All right. So this is like the 14th or 15th time that we have attempted to go live today.

I'm not entirely sure that it's working.

I hope that it is.

We're going to just see in a second.

Yeah, unbelievably, shockingly, it actually is working.

I'm going to be checking to make sure that the audio is going to actually out of farm.

So we had to struggle a little bit today to get a set up.

As you undoubtedly know, the United States has started a brand new war, this time one that it is launching jointly with Israel against Iran.

Unlike the last joint U.S. Israeli attack on Iran last June, which in terms of the United States's direct military involvement lasted only one night, was directed at three specific nuclear facilities that Donald Trump, the next day, promised had been, quote, completely and totally obliterated. This war is far broader and more ambitious

in scope, in duration, and in ambition. And there's a lot to talk about here. I think it's worth going

as in depth as possible. It's hard to imagine anything more consequential, more important that requires

serious analysis than a brand new war at the heart of the Middle East against the country

that's population is close to 100 million, so basically roughly four times the population

that Iraq had when the United States so destructively and disastrously intervened in that

country invaded and attempted to change the regime there back in 2003, the potential for

destruction, for damage, for instability is infinitely greater here, which is saying a lot.

I think it's worth remembering that even Tony Blair, one of the world leaders most responsible for the attack on Iraq, said that one of the

unanticipated outcomes was that the power vacuum that was created by the removal of Saddam Hussein

regime by the U.S. and the UK and the coalition of the willing is what led to the emergence

of ISIS, which then necessitated its own multiple year, multi-front wars with huge numbers of

people killed as well. So oftentimes the consequences of these wars cannot be anticipated,

even if the leaders who start them think they're doing so in a way that

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