Russia’s *NEW* Nuclear Attack Threats & China’s Worsening WW3

now we've got to talk about Russia

because we've got the financial times a

reporting of potential attacks getting

set up on Western infrastructure outside

of Ukraine we've got to talk about that

because that would essentially be

inviting World War III unless of course

it was done under the guise of sabotage

we'll see we'll see but tensions

continue to rise and we've got a big

Catalyst coming up in three days which

is already starting to set up over today

actually we've got a top Diplomat from

China who just arrived in Moscow about

an hour ago that's this morning here on

February 21st and what's remarkable

about this is the timing lines up with

the three-day Catalyst that we have the

one year anniversary for the Russian

incursion into Ukraine why that matters

is because China is actually widely seen

as potentially trying to broker peace in

offering a peace deal

in three days maybe that peace deal is

already being negotiated now since the

top Diplomat has just arrived uh in

Moscow but this is coming at the same

time as we have warnings that there

could be potential attacks on Western

infrastructure we'll talk about those

attacks in just a moment but first let's

talk about this piece right here here's

a Wall Street Journal piece where uh the

Wall Street Journal makes this case that

China is worried about potentially

losing one of their strongest allies one

of their strongest trading partners

obviously China is widely trying to

reduce its Reliance on the west uh and

they're already sort of engaging in a

different style of warfare with the West

not only with uh you know the drama over

the nonsense of the the weather balloon

or spy balloon but also via the theft of

our Trade Secrets we just had another

massive theft over at asml chip

Manufacturing Company by Chinese

individual uh and uh and and this is

partly because of uh well essentially

programs and and rules where the United

States has passed laws like the chips

act Banning China from using Advanced

manufacturing technology so China now

steals the information and then tries to

copy it this is similar to what they've

done with for example our fighter jets

the plans for our F-35 fighter jet were

stolen by China and then China a few

years later ended up coming out with a

very similar looking jet a Gen 5 jet now

most of China's Fleet is still the older

Gen 2 gen 3 stuff but roughly about 50

percent according to Bloomberg of

China's uh Air Force is still the older

generation the 1990s vehicles I I don't

know I mean they're certainly not

spending as much on defense as we are in

America by some accounts their estimates

are that China would spend somewhere

around 250 million dollars on defense or

as we're spending closer to a trillion

dollars on defense closer to maybe 900

billion but still that's roughly 4X what

China is spending but anyway obviously

Russia is very important to China and

there there was even talk that

potentially Putin scheduled his

incursion into Ukraine around the

Olympics were which were held in Beijing

last year which what's remarkable about

that is it it somewhat suggests that how

convenient right after the Olympics in

China were over what happened the

incursion comes uh and there's almost

this sort of uh deemed respect from from

Russia uh to China and potentially vice

versa and this Wall Street Journal

article gives us a little bit of insight

into maybe why so what they talk about

is Beijing potentially fearing a really

weak Russia after this war and how the

war is starting to maybe weigh on

Russia's capability of actually being a

supportive trading partner for them and

as a result China is potentially

considering helping Russia end this war

either by brokering a peace deal or

because becoming a weapon supplier for

them now they're already deemed to be

supplying things like aircraft equipment

jamming equipment but they're in recent

days talking about potentially supplying

actual lethal weapons to Russia now the

West sees that as an escalation in

Beijing the way they're trying to spin

the narrative is basically saying Hey

look

if we start providing weapons to Russia

Russia becomes more reliant on China and

if Russia is more reliant on China China

potentially has the opportunity to twist

Russia's arm into brokering a peace deal

between Ukraine and and Russia and there

is the potential that China could pull

that off and that'd be fantastic because

I think everybody wants this war to end

but listen to this you do also get harsh

rhetoric right example China's foreign

Ministry on Monday hit back against U.S

allegations that providing lethal

weapons would really provoke a World War

III and they say it's the U.S side not

the Chinese side that's providing an

endless flow of weapons to Ukraine the

U.S isn't qualified to point fingers at

China or order China around we would

never accept uh U.S criticizing Chinese

Russian relations

well yeah of course I mean that that is

a fair point the U.S criticizing China

for potentially supplying weapons to

Russia is a little ironic obviously the

U.S is going to do that and be angry

about it because they want Ukraine to to

win and this war to end uh and that was

really characterized by Joe Biden

getting on a train for 10 hours to hang

out in cave in a in you know a secret uh

secret visit uh to the capital of

