All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the Middle East.

And over the weekend, we got the strikes against Iran-aligned militia in Syria and Iraq.

The other day, we also had strikes from the U.S. and the U.K. into Yemen. And my question to you is, what is the

purpose? What is the end goal of all of this military activity from the United States and from the

UK as well? What are they working towards with these strikes? Well, if you're, if you're talking to me

about what is their own gold in the Middle East, I don't think they have a clear idea themselves.

But if you're talking to me what the purpose of these strikes is, I think it's giving a little

red meat to the neocon wolf to keep them, to keep the neocon

wolf from snapping further at their heels in an election year, despite the fact that what the

neocon wolf really wants is a strike on Iran. And they're scared of doing that and the Pentagon is telling them don't do it.

So I don't think it has any real purpose in terms of a sort of diplomacy or policy in the

Middle East. It's essentially yet another example of, you know, a media

operation using, as I said, bombs and missiles, a very expensive media operation, expensive in

terms of money, expensive in terms of equipment, expensive in terms of lives,

though so far we're not getting reports of huge numbers of men being killed.

But anyway, that's what they seem to be doing.

And the important thing is, for the moment, they are not attacking Iran. They're saying this is all to deter Iran,

but of course by not attacking Iran, what they're showing to Iran is that they're scared of

Iran. So it's clear that to the extent that there is deterrence at the moment, it's in the opposite direction.

It is Iran that is deterring them rather than Iran being deterred by them.

Is that making the case to – is that making the neocon case to go after Iran?

I mean, that is the neocon case, isn't it?

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