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

It looks like we are moving closer to a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

There were missiles preemptive.

The reports are that Israel launched a preemptive strike against targets in Lebanon, Hezbollah,

targets infrastructure in Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by launching

missile strikes on targets, military targets, and infrastructure in Israel. And this has taken us to the

point where we could be getting a war between Israel and Hezbollah, and of course, that could

widen out to a conflict between Israel and Iran. Where are we with this latest escalation?

Well, I think the key thing to take away from this is the last one that you've just made.

We are, this is a major step, a further major step towards an all-out regional war.

Now, we're not there yet because both sides, especially in this instance, Hezbollah,

are exercising some level of restraint and, you know know it hasn't fully broken out yet but we are very

very much closer than we were now let me just make a quick point about these missile and

airstrikes neither side in my opinion is telling the truth about what exactly happened.

So if we take the Israeli side first, they say that they carried out a preemptive air strike

against Hezbollah missile bases.

A hundred Israeli aircraft were used. Now that I do believe, by the way, that was a massive

air strike, huge air strike by Israel. They're claiming that they've destroyed large numbers of

Hezbollah's missile infrastructure, missile bases, missile positions, all of that sort of thing,

then Hezbollah supposedly carried out its retaliatory strike, which had been disorganized by the Israeli attack.

It was ineffectual. The Hezbollah failed to do hit a single important target

inside Israel. The only damage that was done was when debris fell from a Israeli missile that

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