Context of that with the CCP strategy of the String of Pearls a lot going on pretty important stuff first off though right now the main secretary of state is now trying to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and people are questioning well does the Secretary of
State actually have the authority to do that it’s actually debatable um based on previous Supreme Court rulings we’ve seen that for example election decisions are not limited to the state legislature not limited to the governor not not living to the Secretary of State uh that needs to be kind of a process between
All of them and so it’s questionable whether this is going to hold up the challenge to the 2024 ballot from the main secret secretary of state is being challenged by Republicans and by the Trump campaign regardless though it seems the goal of this is to push it
Into court and it’s very likely going to head into court now it’s possible the case will will not will not result in a decision on the 14th Amendment uh that’s going to be the big question here with the broader implication for the whole country the case in Maine could just go
Into limits for example on legal powers of a secretary state and so again we’ll see how this goes the big context of this though is the Colorado case where the Colorado Supreme Court did in fact rule to remove Donald Trump from the ballots Republicans as an update on this
They issued a formal request to the Supreme Court to take over the case and the attempt in Colorado because of that is now now on hold and we’re going to wait and see now whether there’s going to be a decision from the Supreme Court you know we’re just coming out of the
Holiday season Supreme Court despite how big this is you know they did not really confirm or say much during the time and so you know we’re coming into the week now beginning all this and we might be able to get a word from the Supreme Court now on well you know how they’re
Going to be moving forward with it as things currently stand the move to remove Trump from the ballot in Colorado and in Maine um it’s kind of still going on but we’re waiting now for the Supreme Court decision and depending on what the Supreme Court says whether they ruled
It’s legal or illegal that is going to set the decision for the entire country if the Supreme Court determines that hey yeah Colorado can remove Trump from the ballot you’re very likely going to see that replicated throughout the entire country or at least a lot lot of it and
If they rule that no they cannot remove Trump from the ballot you’re going to see that likely Ripple as well and the attempt on this front is going to come to a pretty Swift end now that said of course we can go into this more later but something else
Big is happening right now Iran is threatening to close the Mediterranean Sea and this is bigger than just the Mediterranean this is bigger than just even Iran this ties into a much broader conflict when it comes to trade War international shipping and Maritime sovereignty this ties into I I’d say a a
Broader economic War taking place mainly between the US and China and Iran is acting like a proxy within this and of course the houes as well now is conflicts with Russia Iran and potentially China right now are increasing there’s now an effort on who’s going to control the international
Shipping channels the emerging threat relates to the so-called String of Pearls of the Chinese Communist party I’ll get into that the CCP has been trying to gain a foothold in all the major global Shipping choke points everywhere where you have a shipping choke point the CCP is trying to gain
Control of the ports and it’s also building military bases you see this for example in jibuti and the Horn of Africa you see it for example in the Panama including in the new canals that CCP is building you see it for example in all the other major areas including around
Taiwan if the CCP gains control of that that that means control of international shipping control of international shipping means control of the international economy and AS Global conflicts grow so grows the risk of these channels being cut off because a country if you control these channels you can determine who gets through and
Who does not and if if a country is not able to get through international shipping channels that means Global economics the global Supply chains belong to one country or another now we’ve lived under a very unique time in history with the United States having the Pax Americana where America has
Become the de facto you know World Government essentially even whether we like that position or not and America has maintained a standard where we don’t charge people we we provide International Security we secure international shipping lanes we don’t deny people access to it we don’t deny
Countries access to it and for the most part America does this as just almost like a global Service that has never been the norm for the world and if the CCP is able to gain control of it it’s very likely that that Norm that America has established will come to an end we
See now that Iran is threatening these channels and trying to shut them off and that’s one of the big concerns of what the future holds if this is allowed to stand let me show you this first this is the hill it says Iran threatened Saturday that the Mediterranean Sea
Could be closed if the US and Israel continue crimes in Gaza according to State media according to Reuters and they say this this is according to State media and Iran they’re qu they’re quoting an Iranian briger General it says this they shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea the
Straight of J jalra and other waterways and we’ve of course seen some examples of them doing this where you have these um you know hotti Fighters terrorist groups launching attacks on shipping uh shipping containers you know ships bring these shipping containers they even manage to sink one ship you have the us
Trying to tell these ships keep going through don’t stop a lot of international shippers you know businesses that run these Supply chains they’re avoiding certain areas right now and if America is not able to provide proper security that means a shipping channel has now been denied now keep in
Mind that denying a shipping channel is not just for example shutting it down completely which Iran is threatening to do and which these hotti Fighters are saying they will do it also ties into the perception of security if you’re a private business and you risk for example losing an entire ship whether
It’s through piracy or whether it’s through terrorists or whether it’s through the actions of an entire nation in this place in this case Iran are you willing to risk it and do you believe that security will be will be provided as the US is saying it will provide it
