuclear saber rattling that Russia has done is another message that's been sent to other countries in this context. I think there are many who are watching what happens in Ukraine and it will affect how they address conflicts in the future so I think there's just no question that it is in all of our interests to support Ukraine as much as possible. I think Deputy Prime Minister of Canada said it exactly right which is to say that yes we do want to support Ukraine for Ukraine because we're watching what they're going through and we want to be there for them and the heroic actions that they've taken are extraordinary but we're not doing it just for Ukraine, we're doing it also for our self-interest and there are a series of ways in which you can look at this to recognize the implications for our foreign policy, our national security collectively moving forward. You know the Ukrainians are asking for more and more advanced weaponry, longer arrangement. Do you think the administration is likely to move forward on some of those requests? Again I'm sorry I just can't speak for the policy community in this scenario as the intelligence officer but I mean I have seen obviously the President and his national security cabinet in the policy space continue to move forward on a variety of requests and I think that will continue. President Duda you talked about how you believe how urgent and important it is to act now but I do want to ask you a little bit more about this question of the staying power partly because your country has done an extraordinary job that I think sometimes we don't adequately recognize. You've taken over two million Ukrainian refugees and there are no refugee camps. These are all people who are being housed individually by individual Polish families in their homes. Do you think this can go on for years? I mean what are your politicians you understand? Do you get the sense the Polish people are getting tired of playing the role of host to all these refugees? Thank you. Thank you very much for this important, very important words because I want to stress that I'm really very proud of my compatriots, Polish people. They didn't need any encouragement to go to the borders to help Ukrainian refugees. We call them Ukrainian gasts because they are our neighbors and gasts. They are in very difficult situation but we fully understand that if there is anything we can do for defenders of Ukraine, for Ukrainian heroes who defend Ukraine every day for those fathers, brothers and sons, we should protect their families, their wives, their children, their sisters, carry on them and we are trying to do our best. This is something we know very well. This is something we treat as a natural thing, as a normal behavior. This is the first. Second is assistance. Poland remains committed to continuing to provide Ukraine with military equipment. Ukraine needs to defend its sovereignty, to defend its independence, to defend its border and to, I hope, to win this war and to defeat Russians because this is crucial element so I'm very grateful, Mr. Secretary General, dear Jens, for this very important words you said a minute ago. Because as I said before, we talked with President of Lithuania with Gitana Znauseda. We talked, we had a meeting in Lviv six days ago. We called this forum Lublin Triangle, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. So there was meeting of three presidents and we talked about the coming NATO summit in Vilnius. And we said to Volodymyr Zelensky, Volodymyr, we can assure you that doors to NATO are still open for Ukraine and we support your future membership in NATO. Volodymyr said, okay, guys, thank you very much. I'm very, really grateful but listen, frankly, I don't want to hear the same story once again, okay? I need guarantees. I can understand that you can't agree on our full membership in NATO now because we have war. And taking into account Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, it's impossible and I understand, he said, but I need guarantees. I need guarantees for my country. I need guarantees of security. And please talk with your NATO allies because we need it. We need it immediately. And if you decide to give us these guarantees during the upcoming NATO summit, it will be real success, success of NATO and success of Ukraine. And this is crucial. So, Mr. Secretary General, I will be very grateful. Julia, can I ask you to give us a sense of the, I mean, you must have given some thought to what will it cost to rebuild Ukraine? Looking at the devastation, you know, we look at the photographs and the video and it's like something out of World War II because I really don't think we have seen the targeted destruction of cities in quite this way. People sometimes refer to the Russian bombing as indiscriminate bombing. I don't think it's indiscriminate. It is, discriminate is targeted precisely at civilians, at civilian infrastructure.  What, when you think about this problem, because you are likely to inherit it, how, how, help us understand the scale of what you're thinking about? So, I want to tell that Ukraine a fight on two fronts. One is a military one, another one is economic front. And if we speak about numbers and figures, so if you look at the World Bank estimation, on September, the number was 300, 350 billion US dollars. But now we estimate that it might be up to one trillion as, you know, every day our energy grid under the massive missile strike. So, every day we get another damages. That's why it's so important to find a way to supply us weapons, to give us guarantees. To help us and with contribution, that is contribution to the victory. But the victory, to find a way how to obtain the victory, get the victory in the nearest year. This year, let's say like this. I think no one, no one doubt that Ukraine will win this war. I think no one doubt. The question is that the question that was raised by the president. We're shortage of time. That's why we need right now to collaborate with each other and to find a way how to supply us warm weapons, anti-missile system, have a weapon, tanks just to speed up our victory. Because every day brings more damages and it means that exactly on the second day of the victory we will come to our allies and we will ask for finance that are building on Ukraine and it will cost more than it might cost right now. That's why it has a huge impact on economic globally and that's why it's so important from economic point of view to find a way to sanction policy, weapons supply and policy and the help of our allies in financial support right now just to put like a goal and like a name to get the victory during this year.  