All right, we are live with Alexander Mercuris in London.

And once again, on the Duran, we are very happy to have with us.

The one and only, Aaron, how are you doing today?

I'm great Alex and Alexander. It's great to join you. I'm a daily watcher of the Durand.

So what a wonderful thrill for me to be a part of it, a part of a stream for a day. So thank you for

having me. Thank you for joining us. And we are looking forward to this show. Before we get

started, Aaron, where is the best place for people to follow your work?

Thegrayzone.com. I also have a substack, Aaron Mattea.net, and a podcast I co-host with Katie

Helper, Useful Idiots, Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Great show yesterday on Useful Idiots.

Fantastic show. I will have all those links in the description box down below

as well as a pinned comment when the live stream is over before we get started uh alexander

and aaron let's just say a quick hello to everyone that is watching us on locals on odyssey on

rock fin rumble youtube and a big shout out to our amazing, awesome moderators.

Thank you to our moderators.

Let's get going, Alexander, Aaron.

We got a lot of geopolitics to get to.

So, gentlemen, the floor is yours.

Well, absolutely, and nobody better to discuss it with than Aaron.

I should say that I first got to know Aaron.

I mean, to learn about Aaron and to appreciate his work during the Russia Gate madness, if I could put it like that,

is one of the very, very few sane voices out there.

And I remember he'd going through painstakingly,

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