Well again that’s going to be your you know you putting your neck on the line on The credibility of the United States and its International Security Systems America has since actually shot at and killed several of these hotti Fighters while defending these ships and this could very likely escalate as well into
A broader Terror war with ironically you know the targets of the terrorists being these shipping these shipping channels it’s unclear right now according to this report how Iran is going to follow through on this threat where it says it’s going to shut down you know the Mediterranean Sea this is as the country
Has no direct access to the Mediterranean Sea and no major Naval presence outside the Persian Gulf very likely what we’re seeing though is that Iran is going to use proxy forces like the hotties to do its work for it now briefly do you remember under Barack Obama you know after Obama ironically
Gave pallets of cash literal pallets of money to Iran do you remember that and Iran immediate began capturing US troops showing propaganda videos of US Sailors being held at gunpoint that was Iran’s way of saying thank you Obama after Obama gave them literal pallets of Straight Cash do
You remember that well here’s a reminder of that from the end of the Obama Administration this was Reuters back in 2016 and Reuters in 2016 said just two days after the United States and other world powers lifted sanctions on Iran the military released its most comprehensive timeline to date of the
Events surrounding the sailor’s brief detainment it says the US Sailors who were aboard two Patrol craft were detained by Iran’s Islamic revolutionary guard corpse on January 12th when they inadvertently entered Iranian territorial Waters they were released the next day after being held for about 15 hours Iran took US Sailors members of
The US military hostage briefly and well it looks like Iran is now back on this same game Biden following in the footsteps of Barack Obama frees up billions of dollars for Iran and lo and behold what happens immediately Iran the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism immediately begins responsories right and it looks like
Iran is back to its old game we we’ve seen them do this before they’re doing it again and they’re doing it publicly and right now they’re saying publicly that they’re going to start targeting international shipping channels I’ll get into a bit on why this is really important and what this means as well
For Russia and China now right now global Shipping channels are very much in danger a chemical tanker according to BBC in the Indian Ocean was hit by a drone that was launched from Iran just recently BBC says that a fire on board the chem Pluto was extinguished there
Were no casualties Iran has not commented houti rebels in Yemen who are backed by Iran and support Hamas and its war with Israel have recently used drones and Rockets to Target vessels in the Red Sea again we were saying how is Iran threatening the Mediterranean how is
Iran threatening areas where it has no military or Naval presence well maybe again they’re using the houti rebels as their proxy Force but BB says the this event is the first of its kind so far away from there according to Maritime Security in Ambry it says the same
Company also said the vessel was heading from Saudi Arabia to India and was linked to Israel the houis have claimed to be targeting Israel linked vessels over the conflict in Gaza and actually as it currently stands a lot of these ships are avoiding the ports in Israel
Because of this because they don’t want to get attacked by Iranian proxy forces now remember a few key things whoever controls shipping choke points controls Maritime trade this has been the lesson for the entire world going back to the time of the Spanish Armada and of course
You know in the rise of global Maritime trade this has been the standard the world is Liv under in terms of global economics whoever controls the shipping choke points controls Maritime trade and whoever controls Maritime trade guess what they control the global economy and of course there’s a big battle going on
Right now over who is going to control the global economy the Chinese Communist party is vying for this over over this with the United States and one of the big strategies the CC P has had again we mentioned briefly is what they call the String of Pearls what is the String of
Pearls there are many different global Shipping choke points areas where ships have to you know cross through in order to maintain the standards of global trade China the Chinese Communist party has been trying to gain control over these shipping choke points who controls access who can deny access again you
Know of course they’ve gained control of the Panama Canal they’ve gained control over the Horn of Africa they’ve gained control over many different areas South China Sea and so on this has included not only Port deals and of course using the belt and Road initiative to work with local countries to build these
Ports which then fall under Chinese control ironically uh part of the belon road initiative is the CCP builds the infrastructure and then manages it afterwards and then builds the country that is built it in often times using predatory loan policies which the countries can never pay off and when
They default on it the CCP gains control of even more assets within the country now the other side to that as well is the CCP is also providing the security for these different ports and the security for these shipping channels because it needs to provide security it
Has to build military bases and because it has to build military bases at shipping choke points it needs to maintain of course Naval uh a naval military presence the CCP through that is building up a build building up capabilities and infrastructure to control or deny access at all these key
Shipping choke points and it is said previously even publicly who’s to say it should be free who’s to say you can’t charge people for going through it you know if they’re going to be providing security why don’t you pay them a toll in order to maintain
That and if they can if they can of course be The Gatekeepers of this who’s to say they can’t deny countries in their entirety now that being said it’s not just China it’s not just Iran on this front Russia is also doing some of this as well Russia right now is being
Accused of using chemical weapons in the Black Sea now it seems Russian forces in the Black Sea are upping the stakes they’re accused again of using chemical weapons and this is a major escalation not only in the war with Ukraine but also in terms of the threat Russia is
