It's May 27th, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

The brief you're about to hear is in the same spirit of the actual President's Daily Brief,

which is a top secret summary of the most critical events in the past 24 hours, all delivered

to the President each day by the nation spy masters.

And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your special brief.

This morning we're going to talk about escalation and the odds of World War III all sparked

by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Because whether you realize it or not, we are at the closest point that we've been to

a global war than at any other time in recent history.

So I'm going to make the case to you that that's true and what's likely to come next.

During the warning issued just yesterday from a US general that we may have to fight

the Russians ourselves.

All that plus your emails up next on this special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

If you're wondering how serious things are in Ukraine this morning, I want you to listen

to this.

Yesterday at a US Senate hearing, there was an American general who slated to become NATO's

next commander and he said that Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports that might

require us, the US military, to intervene directly.

Now those are really big words because what he's talking about is the direct fight between

Russia and the United States, both nuclear armed and neither ready to back down.

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