All right, Alexander, let's talk about what's happening in the Middle East with the war,

with Israel, Hamas, and Gaza, and the delayed ground operation.

Joe Biden, I think, arrived in Israel today, maybe like a couple of hours ago.

What's going on?

Putin spoke with an ad-in-Yahu as well, and we also had a UN resolution from Russia,

which was rejected, as expected.

So what's going on?

Intense diplomatic activity from one side.

Russians, the Chinese are now becoming very active in their diplomacy too.

Iran always, also.

And Biden goes to Israel. Not clear what he's coming to do there Blinken is having what

looks to be an increasingly disastrous trip he went to Jordan and then he went to

Egypt and there's now video circulating in which you see him being absolutely

taken to pieces by Al SSisi, who is the Egyptian president.

And then he went to Riyadh and MBS kept him waiting for a whole night before he actually condescended to meet with him.

So anyway, so military buildup, a huge military buildup now,

by the United States, two aircraft carrier groups, large numbers of aircraft, fighter jets and

ground attack aircraft being just deployed to the Middle East by the United States.

F-35 is being sent there.

Ground troops also being sent there.

A lot of people are now saying this build-up by the United States is increasingly looking

less like a deterrence mission and more like an operating, you know, setting up the forces necessary to attack someone.

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