Hi everyone, Glenn Dyson here, and I'm joined today by Alexander Merkiris and John Meersheimer.

And as predicted, escalations continue in both the Middle East and Ukraine,

and also as predicted Israel and Hezbollah has begun publing each other now with missiles and drones.

And it appears they might have been taking a step back now

at the brink of a wider regional war. However, I suspect this might be temporary. However, this is

something, of course, I would like to get your opinion on. And meanwhile, in Ukraine, the escalation

has also predictably continued, as it seems to keep moving towards a direct

Russia-NATO war, at least that's how I see it.

Less predictable, however, was this type of escalation, as nobody, I think, predicted Ukraine

with seemingly the support of NATO, would invade Russia, that is the Kursk region.

So I thought that perhaps we should start with the Ukraine war, because, yeah, key reason

for why no one predicted the invasion of Kursk is that, well, at least to me, it does make much

sense, I guess.

And as we saw from Western Ukrainian and Russian observers, they all seem to recognize it made no sense.

But again, it boosted morale among the Ukrainians, and it allegedly humiliated Putin as, well, Western media keeps telling us, and they seem to be very excited about.

So suddenly overnight, the narrative seemed to be changed,

and this was suddenly a great success.

And, yeah, Putin was on his back foot.

Anyways, I thought this is a good topic to begin with.

How would you see the issue of the Kursk invasion?

Is this a massive mistake or a great success?

How should we read the situation?

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