Hi everyone, Glenn Dyson here and I am joined today by Alexander Mercurris and Professor John

Mersheimer. So, welcome to the both of you.

Glad to be here. Delighted to be here.

So all of us have been out traveling different places over the past few weeks, so it's

great we all found a time to meet

here online again. And since the last time we spoke, there has been great changes in the world.

I see, well, obviously Israel and Lebanon are now at war with Beirut being bombed to the ground.

Iran eventually retaliated against Israel in a large-scale bombing, and Israel

is likely landing for a strike on Iran, which of course could engulf the whole region in major war,

thus also pulling in the US. But I thought we could start today with Europe, as in Ukraine.

We see the situation appears to be deteriorating quite quickly

for the Ukrainians. There seems to be a military collapse. Zelensky's victory plan

seemed to have been shot down by NATO countries and the NATO countries themselves seems

to be recognized that the war is lost and at least

there's changes on the diplomatic front now looking towards a peace agreement perhaps and maybe

not a good one but the US also appears to be at least appears to be withdrawing from the war

by handing over some responsibility to the Europeans and perhaps they reached the end of the escalatory ladder,

as opposed to attacking Russia directly as an alternative.

So as a result, I think, yeah, possibly Zelensky appears to be unraveling,

and I guess he must either escalate in a radical way or begin to talk to Moscow.

So I thought, yeah, we can start there. I guess he must either escalate in a radical way or begin to talk to Moscow.

So I thought, yeah, we can start there.

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