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Ladies and gentlemen, is Donald Trump a genius or is he a fool?

That's a question we're going to answer today on this Unleashed episode.

You know, the answer might depend on whether you look at events forward or backward, starting

at the end of the chain.

If the United States moves against the Iranian regime, which it has, the straight of

horror moves, one of the most critical oil checkpoints on the planet, will shut down for

a period.

And that seems to have happened now.

Roughly one-fifth of the world's oil normally flows through that narrow stretch of water.

It's a choke point in global oil transportation traffic.

So that's not a small disruption for the world.

It's a shock to the entire global economy except perhaps for the U.S. economy.

It might affect oil prices for sure, but it will not affect oil supplies to our country

because we don't use it.

We don't use a drop of Persian Gulf oil anymore.

We don't have a dependency on foreign oil.

We, in fact, since Donald Trump retook the Oval Office, we are energy independent as

a nation for the second time, and a long time, and the first time, of course, was also

when Donald Trump was in office, and then under Biden, we became energy dependent again

on foreign oil.

So that has reversed yet again.

So the real strategic question becomes this.

How do you prepare for all this possible turmoil in the Middle East and the Straits of

Hormuz?

So let's look at the sequence, and maybe we can figure out what Trump was thinking and

what he did.

Pressure built on Maduro in Venezuela, and he actually was able to transition that regime

the United States regained access to one of the largest oil reserves on the planet,

maybe the top oil reserves on the planet, and it's right in our own hemisphere.

So that mattered more than many people realized, because for decades, refineries along the

US Gulf Coast were specifically designed to process the heavy crude that comes from Venezuela

Mexico and Canada.

So the infrastructure already exists here.

Now maybe we can use a couple of more refineries, but the infrastructure is here.

Now let's look at the wider ripple effects in the world.

Russia and China, with the Venezuelan liberation that we achieved, Russia and China lose their

access to heavily discounted Venezuelan oil.

Cuba loses a critical economic lifeline.

China becomes far more exposed if Middle Eastern oil shipments are disrupted.

The sanctioned dodging tanker network that China had, the so-called Black Fleet of ghost

tankers that were circumventing the oil embargo suddenly faces mounting pressure, let's

say.

So let's step back and look at the chessboard.

Secure energy supply in the western hemisphere first, and then we'll confront the current

situation in Iran.

So if that was the sequence, if energy flows were positioned before the conflict, in other

words, if a priority schedule was set up for energy flow, it would soften the economic

shock here at home while tightening the pressure on America's strategic rivals.

Iran would get squeezed, and that seems to be happening.

Russia would get squeezed, China would get squeezed, England, the country that keeps acting

like there are ally, but they're not acting like an ally these days.

Now I can make an argument that England hasn't really been an ally since the American

Revolution and the War of 1812 because they've been doing what they could to undermine

US hegemony in the world ever since.

And that includes their activities in the Middle East and carving up the borders in the

Middle East so that there would be constant strife.

And of course, as the US got stronger, we found ourselves being the policeman for the

entire Middle Eastern circus going on over there between all the conflicting rivalries,

both ethnic and religious, by the way.

So Iran would get squeezed, Russia would get squeezed, China would get squeezed, England

would get squeezed, and that's not really tactical thinking by Donald Trump.

That's a grand strategy to reorder the world order.

So the real question is, not whether people like Donald Trump or dislike him, okay, so

whether you like him or dislike him.

The question is far simpler.

Is what we're witnessing chaos or is it a grand master plan unfolding in plain sight?

Well we're going to see, but again, let's look at the chess board.

Russia's economy is pretty much being eaten alive from the inside.

China just posted the lowest growth target in its modern history and they admitted for

the first time ever that deflation has been devouring their economy for three straight

years.

Iran's supreme leader and the leader after that are dead and their navy is on the bottom

of the ocean floor.

Their air force incapacitated.

Then as well as dictator is sitting in a jail cell in lower Manhattan.

Cuba can't even fuel an airplane.

And the great crank alliance, as they call it, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.

That coalition that every think tank in Washington had warned us was going to end American dominance

fell apart the first time any of them actually needed any help.

Every single time not once did one of these countries come to the rescue of another.

