WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.400 Good evening, and welcome to another edition of The Cajun 2 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:11.839 Night Live. I am your host, the Cajun Night Jacob Mook. 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:14.279 A lot of things have discussed this evening. We're gonna 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.280 start off with the United States. Then we're gonna shift 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.000 over the Atlantic to Europe. Then we're gonna make a 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.280 little bit of a stop into South Africa, stop off 7 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:25.239 in India for a minute, and then we're gonna end 8 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:29.120 over in China and Southeast Asia as a whole. All right, 9 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.039 For anybody who would like to see what we are 10 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.039 gonna be talking about rather than just hear about it, 11 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.280 please come to the link in the description below to 12 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.759 the Cajun Night. There is where we had the links 13 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:40.880 to host these events every Wednesday night at nine pm Central. 14 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:43.039 If you would like to join this ever growing community, 15 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.479 Now is the time, all right, Without further ado, I 16 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.399 am going to get over to our main course for 17 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.320 the evening, starting off with some things in the United States. Now, 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.759 before I say anything, this is not going to be 19 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.799 an episode where we spend a lot of time talking 20 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.759 about the Epstein cover up. That's just what I'm calling 21 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.200 it now, There's no other way to verbalize it. However, 22 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.840 I find it interesting that Dan Bongino has issued ominous 23 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:13.599 statements about FBI corruption probe. Shocked me down to my core. 24 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:16.879 For anybody who doesn't know, Dan Bongino just recently released 25 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:21.079 a statement on X, on Twitter, on the socials and 26 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.200 the media's and essentially just told everybody that he has 27 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.120 forever been changed. He had no idea that the agency's 28 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.200 works like this. This time in DC has shaked him 29 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.799 down to his core and all of these things. His 30 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.799 direct quote says, we cannot run a republic like this. Okay, 31 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.680 so let's just get into the reading of it. Dan Bongino, 32 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.120 former conservative radio host and current deputy director of FBI, 33 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.519 posts a vague but highly ominous statement Saturday about what 34 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.560 he's learned during an internal investigation of corruption and quote 35 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:58.000 unquote political weaponization at federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, 36 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:00.439 saying his findings thus far have shocked me down to 37 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.000 my core. Direct quote. Bongino, who is very quiet since 38 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.239 his statements dismissing the Epstein matter kicked off a firestorm 39 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:11.280 inside the Trump administration, posted the message Saturday on X, 40 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.199 though he gave no specifics or names. Bongino, who would 41 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:19.240 routinely dial up the drama around the news and conspiracy theories. 42 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:21.879 As a host of The Damn Bongino Show, made it 43 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:27.199 sound something very big and very dark. Way excuse me, 44 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.159 made it sound like something very big and very dark 45 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:33.280 was soon to come out during my tenure this direct 46 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.800 quote here. During my tenure here, as the deputy director 47 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.960 of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that 48 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:44.000 things are happening that might not immediately might not be 49 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:48.240 immediately visible, but they are happening, Bongino wrote, the Director 50 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.960 and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and 51 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.719 the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intellig intelligence operations. 52 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.680 It is a priority for us. But what I have 53 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.000 learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessarily 54 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.120 investigations into these aforementioned matters has shocked me down to 55 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:10.719 my core. Okay. Bongino was reportedly considering his resignation earlier 56 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:14.360 this month amid political fallout from his commitments or comments 57 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.199 rather that Epstein did in fact kill himself, which he 58 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.719 did not, and that there was no infamous quote unquote 59 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.840 client list, But Bongino stayed, and something he's come across 60 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.919 since he's since has got him on one, and something 61 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:37.479 he's come across has got him on one on a list. Yeah, 62 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.400 this article's written very strangely. I know it sounds like 63 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.120 I'm stammering here, but it's actually okay, it's another direct 64 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.800 quote here. We cannot run a republic like this. I'll 65 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.280 never be the same after learning what I've learned. Bongino 66 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:54.199 called the investigation righteous and proper and promised it would 67 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.080 be done by the book and in accordance with the law. 68 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.319 A direct quote continuing as with the investigation, I cannot 69 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.719 predict where it will land, but I can promise you 70 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.479 an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not my truth 71 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:12.199 or your truth, but all capital the truth. God bless 72 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:17.319 America and all those who defend her respectfully. Damn. Okay, 73 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:22.319 that's the overunder of the statements that he made. I 74 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:24.720 maybe I'm just a bit of a pessimist at this point. 75 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.560 I have less than zero faith in the system, and 76 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.639 somehow they still shock me. And that just seems to 77 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.879 be a new thing every day. The internal investigation that 78 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.879 he has said that has shocked him to his core, 79 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.600 and all of these things. I have a weird feeling 80 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.639 that this is gonna be in reference to a twenty 81 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.519 sixteen Obama scandal. I could be so wrong here. I 82 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.759 could be wrong, and he is really about to give 83 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.199 us the truth about Epstein. I just I don't believe that. 84 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.319 I think that he's letting out this ominous tweet to 85 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.000 get people, you know, hanging by a thread like, oh, 86 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.879 is it about to happen? I think the big hammer 87 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:07.319 drop is gonna be a treason charge from twenty sixteen, 88 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.759 which I cannot stress this enough. Trump won that election 89 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.560 and he's drumming up old charges about something from an 90 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:20.199 election that he won. So like, at this point, there 91 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.519 are some, not myself, but there are some that are 92 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.279 saying that this is more or less him being a 93 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:32.439 really late sore winner, like really late, like two administrations 94 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.480 late sore winner to this particular conversation. I don't know. 95 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.279 Perhaps I'm wrong, and Dan Bongeno will release all of 96 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.639 the Epstein things in kind. Maybe this is just not 97 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:44.800 gonna go anywhere, and it's all gonna be a part 98 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.680 of spinning the rumor mill, which all of these people 99 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.800 have done, Cash, Pam, Dan, Trump, JD all of them 100 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.680 just kind of seemed to be spinning that rumor mill 101 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.519 as much as humanly possible to maintain their composure and 102 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.560 their job. All right, now, let's move on here. Interestingly, 103 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.000 still sticking to the US, but starting to make our 104 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:10.120 way across the Atlantic. The United States nuclear weapons are 105 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.759 quote unquote deployed to UK for the first time in 106 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.199 seventeen years. For anybody who does not know, yes, this 107 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:21.199 is very true. The United States has decided to give 108 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.720 some nuclear warheads over to UK to just kind of 109 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.399 hold on for a while, just you know, Hey, we're 110 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:28.480 gonna send some boats. Can you just put them at 111 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.319 port and the stuff that's on the boats, can you 112 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:32.560 put them in a really secure location for us just 113 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:37.079 for a little bit. Thanks. No real reason as to 114 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.040 why nothing has started up in Europe any more or 115 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.759 less than what's been going on for the past three 116 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.000 years that would lead anybody to assume that we need, 117 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.040 and by way, I mean the United States need a 118 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.680 nuclear arm out there in Europe. Nothing has happened that 119 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.879 would shift that gear. Yet somehow here we are now. 120 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.560 I know some are gonna say that this is in 121 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:05.199 response to Russia Test five firing one of their new ICBMs. Okay, fine, fine, 122 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.839 But to the principle of America sending nuclear warheads to UK. 123 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.360 I feel like that's a bit presumptuous. If anything, test 124 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.519 firing in ICBM seems like the ultimate saber rattle. But 125 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.600 it's only just a saber rattle. It was a test fire. 126 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.480 No one got hurt, nothing got damaged or any of 127 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.959 these things. And we already knew that Russia had ICBMs. 128 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.720 That's that's that's not a flex, it's a it's a 129 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.480 rattle of the saber. But anyway, reading on here, this 130 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.160 is from newsweeks the United States military has moved nuclear 131 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.279 weapons to British soil for the first time in close 132 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:44.600 to two decades. New analysis indicates open source analysis identified 133 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.600 an aircraft taking off from the Kirkland Air Force Base 134 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.600 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, bound for the United Kingdoms Royal 135 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.519 Air Force Royal Air Force Base rather than Lackynheath in 136 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.839 the east of England. Kirkland Air Force Base is the 137 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.480 headquarters of the US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, a 138 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.360 main storage site for nuclear weapons. I feel like me, 139 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:08.000 maybe we shouldn't just have that open source. Same time, 140 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.480 I think, actually, because of the nuclear deals that it 141 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.959 kind of has to be open source. I'm not one 142 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.319 hundred percent on that, but anyway. A US defense official 143 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.519 told Newsweek the US did not comment on the status 144 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:24.519 or location of strategic weapons. Okay, that's that's actually pretty funny, 145 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.680 as they just told us the location and said they 146 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.120 didn't comment on it all right. A spokesperson for the 147 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.279 British Defense Ministry said it remains a long standing UK 148 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:35.360 and NATO policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence 149 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.480 of nuclear weapons at a given location. Why does this matter? 150 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.960 Speculation has long surrounded whether the East England RAF base 151 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:47.360 could once again host US Air Force or US nuclear weapons. 152 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:52.440 Rather rif Locknheath hosted American nuclear weapons for several decades 153 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.279 until two thousand and eight. Interesting that they held nuclear 154 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.399 weapons until Bush got out of office. I find that interesting, 155 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:04.279 But moving on, the Federation of American Scientists the FAS 156 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.559 said in twenty twenty three, the United States military budget 157 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:12.519 documents strongly implied the US Air Force intended to re 158 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:16.480 establish its nuclear weapons mission in the UK at Lacknheath, 159 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.279 the home of the forty eight fighter Wing dubbed Liberty Wing, 160 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.440 has been upgraded in recent years. If Washington moves nuclear 161 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.120 weapons back into the UK. It would break with decades 162 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:30.679 of policy and planning and reverse the southern focus of 163 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.519 the European nuclear deployment that emerged after the end of 164 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.840 the Cold War, the FAS said in an updated analysis 165 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.639 earlier this year. So what do we need to know 166 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.559 from this? Flight tracking data shows that the US Air 167 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.919 Force C seventeen cargo plane deported or excuse me, departed 168 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:49.240 from Albuquerque for a flight just over ten hours to 169 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:53.000 Lackenheath on July sixteenth, and left the UK two days later. 170 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.240 It looks like it went to England, dropped off those 171 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.240 weapons and went back to regular operations in the US. 172 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:04.519 William Albuquer Alberquie Okay, a former head of NATO's Nuclear 173 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.799 Non Proliferation Center, told Britain's The Times. The UK government 174 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:11.480 announced last month that it would buy at least twelve 175 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:15.480 F thirty five A fifth generation aircraft, which, unlike the 176 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.600 F thirty five B jets the country's RIF already operates, 177 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.480 are certified to carry nuclear weapons. The jets will be 178 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.159 stationed at RIF Marham Marham. I guess I don't you know. 179 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.440 I don't speak the Kings English, I speak American English. 180 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:34.000 A base north of Lackynheath. The purchase reintroduces a nuclear 181 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.399 role for the Royal Air Force for the first time 182 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:39.799 since the UK retired its sovereign air launched nuclear weapons 183 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:42.080 following the end of the Cold War. The British government 184 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.480 said in a statement the UK has triedent its own 185 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.919 nuclear weapons program, made up of four Vanguard class submarines 186 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.240 able to fire nuclear missiles. The US has both strategic 187 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.799 and non strategic nuclear weapons. Non strategic nuclear weapons, which 188 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.720 in the US case are variants of the B sixty 189 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.360 one gravity bomb, are also known as tactical nuclear weapons. 190 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.399 The US announced at the start of the year that 191 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.360 it had completed a long running program to upgrade the 192 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:10.480 B sixty one to the B sixty one Dash twelve. 193 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.799 Strategic nuclear weapons are deployed or on intercontinental ballistic missiles, 194 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:20.679 submarine launches, launched ballistic missiles, and those fire from bomber aircraft. 195 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.399 They are thought of as missiles that could level entire 196 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:28.639 cities and threaten major global superpowers. Unlike strategic weapons, tactical 197 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.600 nuclear weapons are designed for use on the battlefield or 198 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.600 in what is known as a specific theater. They have 199 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.159 a smaller yield and are designed to be used against 200 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.480 different targets. That different targets than strategic nuclear weapons, which 201 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.240 are limited under the New Start treaty that is due 202 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.159 to expire in twenty twenty six. The US has an 203 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.480 estimated two hundred tactical nuclear weapons, with roughly half deployed 204 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.559 at European bases. The US is believed to have around 205 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.919 one hundred tactical bombs deployed in five NATO countries on 206 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:01.799 the continent, including in Turkey, Germany and Belgium. So what 207 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.879 people are saying, Ah, it's not really that important, Okay, 208 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.759 Long story short, The US has decided to send nuclear 209 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:14.639 capable weapons to Britain, as well as sell Britain a 210 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.240 upgraded version of the F thirty five that is capable 211 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:21.840 of carrying said nuclear weapons. Is this also a form 212 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.639 of saber rattling the same way that Russia launching its 213 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.080 ICBM might have been seen as such? I personally think so, 214 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.480 Although I do find it interesting that they would choose now, 215 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.399 of all times to flex in this manner. I don't 216 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.879 know that. Being said, we're talking about nukes making its 217 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.200 way to Britain, We're talking about jets being sold. It's 218 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.120 interesting to note that one of the biggest military industrial 219 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:52.600 complex figureheads in America, Lockheed Martin. Their profit dives eighty 220 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.720 percent on one point six billion dollar charge, shares tumble. 221 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.960 If you haven't heard anything about this, Lockheed Martin's profit 222 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:07.360 shares have dropped eighty percent. That is unprecedented and there's reasons. 223 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.480 There's absolutely reasons as to why. But you would even 224 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:15.120 think still Locky Martin, RTX formerly Raytheon, and Boeing are 225 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.960 the biggest. Those are the top three. Those the godfathers, 226 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.519 if you will, of the American military industrial complex. For 227 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:27.559 their profits to drop eighty percent is insane, especially if 228 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.320 it's on a charge like I understand that. But even still, 229 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.519 they got lawyers. For their lawyers, you think they'd be 230 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.200 able to beat the case and keep going. But you 231 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.519 know what, let's just read into it. Here is it 232 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.200 from earlier this month, July twenty second, Locky Martin reported 233 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.320 on Tuesday that its second quarter profit plunged by about 234 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.279 eighty percent after the US defense group recorded a pre 235 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:51.000 tax loss of one point six billion dollars mainly linked 236 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.919 to a classified program within its aeronautics segment, sending its 237 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.519 shares down more eight percent, more than eight percent. Rather, 238 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.559 the company also trimmed its twenty twenty five profit outlook 239 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.879 by one point five billion dollars or eighteen percent, and 240 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.000 said it now targets six point sixty five billion in 241 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.440 operating profit for the year. This new guidance revised down 242 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.639 since the company's last estimate in April did not include 243 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.679 potential impacts from tariffs, which have affected other defense companies 244 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.399 with international customers. Lockheed's tariff's risk is relatively low, as 245 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:30.519 its supply chain and labor are largely domestic, said Brian Mulberry, 246 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.279 portfolio manager at Zach's Investment Management. Don't know who that is, 247 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:38.120 but moving on, the company's hefty change charge stem from 248 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:42.159 difficulties with a classified program in its Aeronautics business and 249 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:47.720 air National Helicopter program and its Sikorski unit. Thing got 250 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.919 killed that word all right. Defense contractors are grappling with 251 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:55.600 mounting cost pressures as inflation and supply change disruptions drive 252 00:14:55.720 --> 00:15:00.480 up expenses on long term programs priced years ago. Many 253 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.159 of these contracts, often fixed price, were negotiated before the 254 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.440 post pandemic surge in labor, material and component costs, forcing 255 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:11.120 contractors such as Lockheed to absorb overruns. Apart from the 256 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.120 nine hundred and fifty million dollar charge on the classified program, 257 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.399 Lockheed took a five hundred and seventy million dollar hit 258 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.200 on its work for the Canadian government relating to the 259 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:25.080 procurement of its H one forty eight cyclone maritime helicopters. 