Good evening. The show begins tonight in Ukraine where the maximalist positions are dug in.

The Russians want Novorossi, including Odessa Oblast. The Ukrainians want Russians out of the Crimea of Novarossia of the sovereign borders.

No movement whatsoever. Both sides dug in.

Russia is playing a waiting game, I'm told, building up their armament, their

conscripts?

For what?

Open question.

Spoke to Anatold Leaven about Kief being outgunned until the U.S. complies with President Biden's

request for additional arms and weapons and ammunition for Ukraine. They will crack unless reinforced.

Scholar report takes me to China where the Chinese are turning out young engineers who are entirely gifted.

However, they do not have the tools they need to make the high-end chips. Why?

There's embargo. There's tariffs. There's embargo, tariffs, there's refusal, there's a general understanding that if you sell the Chinese the shipmaking equipment, anything like that can build the fabs, that would be European equipment

makers, or the fabs themselves or high-end chips, they will reverse engineer it and steel. Also China's in a competition that is also that

is hostile to the region. Therefore the engineers in the US, EU, Japan and Taiwan

have better tools, better resources, and the Taiwanese are master

fab runners and balancers.

On to Hotel Mars, we talk about the dueling space launches by North Korea and South Korea,

both saying they're launching spy satellites, a new kind of space race is on between the two parts of the Korea Peninsula.

Lebanon, we talk of Beirut, is a refuge for fleeing Hamas.

Egypt, we talk of Cairo, where they close the tunnels from Hamas to Sinai?

Iran, will it attack?

It's claiming it's going to attack.

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