Not once.

And where is America?

You know America is part of NATO, right?

In fact, we're the leading lead country in NATO.

In fact, we've carried NATO on our backs for a long time in America.

So our military has is still deployed across multiple theaters of war with a speed and

precision that has stunned the entire world.

The economy is absorbing global shocks that would flatten any other nation on earth.

The dollar is still the world reserve currency.

NATO, well, we're going to talk about NATO for now.

It's still intact, but maybe not for long.

And a president who demonstrated in a matter of hours in Karakas what Russia has failed

to accomplish in four years in Ukraine.

Now we've done in a few hours what Russia has failed to accomplish in four years.

So I've talked about this before.

You've heard this before on this program.

But the United States of America is operating from a position of strength that would have

seemed perhaps impossible five years ago.

Every major adversary is weaker.

Every supposed counter alliance is fractured.

Every bet against America under Donald Trump has lost.

And there is not a single thing that any country on this earth can do to stop it.

We keep hearing about the straight of war moves.

Now I'm not sure do you know what a straight of war moves is.

You should pick it up.

Look at it on a map for a minute.

You'll see that it's a tiny choke point.

There are several tanker choke points in the world.

One of them is a straight of war moves.

One of them is the Suez Canal.

And one of them is the Panama Canal.

So we just got the Suez Canal, I mean the straight of war moves under our control.

Now we're going to move forward.

We already freed up the Panama Canal which was starting to come under Chinese influence

of all things.

So we've taken back the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal was under US control and over the years that has been relaxed and loosened

and other nations have come in and taken more prominent role in the Panama Canal.

Well we've taken it back now because we didn't like the way the direction that that was

going.

And it's a strategic canal passageway from the Pacific to the Atlantic and vice versa.

And it's really critical to our national security because it's really the connection between

North and South America and all the trade that needs to go on on both coasts and also

to the far east.

So let's continue our discussion now about the straight of war moves.

Shall we?

The Hormuz trap is something that I call it that Donald Trump has really, I think, set

up recently because here's what happened.

Donald Trump just invited China to send warships to protect the waterway.

China is using their muscle to try and replace the US dollar.

So if you read Trump's truth social posts lately, these are the most politically and strategically

loaded sentences of the war.

He said hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others that are affected

by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz straight

will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.

So this invitation, ladies and gentlemen, is a trap.

Every possible Chinese response, no matter which way they go, it will damage China in the

long run.

If Beijing sends warships, it legitimizes an American-led coalition and subordinates Chinese

naval power to US command architecture.

And it abandons their diplomatic neutrality with Iran.

The country currently offering China, you want only passage through the straits that

everybody else is locked out of.

So China loses its shadow fleet advantage.

It's discounted Iranian crude and it's leverage in a single deployment.

Now let's stop a moment and take a break.

And when we come back, I'm going to talk a little more about what and who this challenge

that Trump has given everybody will mean to the world and to whom.

Let's say that.

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Welcome back to Unleashed the Political News Hour.

This is your host, Bruce Robertson, before we left for the break, the commercial break.

We're discussing the challenge that Donald Trump has given to the world to help us out

in the state of war moves to free up the free flow of oil tankers through those narrow

straight near the Persian Gulf.

So here's what happens.

If Beijing decides to send warships to help us out, it legitimizes an American-led coalition.

It subordinates Chinese naval power to U.S. command, and it abandons its China's diplomatic

neutrality with Iran, and that's the country currently offering China-only passage through

the strait that everybody else has locked out of pretty much.

So China loses their shadow-fleet advantage, their discounted Iranian oil, and their leverage

in one single deployment.

If Beijing refuses, it confirms what Washington wants the world to see.

That China is willing to let the global economy burn rather than contribute to the security

of the waterway that carries 45 percent of its own crude imports.

Every nation paying $119 a barrel or so while China pays less through yuan-settled shadow-fleet

deliveries is going to notice who showed up and who didn't.

The free-rider narrative writes itself, and America writes the next chapter of dollar

dominance in oil with it.

So Trump named six countries and asked them to help out.

Five of them are allies or partners.

Japan is signing the Golden Dome Agreement in five days.