This is a challenge for the West at a time when deficits and debt loads are high. Will it be possible to provide Ukraine with the kind of assistance on the scale it needs to rebuild? Well, before we get to rebuilding we have to support Ukraine in its fight and we have to support Ukraine to victory. And I do want to emphasize something that Julia said about the economic battlefield and I think she's exactly right. The weapons absolutely essential but one of the remarkable things happening in Ukraine right now is it is a functional state. As Julia said trains running on time 96% of the time. When President Zelensky went to Kherson, liberated Kherson, one of the first things he said is now you will get your pensions and we're going to pay you all the pensions you didn't get when you were under occupation. I think we cannot underestimate how important Ukraine's continued existence as a functional state is to the winning of the war. So we need to get the money now and it's remarkable that you guys have been doing it and we need to continue to support that effort. We heard I think from Julia thanking the international financial institutions but we need to keep going. Ukraine needs an IMF program. We should make meaningful progress there in the first quarter and the countries here need to continue to provide support. You spoke for read and you're absolutely right about being sure that there's public buy-in. So I'll tell you one thing that we did in November which is Canada issued Ukraine sovereignty bonds. These are guaranteed by Canada's AAA credit rating. They're a government of Canada bond but all of the money was earmarked to go directly to Ukraine. We issued $500 million worth of sovereignty bonds and they were sold out in less than two weeks. The Central Bank of Poland bought some of those bonds. So thank you very much. And you know I think we as Democratic Western leaders need to also be you know President Zelensky is doing a great job of making sure that our people understand the importance of this fight. I think we also need to be doing that job and we need to be sure that we are talking you know in my case with Canadians about why this matters. And I actually find they tell me why it matters but I need to give them opportunities to be part of this fight. And I just I want to quickly pick up on one thing that Avril said that could kind of get missed I think in the flow of all the things we've been talking about which is the nuclear deterrence point. And I think this is one element you know when we talk about the benefits that we get from a Ukrainian victory.  Because I think if Ukraine were to be defeated then what that tells you is no matter how much you want your sovereignty. No matter how united you are as a country. No matter how prepared you are to fight.  And think about the message that sends to smaller countries around the world. I think an extremely dangerous one. And so from my perspective that is yet another reason that in supporting Ukraine we are supporting our own economic well being and also our own security. Avril let me pick up on that but on something more specific. I think we all know that the the elephant in the room with regard to the consequences of a Russian victory. Are the fear that it would signal to China that it was permissible acceptable or it would come at low cost for them to invade Taiwan. Take us through your intelligence judgment of what the effect of a Russian victory would be on China. Yeah I think I mean first of all let me apply what was just said about the nuclear saber rattling in relation to China. So we've indicated in our annual threat assessment that among the things that we're seeing is China engaging in a pretty extraordinary expansion of their nuclear program. And and I think one of the things that we look at is essentially what is the lesson that they're learning from the consequence of the conflict that we've seen. And in this space and you know our assessment would be that basically it is cause them likely to just confirm their own view that this is critical as a deterrent. And that they can use that program effectively in order to do the kind of nuclear saber rattling that we've seen Russia do in this context. So that's kind of one piece of the puzzle. Another to your point is that I think first of all we haven't seen ultimately the final chapter in effect on this. And so we can't really give you here are all of the lessons that China has learned as a consequence of the conflict. But I think there are a couple of things that are worth highlighting. One is that I think it is likely that we exceeded their expectations in terms of our capacity to join together. You know as an alliance of states across the world to actually counter Russia in this space. So that would be one and particularly on the sanctions piece. And I think one of the challenges is that sanctions in the context of Russia versus China have some interesting differences. Right. So if you were to enact a significant man of sanctions vis a vis China you're likely to have greater impact on China because of its integration with the world economy. At the same time it will also create more sacrifice essentially in those who are enacting those sanctions. So that's one piece of it. Another I think is the export control piece. We've really you know export controls are used in a pretty remarkable way during this conflict. And they've been quite effective so far as we can tell in and targeted in their impact. And they've been done as a coalition which I think is another aspect of it that's important for countries that concern themselves with Disadvantaging their own businesses in the context of export controls. And so that's another I think thing that China is likely watching. And you know we see both China and Russia doing a lot of thinking as they have in the past about how do you effectively create a system that provides you with greater resilience so that you can counter the actions of those sanctions. But I would say one of the things that is remarkable is the way I think in which the coalition of states that have enacted sanctions