Presenting against NATO against the United States and in terms of the escalation and the types of weapons that are going to be used now Newsweek said that a Russian Black Sea Fleet Marine Brigade deployed in southern Ukraine is using chemical weapons dropped by drones against Ukrainian Fighters according to
Moscow’s military it’s says moscow’s military appears to have confirmed this now the Brigade said this the tactic of dropping k51 grenades from drones on enem enemy positions was successfully tested and applied in order to smoke them out from fortified positions it confirmed this would be a violation say
If confirmed this would be a violation of the chemical weapons convention this is a treaty that has been in place for more than a quarter of a century aimed at destroying chemical weap weon stockpiles and chemical weapon production facilities as well as Banning their use Russia notably is a party to
The convention suggesting they’ll be violating this arms deal now violating arms deals is not necessarily unheard of we know for example that Russia has even talked about using localized nuclear weapon strikes uh now remember on the front of chemical weapons Russia is also accusing Ukrainian troops of using
Chemical weapons there have been some videos for example showing them dropping these small you know chemical chemical bombs onto soldiers using small drones many people have seen some of these videos by now Russia’s doing it Ukraine is doing it you have drones flying over individual troops dropping explosive devices into trenches into their
Sleeping positions and so on and you know killing or maming troops both sides are doing it there were several videos going around that alleged to show Ukrainian troops uh using chemical bombs there was one viral video for example where a Ukrainian Ukrainian Soldier was opening up a refrigerator and showing different chemical
Canisters now it’s hard to tell which side is really honest with this this is part of the fog of War we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this of of course as things escalate it’s hard to tell which videos are authentic and which ones are just being faked for propaganda
Russia is known to do this oftentimes they have of course an organization called the internet research agency and that of course produces fake propaganda videos disinformation and so on it it’s also totally possible that you have Renegade Ukrainian troops who are creating basic chemical weapons there’s
A lot of smoke and mirrors and war and it’s hard to tell which side is telling the truth you know case in point who BW who blew up the you know bridges in Ukraine the one heading into Crea who blew up the C the uh gas pipelines both
Sides blame the other side uh there’s again a lot of smoke and smoke and you know mirrors when it comes to war and of course both sides are going to blame the other side both sides are going to are going to deny certain things but as you have let’s say a normalization of
Narratives and normalization of the uses of different type of weapons including chemical weapons maybe even eventually including localized nuclear nuclear strikes like uh you know that they are talking about it you are going to have both sides talking about using new types of Munitions as global conflict increases notably the United States is
Going to have less and less ability to react to things like this and as you know the US and its allies fail to react we can expect to see a slow creep in the use of weapons like this again we’ve seen smaller examples now of chemical weapons getting used between Ukraine and
Russia and as these weapons are used increasingly and as we see the US does not condemn it or take action to let’s say punish one side or the other for using it you’re going to see it becoming more more normal for them to start deploying these weapons because if
Russia is using chemical weapons Ukraine is going to say well we have to match it if Ukraine is using chemical weapons Russia is going to say well we have to match it Russia you might remember has been saying that the US and its allies are already using forms of nuclear
Weapons that’s actually kind of a play on words because the Technic the technical reality of it is that certain anti-tank Munitions used to heated uranium it’s a type of hardened metal that they will for example put on the tips of certain anti-tank Munitions in order to make the uh the Munitions more
Able to penetrate armor it’s not nuclear uh it’s not nuclear materials technically in terms of you know the ability to have a you know a type of let’s say getting people sick through you know through nuclear you know through radioactive sickness or whatever like that it’s it’s not like that um
It’s again depleted uranium which is more like a type of metal but Russia is comparing that to the use of nuclear weapons nuclear weapons of course when we think of them we think nuclear bombs we think Nagasaki we think Hiroshima Russia is saying that the West is already deploying nuclear weapons
Through the use of depleted uranium and because of that they’re trying to use that as justification for a narrative of using tactical nukes for localized strikes now when we talk about nuclear weapons we’re often talking about you know the big ones we’re talking about global nuclear war we’re talking about
Destroying entire cities using a single bomb there were actually smaller types of nuclear weapons tactical nukes and if Russia for example were to use these well you’d be looking at localized strikes and then area denial from the radio radioactivity Russia is currently talking about using those types of
Weapons now normally if a country is threatening to use nuclear weapons we talk about mutually assured destruction going back in time during the Amore Valley conflict during the Cold War when Russia and China for were for example having actual ground battles forgotten part of History by the way one of the
One of the pieces of history that has since emerged was that Russia actually asked the United States during the Cold War the Soviet Union asked the United States for let’s say a window to be able to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese Communist Party Russia wanted to
Nuke China and of course the Soviet Union was assuming at the time that America might allow it because at the time Russia and China were technically allies in the Cold War against the United States and if Russia wanted to launch a nuclear attack on on an enemy of the United States the Chinese