Alliance is operating from Djibouti.

The UK is operating from Bahrain, and South Korea has direct Hormuz energy exposure.

Their participation is expected.

China's participation is the question, and the question is the weapon.

So while 16 million barrels of Iranian crude have transcended to China since 28 February

through shadow tankers dealing in yuan, that's the Chinese currency, otherwise known as

the Remnimbi, and while Iran has offered to reopen the strait exclusively for yuan-based

cargo, Trump posted a sentence that forces China to choose.

Between its shadow economy and its publicly stated legitimacy, Trump's post also contains

an admission that no briefing has delivered.

He said we have already destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability, but it's easy for

them to send a drone or two, or drop a mine or two, or deliver a close-range missile,

and that's no matter how badly defeated they are.

The President of the United States has just acknowledged that total military victory does

not equal total waterway security in the strait of Hormuz.

Iran's military may be destroyed, but the coastline is not.

A defeated nation with a 33-kilometer shoreline and $500 mines and $20,000 drones can deny

passage through the world's most important choke point indefinitely, because the weapons

of the Nile are cheaper than the weapons of dominance.

We saw that a little while ago.

We saw that with the Houthis.

They were really hampering shipping trade.

In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, Trump said,

they're going to bomb the coast, they're going to shoot the boats, and hopefully that six

nations will send warships to escort tankers that have no insurance and no private sector

willingness to transit a waterway that the President himself admits a defeated nation can

still threaten to some extent.

So the coalition call is not about Iran.

Iran's military is destroyed, as we said and he said.

The coalition call to help out is about what world will emerge after Iran.

If America escorts the tankers alone, the strait of Hormuz reopens under American control

and petrodollar pricing of oil will survive.

If a coalition escorts the ships, the strait will reopen under international consensus and

still the yuan for Hormuz oil proposal dies.

So the Chinese lose either way.

If nobody escorts them, the strait stays closed and China's shadow fleet will be the only

commercial vessels moving through it.

Trump's not really asking for help here.

The media puts it that Trump is asking for help to protect the strait of Hormuz.

He's asking instead, he's asking every nation to declare where their loyalties lie and

which monetary system they would like the strait to operate under when the war ends.

The warships that they send are their ballots that they vote with.

The strait is the polling station and the currency is the action they take.

So who benefits the most here?

Saudi Arabia has basically just hit the pause button.

If you think this is about a temporary dip in production, they pause production in Saudi

Arabia.

If you think this is about a temporary dip in production, you're missing the 2026 tectonic

shift that's going on.

The world is obsessed with just-in-time delivery.

The type of logistics that they use in international commerce for everything from sneakers to

car parts.

We assume the same efficiency applies to our energy security, but that's not exactly

the case.

In a wide open world, just-in-time delivery is beautiful.

You buy something on Amazon, it could come from China, but it's here in a few days.

It's on your doorstep in a few days.

In a hotly contested world, especially in a petroleum-based world, it can be fatal.

This morning, reports confirm that Saudi Aramco, which let's make no mistake, Aramco is the

Arab-American oil company because we were the ones that developed oil in Saudi Arabia,

and there's a partnership there still to this day, Saudi Aramco is aggressively shutting

in production at its primary choke points.

Twenty million barrels of daily global oil supply flow through the strait of hormones.

When that physical channel is restricted, as it is right now by a simple maritime blockade,

even the world's largest producer has no choice.

A pipe can only hold what's flowing through the pipe, and a storage tank can only hold

what will be safe in that tank.

This is Trump's iron logic, I would call it, that the mainstream media is completely ignoring,

and that doesn't surprise you.

These are talking heads.

They have no expertise in anything from oil politics to politics itself to finance, especially.

They just talk, and they talk what's read to them on the teleprompter, and what's written

for them, rather, and they don't really know what's behind what they're saying.

If you question them in private, they would tell you that they're not experts on any

of this stuff, but they speak like experts when they're on television.

You know, they're not experts, but they play experts on TV.

The global energy economy is no longer about how much do you produce, it's about can you

safely deliver it, logistically.

So Saudi Arabia has 260 billion barrels of proven reserves in the ground.

