Jared Eight Sexton critiques President Trump's false claim that the Iran war is over, arguing it has destabilized the Middle East, spiked oil prices above $111, and damaged Bahrain's desalination plants. Sexton exposes the American economy as a Ponzi scheme reliant on Saudi capital and tech oligarchs like Elon Musk, warning that rising costs could trigger modern drone warfare and radicalize the public. He condemns alleged war crimes, including a double-tap strike killing 180 civilians, and concludes that this conflict reveals the fragility of neoliberal capitalism, threatening an authoritarian future if the US fails to adapt its crumbling global supply chains. [Automatically generated summary]
Hey everybody, as you can tell from the lack of opening music and the bare bones nature of this, this is another bootleg Muckrag podcast.
Courtesy of me, Jared Eight Sexton, Nick Houselman is nowhere to be found.
He's out taking care of his own business, so I am manning the store today.
And just to keep everybody on track here, I'm recording this at 4.50 p.m. Eastern, Monday, March 9th, which means that I am not at all waiting on the supposed press conference that President Donald Trump is going to be holding here in a little while.
Why?
Because I don't really concern myself that much with the ramblings and rantings of a madman.
I'll be talking about on this episode, likely what we're going to be hearing from him, as well as getting everyone up to date on not just what's going on in Iran and in the Middle East, but the larger geopolitical implications.
We're going to get deep into the weeds.
This is a Professor Jared episode for everyone keeping track.
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So right before I started recording this, as I was putting together all of my notes for this episode, a little thing bubbled up to the surface.
Donald Trump reached out to a CBS journalist.
I'm putting heavy quotes around that.
And this came immediately after he had talked on the phone with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
And he told the CBS journalist that the war in Iran was, quote, very completely and pretty much done.
And said that it was many weeks ahead of schedule.
This likely means that Putin, in much the way that he has been able to since Donald Trump ascended to power, was able to talk to Trump and convince him that the best avenue possible in the middle of this massive, massive mess that we'll be breaking down in just a minute, the best available option was to just say that you won the war and get out.
I don't know if that is what is going to come to pass.
I don't know if that's what he's going to announce at this press conference, but it's bullshit, as you know, and as I know, and everyone who is paying any kind of attention knows.
This is not something that you can just simply say that you've won and it's over.
They have already kicked over the hornet's nest in the Middle East.
They have destabilized the region.
They have killed God knows how many people.
They have created one geopolitical and economic crisis after another.
He may be done with Iran, but Iran is not done with him.
And he may be done with this mess, but this mess is not done with him.
So in a way, and we're going to talk about it, maybe this is the quote unquote smartest possible thing that he could do.
I guess.
I don't know.
I guess you could make that argument, but it's horse shit.
And we all know it's horseshit.
Over the past weekend, marking the one week, and can you believe it's only been a week, one week of this disastrous, illegal war, all hell broke loose.
Within that time period, the oil ended up over $111, trending upwards towards $120.
Drone warfare picked up speed.
On top of that, the desalienation plant in Bahrain was hit, which is a massive, massive problem.
And if this continues, it's something that we're going to have to keep an eye on, considering all of these Middle Eastern states rely on this technology in order to, let me check my notes, exist.
We could be looking at not just a war over power and a war over resources in terms of oil, but also a war in terms of water.
In the midst of all of this, the economy was put on the chopping block.
And it's not a great thing that the American economy, as we've covered on this show, has become nothing short of a major Ponzi scheme that is being carried out by our major tech oligarchs, that they are all passing around the same billions of dollars from one person to another like a hot potato in order to try and make this entire system work.
And as that's happening, weirdly enough, it's being propped up by states like Saudi Arabia, which is currently being drug into this larger regional war.
Saudi Arabia, of course, was able to use this money to take over things like American sports and culture and also to get in bed with the oligarchs like Elon Musk and all of the other groups because of the excess money that it had put together and concentrated.
And now that war is at their backstep, are they going to continue to put the money into American tech stocks and ventures?
And if they don't, well, that's not great, is it?
Add to that the fact that we are seeing high watermarks in terms of people being laid off from their jobs.
The affordability crisis continues to worsen.
And all of that is without rising oil prices, which is more than just hurting people at the pump, although it is hurting people at the pump.