260 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.440 The Turkish Utility helicopter program saw a ninety five million 261 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.120 dollar loss as well. This charge was due to a 262 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.960 rest restructuring caused by US government sanctions on Turkish entities 263 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.559 and persons involved in the program. Tasselt said it was 264 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.799 in a call with Analysis. Lockheed is also engaged in 265 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.240 a tussle with the US tax authorities, who assert the 266 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.120 company owes an additional four point six billion dollar tax bill, 267 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:56.360 executives said, adding that they were pursuing a remedy that 268 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:01.720 could include litigation. Additionally, the company provided an update on 269 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.080 progress with upgrades for its F thirty five jets, saying 270 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.399 it had completed hardware integrations and released new software for 271 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.000 the fleet. Earlier this month, the Pentagon's Program Office confirmed 272 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.559 the final delivery of seventy two jets held in long 273 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.879 term storage. In twenty twenty four, Lockheed's net income in 274 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.759 the quarter fell to three hundred and forty two million 275 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.440 dollars or a dollar forty six per share, from you 276 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.840 know what once was. Okay, let me let these numbers 277 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:33.360 are insane. They fell from three hundred and forty two million, 278 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.519 or a dollar forty six per share. And this was 279 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:42.200 from one point sixty four billion dollars or six eighty 280 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.519 five per share. So their profit shares dropped from six 281 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.600 dollars and eighty five cents per share to a dollar 282 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.960 forty six per share. This is that's drastic. That's really drastic. 283 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.960 And you would think again, with all of the wars 284 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.799 going on around the world, the military industrial contras like this, 285 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.759 whether they're American based or French based or Russian base, 286 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.240 it doesn't matter, you would think that this would be 287 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.440 go time for them. Everybody wants their their materials, everybody 288 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.799 wants their equipment, and somehow Lockheed has dropped eighty percent 289 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:21.400 in one quarter. That is remarkable. Lockheed missed Wall Street 290 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.279 estimates for a second quarter revenue, which came in at 291 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:28.359 eighteen point sixteen billion dollars compared with an average expectation 292 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:33.000 of eighteen point five to seven billion. Okay, I thought 293 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.720 it was just interesting to bring up. How again, you 294 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.759 would think the Lockey would kind of be, you know, 295 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.160 living off the fat of the hog right now, and 296 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:46.160 unfortunately that is not the case now as of this moment, 297 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:50.279 as of time of recording, there is no conversation about 298 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:54.680 Lockey closing its doors, restructuring, management, or any of these things. 299 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.400 Most of the tariff conversation has been you know, well 300 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.119 at least understood and agreed upon with the certain countries 301 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.000 and things. But put a pin in that one for 302 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.759 later in the episode, because now we have an issue 303 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.559 where Trump has decided that India will now pay a 304 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.799 twenty five percent tariff. We'll get to that here in 305 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.880 a moment. Anyway, moving on to the next topic. As 306 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:17.839 we were talking about the nukes making their way to 307 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.079 the UK, and as we were talking about Locky Martin 308 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.039 and all these things going on, let's go now across 309 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:28.000 the pond full force. Here the UK and Germany hail 310 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.160 a wide ranging treaty deepening ties in face of threats. 311 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.640 For anybody who hasn't heard, we will be talking about 312 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.960 the Kensington Treaty. This is something it was just recently 313 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:43.359 signed in England. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor 314 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:47.240 Frederick Murz hailed a major treaty to deepen ties in 315 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.519 areas ranging from defense to immigration on Thursday, the latest 316 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:54.880 step in Britain's push to reset UK relations with the 317 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.759 European Union. Isn't that kind of why the whole Brexit 318 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.880 thing happened? They didn't want to be a part of 319 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:04.599 the EU, but all right, nope. On his first trip 320 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.200 to London, as Chancellor Mar's described the Kensington Treaty as historic, 321 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.039 the first major bilateral agreement between Britain and Germany to 322 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.640 deepen defense cooperation and to try to boost economic growth 323 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:20.319 in both nations. Murrs's day trip follows a three day 324 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:25.240 state visit by Britain to Britain by French President Emmanuel Macrome, 325 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.920 which bro not gonna try to sign tangent too much here. 326 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.039 But I don't know if y'all been keeping up with 327 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.640 what's been going on with old Brigitte. She apparently lawyered 328 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.759 up to try to take on Candace Owens, and apparently 329 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:45.200 her lawyer has a very very very dirty past, with 330 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.279 all but actual skeletons in his closet, so it's not 331 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.799 looking really good. And Candace is pretty much right there 332 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.240 to just absorb all the smoke. I think at this 333 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.880 point she's actually getting high off the smoke. And I 334 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:02.680 don't mean that to say that she choked it down, 335 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.200 although I'm not saying she doesn't. You know, she does her, 336 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:09.559 but it's gearing up. I'm still fully of the belief 337 00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:13.880 that Brigitte Macrone is a dude and or Emmanuel's long 338 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:19.759 lost dad slash long lost uncle. But anyway, Murse's day 339 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.119 trip follows a three day state visit to Britain by 340 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:26.359 French President Emmanuel Macrone, signaling a greater cooperation between Europe's 341 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:28.839 top three powers at a time of threat to the 342 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:33.200 continent and uncertainty about their US ally. This seems to 343 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:37.680 be more of the intent behind the Kensington Treaty. Yes, 344 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.000 it is to deepen ties between these two countries and 345 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.960 all these things, fine, fine, cool. It is actually more 346 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.920 or less because they can't trust that the United States 347 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.599 will do as they say they will do, and a 348 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:51.759 lot of NATO countries are starting to feel that way. 349 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.039 There's reasons for that. Could it be that this is 350 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.039 because Trump has spurned on and more or less strong 351 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.000 arm leverage everybody in NATO to now spend five percent 352 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:06.119 GDP rather than two percent, because he wants them to 353 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.480 be stronger on their own so that America doesn't have 354 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:13.519 to step in if things go sideways. Okay, I get that. 355 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:16.519 That being said, now European countries aren't feeling so safe 356 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:18.319 that America is going to come to their aid in 357 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:20.079 times of needs. So now they're starting to make their 358 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:23.720 own treaties, their own alliances. The Kensington Treaty is one 359 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.480 of them. This is a direct quote here. We see 360 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:29.279 the scale of the challenges our continent faces today and 361 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.480 we intend to meet them head on. Starmar told a 362 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:34.240 press conference after the two leaders signed the treaty in 363 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.160 Victoria and Albert Museum, co founded by Britain's Queen Victoria 364 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:42.119 and her husband Prince Albert, of German origin, which also 365 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:46.039 makes sense. I mean the Habsburgs, which is the current 366 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:49.319 royal family, if I'm not mistaken, are of German descent. 367 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.319 So like it makes sense that Britain and Germany would 368 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.640 have their historic reasons for making this treaty happen. Dope, 369 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:00.440 The Kensington Treaty is an expression of our shared aims 370 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.359 and values. But more than that, it's a practical work 371 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.119 plan setting out a seventeen major projects where we will 372 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.079 come together to deliver real results which will improve people's lives. 373 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:14.720 Standing next to Starmer at an airbus plant, Merz aimed 374 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.119 again lamented Britain's departure from the EU, but said the 375 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:22.480 agreement would cement ties between the two nations and compliment 376 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.440 in agreement london struggle with France. His direct quote from Merz, 377 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.519 we are jointly determined to shape this new era with 378 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.839 new leadership opportunities the United Kingdom and Germany side by side. 379 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:37.400 Europe has been confronted with the US tariffs since President 380 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:40.720 Trump returned to the White House as a well, excuse me, 381 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:43.640 as well as question about the US commitment to defend 382 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:48.400 its European allies, including Ukraine, against Russian invasion. So let's 383 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:50.599 talk a little bit about weapons for Ukraine here, because 384 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:53.200 that is also where we're going next. Two leaders said 385 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:56.119 they had discussed in detail plans to send more weaponry 386 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.799 to Ukraine after Trumps signaled he would sell weapons to 387 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:03.960 NATO countries, including Patriot air defense missiles Kiev has urgently sought. 388 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.359 Merz said that the two had discussed Ukraine's need for 389 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.559 long range strike systems, which he called long range fire 390 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.319 and Ukraine will soon receive substantial additional support in this area, 391 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:19.039 he told press at a press conference. The treaty includes 392 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:23.119 a cause clause excuse me on mutual assistance, which, in 393 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.640 light of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, is 394 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:29.000 highly significant, a German official said this week. It builds 395 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.759 a different defense deal agreed last year that included the 396 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.039 joint development of long range strike weapons, and comes after 397 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:39.000 France and Britain agreed last week to reinforce cooperation over 398 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.599 their respective nuclear arsenals. As part of Thursday's announcement, Britain 399 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:46.759 and Germany also pledged to pursue joint export campaigns to 400 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:50.359 drum up orders from other countries for equipment they make jointly, 401 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:55.359 such as the Typhoon, eurofighter jet and the Boxer armored vehicle. 402 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:00.000 So moving on here the Europe situation. Yeah, we're gonna 403 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:04.000 talk a little bit about Ukraine. Very briefly. We brought 404 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.720 up last week that America is sending Patriot missile systems 405 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:10.839 that way, and in spite of all of these things, 406 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:14.920 Germany and Britain have decided that they want to have 407 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:19.240 even closer ties than they already do. I understand it. 408 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.359 I'm not necessarily throwing shade at it by any means, 409 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.640 but I find it interesting that Britain went through the 410 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:29.599 whole process of splitting from the EU, which I mean 411 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.359 as somebody who is not British outside looking in perspective here, 412 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:38.119 I respect they were at the time one of the 413 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:41.480 biggest economies in Europe and they were pretty much footing 414 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.200 the bill for all the EU projects and that's not fair. 415 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:47.119 They decided to split and do their own thing. Now 416 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.839 because of the insane amount of immigrants, not just there 417 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.799 but all over Europe. But Britain themselves, their economy is 418 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:56.720 not doing as hot as it once was, and now 419 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.519 they're making these private deals between them and France, them 420 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:01.759 in Germany. It'll be interesting to see who they make 421 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:04.039 a deal with next. But beside the point, I think 422 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.000 that that also gives them a little more leverage as 423 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.039 far as making deals goes now that they are not 424 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:12.079 a part of the EU, but they can still be 425 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.720 friends and draw treaties with the EU. I could see 426 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.640 it as kind of the best of both worlds. Again, 427 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.640 kind of early in this whole conversation, So we will 428 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:24.920 see how it plays out. All right. Now, let's talk 429 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:27.440 a little bit about the Bricks Summit that just took 430 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:31.799 place not too terribly long ago. There is some differences 431 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:36.839 of opinions that came to light at this last Bricks 432 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:43.079 you know summit, and of the similarities that these countries share. 433 00:25:43.480 --> 00:25:47.240 Of course, they want to topple the USD as the 434 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:51.680 world currency in question, right, they want to be taken seriously, 435 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.640 they want to be seen as the new g seven. 436 00:25:55.359 --> 00:26:01.759 That being said, that's about where the similar stopped, and 437 00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:05.440 there was no real hints at a military alliance. Everybody 438 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:07.599 was more towards the side that they want to be 439 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:10.440 the leader of AI. They want bricks to be the 440 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:16.079 world's foremost AI thing, and by they they meant China 441 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:18.119 and Russia are gonna vie for who's leading the world 442 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.640 in AI technology. That's about what I got from it, 443 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:24.720 But the differences that came out of it I found 444 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:28.200 to be pretty interesting as well. Let's read the takeaway 445 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:29.799 here and then we'll just kind of go over the briefs. 446 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.640 The seventeenth Bricks Summit, held in Rio de jan Ara, Brazil, 447 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.200 marked the first major gathering of the expanded block, which 448 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.599 now comprises eleven members, the original five Brazil, Russia, India, China, 449 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:44.640 and South Africa, which for the record, South Africa was 450 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:46.200 kind of late to the game. At first it was 451 00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:49.920 just called brick. Then when South Africa joined, it became 452 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:53.240 bricks and they were seen as the original five but anyway, 453 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:58.559 and the new entrance Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia 454 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:02.799 which has not yet formally accepted membership, and the UAE. 455 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:07.880 They were joined by Brazil in Brazil by ten partner countries, 456 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:12.400 including Malaysia and Vietnam. With the summit haled just days 457 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:17.400 before the US President's July ninth reciprocal tariffs deadline. The 458 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:20.680 bricks countries appeared united in pushing back against the tariff 459 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:24.640 threat and sought to present themselves as united on key 460 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:29.960 issues such as global conflicts, AI and critical minerals. Put 461 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.799 a pin in the critical mineral thing, because while your 462 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.599 first inkling might be you know, iron, cobalt, lithium, these 463 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.079 types of things, that is actually kind of a source 464 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:43.799 of contention between bricks in and of themselves, but not 465 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:45.440 in the way you might think we're gonna get to 466 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:50.279 it anyway. However, statements of unity nowithstanding, member states are 467 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:53.559 pursuing divergent strategies in how they are negotiating with the 468 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:58.119 Trump administration. Meanwhile, differences among the BRICKS member countries also 469 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:03.200 persist on issues such as global conflicts, reforming multilateral order, 470 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.880 and critical minerals. Yes, let's talk about this, just kind 471 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:09.920 of reading over the briefs here. The expand of Bricks 472 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:13.680 block accounts for approximately forty percent of global GDP compared 473 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:17.039 to twenty eight percent for the G seven, and represents 474 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:20.880 about half of the world's population. I mean, to be fair, 475 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.839 China's got a really dense population, so does Russia, so 476 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.960 does India. So I mean, yeah, that's that's pretty fair 477 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.880 as far as the numbers are concerned. In a notable 478 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:38.200 first sense, taking office, President Jijiping don't worry, We're gonna 479 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:40.480 get to him later in the episode did not attend 480 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.200 the summit, missing an opportunity to project China as an 481 00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:47.599 alternative to US power. He was represented instead by Premier 482 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:52.079 Lee Kwang. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended virtually as he 483 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:55.839 faces an international criminal court arrest warrant in connection with 484 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:59.440 alleged war crimes committed in Ukraine. Not going to go 485 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:02.680 into it on that fine. Ukrainians have committed some war 486 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.319 crimes as well. Russia has committed some war crimes as well. 487 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:07.279 Like we're not We're not gonna have that conversation day. 488 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:09.920 It is what it is that being said. At least 489 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:14.440 Putin was able to like zoom call in. Jizaping has 490 00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.880 actually gone into full tilt hermit mode, Like he is 491 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.880 vowed that he will never leave his country again. There's 492 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.599 a conversation to say that this might be because of, 493 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:29.240 you know, his health, maybe he's not doing so well, 494 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:32.799 his age, the stress heavy lies, the crown kind of thing. 