Erik Prince

NATO, Britain, France, totally useless.

Which is why...

It is so important.

It is in the interest of the United States government to end the debacle that is Ukraine and pull Russia away from the orbit of China.

Because right now, I talked to one head of state that had been at every BRICS meeting, every BRICS summit.

And the previous ones were always very equal footing between Xi and Putin.

The last one, Xi was definitely ascendant.

And for a hundred plus years, it was a policy of the United States to keep German industry from combining with Russian natural resources.

Now?

All we've done, all this stupid Ukraine war has done is push Russia, all those Russian resources into a subservient role to the Chinese Communist Party and their massive, massive industry.

That is not in our strategic interest.

We do not want to tangle if China is going to go for it.

We don't want Russia on the side of China in any way, shape or form.

That we cannot handle.

Massive spy network infrastructure all through American companies, infrastructure, all the rest.

The ability to really cause mayhem in the United States at the behest of Beijing.

Yeah.

Agree with all that.

But you're right about the salami slicing that you've seen them do with the South China Sea, building islands where there are no islands.

moving boundaries, now with an oil rig just off of Korea, maybe Indonesia, those waters are next.