It also affects literally everything.
From transportation of goods to the clothes that we buy, the goods that we buy.
You're going to see raising prices all over the place.
Why?
Because we have continued to build the world on oil.
And as we do that, we have made ourselves more and more vulnerable.
Weird, isn't it?
Isn't it strange how that happens?
And if we're going to fight a war with Iran, they are going to lash out at these other countries, and we're going to do things like hit their refineries with missiles, which is not only going to create ecological disasters and human disasters, it's also going to continue to spook the market.
Now, again, there is a possibility because the Dow opened today by jumping off of a cliff, there is a possibility that Trump is saying all this just to give it a quick jolt and to try and keep it from plummeting to its death.
But there's no reason to believe that this situation isn't going to continue to hurt our economy and possibly end the Ponzi scheme in disaster.
But you also look around, and I've talked about this a few times now, all of the economic indicators without this war are bad.
We have maximized and saturated our debt.
People are getting behind on not just credit card payments and debt payments, but their utility payments.
Things are coming to a head and you keep stacking, if you will, just straw on a camel's back and eventually it is going to break.
Add into that, unless Trump just declares victory and gets out of there in order to end the escalation cycle.
Now we're talking about boots on the ground.
And reports have been coming out over the weekend that Trump was favoring getting boots on the ground in Iran, whether that is special forces or perhaps another group that might go in there and take care of, I guess, in their minds, theoretical small skirmishes.
And there's a reason why Americans don't want that.
But add to it the fact that our memories of modern war are from Iraq.
Modern Drone Warfare's Cultural Shock00:04:14
And as a result, we're imagining fighting insurgencies.
We're imagining, at worst, dealing with IEDs.
We're not thinking about taking on a huge modern army, but also fighting in modern drone warfare.
And this is something that I want to get on people's radars because maybe they haven't paid attention to it.
There are certain ones of us who pay attention to this for our own analysis.
And I think it's important that listeners of this show know about this before it happens.
If it does happen, this is going to be something that we're going to have to deal with, which is modern drone warfare doesn't work the same way.
If anybody paid attention to what was happening in Ukraine with Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers, one of the things, if you actually looked for it, was this awful type of information and propaganda warfare in which drones would kill soldiers and maim soldiers while another drone filmed it in order to get the images and the videos online,
in order to try and win public opinion or at least sort of tinge the reality of the situation that people were experiencing.
It's cruisome.
Absolutely gruesome.
And I'm trying to talk about this with a modicum of concern.
I don't want to be grotesque, but the actual experience of this.
Imagine watching American troops being killed and being maimed and having drones come in for close-ups of their faces as they're begging for their lives.
Americans are insulated from these types of things.
In fact, drone warfare itself, which originated back during the Obama years, it was a way of keeping us at arm's length away from the violence.
Rather than having all of these troops on the ground and having to deal with American flag-draped coffins, we were able to rain terror out of the skies.
But the idea of having to see American troops blown to bits is going to have an effect on this culture in ways that you couldn't even explain and you can't even predict.
We do not have a taste for this war.
All polls that have been conducted show that at best 25% of the population approves of it, and that's on the high scale of things.
It probably has an approval rating somewhere between 18 and 21%.
Nobody wants this war, which is not just a side effect of the Trump administration not making a case for this war.
It's a side effect of being tired of wars and also having a declining standard of living and a declining experience within the United States of America.
Imagine what happens if it's not just six or seven people dying, but we're seeing dozens or maybe even hundreds of troops dying.
And then you can't go on social media without being confronted with high-resolution video of it happening.
If that were to actually take place, there's no telling the effect that it would have on our politics.
The Vietnam War was so divisive, not just because of the draft, and we'll get to that in a second, but because so much of it was broadcast on TV, or at least you got the impression that you were able to see the war and you were able to talk to the soldiers who were experiencing it.
Watching the actual, unedited, unvarnished experience of modern drone warfare, it has the potential of increasing the revolutionary spirit within the country by many degrees.
Escalation Points and Disaster00:06:49
And then you just have this situation where unless Trump does declare victory and get out of it, there are so many different escalation points.
If you send people on the ground, I guess you could have them take out the enriched uranium.
I guess that's something that's been floated, but that probably wouldn't even work.
