All right, we are live with Alexander McCurice in London and joining us once again on the Duran,

the one and only the great Robert Barnes. Robert, how are you doing?

And where can people follow your work?

Yeah, for all the law and politics, that's at Viva Barneslaw.com for prediction markets involving elections and more,

sporting events, you name it. That's at sportspicks.com. Otherwise on X at Barnes underscore law.

And it's been, well, the one thing you cannot say about the Trump administration, it's never boring.

It may end up a nuclear war, but at least it won't be boring.

True, very, very true.

So let's get into all of the foreign policy stuff that is going on with the Trump administration.

A quick shout out and hello to everyone that is watching us on all the

various platforms and also a shout out and hello to our awesome moderators. We have a lot of ground to

cover. So Alexander Robert, let's jump right into it. We do. We have a huge amount of ground to cover

because this winter has been one of the most astonishing winters in foreign policy that I have seen,

well, ever, frankly. And, you know, my memory goes back to Lyndon Johnson's time. So that tells you

something. So frantic activity, Venezuela, the abduction of Maduro, the case against him in New York, which I would actually

quite like Robert's views about that when we eventually get to it, but there's more important

things perhaps to discuss the politics, the extraordinary change in policy. We've had more rumblings

about a potential attack on Iran. This is the president

who won the election saying that he was going to be the president of peace, who was going

to avoid intervention, who made a few speech a few months ago in Saudi Arabia criticizing

the neocons, talking about how neocon foreign policies

were completely wrong and utterly misguided.

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