495 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.559 There's another conversation to say that he is afraid that 496 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:39.599 if he leaves, he may not make it back. There's 497 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:42.640 a conversation happening right now to say that he might 498 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.720 get overthrown if he tries to leave again. And I'm 499 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.480 not saying I necessarily believe that, but it is documented 500 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.240 in a few different places that Xijaping is definitely becoming 501 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.960 more of an isolationist and wants China to be isolationist, 502 00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:59.680 even though he wants them to have global reach. It's 503 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.880 a very strange time. It's a very weird time for China. 504 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:04.720 We're gonna talk about that more in depth here in 505 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.880 a minute. Moving on with the brief keynotes from the 506 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:13.000 Brick Summit, signaling discontent with the US President Trump's tariffs. 507 00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:17.440 The group's joint declaration voice concerns over unilateral tariffs and 508 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.480 non tariff measures which distort trade and are inconsistent with 509 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:26.240 WTO rules, albeit without directly naming the US, but I mean, 510 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:28.720 you could look at it. We knew exactly who they 511 00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:32.359 were talking about, but anyway, the summit produced a separate 512 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:37.480 Leader Statement on Inclusive AI governance, a roadmap for energy cooperation, 513 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:43.039 and an emphasis on fair and resilient critical mineral supply chain. Okay, 514 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:50.559 a roadmap for energy cooperation. A big source of contention 515 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:56.240 right now is that half of the bricks countries rely 516 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.000 on fossil fuels, and now I mean relies in like, oh, 517 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.799 they use them, but they're trying to be more green. 518 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:07.160 No no, no, like they really heavily rely on fossil fuels. 519 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.319 The other half of them are making all of these 520 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.559 efforts to become more green. So when we're talking about energy, 521 00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.920 when it comes to bricks, it actually has led to 522 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:21.519 a decent amount of infighting within the bricks nations, but 523 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:25.200 we'll get to that more in here in a minute. 524 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:28.880 The joint declaration avoided, however, the blocks pass references to 525 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.880 trading in local currencies, a potential challenge to the dominance 526 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.960 of the US dollar. Nevertheless, President Trump responded to the 527 00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:40.039 group's tariff statement, warning that countries aligning with anti American 528 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:44.319 policies would face an additional ten percent tariff. Brazilian President 529 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:49.759 Louis Silva responded, saying the world does not want an emperor, 530 00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:54.000 and I agree with that statement. It absolutely doesn't. We 531 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:56.519 can skip over the implications. Basically, it's going to be 532 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.680 more towards the tariff conversation. But there's more than just 533 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.519 the tear tarriffs that took place at the Brick Summit. 534 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.480 Now which kit and bricks countries are closed to a 535 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.440 trade deal with the US. No bricks country has finalized 536 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.720 a trade agreement with the US, with the exception of Indonesia. 537 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:15.880 Beijing reached a tentative trade framework with Washington in June, 538 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:20.240 but the truce remains fragile, with an August twelfth deadline 539 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:24.559 looming for a formal deal to avert renewed tariffs. Trump 540 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.240 has also announced DEEEP tariffs in Brazil fifty percent following 541 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.680 a public spat with President Lula, and on South Africa 542 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:36.519 thirty percent amid growing trade tensions, both set to take 543 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:41.160 effect on August first. Now New Delhi, however, appears to 544 00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:45.119 close close to securing a deal. An interim trade deal 545 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:48.680 with Washington is reportedly nearing completion, although the key sectors, 546 00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:53.960 such as India's heavily protected agriculture, remains continuous contentious. Rather 547 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:57.319 as India prepares to assume the Bricks presidency in twenty 548 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.559 twenty six, it continues to perform a careful ballotleancing act, 549 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:03.960 projecting leadership within the global South, while steering clear of 550 00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:08.960 any d dollarization rhetoric to avoid friction with Washington. Put 551 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:13.119 a pin in that because this article was written about 552 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:17.680 a week in some change ago. Yeah, we just things 553 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:20.119 have changed here. Trump just made it to where now 554 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.680 India is gonna have a twenty five percent tariff because 555 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.759 of them buying Russian oil. We're gonna get to it. 556 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.240 Critical minerals emerged as a key area of cooperation and competition. 557 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:33.000 While Bricks leaders have pledged cooperation on critical minerals, significant 558 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:37.119 differences persist among key members, particularly China and India, two 559 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.519 countries locked in a regional rivalry and engaged in an 560 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:45.480 unresolved border dispute. Indian Prime Minister Mody denounced the weaponization 561 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.599 of critical minerals and at the Rio summit following Beijing's 562 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:54.240 imposition of rare earth export restrictions on India. This signaled 563 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:59.160 pushback against the Chinese are China's alleged economic coercion and 564 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.839 price manipulation, aligning New Delhi more closely with Western leed 565 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:07.319 initiatives as India seeks secure and stable sources of critical minerals. 566 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:11.400 A partnership with Canada, positioning itself as a key player 567 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:15.639 in the critical mineral sector shows strong potential. With global 568 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.920 players competing for trade opportunities, partnerships and investments in this sector, 569 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.599 both competition and cooperation are likely to shape their economic 570 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.480 and diplomatic strategies. All right, So, knowing what we just 571 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.559 read about bricks, there was a lot of cooperation that 572 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:33.239 was had a lot of things about how they need 573 00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:36.400 to stand together against the tariff war that Trump is raging, 574 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.159 a lot of things about we need to de escalate 575 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:43.639 military conflicts around the world. Although they weren't talking about Russia. 576 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.719 Oddly enough, when they were talking about de escalation and 577 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.679 ending conflicts in all this, it seemed to be more 578 00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:54.840 at they were pissed at America for bombing Iram or 579 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.239 getting more heavily involved with Israel. No one talked about 580 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:03.800 the Russia at the entire Bricks summit. They just kind 581 00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:06.440 of meandered over the topic. It was. It was pretty 582 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.760 much none of their concerns, so why concern yourself with 583 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:12.719 that kind of thing. But one of the key things 584 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.360 that started to show cracks in the bricks system is 585 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.920 the energy conversation. South Africa is one of the original 586 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.559 five members of Bricks, right, they're an og as far 587 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:25.440 as the bricks thing is concerned, and I understand that's 588 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:27.239 a weird thing to say. They haven't been around that long, 589 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.000 but as far as the conversation goes, they're seen as 590 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.760 the original five. We read that earlier. But they rely 591 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.199 so heavily on coal for a lot of their energy. 592 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.440 Bricks is starting to make moves to say that they 593 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:44.159 are going to I don't want to use the word 594 00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:50.000 in force, but also they are making the signal that 595 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.480 if bricks countries don't start making more efforts to go green. 596 00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:00.239 There may be, for lack of better words, consequences. Now, 597 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:04.000 what exactly does that mean? Does that mean there's gonna 598 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:09.079 be internal tariffs, There's gonna be strong words and statements 599 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:12.400 given I don't know. I don't know. I have zero 600 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.960 belief that any bricks nation is actually going to take 601 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.760 steps against another bricks nation, because if one card out 602 00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:20.840 of the base of that house of cards falls out, 603 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.360 it all comes crumbling down. It's still a very new 604 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:26.280 and very fragile system. So I don't think anybody's gonna 605 00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:28.480 try to really rock the boat that hard. I get that. 606 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:32.400 This being said, let's talk a little bit about South 607 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:35.480 Africa and while they are a bricks nation and all 608 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:38.480 these things, let's talk about it here. How do South 609 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:44.039 Africa pivot as the US withdrawals from JETP. Now what 610 00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:49.559 is the JETP. It's called the Just Energy Transition Deal. Now, 611 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.920 as much as South Africa is a bricks nation, hardcore bricks, 612 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.480 they're one of the original five. All the thing, keep 613 00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:59.800 in mind that the United States was a big investor 614 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:03.280 in their entire country, and some would say that they 615 00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:06.159 can't really make it without the US dollar investing in 616 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.679 their infrastructure. For this Energy Transition deal. I'm not saying that. 617 00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.039 Let's read into it here. So this is from the 618 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:20.679 website investing in African mining in Daba. Okay. Interesting. South 619 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:25.039 Africa seeks new funding as US exits just energy transition 620 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.400 deal again. They want to devalue the dollar, they want 621 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.360 to take it out from me in the one world currency. 622 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.760 And now they're looking for help because the US just 623 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.159 exited a deal with them. Interesting how that works out? 624 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.840 Considering South Africa being formally informed by the United States 625 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.719 Embassy on about the United States decision to withdraw from 626 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:49.320 the JETP, how do South Africa proceed? The US has 627 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:53.199 pledged in support of the jet Investment Plan, which was 628 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:57.480 subsequently developed by South Africa, comprising of fifty six million 629 00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:01.760 dollars in grant funds and one billion dollars in potential 630 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:07.039 commercial investments by the United States International Development Finance Corporation. 631 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:11.639 Excuse me. The JETP was expected to provide eight point 632 00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:14.480 five billion dollars in funding from partner countries the US, 633 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:18.079 the United Kingdom, European Union, Germany and France. Interesting how 634 00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:21.199 none of that was bricks nations. It's all it's crazy. 635 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:24.039 It's crazy to me, but anyway to support South Africa's 636 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:28.039 transition from coal to cleaner energy. So the Bricks Nations 637 00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.800 are making pushes for all of their countries to go 638 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:34.159 more green, yet they are helping one of their original 639 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.960 five go green. In zero regard, the only countries that 640 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:40.679 were helping fund South Africa to go more green were 641 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:46.639 non bricks nations. I find that interesting any way, State 642 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.639 Utility escam, escam, I hope I'm pronouncing that right needs 643 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:56.119 significant investments to upgrade infrastructure and transition to cleaner energy, 644 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:59.199 so the loss of US participation will hinder progress on 645 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:04.599 uscrom's restructuring and plans for renewables. International investors may see 646 00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.800 the withdrawal as a sign of reduced global commitment to 647 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:12.639 South African energy transition, possibly affecting future green investments. However, 648 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:22.039 other JETP partners are still committed to All other JETP 649 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:26.519 partners are still committed, so alternative funding options might be explored. 650 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:30.400 In addition, the withdrawal of the US could strain US 651 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.440 South African relations, especially as South African maintains ties with 652 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:38.559 Bricks Nations right. This would see South Africa seeking more 653 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:42.519 secure alternative partnerships with China and or private investors to 654 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.840 fill the funding gap. South Africa's ability to meet its 655 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.440 climate targets reducing carbon emissions and achieving net zero by 656 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:55.519 twenty fifty is now at risk. Bro twenty fifty, that's 657 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.920 how far the plan is in advance, and now they're 658 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:02.800 saying that the third twenty five year look ahead might 659 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.760 be at risk because of what's happening right now. That's interesting. 660 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:10.039 Without sufficient support, the country will struggle to balance economic growth, 661 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.239 job preservation, preservation rather and in cold dependent regions, and 662 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.079 decarbonization efforts. South Africa will have to explore several alternative 663 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.559 funding sources to compensate for the US withdrawal from the partnership. 664 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.159 South Africa could negotiate for increased contributions from the remaining 665 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:31.440 partners Institutions like the World Bank IMF and African Development 666 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:38.639 Bank AfDB may provide concessional financial financing for energy transition projects. 667 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:42.000 Given South africa strong ties to Bricks, the Bricks's new 668 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.440 Development Bank could be a viable alternative for funding renewable 669 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.559 energy products. China has shown interest in financing energy infrastructure 670 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:54.360 in Africa again, so even though they are showing their 671 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:57.599 cracks here Bricks is there are some things that they 672 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.840 are unified on, no doubt, there's other things where they 673 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.360 are very divided on. They are actually judging the fossil 674 00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:09.239 fuel heavy countries for not being more green, even though 675 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:11.760 the ones that are trying to go more green, we're 676 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:15.760 doing so from Western funding rather than bricks funding. Will 677 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:18.800 bricks step up to foot the bill for not just 678 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:21.760 South Africa but even India to try to help them 679 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.840 become more green and use renewable energy in all these things, 680 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:29.440 we shall see, We absolutely shall see. But again, a 681 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.639 lot of the bricks nations already have enough on their 682 00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:34.360 plate to deal with right now, just trying to keep 683 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.199 their own people fed and keeping their own energy costs down. 684 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:40.400 With that being said, let's move over to talk about 685 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:43.480 another bricks nation that is under fire as we speak. 686 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:47.199 This is from Al Jazeera. Trump hits India with twenty 687 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:53.400 five percent tariff extra penalty for Russian oil purchases. All right, y'all, 688 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.639 remember how Trump said that he was going to tariff 689 00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:01.280 the in his words, I'm not mistaken the shit out 690 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:04.920 of countries that were buying Russian oil third party. He 691 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:08.039 was very clear about these things. Now, of course, Donnie 692 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:10.639 t does not run the world. These countries leaders are 693 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:12.400 gonna do what's best for them and they're gonna look 694 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.079 out for their country's best interests. Of course, who can 695 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:21.679 blame them for this? I get this. That being said India, 696 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:26.000 who we just had this big talk about them being 697 00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:30.320 coming more friendly with making these deals with There's even 698 00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:32.679 there was a defense contract deal that was just struck 699 00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:34.719 with Indian now too long ago. If I'm not mistaken, 700 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:38.599 American Indy just signed a military alliance which was pretty 701 00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:43.519 pretty substantial. Now Trump is hitting Modi with a twenty 702 00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:48.000 five percent tariff, literally an extra penalty for the Russian 703 00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:51.960 oil purchases. Now, let's get into it here. US President 704 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.880 Trump has announced a twenty five percent tariff on Indian goods, 705 00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.280 as well as an unspecified penalty for the country's purchase 706 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.519 of Russian oil and military equipment as an unending war 707 00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:04.639 in Ukraine frustrates the White House. It's frustrating the world, 708 00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.039 by the way, not just the White House. We're all 709 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.599 pretty tired of it. But we'll move on. Trump announced 710 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:12.960 the trade moves, which he said will come into effect 711 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.360 on Friday, on his true social account on Wednesday, saying 712 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.920 they are necessary to reverse long running trade imbalance. While 713 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.079 India's our friend, we have over the years done relatively 714 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:26.679 little business with them because of their tariffs are far 715 00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:29.239 too high. You know what, there's a quick video here. 716 00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:30.519 I wonder if it will do a good job of 717 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:31.239 breaking it all. 718 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:39.760 Down for US rehearsing for the first visit to good 719 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:43.199 Wrath by a US president. As Donald Trump is driven 720 00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:46.199 from the airport, he'll be welcomed by these dancers. Then 721 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:50.639 one hundred thousand people in Sad are valid by Patel Stadium. 722 00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:54.320 We are very much excited and we feel proud for 723 00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:57.920 one of the best leader of the world. Mister Donald 724 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:02.199 Trump is coming to a coming to Gujarat, coming to 725 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:04.599 a Handabay Government. 726 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.320 Leaders in Gujarath have spent around ten million dollars half 727 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.880 of that on the blanket security operation for Donald Trump's visit, 728 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:16.239 scheduled to last just four hours. Billboards every few meters 729 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:19.320 around the city center celebrate the friendship between They say 730 00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:22.599 the world's oldest democracy in the world's largest. 