Communist party at the time uh they assumed that America would allow it the United States said no our standards of mutually assured destruction hold up any country uses nuclear weapons we will meet it in kind and we will destroy you because of that Russia did not use nuclear weapons against China when they
Were having the Amore Valley conflict and when this whole thing was happening and of course that has been the standard maintained anybody uses nukes it’s mutually assured destruction and that works as a way of ensuring that no country ever uses them again but right now as Russia is talking
About using tactical nukes against Ukraine America is no longer talking about mutually assured destruction what they’re saying now is they will meet it with sanctions and if Russia is cut off economically anyways while do they really fear sanctions enough to dissuade them from using these these types of
Weapons again what we’re watching now is a slow creep a slow advancement of unconventional Munitions that are normally banned and normally very seriously regarded that are no longer being treated with that level of seriousness now as all of this happens as well there’s also now rumors that
Vladimir Putin the head of Russia right now is interested in a ceasefire and that he’s you know risking a palace coup that he’s risking of course people within his own system rising up against him and that the Russian military has been heavily destroyed the question now is Will Russia go to the negotiating
Table will Russia maybe surrender its interests it’s unclear whether it’s going to happen and if Putin really believes that for example the war may be coming to an end and there’s no hope inside of winning will he be willing to let’s say use weapons that let’s say
They up the game and it’s very possible he will now real clear defense says something they say all this testifies to the fact that moscow’s military recruitment efforts over the past year have done little to re reverse the trend of growing Manpower deficits on the front the horizontal recruitment of
Military personnel from other branches of the Armed Forces who are not directly participating in the war together with the recruitment of prisoners and those Russians suffering from poverty and and employment have been the main source of the kremlin’s new recruits it says the understaffing of military units remains a systemic
Problem for the Russian armed forces the Kremlin will presumably continue to report inflated statistics and an effort to save face with an increasingly frustrated domestic population and it says the Russian military leadership has promised to increase the number of contracted soldiers to 745,000 by the end of 202 24 up from
695,000 by the end of 2026 as was planned last year in other words there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors we don’t really know their real numbers both sides say that the other is running out of troops both sides deny this and of course we see even in Ukraine they’re
Recruiting older and older generations of men to fight in the war Russia is very likely going to be doing that as well and of course zalinski is also claiming Ukraine is still able to fight a long War Russia has many more people than Ukraine does and it looks like
Ukraine also interestingly is starting to clean things up on the front of corruption one of the big concerns for the United States by the way let me show you this Ukraine is starting to expose more corruption in its military ranks and I’ll explain why this matters in a minute let me show you
First this is aramax it says Ukraine’s defense Ministry said it uncovered an attempt by some officials to purchase artillery shells at inflated prices Revelations that came after defense Ministry rusam emov pledged to weed out corruption in the military sphere it says one official was detained and others were dismissed from their post as
A result of the investigation the ministry said in a statement briefly on this one of the reasons why Ukraine is having trouble getting money to finance its war is the perception of corruption it’s personally for me one of my biggest concerns generally speaking I believe Ukraine has a right to defend
Itself against Russia and against Russian invasion I think personally that Russia presents a much larger threat to the world as it’s aligned with the Chinese Communist party then you know the future of like a woke Ukraine working with the west and the United Nations and so on personally I think the
Idea of national bolshevism that Russia has come to represent a combination of Communism and fascism or national socialism again National bolshevism which is what they call it the fourth political Theory as they call it I believe that represents a serious threat as Russia begins aligning itself more closely to the Chinese Communist party
At the same time though I believe that you know American finances going to support Ukraine need to be audited otherwise the money we’re giving them isn’t going to defend the country in the first place we need to make sure that if we’re giving them money to defend themselves then that money is actually
Being used to defend the country and it’s not going into the you know dirty pockets of corrupt officials to buy themselves yachts and you know vacation homes and so on which unfortunately we’ve seen examples of I don’t believe it’s responsible to the people fighting to defend Ukraine if corrupt officials
Are taking the money and using it for whatever they want I understand one of the arguments in not having audits is that it’s a corrupt country and the officials are the ones keeping the war going and if they don’t have enough bribery coming in then they don’t have
An incentive to make sure the war continues uh I don’t think that’s a clean way of doing things and frankly I think that’s creating a lot of the perceptions of why people don’t want to finance the war in the first place and why people don’t want to support Ukraine
In the first place personally I think that making sure there are audits making sure that corruption does not happen is an act of respect and you know for the Ukrainian troops fighting and dying to defend the country I don’t think these things are in conflict with each other
And so I believe that now that Ukraine is at least showing some signs of weeding out corruption this is them giving a nod to those concerns from the West especially as we enter an election season and especially as we’re probably going to see depending on how things go
Uh possibly a return of Donald Trump and someone who is going to you know maybe re-evaluate whether we’re going to finance this war War helping Ukraine defending itself against Russia if there’s no Audits and if there’s no checks and balances in place now it’s interesting to see that Ukraine now is
