four, three, two, one. And we are live with Carl Jha, political commentator and podcaster.

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Really pertinent conversation with Trump visiting China with the backdrop of the Iran War. And I saw Carl on a

recent podcast. I'm going to paraphrase, so you can correct me if I'm wrong, but he described

the US administrators, you know, these wannabe jock characters, he actually described them as

petulant toddlers in need of a proverbial spanking.

Well, their toddlers

with very dangerous weapons, though.

They're like toddlers with guns.

That's what makes them dangerous.

So, you know, just to summarize what's happened this year then, before we get into it with you,

you know, we saw Trump have the tariffs, and then China responded by saying, okay, you know,

no rare earths for the military industrial complex.

And now we're seeing the Trump administration try and put more constraints on China over Iran, oil, etc.

I mean, Trump going into this meeting then, what do you think his attitude is going to be?

Because it doesn't seem to be coming

from a really strong position. That's correct. I think the original aim for the Trump

administration was that they're going to do the Venezuelan operation and then they're going to

kneecap Iran. Then Trump can go to Beijing and tell Xi Jinping, hey, we got your

energy partners by the balls, and you now have to give us real earth that we want it. But now

the Iran war is still dragging on. We're like, what, this is a second, third month, and there's

no resolution inside the united it

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