731 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:26.000 Okay, real quick, hold on, They have spent ten million 732 00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:30.719 dollars strictly on security for Donald Trump's four day visit. 733 00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:34.199 That's substantial. All right, let's continue. 734 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:37.440 And This wall has been built along the road that 735 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.599 President Trump will take from the airport to hide the 736 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.000 slum behind it, but away from the newly manicured city center. 737 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.320 Is another Gujarat from a time when that End Mordy 738 00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.800 was Chief Minister of the state and banned from traveling 739 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.199 to the United States. In February two thousand and two, 740 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:58.559 Hindu mobs killed at least one thousand people, most of 741 00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:03.000 the Muslims in riot. The US government banned Modi because 742 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:07.440 of allegations he tacitly supported the mob violence. Ninety seven 743 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.920 people were killed in the Muslim neighborhood of the Roorda 744 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.280 Patia in one day, including Salim Shik's cousin and her 745 00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:15.239 two young children. 746 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:21.280 By inviting Trump, Modi wants to hide the atrocities taking 747 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:24.280 place against Muslims in India. He wants to clean his 748 00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:27.519 image and pretend that everything is peaceful in India. But 749 00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:28.800 what happened was wrong. 750 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:32.440 I believe that I agree with that, and the fact 751 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:35.840 that they literally built a wall to hide the slums 752 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.320 behind it, so that Trump on his drive from the 753 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.920 airport to the building, don't he won't see the slums. 754 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.840 It's that's pretty incredible. Anyway, moving on with the article here, 755 00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:50.000 the president also blamed India for buying military equipment and 756 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.679 oil from Russia, which he said has enabled the war 757 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.880 in Ukraine. There's there's some merit to that, but I 758 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.599 mean every country who's buying Russian oil, and it's not 759 00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:01.880 just India, there's tons They're buying a third party still 760 00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:04.679 Russian oil, which is still in turn funding the war. 761 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.840 Which okay, that's how that goes. As a result, he 762 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.519 intends to charge an additional penalty starting on Friday as 763 00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:15.400 a part of the launch of his administration's revised tariffs 764 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.519 on multiple countries. The Indian government said in a statement 765 00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:20.920 on Wednesday it had taken note of Trump's tariff decision 766 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:27.920 and was studying its implications. That's that's a statement right there. 767 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.880 But anyway, the aggressive trade policy further complicates ties between 768 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:35.079 Trump and India's Prime minister, which were warmed during the 769 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.119 US president's first term but have since faced challenges over 770 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:41.239 trade and immigration. Mody has also denied Trump's claims that 771 00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:44.519 he intervened to resolve a four day conflict with Pakistan 772 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.400 in May, saying India had not and or has not 773 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:52.199 and will never accept mediation. Pakistan, by contrast, has seen 774 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.760 its stock rise with Trump's administration before and after the 775 00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.480 conflict with India. In June, Trump hosted Pakistan's army chief, 776 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:04.159 a sim Munir Awesome Munir Sure, for lunch at the 777 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.519 White House, the first time the US president has hosted 778 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.679 a military chief from Pakistan who isn't also the country's 779 00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.320 head of state. The US announcement also follows a slew 780 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:17.960 of negotiated trade frameworks with the European Union, Japan, Philippines, 781 00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:21.079 and Indonesia, all of which Trump said would open markets 782 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:23.719 for US goods while enabling the US to raise tax 783 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:27.320 rates on imports. Trump views tariff revenues as a way 784 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:32.000 to help offset the budget deficit, increases ties to his 785 00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:36.519 recent income tax cut, and generates more domestic factory jobs. 786 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:39.239 We shall see if it actually does that. It's a 787 00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:41.960 good thought. I still have a belief that AI driven 788 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:43.760 robots are going to be taken over most of the 789 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:48.440 menial manufacturing jobs that he thinks so many Americans are 790 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:51.119 just dying to get into a factory and work. I 791 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.400 don't think that's true, but we'll see. While Trump has 792 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:58.920 effectively wielded tariffs as a Kougel to reset the terms 793 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:03.119 of trade. The economic impact is uncertain, as most economics 794 00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:06.679 economicists excuse me, expect a slow down in US growth 795 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:09.880 and greater inflationary pressures as the cost of taxes are 796 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.360 passed along to domestic businesses and consumers. The Census Bureau 797 00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.639 reported that the US ran a forty five point eight 798 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:20.960 billion dollar trade imbalance in goods with India last year, 799 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:24.440 meaning it imported more than it exported. With a population 800 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.440 exceeding one point four billion people, India is the world's 801 00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:32.559 largest country and a possible geopolitical counterbalance to China. India 802 00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:36.159 and Russia have close relations, and New Delhi has not 803 00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:40.039 supported Western sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. 804 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:42.800 When Trump in February met with Mody, the US President 805 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:46.079 said that India would start buying US oil and natural gas. 806 00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:49.159 Trump discussed his policies on trade and tariffs with the 807 00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:52.960 reporters accompanying him on Tuesday on the flight home following 808 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:56.119 a five day visit to Scotland. He declined to comment 809 00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:58.840 when asked about reports that India was bracing for a 810 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.840 US tariff rate of at least twenty five percent, saying 811 00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:05.920 we're going to see. Trump also said the outlines of 812 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:10.079 the trade agreement with India had not yet been finalized. Uh, 813 00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:13.280 it's also worth mentioning not to circle back. But also 814 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:16.360 I think it's funny when Trump went to Scotland, he 815 00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:19.039 you know, played golf as he is, you know, one 816 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.480 to do, and the reporters pretty much bombarded him with 817 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.559 Epstein questions while he was in the middle of his 818 00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.159 golf game. He got pissed. It was hilarious. It's uh, 819 00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:33.119 it's great, it's great. Moving on here, let's talk a 820 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:35.400 little bit about this twenty five percent tear if that 821 00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.039 Trump is putting on India. 822 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.559 President Trump says the August first deadline to implement new 823 00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:43.519 tariffs on trading partners could include one of America's largest 824 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.199 allies in Asia. The president says India's trade policies have 825 00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:50.880 been hurting America and helping fund a war. Erica Brown 826 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.119 has more details tonight from Washington. 827 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.280 President Trump says he's ready to impose a twenty five 828 00:49:58.320 --> 00:49:59.920 percent tariff on India. 829 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.599 They sell a lot to us, but we don't buy 830 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:04.679 from them. You know why, because the tariff is so high. 831 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:06.519 They have one of the highest tariffs in the world. 832 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:09.280 Now they're willing to cut it very substantially, but we 833 00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:10.039 see what happens. 834 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:13.519 New Delhi says it will evaluate Trump's latest comments. The 835 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:17.000 US and India have held multiple rounds of trade talks 836 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:18.559 but have not come to an agreement. 837 00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:21.400 We're talking to Indian now, we'll see what happens. It 838 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:23.639 doesn't matter too much whether we have a deal or 839 00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:25.760 whether we charge them a certain teriff. 840 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:27.840 But you'll know at the end of this week. 841 00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:31.480 And he wants an additional penalty for India buying military 842 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:35.400 equipment and oil from Russia, which President Trump says helps 843 00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:39.199 fund Russia's war with Ukraine. The President is also deflecting 844 00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:43.039 questions about Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein. 845 00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:45.039 It's getting to be very old news. 846 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:48.400 Senate Democrats announced they are invoking a little known law 847 00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:51.679 to try to force the DOJ to release all Epstein 848 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:53.480 documents by August fifteenth. 849 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:57.719 Under federal law, when any five Senators on the Homeland 850 00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:02.719 Security Committee call on the executive the executive branch must comply. 851 00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:06.320 Republicans say the move is likely to trigger court challenges 852 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.559 before the Trump administration complies. 853 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:13.480 Erica Brown, It's getting to be very old news. Yeah, no, 854 00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:18.239 it's not. It's really not, bro, It's it's it is 855 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:21.679 crazy how hard he has pivoted away from this conversation. 856 00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:26.480 It's mind blowing. And even some of his most staunch 857 00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:29.840 supporters people I personally know that we're pretty much the 858 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.760 forever Trumpers, you know, at this point it was going 859 00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:35.480 to be Maga till I die kind of thing. Even 860 00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:40.360 they are turning away from him and his administration strictly 861 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:43.679 off of the way he's handling the Epstein thing. It's great, 862 00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:48.079 you know, I'm glad that people are, you know, in 863 00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:51.679 one regard not to go to conspiratorial with the conversation 864 00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.360 at this point, but COVID did a lot to make 865 00:51:55.400 --> 00:52:00.239 people start thinking for themselves right along the two. If 866 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:03.360 you want to argue this point three year mandates and 867 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.280 all the things, the masks, the stabs, the vaccines, all 868 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:11.639 the shit, a lot of people started thinking more critically about, hey, 869 00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:16.440 maybe we should make our own decisions, Maybe we should 870 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:19.679 think for ourselves before we just do some stuff. Right 871 00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:23.800 and Trump for everything that he has done that I 872 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.199 do like and I do support. This Epstein conversation has 873 00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:32.000 done so much in the way of making even more 874 00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:36.440 people start thinking more critically. It's great in that regard. 875 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.960 I hope that things come out. I hope that it 876 00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:41.119 doesn't get pushed under the rug. I just I have 877 00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:43.440 a very hard time believing in at this point. Maybe 878 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.480 that's just pessimistic of me. I don't know. I just 879 00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:50.159 have a really hard time believing that. And whether it's 880 00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:52.840 the flight logs, the Little Black book, the client lists, 881 00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:56.840 the videos of the guilty parties, and whatever, whatever, I 882 00:52:56.840 --> 00:52:58.519 got a hard time believing that any of that's going 883 00:52:58.599 --> 00:53:01.800 to come out. The The big thing about it is, 884 00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.119 if you were to do that, it's not even just 885 00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:09.639 the American government, like legitimately three quarters of American elected 886 00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:15.400 officials in Washington would be brought into jail over that list. Allegedly. 887 00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:18.599 It's not just the United States though, and it's not 888 00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:20.800 just Israel, and it's not just Russia, and it's not 889 00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:25.000 just China, and it's the conversation goes more into the 890 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:32.039 realm of society might crumble if that list gets released. Personally, 891 00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:35.559 that sounds like a good time to me. Not society crumbling, 892 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:40.079 but a real rebirth of society with all of the 893 00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:43.159 shitheads at the top not being a part of the conversation. 894 00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:47.079 That sounds amazing to me personally, But there are some 895 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:50.320 people that think that would be too drastic of a 896 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.440 shift and that society would not be able to withstand. 897 00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:57.480 I don't know. But anyway, anyway, so back to the 898 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:01.280 whole Trump India thing. India does have very high tariffs 899 00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:05.440 on imports into their country. That's very true, mostly because 900 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:09.199 they make so much that they buy in house. They 901 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:11.559 don't really have to outsource for much when it comes 902 00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:13.079 to like the things that you would buy at your 903 00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:17.000 local grocery store, manufacture goods, things like that, and they 904 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:19.880 have exceptions to certain things. I think the auto industry 905 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:22.360 has a couple of exceptions that you're able to sell 906 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.400 cars in India without such high tariffs and things, but 907 00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:27.360 I'm not one hundred percent of that. They may have 908 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:29.480 high tariffs on their auto industry as well. My point 909 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.800 is India does have a very high tariff margin. As 910 00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.519 far as the global conversation is concerned. Trump's saying that 911 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.320 he is pretty much matching fire with fire. However, the 912 00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:43.679 main push to the upgrade to the twenty five percent tariff, 913 00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:46.599 as well as the penalty he is saying, is based 914 00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:49.199 in India's like, even though they made a deal with 915 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.719 US to buy our oil and natural gas in February, 916 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:55.960 They're still buying Russian oil and Trump's pissed about this. 917 00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:59.159 So all right, fair enough, fair enough. We'll see how 918 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:01.480 it shakes out. We will see if that tariff stays 919 00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:04.199 in action, or if India comes and strikes another deal 920 00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:07.159 with Trump like so many other countries have done. We'll see. 921 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.679 Moving on the New York Post, and remember how I 922 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:14.400 said that President Xi might be on his way out 923 00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:18.719 Old Winnie the Pooh himself the Chinese president Jijaping on 924 00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:21.239 his way out question mark. This is from the New 925 00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:26.000 York Post. Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point 926 00:55:26.039 --> 00:55:31.000 to the potential and excuse me, potential and potentially imminent 927 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:35.559 fall of China's chairman of Everything, Jijaping. I don't necessarily 928 00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:37.599 believe this, but at the same time, it is very 929 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.480 interesting that Gi has gone more into a state of 930 00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:44.360 hermatism than anything else. Not going to the Brick Summit 931 00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:49.280 wasn't at first glance, wasn't necessarily that big of a deal. Okay, 932 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:53.199 so he missed a event. Man was busy, he was 933 00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:55.639 maybe he had a stomach virus or something something happened. 934 00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:58.360 Whatever the case, maybe there was a legitimate reason for 935 00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.840 him missing the Brick Summit, but there's been more than 936 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:06.119 a few speaking engagements foreign events where he was slated 937 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:10.079 to go where he has basically just not gone. There 938 00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.679 may be more to this than what we originally thought. 939 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:18.880 The Chinese Communist Party elders, including Hugh Gianto's GI's imminent predecessor, 940 00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:23.320 who G humiliated at the twentieth Party Congress in twenty 941 00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:26.559 twenty two, are now running things behind the scenes. G 942 00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:29.280 is in poor health and is likely to retire at 943 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:34.079 the CCP plenary session this August or take a purely 944 00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:38.199 ceremonial position. G's downfall has been rumored before, but never 945 00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:42.519 have we seen the recent purges and mysterious deaths of 946 00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:46.639 dozens of People's Liberation Army generals loyal to G, all 947 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:50.960 replaced by non G loyalists. Now, I remember us talking 948 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:53.280 about this a couple weeks back. There seemed to be 949 00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:56.079 this weird thing where there was more generals and more 950 00:56:56.119 --> 00:57:00.760 heads of big businesses in China that were all just 951 00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:07.280 found dead. And it wasn't in this big ceremonial military 952 00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:12.320 tribunal hanging on the national news and everybody watched the execution. 953 00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:16.000 Nothing like that, more or less, just very quietly, these 954 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:20.079 dudes have been pronounced dead and onto the next topic. 955 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:23.039 I mean, the CCP runs all the media in that country, 956 00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:24.679 so if they don't run a big story on it, 957 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:26.400 there's just not gonna be a big story on it. 958 00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:30.599 And we talked about how one of the biggest basically 959 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.159 the iPhone. To make the iPhone, it takes like three 960 00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:37.320 hundred small companies and they're all owned by the CCP. 961 00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:40.280 But one guy that was in charge of like a 962 00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:43.159 third of the manufacturing facilities that all have a hand 963 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:46.599 in making the iPhone, he started making a conversation like 964 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:49.880 he was about to defect a Taiwan he got found dead. 965 00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:53.360 And so it's not just the government, it's not just 966 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.239 the well, everything in China has its ties to the government. 967 00:57:57.320 --> 00:57:59.519 My point is, it's not just government officials, it's not 968 00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:02.760 just military leaders. It's even heads of businesses in China 969 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:06.760 that are all starting to make their way out. Xiang Wuxia, 970 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.880 probably mispronouncing that with whom she had a major falling 971 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:14.480 out after helping g secure an unprecedented third five year term, 972 00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:18.960 is now the de facto leader of the People's Liberation Army. Also, 973 00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:23.440 the unnaming of Ji's father's mausoleum last month was unprecedented. 