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Gordon, you recently said that the elements of history's next great conflict are all in place.

The only thing missing is the spark.

What do you mean by that and why now?

What we're seeing right now, Jenna, is two big aggressors, Russia and China, are threatening

neighbors.

You have Russia on pressure in Ukraine. They've got more than 85,000 troops that they've just brought to the

border of former Soviet Republic, now an independent state. And they're moving in high-performance

aircraft. So we know what happened in 2014 when China and Russia, just a next

Crimea. And then it started pressuring the Donbos, which is the eastern part of Ukraine,

which is Russian speaking. And at the same time, we have China going after Taiwan. There are

almost daily flights through Taiwan's air defense identification zone.

That's international airspace, but it is considered to be provocative to fly through someone's

aid is without actually talking to them beforehand. And that's what China is doing.

And also, China is now trying to rest Witsyn Reef from the Philippines.

That's in the South China Sea. China has swarmed its maritime militia, which are essentially

fishing trawlers. And so what the Moscow and Beijing, thinking that they can move against countries in their regions?

And you have a Biden administration which just took office.

So it's not has it's not thought through Russian policy.

It's not thought through China policy, which is yet to go through the formal review.

And of course, you know,

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