All right, Alexander, let's talk about the developments in the Middle East. And we are all

waiting to see when and if there is going to be a retaliation from the Biden White House.

And what that retaliation is going to look like. And what are the what is the purpose or the goals of this retaliation.

We have had some reports from the media in the United States saying that Biden wants to

avoid a wider war, but that this retaliation is going to be a long retaliation a couple of weeks and it's going to be

multifaceted. It's not only going to target military installations, it's going to be a cyber

attacks, and I imagine sanctions and economic attacks as well. So what are your thoughts on,

and I guess we're waiting to see if there's going to, if something's going to happen.

I imagine something is going to happen.

I mean, that's pretty much a given at this point.

But I guess we're waiting to see when and if and what it's going to be.

And what's going to be the response from Iran as well.

Well, indeed, what this whole business shows, because I mean, you remember this attack on this base, the American base, and we now know it was on Tower 22, which is just located over the border in Jordan, but is clearly connected in some way to the Altamf base

that the United States illegally has in Syria. But anyway, that attack took place several days

ago. We have huge numbers of American military assets across the Middle East.

We've got an aircraft carrier, the Dwight D. Eisenhower. We have an Ohio-class nuclear submarine

with something like 100-plus Tomahawk cruise missiles. And we've got, you know, strategic assets of every conceivable

kind. And, you know, we've been waiting for days. And so far none of these assets have been used.

And there's talk about options being put to the president. The president himself has come forward and said that

he's decided on these options. But again, there's been no actual, there's been no action so far.

Now that tells me a number of things. Firstly, that there has been no consensus or agreement in Washington

for some time about what to do in the event that there was a strike on an American base that

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