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Welcome back everyone to the show. It's

your host Danny Highong. Please hit the

like button as you come on. We have an

incredible show for you today. We are

going to talk about all of these

escalations leading to a third world

war. Donald Trump is rapidly torpedoing

any chance of peace in Ukraine, if there

was ever a chance at all beyond a total

Russian victory. Two Ohio class

submarines are now parked somewhere in

the region near Russia on Trump's orders

following a social media spat with

former Russian President Dmitri Medvev.

Russia has an answer. Its name is

Arashnik the missile that is as well as

a firm position to move forward on the

battlefield with increasing vigor and

effectiveness. Meanwhile, another

chapter in the US war on rising

multipolar nations in the global

majority is being opened as China

prepares its own defensive maneuvers

along with Russia in the Pacific as

larger war with China looms. With all of

this said, we are going to discuss all

of it and more with uh two very good

friends of the show, Brian Berlettic of

the New Atlas and KJ No. wanted to play

and talk about uh this

escalation on the part of the Trump

administration. Okay. Uh so Donald Trump

has sent two Ohio class submarines

somewhere close to Russia. We don't know

where. Um but this is what he said on uh right-wing

right-wing media

media

uh about the situation. former president

of Russia who's now in charge of one of

the most important councils uh Medvidev

said some things and it was very bad

talking about nuclear and when you

mention the word nuclear I say you know

my eyes light up and I say we better be

careful because it's the ultimate threat

shouldn't have said it he's got a fresh

mouth he said things in the past too and

so we always want to be ready and so I

have sent to the region two nuclear

submarines. I just want to make sure

that u his words are only words and

nothing more than that.

Yes. Well, uh also uh in this uh

escalation, we have to get to some of

the context. This is what uh Donald

Trump was referencing this spat with

Dimmitri Medved. This is what Medve

wrote on uh Telegram. He said uh about

India's we'll just go to the third

paragraph. It's the most important.

India's and Russia's dead economies

entering very dangerous territory. Well,

let Trump remember his favorite movies

about Walking Dead as well as how

dangerous the fabled dead hand can be

referencing a nuclear escalation

doctrine on the part of Russia. So, uh,

before I get to the whole archnic

situation, Brian, your initial reactions

to, uh, what's going on when it comes to

Ukraine visa v Trump as Donald Trump

himself, uh, uh, poses ultimatum,

imposes ultimatums on Russia or attempts

to, and threatens nuclear war.

Uh, well, this was this was all about

continuity of agenda. This was You know

what I had I had said before he even was

elected president. I said that all of

this is going to continue. There is a a

single agenda and the only thing that

changes are the lies that are used to

sell the agenda to the public and the

excuses made for why things are not

changing despite campaign promises

otherwise. And so what we see President

Trump doing right now is making excuses

and just outright lying about why this

war continues. This war he said he was

going to stop in 24 hours. And people

said, "Well, that that's not even re

realistic. He couldn't do that if he

wanted to." But in reality, this is a

war between the United States and Russia

being fought in and through Ukraine.

Again, the New York Times reported this.

You know, this isn't me saying this or

Russia saying this. The New York Times

admitted from 2014 onward, the US

Central Intelligence Agency took control

over all of Ukraine's intelligence

agencies. And from 2022 onward, US

generals have been at the top of the

chain of command of UK Ukraine's armed

forces. So, this this is literally being

fought and overseen and organized and

planned by the United States. And all

the US president has to do is say, "I'm

bringing the generals home. The CIA is

out and then the war is over." And he he

he literally could make this decision in

one day and then it would be over. And

what he's trying to do right now is just

freeze the conflict. And I warned people

if you listen carefully even during his

the campaign, this was what he was

saying. This is what JD Vance was

saying. This is what everyone else uh he

had around him during campaign season.

This is what they were saying. They were

saying we we shouldn't be sending

weapons to Ukraine because we need them

to go fight China. So it's not ending

war, it's just creating a bigger war.

But then there was always the caveat

that we are going to dump this conflict

on Europe. So we're not we're not we're

not ending it. We're at best going to

try to freeze it because we're losing it

right now as you alluded to uh earlier

Danny. And uh we are going to continue

this but through Europe. And as I

constantly repeat, this is about

division of labor, which is a term US

labor. And this is also about strategic

sequencing. The US cannot fight Russia,

China, and Iran all at the same time. So

they need to do it in turn. And so this

is what we're watching. And what we're

watching is Biden policy being sold

under the MAGA

America first marketing slogans. That's

that's all this is.

Yeah, KJ, your assessment.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with Brian. Uh

there's a very clear continuity of

agenda. Uh people think that it's chaos

or consolidation, but no, it's clearly

consol a continuity. And so this is what

makes things uh you know uh extraordinarily

extraordinarily

uh dangerous. Uh the thing about the

submarines I think it's important to

point out um this is rhetorical

posturing but even rhetorical posturing

is dangerous because it signals that

you're moving up the escalation ladder.

The signals themselves are part of the

escalation ladder. Just so that we

understand you know the Ohio class

submarine let's assume that it's a SSBN

ballistic missile launching Ohio class

submarine. Each one of them uh carries

24 Trident 2 missiles. These Trident 2

missiles have a range between 7,600

km to 12,000 km. So just the fact that

Trump is saying that I'm placing them

closer actually doesn't mean very much

because they're designed to launch uh

intercontinental missiles. But again the

firepower that they have is uh each each

uh trident uh if you consider that it

has you know 24 that it will be carrying

uh 24

uh uh trident missiles each one which

has eight 475 kiloton uh warheads then

you're looking something in the range of

about 91,000

kilotons that a single submarine can

launch. That is to say, the equivalent

of 6,000 Hiroshima.

If you have two of them that are being

signaled right now, that's 12,000

Hiroshima right there. So, in other

words, this is an extraordinarily foolish

foolish

uh you know, threat to be making. Uh and

it it's not simply you know trolling or

uh you know um posturing because these

kinds of messaging push you further up

the escalation ladder and it's uh and

with Trump's mindset where he you know

he has said himself that about nuclear

weapons you know what do you mean we

can't use them meaning that he thinks

that you know it's permissible to use

these things. So, it's just an extraordinarily

extraordinarily

dangerous situation and it ties into the

fact that the US is continuing to escalate

escalate

to war to world war and I believe that

it is fully capable uh of using nuclear weapons.

Yeah. Yeah. And you know, Brian, I

wanted to actually before we get to uh

Russia's response in a second, I just

wanted to show you this uh because major

mainstream media, Western media are very

happy about Donald Trump's posture right

now toward Russia, including here uh on

Newsweek, Trump fix NATO. Uh he can fix

it's about prescription drug prices. But

what I found so interesting is that this

person was a deputy US trade

representative for the first Trump

administration. And essentially what he

says is he says he successfully fixed

NATO by getting NATO and all European

countries in NATO to fall into line. And

so I'm curious, Brian, where does this

all fit in? Because uh that's his

argument. That is the argument of

Jeffrey Jerish, the author of that

article. He says that Europe, the

European countries in NATO are falling

into line and Trump did that. He fixed

NATO and now NATO is talking about 2027

war with Russia and Trump is uh using

Twitter spats, ex uh spats, social media

spats to escalate with Russia. It's all

it all points the same direction. Your

thoughts? Well, well, first of all,

President Trump's comments and and

announcement that he's moving these

submarines, as KJ pointed out, which is

just it's just absurd. It's it's

posturing. It's probably never even

happened. These submarines are, again,

as KJ pointed out, they're always within

reach of of US, you know, designated

adversaries. But the point is, he's

responding to something someone said on

X about the dead hand. The dead hand is

a a system or or a method of retaliating

against a nuclear strike on Russia. This

is what this is what Russia was talking

about. If we are attacked, even if you

wipe out all of our leadership, we still

have this mechanism in place to

retaliate with nuclear weapons. So, so

this is what President Trump is reacting

to. something somebody said in defense

against constant US wararm mongering

toward Russia. Now, I can prove that

President Trump always meant to to lie

to the American people from the very

beginning about ending ending the

conflict in Ukraine because at the same

time he constantly said he was going to

end the conflict in 24 hours, he was

also saying, "I'm going to get NATO to

to ramp up spending. every every member

in NATO is going to spend up to 5% of

their GDP uh on on military matters for

NATO. Why does NATO exist? NATO exists

solely to confront, encroach upon,

encircle, contain, and eventually absorb

Russia. That is its only purpose for

existence. And if Trump is talking about

expanding NATO while at the same time

claiming he's going to end this war

against Russia, he he's telling you

upfront that no, we're not actually

going to end the conflict in Ukraine.

I'm telling you what you want to hear.

The agenda is to continue this

belligerance toward Russia, this

encroachment upon Russia, the

encirclement and containment of Russia,

and this this constant threat to Russia

that obviously Russia is going to

respond to. So even during campaign

season, he was telling you this was

never going to end. It was only going to

escalate. If you're telling NATO members

you need to spend more on NATO, it's

because you need NATO to do more what to

do more confrontation toward Russia. So

again, people have to listen carefully

to what is actually being said instead

of just hearing what they want to hear.

So I, you know, it's just it's blatant.

It's blatant. I think a lot of people

have woken up. I think more people still

need to wake up. And unfortunately,

people are going to people who have

invested in President Trump, especially

Americans who have invested in President

Trump, he can do no wrong in their mind.

And and in their mind, they they just

constantly tell themselves, "Well, maybe

that's not really what I voted for, but

at least it's not Camala Harris. At

least it's not Biden." When in reality,

it is. It's just continuity of agenda

with President Trump selling it instead

of somebody else.

You know, KJ, a lot of this uh seems to

point to uh the Trump administration's

uh deep commitment to trying to dictate

terms not only to Russia but the entire

multipolar world. And while some in the

United States may have had expectations

about what Donald Trump would do with

regard to Ukraine and and so-called

peace, which is completely being burst

under by both his words and deeds,

Vladimir Putin, uh I'll just play this

uh on mute because it's in Russian with

captions. I'll read it for all of you.

Um let me just speed it up a bit. Um

this is what he said when he was with uh

Victor Lucenko of Bellarus uh about

negotiations with the US. As for any

disappointments on anyone's part, all

disappointments arise from excessive

expectations. This is a well-known

general rule. In order to approach the

issue in a peaceful manner, it is

necessary to have detailed

conversations. not in public but this

must be done calmly

in silence of negot in the negotiation

process. So uh Putin spells it out quite

firmly there that uh he didn't given the

way things have gone he didn't really

have uh huge expectations and now uh the

situation has changed completely. Uh but

KJ your comments. Yeah. So I I think

Putin is showing himself as the measured

and uh skilled statesman he is. He's

pointing out both you know

philosophically and pragmatically

um expectations need to be managed. Uh

and I think this is a message both to

his domestic audience uh the

international audience as well as the

white house. Uh I think that it's pretty

clear that you know whatever hope uh

that people were deluding themselves

around deescalation is no longer you

know possible. I think that as Brian has

pointed out we are looking at continuity

of agenda. We're looking at division of

labor. We're looking at strategic

sequencing. Uh that said uh you know

once again we have to understand the US

political system for what it is. Each

time we have a new president, they each

come in saying and promising the moon

and most notably always promising to end

wars. I mean, this was true for Nixon.

It's true for Obama. This is why Obama

was elected. I mean, within days he

received the Nobel Prize for, you know,

for peace, Nobel Peace Prize, right? Of

course, is completely unwarranted. Same

thing for Trump. he was elected on an

anti-war platform because the desire for

people which is completely uh you know

rational is for peace. People want they

want peace. They want stable lives so

they can go around go ahead and try to

build decent lives for themselves and

their families. And when you have war

that destroys everything. And of course,

we have the wararmonger class, which as

far as I can tell, seems dead set on uh

on war, on global war. And we're looking

at the four horsemen of capitalism.

We're looking at de-industrialization.

We're looking at uh financialization,

we're looking at deskkilling, and we're

looking at internal contradictions that

can only be dealt with by escalating to

kinetic war. Uh this is the reset button

for a failing system. It's the wall

defibrillator that you use when the

capitalist beast, you know, has gone

into cardiac arrest. You you start the

war machine. And this is what I'm very

very afraid of. And this is what

everything seems to be pointing towards.

Yeah. and and Brian uh your comments on

on Russia's

uh you know how Russia has responded

here because

uh throughout the duration of this we

haven't seen Russia budge on their

demands we haven't seen them even give

an inch there isn't even any uh whiff of

normalization uh forget the uh uh forget

the conflict itself uh your thoughts

about how Russia's respond to all of

this because still uh Steve Wickoff is

going to have come and gone from Russia

uh very soon and no one is expecting any

kind of quote unquote breakthrough

because the the song and dance is the

same. It's the US going in and saying do

what we say. This is what we want from

you. Exactly what you said earlier,

Brian. We want a ceasefire. We want to

freeze. Your thoughts?

Exactly. For Russia, it's existential.

This is a war being waged against Russia

by the United States. It's not even just

being waged uh against Russia through

Ukraine, but through all of Europe and

through all of these so-called allies, I

think more accurately to call them

proxies of the United States, client

states of of the United States, and this

is what they're responding to. So if if

they were to agree to a ceasefire,

essentially freezing the conflict, all

they're doing is giving the collective

West time and space to rearm to

reorganize Ukraine's military, to

reorganize Europe's military because

they're getting online to go in next. We

we see them making the preparations and

it would it would knock the wind out of

Russia's momentum that that they have

and the advantage that they have in

terms of military-industrial production.

This is something that I think people

are somewhat complacent. They think that

there's there's no possible way for the

US to catch up and and in a lot of ways

it's it's difficult for them to catch

up. But every single year they're

they're working on it a little bit more

each each year. And you don't have

forever to fight this war. So, so Russia

needs to end this. They need to end it

on their terms. If it is frozen, it will

end up like Syria, a conflict everybody

thought was uh concluded or at least

stalemated but in favor of Syria and its

allies, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah. But we

saw how the how the United States

reorganized its that the the terrorist

proxies it was using, how it used

nations like Turkey and Israel, Saudi

Arabia, Qatar, uh all of these nations

to to recalibrate their support for

these terrorists. And when the

opportunity availed itself, they they

took it. They completely overthrew and

and collapsed Syria as a functioning

nation state. And so this is what Russia

is looking at if they were to capitulate

to these demands. And what the United

States is doing right now, they're not

looking for peace. They want to freeze

it. They want to coersse Russia into

accepting a freeze so that they can

create the conditions later on where

where they could where they could

succeed, where they are where they are

currently failing. If you look at the

map on the ground in Ukraine, Russian

forces uh just took Chasavar.

Uh they are on the doorstep of Severk

and they have entered into Copian. They

have they've surrounded Petros, which is

all of these are extremely heavily

fortified areas along the line of

contact. Yep, that's that is Patrosk

right there. Uh there's reports that

Russian forces are operating across the

city. We we we've been hearing this for

for weeks and the Ukrainians are saying,

well, that is it's normal. You just get

a couple of these sabotage teams, but

it's it's every single day. So, it's

it's more than just that. And the

logistics have been complicated. And

once that that happens, everything

starts to accelerate. And this is what

Russia has done to to all of these major

cities. And and Ukraine has not been

able to stop Russia even one time. Once

this process begins, inevitably the city

will fall and everything will move even

further west. And and if you look at the

map, you see that Ukraine is running out

of cities to to to hide in until they

reach the deeper river. So this is this

is significant. This is why we see panic

across the west and especially in in

Washington who ultimately engineered

this proxy war and is worried about

losing it.