It would probably be a disaster.
I guess you could draft people up.
It feels like it's heading in that direction.
Trump administration officials have refused to rule out that possibility.
And that brings me to the larger question.
We've seen multiple answers in terms of what the end goal of this war is.
It began as regime change.
And then it moved to unconditional surrender.
And now they're talking about getting rid of Iran's ability to create and fire missiles.
I guess you could take out a few stockpiles.
You could take out some of the militias.
I guess you could do that and declare victory.
But if this thing continues to escalate and spiral, particularly with the economic conditions, and by the way, Iran is hitting all these things on purpose.
And we'll talk more about that in a little bit.
But they're not going to stop just on their own accord.
This has been turned into an existential war.
They are carrying out all-out warfare.
Unfortunately, it keeps pointing in a direction that makes too much sense in terms of possibilities.
And that is tactical nuclear weaponry.
Now, Trump has spent all of his life obsessed with nuclear weapons.
Of course, he came to prominence most notably in the late 70s, 1980s, where this was the conversation constantly mutually assured destruction.
It's the only tool in the American arsenal in terms of beating a country that is actually besting you.
And that's what's happening right now.
Iran is besting the United States of America.
They're fighting a smarter war.
They've got a plan.
And they've been waiting on this for a very long time.
What Iran has recognized are the faults of American culture.
The fact that we're not going to put up with a bunch of death, that we're not going to want to sacrifice, that we're not going to be in these things.
And by the way, like, that's all terrible.
We shouldn't put up with war.
We shouldn't have war.
But Iran has recognized these vulnerabilities that we have.
They see that the American economy is incredibly vulnerable.
They see that by dragging in all of their neighbors, they can make a big mess out of this thing that can make it more and more to their advantage and that can put the United States of America and the other world powers in a really bad position.
Once more, because we continue to rely on fossil fuel and because we have this extensive historic inequality, which puts us on the edge of a cliff.
Again, not a coincidence this is happening as the American empire is dying.
It makes too much sense, unfortunately, for someone like Donald Trump who doesn't care about anybody's lives to use something like tactical nuclear weaponry.
Again, I hope he just declares victory and cuts and runs.
I hope that's what he does.
It would still be disastrous, but it would take us out of this cycle that is just continuing to wind down and down and down and leaving fewer and fewer options.
I don't know that it will, though, because it's like a vortex.
It's like a whirlpool.
It just continues to drag you down.
And Israel is not going to stop.
Israel is not just going to give up on this.
Israel has its larger objective.
Benjamin Netanyahu and the others in his criminal group, they have their sights set on the Middle East in general.
They've got a taste for it, and they have an entire mission for it.
So I don't think they're going to pull out, especially now that Iran, which is their arch nemesis in the region, I don't think they're going to pull out now that they believe they have Iran where they want them.
Even though Iran is hitting Tel Aviv nearly every evening, it's lashing out in all these different ways.
I don't think that Netanyahu and Israel are just going to throw up their hands and say, okay, we're done.
It's an awful situation.
And before I move forward to the rest of this, I just want to say we should have never, ever been put in this position.
Donald Trump should have never been president of the United States of America.
I know that I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know.
I just, the moment that I heard he talked to Putin and then he started saying this, I just thought about how susceptible he is.
This mad, dying king whose advisors are obviously lying to him.
I think it's becoming more and more clear every time he speaks that he's being shown fake polls.
He's being shown fake information.
His briefings are bullshit.
And that's the old idea.
It's one of the oldest adages, which is, who controls power, the king or the king's advisors?
And in this case, it's pretty clear who it is.
We never should have been put in this position in the first place.
And it is an absolute tragedy that this has happened.
Also, on this front, the news has come out on Monday as I'm recording this that supposedly our intelligence and homeland security have detected communications from Iran to sleeper cells in the United States of America and around the world.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't.
I mean, I don't trust anything this government says.
I don't believe them.
It really, truly, honestly does not matter what it is that they say.
But it would also make sense.
In the past few days, we have seen an incredibly jittery nation.
There were explosives thrown at the mayoral mansion in New York City.
A Jittery Nation Under Attack00:15:39
Zorhan Mamdani, of course, was not hurt.
We saw an apparent attack in Norway of an American embassy.
