00:00Christopher, what do you make of that?
00:01I mean, is Ukraine just a pawn in between these three new superpowers?
00:09No, Ukraine is the testing ground for international law and international relations at the moment.
00:14And I think it is rather curious, in fact, that China is the main facilitator of Russia in the war against Ukraine, not India.
00:23And yet China hasn't been hit with specific secondary sanctions.
00:27Because of the rare earths.
00:28The banking system is, well, for whatever reason, if China is actually the target, if China is the main threat, then China has to be the one that's targeted, not India.
00:41And there are other countries.
00:42But then they cut us off from the rare earths, Chris.
00:44They cut us off from the rare earths.
00:45And that's the problem.
00:46This is why we're bending to them on NVIDIA chips.
00:49I mean, so this is, again, Russia could help us alleviate some of that rare earth mineral dependency.
00:54And we're not taking it up on that, taking them up on that because of this Ukraine thing.
00:59It's time to end it.
01:01It's gone too far now.
01:02The degree to which China and Russia are becoming interwoven economically and technologically is quite astounding.
01:12And I think it's nice to think that we can cuddle up to Russia and Russia will suddenly come off the shelf and be aligned with us and aligned with our interests, because it won't.
01:22Putin sees the world in a zero-sum way, particularly with regard to the United States, which he regards as his main adversary and always will, as a former KGB officer.
01:33And so I just don't see how giving parts of Ukraine over to Russia or pressurizing Ukraine to give territory to Russia is going to help at all in combating China.
01:44It just shows weakness, in my opinion.
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