Shifting on that a little bit and they are taking some efforts to make sure that corruption is not taking place something else is happening right now though remember we’re talking about the broader context of global war there’s the Russia Ukraine war we now see Iran backing different Terror organizations
We see Iran backed Hamas going to war with Israel we see Iran backed houes launching attacks on Maritime you know ships and so on trying to damage International Trade we see the Chinese Communist party right now saying that it is going to take over Taiwan and there’s
Nobody that’s going to stop them we see Venezuela talking about going to war um against um you know different countries as well uh we see for example in Latin America the the prospect of very real war now given against of course Guana which is which is positioned right now
To become a major oil power briefly on that Guana is to the northeast of um of the continent of South America and you see right now Venezuela a communist-led country talking about you know attacking invading and possibly seizing control of those oil assets uh recently of course
Uh gu Iana did did did a discovery of one of the world’s largest oil reserves and it’s set to become one of the most wealthy countries on the face of the planet because of that and as that happens remember Lula in Brazil is now in control and Lula is very far left and
Very much align with the global leftist establishment it’s possible they could even back back Argent sorry back Venezuela on that and so take that into account vene Venezuela Iran Russia China we’ve been talking on this show for a long time now about the ccp’s war doctrines how it even wanted to use
Brazil as a proxy Force against the United States and how they wanted to drag America into four separate Wars in order to clear the way for the Chinese Communist party to invade Taiwan well here we are we have our four Wars now that being said there’s going to be
Different types of Munitions and different types of unconventional War being employed we see now attacks on global Shipping part of that con tie to the ccp’s standards of maintaining control and seizing control of global Maritime trade and eventually cutting off the United States from the ability to trade internationally isolating the
United States as part of this Global policy that was one of the big concerns for a long time we now see it at least in part being enacted the other big thing you’re going to be looking at is the denial of certain regions as well the standard for this is called A2 a
Area denial anti- access and you’re also going to be watching the use of different Munitions being employed including nuclear weapons we talked briefly about how Russia is already starting to normalize the use of chemical weapons and how they’re talking now about using even tactical nuclear weapons Iran is going to become the next
Big picture with this Iran right now has reached a state where it can possibly produce nuclear weapons it is expanding its nuclear weapons programs and it has reached a level of nuclear enrichment that is kind of the red line remember briefly Israel has frequently said that Iran’s nuclear
Enrichment is a red line for it to go to war against Iran and keep in mind the broader context of this that you know a lot of these these countries when they talk about going to war especially with their us allies that means America going to war and they’re often times depending
On us to defend them from you know let’s say being pulled into a war where they’re going to be destroyed by all the surrounding countries right now Iran according to Wall Street Journal has tripled production of nearly weapons grade uranium this is in a move it says to likly likely deepen its confrontation
With the West as Tran helps Allied militias to attack Israel and US forces in the region it says Iran is the only country in the world that is not a declared nuclear power currently producing 60% enriched uranium which can be converted to weapons grade materials within days in other words the red line
The concern we had of Iran being able to produce nuclear weapons were there it it is it is now happened now Wall Street Journal says us officials have said it would take Iran less than 2 weeks to convert enough 60% material into a form that could be used in a nuclear weapon
It says experts say Iran already has a sufficient stock of Highly enriched uranium to fuel three weapons Iran now is able to create nuclear weapons the time has arrived and remember as well that Iran is threatening mainly Israel currently and of course backing different proxy forces in the war
Against Israel and Biden of course is freeing up money ironically for Iran during this time despite heavy pressure from the you know members of Congress especially from Republicans to not be giving Iran money because what what is this you know we we unlock all this money for Iran and we see the almost
Immediate reemergence of global terrorism because because Iran and ironically among you know Terror terrorist groups backed by Iran and then suddenly Iran is going to develop nuclear weapons one of the red lines by the way in terms of the sanctions we had with them in the first place they are of
Course pushing the limits of what they can do and they’re seeing whether America is going to react and America is not showing signs it will react and they’re going to keep pushing that until they find the limit will they now create nuclear weapons they already have the
Capability and they can do it within 2 weeks and Israel has repeatedly said that if Iran does that they will launch attacks on Iran now you have some us officials right now calling for the United States to wage war on Iran you know Lindsay Graham and so on calling
For this it’s very possible we could soon get pulled into a real war with Iran as well and remember as this continues Russia is talking about a broader war with NATO China is now you know again Xi Jinping openly told Biden to his face that China is in fact going
To take Taiwan and as all this happens well you know again we’re here America’s possibly getting pulled into multiple Wars at the very least we’re financing them and at the very least America is getting now pulled into a terror War as it has to defend international shipping channels against Iran back
Terrorists now there’s all Al something else happening which is as America is helping Finance Ukraine and helping Finance Israel we are losing our ability to defend ourselves America’s military Arsenal is being depleted and as the American Military is you know losing its ability to actually function because we’re