We've had several flights that have been grounded.
We've had law enforcement board these planes and remove people.
Kansas City International Airport was shut down for a few hours because of a bomb threat.
People are scared out there.
People are really, really scared out there.
And like I was saying, I believe it was, it had to have been last week.
It's only been a week.
I was saying to Nick, I said, you know, they do have sleeper cells in this country.
They do.
So why wouldn't you activate them, especially if you're in the middle of an existential crisis?
For those who are unaware, terrorism as a political strategy largely originated in Iran in its battles with Iraq.
And this, for those who don't know the history, was a period of time in which the United States of America backed Iraq as they were fighting Iran.
That's right, everybody.
Saddam Hussein used to be our boy before he wasn't, and then we killed him, of course.
In that time period, Iran started to use the tactic of terrorism in order to try and overcome larger oppressive odds.
In doing so, they found that the death of a person or a few people could cause widespread damage, could destabilize regions, and could change the political picture.
Now, of course, for those who aren't also aware, Al-Qaeda, when they hit us on September 11th, it has been shown that their strategy, and Al-Qaeda, of course, was not this large, big, bad, G.I. Joe Cobra-like organization that it was built up to be in order to start off the war on terror.
It was a very small group of people who carried out a massive piece of terrorism because we weren't ready, we weren't paying attention.
And in that, their strategy laid out, in their own words, was to upset the United States of America and provoke it into making decisions and carrying out actions that would hurt it in the long run.
And they succeeded.
It absolutely succeeded.
The war on terror was such a massive mistake.
It drained our goodwill around the world.
It strained our capacity.
It pushed us into imperial decline.
It hurt all of our programs.
It cost us trillions of dollars.
It cost God knows how many lives and how much misery.
They won.
They did what they needed to do.
They hurt us in the way that they wanted to hurt us.
In this case, if there is a call for sleeper cells within the United States of America, I have no idea what will happen if they strike, except for to say that we have always seen how the United States of America reacts, which is what al-Qaeda took advantage of, which is to react irrationally.
And I don't know at this point, in the middle of a conflict like this, what that would unleash if there were some type of terrorist attack on American soil.
I hope that if something like that occurs, that we would be able to hold our heads, keep them, and figure something out that wouldn't be destructive.
But of course, that's not exactly the time period that we're living in.
I'm keeping an eye on every signal that I can find, everybody that I can talk to, trying to figure out whether or not this is actually taking place or if this is another cover story.
We've seen this fascist regime lie about this shit.
And by the way, the United States of America has lied about this shit for a very long time.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they're lying about it here.
But the implications, if this were to take place, if there would be a successful terrorist attack on American soil, I mean, the implications going forward, whether or not it's the broadening of this war, whether it's the draft, or I could see this becoming the emergency that Trump supporters and the think tanks and institutes are trying to come up with in order to take over our elections.
I could see it.
I could see that.
I could absolutely see that being an entry point.
I do feel, by the way, that I've talked for long enough without mentioning, and I try and do this every time that we talk about geopolitical movements, we talk about, you know, where things might go.
We're taking the analysis where it takes us.
I like to stop every now and then and look at the human element.
What we're seeing is so awful.
The videos coming out of this week in which U.S. and Israel forces hit a refinery in Iran, sending up an apocalyptic fireball that sent like flaming oil into the streets.
It blackened Tehran Monday morning.
And when it rained, it rained black oil rain.
I mean, just humanitarian tragedy on a level that's hard to deal with.
Ecological damage, widespread destruction and suffering.
I can't even imagine what it's like for everybody who is stuck between these belligerents.
People who are just trying to sleep, people who are just trying to go to work, people who are trying to have families, people who are just trying to live.
And I can't help but feel, and again, I do hope they can figure out an off-ramp on this thing.
Like, I can't help but feel like this is a preview of what World War III is feeling like.
Because it's, I don't know.
Studying the modern wars, it's a tragedy that goes further than how many troops were killed.
It's a tragedy that's almost immeasurable.
You know, it's now come out that of the strike on the elementary girls' school in Iran, 180-plus died.
It's now been revealed that it was a double-tap strike.
The first strike hit the school, and then 40 minutes later, another strike hit, presumably to kill the parents and the first responders on the scene.
