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We have Alexander Mercuris with us today.

Alexander, how are you doing?

I'm very, very pleased and extremely excited to have Tarek, Cyril Amar, with us today on the Duran.

Just to say, I read pretty much everything that, any time I see that he's

written something, I always read it. And I've learned an awful lot from Tariq. I must, I should

just say that before we proceed further with this program. Yes, and everyone that has been

watching the Duran over the, over the years, they have been waiting for Tariq to join us, and everyone that has been watching the Duran over the years, they have been waiting for

Tarik to join us, and we're very, very happy that we have you, that we have you with us.

Tarik, I have your website information in the description box down below.

I will add, as a pinned comment, Tarik's Twitter and substack as well. We recommend that everyone

follow Tariq and read all of the amazing analysis and information that he puts out there.

Alexander follows Tariq, so we highly recommend Tariq. And before we get started to talk about some of the geopolitical

realities in the world today, let me just say a quick hello to everyone that is watching us on

Odyssey, on Rockfin, Rumble, YouTube, the durand. Dot locals.com and a big thank you to our

great moderators.

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Thank you to our moderators.

And Tarik, Alexander, a lot of news in the world today. Let's talk about it.

Indeed. And can I also say if your position from London, which I am, an awful lot of anger today, to a degree that I have rarely seen huge amount of anger about the way things are turning out,

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