All right, Alexander, we are here with John Meersheimer, and we will be discussing what is happening with Iran, with the war in Iran.

And before we get started, and I pass it off to you, Alexander, and to Professor Meersheimer, I just want to direct all our viewers to please follow Professor Meersheimer at his substack.

I have the link in the description box down below, and I will also have his substack as a pinned comment as well.

So definitely highly recommend Professor John Meershheimer's substack.

And let's get started with all the news, because there's a lot to unpack.

So Alexander, Professor Meersheimer, the floor is. is a lot to unpack. So, Alexander, Professor Meerschimer,

the floor is. Well, there certainly is. And today our guest absolutely requires no introduction.

I could say definitely that pretty much everybody who watches us knows Professor Mearsheimer.

And all I will say is, I have learned a huge amount from him. There are several books of his there in that large number of books that you see.

And I have learned much from him over the years.

And there's nobody better to discuss the situation that we find ourselves in today in this conflict

with in Iran and in discussing U.S. policy. So here we are, John, we are in this conflict. We've had

extraordinary events over the last couple of weeks. We've had an attack on the 28th of February. We've had extraordinary events over the last couple of weeks. We've had an attack on the 28th of February.

We've had systematic attempts to assassinate Iranian leaders,

which have been successful in killing large numbers of Iranian leaders.

But we see no sign at the moment of an end to the war.

Oil prices are currently at around $110 a barrel. I saw a report that in two weeks time,

it's expected that they will rise further and settle at about

$150 a barrel. There's concerns about the global economy. I was reading reports about

the fact that there are now stresses in the shadow banking system, with some banks in the shadow banking system, which is something,

an entity I don't fully understand myself, but apparently they're restricting withdrawals

by their customers, which sounds somewhat disturbing. And, well, here we are in a war.

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