Now for reference, Venezuela has about 300 or more billion barrels in the ground.

That means nothing though if Saudi can't move it through the plumbing of the Persian Gulf.

The Gulf is the pipe.

By shutting in production, they're emitting a physical reality they don't control their

own delivery strategy.

They can't get out of there, if they can't get out of there, they can't deliver their

oil.

So we're watching the end of an era.

It's the age of secure and cheap energy guaranteed by a global policing presence that we've

been in up until now, and that age is over.

The new era is unsecure and expensive, and that's defined by the length of your physical

supply chain and the quality of the military escort that you can afford.

Well we all know who the best military escort is, don't we?

So if you can't secure the pipe from the wellhead to the refinery, you don't really own

your destiny with energy.

You only rent it, and the landlord, Donald Trump, has just issued a 24-hour notice.

Is the pause button on Saudi production temporary, or are we watching the permanent collapse

of the energy stability that built the modern world?

I suppose we're going to see, and we're going to see pretty soon, but I have my own thoughts

about it.

The Strait of Hormuz is the most important 5 miles on Earth right now, and I've been

seeing a lot of news about Card Island.

Have you seen that in the news lately?

And if you haven't heard of it yet, you're going to, because you're going to need to.

Here is the sort of common man, the average person breakdown, I'm going to give it to you,

of why I think this tiny island in the Persian Gulf is making everybody from Wall Street

to the White House a little nervous.

Let's talk about the cash register first.

Card Island handles 90% of Iran's oil exports.

It's sort of the lungs and breath of their economy.

The society crisis is if card stops working for even two weeks, Iran faces a total financial

collapse.

No money for the military, no money for food subsidies, no money for mobilizing their

forces.

An army doesn't march on an empty stomach, ladies and gentlemen, and guess what?

We just bond card.

And seizure rumor is another thing, people are wondering whether the U.S. will actually

come in and outright seize Card Island.

Now why would we do that?

To keep the oil moving and flowing so our gas prices don't hit $7.

And we're doing that while making sure the money from Card doesn't fund the Iranian

side of the war.

So it's a high stakes gamble.

And if it goes wrong, we can see a little spike at the pump.

It might get a little ugly, folks.

But if it works, it completely changes the map of the Middle East.

And it cements the U.S. control over the way oil is traded, that being with petro dollars

rather than petro doichmarks or petro yuan or any other currency that would back the

oil.

So what do you think?

Is controlling the spigot a smart move or is it a recipe for a bigger war?

I personally think it's a smart move.

And so now I'd like to take a different direction.

I'd like to recap a little bit about some things going on in our country more closer

to home.

Let's put that way.

I'd like to recap a little about the criminality of election fraud.

Oh yes, that old story of election fraud.

You know the media and the leftist Democrats keep saying, oh, you're going to bring that

up again.

That's been proven to be a conspiracy theory.

There's no election fraud, no, no, no, nothing to look at there.

Well this isn't just about the 2020 stolen election, ladies and gentlemen.

It's about the culmination of an engineered multi-year effort to overthrow Donald Trump

in the United States government itself.

All the way from the Russia probe to the Mueller investigation, the impeachments, the surveillance

of Donald Trump both before and after he became president illegally, the lies to the FISA

court to get secret permission to surveil him, the CIA and FBI, Tom Foulery and Skull

Duggery, a stolen election, mainstream media slander campaigns, the never-ending court battles

which constitute law fair, trying to tie up Trump in the courts and multiple assassination

attempts.

Let's not forget they tried to kill him a bunch of times.

They've tried to kill him a few more times than we know about in the popular media, okay?

I know that for a fact because I knew Trump's head of secret service during his first term.

We know that the 2020 election was stolen, but the bigger story here is that these foreign

tied election companies were specifically chosen to run US elections when they knew from

the start that these companies and their technologies were compromised.

The stolen 2020 election margins were so big that it literally forced and created even

more cheating, cheating on top of cheating in order to overcome Trump's margin of victory.

His margins were so big they had to cheat more.

This was not expected and that's why they got sloppy toward the end and they were just

throwing votes in.

And this is how this is going to be their downfall.

