All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the Middle East.

It looks like we are drifting towards war.

And we had the ballistic missile, apparently, allegedly ballistic missile attack on the U.S. airbase in Iraq.

And I imagine the neocons are pushing for retaliation from the United States

against Iran, who they claim is behind these missiles hitting this U.S. airbase in Iraq.

And we still have the situation with the Houthis where we have gotten reports, I believe,

from the New York Times as well as the Washington Post, claiming that the Biden White House,

they are working on plans to deal with the issue of Yemen from a long-term perspective.

They're building long-term plans in dealing with Yemen. So we're heading

towards what could be a very wide, very long in the catastrophic war in the Middle East.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Can I just before we begin on the really serious issue, which is the attack on the American base, which is extremely, extremely worrying.

I just mentioned how the whole policy in Yemen is illogical to the point of absurdity. The Americans now routinely launching missile and bomb strikes

against the Houthis. The Houthis continue to attack commercial shipping in the Red Sea,

unless that commercial shipping is Chinese or Russian, which they let go through. And as I

understand it, there are now fewer civilian ships

passing through the Red Sea than the were when the Americans first started launching their

missile strikes on Yemen. It's actually scared ship owners away. So if it was intended to facilitate trade through the Red Sea, it has done the

diametric opposite. Then we get Joe Biden asked the question, you know, is this going to stop

the Houthis from doing what they're doing, these missile strikes? And he says, no, it's not.

But then he goes on to say that, you know, they're going to go on hitting the Houthis anyway.

No explanation of that.

I mean, the logic of this has baffled everyone.

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