Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show across the nation.

The phone number is 87793735 if you'd like to be on the program. I actually want to start with phone call from Bob because he and I are all the same wavelength here, I think. Bob, welcome.

Hi, Eric.

Thanks for taking my call.

Sure.

China and Russia are playing a long game.

They've been playing all along watching what we call science with the climate change

and watching how stupid we've been to shut down our power grids and our ability

to create our own energy while they waited realizing that the rest of the world had to come

to them. So Russia's been able to do, you know, gas overseas and oil overseas and got rich by

having these minerals to export while being able to, you know, make the money and watch what we did.

China and Russia got together. This is how I see it. China and Russia got together as allies because

the idea was, is that when Russia decided they wanted to make a move on Europe, China would make a

move on Taiwan. Problem is, Vladimir jumped the gun.

And he went into Ukraine thinking that he was in a position of power that nobody could do anything to him.

China in the meantime was like, wait a minute, they caught him off guard.

And they were like, well, you know, we can't do this as a joint venture now because you've already done this and we weren't ready. And I think what's come down to is they wanted to put us on two fronts at the same time

and it didn't happen. So that's why China, although they're stopping the, you know, stopping

and saying, well, we could invade Taiwan because we don't see them as a sovereign nation. Like you said,

they wanted to create that double front.

Yeah, you know, I think you're, I mean, you and I see this fairly similarly.

I expected the moment the Olympics was over that China was going to go on and try to grab Taiwan.

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