Yeah. Yeah. And KJ, uh, perhaps you can,

uh, build on that cuz as Brian was

talking, you know, there there are these

battle significant battlefield uh,

achievements by Russia of Le Chaft

Tashabar as he mentioned Prosovk is just

an absolute mess for Ukraine and the US.

Uh, then there's also the political

situation for Ukraine is very unstable.

talks of a kind of internal regime

change scenario likely coming in the

very near future. Um, you know, there's

there just seems to be mounting problems

and just the way that Donald Trump is

behaving is showing that when uh uh

there is an unfavorable situation in

front of the war machine, it it

regresses to the mean. Uh KJ, your final

thoughts on this?

Well, you're absolutely right. I mean

this is you know it's so repeated so

often that it's starting to become trit

but Kissinger said that it is dangerous

to be an enemy of the United States and

it is lethal it is deadly uh to be an

ally and this is exactly the same thing

that we see happening for Zalinski I

mean Zalinski was a corrupt clown of uh

you know a potentate you know you put a

clown in power you are going to get a circus

circus

Uh but uh but what he was supposed to do

was he was supposed to take direction

cleanly and he was the US never imagined

that Ukraine uh would not win. Russia is

a gas station, right? They were just

going to roll over it. It was just an

appetizer on the way to the main course

which was China. And so now that he is

losing uh they want to get rid of him

just as they wanted they got rid of DM

that they got rid of Sing Manri they got

rid of uh Pak Janggh all of these

dictators that the US puts into power

when they become losers and Trump hates

nothing. There's nothing that Trump

hates more than a loser. Once they

become losers they become expendable and

they need to change them out. We know

that, you know, there are people waiting

in the wings. Uh and uh all of this

signals that the US, the West knows that

they're losing on the battlefields.

They're trying to see if they can get

some kind of a a rebrand uh on the

political sphere and see if they can

stoke up their vassels and get them to

uh re-engage in war. But ultimately, it

is a lost war. This is war of attrition.

uh depends on industrial capacity and as

we've said many many times before if you

de-industrialize you not only are you

de-industrializing but you're also

deskilling if you've done that then it's

very very hard to recover that the

problem is that United States has the

United States is led by a generation of

military leaders that have not engaged

in protracted industrial war for at

least two gener generations and so they

are completely unmed. They don't

understand what they're doing. They're

still relying on Israeli war doctrine

which is which came out of the Yamipur

war which then was the basis of the US's

air land battle which is also the basis

for the anti-war doctrine air sea

battle. And this is based on rapid

decapitation strikes. It is not about

protraction or industrial warfare and

they simply are not capable of

understanding that the situation has

changed. And once again, if that

happens, then you know what is the ace

in the hole that they will reach for? Do

they actually have the capacity to

freeze it? Are they going to resort to

nuclear threats? Well, they already are. So,

So,

well, let's get to this. Let's get to

another aspect because usually Russia

responds to threats. It responds to

escalations in a variety of ways. So

let's talk about uh this uh so first uh

you know Vladimir Putin was visiting uh

uh Mr. Lucenko Victor Lucenko of

Bellarus to talk about in particular our

archnik missiles which are going to be

deployed and stationed in Barus. Um, and

this is what he had to say. Uh, hold on.

No, this is not the right one. This is

what he had to say regarding this that

has uh the the collective west in

somewhat of a a major state of alarm.

Here's what he said. The first thing I

we have already manufactured the first

serial production ornik missile complex

So uh the archnik missile is now mass-

prodduced. it is fielded and uh that of

course uh given the test that occurred

last year and how much that frightened

the west and and the power of that

missile uh that has caused some great

panic. But then a Russian lawmaker had

this to say in particular about the

nuclear submarine threat. Uh Victor

Vodelski responded to Donald Trump's

nuclear submarine threat. uh the

movement of nuclear submarines to

appropriate regions by saying there are

significantly more uh nuc of our nuclear

submarines in the world's oceans and

they have the strongest and most

powerful weapons. This is why uh Trump's

two boats let them float. They have been

at gunpoint for quite a long time. So

very strong words. I mean these this

moment is very reminiscent of the cold

war. Uh it's a a very kind of new cold

warlike moment where we have Russia

gearing up uh in a very big way, Brian,

uh for this larger conflict and rashnik

are now a part of this. Many people have

said, well, this isn't a direct threat.

It doesn't merely mean much. It doesn't

mean arnik are going to be used, but

they're available and that is that's a

that's a big deal for a country like

Russia, which is under significant

threat right now. What's your thoughts?

Well, this this is Russia.

Russia has to demonstrate significant

deterrence against the United States and

its client states because if they don't,

we we can see the US will just continue

taking and taking and taking. They do

this salami slice strategy where they

just take just a tiny bit each time so

that it doesn't seem like a big deal,

but over time it starts to add up.

They've been doing the exact same thing

to Iran in the Middle East and they've

done the exact same thing to China in

the Asia Pacific. And as a matter of

fact, we've already seen the conflict uh

with Iran culminate in open war. And

this is exactly how these other

conflicts are going to unfold. And the

United States honestly believes that

eventually it could fight uh a war

against these countries directly. It

suspects that it can do this without it

escalating to to nuclear warfare or they

they believe somehow it would be limited

nuclear war. and they feel and maybe

there is some truth to this, they're on

the other side of the planet. They have

oceans between them and everybody else.

And so when when they are causing all of

this uh murder, mayhem, death, and

destruction from one side of Eurasia to

the other, they're destroying everything there.

there.

And the United States remains untouched

on on the other side of the planet. They

the US has its forces spanning the globe

and they're able to project this

military power in ways that both Russia

and China cannot. Of course, Iran most

certainly cannot. And so, so this does

give them an advantage. They see that

over time the trajectory of the rise of

multipolarism, the the fading of US-led

unipolarism. They know that this

opportunity isn't going to last forever.

So, they're trying to take advantage of

it now while it lasts. Now you were

talking about the archnik and how these

weapons and other weapons have been

stationed in Bellarus and what Russia is

basically doing is extending protection

and and essentially almost integrating

Barus into the Russian Federation

because if they don't do this, the US is

going to uh use its other super weapon

that a lot of people don't don't really

seem to talk about or notice that much

and that is America's ability to

infiltrate and politically capture a

targeted nation. This is what they did

to Ukraine which caused this war in the

first place which shortcircuited the

Ukrainian people's ability to to pursue

their own best interests and to

essentially commit national suicide. And

they openly tried to do this to Barus

many times over the past two or three

decades since the end of the cold war.

Essentially they are doing this here in

the Asia-Pacific region. They've already

politically captured Europe. The

European Union is essentially an

American project, an extension of

American policy. People always ask, why

is Europe doing this? They're destroying

their own economy. Why are they doing

this? Because the people in power do not

represent or or reflect the interest of

Europe. They reflect the interests of

Washington who put them there in power.

They're doing the they want to create

the same dynamics here in the

Asia-Pacific region. And they they've

done this in the Middle East to a great

degree. They have all kinds of proxies

there who are pursuing war and proxy war

against their own best interest to serve

American hegemony worldwide. So this is

this is the the threat that Russia,

China and Iran are faced with and I

would say multipolarism as a whole and

the the response to this has to be full

spectrum because the US is waging full

spectrum war against them.

Yeah. Well, uh KJ, perhaps assess that

in the case of Russia then because uh

you know uh not only did this Russian

lawmaker say straight up that we have

our weapons pointed at you, we have our

submarines pointed at you, uh they're

more effective, they're they've been

there for quite a long time. But uh when

it comes to the archnic, I mean, this is

quite a powerful weapon. And while yes,

the United States uh to Brian's point,

it has the will. It wants to expand. it

wants to move. There's a there's a

Russia and China, these countries, they

don't want to fight wars of aggression.

So, uh, what do you make of the overall

situation and Russia's response in this context?

context?

Well, you know, once again, I think it's

important to highlight that Russia has

been very very measured throughout the

war. Uh, but the US is pushing the

buttons and they're trying to go as far

as they can. So, you know, absolutely

Russians don't want to fight just like

the Chinese don't want to fight. They

don't want a war, but they're also

signaling that if we need to go up the

threshold, if we need to go up the, you

know, the escalation ladder, we will.

And the Russik uh or uh the archnik is a

very interesting weapon because it is a non-nuclear

non-nuclear

strategic weapon. that is it's a weapon

that has the force and the destructive

capacity of a nuclear weapon. Uh but it

is non- nuclear. It works purely from

the kinetic energy that it generates in

its incredibly

uh rapid hypersonic flight. The US has

nothing that can deal with that that can

uh challenge that. And even if we were

to remove Orshnik from the picture,

we've also seen that the US uh missile

shield, the US capacity to defend itself

has been tested. It's been thoroughly

tested in the recent Israel Iran war,

the 12-day war, and it has been found

completely lacking. Let's think about

what happened between uh you know, in

the exchange between Iran and Israel.

Well, you know, uh, True Promise 3 was

the largest ballistic missile launch in

history, 500, 550 missiles. We don't

know exactly how many hit, but we know

that the battle damage was enough uh

that Israel had to tap out and that it

also is hiding the battle damage. This

is currently censored. So, whatever

happened, we know that it was significant

significant

in this process. We also know that the

US threw everything they had against uh

Iran's uh missile capacity. That is they

brought in patriots from other theaters.

In fact, they said it was the most

intense patriot engagement in the

history of the weapon. They brought in

the THAAD system. Uh the Israelis

themselves had David's arrow uh sorry,

David sling arrow two and three and the

Iron Dome. So multiple layers of defense

uh systems uh and the Russians were able

to uh to to to to you know to to to

demolish these uh with what look to be

largely conventional uh ballistic

missiles. So that sends a very very

strong message to the United States. You

no longer have escalation dominance. You

no longer have a missile shield. Uh you

no longer have impunity in attacking

countries with standoff weapons as that

they have always had. And if you think

of that equation and then on top of that

you add hypersonics like the rashnik

which as I said are strategic uh

non-uclear weapons then I think that the

United States if it were to think uh

carefully would say you know we need to

sue for peace right away but it's not

doing that. It only knows one thing

which is to escalate and to move

forward. It doesn't have a reverse gear.

doesn't even have uh you know it it the

neutral the idle gear is only so that it

can go forward again and so this is a

very very dangerous moment uh and we

have to understand that you know as

Brian said the US will do several other

things it's waging full spectrum uh war

uh so uh as conventional war becomes

less and less uh viable uh they will do

you know the kind of dirty wars the

small wars, the regime change, uh color

revolution operations creating

essentially chaos around the world and

certainly all around Asia.

And then the other thing that you know

we know is being prepared are tactical

nukes which uh Elbridge Colby has been

uh talking about for at least a decade.

Uh and then we also know that the

information warfare will continue to

accelerate. The the key strength that

the United States has above and beyond

any other uh skill and capacity is its

capacity to mystify, indoctrinate and to

wage information war. So once again we

should expect an even greater uh level

of uh propaganda and indoctrination.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brian, you know, you

as KJ was talking, I was thinking about

your prior point about how the United

States can't really catch up to Russia.

Uh, it's trying, but what's such an

interesting contradiction for the United

States at this time when it comes to

developments like the Archnik is that it

has to its doctrine has been uh win wars

quote unquote quickly, right? full

spectrum dominance and aggression. Take

out the enemy quote unquote as fast as

possible. Regime change as fast as

possible. That is victory. Now with

Russia though, there's a commitment to a

long war because that was never really

in the cards. And uh it's a it's it's a

dangerous contradiction when you both

have uh this uh need to keep the

conflict going on the part of the United

States as well as the fact that Russia

is going to uh continue onward

developing its own industrial base uh

leading to possibly this uh parallel

process between the two of of of endless

conflict and that seems to be the only

choice the US has and is very committed

to doing

Well, I I'd be very careful about

underestimating the United States. No,

no, they do not have the industrial

power to wage a protracted war of

attrition with Russia or China or even

with Iran. We we saw the the trouble

they had in in that conflict as as KJ

was just pointing out. The the problem

is the United States fully understands

this. They understand that this is a

weakness. It's inherent and the the

system that represents US special

interests is pursuit of power and profit

over purpose. The the inability to

create the state-owned enterprises that

would actually facilitate the the

military power required to to seize

power, keep power uh by force only by

force. But see, the United States has

cultivated all of these other options.

They have tremendous economic power.

They're still wielding. I just watched

the United States coersse multiple

nations in Asia here in Southeast Asia

into these I wouldn't even call them

trade deals. It's it was trade

concessions and trade coercion. And

they're able to do this because of their

e their economic power and all the other

non-military uh instruments of power

that the US has has perfected over the

the last several decades. And I I keep

going back to this uh ability of the US

to infiltrate a country politically in

terms of seizing its information space,

education, rigging the political system

if it's a nation that has a a western

style uh you know quote unquote

democracy. This is a system the US and

and the British imposed on many of these

countries outside of the west

specifically because it allows them to

come in interfere in that system and

create the results each and every single

time an election takes place that favors

them and their interests at the cost of

the the interest of the actual country

holding these so-called elections. And

the United States still has tremendous

power over many nations. Uh has outright

politically captured all of uh Europe,

Japan, South Korea. It has taken the

island province of Taiwan is politically

captured. That this is part of China,

but has been politically captured by the

United States. Uh and the United States

is working its way into nations uh where

it has varying levels of success here in

Southeast Asia. uh there was this border

conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.

The dynamics there were specifically

because US has influence uh pretty

pretty much over the entire Cambodian

government. It's it's a it's a one party

single family government and they have

pivoted hard back toward the United

States over the last year or so. And

they also have politically captured the

the political system, information space

and education system here in Thailand.

And there is currently a USbacked client

regime in power here. And so this is how

they're able to get these these

countries to make concessions to make

agreements to do things to pursue

policies that serve US interests at

their own expense and create these

dilemmas for nations like Russia, Iran

and China. These nations are surrounding

these these nations are located along

their peripherates. This is this is a

super weapon the US has and uses. uh and

this is how it's this is how it is

responding to the reality that it no it

cannot fight an an all-out war against

Russia and China directly but it has

other ways of of pursuing this conflict.

I I just want to remind people that the

whole the whole conflict in Ukraine was

never about defeating Russia. It was

about extending Russia. There's

literally a paper titled extending

Russia by the Rand Corporation published

in 2019 that says we want this conflict.

We are going to throw Ukraine into this

conflict. We know Ukraine will be

destroyed, but it will raise the cost

for Russia. It will overextend Russia.

It will tie up Russia. And this is where

strategic sequencing comes in place. If

if the US just pivoted from from Russia

to Iran or to China, and it did not

create this this quagmire to suck Russia

in into Ukraine, Russia could just pivot

and and take all of its resources and

support Iran or to support China. But

because the US has created these

dilemmas for Russia and Ukraine, for

Iran in in across the entire Middle East

and for China in terms of Taiwan and

Southeast Asia, the South China Sea, it

it has locked all of these countries in

place and this is what will allow them

to to attack and defeat in detail all

all three of these pillars of multipolarism.

multipolarism.

Well, you know, Putin alluded, Brian and

KJ, I'll get your response after uh we

play this. Putin alluded to this in his

uh presser with uh uh Victor Lucenko of

of Bellarus. This is what he said. I'll

put it on mute again because it's in

Russian with actually in the modern

world this has always been important but

today especially sovereignty plays a

particularly key role one might say

including for economic development.

Um it was clear that the European Union

did not have that much sovereignty. uh

today it has become obvious that it does

not exist at all and this is immediately

followed in the critical situation and

economic losses that follow. But KJ uh

Russia, China, I mean these countries

are championing sovereignty very very

hard uh much to Brian's uh assessment I

think in response to Brian's assessment.

