Hey, everybody. I'm really privileged to be joined by Alex Christopher O, who is one half of the

team, the Durand team, which is probably one of the best sources of foreign policy information,

the most student piercing that I know of. They're very, very popular. Online news service called

the Durand. His partner is Alexander McCurus, and he was on here originally, but we had problems

with so we're going to just go forward with half the team. Alex Christopher O is a Cypress and

Greek-based geopolitical analyst. He is a journalist, YouTuber, and world traveler, and welcome to

the show. Thank you. I'm going to help you guys for a while and just loving, you know, really learning

so much. I want to have the two of you back to talk about China, but today, if we can, let's talk

at least just a little while about Ukraine, you published recently a comprehensive history that

showed the role of the Biden administration, the previous administration, the entire kind of

historical neocon infrastructure, and purposely, it appears, precipitating this conflict,

and the desire that they have to, you know, to destroy for a Balkanized Russia, you are not

a sympathizer with Vladimir Putin, are you? I'm either a sympathizer or a nor against or pro. I

just look at the facts and see, you know, where it leads us. I have no, I'm the Durand. We have no

animosity or hatred towards Putin or Russia or towards any country or any people for that matter.

We look at the situations and how we got to where we are, and we have been trying on this channel

from day one to put an end to this conflict, but you can't put it into this conflict until you

understand how you got here, and that's what we've been trying to uncover and to share with our

audience. And we talk about the history all the time on this show, but why don't you give us kind

of, because you've just written a really brilliant synopsis. It was actually from, yeah, we actually

did a show with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and he put out an article with the synopsis, and then we

discussed it together, and we've been going over the history of Ukraine for a while now. And it goes

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