974 00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:26.719 The mausoleum, which she has built to honor his late father, 975 00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:31.199 was was larger than a mausoleum for either Mal or Dang, 976 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:36.079 which is crazy. Meanwhile, Ji's personal protective detail has recently 977 00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:41.400 been halved. What world leader cuts his own security. That's 978 00:58:41.639 --> 00:58:45.119 that's where it actually kind of gets crazy to me personally. Uh, 979 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:48.400 whenever you see a world leader that is still currently 980 00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.519 serving as a world leader. By the way, like whenever 981 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:53.639 Trump wasn't president, Yeah he had some secret security detail, 982 00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:56.119 but I mean that's very normally. Former president still has 983 00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.719 secret service with him in some way, shape or form, 984 00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:02.280 not to the left that the seated president does. But 985 00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:05.840 even Bush right now has a secret service detail attached 986 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:10.679 to him, usually older guys or girls or girls who 987 00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:14.079 are you know, they're not the cream of the crop, 988 00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.480 but they're still very capable agents and they just kind 989 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:20.159 of are with him anywhere he goes, just as private security. 990 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:23.679 It's very normal. She is still currently serving, and China 991 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.000 is not necessarily a uncontroversial country by any means, so 992 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.800 for him to cut his personal security detail in half 993 00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:35.800 is actually kind of concerning to the status quo here. 994 00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:39.320 There is no explanation for G's disappearance for almost two 995 00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:42.880 weeks in late May and early June, while foreign dignitaries 996 00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:46.360 were hosted in Beijing by other CCP leaders. She has 997 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:49.719 also been conspicuously missing from the pages of the People's Daily, 998 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:54.639 the CCP organ that until recently ran fawning front page 999 00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:59.639 stories of G Daily. G appeared to host Belarus dictator 1000 00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:04.320 and Russian puppet Alexander Lukashenko in early June. G looked 1001 01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:08.559 tired and uninterested, even defeated. I don't. I don't necessarily 1002 01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:11.719 see him as tired or uninterested or defeated in this picture. 1003 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.800 If anything, they both equally look like they're just kind 1004 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:19.159 of not really feeling this conversation. It don't look like 1005 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:21.920 they're they're mad or unfriendly with each other. They both 1006 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.440 just kind of look over it. So I don't. I 1007 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:27.639 don't know, honestly, and I've seen G's face in many 1008 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:31.480 a picture that's pretty much just his face. I don't. 1009 01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:34.039 Maybe I'm just being Maybe I'm just being mean. I 1010 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.280 don't mean to sound like a dick. But I don't 1011 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.199 think he actually shows expression on his face ever, so 1012 01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:44.880 I don't know, but sure to some people he looked defeated. 1013 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:49.119 I suppose the meeting location was a low key, family 1014 01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:53.119 style area of the CCP leader's compound in Beijing that 1015 01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:56.000 had never before hosted a state visit, stripped of all 1016 01:00:56.039 --> 01:00:59.760 the pomp and circumstance that used to accompany every G gathering. 1017 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:03.199 The entire entourage was a mere handful. None of G's 1018 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:07.559 translators or senior aides were present. I find that to 1019 01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:10.800 be highly unlikely. How is there a conversation between the 1020 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:14.079 leader of Belarus and the leader of China without a translator? 1021 01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:20.000 But all right, unless maybe maybe Lukashenko had his own translator. 1022 01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:22.239 Maybe that was what's being implied here, I don't know. 1023 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.800 Compare that to the state visits recently hosted by other 1024 01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:30.760 CCP leaders, large extravagant affairs in prestigious CCP conference halls, 1025 01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:34.599 And following his recent call with President Trump, Chinese state media, 1026 01:01:34.599 --> 01:01:38.440 including State TV, referred to G without any formal title 1027 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:42.519 at all. This has never happened before. They usually call 1028 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:45.599 him by all of his monikers because he is the 1029 01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:49.760 you know, the the ambassador to everything, the president of 1030 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.119 everything that you know, not of the world, but of 1031 01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:58.000 every single group and association and whatever conference committee whatever. 1032 01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:00.360 He is always the head of this committee, the head 1033 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:02.719 of this conference ahead of this. For them to just 1034 01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:06.599 refer to him without any of his proper titles, that 1035 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:10.719 actually has never happened before in China. That's kind of crazy. 1036 01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:15.440 While this was later partially corrected, it is an inconceivable, 1037 01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:17.880 is it. I'm sorry, it is inconceivable that such a 1038 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:21.559 glaring oversight was an accident. Recently, professors at some of 1039 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.880 China's most prestigious universities have published articles directly criticizing G, 1040 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:31.079 which was unthinkable previously. That's another thing. Anybody that's been 1041 01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:34.079 critical of G has ended up in jail or their 1042 01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:36.639 family in some way, not to the level of Kim Jong. 1043 01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:39.239 I'm not saying they get forced into twenty years of 1044 01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:43.119 hard labor for using their voice. But also, China is 1045 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:46.480 not a free speech country, nor have they pretty much 1046 01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:50.840 ever been in the last century and a half. Arguably, 1047 01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:55.280 so that's pretty crazy that these professors are getting away 1048 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:59.440 with being critical of him. That's unprecedented. These are just 1049 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.440 a few of men unusual signs from Beijing that signal 1050 01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:06.360 major changes in the CCP power structure. Although not yet certain, 1051 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:11.480 it appears that Jiang Wuxia again probably mispronouncing that Yuxia 1052 01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:16.800 Wuxia whatever, and CCP elders have chosen Wang Yong from 1053 01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:23.719 ding Zia xiapin Japing, Yeah, lifted out of obscurity and 1054 01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:27.719 who served as a successful technocrat until his force retirement 1055 01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:32.719 in twenty twenty three, to be the next CCP chairman. Again, 1056 01:03:33.079 --> 01:03:36.280 very highly speculative at this point. I don't I don't 1057 01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:38.760 necessarily believe that she is going to be stepping down 1058 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:42.239 in August. It's possible. There's always a greater than zero 1059 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.760 percent chance of a leader stepping down early from a term, 1060 01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:49.039 especially if it's his third five year term consecutively and 1061 01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:52.280 all these things. I don't know, but if that was 1062 01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:54.239 to happen, it would also make sense that they would 1063 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:58.719 have a person slated to take the role next. He 1064 01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:02.000 is known as a he's all spoken reformer who supports 1065 01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:06.360 more free market policies, more decentralized decision making, and a 1066 01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:10.119 much less confrontational foreign policy. So he sounds like a 1067 01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:13.280 better pick as far as the Americans are concerned. Tony 1068 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:16.280 I saw you with your hand raised way in on 1069 01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:16.599 this one. 1070 01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:18.519 Brother, Yeah, I wanted to say. 1071 01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:22.400 Dun Chowphing was the leader of China from nineteen seventy 1072 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:27.559 eight to about nineteen ninety one. He presided over major 1073 01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:32.280 moves toward a more capitalist economy, but they would never 1074 01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:36.239 say that out loud. And he was also head of 1075 01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:41.239 the Central Military Commission while the Tianeman Square uprising happened, 1076 01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:45.760 which is odd because he was definitely more pro Western 1077 01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:48.639 and less Communists than the rest of the Chinese leadership 1078 01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:51.840 and he almost got killed early on for it. And 1079 01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:54.679 so his protege is again named Yang Yang. I had 1080 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:56.679 never heard of that guy, but he must be kind 1081 01:04:56.679 --> 01:04:59.280 of old if he can trace his roots back to 1082 01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:03.039 the the eighties probably, And the other guy you were 1083 01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:06.360 trying to pronounce, his name is pronounced Jiang Yoshiah. 1084 01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:10.719 Okay, I'm glad you're here for that, dude, because these 1085 01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:12.320 words I speak American. 1086 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:12.760 Dude. 1087 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:16.159 That's wild to the way they chose to romanize Chinese. 1088 01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:19.760 Has been a few ways, and they all suck. But 1089 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:25.599 I'm pretty familiar with the one called Pinion, and. 1090 01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:25.559 It's it makes sense. 1091 01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:27.400 You just got to remember the Q is a cha 1092 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:29.400 and the X is a sha, and then there's like 1093 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:32.119 five or ten other kind of very irregular rules that 1094 01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:34.840 don't make sense to us. But Chinese is limited in 1095 01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:37.320 it sound, and it's kind of stuffed our alphabet into 1096 01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:39.719 their language, and you do get used to it if 1097 01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:40.519 you see it enough. 1098 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:43.159 The X makes a shah or a shu. 1099 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:48.119 Shit, it's a soft sha sound, so they use the 1100 01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:50.880 sh for the hard sha sound, and they use the 1101 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:55.119 X for the soft shu sound. The hard sh comes before. 1102 01:05:55.280 --> 01:06:01.800 The the vowels A E, I, O, you, and it'll 1103 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:04.880 make it before an eye. It sounds like shit, But 1104 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:07.639 if it's an X, it's a soft and it sounds 1105 01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:07.880 like she. 1106 01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:10.880 So wait a minute, I thought, gie Zaping, I thought 1107 01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:13.519 we were doing like a soft g almost when saying 1108 01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:14.320 that name. It's she. 1109 01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:19.920 Yeah, it's something like she or C something between those 1110 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:23.960 two consonants. Yeah, it's a soft sh sound, so it's 1111 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.880 like she or c, either one of those. And when 1112 01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:30.760 it's before you, the X makes the show sound, but 1113 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.639 the U is an u sound, so you'll see x 1114 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.920 u or x u e and that's pronounced shoe or shue, 1115 01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:40.400 and our language just doesn't really make those sounds. But 1116 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:43.639 there's dozen they stuffed our alphabet into their language. And 1117 01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:45.719 I could educate you on all these rules some other 1118 01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:46.360 time if you want. 1119 01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.679 I would probably appreciate that, brother, but I also probably 1120 01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:52.440 will forget it as soon as the lesson ends. That 1121 01:06:52.559 --> 01:06:55.119 is crazy. This whole time, I've heard so many people 1122 01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:58.360 call him Gi Zaping, not she shiping. 1123 01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:04.519 That's great, Yeah, it's she Jean ping. So another thing 1124 01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:06.960 is people say jen ping. No, it's not jen ping. 1125 01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:10.400 It's like gene like the genes that you'd wear, and 1126 01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:13.199 ping it's not like ping pong, or it's it's like 1127 01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:16.159 peeing in the toilet or some ping. 1128 01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:19.679 My god, Yeah, that language does not convert to the 1129 01:07:19.719 --> 01:07:24.920 English alphabet. That's no way, no way, absolutely not. Moving 1130 01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:28.280 on into the article here, to paraphrase Churchill, China is 1131 01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:31.480 a riddle wrapped in an enigma surrounded by a mystery. 1132 01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:34.760 Look that literally, from what we just talked about, that 1133 01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:39.360 completely makes sense. Just the language itself is an enigma 1134 01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:42.159 wrapped in a riddle surrounded by a mystery. Let alone, 1135 01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:45.079 they're governmental status, but all right, moving on, so no 1136 01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.920 one can know anything about with absolute certainty. But given 1137 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:53.639 the disastrous results of She's one man rule his ouster 1138 01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:57.960 would be no surprise. With over five excuse me, with 1139 01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:02.199 over fifty trillion dollars in total debt, national, local and 1140 01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:05.559 private sector debt is larger than the combined economies of 1141 01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:11.519 the US and the EU. Wow well over fifty million 1142 01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:16.199 unused and mostly unusable apartments due to government policy failures, 1143 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:21.920 enough for all of Germany wealthy Chinese immigration in en mass, 1144 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:26.960 with their assets in an unemployment rate in depression territory. 1145 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:32.239 Very true, it is not surprising that local riots, factory arsons, 1146 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:36.680 and anti government protests have flared all over China. All right, 1147 01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:41.359 so earlier this year there were reports, actually for the 1148 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:43.960 past few years, ever since COVID, there were reports of 1149 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:49.439 riots and protests just starting up all over China. And 1150 01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:52.199 there were those that were saying that this couldn't be 1151 01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:57.000 true because the people in China love al Panda bear himself, right, 1152 01:08:57.039 --> 01:09:01.039 they would never ride against them and these things. Well, 1153 01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:03.600 when you read that the numbers are in fact what 1154 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:06.279 they are, it would make sense that the Chinese people 1155 01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:09.960 would be pretty pissed about it, especially if this guy 1156 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:13.359 has made himself the one man ruler over everything, so 1157 01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:15.920 to speak. He has surrounded himself with a cult of 1158 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.840 personality of yes men that pretty much tell him that 1159 01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:23.279 every idea he's ever had is brilliant, and over the 1160 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:28.960 years he has not. He's not he's not now up 1161 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.680 to snow what he once was. Let's just be real here, Okay. 1162 01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:34.199 I'm not saying it's age. I'm not saying that he's 1163 01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:35.560 been in power for too long and it has gone 1164 01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:37.800 to his head. Maybe it's a mixture of both. Maybe 1165 01:09:37.800 --> 01:09:40.159 there's a whole extra thing that we're not talking about here. 1166 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.039 But fifty trillion dollars in total debt is pretty crazy. 1167 01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:49.920 Five or sorry, fifty million unused apartments and they're unusable. 1168 01:09:50.079 --> 01:09:53.039 And that I've read that report from so many sources, 1169 01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:57.359 and that the crisis there, the unemployment rate, all of 1170 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:01.159 these things. It's it's not good. It's not good at all. Anyway, 1171 01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:05.760 CCP elders understand that China needs a new, pragmatic leader 1172 01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:09.479 to have any chance of escaping the disaster now unfolding. 1173 01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:14.479 Such a change will have huge positive implications for the 1174 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:20.279 US and our democratic allies if handled correctly, very very big. 1175 01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:24.039 If on that, if it's handled correctly, I should say 1176 01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:27.119 Trump can win this Cold war with China without firing 1177 01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:29.840 a shot. Well, that's typically how Cold War happens. But 1178 01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:32.960 all right, but Russia, North Korea and Iran could be 1179 01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:38.079 devastated by this momentous change. In fact, Iran's rapid defeat 1180 01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:41.000 by Israel and the US has underscored the weakness of 1181 01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:46.319 Xi's foreign policy. One CCP elder recently lamented China's complete 1182 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:49.560 isolation on the world stage under sheet except for a 1183 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:53.520 handful of countries that are good for nothing. Vladimir Putin, 1184 01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.640 take note, you lost Siria last year, you are on 1185 01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:59.960 the brink of losing Iran, and you may soon lose China. 1186 01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:04.479 Excellent news for all democracies, and especially for Israel, America 1187 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:08.399 and the brave people of Ukraine. Well, so this article 1188 01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:11.720 is clearly biased, right, and I get that, But that 1189 01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:14.760 doesn't denote some of the numbers that were thrown out here, 1190 01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:18.600 or the fact that China is kind of going downhill overall. 1191 01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:23.039 I don't know what the future holds for Jijiping. I 1192 01:11:23.079 --> 01:11:27.279 will say that, yes, if he was to be removed 1193 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:34.239 for a more deal making person, a more agreeable person 1194 01:11:34.279 --> 01:11:36.840 to take over the CCP, I feel like that would 1195 01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:41.479 only go better with the entire world now there's another 1196 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:46.720 article from World Politics Reviews, when crisis hits China keeps 1197 01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:50.560 leaving its partners high and dry. Now I felt like 1198 01:11:50.600 --> 01:11:52.800 this would be pretty interesting as it was talking about 1199 01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:56.199 when Iran was hit with the US and the Israeli 1200 01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:02.840 joint airstrikes, China, one of Iran's really close allies, did nothing. 1201 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.039 They said some things, some words were exchanged, but that 1202 01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:10.720 was also happened by most of the bricks nations that 1203 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:13.800 met at the summit. They all, if you look at 1204 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:17.720 individual reports, every one of them were not too pleased 1205 01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:22.680 with what happened with Iran. Did nothing happen as a 1206 01:12:22.680 --> 01:12:25.560 result of it. These are words, These are just words. 1207 01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:28.600 Let's read the article here. Iran has been one of 1208 01:12:28.600 --> 01:12:32.239 the most vocal countries in opposing US hegemony and welcoming 1209 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:34.960 the rise of China. It is usually lumped together as 1210 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:40.399 an authoritarian axis along with China, Russia, and North Korea. Nevertheless, 1211 01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:43.640 when Iran was overwhelmed by the combined airpower of Israel 1212 01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:46.119 in the United States in mid June, Beijing not only 1213 01:12:46.119 --> 01:12:49.880 remained quiet, but even signaled its disapproval of Tehran's threats 1214 01:12:49.920 --> 01:12:52.840 to block the Straight of Horror moves to maritime traffic. 1215 01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:56.640 Now that makes sense to me. For a business standpoint, 1216 01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:59.159 the straight of Horror moves is one of the biggest 1217 01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:02.800 corridors of trade on Earth. Of course, if Iran talking 1218 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:06.359 about blocking it, China would be pissed. China only survives 1219 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:10.720 because of international trade. But let's move on. Though the 1220 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:14.439 israel I Ran conflict ended without further escalation, it underscored 1221 01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:16.560 the fact that the narratives declaring the rise of a 1222 01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.520 new Chinese led global order in Beijing's willingness to replace 1223 01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:23.880 the US as a global hegemon are for now wildly premature. 