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Hey team welcome to the buck sexton show on this episode Jack Pussobick Jack Pussobick how do we even describe the man known and beloved by so many as Poso he is a senior editor at Univance.com a veteran Navy Intel officer.

A man who loves his Catholicism and his Polishness and also podcast host and general man about town Mr. Mr Psoba good to have you sir.

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Yes, I am your humble merchant. Wow is he's doing a pillow Poso right now look at this pillow Poso I know I know I know the moves I know all the moves Poso you know what's the news that I learned from you.

You know what else knows the moves these days chairman she and Putin they're budding up Russia China this if we were trying to create in a lab.

The worst national security scenario over the long term for the US it feels to me like a russia china alliance a real one not just sort of a general economic go we're going to be buddies a real one is pretty scary what do you think.

Well so when you look at it in terms of just just basic grand strategy real politic you have to understand that in the world as currently constituted there are essentially three great powers there's China Russia and the United States now in in the cold war it was China China the Soviet Union and the United States and this is what.

And that it was the cold war cold war cold war China goes communist in 1949 then in the nineteen seventies there's all these secret meetings the secret travels of Kissinger and then of course the very public travel of Nixon to China that breaks up Russia China that brings China into the US's orbit and that sets the stage for the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union as you know the Austrians used to say in a world of three B2.

And so what we've done essentially is the opposite of that we've decided to throw all that grand strategy out the window we've decided to throw common sense out of the window and decide that in a world of three great powers that we were going to drive both of them into each other's arms at the same time because you when you consider it from.

From the standpoint of any US diplomat your goal should always be to try to isolate Russia and then isolate China so that they specifically do not ever do what just happened this week.

What do you think about the Biden administration policy in Ukraine up to this point.

Well, so I think what they've done essentially and not just in Ukraine but also in their this idea of their interactions with Russia remember complete refusal of negotiations complete refusal to have one-on-one talks it seems like they're not even phone calls going on between between the Kremlin and the White House right now think of Reagan right Reagan was be meeting with Soviet leaders even during the invasion of Afghanistan.

So he always kept that door open and had this sort of two track policy where okay you can point out that that the United States was certainly funding elements of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan but also he was still meeting with Soviet leaders he was still opening up this diplomatic side.

Now we've decided to completely issue any diplomatic negotiations whatsoever you've got people that are just absolute radicals like Victorian New England and Tony Blinken who just does whatever she says me he's basically her clerk at the end of the day and who say that Russia has to give back Crimea and the Donbass and the Kremlin needs to be reduced to ash and all of the Putin has to step down and all this stuff this I'm sorry she's not going to happen is literally just not going to happen.

They've completely decided to forget about having any strategy other than simply thinking that it's the night it's 1992 again and the United States can just dominate the world and tell everybody what they want like we did in the Gulf War and we did during this you know packs Americana the end of history that Fukuyama told us about the peace dividend and unfortunately we're not there anymore and you can talk about the millions of reasons why the rise of China the relative decrease in American influence etc the

over abundance of US power trying to fill the world with NATO like our adventures in Iraq Afghanistan Libya Syria the list goes on but essentially the rest of the world has gotten to the point where they're kind of sick of it and they're kind of sick of us and they realize that what China has offered now

which China's offering along with bricks and keep mind it India and Brazil are also going along with this they're quietly right now but they're also going south Africa as well they don't really have a choice.

That Russia and China are saying we're offering an alternate to the western system not just the American system but the western system writ large that includes Europe the world economic forum etc where they say we don't care what your your values are we don't care if you're dictators we don't care who you execute on a regular basis we just want access to the world.

We just want access to resources we want your basing rights we want portage we want to be able to sell our products in your country and we want to make sure that all your rare earth minerals are coming to us and you look the Saudis in the Iranians guess what the Sunni and the shea buck have just signed a deal at the behest of Beijing the Turks and the Syrians are signing a deal now for the first time in something like eight year probably a decade actually 10 years where we've seen this you know essentially Erdogan wanted to sign out of there now there are a lot of people are going to be able to do this.

Now they're now they're signing a deal Israel is just kind of forgotten about Israel the Abraham Accords is completely gone the the Yemenis and the who these it looks like that's actually starting to quiet down.

The Egyptians are getting involved we're hearing all throw at Africa they're meeting with with China and Russia and even in South America as well so we've seen this with with over to Mexico and also in Brazil with their new leader so with Lula and so the United States really has a lot of people.

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