So but your your reaction to all of

this? Well, you know, I think, you know,

we've had this discussion before. Uh, as

Brian says, you know, the US's super

weapon is uh information war. It

dominates information space and mental

space. And it does this because it has

had centuries of practice in uh uh in in

essentially propaganda. You know, it's

marketing, it's propaganda, it's also,

you know, religious doctrine. All of

these things come together in a way that

is very very powerful that allows them

to control and have literally monopoly

control over information space and they

also control the hardware as well that

allows uh the access or the

dissemination of information. So that is

a very very tough uh knot to crack. But

uh specifically regarding you know the

notion of sovereignty the United States

regards any country that asserts it

sovereignty as authoritarian. So for

example you know China is authoritarian

because it upholds its sovereignty. Now

technically technically uh the world

system is supposed to be made up of

sovereign states. So this is actually

you know goes back to the treaty of

Efallia. you know, it's at least four

centuries old. Uh, and certainly it was

enshrined in the UN and certainly in the

Bandon principles of sovereignty and non-inference.

non-inference.

But all of that has been thrown out the

window if it was ever, you know,

anything more than window dressing.

Specifically in the early 2000s, the US,

you know, came forth with a doctrine

where they said that sovereignty is

contingent. What is it contingent on?

Well, they said it's contingent on good

governance and human rights. What they

really mean is it's contingent on

whether you are a good vassel, whether

you allow yourselves to be subjugated uh

to the hgeimon. And so the US has

constructed this entire you know

vocabulary with which it captures you

know the global system as I said you

know operations mean war, defense means

offense uh security means hijgemony. So

anytime the US talks about ensuring

security, what they really are talking

about is ensuring US hijgemony. Anytime

they say deter, for example, deter

China, what they're really talking about

is provoking China. And certainly this

notion of sovereignty has been so wiped

clean of its original sense uh because

the US has this hegemonic ambition to

control all the countries of the world.

Now that is slipping it slipping away

clearly. uh Russia, China, Iran are

sovereign states uh and as are more and

more countries of the global south but

still the US uh you know ability the

power to compel and to coersse other

countries is significant and as Brian

pointed out we s saw this in the ways

that they all kind of peeled off and

capitulated one by one uh to Trump's

tariffs I mean just one example is South

Korea which has agreed to do agreed to

15% tariffs uh and $450 billion worth of

investment and purchases uh of which

$350 billion

uh South Korea's committed to invest in

the United States. Now, the the tricky

thing here is that that's about all of

South Korea's foreign exchange reserves.

In other words, they're going to empty

their pockets in order to please or to

appease the hgeimon.

That said, uh I don't want us to think

that everything, you know, is lost and

that, you know, it's just one-sided

game. Once again, if you look at Korea,

Korea recently got rid of the US quizing

Yunagal. He was literally, you know,

impeached, kicked out. Uh, and now they

have, uh, you know, uh, a very much more

progressive leader who is trying his

best a not to get couped and b, uh, to

put up some kind of resistance against

the empire. If you look at the

discussions around geostrategic

uh, maneuvering uh, in East Asia, Korea

is more and more dropped. the ambitions

for Korea seem to be more diminished and

the role of Japan is much more uh

emphasized or accelerated. Most recently

US discussions around you know using

nuclear weapons uh uh with Japan.

Uh Taiwan of course is uh you know it is

the spear point of US ambitions in East

Asia but once again very recently they

tried to initiate a judicial sorry a

legislative coup. They were going to uh

recall all the opposition lawmakers who

are opposed to their escalation to war

and they were actually thoroughly

trounced at the ballot box uh which

shows that there is considerable

resistance on the ground. Right now the

U US quizzling DPP Taiwan party is

reeling and as are as is the United

States itself because it it things have

not gone according to plan and of course

Japan has been blowing hot and cold.

Ishiba has you know has been uh going

along with the Shinszo Abi agenda which

is you know rapid remilitarization but

he has also been a little bit of a loose

cannon. He's said in the past that yes,

you know, we we want to support the

United States. We're happy to have US

bases on our territory, but as a

sovereign state in terms of reciprocity,

we would also like to place Japanese

military bases on US sovereign

territory. You know, that did not go

over well, and it looks like he's going

to be, you know, pushed out. But there

are contradictions inside the system and

those are the those are the things that

we have to look for. We have to look at

where the contradictions are, see where

there are crevices uh and then we have

to you know kind of uh expand and allow

those contradictions to be visible and present.

present.

Yeah. And uh I think to both of your

points, you know, I think they go very

well together. It's there's for the

United States as its empire really loses

the capacity to arrest the development

of something like multipolarity, the

more desperate it becomes. And the more

desperate it becomes, yes, there's a lot

of weakness and decline there. But, uh,

when an empire is backed into a corner,

it lashes out as much and as hard as it

can. And that's that's what it is doing

now. And that's why uh Brian to your

point you know that not only uh has the

United States has totally come its

foreign policy has totally come to the

conclusion that uh there is no real

quote unquote defeat of Russia beyond

continuing this conflict as long as

possible and uh hoping and seeing if

that opens up opportunities in the

future that maybe we can't foresee that

allows them to uh get what they want

which is of course the dismemberment of

Russia. Um any any quick thoughts,

Brian, and then we can uh move on where

we can move on.

Yes. I I just want to remind people that

because Russia was tied up in Ukraine,

still is tied up in Ukraine, the United

States was able to finally and fully

dismember Syria. And then uh because

that was a prerequisite for allout war

on Iran, advanced that agenda to toward

actual war with Iran, which is still

ongoing. It's it's paused. The the the

outright fighting is paused. uh everyone

on on all sides is getting ready for the

next round. That is that is far from

finished there. And I want to point out

yes, China has tremendous military

power. It continues to grow. But I want

to remind people that the United States

again has this global spanning military

and the plans the policies that they are

putting into place and and what they are

actually physically preparing for is not

to fight China and defeat it uh on its

own uh territory or along its shores. It

it wants to create a conflict, raise the

cost for China, and then also use any

any conflict as an excuse to cut off

Chinese maritime shipping worldwide.

They are putting the pieces uh into

place to do this. And Danny, you were

talking about this CSIS uh war game. I

don't I don't know if you mentioned it

during the show, but before before we

went live, you were talking about CSIS,

one of these corporate funded think

tanks. They were talking about

wargaming, a Chinese blockade of their

own island province of of Taiwan and all

the different things that could happen.

And one of the the outcomes was the US

able to use that as as a pretext to uh

isolate China diplomatically,

politically, economically. And that is

they they will provoke this war. Whether

they win it or not doesn't matter. They

will use that as the pretext to cut

Chinese maritime shipping, to isolate

China in in all of the ways that has

tried to isolate Russia. And that I see

people in the in the comment section

confused about whether I'm saying the US

will win or not. I'm not saying that

they're going to win or not win. I'm

just saying people should not

underestimate them. They are extremely

dangerous and what they lack in

military-industrial production, they

more than make up for in political

meddling, subversion, and political capture.

capture.

Yeah. And I would say winning is really

not the question for the US foreign

policy establishment anymore because uh

it's trying to hold on to an empire and

in many ways China and Russia have won

in so many critical categories. Ryan you

mentioned earlier Russia's industrial

military production it's won that. I

mean there's it's done. It's I mean

that's that's happened. uh if the United

States can prolong this long enough,

maybe they can keep Ukraine and and go

on to other fronts like Malddova or

whatever, you know, and find ways to

militarily and politically

um encircle Russia. But uh just on the

the pure facts of military industrial

production, Russia has won that and

China economically has already won that.

It's it's really a matter of um you know

other than maybe pure GDP terms but it's

really a matter of for the United States

how can it stop that and that's that's

what it will do um at all costs maybe uh

to uh the uh biggest cost leading to the

biggest cost which is which is nuclear

conflict which Donald Trump is openly

talking about as if it's a joke and that

is that is no joke. Um, but I think this

is a really good time actually since

both of you referenced uh wargaming,

China, Taiwan. Uh, there is a lot of

alarm being spread about a Chinese

invasion of Taiwan coming and here is a

Taiwan official. a lot of uh

misreporting going on, but this seems to

happen every some weeks where we are

told that some Taiwan uh based official,

this one's called the deputy foreign

minister, uh there's no such thing, but

that's what they call themselves since

it is a province of China. But here is

what he had to say regarding China and Taiwan.

Taiwan.

The population need not to be naive like

the past. China is preparing to invade Taiwan

Taiwan

if an attack came in the next 18 months.

Is Taiwan ready? Is Taiwan prepared enough?

enough?

Uh Taiwan alone face on China, we

cannot, we will never be ready. It's not

possible. China is so big, so huge.

Maybe it's also the tactic of China

trying to push Taiwan to the maximum and

then to be very nervous. They wanted to

uh to become the one who will take the

first action who to shut the first

You think that you think that's right?

They're actively trying to provoke a response.

response.

Yeah. Uh we we suspect if one day China

Taiwan, of course, it will be very bad

for Taiwan.

We maybe will be destroyed.

So, uh not a lot of optimism there, but

a lot of blame and and demonization of

China nonetheless. And uh this you

mentioned and you were t you've talked

about KJ uh Taiwan's recall vote. So

this happened twice in the last year um

an attempt by the DPP the separatist

party uh to take back the so-called

legisl legislator uh legis uh leg

legislative council. Uh the frustration

uh of this so-called grassroots campaign

by the DPP to recall KMT legislators was

was really horrific. in July 26. Um the

first recall vote occurred actually in

July 26 and none of them none of them

the KMT legislators which is the uh

nationalist party which fled uh to the

Taiwan island after 1949 uh were

recalled and they are for of course one

China which is uh a a thorn in the side

of the US backed separatists. Uh so

before I get to the war games part of

this KJ, your reaction to the hype and

the continual hype of a Chinese invasion

of Taiwan?

Well, I mean the first thing to point

out is that it's not possible for a

country to invade itself. Uh Taiwan is

part of China. It's a province of China.

This is recognized by Chinese uh Chinese

law. It's recognized by the Taiwan

authorities's own constitution.

Certainly, it's recognized by the United

States, recognized by all the countries

of the world. It's recognized by the

United Nations. Taiwan is not a country.

It is a province of China. It's a

province that has pretensions to being

something that it is not. It's as it's

very similar to the United States. The

United States had a civil war. As the

Civil War was coming to a a close, the

Confederates, they decamped and they

escaped to Galveastston Island off of

Texas uh and they were regrouping there.

And if we can imagine the hypothetical

where China had said to the Confederate

Confederate army decamped on

Galveastston Island, yes, you are the

United States and we will arm you and we

will support you until you can take back

the entirety of the United States.

That's essentially what happened. It's a

rump state masquerading as a country.

And China even so has said that it does

not want to wage war. It wants peaceful

reunification. And essentially China's

great superpower is patience. It's

willing to wait uh decades if not

hundreds of years until Taiwan falls

back into the fold, which I believe it

will. Uh but the problem is the United

States. The United States has been

weaponizing Taiwan. It's been using it

as a forward military base. In fact, you

can track the history of US

relationships with China through phases

of chi Taiwan's history from 1949 until

the mid70s. Taiwan was a US forward

military base on which the US actually

parked uh nuclear weapons and was

constantly threatening China. It went

from being a military base uh into a

kind of a US hedge and that was the

second phase of US China relations which was essentially detaant we're talking

was essentially detaant we're talking about you know the uh three communicates

about you know the uh three communicates and you know Nixon and Kissinger in

and you know Nixon and Kissinger in China etc.

China etc. The third phase

The third phase and during this period, Taiwan was used

and during this period, Taiwan was used as a hedge, but it was not used overtly

as a hedge, but it was not used overtly to wage war against China, but it was

to wage war against China, but it was used as a way of subcontracting for

used as a way of subcontracting for dirty wars. And so, for example, uh the

dirty wars. And so, for example, uh the kind of dirty wars that the US was

kind of dirty wars that the US was waging that were too dirty to be done on

waging that were too dirty to be done on the books even for the CIA would be

the books even for the CIA would be subcontracted to Taiwan Island. And then

subcontracted to Taiwan Island. And then the Taiwan uh Taiwan would for example

the Taiwan uh Taiwan would for example engage in uh you know they would train

engage in uh you know they would train death squads in Latin America. The civil

death squads in Latin America. The civil uh air transport which is Taiwan's

uh air transport which is Taiwan's international carrier was also called

international carrier was also called Air America. So they were used to

Air America. So they were used to smuggle drugs out of the Golden Triangle

smuggle drugs out of the Golden Triangle to fund dirty wars through Myanmar

to fund dirty wars through Myanmar against China. And also uh Taiwan was

against China. And also uh Taiwan was used as a kind of a global clearing

used as a kind of a global clearing house for global fascism. It you know

house for global fascism. It you know supported Israel. It supported South

supported Israel. It supported South Africa when Israel was helping South

Africa when Israel was helping South Africa get the uh the nuclear uh nuclear

Africa get the uh the nuclear uh nuclear bomb. Uh Taiwan was you know major

bomb. Uh Taiwan was you know major purchaser of uranium from South Africa.

purchaser of uranium from South Africa. In fact it contracted for 2,000 tons of

In fact it contracted for 2,000 tons of uranium because they were all going to

uranium because they were all going to you know turn themselves into nuclear

you know turn themselves into nuclear states. uh and so on and so on. So it

states. uh and so on and so on. So it has been a bad actor throughout and it's

has been a bad actor throughout and it's like a pawn which is posed on the eighth

like a pawn which is posed on the eighth row uh of the chessboard that is you

row uh of the chessboard that is you cannot ignore it because it poses an

cannot ignore it because it poses an imminent threat certainly if it's used

imminent threat certainly if it's used as a gambit then it has to be taken out

as a gambit then it has to be taken out immediately. So that's the threat and

immediately. So that's the threat and this is what the United States is trying

this is what the United States is trying to do with Taiwan. It's trying to it's

to do with Taiwan. It's trying to it's been Ukrainizing it, you know, for the

been Ukrainizing it, you know, for the past five years and it's been trying to

past five years and it's been trying to use it as a trigger to force China into

use it as a trigger to force China into some kind of kinetic response or even a

some kind of kinetic response or even a blockade and then to use that as a quasi

blockade and then to use that as a quasi with which to pile on uh against China.

with which to pile on uh against China. It's as if, you know, you're constantly

It's as if, you know, you're constantly on the basketball court. You're

on the basketball court. You're constantly driving into the paint and

constantly driving into the paint and you're trying to draw the foul with the

you're trying to draw the foul with the hope that once the foul is drawn, you

hope that once the foul is drawn, you know, you can get everybody stirred up

know, you can get everybody stirred up and everybody will come down from the

and everybody will come down from the bleachers uh and get into a a huge

bleachers uh and get into a a huge fight. And that's essentially Elbridge

fight. And that's essentially Elbridge Coly's strategy, what he calls strategy

Coly's strategy, what he calls strategy of denial. essentially use Taiwan to

of denial. essentially use Taiwan to trigger war, get all your allies to

trigger war, get all your allies to pitch in and then have you know a

pitch in and then have you know a massive uh uh you know massive war

massive uh uh you know massive war against China. So all of this is so

against China. So all of this is so deeply and intricately set up and you

deeply and intricately set up and you know they've been doing this or they've

know they've been doing this or they've been you know I mean Elbridge Colby is

been you know I mean Elbridge Colby is talking about this for over a decade. uh

talking about this for over a decade. uh but this is uh the the situation which

but this is uh the the situation which is so extraordinarily hair trigger

is so extraordinarily hair trigger dangerous and most recently what the DPP

dangerous and most recently what the DPP did was something very similar to what

did was something very similar to what Korea did. It knows that if it wants to

Korea did. It knows that if it wants to trigger war the vast majority of people

trigger war the vast majority of people on Taiwan Island are opposed to war.

on Taiwan Island are opposed to war. They want nothing to do with war because

They want nothing to do with war because you know everybody in China is their

you know everybody in China is their family. Literally they're related uh by

family. Literally they're related uh by blood. they're essentially, you know, 90

blood. they're essentially, you know, 90 95% of the population have relatives in

95% of the population have relatives in Fujian or or China. They don't want to

Fujian or or China. They don't want to kill uh their own families. And so in

kill uh their own families. And so in order to make this happen, Taiwan has

order to make this happen, Taiwan has passed a series of regulations among

passed a series of regulations among which are a kind of bringing back of

which are a kind of bringing back of military rule or martial courts uh

military rule or martial courts uh military courts in order to uh you know

military courts in order to uh you know have this kind of arbitrary uh capacity

have this kind of arbitrary uh capacity to uh shape uh uh action uh inside the

to uh shape uh uh action uh inside the country and then they were trying to get

country and then they were trying to get rid of the opposition legislature which

rid of the opposition legislature which is opposed to war and essentially have a

is opposed to war and essentially have a legislative coup so that they

legislative coup so that they essentially have a unitary government.

essentially have a unitary government. Now, this is parallel to what was

Now, this is parallel to what was happening in Korea because again, Korea

happening in Korea because again, Korea is the other big flash point.

is the other big flash point. Historically, Taiwan and Korea have

Historically, Taiwan and Korea have always come together. They've always

always come together. They've always happened at the same time. At least

happened at the same time. At least three times in history. Anytime there's

three times in history. Anytime there's been an invasion of China, uh the two

been an invasion of China, uh the two on-ramps have been Taiwan Island and the

on-ramps have been Taiwan Island and the Korean Peninsula.

