All right, we're live from Gray Zone headquarters in Washington, D.C. and from Madrid, where

Michael Tracy is reporting live from the Permanent War Planning Conference of the North

Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is gathered to talk about escalating war,

the proxy war in Ukraine, and to escalate in the important North Atlantic region of the South

China Sea.

We also have Aaron Mate, the most prolific spreader of Syria disinformation on the planet, according

to the Institute for

Strategic Dialogue. Welcome, fellows. Sorry for being late, everyone. For us, this is pretty good.

We're only two minutes late. That's pretty good for us. Yeah, that's pretty good. We're also on Rockston.

I've established a new Grey zone bureau here in the grid.

Michael's our gray zone substack correspondent.

Everyone at the gray zone except me has a substack.

So apparently like anyone around the gray zone is just moonlighting for us now.

But we were just talking about Zelensky's shirt.

I'm wearing my Zelensky shirt right now

in case you couldn't tell. Ann Applebaum, the neocon, Washington Post correspondent, was

keynoting a gathering of international fact checkers, I think in Oslo, while Michael was in Madrid,

and she, in her address address pointed to Zelensky's

green muscle shirt, his ubiquitous green muscle shirt as a sign of his honesty and decency.

So I thought that in case anyone was prone to not taking me seriously or not believing me

or considering me a proliferator of disinformation at an

Aaron Mate level that I would wear this shirt.

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