Good evening. I begin the show with the Rules of Engagement Inside Gaza City, a conversation

with Colonel Jeff McCawson in United States Army retired CBS News about urban fighting

and the rules of engagement in urban fighting. The IDF is moving very methodically through

the grid system of the north of Gaza, the towers, the warrants, the concrete buildings,

much of it collapse now where Hamas was in preparation for the IDF offensive. However,

now the challenge is the tunnels underneath your feet and also were operating in conditions

that are available to the gorillas to pop up above you and fire down on you from the

towers. Jeff reminds all of us that Fallujah where he walked right after the Marines cleared

it. Well, thought they cleared it. Fallujah had a double X outside each doorway, meaning

it was checked twice. He must check twice because the enemy pops up behind you in urban

settings. I also speak to my colleague Simon Constable in the South of France, an article

that he's posted with Kiplingers Retirement Report about stockstone vested in now given

the condition of the global world's recovery from the pandemic, but still two wars. Japan,

which has been in a bear market since 1989, looking attractive especially Honda and Toyota

and Car Mix cars Tokyo Electron. He also recommends defense stocks because everyone is talking

of re-arming and rebuilding the base of the arsenal of democracy and energy stocks,

especially, and this is no surprise, Exxon Mobile, which now has the largest discovery

in the last generation. Off of Guiana and South America, 11 billion barrels or more confirmed

light-sweet crude. And then a conversation with Michael Bernstom of the Hoover Institution

about the troubles with the rubel, the Russian economy under severe sanctions. The rubel

is very weak. Nobody wants it. And Russia, the central bank, the Kremlin, are trying to

maintain it under $100 per dollar. They do this with various tricks that Michael Bernstom

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