forward what does it say about the middle east geopolitics in event metaphysics i may gain joined by allister croaky is a former british and diplomat founder and director of conflicts forum alister welcome back to moscow every hour we meet we can. about the middle east you know when donald trump and his administration put forward their deal of the century for what we thought was going to be the the israeli palestinian conflict to be resolved actually is something much much more comprehensive and i've read dozens and dozens of articles about it they all pretty much say the same thing but your article recent article israel in the middle east a civilizational and metaphysical war of this is so think very different in looking at the deal this century what your thesis in this article is simply the fact to recognize that israel or zionism is more like any normal nationalism it's not like nationalism of russian nationalism or other nationalism precisely because it was given this was dictated by god and it was an empire of a civilizational a metaphysical empire. came to the roman empire it came to th

even metaphysics i mean game joined by a former british and founder and director of complex for allister welcome back to moscow. we talk about the middle east you know when donald trump and his administration put forward their deal of the century for what we thought was going to be the israeli palestinian conflict to be resolved actually use something much much more comprehensive and i read dozens and dozens of articles about it they all pretty much say the same thing but your article recent article israel in the middle east a civilizational and metaphysical war this is so think very different looking is the deal of the century what your thesis in this article is simply the fact to recognize that israel. is more like any normal nationalist it's not like nationalism. i'm of russian nationalism or other nationalism precisely because it was given this was dictated by god and it was an empire of a civilizational a metaphysical empire a key to the room akin to the roman empire it came to the room and then and even the secular leaders of it like being gorean who was very secular all saw this n

all about you're ready for it so why not just have every country go full monarchy at this point allister what also especially. but. seriously i cannot say there's any way out of the dilemma within which we put ourselves a central banks have already got in there is no option but to keep the system propped up and not just going to mean print print print i can't see where the alternative is so we will end up in a west crisis as a result i don't think that managing to delay this crisis the idea that. hal. the raid which we'll be talking about since the lehman crisis that is now coming to an end i think the whole situation is actually very very serious blow lots to talk about the gold market for a 2nd so now we've got the official gold reserves on the nation state level are now just 10 percent below their all time high of 38491 tons was day chiva 1966 for the last 20 years now they've been aggressively buying gold principally china and russia and other countries have been buying lots and lots of gold south in a world of this fiame where they're just printing by the trillions and. hoping to so

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