have been capable of kind of watching how the evasion has been operating on Russia side and adjusting as a consequence and therefore maintaining some of the pressure that exists in the space. You know another issue that they're almost certainly watching is the kind of information war that Russia is waging and trying to think through how it is. That that goes. And I think we've also seen you know China ultimately you know in our view engage number of activities that are supportive of Russia and yet not coming out explicitly in support and feeling a little bit uncomfortable about where that puts them in these spaces. So I mean there's a number of things that we could continue to go down the road of and certainly there's military kind of lessons that they're undoubtedly learning. You know among the things that would seem most likely is that you really want to overmatch essentially in this context and have a quick conflict as opposed to allowing effectively the world to come together to provide assistance and to help these spaces. But I think it's still a story to be told as we kind of watch this move forward. Secretary General can you give us an update on where things stand with Sweden and Finland's accession to the NATO. It does appear from the outside that the Turks are simply blackmailing NATO or Sweden in particular. It feels like a bargain where they you know they just keep they keep asking for more until they get because they know at the end of the day they have leverage right now. It feels inappropriate for NATO to have to behave like this. It looks more like a bazaar. I'm confident that Turkey will finalize the accession process for Finland and Sweden. I cannot tell you when but I'm confident for several reasons. First of all Turkey was one of the NATO allies that at our summit in Madrid in July last year actually decided to invite Finland and Sweden to become members of the Alliance. And all NATO allies also Turkey a few days after signed the accession protocols and so far 28 out of NATO's 30 allies have already ratified. This is the quickest, fastest accession process in NATO's modern history. Normally accession into NATO takes years. It's less than a year since Finland and Sweden applied. They applied in May. They were invited in July and already 28 out of 30 have ratified. Second we need to to understand where we started weeks or a couple of months before the invasion of Ukraine. President Putin proposed a security treaty with NATO where he actually outlined some key demands. One was that NATO should guarantee no more NATO members no further enlargement of NATO. The other main demand was to remove all NATO forces infrastructure in all allies that have joined after 1997, meaning the whole eastern part of the Alliance. Of course we did reject those demands. But it demonstrates that the purpose, the aim of President Putin is to get less NATO. He is getting exactly the opposite. Hours after the invasion we significantly increased the number of NATO troops in eastern part of the Alliance including in Poland to send a very clear message to Moscow that there is no room for misunderstanding about NATO's readiness, ability, commitment to protect and defend all NATO allies. And that is to prevent escalation because it's extremely bad what's going on in Ukraine now. But of course if this escalate to full fledged war between Russia and NATO it becomes even worse. So the increased military presence in eastern part of the Alliance is not to provoke a conflict but to prevent a conflict, preserve peace, send a clear message of deterrence to Moscow. That is more NATO is getting more NATO on Putin's border. The other thing is that Finland and Sweden applied because of the threats he conveyed. They actually realized the door was going to, they were afraid the door to NATO was closing so they asked to get in. And they will become members. And the last thing we say on this is that Finland and Sweden are in a very different place now than before they applied. Because since they applied several allies including the United States have issued bilateral security assurances. NATO has increased its presence in that part of Europe. Finland and Sweden are now as invitees participating in NATO's political meetings, consultations and are more and more integrated into our military structures. So it's absolutely inconceivable that there will be a military threat against Finland or Sweden without NATO reacting. So President Putin wanted less NATO is getting more NATO and that's an important message. Let me make sure we get this clear because this is very important because there is a window of an awkward period or a dangerous period. If Russia would attack Finland or Sweden tomorrow, even though they are not NATO members, NATO would come to the assistance of those two countries. As what I'm saying is that it's inconceivable that we will not react. I mean they are now not only close partners, they are invitees, they are integrated into our military structures and we have bilateral security assurances from several allies. So we need to react. Moscow knows that. And they also know that they are now devoted most of their troops to Ukraine. So actually the likelihood for any military attack is very little, partly because they are so close to NATO and partly because they are now spending so much of their forces in Ukraine. The last thing I want to say on Turkey is that Turkey has some legitimate security concerns. No other NATO allies have suffered more terrorist attacks than Turkey. PKK is regarded as a terrorist organization by NATO allies, by Finland and Sweden, long before they applied. And therefore part of the agreement in Madrid was also to sign a joint memorandum between Turkey, Finland and Sweden to step up cooperation. For instance, lift all restrictions on arms exports. Finland and Sweden have done that already. And to work more closely in fighting terrorism. And that's actually something which is important for Turkey, but also NATO allies. We have run out of time, but I want to ask one special guest in the audience, the founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab. And Klaus, is there anything you would like to ask or add at this moment? And we have seen that support. Klaus Schwab, thank you so much to this extraordinary panel. My thanks. And of course to President Zelensky, please tell him that we really appreciated it.