Ukraine and and reiterating this

unending support for Ukraine which is

also evidenced by the uh you know nearly

100 billion dollars of of U.S money

that's gone to support uh Ukraine now uh

this Wall Street Journal article Dives

in a little bit more on potentially

Beijing now trying to step up the

negotiating uh posture to end this war

uh and I think I think that's a good

thing actually I mean obviously I think

everybody wants to see this this war

come to an end but it's also a good

thing that makes sense it makes logical

sense for China it's doing its best to

really rebuild its economy after three

years of a coveted lockdown and so far

things are going great in terms of

travel and entertainment spending Subway

traffic and car congestion by some

measures is actually higher than 2019

pre-pandemic levels so you are seeing a

travel and entertainment and and really

consumerism Rebound in China but

remember consumers only make up about a

third of their GDP housing makes up

two-thirds it's the opposite in America

in America the consumer makes up 70 of

of the economy so China is really

reliant on industry uh the real real

estate market and consume everything

firing to actually have the growth that

China is looking for and having a

trading partner with Russia that is not

crippled because it's basically

destroyed itself uh spending to Oblivion

uh for for what feels like a very

somewhat pointless War mostly I would

say the Western argument is pointless

war of course the the argument from

Russia is that they were forced into

this because of the expansion and threat

of the expansion of NATO but either way

this in my opinion and Chinese visit

visiting Moscow is actually a very good

positive uh Catalyst and hopefully there

is a negotiated end however and

unfortunately there's still talk as

running in the financial times today

about potentially attacks by Russia on

Western infrastructure now look we've

gone through this idea that Russia

sabotaged the Nordstrom pipelines uh

there have been arguments from

journalists that know it was actually

the CIA in conjunction with with some of

the uh European navies that ended up

planting C4

and uh on these pipelines and blowing

these pipelines up leading to massive

methane leak uh that is a climate change

disaster and of course the United States

doesn't want their actual hands on on

responsibility for that which the United

States clearly denies but there's a lot

of circumstantial evidence clearly

pointing to the idea that the United

States was heavily involved in the

destruction of the Nordstrom pipelines

but anyway uh the Netherlands now

warning about Russian attempts to

sabotage their energy infrastructure

with the Dutch intelligence authorities

warning that Russians have been

essentially scouting uh the uh the the

Netherlands energy infrastructure

specifically their wind farms they're

offshore wind farms and what they're

what they describe in this article is

essentially uh ships that have been

showing particular interest to the

offshore wind farms in the North Sea and

that uh the Netherlands are stepping up

their security and and they've been

escorting multiple ships out of their

particular you know economic zones and

regions and and they believe that Russia

could potentially try to attack uh some

of the energy infrastructure uh of of uh

the West in particular to force them to

rely more heavily on uh potentially

re-established relations with Russia uh

and Russian gas or Russian oil as a way

of saying no no don't go renewable

continue to rely on Russia now of course

that makes sense on one hand that Russia

might do so of course the last thing we

want is the expansion of of a potential

world war three this is why the sooner

this war ends the better but look at the

way you've got these axes setting up

right you've got Russia loading

strategic nuclear missiles uh on on

their warships something they haven't

done since the 70s you've got Iran

building suicide drone factories in uh

Russia just 600 miles outside of Moscow

uh that just announced by the way so not

built yet but but Iran's been selling

weapons uh to Russia you've got the

United States taking uh weapons stolen

essentially from Iran and and or I

should say seized uh and and potentially

being delivered against U.N conventions

to Ukraine uh you've got Russia now

stepping out of the Stark treaty which

limits how many icbms you can produce

you've got uh of course the belief that

uh Japan and Taiwan and the United

Kingdom and NATO are all supportive of

Ukraine on one side on the other side

you've clearly got uh China Russia uh

and Iran

heavily working together to support uh

Russia and and we'll see uh but but so

far things are very very much brewing in

negative directions and it seems like

every day there's more negativity around

the potential trending towards a World

War III which which is terrible

obviously that would be the worst case

scenario so hopefully in this segment

we've been able to cover that there's at

least hope because it does not seem like

the west or Ukraine uh have really been

able to propose anything that's remotely

interesting to Russia

and hopefully China can pull off some

form of negotiation to actually make

that happen because otherwise we're

trending towards World War III and it's

scary

so hopefully that comes to an end uh

we'll see anyway uh that uh that's uh

that's my piece on Russia