Sam Faddis

He's kind of reached his peak.

I mean, if you look online, as I do, and look at video coming out of Ukraine and see some of the Russian tanks...

that are being seized by the Ukrainians on the battlefield, they look like wrecks.

They're literally 60-year-old tanks that never should have been outside a museum, and they're half fallen apart.

I mean, Putin is already scraping to keep this thing going.

So within months, I would hope, if we're luckier than that, maybe weeks, we'll see.

Yeah, well, I think it's a great thing that you pose those questions as two parts because it gets across the fact that what Trump is having to do is he's having to juggle a whole bunch of balls simultaneously.

And all of these things, these different things are interrelated and they all impact other people.

So he's, in regard to Ukraine, as I said, he's methodically working to cut off oil and gas sales by the Russians because when they can't sell oil and gas, they can't pay for the war and it's all over.

And he's pushing the Europeans and the Indians and the Chinese and he's having considerable success.

Even the Chinese announced, I think it was today, that at least four of their state-owned oil companies won't buy Russian oil anymore.

Now, they still get a lot of oil from other ways, so that's one of those things that's partly symbolic.

But the fact that the Chinese are doing it is still important.

But simultaneously, Trump's having to balance this whole business with rare earth minerals.

Our whole economy at this point is essentially dependent upon technologies that require rare earth minerals, including all the cool green stuff that Biden made everybody buy.

And the Chinese have a virtual complete lock on all of those minerals.

And we've done nothing to break it.

So what does that mean?

And he's got to frantically try to get us to go back to producing our own rare earth minerals and producing our own minerals.

technologies.