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another top five Friday. I've been looking forward to this one. I just want to have a bit of fun with you guys. There's going to be some of your favorite books on this list. I just want you to hang out with me and have a good time.  Starting right off the bat, we're going to do two honorable mentions I rarely ever do this, but this one's for my boy, Pru. JP Pruitt always does two honorable mentions along with his top five. So I'm going to kind of harken back to him right now. I will leave a link down in the doobly-doo to his channel. Okay, so first and foremost, we're going to say since our top five Friday topic of this week is top five scenes that ruined the entire book, we're going to go ahead and say spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. I will leave links down there in the doobly-doo so you guys can skip ahead. So spoilers for Stephen King's it in three, in two, in one, the child orgy. I mean, we all know, we all know, get back in there. Well, not for Bev, but I mean for Bev. But the child orgy, you see, I mean, there's over a thousand reviews for this, for this book on Amazon, even more than that on Goodreads. And all of the one star reviews mention the child orgy. Now, it's a bunch of 11 year olds. There's no adults involved, but people are still just batshit bonkers crazy over this scene. Kids are going to experiment. This stuff is going to happen. I need to tell you this, I had my first sexual experience when I was 10. It happens. But anyways, as long as there's no adult involved, I'm not too bothered by it. Of course, I'm not sitting there imagining it hardcore. In fact, most of the time when I read the book, I just skip right over it. But most people get upset at that. Next one is, oh, I almost reached the wrong thing. We're going to go recent. So spoilers for the Institute. This is not a Stephen King thing list, but this is what I thought of while I was thinking of this topic. So the spoilers for the Institute in three, two, one. There's some Trump references in here. There's a total of five political references total in a 560 page book. But people are actually getting stuck on the fact that he mentions Trump three times. One of them is for a picture on a good guy's wall. I repeat, a good guy, one of the heroes kind of has a picture of Trump on his wall. Yet there's two other comments within the book that say something bad about Trump. And there's one other political one that's kind of ambiguous and there's one about Hillary Clinton. But people are saying that's ruin the entire book. It's whatever. So now, on to my list. On to my top five. And I have the list right here. Every other book on this list I have, I'm going to have to throw up a e-book copy or cover, digital cover or whatever, except for this one and we're going to start with this one. So spoilers for The Abominable by Dan Simmons in three, two, one.  The entirety of this book comes down to those couple of words.  So four words.  There's pictures in a, I think it's a lock box. The people that the climbers stumble across.   We already know that he killed millions of Jewish people.  There's some Nazis out there right now just typing furiously like, I don't, I can't believe you. But this book supposes that he was also a pedophile on top of the fact that he might have been into Scheisse. He might have been into pooping on Eva Braun. He, he messed with children. So it just, it seemed like a very anti-climactic scene is what I'm getting at. Did he mess with children? I don't know. I've never heard that before. So Dan Simmons just went all out and said, let's try to make Hitler worse than he actually was. I don't think it needed that. I would have much more preferred, again, spoilers, spoilers. I would have much more preferred to see Abominable Snowman than I would have messed with that whole Hitler side. And I know it's alluded to that there's actually Abominable Snowman, Snowman in this universe. It's kind of alluded to, but it's never actually pinpointed and said yes they are. So the rest of these books I don't have copies of because I literally got rid of them as soon as I read, as soon as I finished them. So the first one is Final Girls by Riley Sager. I'm going to put it right here.  I don't know how the hell it got the acclaim that it did. There's one scene in here that ruined the entire book for me. The book is boring. Nothing really happens in the book until later on in the book. It's pretty much just her baking and whatnot. But the scene that ruined it for me is there's a scene where the investigating officer is talking about a homeless man being beat up in the park and spoilers in 3, 2, 1. The main character has bruises and cuts on her hand from beating up this homeless man.   That right there, I was like I will never read another Riley Sager or Todd, whatever his name is. I will never read another book by him because if that one scene is that dumb, there's no way this dude can write a good book. So next up, at number I guess 3, we are going to do The Cellar by Richard Layman. So spoilers for The Cellar by Richard Layman in 3, 2, 1. There's a scene with a little girl who is molested in a bathtub and it just ruined the whole book for me. Now yes, it is disturbing, it's all of those things put together in a big lump sum.  