All right, Alexander, we are here today with Cynthia Chung, first time on the Duran, and we are

very happy to have Cynthia with her. We follow her work on Substack. Cynthia, welcome to the Duran.

Thank you for joining us. And where can people follow your work? I mentioned Substack.

Yeah, it's through a glass darkly, which is a Cynthiachung.substack.com.

I have that as a link in the description box down below, and I will also add it as a pinned comment.

We highly recommend everyone start following Cynthia's substack, an incredible substack.

Alexander, Cynthia, let's talk about everything that is happening in the world, maybe put

some focus on the conflict in the Middle East and see where it goes.

Indeed, let's absolutely do that.

And we are privileged to talk with Cynthia Chung about these things today because events in the Middle East are taking

an increasingly civilizational and cultural quality if you listen to some of the rhetoric

that's now coming out now. And well, the President of the United States has been making a whole succession of,

I found them extremely alarming and worrying statements on social media. And he's now followed up

with just another one, a short time ago, in which he spoke about events leading to the destruction,

the death of Iran's civilization. And he actually spoke about that, and he discussed it in

a social post. And this, I have to say, this kind of language appalls me.

And it is, by the way, the kind of language which can absolutely be used.

And I say this without any qualification, any potential war crimes prosecution, were one ever brought, however unlikely

that might seem.

But Cynthia has been writing about precisely these kind of civilizational issues for a very,

very long time and about the extremely dark turn that we have been taking in the West recently,

which perhaps has brought us to this rhetoric and to these sort of actions.

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