 All right, so we have a bunch of Middle East, Hamas, Israel, Houthis, Red Sea, Iran, Iraq, updates. So I'm just going to run through them. Nothing too much in depth here, but just a general analysis. I did a show on Tuesday about what it means for Israel to win and what I think the likelihood of it winning. So if you're interested in a more in-depth analysis of the Israeli Hamas battle, battle war, really the Israeli-Palestinian war, please go and watch that show from a couple of days ago. I'll just say this. There's growing skepticism in the United States and in Europe and in Israel itself about whether Israel can win, not just win in the strategic sense in which I meant on Tuesday, but even win in the tactical sense of defeating Hamas. This is because I think in the U.S. and in Europe and in Israel, the push is to have this war shortened and to have Israel stop soon. And there's also this notion that Israel cannot and should not kill a lot of people. And of course under those terms, it's very unlikely Israel can even win a tactical defeat of Hamas. As I said the other day, to win even against Hamas, Israel has to make sure the Palestinian people suffer, starve. I mean, humanitarian crisis is not a bad thing when it comes to Gaza. It's a good thing because that'll mean the Palestinian people will start putting pressure on Hamas. Also all these news articles think that the more the Palestinians suffer, the more poor Hamas they become. It's just not true. That's not how it works in history. The more they suffer, the more anti-Hamas they'll become. So humanitarian crisis Israel has to inflict. Second, Israel has to kill a lot of people affiliated with Hamas. We're talking about thousands of people. And a lot of civilians will die in the crossfire. So you're still looking at lots of casualties on the ground. Of course, the casualties coming out of Gaza, the numbers that Hamas reports don't separate civilians from military personnel, Hamas military personnel, because Hamas military personnel all dressed up like civilians. So you can't tell. But also because Hamas has no interest in telling you how many of its own people have been killed. But close to anywhere between 40 to 50 percent of the people killed are probably Hamas operative. And it's going to have to destroy all the tunnels, not some, but all of them. And that's going to require time to find them, discover them, to bomb them, to destroy them. And they're going to have to kill the entire leadership. And given the way they're fighting right now, it's going to take them months, months to do this. And it's true that if they stop fighting in the next few weeks, as Biden administration wants them to do, as the Europeans want them to do, some Europeans already turned against Israel, then they can't win. They can't even destroy Hamas. Never mind win-win. That is defeat to Palestinians. They are really, really stuck, right? All right. So that's quickly on kind of the pressure worldwide. Israel is still fighting on the ground. As I said the other day, it has now entered central Gaza. It is significant battles in the center of Gaza, still significant battles in Hanyunas. And they're still cleaning up operations in the north. They have not finished in the north. They keep kind of declaring victory in the north and Hamas keeps popping out of tunnels. So there's still a lot of work to do just in the northern Gaza of destroying tunnels and of finishing off the remnants of Hamas in the north. This is not going to end anytime soon. Again, the way they're fighting now, it could end very fast, but Israel is not willing to do that. And the world would go apoplectic if they did. All right. At the same time, Israel is also conducting major operations, major operations in the West Bank. As of late last night, early this morning, hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of Israeli troops entered several cities across the West Bank, including Janine, Nablus, Hebron, Ramallah, and Jericho. All in an effort to capture, destroy, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad infrastructure in the West Bank. This could get ugly. Supposedly, early this morning, there were firefights going on all over the area. This is the largest scale combat operation by the IDF in the West Bank, probably since 2003, probably since the Second Intifada. So this is the second front Israel is fighting on. It's going to be interesting to see how successful they are. And they're trying to hear, they're trying to be preemptive, good for Israelis. This is exactly what they need to do. They need to be preemptive in the West Bank. They need to stop it before these terrorists do harm. And they're arresting them. They're killing them. They're taking the weapons away. They're destroying their infrastructure. At the same time, they're constantly back and forth with the Hezbollah in the north. They never did the preemptive strike against Hezbollah in the north. So they are now tit fatat in the north. At some point Israel is going to have to do more than that. I talked about that on the Tuesday show. They're also bombing Syria over the weekend. Over the last few days, they killed one of the leaders of the Iranian Republican Guard in Syria. The Iranians in mourning as a consequence. And so they are actively, very active in Syria. It appears, yeah, it appears the guy died with his mistress while his wife was at work. So that's kind of what's going on in Israel. At the same time, Iranian affiliated forces continue to attack American forces in Iraq and in Syria. America continues to do almost nothing. They did bomb some facilities of these Iranian-backed forces in Iraq. But it's pathetic, pinpricks. They continue to say, be careful. Don't make us angry. At some point we'll really go after you. Nobody believes them. And the consequence of that is basically American troops are freefall. You can shoot at them. You can injure them. You can kill them. You can do whatever you want to them. And the Biden administration will do nothing. This is a continuation of the Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden policy in Afghanistan and a continuation of their policy in Syria and Iraq. It is pathetic. And it's hard for me to express how outraged I am and how outraged you should be. These are your kids, our kids. And they don't care. Our leaders, our generals, our politicians just don't give a damn. If they don't give a damn, then just bring them home. Evacuate. Do what you did in Afghanistan. I mean, the ugliness of Afghanistan is ugly and a lot of people are going to die because of how we evacuated Afghanistan. But the reality is that was better than staying there and let people just die in Afghanistan. So bring them home or penalize Iran, penalize their attackers. So finally, the Houthis, of course, the U.S. has a big carrier group and other attack ships in the area of the Red Sea and the Sea of Aden. And over the last few, I guess 48 hours, 24, 48 hours, they have knocked out of the sky over a dozen drones, a couple of anti-ship cruise missiles, and other missiles launched in the direction of ships. I haven't found the news story that tells me what ships they were targeting, whether they were American ships or commercial ships. The America, with regard to the Houthis, is playing defense. They're just knocking stuff out of the sky. They refuse to attack them. This coalition they put together, 20 countries, half of whom don't want to be named, is pathetic. Most of them don't want to be part of this coalition. Most of them refuse to engage in a preemptive strike. So in attacking their attackers, all they want to do is pretend that they're there but that the United States basically is responsible. And the U.S. for now is only playing defense. By the way, a few days ago, a ship was attacked off the coast of India by a drone launched by Iran, directly from Iran, not the Houthis. Iran. And what did the U.S. world, India, anybody do about it? Yeah, you guessed it. Babkas, nothing. So the U.S. is trying not to escalate. It's trying, it'll do anything, not to escalate. It'll basically sacrifice its own troops not to escalate. It'll play defense forever, even if shipping is stopped in the Red Sea, just so it doesn't escalate. I mean, they're so afraid of escalation. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. And a proposition guaranteed, guaranteed to create more violence in the future. American weakness always leads to more violence in the future. That is always the case.