If that makes sense to you, that's fine. If it doesn't make sense to you, that's fine too. But that scene right there ruined the entire book for me. The level of detail that Layman goes into in that scene is uncalled for. In fact, for that and Lolita, I wrote a response to it called The Bedding of Boys. It's no longer available for sale. But I wrote a response for that saying, basically, let's see if I can get away with this if it is a female pedophile with a male child. I did, people giving it 4 and 5 stars. Most people enjoyed the book. It has a very positive rating on Goodreads. And that's what I wanted to find out. Is there really that double standard?  And that disgusts me. It makes me physically ill to just think about it. But yet, there are men who say that. And these are the same type of men who would go, ugh, that's disgusting if a man was messing with a little girl. You might see a difference there. I do not. So moving on. Next up, we have Head Full of Ghosts. This isn't one scene. It happens over and over and over again. I was going to put in the ending, but I'm going to leave it to the top 5 worst endings I've ever read. So spoilers for that video.  I mean, you read those and you just completely lose the thread of the story. It's poorly written. Of course, it's supposed to be because I guess it's supposed to be. Let me take that. Let me rewind that. It's supposed to be poorly written because Trimbley does not respect bloggers.  There's no intelligent banter. It's just some Nimrod on a blog saying, hey, here's my thoughts about this thing that happened. Every single time the blogger popped up, I lost my train of thought. I couldn't care about the story.  And I know there's people out there that love this book, that love Trimbley, and that's fine. You do you. But those blogger sections, not only were they offensive to me as a book blogger at one point in time. I admittedly don't do it anymore. But to think that that's how he perceives, especially a female blogger, it bothered me. But that's just me. And I'm sure there's plenty of women out there that go, it didn't bother me at all. I know at least three right now at the top of my head, Sadie, Steph, and Amanda, those three of you that maybe watch this episode will go, I didn't find a problem with it. I did. They completely ruined the book for me. So at number one, at number one is the stupidest thing I have ever read in indie fiction, in general fiction, in literary fiction.  So spoilers for Bird Box by Josh Mailerman in three, two, one, the woman actually like bungee jumps with her umbilical cord out of a window. I can't. I'm just, okay. So what happens is these two women somehow sink their pregnancies, like they're sinking their periods. These two women sink their pregnancies and they have the babies at the same time. And one of them is the hero, so you know she can't die. So the other one, you have to do something over the top and off the wall to make the ending of the book worth it. So she literally jumps, she literally jumps out the window and just, she's like, she, the only thing I can say to tell you is she bungee jumps from the umbilical cord, but she's hanging out the window by the umbilical cord. And the issue with this scene, not only is there shards of glass that would have cut, I mean, you can cut through an umbilical cord with a pair of scissors. Any father knows that. So most mothers, all mothers probably know that. Now that I think about it, all mothers know that.  Um, hands down, the stupidest thing. You just imagine her go, shh. She's hanging by her, but you know what I'm saying. You know where the umbilical cord comes out of.  It is the most asinine visual image I could muster. But, so that is my top five completely ludicrous scenes that ruined books for me. I would love to hear from you guys what your top five or any scenes that ruined a book for you. I would love to hear that from you.  But I would much prefer to hear from you about the issues that you had with other books, um, so that we can discuss them so I can possibly stay away from some of this ludicrous shit. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been the top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


