Hi everyone and welcome. I am joined today by Alexander Mercuris and Max Blumenthal, the editor of chief at the Grey Zone,

which is an excellent publication that I possibly can't recommend more for our listeners.

So for anyone who's not familiar with this, I would definitely go visit the Grey Zone right away.

Max is great to see again.

Alexander, likewise. It's an honor. So can I just also quickly say people should certainly read the grey zone. It's a place I go to every day. And I should also say you can also find Max on YouTube,

Max Blumenthal on YouTube, and definitely go and watch and listen to the many, many things

he says there on his channel and elsewhere too.

Yeah, thanks. Our YouTube channel is just simply the Grey Zone, Gray with an A.

And we learn a lot from the Duran.

So it's a real honor to be here.

Thank you. So I thought perhaps it feels all the headlines these days are about Trump.

I hate to also jump into this trap. But I guess this is also how he conducts his policies,

make a big, if not a mess, make a big bluster in order to create some space for himself

to reshape situation, get a new deal.

This can be destructive, but also at times he appears to get places with it. So it is interesting. And yeah, we're just speaking earlier on. And it's kind of

interesting that in Europe, he seems to, that's where you see the real revolutionary changes as he's now reaching out to what's in Europe, possibly the most hated country, which is Russia, and is trying to come to a great power, understanding, and indeed ending the war in Ukraine, which the Europeans seem all too eager to continue.

Meanwhile, we've seen the Americas, especially in Venezuela,

he appears to be going much harder and tightening sanctions

and being more hawkish than even Biden.

And now in the Middle East, it's still unclear.

He seems to be pursuing much of the same as Biden.

Although it has to be said, this can be difficult to assess, again, distinguish between

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