All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening with Israel and Iran.

And maybe we can start things off with that Financial Times article, which talks about

a calibrated response from Iran and hints at some sort of backchannel diplomacy taking place,

that took place because the article was written about a day before Iran launched their drone

and missile strikes at Israel. The backchannel diplomacy that took place between the United States and Iran via

Oman.

That is what the Financial Times article was hinting at.

And you talked about this in your video update.

I saw your video update and then I read the article and I built much of my analysis

based on that video update and that article from the Financial Times because that article from

the Financial Times almost felt like it scripted out the entire, all the entire events that then unfolded with regards to Iran and Israel.

Anyway, so let's get into it.

What are, what are your thoughts?

It's one of the most extraordinary articles I have ever read in the media because it written on the eve of an Iranian missile strike on Israel, it basically set out

in advance pretty much everything that we've seen since. I mean, you're quite right when you say

hint, because of course he didn't exactly prophesied and say that this would happen. But it basically,

if you read it carefully, it made it fairly clear that this is what was likely to happen.

Now, I think, you know, we need to, we need to understand a number of things. The first thing is

that the United States does not want a general war in the Middle East. When I say the United States, I have to be very careful because there are some people in the United States does not want a general war in the Middle East. When I say the United States,

I have to be very careful because there are some people in the United States and there's some

people, no doubt, within the administration, who probably do want a general war in the Middle

East, a war between the United States and Iran, alongside Israel, you know, all the massive crisis fighting, missiles going

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