Hey everybody, this is Brett. I'm at the 2022 Auto Show, Chicago Auto Show, and just checking out this 2021 Ford Bronco Wild Track. This one has the 2.7 liter V6 turbocharged engine. It puts out 330 horsepower and 415 foot-pounds of torque. You can see it's got the metal bumpers on there, the LED headlamps, and running lights on there as well. This one is Area 51 for the color. It's kind of a bluish gray color. It has the anti-glare hood decal on the hood. The gloss black grille and the white Bronco lettering looks really good. You get the tow hooks in the front there. It comes with the painted beadlock simulated rims and Goodyear Territory MT tires. These are LT 315 70 R17s. I do like the step bars on this. I think they look really good. You get the Wild Track Sasquatch sticker or badge on the side there. Notice the gloss black mirrors. Now I don't know if this thing comes with these stickers from the factory. I don't think it does. I think they put those on for the show here today. Maybe they put them on there from the factory. Anyways, here's the original window sticker, so they don't have this one priced, but you can see all the options there. This one comes with a hard top, but it's not on here at the moment. It gets 17 miles per gallon on the highway, 17 city for an average of 17, and it's not rated for safety ratings yet. So I'm going to wait my turn to get inside, and we'll check that out in a second. So while we're waiting our turn, we'll check out the tail lamps. They are all LEDs. They look really good. I'm sure this does have the capless fuel fill, which is nice. Back storage area, you get an all-weather mat back here. I'm sure those seats do fold down for extra storage. The headrest down and see how those go. It's one of my first times ever sitting in a Bronco, seeing a Bronco, and I've got work at a Ford dealership, and they're part-time though. So USB, USB-C, 110 volt, 400 watt plug-in, and there are your mirror controls. Everything's nice and simple in the Bronco. Do you get the latch child safety system? We can hop inside here. And my initial thought is seats are pretty comfortable. You sit pretty upright. There's a cup holder right there. It's kind of got the gray and black leather combo with the blue stitching, and you can see that the roof is kind of wide open. It's pretty sweet, competing with the Wranglers. So in a second here, I'll get in the front seats. All right, my turn to get in the front seats. First thing I noticed, so it's already got some wear on it from just the auto show here. But anyways, power driver seat, and you get the Bronco embossed into the backrest. You get the handle here to get in. Let's see if we can turn any of this on.  So you get the Bronco logo on the steering wheel. It's all leather-wrapped. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Looks like it has lane departure warning cruise controls, audio controls on the left, auto headlamps, and everything's laid out real nice and easy.  That's pretty neat. And then you have the go over any terrain modes right here with your four-wheel drive modes low and high, and then too high and then for auto. So really cool. You have a handle here for when you're doing extreme off-roading in this vehicle, and it has the 8-sync 8-inch radio. You can see of your axle locks and disconnects right there. Stability control, and up here you get six auxiliary up-fit switches and map lights. So seats are really comfortable, by the way. And thanks for checking out the video today. And glad I was able to actually sit in one of these. It's kind of a zoo here right now. This is day two of the auto show here in Chicago. Thanks for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see at our YouTube challenge is youtube.com.au. In fact, in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to more auto show videos like this one in the upper right. A link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those, check us out. Thanks for checking out the video. And remember to like, subscribe, and share.


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I'll tell you what, Jake. Here's what we're going to talk about.  I didn't slap my face. I had to bring some of my old slides back from the dead, as I talked about. Like, a 2016 talk gave that recently, because it was explicitly requested. And some of my slides were broken. Oh, no. I had a sort of a thing in SVG that span around. Like a spinner. Like a spinner. And it was a cog spinning around, but it was spinning around. And now it was just sort of going for a wonder around the page. So like the origin of the rotation had changed? Origin of the rotation had changed. Why did we break the web? Yes. Well, in my case, yes. Yes, we did. It turns out I didn't register enough on the statistics to worry about. But I was relying on technically a bug in Chrome. So you are to blame? I kind of. I don't know. I don't know if I knew I was relying on a bug in Chrome at the time. But it's still my ignorance. I suppose. Fine. Fine. It's my fault. Fine. OK. And so if you've got an HTML element and you spin it around with a transform origin of, well, I guess, the default, which is 50. 