Brendan Steinhauser

Those guys are going to lap this up.

That's a very dangerous maneuver, I think, on behalf of the president.

It seems like he realizes this is a hot potato and he's throwing it over Ukraine.

to the legislative branch.

Very, very, very dangerous manoeuvre if the President wants to keep the United States out from being dragged further into this.

Our light to all of this is the President's, or what has been attributed to the President.

There are very interesting soundings coming out about this.

I don't know if they're true, but they're being repeated by serious newspapers

as if true, as if they have sources to confirm that, specifically one in The Times, suggesting that the president is now, the two things here, the first is the move to this C5 entity, which would be somewhat, I think, quite a clever maneuver,

on behalf of the White House because it would potentially succeed in one stroke in destroying BRICS and replacing it with something which wouldn't be antagonistic between China and the United States and it would basically be China, the United States, Russia

Japan and India, those would be the C5.

And it would be a counterpoint also to the G7.

That's a pretty clever maneuver if it takes off.

The other thing, Steve, which I say, which I was referring to, which I haven't seen verified by the White House, and in fact, I've seen it denied by the White House, is the idea that the United States...

security strategy which we've discussed quite a bit on the show because it's a brilliant document that in itself is only the public manifestation of a document which goes actually well beyond that um and even tries to suggest um that it's the u.s administration's view to encourage four key eu member states to leave the

And I forget which the fourth one is.

Now, that would be very interesting if it's a political maneuver, if it's serious, because it will smoke out countries like Italy to say, really, where does Giorgio Maloney believe the future of Italy lies?

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And I've got some of the commentary that I referred to on the show now up at the top of my feed awaiting your perusal.