Giving away so many so much of our military assets and our defense spending to other countries to fight proxy wars the United States right now is signing into action one of the I’d say a very large defense Bill Biden has now designed into law the defense bill which is roughly 886 886
Billion the Washington examiner said that President Joe Biden on Friday signed the annual National Defense authorization act into law and that approves 8863 billion in spending getting close to a trillion there according to White a press release from the White House and it said this according to the
Commander-in Chief Joe Biden it says the ACT provides the critical authorities we need to build the military required to deter future conflicts while supporting service members and their spouses and families who carry out that mission every day it notes as well that a separate $15 billion National Security
Package is also currently being the negotiated remember Republicans have been saying they’re not going to give money to Ukraine unless the Biden Administration actually starts securing our border something you’d want to do for facing global war especially with terrorists and they’re not doing by the way uh Democrats are refusing to secure
The Border they’re refusing to go along with that and so the bill to help Finance Israel in Ukraine and their Wars $105 billion is currently on hold until happens again we’ll see where it goes but very likely America is going to be fighting multiple at this point proxy
Wars and these proxy wars are already well on their way to let’s say becoming much more serious we see even the real possibility of nuclear war you know even North Korea right now is talking about the inevitability of war and they’re putting military satellites in place
Which by the way can be armed yes with nuclear weapons as well and as all this takes place the US is facing a very real situation that it’s burning through its Munitions and we need to very seriously uh increase our ability to fight Wars more directly real clear defense had
Something on this it says it is fighting rages in the Middle East and Europe and China looms as a threat America’s dwindling arsenal of high-end Munitions is emerging as an alarming crisis it says the United States once a fortress of military might now faces the prospect of a Munitions deficit in an
Era brimming with uncertainties this desperate situation demands the development of a national critical munition stockpile it says European weapons makers are overwhelmed and struggling to meet Ukraine’s consumption of more than 6,000 artillery rounds each day during peak counteroffensive fighting it says Ukraine’s ability to Stave off defeat and defend itself
Against Russia Invasion largely depends on an uninterrupted supply of these rounds it says Ukrainian forces are conserving their ammunition Supply which might lead to uh post uh postponement of upcoming counterattacks now given the situation I’ll say this America currently is in a state where we don’t have the Munitions or
Capabilities to really launch a major war because we’ve been against supplying that to we’ve been supplying our defense budget and a lot of our Munitions to Ukraine and other areas to fight their Wars you know help them fight their Wars this has created a very narrow window of
Vulnerability and if America does not rapidly ensure that we’re able to fight a fullscale war that leaves a a window of opportunity for other countries to very quickly launch let’s say a takeover like for example the Chinese Communist Party doing a rapid takeover of Taiwan
And of course by the time it’s done they could easily say hey said and done what are you going to do about it and do essentially what they did when it came to the ccp’s Takeover of Hong Kong uh telling the whole world it’s done it’s
Over what are you going to do about it and the world saw well the answer to that was relatively nothing um if America does not very quickly start acting again to punish other nations for let’s say invasion let’s say for using you know weapons of war that are banned by treaty
Chemical weapons maybe even nuclear weapons or even stopping the development and deployment of nuclear weapons as we see right now is a very real threat with Iran well we’re heading into a very serious very dangerous situation for the world and uh you know we’re not we’re
Not playing with a full full deck of cards let’s say uh when it comes to America’s leadership right now now and so there there are some real concerns with that as well all right folks that said let’s jump into some questions all right um and thank you all
For being here I know I’ve been out of commission for a bit and so it’s good to be back um those of you know I was actually out not feeling well for a few days let’s see here US citizen on the ground you’re saying isn’t blocking shipping more reason the Americas need
To produce their own essential Goods meds Etc yes um actually that’s something that’s been a major Point not just for Joe Biden but also before him Donald Trump and even before him Barack Obama uh there’s been a lot of talk around securing Supply chains and that that that statement
Actually has a lot of implications uh when it comes to securing Supply chains part of that is securing global Shipping choke points and making sure that we have access to global Shipping channels we’ve seen for example the Chinese Communist Party trying to launch the A2 ad strategy area denial anti-
Access uh in the South China Sea telling International shippers and you know companies running these big you know boats covered with these uh you know shipping containers telling them that they have to ask permission from China if they want to pass through the South China Sea America has been encouraging
Countries to not tell the Chinese Communist Party whether they’re passing through the region and offering you know military protection as they travel through the region America is doing what it call what it calls freedom of navigation operations meaning it’s it’s it’s just going through and bringing military
Ships through these areas in Defiance of the Chinese Communist Party sending a message to the Chinese Communist party you do not have the right to police this region you do not have the right to deny other countries access to this region and know nobody has to ask you
Permission to sail through this area China is of course continuing its actions to claim ownership over those regions that strategy the big concern is that the CCP will replicate that strategy in other areas maybe it will it will build artificial islands in the Horn of Africa maybe it’ll build
Artificial Islands at both ends of the Panama Canal and then claim to have territorial control over the surrounding Waters just like it’s doing for example in South China Sea it where it has worked in one area it might work somewhere else if we allow it to work
