And there's a parallel event, right, that's happening right now, another state in the region that is being recognized as like a legitimate member of the international community.

And that is, of course, Syria.

And you can know that because, and I'm, this is an event description from something called the Concordia Summit called a conversation with his excellency, Ahmed al-Shara,

previously known as Jolani, president of the Syrian Arab Republic.

And let me just see, I haven't read this yet, representing the first Syrian presidential

address since 67, this unprecedented fireside discussion between Ahmed al-Shara and a guy called

David Petraeus.

Yeah, weirdly, if you go back a bit in the archives, you can find in the rewards for

justice program.

They used to offer $10 million for David Petraeus, dead or alive.

Yeah, no.

I don't know if you saw there was this interview with Tom Barrack, the, like, U.S. Special Envoy,

where he kind of laid out the closest things you're going to get to a kind of Trumpist

vision of Middle East policy, which is, uh, it's, um, you know, homo homony lupus, right?

Like the, uh, it's war of all against all. Uh, it's, it's always a zero-sum game. Uh, alliances are only ever exploitative.

And that's real politic. And then very, very amusingly, he said that Arabs don't have a word for submission,

and therefore it would only ever be war forever.

And so, yeah, I guess somewhere in the midst of that kind of real politic,

you get to see beautiful moments of healing,

like David Petraeus getting on stage and saying, Salam al-aikum, Saeed Raiz, to the new president of Syria. A guy he locked

up in Iraq when he was working, when he was like fighting for al-Qaeda. Yeah, this is like,

look, Trump, we have no idea how right Trump was when he said,

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