The executives at Smartmatic were also tied to George Soros's Open Society Foundation,

which is another huge red flag because Soros is known for funding color revolutions and

regime changes in multiple countries, including the US itself.

And he implies influence from globalist interests.

You know, Dominion, the voting machine company's lobbyist, was the former chief of staff

to Georgia's governor, suggesting insider deals were for adoption.

And one of Biden's transition team members was also tied to Smartmatic.

So you know, the people that are running the voting machines are also the people that

are running Georgia's governor race and Biden's transition team.

That's a cozy little relationship isn't it, ladies and gentlemen.

The inside coordination here is seemingly just right out in the open and in your face

a little too much, I think.

You know, Dominion, the voting machine company that many states use, is tied to Smartmatic,

which is the software that runs on those machines.

And it was funded in the early 2000s by Venezuelans close to dictator Hugo Chavez and it

was founded to literally fix elections.

Smartmatic has a history of rigging elections too, a terrible record, and it has ties to

Chavez's successor, Maduro, in Venezuela, you know, the guy that's sitting in a New York

jail cell right now votes are processed through these systems in Barcelona, Spain, using

foreign servers in Canada, Spain, Germany, basically everywhere, but the United States.

I even heard that there were, there were processors in Serbia of all places.

So why would any country's election results first go offshore to another country?

I mean, what happened to Chain of Command, Chain of Custody?

I mean, this is a huge red flag from the start, isn't it?

Now we're going to jump off for another break, but when we come back, I'm going to detail

a little more why election fraud is still in the news and why election fraud should matter

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We're back folks with on lease, the political news hour, and I'm Bruce Roberts in your

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I was discussing why voter fraud matters and why we have voter fraud and what the basis

for this voter fraud is.

And we were discussing the machines specifically in the software from Dominion and Smartmatic.

And this stuff's not going to go away, folks.

So we better dig it out and prosecute what the illegalities are here.

So to top it all off, I'd like to tell you this.

Did you know that five private companies handle 90% of all US election voting with very

little transparency on ownership in these companies?

So the United States can never meaningfully audit votes because the servers are proprietary

and they're located many of them abroad.

So this is the number one red flag and it's done on purpose to obscure and control election

outcomes in our country and others, by the way.

Our country is not the only one that uses Dominion and Smartmatic.

These people are very smart.

They've decided they can control who gets elected in almost every country in the world

and then control the world that way.

So this is this really entire situation.

Depends on whether we will no longer have a country or if we don't fix this now, we

won't have a country.

We will never have an opportunity again.

So we shouldn't waste our chances.

We have to stand up and fight for what's right and stand up and fight for the truth.

So how do you transform the entire world in a way that doesn't create complete chaos?

How do you reform voting systems that are controlled by wire from remote locations offshore

and shady back rooms?

I'd say that you cut off the money and make these corrupt institutions compete with institutions

that focus on transparency and accountability along with delivering hard core results.

So that's why I believe President Trump has created the board of peace to compete, head

to head with the United Nations because you know we've had problems with the United

Nations all along.

Most of the countries in the United Nations are dictatorships and Marxist governments.

And some Islamic tyranny governments as well.

So we don't play well in the sandbox with governments that want to take over the world

with their own ideology, all right?

These people are not like us and they never will be.

So how can we expect to have any agreement among members of the United Nations when they

never will agree with freedom and justice?

So how many countries now are beginning to send their money to the board of peace instead

of that black hole of fraud and money laundering at the UN on the east side of New York?

A lot.

The UN is withering on the vine, it appears.

And the UN is getting thrown slowly into the trash bin of history.

And Donald Trump has single-handedly gutted that organization.

Looks like he's gutted the world economic forum and pointed them out for their chicanery

and fraud and you know designs on taking over the world.

Sovereign countries are choosing now where to spend their taxpayers' hard earned money.

And it's going to benefit their citizens instead of a group of corrupt elites.

And NATO is also, I think, on the same trajectory.

You're starting to see protests in nations across NATO.

You know, there are some really bright rays of hope coming out of places like Hungary and

Poland and Italy.

They've had enough.

They've had enough of being overrun, okay?

