36 hours ago in CET, we learned that the most important issue regarding foreign affairs in France, is the issue of Ukraine, according to Maud Gatel, one of France’s 577 députés of the National Assembly.

Mme. Gatel is also a member of the committee on Foreign Affairs and is pen pals with Portugal, Burundi, Rwanda and, wait for it The Ukraine girls from the old Soviet Block, that’s a Lennon/McCartney reference if you are new to this written exercise, but what really knocked me down, was her quick pivot to immigration and more specifically what is happening right now in places like that “old West Texas town of El Paso,” and more specifically, to the Venezuelans who are being exported by the Nicolas Maduro’s Television speeches.

Anyhow, more on that after the coldest night of this winter season in CET. In Hilo, Hawaii, it’s just a quarter after high-noon.