all the NATO cage voted predominantly against the ceasefire.

That's, I mean, 14 countries of all the countries in the world, that's a very small number,

but they're very influential countries that said no to the generally very reasonable call for a ceasefire and the killing.

Let's force a dialogue to happen, get the belligerence to the same,

into the same room to have a conversation, release hostages. That's a big part of it. Release the

hostages, right? You can get all the hostages released if you just have the ceasefire. Now, Israel,

the USA, Canada, a variety of Western European nations that are under the umbrella of NATO.

And it's a very, very heavy iron umbrella that you can't, you're not really allowed to leave.

And the Five Eyes voted against.

46 nations abstained.

The rest of the world pretty much said, yeah, we should be doing this.

But despite that,

there's this weird fanatical fervor within the leadership of the United States, which seems to

be doubling down on this idea that whatever Israel does has to be supported. And there's this

convergence of people on the left, on the right, who are in opposition on every point that comes up, every single issue, abortion or whatever,

they're in total diametric opposition. But on this issue, we see a disturbing convergence.

It's like Ukraine, right? The Republicans and then Democrats could only agree on one thing, which is war.

This has some parallels also where Russia was showing a willingness to go to the negotiating table, to do ceasefire, to talk, diplomacy, you know, all those things that supposedly democratic countries

believe in so much. And yet there was such a lack of willingness from the NATO group to do that

with the Ukraine conflict, even though they're losing. You would think if you're a loser,

you'd want to go to the

negotiating table, get the best deal you could get. And yet we're in the same boat here with the,

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