And so that's the theme here, I mean redirecting the funding from corrupt institutions like

the United Nations and all these offshore sketchy NGOs to more transparent and accountable

ones can drive global change without chaos.

The UN is losing a lot of support, as I said, as countries shift over to Donald Trump's

board of peace.

And I think the UN is facing possibly a financial collapse and NATO too.

So you know, the situation is that it's all about the citizens and people are protesting

and successfully so there are marches going on all across Europe, Serbia.

That's how to march where a million people were in the streets in Belgrade and they were

declaring that Jesus Christ is their king.

And they don't tolerate any other form of worship to another god or ideology, including

the state and communism and some of these other things.

You know Yugoslavia, Serbia was part of Yugoslavia and they were under communism for a while.

So they know what it's like not to own anything.

And trust me, they weren't happy not owning anything.

Unlike what Klaus Schwab says that you own nothing and be happy, they know better.

They know better in Russia too.

They know better in Poland.

They know better in Hungary.

They know better in a lot of these countries.

So I don't know who they're trying to fool here.

But you know, owning nothing and being happy, I don't think most Americans would agree

with that either.

And now, as I was talking about election integrity, new information has just come out and just

came across my desk that questions the integrity of the 2020 election in a little bit different

way.

After the revelation that analysts inside the US intelligence community were concealing

evidence of Chinese interference from President Trump.

In other words, they didn't notify Trump that the Chinese were trying to interfere in

our elections.

They knew it and they hit it.

So there have been, there's some never reported, never before reported comments found in a

January 2021 report written by an analytic on Bugsman named Barry Zulow, that show that

intelligence analysts downplayed evidence of China's meddling because of their disdain

for Trump and a desire to undermine policies toward China that they did not support.

So they perceived that Trump was going to undermine China and they didn't support that.

And they didn't like Trump enough to sacrifice their duty and their patriotism to America to

commit subversion and hide information from the president.

That's not good folks.

So credible evidence exists that Chinese government linked cyber hackers and Chinese social

media troll farms took aim at US presidential election in 2020.

Now do you know what a troll farm is?

These are rooms and rooms of computer hackers that, well, they're not really hackers.

What they do is they go on all these, they have multiple social media accounts and there's

hundreds of people in this big room and they get scripts on things to post, right?

To make it seem like public opinion is flying in a different direction.

So they'll go on Facebook and they'll go on X and they'll go on TikTok and they'll

go on Instagram and they'll go on all these social media outlets.

And they'll make posts that will counteract the general view of the, even of the general

public.

If most of the posts on Trump are positive, they will go in and bombard the social media

with negative posts on Donald Trump to sway public opinion because when people are talking,

these aren't even people.

They're like bots, okay?

They're, they're, they're people acting according to a script at best and they are literal

robots at worst that are programmed to post these things rapidly and regularly on a 24-hour

basis.

So that's why you can never tell when you're on social media whether someone posting

is actually a someone or not or whether it's a robotic programmed computer that's programmed

to make posts with wording that perhaps the Chinese communists would rather see the Americans

read.

So it's a propaganda machine for sure.

And you know, they're trying, but, but what happened is, you know, these intelligence

analysts in, in our, in our government downplayed Chinese meddling and didn't tell Donald Trump.

So these media troll farms, social media troll farms and cyber hackers took aim at the

US presidential election in 2020 and they sought to undercut Trump during his run against

Joe Biden and later Kamala Harris.

So Wall Street apes had a post on it that came across my desk that China was interfering

with the 2020 election and the FBI did nothing to let the president know.

And even some of Trump's people in his own administration buried that information.

There were fake driver's licenses and fake ballots so that they could help Joe Biden

win.

They had ballots printed up and shipped in and held in storage in case they needed to

flood the ballot boxes last minute to push Biden over the goal line in 2020.

So what does the FBI do with that one?

FBI throws it in the garbage can.

I mean, Democrats rigged the 2020 election.

I mean, this is, this Zoolov is a long time intelligence officer and he explained in his

2021 report, he said, Chinese analysts appeared, they're China analysts, okay, in our government

appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference in our

public elections.

These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because

they tended to disagree with the administration's policies on China, the Trump administration's

policies, saying in effect, we don't want our intelligence used to support these policies.