1224 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:28.279 This makes me happy. Those narratives have gathered steams since 1225 01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:31.159 the US President returned to the White House, seemingly intent 1226 01:13:31.279 --> 01:13:35.279 on upending the last remnants of the liberal international order. 1227 01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:40.319 But they are more a projection of Cold War era 1228 01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:45.760 pragdem's paradigms excuse me onto today's world, than a reflection 1229 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:48.600 of what China has in mind. During the Cold War, 1230 01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:53.199 the US and Soviet Union competed for global primacy by 1231 01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:56.479 coordinating a network of allies backing them and even taking 1232 01:13:56.520 --> 01:14:00.079 part in a costly military interventions to sustain their their 1233 01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:04.720 spheres of influence. Name any war from the sixties and seventies, 1234 01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:06.680 even the fifties, we could talk about Korea two. It 1235 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:08.520 was all part of that, right, that was all Cold 1236 01:14:08.560 --> 01:14:12.039 War things. China has a different approach, acting not as 1237 01:14:12.039 --> 01:14:14.600 a protector of its partner states but as an enabler 1238 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:17.760 of their options. China has contributed to the rise of 1239 01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:24.119 a multipolar globalization by providing economic and technological alternatives that 1240 01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:27.479 reduce Western leverage. Its strength relies more on the long 1241 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:30.560 term impacts of these shifts in global power it has 1242 01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:35.359 helped catalyze, rather than on Beijing's ability to willing ability 1243 01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:38.960 or willingness to take immediate action to assist partners or 1244 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:43.760 exercise leadership on the global geopolitical stage. This approach allows 1245 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:47.920 Beijing to contribute to and benefit from those shifts without 1246 01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:52.399 bearing the full cost of providing alternative leadership. Nevertheless, China's 1247 01:14:52.399 --> 01:14:56.319 strategy has run up against important limits with what friendly 1248 01:14:56.359 --> 01:15:00.399 governments desperately need is not long term investments, but help 1249 01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:04.319 from a protector capable of guaranteeing their immediate security. Recent 1250 01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:06.880 events in the Middle East illustrate both the advantages and 1251 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:10.199 limits of China's enabler strategy. The fact that Beijing is 1252 01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:13.560 a major purchaser of Middle Eastern oil, has led many 1253 01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:17.319 analysis to mistakenly assume that China has the same geopolitical 1254 01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:20.640 leverage as countries that can project military strength in the region, 1255 01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:23.760 like the US and to a lesser degree, Russia. But 1256 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:26.680 that's not the case. Over the past fifteen years, in Syria, 1257 01:15:26.720 --> 01:15:30.079 for example, China backed the government of former dictator Bashar 1258 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:33.960 al Assad through the United Nations Security Council VETOS and 1259 01:15:34.159 --> 01:15:38.840 limited economic engagements, while aligning rhetorically with Russia and Iran 1260 01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:42.960 in support of Damascus. In return, Syria supported China's position 1261 01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:47.279 in international forums. But China's economic investments in Syria, including 1262 01:15:47.319 --> 01:15:52.920 participation in reconstruction projects and energy sector developments, proved irrelevant 1263 01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:56.840 when it came to the Asad Reshim's survival, which I 1264 01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:58.800 mean that makes sense when Aasava was on his way out, 1265 01:15:59.399 --> 01:16:01.960 China was an entering the conversation as far as helping 1266 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:04.199 him stay in power, not at all. They were just 1267 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:06.039 there for the energy. They're there for the business side 1268 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:08.920 of it. They're not there to project military force. In 1269 01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:12.640 December twenty twenty four, when large sections of Syria's armed 1270 01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:17.279 forces began to desert him, Beijing offered a sod rhetorical support, 1271 01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:21.800 leading some observers to erroneously believe China was willing to 1272 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:25.359 step up its role in the conflict. However, China offered 1273 01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:29.880 no practical assistance to prevent Alsad's ouster just days later. 1274 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.239 By March twenty twenty five, Beijing had already moved on 1275 01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:37.199 and was trying to normalize relations with the new Syrian government. 1276 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:41.439 China's perceived in action in moments of crisis does have 1277 01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:46.279 an impact on its international image, and its non interventionalist 1278 01:16:46.359 --> 01:16:51.239 approach carries costs and limitations as well. That contrast with 1279 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:54.960 Russia's costly intervention in Syria from twenty fifteen onward, which 1280 01:16:55.079 --> 01:17:00.000 ultimately also failed to save As'ad. And for the record, yeah, 1281 01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:03.800 Russia has a vested interest in Syria maintaining some sort 1282 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:07.840 of a normalcy. Their largest air and naval stations to 1283 01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:11.840 the entirety of the Mediterranean Sea are located in Syria. 1284 01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:15.239 Of course, Russia's gonna step into, at least, if nothing else, 1285 01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:19.159 protect the far western and coastal areas of Syria. That's 1286 01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:22.119 more than China can say. But it's not like they 1287 01:17:22.199 --> 01:17:26.960 were trying to offer military aid to keep a soden power. 1288 01:17:27.399 --> 01:17:32.560 They at least offered some quote unquote peacekeeping operations in 1289 01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.239 the area, but it wasn't even Russian forces at that point, 1290 01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:39.399 it was more Wagner. But anyway, to a certain extent, 1291 01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:42.880 this is the model of Russia and China's geopolitical cooperation 1292 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:46.680 with Moscow providing the military muscle that Beijing lacks, while 1293 01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:50.680 Buringjing brings the cash. However, when Russia became entangled in 1294 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:53.680 a war in Ukraine, China did not even consider stepping 1295 01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:56.079 up its role in Syria, which would have been a 1296 01:17:56.119 --> 01:18:00.399 clear sign of Beijing adopting a new global profile. And 1297 01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:03.079 I agree with that. If China wanted to make it 1298 01:18:03.159 --> 01:18:05.680 known on the world stage that they are trying to 1299 01:18:05.720 --> 01:18:08.800 take over as the new superpower in some way, shape 1300 01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:11.880 or form, or at least enter the conversation as being 1301 01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.000 the global superpower, Syria would have been a great time 1302 01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:18.199 to step into that conversation. So would it have been 1303 01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:22.960 with the India and Pakistan conversation. There's many examples where 1304 01:18:22.960 --> 01:18:25.600 they could have and some would argue should have stepped 1305 01:18:25.680 --> 01:18:28.279 up in a military way. They have no interest in it. 1306 01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:32.680 They simply don't Chinese military. I know a lot of people. 1307 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:36.039 Their biggest asset is their numbers, but that's also been 1308 01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:40.239 China's biggest asset as far as everything is concerned, and 1309 01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:44.159 that's also becoming their biggest deterrent at this moment too. 1310 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:48.880 But let's continue. Like Moscow, Beijing might simply have thought 1311 01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:52.920 that Asad was beyond saving. But Asad's downfall raises particular 1312 01:18:52.960 --> 01:18:55.279 concerns for China, as it can be traced back to 1313 01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:58.600 the so called Arab spring and the wave of regime 1314 01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:02.920 changes those upright unleashed throughout the Arab world. Beijing has 1315 01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:07.600 always seen those revolts as color and color revolutions in general, 1316 01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:11.880 as driven by foreign forces, namely the US, purportedly operating 1317 01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:18.000 through a global network of media and NGOs. That's not inaccurate. Look, 1318 01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:19.720 if we're gonna keep it one hundred, let's go ahead 1319 01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:22.079 and keep it one thou well here, that's not inaccurate. 1320 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:25.039 But it's not like US is the only actor on that. 1321 01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:28.119 I would say that we are probably the biggest actor 1322 01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:32.640 on that. But okay. China considers any success for these 1323 01:19:32.640 --> 01:19:37.840 popular uprisings as dangerous, a dangerous precedent, and a threat 1324 01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:41.479 to its own political stability, as demonstrated by the links 1325 01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:44.840 to which it goes to portray the Hong Kong pro 1326 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:51.000 democracy movement as the product of hostile foreign forces. That's 1327 01:19:51.279 --> 01:19:54.960 that's actually inaccurate. Hong Kong was owned by Europe or 1328 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:57.159 by England, I should say, for a very long time. 1329 01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:59.199 When it came time for it to be returned back 1330 01:19:59.239 --> 01:20:01.760 to China, the people of Hong Kong that operated in 1331 01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:05.119 a democratic way didn't want to go to a CCP 1332 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:09.319 way that wasn't hostile foreign forces. That was a culture 1333 01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:12.800 that had been endemic to what we might affectionately call 1334 01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:16.800 a modern city state. That was obviously that was going 1335 01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:20.359 to be a tumultuous transition, but neither here nor there. 1336 01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:24.840 For these reasons, Beijing has had reasons to prefer that 1337 01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:27.159 a SOD remained in power, but China lacked both the 1338 01:20:27.159 --> 01:20:29.840 will and the tools to help him. That underscores the 1339 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:32.920 fact that while China's influence is important to normal times 1340 01:20:33.279 --> 01:20:37.159 and it lacks the coercive capacity to bail out an 1341 01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:41.199 ally during moments of political and security crisis, China's involvement 1342 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:44.279 in Iran has been much greater compared to Syria. China 1343 01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:48.479 is Iran's top oil buyer. Despite Western sanctions, Beijing has 1344 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:53.000 provided Tehran with an economic lifeline against Western pressure, including 1345 01:20:53.119 --> 01:20:57.680 access to alternative markets and financial mechanisms. In addition, China 1346 01:20:57.680 --> 01:21:00.840 has supplied Iran with dual use technology that enabled Tehran 1347 01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:04.399 and its proxies like the Huthis to develop highly capable 1348 01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:08.800 military drones. More importantly, China has shepherded Iran into two 1349 01:21:09.039 --> 01:21:14.720 multilateral groupings as full members, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Regional 1350 01:21:14.760 --> 01:21:18.840 Security Block and the Bricks. Now, I did want to 1351 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:21.720 make a mention of that one. China has supplied Ran 1352 01:21:21.760 --> 01:21:24.880 with dual use technology that has enabled them and entire 1353 01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:29.079 Tehran and its proxies like the hoo Theis, to develop 1354 01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:34.600 highly capable military drones. I am personally of the belief 1355 01:21:35.159 --> 01:21:38.800 that thewish dot com slash TMU drones that China has 1356 01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:41.840 been peddling out to these people is not what we 1357 01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:47.279 would call highly capable quote unquote that's just my two cents. 1358 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:52.079 But anyway, but for that support if Iran if Iran's 1359 01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:54.760 greatest security crisis since it's war with Iraq in the 1360 01:21:54.840 --> 01:22:00.000 nineteen eighties. China responded by following its habitual playbook diplomatic 1361 01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:05.760 statements condemning Israeli actions. Okay, got you, affirming affirmations of 1362 01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:11.199 Iran's sovereignty no doubt, and vague calls for peaceful resolution 1363 01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:14.399 of the conflict one hundred percent. That seems to be 1364 01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:17.840 very much China's playbook. Only after the ceasefire was reached 1365 01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.359 between Israel and Iran did China reportedly provided Iran with 1366 01:22:21.439 --> 01:22:24.840 surface to air missile batteries in exchange for oil. You 1367 01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:26.600 would think that that'd be something they would want prior 1368 01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:30.720 to But okay again, Although that may help Iran in 1369 01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:34.000 the event of a return of hostilities with Israel, it 1370 01:22:34.079 --> 01:22:36.560 is a far cry from the kind of military aid 1371 01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:39.479 the US has provided to Ukraine, for example, in its 1372 01:22:39.479 --> 01:22:42.920 war with Russia. China's behavior in the Middle East fits 1373 01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:46.239 into a broader pattern around the world. For years, China 1374 01:22:46.279 --> 01:22:49.760 has been one of the key enablers of the Cuban government, 1375 01:22:50.039 --> 01:22:54.039 for instance, providing the country with technology like its internet infrastructure. 1376 01:22:55.600 --> 01:22:58.960 That would explain why Cuba is still not doing too 1377 01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:01.239 hot if China was the one that was running the 1378 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:07.239 Ethernet but all right, as well as limited loans and investment. However, 1379 01:23:07.319 --> 01:23:10.560 when Cuba faced protests at the end of the pandemic 1380 01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.960 due to shortages of food and medicine, threatening the communist 1381 01:23:14.039 --> 01:23:18.960 regime survival. Beijing denounced the US blockade, but showed no 1382 01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:22.039 willingness to offer the kinds of aid that would relieve 1383 01:23:22.119 --> 01:23:27.279 the pressures of Havana. According to illustrative example in Pakistan, 1384 01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:31.960 which could be the country's most clearly under China's protective umbrella, 1385 01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:34.960 and that's because of their Belton Road initiative. Just so 1386 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:38.560 everybody's clear here, why would Pakistan China be connected Because 1387 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:41.600 they're trying to make their way through Pakistan. For a 1388 01:23:42.720 --> 01:23:45.119 they're trying to go to the southern portion of Pakistan 1389 01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:47.840 to have another port. But then they're also trying to 1390 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:51.680 drive a road through or a railway through Pakistan to 1391 01:23:51.800 --> 01:23:54.479 get to the mineral minds in Afghanistan that the Chinese 1392 01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:58.680 mining companies have claimed for themselves. But yeah, Pakistan's pretty 1393 01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:02.399 critical to the Belton Road initiative. Therefore is very critical 1394 01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:05.920 to China anyway. Win the situation with India and Pakistan 1395 01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:09.399 popped off, where was China, Let's continue It says it 1396 01:24:09.439 --> 01:24:12.199 played a key role in Beijing's Belton Road initiative and 1397 01:24:12.359 --> 01:24:16.319 is a major purchaser of big ticket Chinese arms platforms. However, 1398 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:19.800 in Pakistan's recent exchange of fire with India, China took 1399 01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:23.399 a relatively hands off position. Beijing did not express support 1400 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:28.479 for Islamabad and shared vital intelligence with its Pakistani counterparts, 1401 01:24:29.079 --> 01:24:32.399 and while it remained unclear how reliable the after action 1402 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:36.039 reports were, Pakistan reportedly downed a number of Indian Air 1403 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:40.359 Force jets using Chinese made Shangdu j ten Ci fighters 1404 01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:45.359 again because they're Tamu, because their wish dot com. China's 1405 01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:48.680 tech is not anywhere in the conversation of being good tech, 1406 01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:51.159 but they keep buying it because of Chinese and his 1407 01:24:51.239 --> 01:24:54.520 cheap and I get that. But yeah, Pakistan was able 1408 01:24:54.520 --> 01:24:57.239 to down a number of these Chinese jets, which is 1409 01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:01.600 allegedly one of their fifth gen fire which is it's 1410 01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:03.479 not it's really not anyway. 1411 01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:07.520 But basically sixteen's were they not? Were the Indian ones 1412 01:25:07.520 --> 01:25:08.520 also Chinese? 1413 01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:11.319 The Indian ones that they were flying that Pakistan shot 1414 01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:12.640 down were Chinese. 1415 01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:18.000 Oh I thought the Pakistani ones were Chinese. Never mind Pakistan. 1416 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:21.359 If I'm not mistaken, they were flying French made planes. 1417 01:25:24.319 --> 01:25:27.000 Oh yeah, the Salt I forgot about that. Yeah, you're right. 1418 01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:29.199 And I don't know how many of them were down. 1419 01:25:29.479 --> 01:25:31.279 I think that India got a couple of them down 1420 01:25:31.319 --> 01:25:33.279 as well. And I'm not even saying, well, you know, 1421 01:25:33.319 --> 01:25:38.479 the French, their their tech is adequate. It's not cutting edge, 1422 01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:41.000 and it's also not dog shit either. It's somewhere in 1423 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:45.039 the middle. But yeah, the Chinese planes absolutely ate dirt. 1424 01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:47.279 And a couple of the. 1425 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:49.520 Other thing here was that the air to air missiles 1426 01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:54.079 have an enormous range, like two hundred or three hundred miles. Yeah, 1427 01:25:54.119 --> 01:25:56.560 so it's not like close range dog fight like in 1428 01:25:56.600 --> 01:25:57.319 a video game. 1429 01:25:57.680 --> 01:25:59.840 Yeah, World War Two, it's a very long range. 1430 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:02.800 Yeah, way, go for it, go for it. But you're 1431 01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:06.079 right the dogfight conversation as far as what we might watch, 1432 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.560 like you know the movie Iron Eagle from the eighties, 1433 01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:11.439 right that there was still that last little remnant of 1434 01:26:11.439 --> 01:26:14.800 like a traditional dogfight air to air combat like it's 1435 01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:17.720 it's it is not the same as it once was 1436 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:21.479 and arguably never will be again. But yeah, it's it's 1437 01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:23.600 usually the surface to air missiles that do most of 1438 01:26:23.640 --> 01:26:26.800 the heavy lifting as far as downing craft goes. There 1439 01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:28.760 are air to air missiles, like you're saying, but yeah, 1440 01:26:28.760 --> 01:26:32.680 the range on them is ridiculous, Like, well before there 1441 01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:35.319 even within eyesight of you, you're able to see them 1442 01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:37.239 blip up on your radar and just lock on and 1443 01:26:37.279 --> 01:26:39.119 send it. Whether you can see them with your eyes 1444 01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:44.359 or not, it's it's next level anyway. But Beijing never 1445 01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:47.520 signaled any willingness to become directly involved in the conflict 1446 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:51.039 in order to deter Indian escalation, nor did it play 1447 01:26:51.079 --> 01:26:54.880 any role in the truce negotiations between the two sides. Now, 1448 01:26:54.920 --> 01:26:58.000 in fairness, China has never suggested it would intervene to 1449 01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:00.840 protect its partners, let alone promise to do so. In 1450 01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.960 all of these cases, the diplomatic and economic risks and 1451 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:08.039 costs of any intervention would have far outweighed any potential benefit. 1452 01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:11.359 And I also understand that as far as the China 1453 01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:15.279 playing a role in the India Pakistan conversation, you know, 1454 01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:18.960 China and India, depending on the week, are either bitter 1455 01:27:19.119 --> 01:27:23.159 rivals or thicker than thieves. It really depends on when 1456 01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:26.960 we're talking about because on one hand, they're both bricks nations. 1457 01:27:27.319 --> 01:27:29.680 On the other hand, there is still an open border 1458 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:33.000 dispute between the two, which at least once a year 1459 01:27:33.119 --> 01:27:36.880 leads to fistfights. Somehow, it hasn't gone to using weapons 1460 01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:40.079 except like sticks. But there is a disputed border region 1461 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:43.199 between India and China that these dudes just meet up 1462 01:27:43.439 --> 01:27:47.520 and have a full on platoon versus platoon brawl over 1463 01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:51.399 the land, which and I do believe the violence solves 1464 01:27:51.439 --> 01:27:54.399 a lot of problems. I'm a proponent of this, but 1465 01:27:54.479 --> 01:27:57.800 nothing ever gets resolved. It's more of them both flexing 1466 01:27:58.880 --> 01:28:01.800 really hard and they going home over it and then ah, yeah, 1467 01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:04.319 well we'll see y'all next year. That's all it ever 1468 01:28:04.560 --> 01:28:08.600 amounts to. So if China would have helped Pakistan in 1469 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:13.079 that conversation, would India have taken that as a third 1470 01:28:13.159 --> 01:28:16.439 party offense against them the enemy of my or the 1471 01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:20.319 friend of my enemy is my enemy, something along those lines. 