Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that has been insanely busy this week.

This is my fourth episode since Monday and everything is so insane that we're drinking out of this lunatic fire hose and are simply not able to address the political blitz by the Trump administration in full detail.

But an unstable West Asia security situation has global ramifications,

and this talk about voluntary mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza is unworkable, silly,

and as detached from reality as anything else the United States has done in the Levant over the past 20 years.

Why is this scheme doomed to fail?

Well, we're going to do a whole geopolitical and economic roundup from, quote, the periphery to the metropole,

which refers to the relationship between a marginalized or outlying region,

the periphery, you know, i.e. Palestine, Syria, and a dominant central power or city, the

metropole, often used in the context of colonialism, where a colonized territory is considered

the periphery in relation to the colonizing country,

which is the metropole. So all is to say is the situation is collapsing both in the periphery

and the metropole here in the United States. America definitely has its own problems

that make this untenable, this Gaza's and Middle East strategy untenable,

which we're going to get into. And to that end, I am joined by regular contributor,

Alina Xenophantos, international law and economic globalization specialist and geopolitical

analysts coming to us from London. Thanks as always for coming on. Thanks for having me. It's

going to be an interesting one today. A lot to get through. And I just wanted to address

real quick that we are being heavily shadow banned, at least on YouTube. We've gone from like

50K view average on YouTube to like

10K since Trump took office and all the media platforms have been suppressing political

content. Well, not right wing political content, just everything else. Interestingly,

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