Korean Peninsula. But Korea just recently barely escaped

But Korea just recently barely escaped uh a military coup. Yunagel was dead set

uh a military coup. Yunagel was dead set on triggering a military coup uh in

on triggering a military coup uh in South Korea and he and among his plans

South Korea and he and among his plans uh he was going to trigger war with

uh he was going to trigger war with North Korea. We know this, you know,

North Korea. We know this, you know, with great certainty at this point that

with great certainty at this point that the plan was to trigger war with North

the plan was to trigger war with North Korea by sending drones and lobbing

Korea by sending drones and lobbing missiles and doing all and and creating,

missiles and doing all and and creating, you know, and killing off uh, you know,

you know, and killing off uh, you know, South Korean legislators and blaming it

South Korean legislators and blaming it on North Korean spies. And by triggering

on North Korean spies. And by triggering a war with North Korea, then South Korea

a war with North Korea, then South Korea would have reverted to a military

would have reverted to a military dictatorship and the US would have taken

dictatorship and the US would have taken operational control over South Korea's

operational control over South Korea's 500,000 regular troops and 3.1 million

500,000 regular troops and 3.1 million reserve troops. That's extraordinary

reserve troops. That's extraordinary um you know military manpower that they

um you know military manpower that they would have then automatically assumed

would have then automatically assumed for their you know uh military purposes

for their you know uh military purposes that was thwarted by the people rising

that was thwarted by the people rising up and you know overthrowing and

up and you know overthrowing and impeaching Yunarel and who's who's now

impeaching Yunarel and who's who's now you know facing charges of sedition and

you know facing charges of sedition and treason.

treason. But just before Yunzagal uh declared

But just before Yunzagal uh declared martial law, his chief of military

martial law, his chief of military intelligence went to Taiwan Island to

intelligence went to Taiwan Island to coordinate with them. And the moment uh

coordinate with them. And the moment uh the military martial law was declared,

the military martial law was declared, uh Taiwan DPP government started to

uh Taiwan DPP government started to praise it in the media. And so you can

praise it in the media. And so you can see that it was a kind of coordinated uh

see that it was a kind of coordinated uh plan. And once again, as I say, you

plan. And once again, as I say, you know, this hearkens back to this period

know, this hearkens back to this period when Taiwan and South Korea and the

when Taiwan and South Korea and the Philippines and South Africa and Israel

Philippines and South Africa and Israel were this kind of global axis of pariah

were this kind of global axis of pariah states that were the clearing house for

states that were the clearing house for global fascism as subcontractors to US

global fascism as subcontractors to US imperial designs. That situation looks

imperial designs. That situation looks to be coming back. The most, you know,

to be coming back. The most, you know, striking example is the attack, the

striking example is the attack, the pager attack on Lebanon, which was done

pager attack on Lebanon, which was done through a Taiwanese company, Gold

through a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, which made the pages. They said

Apollo, which made the pages. They said they didn't. They say, "We just licensed

they didn't. They say, "We just licensed our brand." But what company licenses

our brand." But what company licenses its brand without doing any quality

its brand without doing any quality control, without knowing what its brand

control, without knowing what its brand is being used for? They said, "Oh, we

is being used for? They said, "Oh, we don't know anything what happened." But

don't know anything what happened." But they have never shown any contracts.

they have never shown any contracts. They've never shown, you know, what the

They've never shown, you know, what the exact agreement was. And why would you

exact agreement was. And why would you take a company, spend decades building

take a company, spend decades building up and then simply traffic out your

up and then simply traffic out your brand without doing any quality control

brand without doing any quality control unless this was a highly coordinated

unless this was a highly coordinated uh intelligence operation, which

uh intelligence operation, which everything seems to signal. that is a

everything seems to signal. that is a highly coordinated intelligence

highly coordinated intelligence operation using Taiwan in its old role

operation using Taiwan in its old role as a as a proxy for US uh and fascis

as a as a proxy for US uh and fascis access of fascist uh dirty wars.

access of fascist uh dirty wars. Yeah. And uh Brian, before we get to the

Yeah. And uh Brian, before we get to the war games by CSIS recently conducted uh

war games by CSIS recently conducted uh very related, it seems to this reaction

very related, it seems to this reaction by the separatists themselves of a

by the separatists themselves of a coming invasion from China. What's your

coming invasion from China. What's your reaction first? Well, I think KJ brought

reaction first? Well, I think KJ brought up a lot of really good points and I

up a lot of really good points and I think Taiwan is the a perfect example of

think Taiwan is the a perfect example of the the power of American political

the the power of American political capture and the way it's able to take an

capture and the way it's able to take an entire population and turn it against

entire population and turn it against its own best interests and its against

its own best interests and its against its own survival

its own survival the physical survival. They we we were

the physical survival. They we we were just listening to that that man play

just listening to that that man play acting as uh I think he he was calling

acting as uh I think he he was calling himself a minister of foreign affairs

himself a minister of foreign affairs something like that. He's he's talking

something like that. He's he's talking foreign minister. Yes. That's

foreign minister. Yes. That's yes he's talking about we we might get

yes he's talking about we we might get destroyed. Has he read the US policy

destroyed. Has he read the US policy papers that say yes definitely Taiwan is

papers that say yes definitely Taiwan is going to get destroyed in any sort of

going to get destroyed in any sort of war? And if China doesn't destroy

war? And if China doesn't destroy uh the infrastructure and and the

uh the infrastructure and and the industry on Taiwan, the United States

industry on Taiwan, the United States itself will destroy it to deny it from

itself will destroy it to deny it from falling into the hands of of the rest of

falling into the hands of of the rest of China. Did he read any of that? Does he

China. Did he read any of that? Does he look in the news and see what is

look in the news and see what is happening to Ukraine right now at this

happening to Ukraine right now at this time? And so obviously he knows all of

time? And so obviously he knows all of these things. He doesn't care because he

these things. He doesn't care because he knows that when this happens in his

knows that when this happens in his mind, he thinks, well, I'll just leave.

mind, he thinks, well, I'll just leave. Doesn't matter to me. it will be all

Doesn't matter to me. it will be all these ordinary people that that are

these ordinary people that that are stuck with the consequences my my uh

stuck with the consequences my my uh compl my complicity in this this US

compl my complicity in this this US agenda he will be in the United States

agenda he will be in the United States or into in Europe and if we look at the

or into in Europe and if we look at the history of the the US capturing nations

history of the the US capturing nations um coups failed coups these people

um coups failed coups these people stay in the country for as long as they

stay in the country for as long as they can and then when when time is up

can and then when when time is up usually they will go back back to the US

usually they will go back back to the US or Europe who wherever they were

or Europe who wherever they were prepared, that's where they will return.

prepared, that's where they will return. So, so this is a huge problem and Taiwan

So, so this is a huge problem and Taiwan is right off the coast of the rest of

is right off the coast of the rest of China and yet China still has a a

China and yet China still has a a problem uh trying to win over the

problem uh trying to win over the information space, the education system

information space, the education system and and and and the island province of

and and and and the island province of Taiwan is dependent on the rest of China

Taiwan is dependent on the rest of China for for its economy, its economic

for for its economy, its economic survival, and yet they're still

survival, and yet they're still struggling to do this. So, this is this

struggling to do this. So, this is this is a huge weakness, I think, of

is a huge weakness, I think, of multipolarism.

multipolarism. uh bricks, the SEO, all of these groups,

uh bricks, the SEO, all of these groups, ACEN, they they for some reason they

ACEN, they they for some reason they don't really seem to understand. I think

don't really seem to understand. I think China understands within mainland China,

China understands within mainland China, they understand information space is a

they understand information space is a national security domain. Russia

national security domain. Russia obviously understands this, but their

obviously understands this, but their ability to help other nations in say

ability to help other nations in say bricks or nations that aspire to join

bricks or nations that aspire to join bricks. Their ability to help nations

bricks. Their ability to help nations defend information space as a national

defend information space as a national security domain is almost non-existent.

security domain is almost non-existent. I don't see any any cooperation or any

I don't see any any cooperation or any progress in this this uh matter and this

progress in this this uh matter and this is the this is what allows the United

is the this is what allows the United States to get into a country and turn it

States to get into a country and turn it against its own best interest and the

against its own best interest and the best interests of multipolarism and if

best interests of multipolarism and if you if you cannot do that it doesn't

you if you cannot do that it doesn't matter how much military equipment you

matter how much military equipment you can produce uh every day every month

can produce uh every day every month every year if if if a country does not

every year if if if a country does not have people willing to take up that

have people willing to take up that equipment or will not point it in the

equipment or will not point it in the right direction then it's all for

right direction then it's all for nothing. So this this is something I

nothing. So this this is something I think people need to concentrate more on

think people need to concentrate more on multipolarism the the leaders of

multipolarism the the leaders of multipolarism and we as individuals need

multipolarism and we as individuals need to pay more attention to this.

to pay more attention to this. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the the the

Yeah. Yeah. Well, the the the complications of uh China uh putting

complications of uh China uh putting into its foreign policy uh information

into its foreign policy uh information uh sharing information technology

uh sharing information technology sharing all of this uh requires two to

sharing all of this uh requires two to tango and and I think that's where the

tango and and I think that's where the development of bricks and multipolarity

development of bricks and multipolarity uh is really going to uh uh have to move

uh is really going to uh uh have to move forward on which is the fact that uh

forward on which is the fact that uh there isn't uh there is I think a big

there isn't uh there is I think a big move toward toward uh developing in all

move toward toward uh developing in all kinds of areas of economic and political

kinds of areas of economic and political uh diplomatic even military cooperation.

uh diplomatic even military cooperation. Uh but this what you're talking about

Uh but this what you're talking about Brian uh requires a kind of shared

Brian uh requires a kind of shared vision that is still still contested in

vision that is still still contested in the world. It is still very much uh

the world. It is still very much uh contested of what that vision should be,

contested of what that vision should be, what multipolarity should look like uh

what multipolarity should look like uh beyond uh win-win economic cooperation

beyond uh win-win economic cooperation and economic growth as important as that

and economic growth as important as that is which is and it's critical. I wanted

is which is and it's critical. I wanted though to uh play uh this uh video from

though to uh play uh this uh video from the uh uh center for strategic and

the uh uh center for strategic and international studies, a state

international studies, a state department funded uh think tank. They

department funded uh think tank. They recently wargamed a particular crisis uh

recently wargamed a particular crisis uh that Taiwan is uh supposedly going to

that Taiwan is uh supposedly going to face and will face if it engages in a

face and will face if it engages in a USbacked war with China. Um and it's

USbacked war with China. Um and it's going to be playing on I believe uh yes

going to be playing on I believe uh yes uh faster speed. It's a couple minutes

uh faster speed. It's a couple minutes long. So here we go.

long. So here we go. Chinese blockade of Taiwan could trigger

Chinese blockade of Taiwan could trigger the greatest convoy battle since World

the greatest convoy battle since World War II. China would squeeze Taiwan's

War II. China would squeeze Taiwan's imports to force a surrender. Taiwan and

imports to force a surrender. Taiwan and its supporters like the United States

its supporters like the United States would lose dozens of ships to keep

would lose dozens of ships to keep supplies flowing. Blockade is not

supplies flowing. Blockade is not inevitable, but it is possible given

inevitable, but it is possible given China's rhetoric and military buildup.

China's rhetoric and military buildup. To understand how a blockade might play

To understand how a blockade might play out, CSIS conducted 26 war games,

out, CSIS conducted 26 war games, ranging from low-level boarding and

ranging from low-level boarding and seizure to full-scale conventional

seizure to full-scale conventional conflict. Against boarding and seizure,

conflict. Against boarding and seizure, Taiwan's forces could buy time, but

Taiwan's forces could buy time, but China's massive military would

China's massive military would eventually overwhelm them. A Ukraine

eventually overwhelm them. A Ukraine strategy where the United States

strategy where the United States provided support but no troops did

provided support but no troops did poorly because it was so hard for

poorly because it was so hard for shipments to get through without US

shipments to get through without US forces. Mid-intensity war games involved

forces. Mid-intensity war games involved convoy battles. Sometimes the United

convoy battles. Sometimes the United States and Taiwan could keep Taiwan

States and Taiwan could keep Taiwan supplied, but at the cost of dozens,

supplied, but at the cost of dozens, even hundreds of ships. Two of the five

even hundreds of ships. Two of the five free play games escalated to

free play games escalated to high-intensity conventional conflict.

high-intensity conventional conflict. Many game participants look for ways

Many game participants look for ways around risky sea supply, remembering the

around risky sea supply, remembering the Berlin airlift of 1948 to 1949.

Berlin airlift of 1948 to 1949. I just want to apologize to all the

I just want to apologize to all the viewers for the music of this video. It

viewers for the music of this video. It is it's very cringy and it it was

is it's very cringy and it it was impossible for me to I tried to take it

impossible for me to I tried to take it off, but let's continue. However, Taiwan

off, but let's continue. However, Taiwan has 10 times the population. Even a

has 10 times the population. Even a massive airlift could provide only 2% of

massive airlift could provide only 2% of Taiwan's daily needs. Submarines and

Taiwan's daily needs. Submarines and small craft could provide even less

small craft could provide even less support. For China, a blockade risks

support. For China, a blockade risks heavy losses, a long war, and alienating

heavy losses, a long war, and alienating the global community. The Berlin

the global community. The Berlin blockade led to the creation of NATO.

blockade led to the creation of NATO. China might engender a similar response.

China might engender a similar response. Every country on the planet would be

Every country on the planet would be affected because a blockade would

affected because a blockade would disrupt international trade. Beyond

disrupt international trade. Beyond strategy, economics, and logistics, the

strategy, economics, and logistics, the human cost of war would be staggering.

human cost of war would be staggering. It's a conflict that must be deterred.

