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

We are getting some pretty scary rhetoric from the Biden White House from Anthony Blinken,

specifically when he was speaking at the Aspen Institute events, where he said that Iran's going to get a nuclear weapon in two weeks, one to two weeks,

just kind of threw it out there.

And yeah, I was kind of surprised to hear that from Blinken.

And then, of course, we have the escalation between Israel and Yemen.

Yemen, they sent a drone into Tel Aviv.

Israel launched air strikes into Yemen,

and now we are getting reports saying that Yemen is planning a retaliation to the Israeli

retaliation.

So continuing escalation in the Middle East, it makes you wonder, what was all of the diplomacy, the eight months of

diplomacy from Blinken and Sullivan? What was it all for if we continue to head towards some sort

of big conflict in the Middle East? Well, it was for nothing, because it has achieved absolutely nothing. It is not won over countries

to the side of the United States, all of the major countries in the Middle East, including

Israel, by the way, are utterly exasperated with the current government of the United States.

It has not achieved peace in Gaza because there is still fighting going on in Gaza.

Every couple of days, the administration, sometimes Biden himself come out with statements

that a ceasefire is almost about to be agreed, the framework of a ceasefire has been agreed,

and all that remains is a little bit more discussion, a few more negotiations, and it never is

agreed, so the fighting in Gaza is continuing. There is still a crisis on Israel's northern border, Hezbollah and Israel

continue to exchange fire, missiles and rockets. There's still not been an Israeli offensive

into Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah. But my impression is that that's only because the Israeli military itself

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