Talked a little bit both on the McCraig podcast and also over at Dispatches from a Collapsing State about the role of AI in that atrocity.
I just want to state for the record how awful this is, how Pete Hegseth and all of these war criminals deserve to be tried and executed for their crimes.
I mean, if they spent the rest of their lives in prison, they would be lucky, but they deserve to be executed for these crimes against humanity.
We can't forget that.
And, you know, if Trump does decide to declare victory and cut and run, our media will fall all over themselves to never, ever mention these atrocities again.
Hell, they've barely done it already.
I'm surprised the New York Times did an investigation on it, but I think they knew that there was an opportunity for an audience to hear about this war crime.
Every now and then they'll throw you one of those as a treat.
But our media has completely ignored this disgusting war crime.
And we'll probably never get the full understanding of the human toll and the ecological toll and the cultural toll.
What a repulsive action this was.
And again, fuck Donald Trump, who had the gall to blame it on Iran, basically calling it either a misfire or a false flag.
Another war criminal.
The amount of war crimes that Trump has carried out is unbelievable.
He deserves to be tried and held responsible.
Can't say the entirety of that sentence on this broadcast, but he does.
Adding into the disgust this morning, and again, I'm recording this on Monday, March 9th, the Strait of Hormuz, which is still closed, and we have still seen Iran attacking multiple shipping and tanker ships that have tried to break the blockade.
Trump has started calling on these ships to just try and race through, despite the fact that people have been killed and ships have been destroyed.
Fox News joined in that call.
The idea now, and tell me if this is familiar from the time of COVID, that the call is that people should be willing to give up their lives in order to keep capitalism going.
Astounding.
And you know, I follow all of this stuff so closely, but to actually watch it without any sort of care or even performed care for human life.
The idea that the President of the United States of America and state propaganda is going to call for private citizens to somehow or another tempt fate with the military aiming their weaponry at them and just try and scoot out of the Strait of Hormuz and put their lives and the lives of their crew on the line.
Repellent.
But what else do you need to see?
We saw it during COVID.
They sacrificed us into the maw of capitalism.
In order to keep the economy rolling, we needed to die.
I knew people who died.
You might know people who died, all because it was essential, one thing and one thing only, which is to continue capitalism at all costs.
Now they're asking captains of tankers to just floor it and try and get past the Iranian Navy and missile bombardment, drones, all of it.
They're supposed to take on the army and the forces that the United States of America is pretty aware of.
But, you know, you're piloting a tanker.
Hit the gas, bud.
Be a hero.
That's the only way that we're going to beat them.
We are hearing that perhaps France is going to send some ships to escort some people out of the Strait of Hormuz.
I look at all these situations and you just keep adding belligerence and fuel.
Eventually you're going to see fires.
And unless this thing gets figured out and sorted out in a hurry, and I don't see any way that it's going to, because quite frankly, Iran has this by the shorthairs here.
They have the advantage.
And the reason they have the advantage for the record, and this is one of the things I wanted to talk about today.
It's something that we need to think about as we're considering the future and as we're considering defeating fascism and the international authoritarian order.
The construction of neoliberal global capitalism, that big thing that was completed with the war on terror, or supposedly completed with the war on terror, that would make free trade, well, quotes around free trade, of course, it's rigged in favor of the largest stakeholders.
This thing that was supposed to keep this global supply chain moving, keep the products flowing from place to place, keep the resources going where they need to go.
The construction of that system, I want you to think about it like a road, right?
And think about it as like roads with bridges and stop signs and stoplights and all of that.
Or you can think about it like a railway system, you know, across the United States of America, however you want to think about it.
And what happens in times of war is that those sorts of systems that were created to work and create another system, they become vulnerable.
If you're fighting, like let's say the federal forces and our Union forces during the Civil War are fighting Southern forces, the Confederate forces, all of a sudden railways, you might want to bomb those.
You might want to get rid of them in order to hurt the opponent.
Here, we have yet another situation.
We have Iran hitting these desalienation plants that provide water for the region and these nation states that are absolutely reliant on them.
You have them taking out these shipping lanes, supply chains.
All of this stuff is incredibly vulnerable.
And you'll notice how it's being destroyed in order to make way for something else.