It's a conflict that must be deterred. The question is how. Taiwan can take

The question is how. Taiwan can take steps to gain control of its cargo fleet

steps to gain control of its cargo fleet in the event of an emergency, continue

in the event of an emergency, continue to build energy resilience, and sustain

to build energy resilience, and sustain its last nuclear power plant. The United

its last nuclear power plant. The United States must maintain its regional

States must maintain its regional alliances and partnerships, and develop

alliances and partnerships, and develop offramps to give China a face-saving way

offramps to give China a face-saving way out of a conflict. For the full CSIS

out of a conflict. For the full CSIS report,

report, so KJ, to you, your reaction to this

so KJ, to you, your reaction to this report? Actually, I wanted Let me just

report? Actually, I wanted Let me just pull it up one more time because I

pull it up one more time because I wanted to show something in particular

wanted to show something in particular that was uh quite interesting. Let me

that was uh quite interesting. Let me just rewind here. Allies. I don't know

just rewind here. Allies. I don't know if anyone can catch that flag uh the

if anyone can catch that flag uh the rising sun flag as part of the Allies.

rising sun flag as part of the Allies. Uh uh let's just say that's a huge nod

Uh uh let's just say that's a huge nod to Imperial Japan, Fascist Japan.

to Imperial Japan, Fascist Japan. Anyway, I just found that to be a very

Anyway, I just found that to be a very interesting little uh visual reference

interesting little uh visual reference there that they use. But uh to you KJ,

there that they use. But uh to you KJ, your assessment of this war games which

your assessment of this war games which is these war games are happening all the

is these war games are happening all the time from think tanks like CSIS.

time from think tanks like CSIS. Yeah, you know just before I go that let

Yeah, you know just before I go that let me a few words about the rising sun. Um

me a few words about the rising sun. Um anybody who grew up in Asia knows that

anybody who grew up in Asia knows that the rising sun is like the Nazi Haken

the rising sun is like the Nazi Haken Cro. You see it immediately. It brings

Cro. You see it immediately. It brings together associations of unbridled

together associations of unbridled genocidal violence. Uh you know at one

genocidal violence. Uh you know at one point um the Japanese march down the

point um the Japanese march down the Shanzaliz and the rising sun is the is

Shanzaliz and the rising sun is the is the military banner. You know the the

the military banner. You know the the the Japanese u national flag itself you

the Japanese u national flag itself you know is just a circle uh with a red it's

know is just a circle uh with a red it's it's it's a white flag with a red circle

it's it's a white flag with a red circle on it. But the rising sun with those

on it. But the rising sun with those tentacles spreading out uh you know is

tentacles spreading out uh you know is the is still the war banner of the

the is still the war banner of the Japanese military. And uh the Japanese

Japanese military. And uh the Japanese were invited to you know France the

were invited to you know France the Shaneliz to um Shanz to you know to

Shaneliz to um Shanz to you know to parade with the French and they brought

parade with the French and they brought the rising sun with them and I actually

the rising sun with them and I actually I and a group of people we wrote uh to

I and a group of people we wrote uh to the French president and said you've

the French president and said you've just broken French law because French

just broken French law because French law says that you you cannot display uh

law says that you you cannot display uh these kinds of symbols in public and

these kinds of symbols in public and anybody who does that you know has to be

anybody who does that you know has to be fined or arrested. And the French

fined or arrested. And the French government actually responded and they

government actually responded and they said, you know, we apologize. They

said, you know, we apologize. They essentially came up with an apology. But

essentially came up with an apology. But this points out how extraordinarily

this points out how extraordinarily triggering and how extraordinarily

triggering and how extraordinarily um disrespectful it is to fly that. It

um disrespectful it is to fly that. It really is the banner of genocide. You

really is the banner of genocide. You know, for China alone, the Japanese

know, for China alone, the Japanese killed somewhere between 27 to 35

killed somewhere between 27 to 35 million Chinese. that rising sun, you

million Chinese. that rising sun, you know, the the the military, the Japanese

know, the the the military, the Japanese military flying the rising sun made the

military flying the rising sun made the Nazis look like boy scouts. And I'm not

Nazis look like boy scouts. And I'm not exaggerating. So anyway, that's an

exaggerating. So anyway, that's an entire different topic. Uh but yes,

entire different topic. Uh but yes, these CESUS exercises are

these CESUS exercises are a message to China. Um, what we do know

a message to China. Um, what we do know is that if the United States were to

is that if the United States were to engage in any kind of conventional

engage in any kind of conventional battle over Taiwan Island with China, it

battle over Taiwan Island with China, it would lose. And there are many reasons

would lose. And there are many reasons for this, but the key reason is first

for this, but the key reason is first the tyranny of distance. You know, the

the tyranny of distance. You know, the United States is thousands of miles

United States is thousands of miles away. Uh, the second piece is that

away. Uh, the second piece is that Taiwan is a small island.

Taiwan is a small island. much as they would like to Ukrainianize

much as they would like to Ukrainianize it, the difficulty is that it's an

it, the difficulty is that it's an island, which means that it can be

island, which means that it can be easily blockaded. You know, Ukraine is

easily blockaded. You know, Ukraine is large land mass with multiple borders

large land mass with multiple borders with multiple NATO states. So, they've

with multiple NATO states. So, they've been able to, you know, keep the supply

been able to, you know, keep the supply chain supply lines going, but Taiwan is

chain supply lines going, but Taiwan is an island and if it were blockaded, it

an island and if it were blockaded, it has about 10 days of natural gas and a

has about 10 days of natural gas and a few weeks of uh coal and oil. And after

few weeks of uh coal and oil. And after that it would uh essentially die from

that it would uh essentially die from energy starvation. And so what CEUS is

energy starvation. And so what CEUS is doing and they do this uh every you know

doing and they do this uh every you know every few months, every six months,

every few months, every six months, every year they come up with new

every year they come up with new exercises and what they try and do is

exercises and what they try and do is they try and massage the military uh

they try and massage the military uh exercises the war the war game uh you

exercises the war the war game uh you know simulation to show that the United

know simulation to show that the United States can win this war that it can

States can win this war that it can prevail and that it can and that it will

prevail and that it can and that it will you know exert tremendous uh you know

you know exert tremendous uh you know damages to China. And as I said, this is

damages to China. And as I said, this is a a signal to China. They're saying to

a a signal to China. They're saying to to the Chinese, look, we can win this

to the Chinese, look, we can win this war. Don't even think about it. The

war. Don't even think about it. The second is they're sending a signal to uh

second is they're sending a signal to uh to themselves saying, yes, we can win

to themselves saying, yes, we can win this war. You know, whatever Lyall

this war. You know, whatever Lyall Goldstein, who really knows the

Goldstein, who really knows the situation, is wrong. Ly Goldstein says,

situation, is wrong. Ly Goldstein says, "Don't even go there. You know, it is

"Don't even go there. You know, it is our war to lose. We would have our rear

our war to lose. We would have our rear end kicked uh you know, in 3 seconds

end kicked uh you know, in 3 seconds flat." And he's been studying it for uh

flat." And he's been studying it for uh 25 years. He knows what he's talking

25 years. He knows what he's talking about. But CEUS, you know, wants to put

about. But CEUS, you know, wants to put forth the neocon aggressive agenda that,

forth the neocon aggressive agenda that, you know, this is a war that we can win

you know, this is a war that we can win and that they can deter a Chinese

and that they can deter a Chinese aggression. When they say deter, of

aggression. When they say deter, of course, it means to provoke because

course, it means to provoke because that's ultimately what they want. As

that's ultimately what they want. As Albridge Kia said, you know, the

Albridge Kia said, you know, the strategy of denial is really a matter of

strategy of denial is really a matter of driving into the paint, provoking China,

driving into the paint, provoking China, and then getting everybody else to pile

and then getting everybody else to pile on. And so CEUS is always doing this.

on. And so CEUS is always doing this. CEUS is a think tank. It's like the CFR

CEUS is a think tank. It's like the CFR or Center for New American Security.

or Center for New American Security. It's one of these incredibly hawkish

It's one of these incredibly hawkish think tanks. It was started by Henry

think tanks. It was started by Henry Kissinger. And their message always is

Kissinger. And their message always is that, you know, even though it seems

that, you know, even though it seems like a war that is ours to lose. Yes,

like a war that is ours to lose. Yes, here is the pathway to win. And by doing

here is the pathway to win. And by doing so, we send a message to US allies. Yes,

so, we send a message to US allies. Yes, you have to join us and make sure you

you have to join us and make sure you get into the fight. Sends a message to

get into the fight. Sends a message to China. We're serious about waging war

China. We're serious about waging war even though we have to lie through our

even though we have to lie through our teeth through these fake simulations

teeth through these fake simulations that are so full of ridiculous

that are so full of ridiculous assumptions that you know you kind of

assumptions that you know you kind of have to you know it's it's just a

have to you know it's it's just a package of lies and then it's also a

package of lies and then it's also a message to themselves yes yes we can do

message to themselves yes yes we can do this it's a kind of a a selfaffirmation

this it's a kind of a a selfaffirmation yes we can win this war yes you know US

yes we can win this war yes you know US can win this war because cis said so so

can win this war because cis said so so it's uh it's thoroughly shot through

it's uh it's thoroughly shot through with stupidity and corrupt option, but

with stupidity and corrupt option, but it's also a very very dangerous signal

it's also a very very dangerous signal because it shows that they're putting a

because it shows that they're putting a lot of money and effort into thinking

lot of money and effort into thinking through uh how they can wage this war uh

through uh how they can wage this war uh and uh and both signal that they can win

and uh and both signal that they can win it but also think uh you know

it but also think uh you know tactically, strategically, operationally

tactically, strategically, operationally uh these are the things that we actually

uh these are the things that we actually have to prepare in order to go to war.

have to prepare in order to go to war. Yeah. And and a lot of this, Brian, has

Yeah. And and a lot of this, Brian, has been in response to the fact that China

been in response to the fact that China has simulated they they not actively

has simulated they they not actively maybe a quote unquote blockade, but they

maybe a quote unquote blockade, but they have simulated quite intense naval

have simulated quite intense naval drills following uh what they see as

drills following uh what they see as illegal visits by so-called Taiwan

illegal visits by so-called Taiwan officials. Either visits from US

officials. Either visits from US officials to Taiwan like Nancy Pelosi a

officials to Taiwan like Nancy Pelosi a few years back, or of course the uh

few years back, or of course the uh Kevin McCarthy visit. I think that was

Kevin McCarthy visit. I think that was uh last year uh or was it the year

uh last year uh or was it the year before that? Either way, there have been

before that? Either way, there have been visit after visit of uh so-called US and

visit after visit of uh so-called US and Taiwan officials and that that that's

Taiwan officials and that that that's what usually sparks this or weapons

what usually sparks this or weapons transfers. But Brian, uh what do you

transfers. But Brian, uh what do you make of the results of what CSIS says

make of the results of what CSIS says and anything else you want to comment on

and anything else you want to comment on with regard to this particular war games

with regard to this particular war games because I know you follow these think

because I know you follow these think tanks quite closely.

tanks quite closely. Yes, I I I I agree with KJ. I don't

Yes, I I I I agree with KJ. I don't think the United States would would win

think the United States would would win this. But is that necessarily their

this. But is that necessarily their objective? Do they want to uh provoke

objective? Do they want to uh provoke because that's what they're doing.

because that's what they're doing. They're provoking a war over Taiwan.

They're provoking a war over Taiwan. They're doing it in vi by the way

They're doing it in vi by the way they're doing it in violation of their

they're doing it in violation of their own recognition of the one China policy

own recognition of the one China policy which is also upheld under international

which is also upheld under international law. Taiwan is part of China according

law. Taiwan is part of China according to everybody. I mean, even even people

to everybody. I mean, even even people who don't recognize the one China

who don't recognize the one China policy, uh, what they what they

policy, uh, what they what they recognize instead is the the

recognize instead is the the administration on the alien province of

administration on the alien province of Taiwan as the the government of all of

Taiwan as the the government of all of China. Nobody on planet Earth recognizes

China. Nobody on planet Earth recognizes Taiwan as as a independent country. No

Taiwan as as a independent country. No one, not not any, not not a single

one, not not any, not not a single country, not that I know of.

country, not that I know of. But I I want to point out something that

But I I want to point out something that that video pointed out. They said uh if

that video pointed out. They said uh if this happened, if China tried to

this happened, if China tried to implement a a blockade of of the alien

implement a a blockade of of the alien province of Taiwan, it would it would

province of Taiwan, it would it would alienate China and and that means

alienate China and and that means politically and economically. And then

politically and economically. And then they talk about oh the the the blockade

they talk about oh the the the blockade of of Berlin that triggered the creation

of of Berlin that triggered the creation of NATO and this this could create

of NATO and this this could create another organization like NATO, an Asian

another organization like NATO, an Asian NATO essentially, which is something

NATO essentially, which is something they're already trying to build. And

they're already trying to build. And because they can't build it, they're

because they can't build it, they're trying to extend NATO's mandate over to

trying to extend NATO's mandate over to Asia. And we we've been talking, all of

Asia. And we we've been talking, all of us have been talking about this for the

us have been talking about this for the last couple of years. This was going on

last couple of years. This was going on under probably the first Trump

under probably the first Trump administration all throughout the Biden

administration all throughout the Biden administration and it continues to this

administration and it continues to this day. Uh so what they want to do is

day. Uh so what they want to do is provoke China into implementing this

provoke China into implementing this blockade or or reacting in some way

blockade or or reacting in some way where they can make a case to isolate

where they can make a case to isolate China economically, politically,

China economically, politically, diplomatically and also

diplomatically and also force coersse nations into picking a

force coersse nations into picking a side. Are you going to pick what just

side. Are you going to pick what just think about the the

think about the the the day after Russia went into Ukraine

the day after Russia went into Ukraine in 2022, February 2022, and all of these

in 2022, February 2022, and all of these nations were put on a spot. are you

nations were put on a spot. are you going to side with us or are you going

going to side with us or are you going to side with Russia? And nobody sided

to side with Russia? And nobody sided with Russia. There were many countries

with Russia. There were many countries that backtracked from that later. But at

that backtracked from that later. But at that moment, everybody everybody was

that moment, everybody everybody was coerced into siding with the United

coerced into siding with the United States. They're going to do the exact

States. They're going to do the exact same thing uh when they provoked this

same thing uh when they provoked this conflict with China over the status of

conflict with China over the status of Taiwan. And they and that is going to be

Taiwan. And they and that is going to be the impetus that they use to to work on

the impetus that they use to to work on these other strategies they're working

these other strategies they're working on. So no, they're not going to try to

on. So no, they're not going to try to fight and win a war against China.

fight and win a war against China. They'll try to make any fight that takes

They'll try to make any fight that takes place as costly as possible for China.

place as costly as possible for China. They have said in in policy paper after

They have said in in policy paper after policy paper, including CSIS in in

policy paper, including CSIS in in previous reports, that the the island

previous reports, that the the island province will be scoured of industry and

province will be scoured of industry and infrastructure. There will be nothing

infrastructure. There will be nothing left. Uh whether they win or they don't

left. Uh whether they win or they don't win, it doesn't matter. That that will

win, it doesn't matter. That that will all be gone. Uh but what they what they

all be gone. Uh but what they what they really want to do is this wider this

really want to do is this wider this bigger picture uh encirclement and

bigger picture uh encirclement and containment of China that they they

containment of China that they they really can't put in place with tariffs

really can't put in place with tariffs and with the the hybrid warfare that

and with the the hybrid warfare that they've been they've been using all the

they've been they've been using all the way up until now. Uh although that all

way up until now. Uh although that all continues to ramp up. All of that will

continues to ramp up. All of that will accelerate exponentially if this were to

accelerate exponentially if this were to happen. This is that's the actual game

happen. This is that's the actual game the US is playing at and CSIS is just

the US is playing at and CSIS is just reflecting something that the

reflecting something that the establishment has been working on and

establishment has been working on and putting the pieces into place for years

putting the pieces into place for years and years up until now. I always bring

and years up until now. I always bring this up under the Biden administration.