50-50. It kind of spins around the. We should be completely at a 50% so that in the middle. By default, the transform origin is in the middle of the border box. I think it's the painted area, maybe. Is that a thing that exists? As like. Yeah, no. Yes, no. I would say border box. Border box. OK. But I'm not sure. Treat it as if you know the answer. I have to go and look that up. And whereas in SVG, the default transform origin, I think, is 0, 0. But this is where it starts getting weird. The transform origin sort of differs from. So if you do, it's 0, 0, but not to the element. It's to the SVG element. Ooh. Oh, I think, yes, now you say that. That might be true. But if you did transform origin 50%, 50%, Chrome would put it in the middle of the painted element. The individual SVG, individual thing, not the SVG view box. So if you wanted the cog to spin around the center, transform origin 50%, 50%, rotate it. Do the thing you'd expect. OK. And everything works. What if I do transform origin 0, 0? Oh, that would be the top left of the SVG. Yeah, it was a bit weird. Like, percent behaved differently to 0%. I don't know. OK, I mean, it's apparently nowhere to be known anyway anymore. So it could be that my memory is off there, because I'd say that is in the past. Chrome fixed itself. Thanks, Chrome, to behave like Firefox was behaving, which was according to the spec, like the transform origin is always the SVG. Top left the SVG element, the parent SVG element. So that makes me reinforce the whole notion that SVG elements have this coordinate system that you work on. And every element works relative to that coordinate system. Yes. OK. Exactly that. And the fix is this relatively new CSS property called transform box. And that takes a bit of sweet. Interesting. Transform box. Here we go. I'm going to do the rest of the episode in Mickey Mouse voice. No, I'm not. And the values it has is border box, fill box, and view box. So the idea is, like, view box. This is a property on a SVG. It's a CSS, so it's on all elements, including an SVG element. What do you call the things inside an SVG element? Are they SVG elements? Well, we call a paragraph an HTML element. But how do we assume between a SVG, the boundary towards an SVG thing and the things that you can use inside SVG? Let's go for SVG root or HTML root. So we have SVG elements that are inside an SVG root. Yeah, let's do that. OK, OK, OK. Yeah, so the default for SVG is view box, which is essentially the parent view, SVG view, whereas the default for HTML is, well, I thought it was fill box, but now you've got me thinking. One of the two. It's either border box or fill box. I think that fill box is a thing. So you might very well be right. I didn't know that we ever had the notion of the region that is painted as something that you can work on. Yeah, but I am thinking it's border box now, because I think it might be the same as what's created by a bounding client wreck. Do we have fill box somewhere else? I think. So we do have it for, I think, pointer events, I think, pointer events in SVG. So basically, fill box could differ from the border box with, like, masks. Things escaping, outside, or things. So I think you're right, actually. I think HTML probably uses border box, because so pointer events in SVG, if you have a hover, you can have the hover be to the painted area. So if there's a hole in the middle. The pointer makes sense because you want to make it to the visual representation of the element, right? Well, sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. So this was a huge problem in Flash in the olden days. Yeah, it tails from my days as a Flash developer. A lot of people would make this mistake where they would have a button, and the thing they defined as a button, would be the button text. And that meant the hover area was the tent. Yeah, and if it was a really thin font, it was really difficult to get on. I remember those buggy Flash, where you had like. So with pointer events in SVG, you can define it as being the border box, like essentially the layout box or the painted area. So that's just a quick question. Would outline be part of the fill box? Ooh, probably not, because it's outside the border box. Oh, it'll be in the fill box. Yeah, so all that will be part of the fill box. Yeah. Interesting. I think, yeah, maybe, I think. I'm just going to give up. But yeah, so is this. So now you have control over how this works. Yes. So if you want to. But Chrome changed its default, which broke the thing. Yes, but now that supported, you know, transform box is supported in Safari, in Firefox, and in Chrome. Not Edge, unfortunately. Yeah. So if you want to spin around the center of something. So I used to always, my hack was to use transforms to get the thing back into 0, 0, do the rotation, and then do the reverse, which is a pain. Someone on Twitter came up with some much better way, the Fabian Gundel. Because you can have SVG in SVG. And it's on view box then. Yeah, so you can basically just do a relative coordinate system. So you do a relative coordinate system, rotate the thing inside, and then the extra transforms on the thing outside. Problem solved. There's all fixed. I like that. Yeah, I mean, that's probably not even that bad of a solution. It looks a bit icky in the markup, I guess. But it really solves the problem. Yeah, well, that's really solved. Some of them just don't get the hint. So I'm not a small talker. I hate it. Both in Uber or on the massage shop, I just go like, hmm. Yeah, get the hint. I don't want to talk to you. Oh, yeah, just drive. Most slave. Most of them do. Most of them are like, come on. Or barbershop. Also, very talker from like, hmm.


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