Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Itas, episode 1,307 for Monday, the 1st of December

2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Brother Stelios.

Hello, everyone.

Brother Firas.

Hello.

Good afternoon.

And it is the 1st of December, so we are now fully in the Christmas period.

Ladies and gentlemen, Merry Christmas.

Feel free to shout it from the rooftops, far and wide, get the spirit going. And with that,

I also just want to say, at 3 o'clock, we've got Firas's Realpolitik. What are you talking about

today, Firas? Oh, fun topics. We're trying out a new format, actually, which is to do

several things together. So we're doing Hezbollah, Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine, 10, 15 minutes on each of them,

and questions from the audience. And yeah, we'll see how it goes. All right, so be there for that.

And also, just to say, as regards to what we're going to be talking about today, of course,

we are basically going to try out a new format.

So for the foreseeable future, rather than when you tune in for the podcasting, you get three

different segments about three different things.

What we're going to do is we're going to have a broader, deeper discussion of one particular topic.

And we think that you'll benefit from this by having a richer analysis where we have more time.

We're not thinking about the clock and other people's segments.

We're just able to have a really in-depth discussion.

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