All right, Alexander, let's talk about the escalation in the Middle East and a possible conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which will obviously mean pulling in Lebanon into this conflict, possibly Iran and maybe even the United States.

We actually talked about this in a video we put up a few days ago where we said that given the political situation in the United States. We actually talked about this in a video we put up a few days ago

where we said that given the political situation in the United States and the uncertainty and

instability in the United States, Netanyahu visiting the U.S., that there might be some sort

of escalation in the Middle East. And sure enough, that is what we are getting.

So what are your thoughts on what's happening in the Middle East?

All of this escalation, by the way, is from the missile that hit a football pitch.

In the Golden Heights, now Israeli officials claim this was an Iranian missile.

Hezbollah has denied this missile strike, and they are saying, and people that are aligned with Hezbollah Iran, they are saying that this looks like it was a missile from the iron dome that landed on this football pitch.

Kind of like what we see in Ukraine happening where air defense missiles, they're fired in order to take out a missile,

but they sometimes malfunction or sometimes drop on apartment buildings or in this case on a football pitch anyway that's that's what's

that's what's gotten us to this point of escalation uh your thoughts well the first thing to say

i'm not going to get drawn into you know exactly what happened in this football pitch uh it was a

tragedy apparently young people children were killed young you know minors were killed which is

always a terrible thing but does it really merit the kind of incredibly dangerous

escalation that we're seeing well I would I would say no I would say this is a

disproportionate response I would say that the best way to protect civilians in Israel is to try to work towards a

ceasefire, but this is not at all what Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government are seeking.

We discussed, as you correctly said, in that video that we did a few days ago, around the time

of Netanyahu's visit to Washington and his speech around the time of Netanyahu's visit to Washington

and his speech to Congress, that Netanyahu basically has no restraints on him now.

The American restraints, such as they were, have now fallen away because of the chaos in

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