Well, howdy there internet people, let's Bowe again and welcome to the roads with Bowe.

Today is December 10th, 2023 and this is episode 17 of the roads not taken, which is a weekly series where we go

through the previous week's events covering developments that were

under-reported, unreported, or will serve as context later or things that I just happen to find

interesting.

And then at the end we take some questions from y'all.

Okay, so starting off. some questions from y'all.

Okay, so starting off in the world of foreign policy,

a Putin ally said on Russian state TV, quote, we want the world, preferably all of it, and that's

where we're going.

Right now the Russian Empire is growing back. We're coming back. The Baltics will be next.

They say they're ready for a war with Russia. How long will that take? About 15 minutes.

Checking my notes here to remind everybody that we're like way into their last two week operation.

This is undoubtedly going to be used a lot

to show that there are people very close to Putin who want more than Ukraine.

And this will probably be used to showcase how important it is for NATO to continue to support Ukraine in its endeavors.

Okay. Moody's is warning that it may downgrade China's credit rating outlook.

That's, uh, that is not really surprising.

We've talked about how the Chinese economy is not falling like a lot of the more sensationalist outlets are putting it but they're it's stumbling it's

having issues right now they will probably be pretty short-lived

okay let's see the Huthies are signaling that they will target all ships bound for Israel.

That's a pretty big escalation and that might be something that

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