1472 01:28:20.600 --> 01:28:24.119 Would that have deteriorated bricks because again, it is such 1473 01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:27.840 a new system, it is so fragile. One card being 1474 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:32.199 removed can topple everything. So did China step back from 1475 01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:35.960 that whole conversation to try to maintain bricks hegemony or 1476 01:28:35.960 --> 01:28:38.840 at least what they're trying to have as agemony, or 1477 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:42.520 was it more that they're all talking no bark or 1478 01:28:42.560 --> 01:28:45.279 all bark no bite However, that phrase goes in your 1479 01:28:45.279 --> 01:28:48.880 own head. That also makes sense to me. So the 1480 01:28:48.920 --> 01:28:52.720 Pakistan India conversation, I understand why China wouldn't have weighed in, 1481 01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:56.680 at least from a diplomatic stance. I get it. Why 1482 01:28:56.680 --> 01:29:00.359 they wouldn't have helped Syria, that's crazy to me. Why 1483 01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:02.520 they wouldn't help South Africa and some of the issues 1484 01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:05.439 they've been having. It's pretty crazy. Why they wouldn't have 1485 01:29:05.439 --> 01:29:11.199 helped Cuba. That's really wild to me. But anyway, China's 1486 01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:14.159 perceived in action in moments of crisis does have an 1487 01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:18.239 impact on its international image, and its non interventionalist approach 1488 01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:22.239 carries costs and limitations as well. Friendlier governments that fall 1489 01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:25.920 may be replaced by less friendly ones, and with countries 1490 01:29:25.960 --> 01:29:29.119 increasingly forced to choose between close economic relations with the 1491 01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:33.000 US or China, or else weighing their options for partnerships 1492 01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:38.039 in key sectors like next generation tech, some may consider 1493 01:29:38.199 --> 01:29:40.800 Washington to be a better option due to its benefits 1494 01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:46.439 it offers with regard to regime survival. Yeah, historically speaking, America, 1495 01:29:46.680 --> 01:29:49.119 we be doing war. That's one of the only things 1496 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:51.640 we're really good at. So if you're gonna hit your 1497 01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:55.039 horse to a certain wagon. It would make more sense 1498 01:29:55.079 --> 01:29:57.119 to me out loud that you would hitch your horse 1499 01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:04.199 to the Washington conversation more than the Beijing conversation. You know, 1500 01:30:04.560 --> 01:30:07.840 I don't know that country. Yeah, the help economically, even 1501 01:30:07.880 --> 01:30:11.880 though they are fifty trillion in dead that's insane. But 1502 01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:15.880 moving on, the Gulf States are a prominent example, despite 1503 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:19.840 China now being their principal oil buyer. China's approach also 1504 01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:22.399 limits the degree to which it can take advantage of 1505 01:30:22.439 --> 01:30:26.399 short term changes in diplomatic landscapes. For example, in theory, 1506 01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:30.319 Trump's trade policies since returning to the office should have 1507 01:30:30.359 --> 01:30:34.439 created opportunities for China to expand its influence very much so. 1508 01:30:34.960 --> 01:30:37.880 As much as Trump has been throwing tariffs left, right 1509 01:30:37.920 --> 01:30:40.000 and center, he's been handing them out like candy. He's 1510 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:43.159 been throwing tariffs on countries like it's going out of style. 1511 01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:47.640 You would think, especially China being the business hub that 1512 01:30:47.720 --> 01:30:50.680 it is, they're all about the money. You would think 1513 01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:54.279 that China would take that opportunity to strengthen trade deals 1514 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:57.079 with all these countries to where they may not want 1515 01:30:57.159 --> 01:30:59.319 to go to America to sell their goods. Why don't 1516 01:30:59.359 --> 01:31:01.600 you sell it in China. We have a big population, 1517 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:05.000 we have all these things going on. Whatever. Yet Beijing's 1518 01:31:05.039 --> 01:31:09.439 response has been sluggish and even aloof it has offered 1519 01:31:09.560 --> 01:31:14.359 some cosmetic measures, such as eliminating tariffs on African imports, 1520 01:31:15.239 --> 01:31:18.239 but that mostly applies to commodities that China needs, while 1521 01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:22.600 failing to offer more meaningful benefits, whether to developing economies 1522 01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:26.800 or the European Union. Yeah, most of that was minerals. 1523 01:31:27.239 --> 01:31:29.399 Most of that was the cobalt and the lithium and 1524 01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:32.720 things like that that are being mine through slave labor 1525 01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:36.960 in Africa right now. That was they're eliminating the tariffs 1526 01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:40.199 on African imports. If you look deeper into that, it's mostly, 1527 01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:43.520 like you said, things that China needs, like the precious minerals. 1528 01:31:44.079 --> 01:31:47.640 That was it. That was their response. But anyway, China's 1529 01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:51.760 priority remains protecting its own economic interests and avoiding entanglements 1530 01:31:51.760 --> 01:31:55.119 that could jeopardize its long term strategic objectives. I completely 1531 01:31:55.199 --> 01:31:59.199 understand that, including maintaining access to global markets and technology, 1532 01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:02.319 but even the most carefully crafted long term planning means 1533 01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:05.920 little if a country is incapable of seizing unexpected opportunities 1534 01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:09.000 that present themselves along the way at times of crisis. 1535 01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:14.000 Beijing's reluctance to take on diplomatic obligations, engage in military interventions, 1536 01:32:14.279 --> 01:32:18.720 or make economic sacrifices to secure its partner's interests highlights 1537 01:32:18.760 --> 01:32:24.119 the limits of translating economic influence into geopolitical power. At 1538 01:32:24.159 --> 01:32:27.199 any other moment, this would offer a clear advantage to 1539 01:32:27.239 --> 01:32:30.720 the US, whose willingness to support allies with military action 1540 01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:35.960 is an important complement to economic statecraft in its efforts 1541 01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:40.600 to counter China. But given Trump's hostility to alliances and 1542 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:45.239 a US public keen on avoiding excessive military engagements, China's 1543 01:32:45.239 --> 01:32:49.800 preference for economic traction over political action suggests that the 1544 01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:52.840 world may be entering a period in which no single 1545 01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:55.720 power is willing to bear the full cost of global leadership. 1546 01:32:56.479 --> 01:32:59.560 Now couple that with the article that we just read 1547 01:32:59.640 --> 01:33:03.680 about possibly being on his way out. I gotta tell 1548 01:33:03.720 --> 01:33:07.239 you now, more than ever, I feel like we need 1549 01:33:07.279 --> 01:33:11.439 to hear from our random Malaysian man correspondent in the streets, 1550 01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.199 Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is ass ho. Thank you, 1551 01:33:15.279 --> 01:33:18.560 random Taiwanese guy. I love you to death. Stay homeie, stay. 1552 01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:21.560 Speaking of with things that are going on in the 1553 01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:26.680 South East Asian area. If anybody hasn't heard, Cambodia and 1554 01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.399 Thailand are popping off. They have a full on war 1555 01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:32.319 going on, and it seemed like it was gonna be 1556 01:33:32.359 --> 01:33:35.760 something small, right, There was a land mine that went 1557 01:33:35.800 --> 01:33:41.079 off in Cambodia, and to be completely honest, that was 1558 01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:44.760 probably a landmine that we put there. If you look 1559 01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:50.399 into Operation Barrel Roll, we were trying to disrupt any 1560 01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:52.640 kind of movement in the Ho Chi Minh Trail. We 1561 01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:56.039 dropped tons of land mines and explosives. Actually, if we're 1562 01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:59.159 gonna be honest, we dropped two hundred and sixty two 1563 01:33:59.479 --> 01:34:04.359 million pounds of ordinance into these areas during the Vietnam 1564 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:08.279 War during Operation Barrel Roll. Look it up and there's 1565 01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:11.640 a lot of unexploded ordinance in and around Lous and Cambodia. 1566 01:34:12.359 --> 01:34:16.720 A landmine went off, Thailand is blaming Cambodia. Cambodia is 1567 01:34:16.720 --> 01:34:18.960 blaming Thailand. There's a whole thing of who done it 1568 01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:22.640 on this. This has spawned and spurned and spun off 1569 01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.119 into a whole conflict. This video that I'm about to 1570 01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:28.960 show y'all again, for anybody listening to this, you're gonna 1571 01:34:29.000 --> 01:34:31.479 want to see this Come to the Cajun Night on Patreon. 1572 01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:34.399 Link is in the description below. This dude is a 1573 01:34:34.399 --> 01:34:38.359 whole vibe. I don't this is a Cambodian soldier. He's fighting, 1574 01:34:38.560 --> 01:34:43.600 firing towards a tie position with a RpK and a RPG. 1575 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:47.239 I will say this with the RPG or excuse me, 1576 01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:51.479 the RpK. Typically that's a belt fed machine gun. He's 1577 01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:55.640 got the mag fed style of it. Those metal drum 1578 01:34:55.760 --> 01:34:58.960 bags are sick if you're using it for an AK 1579 01:34:59.359 --> 01:35:03.319 or a single f action for full auto. Those metal 1580 01:35:03.399 --> 01:35:08.840 canister mags are absolute dog shit. You're gonna watch him 1581 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:12.479 do remedial action on this RpK like every shot, if 1582 01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:16.199 not every other shot. It's insane. But I just want 1583 01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:18.159 to point out some things about this homeboy. He is 1584 01:35:18.199 --> 01:35:20.840 a whole vibe of a war fighter. Check this out. 1585 01:35:21.039 --> 01:35:23.000 Oh yeah, I should give a warning. There's gonna be 1586 01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:25.680 gunfire and explosions in this. So if you're listening to 1587 01:35:25.720 --> 01:35:28.920 this the following day in your car or something like that, relax, 1588 01:35:29.760 --> 01:35:32.199 it's just it's just a video and plan. I'll turn 1589 01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:33.920 down the volume a little bit more just so that 1590 01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:37.199 I'll be courteous to all of our AirPod and speaker 1591 01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:40.479 listeners here. But yo, check this dude out cigarette dangling 1592 01:35:40.520 --> 01:35:45.039 from the mouth, backwards hat, no shirt, no shoes, no problem, 1593 01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:48.720 just out there getting it in, just just having a ball, 1594 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:52.119 just dudes being bros. He fires a couple rounds with 1595 01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:55.079 the RpK. Look, I'm still cigarette he's he's even his 1596 01:35:55.079 --> 01:35:59.079 own cameraman. He has a whole one man unit over 1597 01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:00.119 here firing the rp. 1598 01:36:02.640 --> 01:36:02.800 BRO. 1599 01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:08.199 I love this guy, and I'm not even supporting Cambodia 1600 01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:12.359 in this conflict, but I like this homie. Homeboy is 1601 01:36:12.520 --> 01:36:17.439 legitimately no shoes, no shirt, cigarette dangling, just out there 1602 01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:21.000 getting it in. You know that? Just it Ah, that 1603 01:36:21.079 --> 01:36:24.880 makes me happy. It makes me so happy. Anyway. All right, 1604 01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:28.800 let's read a little bit into the conversation, because while 1605 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:30.479 the war kicked off, I don't want to call it 1606 01:36:30.520 --> 01:36:33.399 a war. I don't know even know if it's classified 1607 01:36:33.399 --> 01:36:36.079 as a war. Yet, Let's call it the conflict, right, 1608 01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:40.119 the Cambodia Thailand conflict. There was a lot of finger pointing, 1609 01:36:40.399 --> 01:36:42.520 There was a lot of names being called, There was 1610 01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:44.399 a lot of blame that was trying to be assigned 1611 01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:48.079 one way or another, And for a split second, there 1612 01:36:48.520 --> 01:36:51.000 it sounded like they were about to have a ceasefire, 1613 01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:57.000 and then Thailand accuses Cambodia of violating the fragile ceasefire 1614 01:36:57.119 --> 01:37:01.439 for a second time. Cambodia has pre denied breaking the truce, 1615 01:37:01.520 --> 01:37:04.760 which came into effect on Tuesday after five days of 1616 01:37:04.880 --> 01:37:09.680 violent clashes. Thailand has accused Cambodia of a flagrant violation 1617 01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:13.079 of a truce to end cross border fighting, claiming Cambodian 1618 01:37:13.119 --> 01:37:16.960 troops launched an overnight attack on the frontier. The neighbors 1619 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:20.359 agreed to a ceasefire starting Tuesday after five days of 1620 01:37:20.479 --> 01:37:24.079 clashes killed at least forty three people on both sides 1621 01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:27.840 as a long standing dispute over contested border regions boiled 1622 01:37:27.840 --> 01:37:31.720 over into open combat across the eight hundred kilometer frontier. 1623 01:37:32.159 --> 01:37:37.319 Thailand's Foreign Ministry said its troops in Sisiket Province came 1624 01:37:37.439 --> 01:37:41.279 under attack by small arms fire and grenade assaults launched 1625 01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:45.560 by Cambodian forces and an offensive which continued until Wednesday morning. 1626 01:37:45.880 --> 01:37:49.439 This represents a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement, set 1627 01:37:49.479 --> 01:37:55.720 a Foreign Ministry statement. Thai government spokesperson g Rayu Huang 1628 01:37:55.800 --> 01:38:00.239 sab Yeah also reported overnight clashes, but said in a 1629 01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:03.760 statement the Thai side maintained control of the situation and 1630 01:38:04.199 --> 01:38:07.800 general conditions along the border are reported to be normal 1631 01:38:07.880 --> 01:38:12.760 from eight am Wednesday. Cambodia has previously denied breaking the 1632 01:38:12.760 --> 01:38:16.399 truce designed to end fighting, which has seen the two 1633 01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:19.880 countries evacuate a total of more than three hundred thousand 1634 01:38:19.880 --> 01:38:22.920 people from the border region. The armisiss got off to 1635 01:38:22.920 --> 01:38:25.600 a shaky start in the early hours of Tuesday, with 1636 01:38:25.760 --> 01:38:29.840 Thailand accusing Cambodia of continuing attacks in a clear attempt 1637 01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:34.560 to undermine mutual trust. Before calm generally prevailed. Meetings between 1638 01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:37.600 rival commanders along the border, scheduled as part of the 1639 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:41.000 pact went ahead on Tuesday, with Thailand's armies saying de 1640 01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:45.520 escalation steps were agreed, including a halt on troop reinforcements 1641 01:38:45.600 --> 01:38:48.720 or movements that could lead to misunderstandings, but later in 1642 01:38:48.760 --> 01:38:52.239 the day a foreign affair spokesperson for Bangkok's Border Crisis 1643 01:38:52.279 --> 01:38:55.520 Center not going to try to pronounce that, warned in 1644 01:38:56.199 --> 01:38:58.600 this moment in the early days of the ceasefire, the 1645 01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:02.720 situation is still fragile. Jets, rockets and artillery have killed 1646 01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:06.439 at least fifteen Thai troops and fifteen Thai civilians, while 1647 01:39:06.479 --> 01:39:10.600 Cambodia has confirmed only eight civilians and five military debts. 1648 01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:14.199 The peace pact was sealed in Malaysia after intervention from 1649 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:18.760 US President Trump, who both Thailand and Cambodia are counting 1650 01:39:18.920 --> 01:39:21.760 for a trade deal to avert his threat of an 1651 01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:26.760 eye watering tariff. Okay, So with all this being said, 1652 01:39:27.079 --> 01:39:33.680 the Thailand Cambodia war conversation, that's gonna be a bit 1653 01:39:33.720 --> 01:39:36.479 of a dog walking if it actually continues to escalate. 1654 01:39:37.039 --> 01:39:41.399 Thailand has a military force of I wanna say, six 1655 01:39:41.479 --> 01:39:47.319 hundred thousand, while Cambodia has a little under two hundred thousand. So, 1656 01:39:48.199 --> 01:39:50.680 just going off of numbers alone, let's not even talk 1657 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:55.039 about tech. Let's not even talk about actual military prowess 1658 01:39:55.039 --> 01:39:58.800 and capabilities here, just off of the numbers and the equipment, 1659 01:39:59.359 --> 01:40:05.279 Thailand would absolutely decimate the Cambodian forces. Now, look at 1660 01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:09.800 whenever you see videos of Thaie fighters, they're a proper military, 1661 01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:15.279 they're a proper United Force. Then we see Cambodian fighters 1662 01:40:15.319 --> 01:40:18.239 who are out there looking like beach bombs with military equipment, 1663 01:40:18.640 --> 01:40:21.319 which I'm not mad at. I like that your boy 1664 01:40:21.399 --> 01:40:24.600 is in a comfortable you know, he's comfortable while he's fighting. 1665 01:40:24.680 --> 01:40:28.119 That makes my heart happy. But also, let's not negate 1666 01:40:28.159 --> 01:40:30.800 the fact that that is the majority of Cambodian fighters, 1667 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:34.199 a lot of them are wearing whatever uniform pieces they 1668 01:40:34.199 --> 01:40:39.840 could throw together. They're using outdated equipment at best. If 1669 01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:44.399 this conversation goes further, if this conflict goes further, Thailand 1670 01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:47.319 is gonna absolutely the disputed border region is not going 1671 01:40:47.399 --> 01:40:51.239 to be very disputed for long. So all right, that 1672 01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:54.199 was about all I have on my end. Let's get 1673 01:40:54.239 --> 01:40:57.199 to the chat and see what everybody else has brought 1674 01:40:57.199 --> 01:41:00.920 to the table. Raven Lee has pulled up a video 1675 01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:07.159 of a picture. I'm sorry, uh oh, it's Ozzie. It's 1676 01:41:07.159 --> 01:41:10.359 Sharon being sad that Ozzie's dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rip 1677 01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:14.000 to Ozzy Osbourne, the true prince of darkness in my opinion. 1678 01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:20.960 Let's see, there's another article here, Doug Warner. Another quake. 1679 01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:24.600 Ooh okay, let's talk about this. A six point four 1680 01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:27.199 quake just struck in the same region off the coast 1681 01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:30.600 of Russia where the eight point eight earthquake registered. Talk 1682 01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:33.119 about a swarm. Nearly all of these marks on the 1683 01:41:33.159 --> 01:41:37.079 map are from the last couple of days alone. Wow, 1684 01:41:37.720 --> 01:41:41.319 So that is a pretty substantial fault line, for lack 1685 01:41:41.359 --> 01:41:43.520 of better words, or a spot where the plate's meet, 1686 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:48.079 that is experiencing a lot of quakes as of this moment. Now, 1687 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:52.479 I did see before we started shooting that Hawaii had 1688 01:41:52.520 --> 01:41:55.560 a tsunami warning that they were, you know, starting to 1689 01:41:55.560 --> 01:41:58.199 evacuate around the coast, and it has already been called 1690 01:41:58.239 --> 01:42:03.079 off that. You know, it's a relatively good practice whenever 1691 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:05.600 you see an earthquake that could potentially send a tidal 1692 01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:09.439 wave your way to get to higher ground. Apparently it 1693 01:42:09.479 --> 01:42:12.800 didn't do anything, and they're not expecting that it's gonna 1694 01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:15.600 do anything either. So I do find it interesting that 1695 01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:19.119 Russia is having all of these quakes in that short 1696 01:42:19.119 --> 01:42:22.520 amount of time. The symbolism, you know, I agree, Raven 1697 01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:26.720 one hundred percent, sounds like somewhere is about to need 1698 01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:30.000 some freedom and democracy. Yeah, Anthony, Yeah, I agree with that. 1699 01:42:31.159 --> 01:42:34.760 Let's see moving on here. I'm rooting for Candice, but 1700 01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:37.479 there's always the chance that Brigitte's team proves that she 1701 01:42:37.640 --> 01:42:40.359 is a woman somehow and that they have been hiding 1702 01:42:40.359 --> 01:42:43.000 it specifically for the right moment. I can't wait to 1703 01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:47.439 see you know Tim Dillon had a very hot take 1704 01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:50.399 on this. All she has to do is show it, 1705 01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:53.800 like not to the world. I'm not saying that Brigitte 1706 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:55.960 needs to make OnlyFans account or something like that, but 1707 01:42:56.439 --> 01:42:59.680 you know, I'm just I'm throwing it out. Our first 1708 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:03.119 lady has a centerfold in Playboy that you could go find. 1709 01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:08.720 Brigitte's got man hands and broad shoulders, and I'm just 1710 01:43:08.760 --> 01:43:10.920 I'm throwing it out. I'm not saying that she should 1711 01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:13.960 even do something like that. But if it goes to court, 1712 01:43:14.399 --> 01:43:20.439 if the international suing that seems to possibly get ready 1713 01:43:20.479 --> 01:43:24.079 to take place here, if that goes down, y'all understand 1714 01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:26.960 that we're gonna have to get a real medical professional 1715 01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:32.359 to examine Brigitte Macron's genitals to confirm that she has 1716 01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:38.319 the parts that were born to her. I mean, yes, 1717 01:43:38.359 --> 01:43:41.199 they could just do a blood test, right That would 1718 01:43:41.239 --> 01:43:44.720 be one way, but that can also be altered with 1719 01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:48.159 enough hormones. Look at all these quote unquote women that 1720 01:43:48.199 --> 01:43:54.000 were competing in the Olympics that had dicks, but they're. 1721 01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:57.039 Not the chromosomes. That's the thing. The chromosomes will show 1722 01:43:57.039 --> 01:43:57.640 it right away. 1723 01:43:57.920 --> 01:44:01.399 Yeah, that's very true. It's very true. I hope that 1724 01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:03.279 they do something like that, and it would just it 1725 01:44:03.279 --> 01:44:06.720 would save everything. Literally if she was to submit that 1726 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.600 to a medical professional, that would end the conversation. But 1727 01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:12.319 you know, here we are. 1728 01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:15.520 Uh huh, Yeah, I'm figuring there's a chance she may 1729 01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:18.439 do that, and maybe she really is a woman, but 1730 01:44:18.520 --> 01:44:21.800 she's been trying to hide it, specifically to lead someone 1731 01:44:21.840 --> 01:44:26.159 like Candace Owens on. And Candace Owens may even say 1732 01:44:26.159 --> 01:44:29.640 that it's a victory for Candace that oh see, look 1733 01:44:29.680 --> 01:44:32.119 I made her release that all this stuff she didn't 1734 01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:36.119 want to release, and then but it'll it'll be a 1735 01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:37.800 defeat for Candas if that happens. 