And so part of the strategy America has been you know deploying is this of course you know freedom of navigation operation and also talking about um you know the the ability of us to secure our supply chains to make sure that these channels are not closed off
As soon as we stop those operations we can watch very rapidly new powers take place where the CCP does begin saying hey this is our our territory now you have to pay the toll or you can’t come through or just telling countries they can’t go through if that happens you’re
Going to watch entire countries get cut off from the global economy and China could argue hey well you know America sanctions countries for violating International Norms we decide what the international Norms are now and as part of our way of punishing you we’re just going to den deny you access to the global
Economy that is one of the very real concerns of what that could mean um the standard the Pax Americana that has been in place for a very long time time could be denied and as US citizen on the ground is mentioning that could mean that medications even food even basic
Goods can be denied to certain countries and certain countries could even be denied access to global trade meaning the destruction of their economies uh you could watch entire countries be turned in you know you could watch First World countries get third get turned into third world countries overnight
Using these tactics uh and there’s also a concern even for the United states that we depend on China for example for Rare Earth minerals we depend on China for medication we depend on China and other countries for key materials to maintain our basic livelihoods our basic
Way of life and um if if we don’t maintain the ability to access International Trade we could easily get cut off at this point there there’s a real battle for this taking place uh real quick before we jump into more questions um I just did a big
Special feature on The ccp’s Hidden Hand this is part of my investigation recently in South Korea you might know you might remember I was filming for South Korea for quite a bit let me show you a teaser for that before we continue and again for those of you on YouTube
Twitter Facebook uh Rumble you can watch that for free on Epic TV EPO tv.com again we’re making this special feature fre free for everybody so even if you’re on YouTube whatever else you don’t have an epic TV subscription you’re able to watch this special feature free of charge the link is on
Epic tv.com EPO tv.com Link in the description as well let me show you this trailer the Chinese Communist Party uses bribery blackmail economic threats and outright subversion to quietly seize control of other nations while the CCP threatens to invade Taiwan using military force well the Communist Regime is already invading other nations only
It’s not being done with troops and bombs instead it’s being done with non-military tactics and South Korea has been an active Target of the Chinese Communist party in this lesser known form of War all right well th real quick those of you on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday I’ll be doing the full episodes on you know all the different channels Twitter YouTube Facebook Rumble uh so you can watch the full episodes of Crossroads on those days but for the
Other three days a week we’re going to just be doing the first part of the show and then of course the Q&A and the rest only on Epic TV EPO tv.com and we also have our special features documentary and a lot of other great content only on
Epic TV big update as well we now have part two of our January 6 documentary coming out the release for that is going to be on January 6 only on Epic TV the real story of January 6 part two is going to be coming out very soon so stay
Tuned for that and I I believe that we had a pretty big impact with the first one so yeah we’ll see we’ll see what the impact on this one is all right let’s let’s jump into some more questions uh Cassie Hansen you’re saying Josh I thought China’s economy was crashing and
The outlook for XI XI jingping was Dire is this still the case yes it is actually XI jingping himself noted this recently if Xi Jinping is saying the economy is bad that means it’s really bad again the perception of China doing well is what the CP often uses to lure
In you know business opportunities and foreign investment if they’re acknowledging that their economy is doing poorly and that you know it’s not an ideal time to come into China that means things are pretty dang bad and um remember though that a country doing poorly economically does not necessarily mean that war is
Averted actually in some cases that that could actually mean a greater threat of War uh because when countries are aren’t not doing so well that’s when they start looking for outside Solutions and if if they start looking for outside Solutions one of those solutions could be well stealing it from
Another country uh historically in the world you’ve seen Nations invade other countries invade neighboring countries uh in order to steal assets uh when when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party the very real I think first tier possibility of this is that it will invade and take over Taiwan uh
Tsmc the Taiwanese you know telecommunications company there all sorry Semiconductor Company tsmc the company that produces some of the best semiconductors in the world and Technology by the way which China under the Chinese Communist part is not able to get that company is be is becoming
One of the let’s say big jewels that China try to seize because of sanctions right now the Chinese Communist party is cut off from the high-tech economy and one of the one of the agendas of the Chinese Communist party was to get out of cheap manufacturing China has been stuck as
The cheap manufacturer of the world the the factory of the world they don’t like being in that situation they had a strategy which was China 2025 they had another one called project 863 and this was looking to Next Generation Technologies they wanted to make China in the position similar to
Like you know the United States where they ironically steal all of our Innovation replicated in China and they become the innovators of the world they become the ones developing all the Next Generation technology because they steal all the designs and so on from all the innovators of the world and because
China would then become you know the high-tech Hub of the world other countries could become the cheap manufacturers the ones who do all the you know all the leg work and so on why would they want to pay you know premiums to other countries for example to you