this up under the Biden administration. The entire Marine Corps was

The entire Marine Corps was reconfigured. All of their tanks that

reconfigured. All of their tanks that they had been using for decades and

they had been using for decades and decades in in conflicts all around the

decades in in conflicts all around the world. They got rid of those and now

world. They got rid of those and now they are strictly a maritime

they are strictly a maritime interdiction force. They they are meant

interdiction force. They they are meant to interdict maritime uh forces or

to interdict maritime uh forces or shipping. That is their purpose now. And

shipping. That is their purpose now. And that is what they are now under the

that is what they are now under the Trump administration training to do in

Trump administration training to do in the Asia-Pacific region. And so if this

the Asia-Pacific region. And so if this conflict were to take place, they would

conflict were to take place, they would use the the the Marine Corps to

use the the the Marine Corps to interdict Chinese maritime shipping and

interdict Chinese maritime shipping and also naval forces. Uh the US Air Force

also naval forces. Uh the US Air Force is practicing dispersing their forces to

is practicing dispersing their forces to fight China and and prevent China from

fight China and and prevent China from overwhelming a handful of US air bases.

overwhelming a handful of US air bases. Now, there are many more air bases China

Now, there are many more air bases China would be required to hit and constantly

would be required to hit and constantly hit to keep them out of operation. And

hit to keep them out of operation. And so, this is this is what is shaping up.

so, this is this is what is shaping up. A lot a lot of people think the United

A lot a lot of people think the United States isn't going to go to war with

States isn't going to go to war with with China, but they're already at proxy

with China, but they're already at proxy war with Russia. They already fought

war with Russia. They already fought open war with Iran. This is coming. Uh I

open war with Iran. This is coming. Uh I always point out the people behind these

always point out the people behind these policies, they are they are immune from

policies, they are they are immune from the consequences. Everybody else will

the consequences. Everybody else will pay the consequences. Everyone in Asia

pay the consequences. Everyone in Asia will pay. The American people will pay.

will pay. The American people will pay. America's armed forces will pay. These

America's armed forces will pay. These people will be the last people on earth

people will be the last people on earth that will pay the consequences. Until

that will pay the consequences. Until that calculus changes, their mindset is

that calculus changes, their mindset is going to remain locked in this

going to remain locked in this direction. As as KJ said, they they only

direction. As as KJ said, they they only go in they only go forward. They never

go in they only go forward. They never reverse gear. If they go into neutral,

reverse gear. If they go into neutral, it's just so they can go forward again.

Yeah. Yeah. Uh yeah. Yeah. And I I want to um now finally, you know, given all

to um now finally, you know, given all uh that we've talked about here, I want

uh that we've talked about here, I want to bring up just uh something for uh you

to bring up just uh something for uh you know, because I I do think that when it

know, because I I do think that when it comes to these war games, uh when it

comes to these war games, uh when it comes to this aggression toward China,

comes to this aggression toward China, toward Russia, we are seeing I think

toward Russia, we are seeing I think some headway in terms of of a response

some headway in terms of of a response of a real response uh that uh doesn't

of a real response uh that uh doesn't get much attention, but when it does,

get much attention, but when it does, it's usually Western media hype. And so,

it's usually Western media hype. And so, uh, I wanted to actually pull up, um,

uh, I wanted to actually pull up, um, what, uh, China and Russia are doing

what, uh, China and Russia are doing right now. They are holding, uh, joint

right now. They are holding, uh, joint naval drills off of Lavasto. And, uh,

naval drills off of Lavasto. And, uh, according to, uh, US military, US

according to, uh, US military, US military sources, China is sending

military sources, China is sending submarine to Russia during these

submarine to Russia during these exercises for the first time. And that's

exercises for the first time. And that's according to army recognition. The

according to army recognition. The Chinese flotilla includes a kilo class

Chinese flotilla includes a kilo class diesel electric submarine originally

diesel electric submarine originally built in Russia as well as two type 52D

built in Russia as well as two type 52D class guided missile destroyers. Uh the

class guided missile destroyers. Uh the Xiaoing and Rumchi which is not

Xiaoing and Rumchi which is not unironically the capital of Shinjang.

unironically the capital of Shinjang. And then I want to uh pull up

And then I want to uh pull up why Russia and China might be getting

why Russia and China might be getting more militarily involved with each

more militarily involved with each other. So uh some may know the big

other. So uh some may know the big monopoly palanteer a huge supporter of

monopoly palanteer a huge supporter of the Trump administration

the Trump administration especially um JD Vance who comes out of

especially um JD Vance who comes out of that ilkas comes out of this

that ilkas comes out of this corporation. So, Palanteer just recently

corporation. So, Palanteer just recently received a $10 billion contract from the

received a $10 billion contract from the US military, US Army, the defense

US military, US Army, the defense department, um, in order to take care of

department, um, in order to take care of the software and data analysis of the US

the software and data analysis of the US military. And uh for those who aren't

military. And uh for those who aren't familiar with Palanteer in the realm of

familiar with Palanteer in the realm of geopolitics

geopolitics uh it's really I think noteworthy to

uh it's really I think noteworthy to note that its founder Palanteer's Alex

note that its founder Palanteer's Alex Karp says that the US is going to very

Karp says that the US is going to very likely fight a three-front war against

likely fight a three-front war against Russia and China. He said this last year

Russia and China. He said this last year in 2024

in 2024 um that Russia, China and Iran are going

um that Russia, China and Iran are going to be the targets of US war. And it just

to be the targets of US war. And it just so happens that this gentleman is one of

so happens that this gentleman is one of the biggest donors to the

the biggest donors to the military-industrial complex and one of

military-industrial complex and one of the biggest forces in the

the biggest forces in the military-industrial complex itself. So I

military-industrial complex itself. So I wanted to raise that KJ in the overall

wanted to raise that KJ in the overall context of what we've been talking

context of what we've been talking about. But your reaction uh to this

about. But your reaction uh to this you know um so this is how the United

you know um so this is how the United States uh thinks that it's going to win

States uh thinks that it's going to win the war. First, it's going to win in the

the war. First, it's going to win in the digital domain, which as I said uh over

digital domain, which as I said uh over and over again, and I agree with uh

and over again, and I agree with uh Brian, digital sovereignty is key

Brian, digital sovereignty is key because the US excels in digital coups

because the US excels in digital coups and uh China is actually helping uh the

and uh China is actually helping uh the global south build out digital

global south build out digital sovereignty through the um digital silk

sovereignty through the um digital silk road. This was what Huawei was doing

road. This was what Huawei was doing when the United States went after Huawei

when the United States went after Huawei and they actually kidnapped their CFO.

and they actually kidnapped their CFO. So this shows you, you know, that the

So this shows you, you know, that the stakes are very very high and both

stakes are very very high and both parties are aware uh that you know this

parties are aware uh that you know this is the case. But the the thing to

is the case. But the the thing to understand about uh Palunteer and uh all

understand about uh Palunteer and uh all the other AI companies is that they have

the other AI companies is that they have been inducted into war. They're they're

been inducted into war. They're they're part of the military industrial uh AI

part of the military industrial uh AI system that the United States thinks it

system that the United States thinks it can leverage to win a war. Why do they

can leverage to win a war. Why do they think that? Well, the genesis of AI

think that? Well, the genesis of AI itself started uh in military purposes.

itself started uh in military purposes. One part of it was so that the United

One part of it was so that the United States could continue fighting after

States could continue fighting after life had been wiped out. that you had

life had been wiped out. that you had automated, you know, like the dead hand

automated, you know, like the dead hand that you had automated battle management

that you had automated battle management where, you know, uh, missiles could

where, you know, uh, missiles could continue to be fired even after human

continue to be fired even after human life had been wiped out. That was

life had been wiped out. That was actually explicit in the early, you

actually explicit in the early, you know, vision of AI. And then the other

know, vision of AI. And then the other piece of it is, you know, it's what we

piece of it is, you know, it's what we refer to as generative AI right now. All

refer to as generative AI right now. All the stuff that we see with LLMs, etc.,

the stuff that we see with LLMs, etc., all of that comes out of neural

all of that comes out of neural networks. Neural networks were

networks. Neural networks were originally based on a model of the brain

originally based on a model of the brain called the perceptron. It was a a kind

called the perceptron. It was a a kind of digital or digital analog model of

of digital or digital analog model of the brain that simulated what scientists

the brain that simulated what scientists thought the the neurons did. It was

thought the the neurons did. It was simulating the patterns of you know the

simulating the patterns of you know the the retina. And the original perceptron

the retina. And the original perceptron built in the 1950s was to accelerate

built in the 1950s was to accelerate recognition

recognition and targeting for military purposes and

and targeting for military purposes and that uh genesis and that DNI continues

that uh genesis and that DNI continues to this day. So you saw all the

to this day. So you saw all the accelerated targeting uh done by you

accelerated targeting uh done by you know Palunteer through you know where's

know Palunteer through you know where's daddy and uh uh you know uh lavender

daddy and uh uh you know uh lavender which they used to accelerate the

which they used to accelerate the genocide of the pal Palestinians in

genocide of the pal Palestinians in Gaza. So this application of AI for war

Gaza. So this application of AI for war is very very uh concrete. It's already

is very very uh concrete. It's already happening and it ties into the larger

happening and it ties into the larger model of war which the US has been using

model of war which the US has been using or planning against China which is as I

or planning against China which is as I said you know the 3Ds diffusion

said you know the 3Ds diffusion dispersion uh and uh dispersion

dispersion uh and uh dispersion distribution uh uh which uh Brian has

distribution uh uh which uh Brian has pointed out you can see in the agile

pointed out you can see in the agile combat formations that the Marines are

combat formations that the Marines are rehearsing. Also another dimension is

rehearsing. Also another dimension is disguise. So this dis these disguised

disguise. So this dis these disguised attacks the Lebanon on pager attack you

attacks the Lebanon on pager attack you know the internet of dangerous things

know the internet of dangerous things you know the attack on Russia these are

you know the attack on Russia these are ways of using disguise and another form

ways of using disguise and another form of disguise or subtifuge is subsurface

of disguise or subtifuge is subsurface warfare so using submarines submarines

warfare so using submarines submarines uh will be a long a large part of the

uh will be a long a large part of the war doctrine as well as you know

war doctrine as well as you know diffused dispersed uh and distributed

diffused dispersed uh and distributed long range fires uh and then uh another

long range fires uh and then uh another dimension of the third offset is

dimension of the third offset is autonomy. So having autonomous uh

autonomy. So having autonomous uh fighting platforms that are AI powered.

fighting platforms that are AI powered. This is very very large part of what the

This is very very large part of what the United States is currently trying to

United States is currently trying to develop. They want to see if they can

develop. They want to see if they can use AI to accelerate uh um military

use AI to accelerate uh um military advantage in order to destroy the you

advantage in order to destroy the you know China on the battlefield. And so

know China on the battlefield. And so Palunteer, you know, is one of the key

Palunteer, you know, is one of the key players as is, you know, Palma Lucky and

players as is, you know, Palma Lucky and Oculus and, you know, all of the they're

Oculus and, you know, all of the they're all involved. They're all involved in

all involved. They're all involved in feeding at the trough on this AI enabled

feeding at the trough on this AI enabled war racket uh that they are trying to

war racket uh that they are trying to drum up. And of course, Alex Karp is

drum up. And of course, Alex Karp is especially dangerous. They all are

especially dangerous. They all are because they really all are. And I say

because they really all are. And I say this with all seriousness, they all are

this with all seriousness, they all are insane. But not only are they insane,

insane. But not only are they insane, uh, they don't know what they're doing.

uh, they don't know what they're doing. Alex Karp doesn't have a background in

Alex Karp doesn't have a background in engineering. He he actually has a degree

engineering. He he actually has a degree in classics. So, you know, really this

in classics. So, you know, really this is the kind of ultimate uh white western

is the kind of ultimate uh white western supremacist discipline that is all about

supremacist discipline that is all about maintaining class. That's what classics

maintaining class. That's what classics is about. It's about maintaining you

is about. It's about maintaining you know uh uh privilege and class uh and

know uh uh privilege and class uh and giving markers of it based on you know

giving markers of it based on you know uh you know western you know uh uh uh

uh you know western you know uh uh uh western texts. But anyway, he he really

western texts. But anyway, he he really is a rabid cyophobe who doesn't know

is a rabid cyophobe who doesn't know what he's doing, but is deeply uh

what he's doing, but is deeply uh indoctrinated and has, you know, deeply

indoctrinated and has, you know, deeply inhaled, you know, the anti-China

inhaled, you know, the anti-China hatred. And at the same time he is this

hatred. And at the same time he is this you know I think neurodeiverse

you know I think neurodeiverse uh uh rabid uh militarist and it's

uh uh rabid uh militarist and it's people like Karp and Peter Teal and

people like Karp and Peter Teal and Palma Malaki that are saying that they

Palma Malaki that are saying that they are going to create the killer app that

are going to create the killer app that is going to destroy China and they

is going to destroy China and they believe I mean they say this over and

believe I mean they say this over and over again every day I wake up Palaki

over again every day I wake up Palaki every day I wake up and think about how

every day I wake up and think about how am I going to destroy my enemies and

am I going to destroy my enemies and then you know names China for it. So we

then you know names China for it. So we have uh you know this kind of policy

have uh you know this kind of policy which is driven uh by this infernal

which is driven uh by this infernal fascist um insh of militarized

fascist um insh of militarized corporations and rabid neocons with an

corporations and rabid neocons with an agenda to destroy China and to maintain

agenda to destroy China and to maintain uh white western supremacy hegemony. And

uh white western supremacy hegemony. And I think this is what makes this moment

I think this is what makes this moment so dangerous. And of course, you know,

so dangerous. And of course, you know, they're breaking every single law in the

they're breaking every single law in the book. Uh, you know, just a a sidebar

book. Uh, you know, just a a sidebar comment, if the United States were ever

comment, if the United States were ever to get involved in a war over Taiwan, it

to get involved in a war over Taiwan, it would be considered a war of aggression

would be considered a war of aggression because foreign interference in a civil

because foreign interference in a civil war, which is what this is, uh, is a

war, which is what this is, uh, is a violation uh, of uh, international law.

violation uh, of uh, international law. So the US would be actually engaging in

So the US would be actually engaging in a war of aggression against China and

a war of aggression against China and then you know we'd have all the crises

then you know we'd have all the crises in the UN and international law as well.

