Welcome to today's discussion. My name is Glenn Dyson and with me is Alexander Mercuris and Professor John Mersheimer.

Welcome to both of you.

Glad to be here.

So the main topic which I want to discuss today is whether or not the US or well, losing its dominance and also control over

these conflicts because, well, I guess in Gaza, it's quite obvious the conflict has spiraled

out of control, as we have predicted. Now, fighting obviously spread to Yemen and Lebanon. We see

US troops in Syria and Iraq being under constant

attack. And of course, the US now seems to contemplate attacking Iran, which would certainly

spark a massive regional war that nobody wants. Yet, even though nobody wants it, again,

there seems to be a lack of control as this is still the only escalation is still the only option seemingly considered.

And I think we're seeing the same in Ukraine.

With every failure and setback, NATO's response seems to be to escalate

in terms of while bridging new red lines.

So we see supplies of more powerful, long-range weapons, attacks inside Russian territory.

Interestingly, Biden says that while supplying Ukraine with weapons does not make NATO responsible,

but at the same time, Biden also says that Iran supplying its allies with weapons does make Iran responsible.

So the rules of the game are somewhat obscure.

But, again, recently, we see NATO weapons being used to shoot down a Russian transportation plane within Russia,

carrying Ukrainian POWs.

And still, from Sweden to UK, we see governments are now asking their population to prepare for war with Russia,

even though this would likely end in a nuclear exchange.

So we see, yet again, escalation being the only option considered.

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