Know have their factories in China when China could have it all that was the big plan the the Achilles heel of that plan was semiconductors these high-tech chips you’re not going to be able to build high-tech phones like smartphones and so on unless you have the the you know current generation chips
If you’re going to be even 5 years behind or 10 years behind or 20 years behind that’s a big generational Gap when it comes to smartphones think think of the difference of 10 years in terms of like the iPhone you know where were where was the iPhone 10 years ago that
Is essentially where you would be if you were 10 years behind and when it comes to generations and chips and generations and some of these core Technologies you know that’s what the that’s where the game is when it comes to computers when it comes to AI when it comes to all of
That think of the difference of 5 10 years China under the Chinese Communist party is debatably even further behind than that on domestic technology and so being cut off from these Advanced chips puts them back very far um Taiwan interestingly and South Korea interestingly are two of the countries
That have these capabilities of developing these high-tech chips I’ve been talking a lot about South Korea how the CCP is trying to gain control of the country using mainly subversion and political Warfare and of course gaining a foothold in South Korea using those unconventional unconventional War methods Taiwan is a
Little more difficult for the Chinese Communist party because they know the game and Taiwan has already outlawed a lot of the unconventional tactics of the CCP uh other than for example direct political Warfare and crime and because of that when the CCP is talking about taking over Taiwan
Unconventional means are a little more difficult and unless for example with the upcoming Taiwanese election you have the pro CCP party take over which again the K it’s the kmt the cuming Tong they might have a shot at it um and so it’s possible the CCP could conquer Taiwan by
Means of election interference anything short of that they’re talking about actual war and um again if China take if China takes over Taiwan the CCP takes over Taiwan you could have these very valuable tsmc factories able to manufacture these next Generation chips fall into the hands of the Chinese
Communist party uh that is very real right now and again given as Cassie Hansen was noting given the very rough situation of the Chinese economy that could be seen as the Hail Mary you know the last the last attempt to save the ccp’s economy U it is possible they might do
It uh Paul novante you’re saying isn’t the US now politically internationally impotent relatively speaking yes unfortunately uh the Biden Administration is um is is not not not playing with the full deck cards I’d say and um that being said though keep in mind keep in mind the broader context of
This a lot of the world is actually very far left most of Europe is very very farle uh most of the Asian regions you know a lot of them are at the very least socialist countries if not communist countries a lot of Latin America and Africa are either socialist or communist
Uh the United States and the I’d say you know Global populist movement is is one of the one of the few remaining I’d say truly conservative countries on the face of the planet and um again you know the Resurgence of let’s say a Donald Trump or a trump-like
Figure uh is an anomaly in the world right now although although you do have this kind of undercurrent shifting things globally my point with saying this is that you know Biden’s administra ation and the you know Green policies he has that’s the policies for a lot of Europe
That’s the policies for a lot of the world and so even though you know Biden in in terms of the economy in terms of you know let’s say his ability to to do most things is is not quite up to par for most America standards uh it is in
Line with a lot of the global politics unfortunately you know I’d say my opinion right unfortunately um I I I do think you have a lot of very far-left governments in the world and so it’s it’s not out of tune with them per se uh that being said of course the other real
Situation we’re facing is that a lot of them are coming to understand that America having a strong leader is good for the world because America having a strong leader means we actually do something when let’s say you know Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons when Iran reaches the state where it can
Create a nuclear weapon within 2 weeks where North Korea is threatening global war again and it’s putting military satellites in place where Argentina is threatening to conquer you know the nor the country just to the north not Argentina Venezuela is threatening to conquer the country just to the north of
It you know when countries threaten global war and are just acting like there’s no rules in the world normally our allies look to the United States to protect them and you know normally in that in order for that to happen you’d have you’d have to have a strong leader
In place to be willing to do that criticize America as they will for playing that role every country on Earth every Free Nation actually depends on us to play that role you know what I mean they criticize us for doing it but they
Want us to do it and um you know I I would say that unfortunately Biden is not showing the strength I think to deter these types of threats currently and a lot of these things are being allowed to take place um given that situation um I would say that it is the
Case that America is politically and uh internationally impotent as uh Paul Paul nante has said and I I would say that maybe because of that a lot of the world is realizing that hey you know what they might disagree with the idea that a the American conservatives like to own guns
And believe in defending the world against International Terr terrorism and tyrants but you know what criticize us as they may they all want us to do it you know what I mean one of one of the ironies of it and I I would say that as the world becomes
Less secure and less safe A lot of these countries are starting to realize that they might need to play those roles themselves in reality is knocking at their door and they haven’t had to face that reality in a very long time uh we’re at an interesting place in the
World right now all right folks that that said uh it’s getting late in the day uh we have the full episodes uh you know again on YouTube Tuesdays and Thursdays so if you’re on YouTube Twitter Facebook Rumble so on every Tuesday and Thursday we’re airing our
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