in the UN and international law as well. So

So yeah, Brian, um to to this question,

yeah, Brian, um to to this question, what do you see as the importance of to

what do you see as the importance of to the other side of this uh Russia and

the other side of this uh Russia and China's increasing military cooperation,

China's increasing military cooperation, but overall this partnership, the

but overall this partnership, the importance of it uh given that uh there

importance of it uh given that uh there is a a literal agenda from the most

is a a literal agenda from the most powerful forces, the the Palunteer,

powerful forces, the the Palunteer, Peter Teal, Alex Karp, I mean these are

Peter Teal, Alex Karp, I mean these are powerful monopolists who literally

powerful monopolists who literally dictate US foreign policy. There's an

dictate US foreign policy. There's an agenda against both of them and then we

agenda against both of them and then we can throw in Iran there too as the

can throw in Iran there too as the pillars of multipolarity. What do you

pillars of multipolarity. What do you see as the importance of this increasing

see as the importance of this increasing uh cooperation especially among the uh

uh cooperation especially among the uh heads as the US state department and

heads as the US state department and department of defense was see the heads

department of defense was see the heads of the multipolar snake which is Russia

of the multipolar snake which is Russia and China

and China as well they they have to cooperate

as well they they have to cooperate militarily they not only need to

militarily they not only need to demonstrate their own ability to deter

demonstrate their own ability to deter western encroachment and aggression but

western encroachment and aggression but they they have to work together to to

they they have to work together to to amplify this deterrent And

amplify this deterrent And you know again that is necessary. They

you know again that is necessary. They need to do that and the more the the

need to do that and the more the the better. But the problem is there's many

better. But the problem is there's many other areas they definitely need to to

other areas they definitely need to to work on. And uh we we talked about the

work on. And uh we we talked about the the digital Silk Road a little bit

the digital Silk Road a little bit earlier and yes they were building out

earlier and yes they were building out the physical infrastructure 5G and and

the physical infrastructure 5G and and yes we saw the United States very

yes we saw the United States very actively go out against that. But what

actively go out against that. But what they need to do is uh a digital silk

they need to do is uh a digital silk road in terms of of the flow of

road in terms of of the flow of information, social media platforms.

information, social media platforms. Again, the the US is dangerous

Again, the the US is dangerous militarily and economically, but again,

militarily and economically, but again, it's it's absolute most most successful

it's it's absolute most most successful and effective super weapon is its

and effective super weapon is its ability to politically capture targeted

ability to politically capture targeted nations. And if uh just for example,

nations. And if uh just for example, we're we're on YouTube right now and

we're we're on YouTube right now and someone like me, if I want to talk to

someone like me, if I want to talk to people around the world, even if I want

people around the world, even if I want to talk to people in in outside of the

to talk to people in in outside of the West, I still need to use social media

West, I still need to use social media platforms completely controlled by by

platforms completely controlled by by the United States, by Silicon Valley, by

the United States, by Silicon Valley, by these billionaires, by these

these billionaires, by these corporations that are driving US foreign

corporations that are driving US foreign policy. And why why has Russia, China

policy. And why why has Russia, China and other nations in the multipolar

and other nations in the multipolar world allowed this to persist for so

world allowed this to persist for so long? Why they yes they have their own

long? Why they yes they have their own domestic Russia, China, a couple of

domestic Russia, China, a couple of other countries have created their own

other countries have created their own domestic social media platforms for

domestic social media platforms for their people to secure their information

their people to secure their information space but there is nothing that that

space but there is nothing that that binds the multipolar world together.

binds the multipolar world together. something that is out of reach of the

something that is out of reach of the collective west to manipulate and censor

collective west to manipulate and censor the the algorithm. Manipulating the

the the algorithm. Manipulating the algorithm on Facebook, Meta, uh before

algorithm on Facebook, Meta, uh before Twitter, now X, YouTube. that this is

Twitter, now X, YouTube. that this is part of gaining control of people's uh

part of gaining control of people's uh minds, winning them over, shaping their

minds, winning them over, shaping their ideology, shaping what they think their

ideology, shaping what they think their best interests are to the point where

best interests are to the point where they are actually working against their

they are actually working against their their own survival, their own peace,

their own survival, their own peace, stability, and prosperity. And so I I I

stability, and prosperity. And so I I I think yes, it's good that they're

think yes, it's good that they're cooperating militarily and they need to

cooperating militarily and they need to do more of that uh urgently. And I maybe

do more of that uh urgently. And I maybe that's why why they're doing this first

that's why why they're doing this first because it is so urgent. But they also

because it is so urgent. But they also need to work in in these other areas.

need to work in in these other areas. It's so important. And KJ was talking

It's so important. And KJ was talking about AI and how the collective west

about AI and how the collective west wants to leverage AI as a force

wants to leverage AI as a force multiplier. They they again they

multiplier. They they again they understand that on the battlefield uh

understand that on the battlefield uh facetoface with Russia or China or Iran,

facetoface with Russia or China or Iran, they will lose. So they're trying to use

they will lose. So they're trying to use AI to give them an advantage. And they

AI to give them an advantage. And they think in their mind this will enable

think in their mind this will enable them to fight these other nations in the

them to fight these other nations in the same way that the concistadors used uh

same way that the concistadors used uh metal armor and firearms against locals

metal armor and firearms against locals who just had you know they were

who just had you know they were basically shirtless and they had bows

basically shirtless and they had bows and arrows and and spears. This is what

and arrows and and spears. This is what they in their mind they want to create

they in their mind they want to create that sort of military disparity between

that sort of military disparity between themselves and these nations they want

themselves and these nations they want to subordinate subjugate. So we we have

to subordinate subjugate. So we we have to keep a close eye on on all of these

to keep a close eye on on all of these realms, not just the the military

realms, not just the the military battlefields, military production, but

battlefields, military production, but these other areas where maybe it's a bit

these other areas where maybe it's a bit even because yes, China and Russia are

even because yes, China and Russia are working on AI and then in other areas

working on AI and then in other areas like controlling information space where

like controlling information space where the US still holds supremacy.

the US still holds supremacy. Yeah, KJ comment on this because uh one

Yeah, KJ comment on this because uh one of the big issues here is that uh Russia

of the big issues here is that uh Russia and China and the multipolar world of

and China and the multipolar world of course they need that military

course they need that military cooperation is necessary and Russia and

cooperation is necessary and Russia and China and Iran really those are the

China and Iran really those are the three uh pillars of the multipolar world

three uh pillars of the multipolar world that are able to and are engaging in

that are able to and are engaging in increasing that cooperation

increasing that cooperation and and strengthening uh each other. But

and and strengthening uh each other. But on the other hand, u it's difficult to

on the other hand, u it's difficult to compete with a rabid empire that's

compete with a rabid empire that's willing to invest everything into what

willing to invest everything into what Brian is talking about this information

Brian is talking about this information weapon using information as a weapon

weapon using information as a weapon when China, Russia, Iran have to all be

when China, Russia, Iran have to all be in order for them to exist have to be

in order for them to exist have to be attuned to the needs of their own people

attuned to the needs of their own people and then of course the needs of a

and then of course the needs of a multiple world that uh uh might come

multiple world that uh uh might come first as Brian and even reference right

first as Brian and even reference right maybe defense uh uh security and then of

maybe defense uh uh security and then of course economic development which if you

course economic development which if you don't have that um you're not going to

don't have that um you're not going to have much support for it. So KJ, your

have much support for it. So KJ, your your comments on on this situation.

your comments on on this situation. You know, it's a very difficult

You know, it's a very difficult situation. You know, I've said this

situation. You know, I've said this before, but the United States is it's

before, but the United States is it's like somebody in a school shooter mode.

like somebody in a school shooter mode. I mean, the other people, they just want

I mean, the other people, they just want to go about their life, you know, take

to go about their life, you know, take their classes, you know, go about

their classes, you know, go about normally. And the US is in a school

normally. And the US is in a school shooter mode. So, how do you deal with

shooter mode. So, how do you deal with it? You know, do you tackle them? Do you

it? You know, do you tackle them? Do you go after them? Do you hide? Do you

go after them? Do you hide? Do you evade? You know, this is, you know, this

evade? You know, this is, you know, this is the question of our moment, you know,

is the question of our moment, you know, is how do you disarm, how do you diffuse

is how do you disarm, how do you diffuse the school shooter without getting

the school shooter without getting everybody killed? And of course, you

everybody killed? And of course, you know, as we've said before, uh digital

know, as we've said before, uh digital sovereignty is a very very important

sovereignty is a very very important part of it. I I've said that you know

part of it. I I've said that you know what what everybody needs to do is they

what what everybody needs to do is they need to reclaim they need to consider

need to reclaim they need to consider that mental space is a warfighting

that mental space is a warfighting domain and they have to make sure that

domain and they have to make sure that their minds are not occupied because

their minds are not occupied because that is literally what is happening.

that is literally what is happening. They have to reclaim their own minds,

They have to reclaim their own minds, prevent their minds from being colonized

prevent their minds from being colonized and turned into bots for you know the

and turned into bots for you know the propagation of uh uh you know weaponized

propagation of uh uh you know weaponized uh propaganda.

uh propaganda. The US has been doing this for a very

The US has been doing this for a very long time. As I said, US invented

long time. As I said, US invented marketing. It invented public relations.

marketing. It invented public relations. It invented the revival tent and

It invented the revival tent and religious fanaticism uh in you know,

religious fanaticism uh in you know, inside Protestantism. So, it's been

inside Protestantism. So, it's been doing this for a long time. It's very

doing this for a long time. It's very good at this. And you know, even more

good at this. And you know, even more directly, you know, Stanford University

directly, you know, Stanford University has been teaching courses on digital

has been teaching courses on digital coups, how to, you know, coup countries

coups, how to, you know, coup countries through digital means for about 25

through digital means for about 25 years. has been done by a guy called

years. has been done by a guy called Larry Diamond who's one of the leaders

Larry Diamond who's one of the leaders or the Eminos Gre the great cardinal of

or the Eminos Gre the great cardinal of the NE and Amy Goodman gets him on her

the NE and Amy Goodman gets him on her show from you know she gets him on her

show from you know she gets him on her show and she never reveals that this guy

show and she never reveals that this guy is you know uh you know he's the gray

is you know uh you know he's the gray cardinal of the NE but

cardinal of the NE but digital sovereignty uh is key so we have

digital sovereignty uh is key so we have to understand that uh and then the other

to understand that uh and then the other thing that we also can place a little

thing that we also can place a little bit of hope on I and once again uh we

bit of hope on I and once again uh we have to be careful you know you you

have to be careful you know you you can't be too optimistic you can't be too

can't be too optimistic you can't be too pessimistic you have to find that

pessimistic you have to find that goldilock zone you know do not be

goldilock zone you know do not be arrogant you know uh because you know

arrogant you know uh because you know the the one on the right was damned you

the the one on the right was damned you know do not despair the one on the left

know do not despair the one on the left was saved etc so we have to be very we

was saved etc so we have to be very we have to walk a very very fine line but

have to walk a very very fine line but we have to understand that you know

we have to understand that you know currently

currently The empire is eating itself from within.

The empire is eating itself from within. As I said, the four horsemen,

As I said, the four horsemen, de-industrialization,

de-industrialization, uh, financialization, hyper

uh, financialization, hyper financialization. It simply wants to

financialization. It simply wants to claim rents off of everything of which

claim rents off of everything of which Peter Teal is one of these people. He

Peter Teal is one of these people. He knows that the entire system is corrupt

knows that the entire system is corrupt and broken, but he wants to see if he

and broken, but he wants to see if he can uh, you know, grab uh, and loot

can uh, you know, grab uh, and loot while it is still working. So hyper

while it is still working. So hyper financialization

financialization I is is a problem and then we have the

I is is a problem and then we have the problem of deskkilling. Uh the US can no

problem of deskkilling. Uh the US can no longer build things. Not only can it not

longer build things. Not only can it not build things industrially but actually

build things industrially but actually it doesn't really have the capacity to

it doesn't really have the capacity to do meaningful

do meaningful uh cognitive labor anymore. It most of

uh cognitive labor anymore. It most of the cognitive labor is done through

the cognitive labor is done through cognitive uh sweat shops that have been

cognitive uh sweat shops that have been outsourced to you know the global south.

outsourced to you know the global south. And one example of this is most of the

And one example of this is most of the AI researchers are actually Chinese. 50%

AI researchers are actually Chinese. 50% over 50% of the top AI researchers are

over 50% of the top AI researchers are Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg, you know,

Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg, you know, created this AI dream team. I think most

created this AI dream team. I think most of them are Chinese. And so essentially

of them are Chinese. And so essentially uh what this boils down to is if we

uh what this boils down to is if we think of war as being

think of war as being not simply a matter of logistics or

not simply a matter of logistics or industry

industry uh or strategy or tactics but we think

uh or strategy or tactics but we think of it uh a as a kind of a contest of

of it uh a as a kind of a contest of learning curves then the US is way

learning curves then the US is way behind on that learning curve. has you

behind on that learning curve. has you know left every child's behind behind.

know left every child's behind behind. Uh and uh in particular AI itself is

Uh and uh in particular AI itself is simply applied math. People think that

simply applied math. People think that you know AI is something magical. No,

you know AI is something magical. No, it's just math. Computer science is just

it's just math. Computer science is just applied math. And when you have a math

applied math. And when you have a math contest, you know, the US doesn't come

contest, you know, the US doesn't come out ahead because the US leadership is a

out ahead because the US leadership is a leadership led by lawyers. And most

leadership led by lawyers. And most lawyers don't do math. Certainly Peter

lawyers don't do math. Certainly Peter uh you know Alex Karp I don't believe

uh you know Alex Karp I don't believe that he can do you know math worth uh

that he can do you know math worth uh you know anything. So in a math contest

you know anything. So in a math contest when you have the mathematicians

when you have the mathematicians fighting the the lawyers I think the

fighting the the lawyers I think the mathematicians are going to come out

mathematicians are going to come out ahead and we see this with things like

ahead and we see this with things like deepsek where simply they cho took the

deepsek where simply they cho took the uh you know AI algorithms and improved

uh you know AI algorithms and improved them without having to increase compute.

them without having to increase compute. So I think that China will eventually

So I think that China will eventually pull ahead in AI in particular in

pull ahead in AI in particular in embodied AI and that's where the

embodied AI and that's where the industrial capacity also ties into the

industrial capacity also ties into the you know the AI development and the uh

you know the AI development and the uh you know the large language models

you know the large language models because ultimately intelligence is a

because ultimately intelligence is a matter of inhabiting the world and being

matter of inhabiting the world and being able to navigate the world and in order

able to navigate the world and in order to do that you need industrial capacity

to do that you need industrial capacity with industrial robots that have

with industrial robots that have autonomy that can learn in their

autonomy that can learn in their interactions with uh the world around

interactions with uh the world around them that knowledge is considered as

them that knowledge is considered as this entire world and its interactions

this entire world and its interactions and connections and in that sense China

and connections and in that sense China has the advantage whereas the US is just

has the advantage whereas the US is just barely doing its coding and trying to

barely doing its coding and trying to you know run up some kind of advantage

you know run up some kind of advantage with massive amounts of compute and you

with massive amounts of compute and you know advanced chips and even those are

know advanced chips and even those are starting to be overtaken by China. So

starting to be overtaken by China. So ultimately time is on China's side. Time

ultimately time is on China's side. Time is on the side of the global south and

is on the side of the global south and essentially you know we can say that the

essentially you know we can say that the superpower of the global south is

superpower of the global south is patience. So if we can just avoid war

patience. So if we can just avoid war over the next two to five years then I

over the next two to five years then I think the disparities will be so big

think the disparities will be so big that the chances of war will be

that the chances of war will be significantly dis uh diminished. But we

significantly dis uh diminished. But we just have to get through this, you know,

just have to get through this, you know, dark tunnel, this dark night uh of

dark tunnel, this dark night uh of aggression which is very very uh thick

aggression which is very very uh thick and and and dark and uh you know uh

and and and dark and uh you know uh frightening at the current moment.

