Okay, we are live.

Great to have everyone with us on this Thursday, March the 7th.

Alexander, how are you doing?

I'm doing very well and absolutely delighted.

Very excited to have Tony Schaffer with us. Yes, we are very happy, very excited to have Tony Schaffer with us.

Yes, we are very happy, very honored to have the one and only Tony Schaffer,

NYT, New York Times, bestselling author, retired DoD, Intel Operative,

and a man who knows a lot of things that he is going to tell us about.

Alexander, Tony, before we get started with the show, let me just say a quick hello to everyone that is watching us on Odyssey, on Rockfin, Rumble, and Telegram, and of course, the duran.

Dotlocals.com. and thank you to our amazing awesome

moderators peter valiesz zaryl and who else is moderating and anyone else who joins us

in the moderation.

Thank you very much for everything that you do.

Alexander Tony, there is all kinds of news going on.

This was a very big week of news.

So Alexander and Tony, I pass it off to you gentlemen.

I think it's a very big, not just week of news, but I think it's a very big month of news.

And actually, the epicenter, as always, is the US.

You know, there's lots of things going on in Ukraine, which we can talk about,

lots of things going on in the Middle East.

But ultimately, when you actually unpack everything, it's Washington

which remains the place, which is at the center. Others respond to what the Americans, or at least

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