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alexmercouris@alexmercouris

March 26, 2025

Join Alexander Mercouris Live Stream Today 26th March 2025 at 14:00 EDT, 18:00 London time

The chaotic process of negotiation between Moscow and Washington continues, to Zelensky's dismay and the European leadership's horror. I should say that in terms of the negotiations yesterday - or to be precise the news management which took place yesterday - yesterday was especially chaotic. Nonetheless I continue to believe that we are moving towards what we call on The Duran "Istanbul Plus" ie. the US's acceptance of Putin's 14th June 2024 terms.

Meanwhile the war goes on and an important fact about yesterday was that the US Intelligence Community published two reports yesterday, whose preparation obviously pre-dates Tulsi Gabbard's appointment, which finally admit, however grudgingly, that Russia is winning the war.

Meanwhile Starmer's 'Coalition of the Willing' continues to unravel, the EU's grand rearmament plan is melting into air, Germany drifts into further financialisation, and the UK into deeper economic and social crisis.

At the same time the situation in the Middle East gets worse every day.

So much to talk about......

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alexmercouris@alexmercouris

March 27, 2025

From Alexander Mercouris - HUGE APOLOGIES for Yesterday's Live Stream

I must apologise to the Community for the debacle which was yesterday's Live Stream.

I was having difficulties with my voice for much of the day, but I was confident that I would get through. Then about 30 minutes before the Live Stream started I lost my voice completely. A frantic 30 minutes followed as I tried every available remedy to get my voice back. Alas, as became clear the moment the Live Stream started, it was to no avail.

This was hugely embarrassing and I have to say humiliating, and I am very sorry.

Unfortunately the situation with my voice today is that I can now manage the odd word but I have been given strict instructions to give my voice a rest. Alas that means I cannot do the Live Stream today.

My apologies to everyone. I am on the mend, and will be back soon.

Thanks to all those who sent their words of support, for which both Catherine and I are very grateful.

Mark@Aussie1965

5 hours ago

Dnipro, 29 March, morning

The morning after the night before, a pretty intense night in Dnipro, drone attacks for several hours, one completely destroying Bartholomeo restaurant complex which was always a favourite of our family, we hold our kids birthday parties there, as well as go several times a month to have lunch or dinner and have an apartment in the residence complex.

18 months ago the yacht club was used by Nato forces as a base, and we complained vigorously to the senior management who we know, but our concern was not shared by them. So we stopped going there at all.

It is always full of mercenaries, all in uniform pretending to be big tough men.

I will never understand why anyone not at the front lines, or on duty is allowed to wear their uniform amongst civilians.

We spoke to our friend who is the manager and was on duty last night, and she said there were no casualties, 4 people were taken to hospital from smoke inhalation, but given restaurants close at 10 because of curfews, most ...

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Zarael@Zarael

June 17, 2024

A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"

I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad !

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

Hope to see you all asap.

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The Duran@theduran

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Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message.

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