frightening at the current moment. Yeah. And um in about a minute or le two

Yeah. And um in about a minute or le two minutes or less or so for both of you if

minutes or less or so for both of you if possible um just your final uh analysis

possible um just your final uh analysis on uh how I kind of sum things up to see

on uh how I kind of sum things up to see is that on the one hand you know you

is that on the one hand you know you have um I think the danger that you

have um I think the danger that you bring up Brian uh certainly the US

bring up Brian uh certainly the US empire is not out even if it is uh down

empire is not out even if it is uh down it is it is very dangerous. And I I

it is it is very dangerous. And I I believe its desperation and its decline

believe its desperation and its decline lead it to taking uh risks or escal or

lead it to taking uh risks or escal or moving toward escalations which are u

moving toward escalations which are u going to and already are if Gaza, if

going to and already are if Gaza, if Iran, if Lebanon, if Ukraine, I mean all

Iran, if Lebanon, if Ukraine, I mean all of these wars and conflicts and and with

of these wars and conflicts and and with Gaza genocide, I mean the casualty count

Gaza genocide, I mean the casualty count is just absolutely astonishing. Um and

is just absolutely astonishing. Um and then there are moves for example like uh

then there are moves for example like uh the economic war on China, the tariffs,

the economic war on China, the tariffs, the sanctions on Russia, um the war on

the sanctions on Russia, um the war on bricks that uh Trump is trying to

bricks that uh Trump is trying to engender that have a kind of boomerang

engender that have a kind of boomerang effect. Uh I mean right now Brian uh so

effect. Uh I mean right now Brian uh so I get your comments first. You have

I get your comments first. You have Scott Bessant and not only are they

Scott Bessant and not only are they going after Brazil which is standing

going after Brazil which is standing really defiant and Lula is you know

really defiant and Lula is you know talking like urging the global south to

talking like urging the global south to dump the dollar and to begin to build

dump the dollar and to begin to build that mechanism to do that. Uh they're

that mechanism to do that. Uh they're going after India now which is uh quite

going after India now which is uh quite the strategic blunder in my opinion. But

the strategic blunder in my opinion. But here is what Scott Besson is saying

here is what Scott Besson is saying about negotiations with India

about negotiations with India and also you know India India's been a

and also you know India India's been a large buyer of sanctioned Russian oil

large buyer of sanctioned Russian oil that they then resell as refined

that they then resell as refined products. So uh you know they they have

products. So uh you know they they have not been a great global actor. So, so

not been a great global actor. So, so India is supposed to be uh the proxy for

India is supposed to be uh the proxy for the US against uh China. supposed to do

the US against uh China. supposed to do its bidding and on the foreign policy

its bidding and on the foreign policy realm and uh the Trump administration

realm and uh the Trump administration has been going after essentially anybody

has been going after essentially anybody and everybody um on this and uh

and everybody um on this and uh essentially the the positive I see uh in

essentially the the positive I see uh in this moment is that uh if there is this

this moment is that uh if there is this common vision that I think is needed for

common vision that I think is needed for a bricks in a multipolar world uh uh

a bricks in a multipolar world uh uh certainly the US's own actions could

certainly the US's own actions could help facilitate that. But Brian, your

help facilitate that. But Brian, your final comments and then KJ.

final comments and then KJ. I think KJ made a really good point. He

I think KJ made a really good point. He he's talking about uh the multipolar

he's talking about uh the multipolar world and how time is working in its

world and how time is working in its favor and how patience and the ability

favor and how patience and the ability to avoid a major war that will burn

to avoid a major war that will burn everything down that everyone is working

everything down that everyone is working so hard to build up. That that is that

so hard to build up. That that is that is central. And if and if the multipolar

is central. And if and if the multipolar world can make it through these next

world can make it through these next couple of years, then there will be this

couple of years, then there will be this disparity between the rest of the world

disparity between the rest of the world and and the west and its vision of

and and the west and its vision of reasserting itself. Uh but the problem

reasserting itself. Uh but the problem is the United States right now we we can

is the United States right now we we can see examples of this right now where

see examples of this right now where they just don't care anymore about

they just don't care anymore about pretexts uh an excuse to go to war. They

pretexts uh an excuse to go to war. They were literally negotiating. Iran was

were literally negotiating. Iran was negotiating with the US which they had

negotiating with the US which they had no no reason to negotiate with the US.

no no reason to negotiate with the US. US is not in charge of of global nuclear

US is not in charge of of global nuclear programs, but they were negotiating to

programs, but they were negotiating to avoid a war and the US just attacked

avoid a war and the US just attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations. So

Iran in the middle of negotiations. So they they have become so reckless and

they they have become so reckless and and aggressive and they're they're

and aggressive and they're they're they're doing things on impulse because

they're doing things on impulse because they know they're out of time. But this

they know they're out of time. But this is extremely dangerous. uh that that

is extremely dangerous. uh that that border conflict was engineered by

border conflict was engineered by USbacked political forces on both sides

USbacked political forces on both sides of the border uh here in Thailand and in

of the border uh here in Thailand and in neighboring Cambodia. And then the the

neighboring Cambodia. And then the the trade deal was rammed through on both

trade deal was rammed through on both sides while everybody was distracted by

sides while everybody was distracted by the conflict. Nobody had a chance to

the conflict. Nobody had a chance to debate the US trade uh demands.

debate the US trade uh demands. Basically, not a deal. And nobody had

Basically, not a deal. And nobody had any time to protest it. And if you look

any time to protest it. And if you look at the the concessions that were forced

at the the concessions that were forced on Thailand and Cambodia, uh they're

on Thailand and Cambodia, uh they're putting zero tariffs on US products.

putting zero tariffs on US products. They still get tariffs from from the US.

They still get tariffs from from the US. 19% 20% something like that. And they

19% 20% something like that. And they are being forced to buy LNG. Uh and

are being forced to buy LNG. Uh and they're being forced to buy huge amounts

they're being forced to buy huge amounts of Boeing aircraft that no nobody needs.

of Boeing aircraft that no nobody needs. And and a lot of these countries use

And and a lot of these countries use Airbus. and to switch over to another

Airbus. and to switch over to another airliner is not like switching over to I

airliner is not like switching over to I was drive driving a Kia now I'm driving

was drive driving a Kia now I'm driving an Audi. It's not like that. You have to

an Audi. It's not like that. You have to make huge investments on all of the

make huge investments on all of the things that support that aircraft on the

things that support that aircraft on the ground and in the air. And they also had

ground and in the air. And they also had to make concessions to the US regarding

to make concessions to the US regarding Google and Amazon regarding the the

Google and Amazon regarding the the these digital services and

these digital services and infrastructure that are only going to

infrastructure that are only going to enhance America's control and ability to

enhance America's control and ability to project political control over these

project political control over these targeted nations. So this is a huge

targeted nations. So this is a huge threat. They're going for everything all

threat. They're going for everything all at once. They don't care how it looks.

at once. They don't care how it looks. They picked Trump on purpose because

They picked Trump on purpose because then they can just say, "Well, that was

then they can just say, "Well, that was Trump. We all know he was crazy and

Trump. We all know he was crazy and impulsive. That was him. That had

impulsive. That was him. That had nothing to do with with America, what

nothing to do with with America, what America really stands for. This is what

America really stands for. This is what they do with every presidential

they do with every presidential administration. They flush uh everything

administration. They flush uh everything all all responsibility down the toilet.

all all responsibility down the toilet. Every time there's a new administration,

Every time there's a new administration, everything else gets flushed down with

everything else gets flushed down with the previous administration. This is

the previous administration. This is what they're doing. And they are more

what they're doing. And they are more dangerous and desperate now than ever.

dangerous and desperate now than ever. And people have to look at the the big

And people have to look at the the big picture, not get focused too much on any

picture, not get focused too much on any one conflict. See how they all work

one conflict. See how they all work together and see how all of these

together and see how all of these conflicts work together with with the

conflicts work together with with the tariffs, uh with propaganda, with the

tariffs, uh with propaganda, with the media, with all of these distractions

media, with all of these distractions they they try to to use to divide us. We

they they try to to use to divide us. We have to look at all of it as one single

have to look at all of it as one single push by the US to reassert itself

push by the US to reassert itself globally.

globally. Yeah. KJ, your final comments. Yeah, you

Yeah. KJ, your final comments. Yeah, you know, I've said this before and I hate

know, I've said this before and I hate to keep repeating myself, but you know,

to keep repeating myself, but you know, US is like a drunk at the bar and the

US is like a drunk at the bar and the bar is closing and the drunk needs to go

bar is closing and the drunk needs to go home. You know, the credit cards have

home. You know, the credit cards have been rejected, struck out with everybody

been rejected, struck out with everybody and it's just time to go home, but the

and it's just time to go home, but the drunk doesn't want to go home and they

drunk doesn't want to go home and they want they're they want to fight and

want they're they want to fight and they're willing to fight the entire uh

they're willing to fight the entire uh everybody there. Uh and so this is the

everybody there. Uh and so this is the dangerous piece and what it's also doing

dangerous piece and what it's also doing is it's bullying its sidekicks right

is it's bullying its sidekicks right now. So you can see that even the the

now. So you can see that even the the countries that are the closest to the

countries that are the closest to the United States are getting really really

United States are getting really really raw deals because the US decides that it

raw deals because the US decides that it can twist uh its uh you know quote

can twist uh its uh you know quote unquote allies or its vassels the most.

unquote allies or its vassels the most. And so, you know, it's that situation

And so, you know, it's that situation where the bully after having bullied

where the bully after having bullied everybody but no longer capable of, you

everybody but no longer capable of, you know, bullying other people decides to

know, bullying other people decides to bully their own psychics. The the best

bully their own psychics. The the best example, as you just pointed out, is

example, as you just pointed out, is India. You know, uh I've been doing

India. You know, uh I've been doing journalism for a long time. We used to

journalism for a long time. We used to call uh the we used to call it the

call uh the we used to call it the Asia-Pacific. That was my beat was the

Asia-Pacific. That was my beat was the Asia-Pacific. And then sometime around

Asia-Pacific. And then sometime around the Biden administration, it became the

the Biden administration, it became the Indo-Pacific, which is a kind of

Indo-Pacific, which is a kind of nonsense term. I mean, it's a it's a

nonsense term. I mean, it's a it's a 19th century Bismarian colonial term.

19th century Bismarian colonial term. But the reason why they used the started

But the reason why they used the started using the term Indo-Pacific as well as

using the term Indo-Pacific as well as the Indo-Pacific strategy, which is

the Indo-Pacific strategy, which is really another rebranded pivot to Asia,

really another rebranded pivot to Asia, is that they wanted India to be the left

is that they wanted India to be the left tackle in this uh rising Pacific war.

tackle in this uh rising Pacific war. you know, Japan, Korea are the right

you know, Japan, Korea are the right tackle, India is the left tackle. And in

tackle, India is the left tackle. And in order to, you know, make this very, very

order to, you know, make this very, very clear, we're going to call it the

clear, we're going to call it the Indo-Pacific and we're going to have an

Indo-Pacific and we're going to have an Indo-Pacific strategy. Well, that didn't

Indo-Pacific strategy. Well, that didn't turn out so well because, you know,

turn out so well because, you know, India is a big country and it has a kind

India is a big country and it has a kind of, you know, dual alliance. It's very

of, you know, dual alliance. It's very close to Russia. When the war in Ukraine

close to Russia. When the war in Ukraine broke out, you know, India decided it

broke out, you know, India decided it was going to continue relations with

was going to continue relations with Russia. was not going to uh sanction

Russia. was not going to uh sanction Russia and then this put it in the

Russia and then this put it in the doghouse and so now it is you know being

doghouse and so now it is you know being thrashed uh and so you know the original

thrashed uh and so you know the original notion of the quad which was Australia,

notion of the quad which was Australia, Japan, India and the US that has you

Japan, India and the US that has you know nobody's talking so much about that

know nobody's talking so much about that anyway so they want to see if they can

anyway so they want to see if they can thrash India and continue the beatings

thrash India and continue the beatings until the morale improves until the you

until the morale improves until the you know imperial vessel uh mentality

know imperial vessel uh mentality improves. moves. But uh once again, you

improves. moves. But uh once again, you know, the empire is imploding. You know,

know, the empire is imploding. You know, the drunk is picking fights everywhere

the drunk is picking fights everywhere and they're also sending the message

and they're also sending the message that anything goes. We can, you know, we

that anything goes. We can, you know, we are crazy. We can do anything. That's

are crazy. We can do anything. That's the message really of Gaza that there's

the message really of Gaza that there's no limits to our depravity and violence.

no limits to our depravity and violence. And so, you know, once again, we have to

And so, you know, once again, we have to come back to what can we do? We have to

come back to what can we do? We have to see if we can deescalate. We have to see

see if we can deescalate. We have to see if we can get the drunk to calm down. go

if we can get the drunk to calm down. go home, go to sleep. And in the meantime,

home, go to sleep. And in the meantime, we also have to make sure that we are

we also have to make sure that we are not being captured as vectors of

not being captured as vectors of propaganda for this incredibly

propaganda for this incredibly uh violent but absurd uh information war

uh violent but absurd uh information war that is being waged right now. Just

that is being waged right now. Just remember, the farther we are from truth,

remember, the farther we are from truth, the closer we are to war. Uh those who

the closer we are to war. Uh those who tell you absurdities are preparing you

tell you absurdities are preparing you for atrocities.

for atrocities. Yeah. And I'll just close on this. I

Yeah. And I'll just close on this. I want to thank all the uh super chats by

want to thank all the uh super chats by the way and and comments here, super

the way and and comments here, super stickers and and thanks Tom for being a

stickers and and thanks Tom for being a member for so long um and for going to

member for so long um and for going to China. That's going to be great. Um I

China. That's going to be great. Um I want to just say that um you know when

want to just say that um you know when it comes to the multipolar I've been

it comes to the multipolar I've been seeing this commentary more and more so

seeing this commentary more and more so and it's important you know and it's

and it's important you know and it's definitely important to be critical. I

definitely important to be critical. I do want to emphasize though the

do want to emphasize though the responsibilities uh that you just

responsibilities uh that you just outlined KJ when it comes to seeing and

outlined KJ when it comes to seeing and and learning and and being uh committed

and learning and and being uh committed to the truth especially in the

to the truth especially in the collective west that uh the

collective west that uh the responsibilities uh and I think that's

responsibilities uh and I think that's why I appreciate you so much Brian for

why I appreciate you so much Brian for talking about the dangers of the US

talking about the dangers of the US empire because it's our responsibility

empire because it's our responsibility in the collective west in the United

in the collective west in the United States wherever we are to not only speak

States wherever we are to not only speak out about it but to then stop it like if

out about it but to then stop it like if we want to see things like multipolarity

we want to see things like multipolarity um flourish ish if we want to see uh

um flourish ish if we want to see uh Russia, China, Iran not be belleaguered

Russia, China, Iran not be belleaguered and embattled in constant endless wars,

and embattled in constant endless wars, they can't necessarily control that.

they can't necessarily control that. They're not going to they're not they're

They're not going to they're not they're not seeking to overthrow the Washington

not seeking to overthrow the Washington uh you know establishment. That's that's

uh you know establishment. That's that's just not how reality works. uh the

just not how reality works. uh the United States, people here, people in

United States, people here, people in the west, uh they have to be the ones

the west, uh they have to be the ones committed to their own process of

committed to their own process of political development so that and you

political development so that and you know and put action to the truth that

know and put action to the truth that they are awoken to so that you know so

they are awoken to so that you know so that we don't have to deal with

that we don't have to deal with genocides in Gaza, regional wars,

genocides in Gaza, regional wars, nuclear war, all of this that we talk

nuclear war, all of this that we talk about here. it is to impart that

about here. it is to impart that responsibility on uh those who have the

responsibility on uh those who have the most of it. So with all that said

most of it. So with all that said everybody, this was a great

everybody, this was a great conversation. I'll be back again this

conversation. I'll be back again this week, probably a couple times actually

week, probably a couple times actually as we enter the week. Thanks for joining

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