All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Syria.

We had the other day, we had Israeli strikes in Syria.

Israel, the Israeli military is saying that they were hitting Al-Jolani, as well as other groups.

They were hitting their positions. Actually, they hit in Damas, as well as other groups, they were hitting their positions.

Actually, they hit in Damascus as well, but they were also striking in an area where there is

fighting with the Druze community, and the Israeli statements were basically saying that they're

trying to protect the Druze community.

This is coming from the Israeli military.

Al Jolani, he has been very, very friendly towards, I would say, very conciliatory towards Israel.

Of course, Al Jolani is also backed by Turkey as well in Erdogan.

And that's the situation in Syria. It's strange from the standpoint that you have an Al Jalani government,

an unelected Al Jolani government backed backed by Turkey, a Turkish Edouan puppet,

but also a government that has been very, very cozy to Israel as well, now being attacked

by Israel because of what is happening with the Druze community.

In the past, Al-Jalani went after the Christians, the Alawites, and the Druze as well.

He was terrorizing them and massacring a lot of these communities.

But it's the Drews community that Israel appears to be focused on according to

them on protecting that community. But it's an interesting dynamic that's happening in Syria.

A lot of smoke and mirrors is how I'm kind of looking at it and a lot of misdirection. But what

are your thoughts?

Well, I think we come back to what we were saying after Assad's fall, which is that Syria,

as a state, to all intents and purposes, collapsed and that what is gradually happening

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