1736 01:44:37.840 --> 01:44:39.880 I'm still rooting for her to actually be right about the. 1737 01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:42.239 Whole thing and Forgit to be a man, for her 1738 01:44:42.279 --> 01:44:45.560 to be Jean Michelle troug No. Yeah, and you know, 1739 01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:48.680 she refuses to produce any photos of herself from her 1740 01:44:48.800 --> 01:44:52.960 youth or standing next to Jean Michelle troug No. I 1741 01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:56.960 think Candace has had to concede that Jean Michele and Brigitte, 1742 01:44:56.960 --> 01:45:00.000 at least at one point in the distant past world 1743 01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:04.199 two different people. But she's claiming that maybe Brigitte died 1744 01:45:04.399 --> 01:45:09.840 and that Jean Michel Trugnau assumed her identity. Now that's 1745 01:45:10.399 --> 01:45:13.479 quite a climb down from the previous statement, and you know, 1746 01:45:13.560 --> 01:45:16.359 maybe it'll turn out Canvas is wrong and that's not 1747 01:45:16.399 --> 01:45:20.680 going to shatter my entire world, right, you know, I 1748 01:45:20.760 --> 01:45:22.479 just can't wait to see what the real truth is. 1749 01:45:22.960 --> 01:45:26.399 I would love to see the backpedal if Brigitte does 1750 01:45:26.520 --> 01:45:28.920 submit the DNA evidence and all the things, and it 1751 01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:31.840 is understood that is a very manly looking woman, but 1752 01:45:31.880 --> 01:45:36.119 a woman nonetheless bro that I could see Candas trying 1753 01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:38.399 to still claim it as a victory. Like you said, 1754 01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:41.840 I could see her absolutely trying to do that, but 1755 01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:46.600 also the amount of backpedaling and public apology that she 1756 01:45:46.640 --> 01:45:50.319 would have to do would be unprecedented for her. So 1757 01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:53.560 I don't know. Either way it goes. I'm still getting 1758 01:45:53.560 --> 01:45:57.880 a laugh out of it. So I call it. Macrona 1759 01:45:57.880 --> 01:46:03.039 announced France would recognize Palestine very recently too. Yeah, that's 1760 01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:06.479 that's a thing. But Cron's falling out of favor in France. 1761 01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:07.960 From what I could tell, A lot of his people 1762 01:46:08.000 --> 01:46:10.279 are not too happy with him, and they haven't been 1763 01:46:10.279 --> 01:46:13.039 for a while, but now more than ever. I'm not 1764 01:46:13.079 --> 01:46:15.520 saying it's over the Palestine thing. There's multiple levels to that. 1765 01:46:16.399 --> 01:46:18.399 Uh yeah, to your point you're about to say, here, 1766 01:46:18.600 --> 01:46:21.680 Europe has too many Muslims, and their leadership class may 1767 01:46:21.720 --> 01:46:25.079 be facing a choice of whether to support Ukraine or Israel, 1768 01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:29.920 and they are choosing Ukraine. Yo. That's another thing too, 1769 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:32.720 talking about too many, you know, and not just Muslims. 1770 01:46:32.960 --> 01:46:37.680 We should give the distinction that these are refugees and 1771 01:46:37.960 --> 01:46:43.640 illegal immigrants from Muslim countries. That yeah. But even that 1772 01:46:43.720 --> 01:46:46.239 being said, dude, New York City is about to elect 1773 01:46:46.279 --> 01:46:50.000 a socialist Muslim as their mayor. And the worst part 1774 01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:54.760 is the Hasidic Jews of New York were the deciding 1775 01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:58.439 vote to put him in office. That is mind blowing 1776 01:46:58.479 --> 01:47:03.880 to me. But still nonetheless it's happening. Let's see, Prince 1777 01:47:03.920 --> 01:47:06.920 Albert was not a Habsburg. He was the house of 1778 01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:10.880 Saxe Kuberg. Oh yeah, yeah, which changed its name to 1779 01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:14.000 Windsor in World War One to sound less German. That's right, 1780 01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:18.039 that's right. I apologize. The Muslims are getting their round 1781 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:21.640 two for the Crusades, yo. Israel is looking like it 1782 01:47:21.680 --> 01:47:24.039 wants round two for the two Crusades. They bombed the 1783 01:47:24.079 --> 01:47:28.920 only Catholic church in Gaza that crusades were launched for 1784 01:47:29.039 --> 01:47:31.760 much less in the Middle Ages. I'm just saying, but 1785 01:47:32.479 --> 01:47:35.079 I hope that it doesn't escalate like that. I hope 1786 01:47:35.079 --> 01:47:38.600 everybody just calms down and goes home and stops it. 1787 01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:41.720 They're not gonna, I hope, but they're not gonna, you know. 1788 01:47:43.520 --> 01:47:45.560 Tony went on to say, I think China's AI is 1789 01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:47.439 at least as good as the US, may be better 1790 01:47:47.439 --> 01:47:50.399 for generating video, Yeah, because they robbed it from US. 1791 01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:53.479 Because the deep Seak conversation. Hell, there was about a 1792 01:47:53.520 --> 01:47:55.680 month where if you went to deep seek and asked 1793 01:47:55.760 --> 01:47:59.199 what are you, it answered chat GPT and there was 1794 01:47:59.199 --> 01:48:01.319 that open file that they found in the Pentagon with 1795 01:48:01.359 --> 01:48:03.760 a direct link to China. So, yes, to your point, 1796 01:48:04.119 --> 01:48:07.439 China's AI is literally as good as the United States 1797 01:48:07.479 --> 01:48:10.159 as AI. I one hundred percent agree with you on that. 1798 01:48:11.079 --> 01:48:11.199 Uh. 1799 01:48:11.760 --> 01:48:14.960 India is quite culturally dissimilar to the US and ways 1800 01:48:14.960 --> 01:48:18.199 that are getting more noticeable. Very true. There is also 1801 01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:21.199 a huge anti Indian far right movement on Twitter that 1802 01:48:21.359 --> 01:48:25.920 largely started last Christmas over the H one B visas. Yeah, 1803 01:48:25.960 --> 01:48:30.359 I noticed that too, the far right movement. It's it 1804 01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:33.079 is very interesting that they are going after pretty much 1805 01:48:33.079 --> 01:48:36.960 all H one B visas, but they were specifically targeting 1806 01:48:37.159 --> 01:48:40.600 Indian H one B visas. I didn't I don't know 1807 01:48:40.720 --> 01:48:45.079 where that particular spun from, but that seemed to be 1808 01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:46.880 a flavor profile they were going for. 1809 01:48:47.560 --> 01:48:51.479 Well, I've seen the charts showing that Indians in particular 1810 01:48:51.680 --> 01:48:54.479 get like eighty percent of the H one B visas. 1811 01:48:54.479 --> 01:48:58.279 It's an overwhelming majority. And they work with each other, 1812 01:48:58.399 --> 01:49:01.319 their entire firms in India that are dedicated to getting 1813 01:49:01.359 --> 01:49:04.880 people H one bvss that don't exist in other countries. 1814 01:49:05.520 --> 01:49:09.119 And they've also got a reputation for being very nepotistic. 1815 01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:14.119 So anyway, yeah, the far right definitely, there were a 1816 01:49:14.159 --> 01:49:17.640 lot of very anti Indian memes made, mostly about a 1817 01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:21.159 lot of them don't like toilets and you know, their 1818 01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:25.000 accent and stuff like that, and I thought, wow, you know, 1819 01:49:25.039 --> 01:49:28.960 I thought Indians were regarded as pretty conservative and well, anyway, 1820 01:49:28.960 --> 01:49:33.359 the far right, like alt right people on Twitter, really 1821 01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:37.119 seem to hate Indians almost that exception I know so 1822 01:49:37.199 --> 01:49:40.680 much seeks, but especially Hindus, especially the polytheists. 1823 01:49:40.760 --> 01:49:45.359 You know, yeah, Sikhs are by and large theists. Yeah, 1824 01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:48.000 they're monotheists for sure, but they are if we're going 1825 01:49:48.079 --> 01:49:52.760 to talk about just typical political leanings, they are conservative, 1826 01:49:52.760 --> 01:49:55.319 if not ultra conservative in a lot of cases. So 1827 01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:57.479 it makes sense that the far right would not really 1828 01:49:57.479 --> 01:50:00.439 have much beef with them. They do see to have 1829 01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:04.319 a lot of beef with the Hindus as a religious 1830 01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:08.479 and a cultural thing. But also I don't know many 1831 01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:10.560 Sikhs that got an H one B to get here. 1832 01:50:10.800 --> 01:50:13.960 Most of them just like properly into immigrate to the 1833 01:50:14.039 --> 01:50:17.039 area and like set up shop. That seems to be 1834 01:50:17.079 --> 01:50:19.840 another thing for them culturally is to like branch out, 1835 01:50:19.960 --> 01:50:23.760 not for takeover principles, but more or less because the 1836 01:50:23.800 --> 01:50:29.720 Sikhs have been well, I don't want to say discriminated against, 1837 01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:33.319 but there are certain countries like Canada for instance, that 1838 01:50:33.479 --> 01:50:39.039 is borderline persecuting the Sikh population there, and there's there's 1839 01:50:39.159 --> 01:50:42.079 reasons they say that they were housing terrorist groups or 1840 01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:45.319 leaders of terrorist groups and all these things. It's but yeah, 1841 01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:47.880 the the far right, they I'm with you. I don't 1842 01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:51.399 know why they have such a hatred towards the Indian 1843 01:50:51.439 --> 01:50:53.640 population as of this moment. But all of the shit 1844 01:50:53.680 --> 01:50:55.520 that's going on with Trump and Modi right now is 1845 01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:57.520 not helping that cause whatsoever. 1846 01:50:58.199 --> 01:51:01.039 Oh yeah, well, yeah, the Sikhs are a pretty small 1847 01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:03.039 minority in India. There may be one or two percent 1848 01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:06.880 of the population, but there are a disproportionately high percentage 1849 01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:10.760 of the Indian immigrants to the US and Canada. I 1850 01:51:10.800 --> 01:51:12.479 worked with a ton of Sikhs in one of my 1851 01:51:12.600 --> 01:51:15.399 lab jobs, and I don't think they were h one b. 1852 01:51:17.159 --> 01:51:19.359 They don't tend to be programmers as much, but they 1853 01:51:19.399 --> 01:51:21.159 just do all kinds of other stuff like work in 1854 01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:25.000 labs and work as truckers. Yeah, all over the country 1855 01:51:25.039 --> 01:51:26.119 as truckers for sure. 1856 01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:26.600 Yeah. 1857 01:51:26.640 --> 01:51:28.560 And the Hindus for some reason, I guess they tend 1858 01:51:28.600 --> 01:51:32.720 to be more like programmers and other stuff. But the 1859 01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:36.239 reason the far right doesn't like them, there's several One 1860 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:38.720 reason is India's government and the Hindus tend to be 1861 01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:40.960 very pro Israel for some reason, and the far right 1862 01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:44.439 in this country is very anti Israel, especially on Twitter, 1863 01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:50.439 and Indians are seen as very nepotistic but also like smelly. 1864 01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:53.880 Oh gosh, we just don't like them basically, and especially 1865 01:51:54.000 --> 01:51:58.000 vivek Wa'maswami, they don't like him. Vivic Arama Swami, head 1866 01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:01.279 of tweeted about how oh Americans, the heritage Americans are 1867 01:52:01.319 --> 01:52:03.840 just too lazy, and we immigrants work hard because we 1868 01:52:03.920 --> 01:52:06.159 need to, because we're told we need to get ahead. 1869 01:52:06.159 --> 01:52:08.479 We're not watching Saved by the Bell and the Simpsons 1870 01:52:08.520 --> 01:52:12.159 like you people. And yeah that's WEE heard f be 1871 01:52:12.319 --> 01:52:14.680 back a lot. But Okay, that's all I gotta say 1872 01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:15.199 on that. 1873 01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:18.439 That's not an untrue statement though. And it's not just Indians, right. 1874 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:23.520 You find any Southeast Asian immigrant to America, they blust 1875 01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:26.840 their ass mostly because of the cultural things their parents. Like, Yo, 1876 01:52:26.880 --> 01:52:31.199 if you're bringing home a minus like you are just worthless, 1877 01:52:31.199 --> 01:52:33.000 it's got to be a plus's I remember I had 1878 01:52:33.039 --> 01:52:35.800 a couple of Asian friends growing up. That was the thing. 1879 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:38.159 They didn't have a four oh GPA like, that was 1880 01:52:38.199 --> 01:52:40.319 their ass when they got home, Like it was a 1881 01:52:40.359 --> 01:52:43.439 real cultural thing to them. And you know, we could 1882 01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:45.880 argue about the semantics as to why that is. Is 1883 01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:50.640 it because they were second generation Americans. Their parents were 1884 01:52:50.680 --> 01:52:53.199 directly off the boat, not physically, you know what I mean, 1885 01:52:53.479 --> 01:52:55.920 And so they wanted their child to do well in 1886 01:52:56.000 --> 01:52:58.640 America with the opportunities they were presented because they knew 1887 01:52:58.640 --> 01:53:01.359 what they came from. Okay, there's probably something to be 1888 01:53:01.399 --> 01:53:03.479 said for that. But a lot of the H one 1889 01:53:03.520 --> 01:53:07.600 B immigrants, there's a conversation to say that some of 1890 01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:12.600 them stay in America and do great here. Others you're 1891 01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:14.479 kind of part of the brain drain, if you will. 1892 01:53:14.520 --> 01:53:16.640 And they take all the credentials that they get from 1893 01:53:16.680 --> 01:53:20.680 American institutions, go home and they live like kings. Right. 1894 01:53:20.720 --> 01:53:23.920 And to your point about how Indians kind of get 1895 01:53:23.920 --> 01:53:28.000 more into the tech industry, there's even racism within India 1896 01:53:28.159 --> 01:53:30.520 which goes back to their cast system. Don't get me wrong, 1897 01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:33.680 but like North India is more of the tech people, 1898 01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:37.279 like you're talking about, South India gets shit on by 1899 01:53:37.439 --> 01:53:41.000 North India as the craftsmen for lack of better words. Ah, 1900 01:53:41.039 --> 01:53:43.319 they use their feet when they make stuff. Oh, they're 1901 01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:45.239 the worst. They're the ones with the slums. They're the 1902 01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:46.920 ones that don't use toilets and this and this, and 1903 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:50.159 it's like, you know, I understand that India is the 1904 01:53:50.239 --> 01:53:52.800 largest country on Earth and that there's tons of cultures 1905 01:53:52.840 --> 01:53:56.119 within India. Hell, their money has ten different languages on it. 1906 01:53:56.239 --> 01:54:00.920 That's how culturally diverse the subcontinent itself is. But it 1907 01:54:01.039 --> 01:54:03.640 is really, uh, it's a thing like you said, from 1908 01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:07.880 the far right conservatives. They do not like India. Some 1909 01:54:07.920 --> 01:54:11.800 of that's for Israeli leanings. Some of that is just 1910 01:54:11.880 --> 01:54:14.760 for their culture and heritage as a whole. It's it's 1911 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:19.920 pretty wild to see. Let's see you shared a picture 1912 01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:24.239 thirteen years of jijaping. All right. So in twenty twelve, 1913 01:54:24.279 --> 01:54:27.560 when Jijaping took office, the GDP of China was eight 1914 01:54:27.560 --> 01:54:32.239 point five trillion, The GDP per capita was six thousand dollars, 1915 01:54:32.640 --> 01:54:37.000 Inflation was at two point six percent, the gold reserves 1916 01:54:37.039 --> 01:54:40.560 were at three point two trillion dollars, the debt was 1917 01:54:40.600 --> 01:54:44.039 twenty four percent, the pension was four hundred yen per month, 1918 01:54:44.399 --> 01:54:47.680 and the income was four thousand yen per month median 1919 01:54:47.720 --> 01:54:51.479 household income. Of course, twenty twenty five, the GDP is 1920 01:54:51.520 --> 01:54:55.439 forty one trillion, the GDP per capita is thirteen thousand, 1921 01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:59.039 Inflation is down to two point one percent, the gold 1922 01:54:59.119 --> 01:55:02.680 in the reserves up to four trillion. The national debt 1923 01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:05.560 is up only one percent, from twenty four percent to 1924 01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:09.600 twenty five percent. That's nice. The pension per month has 1925 01:55:09.720 --> 01:55:13.079 increased to just over thirty three hundred yen per month, 1926 01:55:13.479 --> 01:55:17.000 and the median income per month is forty two thousand 1927 01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:19.920 yen per month as opposed to four thousand, So she 1928 01:55:20.039 --> 01:55:22.600 has done very well for China with his tenure. I'll 1929 01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:25.439 be very honest with you, but it seems as though 1930 01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:27.479 in the last couple of years he has kind of 1931 01:55:27.520 --> 01:55:31.079 been going a little off the rails, and I think 1932 01:55:31.119 --> 01:55:34.560 his people are not too pleased with him. Although I 1933 01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:37.840 will say people have a short memory. People forget what 1934 01:55:37.880 --> 01:55:40.119 it was like before he took office as opposed to 1935 01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:44.560 how they're living now. But even still, it's all one, 1936 01:55:44.680 --> 01:55:47.640 oh shit, will ruin a thousand out of boys? Right, 1937 01:55:47.680 --> 01:55:50.000 And I've said that a million times. You could build 1938 01:55:50.000 --> 01:55:54.159 a thousand bridges, you know what I mean. But you 1939 01:55:54.279 --> 01:55:57.439 do that one thing and that's all you are. I'm 1940 01:55:57.439 --> 01:55:59.800 not saying that's exactly what is happening with she as 1941 01:55:59.800 --> 01:56:03.920 this moment. I don't I couldn't tell you, to be 1942 01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:10.199 completely honest. Moving on here, let's see romanizing the j's noise. 1943 01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:10.960 Yeah you said that. 1944 01:56:12.000 --> 01:56:13.640 Yeah, we can just kip some of that stuff. 1945 01:56:13.880 --> 01:56:16.359 Yeah, I got you. Let's see Tony when you have 1946 01:56:16.439 --> 01:56:20.000 time wikipedia on. Oh is that the thing for the 1947 01:56:20.039 --> 01:56:21.000 pronunciation as well? 1948 01:56:21.640 --> 01:56:22.199 Yeah? 1949 01:56:22.399 --> 01:56:24.159 Got you. I'm gonna pull that up so I could 1950 01:56:24.199 --> 01:56:26.159 review that later for sure, because that's gonna be a 1951 01:56:26.199 --> 01:56:29.760 whole thing. China may be getting more ownership of the 1952 01:56:29.840 --> 01:56:33.560 Panama Canal. Tell us a little bit about this, Tony. 1953 01:56:34.119 --> 01:56:37.680 Oh yeah, I read an article about this, and it's 1954 01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:41.039 a little too complicated even for me. But there's this 1955 01:56:41.359 --> 01:56:46.920 Chinese or Hong Kong based shipping conglomerate called Hutchison that 1956 01:56:47.119 --> 01:56:51.439 owns a lot of ports around the world, and black 1957 01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:54.960 Rock from the US obviously has a stake in a 1958 01:56:54.960 --> 01:56:58.000 lot of ports around the world. And there's a. 1959 01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:04.239 Chinese Beijing owned company called Costco. It's like our Costco 1960 01:57:04.399 --> 01:57:07.880 without the tea, and it also has a big steak 1961 01:57:07.920 --> 01:57:09.600 in a lot of ports around the world. And apparently 1962 01:57:09.640 --> 01:57:14.399 they're negotiating and doing some horse trading. And the short 1963 01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:18.760 version of the story is that the Chinese government and 1964 01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:23.680 Chinese owned Costco might be taking control of more ports 1965 01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:26.880 in and around Panama and maybe a bigger steak in 1966 01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:30.399 the Panama Canal. But the article I read didn't go 1967 01:57:30.479 --> 01:57:34.039 into enough detail to really flesh it out, and I 1968 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:38.079 don't want to take too much time here, but yeah, China, 1969 01:57:38.319 --> 01:57:40.760 they've had a big steak in the Panama Canal since 1970 01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:45.039 Panama gave it to them in sometime after nineteen ninety nine. 1971 01:57:45.119 --> 01:57:49.520 The US basically broke Panama off of Colombia in about 1972 01:57:49.640 --> 01:57:52.840 nineteen oh three in order to make the Panama Canal 1973 01:57:52.920 --> 01:57:57.159 happen so Colombia wouldn't own it. And then in nineteen 1974 01:57:57.239 --> 01:58:01.159 seventy seven, the US agreed to give the Panama Canal 1975 01:58:01.239 --> 01:58:04.920 back to Panama in nineteen ninety nine, twenty two years later, 1976 01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:08.399 and then that happened, and then I think Panama sold 1977 01:58:08.439 --> 01:58:10.000 a major stake of it to China. 1978 01:58:10.279 --> 01:58:11.640 And here we are now. 1979 01:58:13.199 --> 01:58:17.600 Fair enough. I remember whenever the big deal happened with 1980 01:58:17.720 --> 01:58:20.840 that Trump in the big situation with the Panama Canal, 1981 01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:24.399 Blackrock was making a big thing where they were buying 1982 01:58:24.439 --> 01:58:27.800 like fifty four new ports. They already owned ports all 1983 01:58:27.840 --> 01:58:30.760 over the world. They were moving in on like fifty 1984 01:58:30.760 --> 01:58:35.800 four of them very strategically. Twenty. I know there was 1985 01:58:35.880 --> 01:58:39.079 three that was like the crown jewels of the Panama Canal, 1986 01:58:39.479 --> 01:58:41.359 but there was twenty of them in and around that 1987 01:58:41.479 --> 01:58:43.920 area that it was a whole we did a whole 1988 01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:46.079 cult to conspiracy episode as a matter of fact, on 1989 01:58:46.319 --> 01:58:51.600 the fact that they were owning these strategic ports, Yes, 1990 01:58:51.880 --> 01:58:54.760 for American interest, but Blackrock has a lot more than 1991 01:58:54.840 --> 01:59:00.319 just American interests that they answer towards. So yeah, yeah, 1992 01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:03.479 very interesting. I haven't heard much about China buying more 1993 01:59:03.560 --> 01:59:06.760 or building more ports around the area. But again, if 1994 01:59:06.840 --> 01:59:10.000 China is trying to project more power, and they do 1995 01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:14.399 so through economics, and I understand that, but man, they 1996 01:59:14.439 --> 01:59:16.640 have not done anything to help their homies on a 1997 01:59:16.640 --> 01:59:20.560 military standpoint, especially in lieu of all the tariff's conversation 1998 01:59:20.640 --> 01:59:23.039 that's going on here now. They are seated at a 1999 01:59:23.119 --> 01:59:27.000 forty five percent tariff etchedon stone as of this moment. 2000 01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:30.319 That can also change. I know that goes against the 2001 01:59:30.439 --> 01:59:33.720 entire term of etchton Stone, but with our current administration, 2002 01:59:34.000 --> 01:59:36.439 it depends on the day, It depends on the moon phases, 2003 01:59:36.479 --> 01:59:38.800 it depends on the winds. As far as what's going 2004 01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:42.680 to happen next. With all of that being said, let's 2005 01:59:42.680 --> 01:59:45.439 see you also said that there may be rare earths 2006 01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:48.319 on that high border, but Grox says, no, I haven't 2007 01:59:48.319 --> 01:59:50.479 heard anything as far as there being some sort of 2008 01:59:50.520 --> 01:59:53.199 a rare earth or anything like that as far as 2009 01:59:53.279 --> 01:59:56.520 what the border dispute is about. But that border dispute 2010 01:59:56.560 --> 01:59:59.000 has it's not a new conversation. That's been a border 2011 01:59:59.000 --> 02:00:02.199 dispute for a couple of years for sure, And I 2012 02:00:02.239 --> 02:00:05.680 don't know if they use this random accident with a 2013 02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:10.920 landmine as just the catalysts to try to finally settle 2014 02:00:10.920 --> 02:00:13.640 the border dispute forever, or if there is some real 2015 02:00:13.680 --> 02:00:16.279 truth to that. I said earlier that it's very possible 2016 02:00:16.279 --> 02:00:19.439 that it's an American mind from the Vietnam War era. 2017 02:00:19.640 --> 02:00:24.159 It's very possible. It's also equally possible that that mine 2018 02:00:24.439 --> 02:00:27.520 was placed by one of these sides for that purpose, 2019 02:00:27.680 --> 02:00:31.119 maybe to be a not a false flag operation, but 2020 02:00:32.359 --> 02:00:35.399 for the principle of starting the conflict in the first place. 2021 02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:38.279 I don't know. I don't know. I hope that everything 2022 02:00:38.319 --> 02:00:41.319 gets resolved fairly quickly. Me and Mar, just on the 2023 02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:43.279 other side of Camba or on the other side of 2024 02:00:43.279 --> 02:00:47.479 Thailand is still in an open civil war. So out 2025 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:53.279 of the entirety of the Southeast Asian area, India just 2026 02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:56.000 got out of a conflict with Pakistan, there's still in 2027 02:00:56.039 --> 02:00:59.960 a conflict with China. China is in multiple border dispute. 2028 02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:03.600 It's not necessarily conflicts, but border disputes. Nonetheless, Me and 2029 02:01:03.720 --> 02:01:07.520 Mar is an open fighting. Cambodia and Thailand are in 2030 02:01:07.640 --> 02:01:09.640 open fighting. The only ones that seem to be mining 2031 02:01:09.680 --> 02:01:18.960 their business is Laos, Vietnam, Singapore. That's about it. Honestly, 2032 02:01:19.520 --> 02:01:21.640 it's pretty crazy. Like I said, I hope everything gets 2033 02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:24.279 resolved fairly quickly and we can get back to business 2034 02:01:24.279 --> 02:01:26.920 as usual. I would prefer that, and I'm sure all 2035 02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:29.279 the good listeners of The Cajun Night would as well. 2036 02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:32.399 With all this being said, we are gonna wrap this 2037 02:01:32.479 --> 02:01:34.760 episode up if you again, if you would like to 2038 02:01:34.840 --> 02:01:38.159 join in the conversation next week, please join us. The 2039 02:01:38.199 --> 02:01:40.640 link is in the description below. Go to Patreon and 2040 02:01:40.720 --> 02:01:43.600 check out The Cajun Night. There's only one tier for injury. 2041 02:01:43.640 --> 02:01:46.119 We do this every Wednesday night at nine pm Central. 2042 02:01:46.479 --> 02:01:49.399 It gets promoted on the Cult Conspiracy. And if you 2043 02:01:49.399 --> 02:01:51.279 would like to throw in your two cents or bring 2044 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:53.760 up something that I did not bring up. 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