Hi everyone, I'm joined today by Alexander Mercuris and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson,

who, among other roles, Colonel Wilkerson was the chief of staff under US Secretary of State,

Colin Powell during the invasion of Iraq, which I believe at least intensified some of the concern he had about the US wars, which have exhausted the US from within, caused growing concerns among his allies, and also incentivized a collective balancing by US address series, and even created some address series, I guess. I'm not sure if I framed that correctly, Colonel, or...

That's fairly accurate.

Well, I noticed the other day that someone finally actually,

don't remember who it was, but they actually went to OFAC as I did,

and discovered that we do indeed have one-third of the world plus under sanctions of some sort.

They actually published it.

Well, yeah, so we really wanted to discuss with you today how the situation in terms of wars especially is going from about to wars.

And I thought that perhaps we could start a discussion today with Israel before moving in and

the wider Middle East because Israel, well, at least from my perspective, seems to be in very,

very deep trouble. Not only is its military

becoming exhausted and politically divided domestically, but it's stuck in the Gaza war. Another front

obviously has been opened against Hezbollah and Lebanon, which is also according to disaster.

Now, the continued attacks on Iran, at least two of them now, has resulted in pending retaliation.

So it seems as if it's becoming very difficult to avoid a larger war in the Middle East.

And as, yeah, not just Israel, but with the West, when everyone in a whole, it appears that the solution is always to keep on digging.

And there's no real way out of this, it seems to me,

besides ending the genocide and agree to political settlement with the Palestinians.

Alternatively, one can escalate and pull in the Americans.

And it seems that the predictable choice is the latter in which Israel is pulling in America,

and America seems, at least seemingly, ready to join the fight, which I would assume

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