Hey everybody and welcome back to Cash's Corner.

Jan and I are going to kick off season four from New York City at Epoch Times headquarters,

and I could not be happier to be back with everybody.

Well, Cash, we've been away for a little while and frankly there is a lot to talk about.

I mean, there's even just the other night, Durham has a new filing, I think in the Dyshenko case, we need to talk about that, but let's leave that for the end.

Okay. The thing that's been really concerning me over the last month

as we have the Russia-Ukraine war playing out in front of our eyes

is this emergence really of a tighter Russia, China,

and some other players as well block.

And so why don't we start with that?

What I think is happening, and we'll talk through it here,

is that Russia is aligning itself with more adversaries of America, for instance, Iran.

And obviously we know about China and Xi Jinping's pact with Putin to basically

combine efforts to take on America and decrease America's sort of superiority in the world,

at least in the national security front. Russia, from their perspective, Putin is thinking,

how do I continue that trend?

How do I continue to strengthen that effort?

And the way he does it is he makes more allies, he, Putin and Russia,

with people who are adversarial to the United States, such as Iran.

And an extension beyond that is if Russia is successful in making allies with our actual

allies or getting an Iran to make allies with our actual allies that what I mean by that is

folks that were traditionally American partners the Saudis the Emirates and Middle Eastern countries, and we can walk through some of that.

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