For you and I, who sometimes feel very small in the face of nation states that are, of course, acting as fronts for the wealth and oligarchical classes in their desire through capitalism turning into fascism to accrue more wealth and more resources for themselves, we need to take heed here because these are vulnerable choke points, aren't they?
And look what's happening.
Iran is taking full advantage of them.
And just by sort of turning the screw a little bit, it throws off the entire imperial power base.
If you're not so into logistics, maybe think about something like Dune, which gave us a pretty crash course and how that happens when you take something like spice and the person who controls spice controls the universe.
It's another one of those situations, particularly because notice how oil, fossil fuel, is still the basis of the world economy.
Fragile Empire and Fossil Fuel00:05:16
It's something that shouldn't have happened.
It's something that should have been overcome by now.
We should have already moved beyond fossil fuel.
But because the entrenched interests were mostly based on fossil fuel, they've now made themselves incredibly vulnerable.
This is why Iran is winning.
Iran is winning this conflict because we have been fucking stupid.
And we have failed over and over again to actually answer the call of the moment and to move and grow.
We have made ourselves degenerate because of a rigged system.
We now have a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing, who are in power, and of course they're in power in steed of larger powers and more wealthy powers and more competent powers.
But Donald Trump is still the commander-in-chief of the military and he has no idea what the fuck he's doing.
None.
Pete Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense.
He still doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.
Meanwhile, you have a system, the neoliberal global order, that was backed by American strength.
America's getting dogwalked right now.
That military that was supposed to be the underwriting insurance of global shifting and the global economic order, it has fallen apart.
It's being shredded.
It's over-leveraged and stupid.
It's groaning and dying.
As a result, neoliberal global capitalism, it's dying.
It was always going to die.
Also, the tariffs were just part of that.
The invasion of Ukraine was just part of that.
This was coming because the predicate of it was American imperial power.
Now something else needs to underwrite it or it needs to morph into something else.
The choice that we're going to have is whether or not it becomes an authoritarian fascist order, which is what would underwrite it.
It would be under the control, likely, of either China or a shared great power's spheres of power, sort of sharing relationship with the United States gone full fascist, maybe even Russia.
There's a possibility that could take it over, but that insurance that underwrote the entire system is gone.
Whether Trump declares victory or not, it has become apparent that the United States of America cannot defend neoliberal global capitalism.
It can't happen.
They're vulnerable.
And look at the fact I keep saying the United States of America has been made completely dependent on its client states, on Israel, on Saudi Arabia, who now have the leverage to make the choice between the U.S. and China.
So as a result, they have to do whatever the other wants them to do.
Once more, the American Empire is dying.
But you and I, as people who believe that something better can arise out of this, that something better has to arise out of this, we need to keep our eyes peeled.
We need to see things for what they are.
If the weakness, not just of the American Empire, but also the authoritarian order that wants to take over, is also sharing the weaknesses of neoliberal global capitalism, then that tells us that there are choke points everywhere.
That shows us that they are dependent on this order moving forward without any pushback, without any interruption.
And what you're seeing from the American stock market, every time they think this thing is going to get better, they're like, oh my God, whoo, wiping the sweat from their brow.
Why?
Because here's the secret underlying all of this.
And I want you to take heed here.
It's fragile.
We've been fed a bullshit lie our entire lives.
Been told that this is inevitable.
It's the only way the world can work.
We've been fed that lie so much that even as it was starting to be forced to change, many people couldn't even believe what they were seeing and what they were hearing.
The truth is, is this entire thing has been brittle as hell.
If We were to take advantage of this weakness, if we were to take advantage of something like the fall of the American Empire and how fragile things are, especially as it's going through this metamorphosis from neoliberal global capitalism to authoritarian global capitalism.
If we were to take advantage of that fragility, it could be one of the few times that through our labor or through our fight and struggle, we could be able to strangle this thing.
Learning Lessons From Fragility00:01:03
Hopefully, we pay attention.
Hopefully, we learn lessons here.
Hopefully, our brothers and sisters and compatriots, hopefully, they're paying attention around the world too.
And they're seeing the same things we are.
A bunch of lumbering, groaning, murderous, corrupt giants that we need to bring down.
And what's more, they're more susceptible and they're more vulnerable than ever before.
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