Well, they're not, it's not their job to make that decision, okay.

So one analyst was quoted by Zoolov during an interview later that year as having

essentially said, I don't want my analysis going to the White House where that vulgarian

Trump in the White House will use it to pursue policies toward China that I personally disagree

with.

Dr. Zoolov also pointed out the differences in the way that analysts of Russia and China

examine their targets with China analysts appearing reluctant to have their analysis on China

brought forward because they tend to agree with the administration, the Trump administration.

So this review by Zoolov also showed that some analysts treated allegations of Russian

and Chinese election interference differently by differing in standards and when they wrote

their reports.

So due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors, leadership, intentions

and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the term influence

and interference and associated confidence levels were applied differently when they

were looking at China versus Russia.

When they looked at Russia, they tried to make some fake collusion between Trump and Russia

and when they looked at China, they sort of poo-pooed the information and said, now there's

nothing here to see and we'll bury it.

So this person concluded that the terms were applied inconsistently across the analytic

community and that's my point.

They were failing to explain properly their definitions and it gets down to a pretty deep

level.

I mean, it's pretty granular on this.

The revelation of China's infiltration of voter data in the 2020 election is likely

connected to fake IDs that were seized, for example, at a Chicago airport and they found

fake ballots too and software companies like Smartmatic and election machine parts like

from Dominion and a lot of this stuff, the servers around the globe were tied to China.

So that's a very concerning development and we'll see how that develops out.

But it wasn't Russian interfering in our election.

It was China and I think we're going to see that soon.

And that would explain why Trump is squeezing China through the capture of Panama and the

invasion of Iran and the control of the state of Hormuz to cut off their pipeline of

cheaply discounted oil while everybody's paying through the nose.

So I don't want to alarm people too much.

So there is a bright side to all this.

It just came across my desk that U.S. crude stockpiles, crude oil stockpiles have surged

now for the fourth consecutive week.

The buildup takes inventories to the highest levels since June of 2024 and this increases

likely to reinforce perceptions that there's an ample supply in the U.S. markets.

And though prices are significantly higher, it continues to lag the global benchmark,

which is Brent.

That's West Texas Intermediate continues to lag the global benchmark, which is Brent

sweet crude.

So U.S. oil imports rose the highest level since November 24 driven by Gulf Coast imports,

which rose to the highest level since 2020.

Flows into the U.S. are not significantly disrupted despite the conflict in Iran.

Flows from Venezuela nearly doubled on a weekly basis.

You see, there was a reason why Trump went for Venezuela first.

And they are sitting at the highest level since 2024.

And crude exports from the United States have jumped by one and a half million barrels

a day to the highest level since last September.

And that's likely due to global markets drawing on U.S. barrels as conflict in Iran, curtail's

Middle Eastern oil flows.

Oil prices are ripping higher a little bit and that's after the U.S. and Israel attacked

upstream Iranian, Iranian energy assets for the first time since the war.

Because while the U.S. struck oil export hub, Carg Island, late last week, it's limited.

They limited the attack to military targets.

So they're not taking out the oil production or transfer capabilities to taking very surgical

strikes on Carg because they don't want to totally shut it down and just wipe it all

out.

They just want to take out their military installations so that oil can continue to transfer and

flow at Carg Island.

Iran's Iranian guard, the IRGC, responded by publishing a list of Gulf energy sites in

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that have become direct and legitimate

targets following the attack on South Paris, which is the semi-official Tasnium News Agency

that has reported that.

So they say, basically, new attacks bring the attention back to the physical supply

reality of the war and curtailments in energy in the region seem to tighten every day.

But Trump has waved the Jones Act in the hopes of easing domestic prices.

And of course, geopolitical chaos is driving the price of oil more than domestic supply

and demand here in the United States.

So we may have to put up a little bit higher gasoline prices, but we've got plenty over

here and we shouldn't worry about it.

So that pretty much concludes our show, ladies and gentlemen.

I hope that this has been informative to you and I'm glad that you're listening.

And of course, this is unleashed the political news hour and I'm your host, Bruce Robertson.

And as I always say, may no weapon form against you, prosper, until next time.