let me go to uh veteran journalist warren thornton. warren, what's on your mind today? hello, george, given that we're only few weeks into the disaster that starman geden. um, i was going to ask you about their joints. basically should we say where they turn around with france and germany and say we wanted deescalation in the region. now we know that american workships are going there, we know that they've got a us submarine on there, which is nuclear submarine, and i'm hearing from my intelligence sources in cyprus, that they're uping the surveillance uh with flights from aquiry airbase. um, does this sound like deescalation to you, george, or is this bullying policy of the americans and the west? yeah, as dr. shivan pointed out, warren, it's it's gunboat diplomacy, but from gunboats that are distinctly vulnerable and uh and rusting uh, not just literally, although the british ones are literally, but rusting metaphorically too. this is from a 19th century playbook uh where palmerston uh would order uh gunboats uh to the coasts to bombard. the restless natives until the

warren thornton, top journalist, thanks for being on the show. now, i've got an audio question for obvious reasons from iman in dear al ball in occupied palestine. iman, welcome to the show. hello sir, i am imam from gaza displaced since 13 october 2023, a civilian and mother of twin daughters who lost everything. can you please give me answers to my questions, when will this suffering comes to an end, when will be able to leave this trap? will egypt open the borders and wave the taxes required? is there a way to? force israel to open the crossings for people to go out, will we have a future as we dreamed of? please, who can give us answers? well, i wish i could give you answer and a positive one, and my sincere condolences and that of all the audience i know for. you have gone through uh, we are sorry uh that we have failed until now to stop the endless agony of the palestinian people and the last uh most dreadful uh period of 11 months of genocidal massacar. when's it going to end? i don't know, there's no reason to believe that it is going to

only solution to this matter in my opinion. thank you very much, let me go to veteran journalist warren thornton, warren, what's on your mind today? hello george, given that we're only few weeks into the disaster that starm geting, and i was going to ask you about their joint, basically should we say, where they turn around with. and germany and say we want to deescalation in the region, now we know that american workships are going there, we know that they've got a us submarine on there, which is nuclear submarine, and i'm hearing from my intelligence sources in cyprus that the surveillance with flights from aquiry airbase, and does this sound like deescalation to you, or is this bullying policy of the americans and the west? yeah, as dr. shavan pointed out, warren, it's it's gunboat. but from gun boats that are distinctly vulnerable and and rusting, not just literally, although the british ones are literally, but rusting metaphorically too. this is from a 19th century playbook uh where palmerston uh would order gun boats uh to the coasts to bombard the restless natives until they sued for peac

only solution to this matter in my opinion. thank you very much. let me go to veteran journalist warren thornton. what, what's on your mind today? hello, given that we're only few weeks into the disaster that, i was going to ask you about their joints.