10 August Intel Update: Domestic Diplomacy

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for wednesday the 10th of august 2022 and as usual it is being recorded the day prior on the 9th so let's get right to it so for today this is going to be more of a quick and dirty brief i didn't really have a whole lot of time for research this week due to working on a lot of other projects so unfortunately i'm going to have to skip pretty much all of the infrastructure incidents and concerns i know that's like the main meat and potatoes of these briefings here but i haven't really had a whole lot of time to run a lot of these things to ground so it's not that there hasn't been anything that's happened it's just that it's getting a lot more difficult to figure out what is a legitimate infrastructure concern and what isn't in like an actual attack on infrastructure uh this briefing was really is really right on the cusp of my own personal goal which is to not put a brief out just for the sake of putting a brief out but we have just enough stuff to talk about that's occurred in the past few days really that's worth putting a brief out so just wanted to kind of mention that for everyone and i guess we'l bout that's occurred in the past few days really that's worth putting a brief out so just wanted to kind of mention that for everyone and i guess we'll go ahead and quickly move to suspicious fires so really only one to add this time around and this is in birmingham alabama new mount moriah baptist church uh was basically burned to the ground actually two days ago so on the 7th into the 8th of august if i remember correctly again like pretty much all of these other church fires there's really no indication of whether or not this was arson or not this one i added to the slide because out of the five or six church fires that have occurred in the past 48 hours uh this is the only one that did not specifically mention a cause so i wanted to kind of put that out there moving on to kinetic incident tracker nothing for the northeast just yet there have been a lot of things that have occurred in new york i still haven't really figured out what my own personal benchmark is for these kinds of events because quite literally there is what you might consider a domestic terror attack occurring in pretty much every city in the united states every single day so i don't know what to include as just ht consider a domestic terror attack occurring in pretty much every city in the united states every single day so i don't know what to include as just general violence now that the the bar has shifted so far uh that generalized street violence is now to the level of what we might have considered a domestic terror attack 10 years ago i really don't know where we're at with this so i'm just going to for the moment leave these leave high profile events on this on this series of slides so moving down to the southeast region really there was only one item of note and i think this is less of a domestic terror thing and more of a personal dispute and that is in arkansas we don't really hear a whole lot coming out of arkansas with regards to kinetic incidents like this but this took place in randolph county arkansas specifically at the home of the randolph county sheriff someone who apparently had a beef with the sheriff tried to attack his home with an improvised explosive slash incendiary device uh the device actually set fire to his home while the sheriff and his family were sleeping there in the middle of the night around 1 30 in the morning or so uh the sheriff did get a tip off befor hile the sheriff and his family were sleeping there in the middle of the night around 1 30 in the morning or so uh the sheriff did get a tip off before uh the the assailant actually got to his property because the person who committed the attack was a is a well-known uh felon in the area and he was wearing an ankle monitor so for those that don't know in many jurisdictions around the country uh these ankle monitoring services they're not just monitoring someone to make sure they don't leave a certain geographic area they're also monitoring where a person goes so in this case the law enforcement branch there the county sheriff either i don't know if it's internally or some kind of third party company or whatnot but anyway the the monitoring service that was monitoring this guy's anklet noticed that he was headed towards the sheriff's home so the sheriff got a phone call got an advanced warning uh things like that so just just so everyone's aware that's that's why this is kind of a unique incident because this guy obviously was caught quite quickly there's no real motive on this one obviously a firebombing is kind of a high profile thing but this looks like this was more of a persona uite quickly there's no real motive on this one obviously a firebombing is kind of a high profile thing but this looks like this was more of a personal dispute between this guy and the sheriff so i'm just i'm going to leave it on there obviously because it's a high profile event but we'll move on to the midwest specifically the east central midwestern region and really there were two incidents that have occurred both of these new incidents are kind of similar but the first one i wanted to talk about occurred in chicago illinois uh actually this was a suburb of chicago uh this occurred just a couple of days ago on the 7th of august at the uprising bakery however this was specifically targeting a drag queen brunch so this bakery uprising bakery is seems to be from like the stuff i've seen on social media an extreme leftist um bakery and uh it looks like they were hosting an event called drag queen brunch in which case there were performers that came in and do the stuff that we all kind of know they do now well people showed up and graffitied their bakery up pretty good calling them groomers and such so yeah pretty pretty standard they actually broke a few windows front door things li itied their bakery up pretty good calling them groomers and such so yeah pretty pretty standard they actually broke a few windows front door things like that um but as far as emotive and like a claimant it's probably a solid guess this was done by people that have kind of had enough of this kind of behavior we don't often see conservatives or traditionalists i guess you should say uh conducting these kinds of operations but my guess is this kind of thing will probably continue well into the future such as in the case of number seven so moving on to number seven there in kalamazoo michigan this was a planned parenthood that was attacked via arson so apparently a pro-life individual tried to set fire to a local planned parenthood in kalamazoo michigan on the 31st of july the facility wasn't damaged too much and this guy left a very long trail of evidence and so he was arrested pretty quickly but yeah i again would expect these kinds of reactionary attacks moving forward into the future moving on to the west central midwestern region only two items of note in lawrence kansas something we don't normally see too often in kansas this was again vandalism most likely by jane's revenge the y two items of note in lawrence kansas something we don't normally see too often in kansas this was again vandalism most likely by jane's revenge the victory bible church and the calvary temple assembly of god uh both in lawrence kansas both located kind of close to each other i guess both were vandalized in the classic james revenge faction so unfortunately as unfortunate as this event is it is not uncommon whatsoever at this point thus even talking about in the first place i guess uh so i guess we'll move on to the southwestern region again i haven't really found any number of kinetic events that have occurred within the last 90 days with regards to the southwest i think it's due to population density and maybe perhaps my own benchmark and search parameters i'm sure stuff has occurred i just haven't found it we'll keep an eye out and i'll make sure to dig a little bit deeper next time so moving on to the western region again only one significant item of note but just to mention uh the one item of note that i thought was very interesting number seven there in los angeles california an ied attack occurred at a convenience store by unknown assailants so this is a very strange one so ting number seven there in los angeles california an ied attack occurred at a convenience store by unknown assailants so this is a very strange one so that's why i wanted to mention it so some guy entered a small convenience store with a backpack set the backpack down on the ground and ran off the backpack then ignited slash partially exploded uh this caused a fire in the store obviously but it didn't seem to do much damage otherwise i didn't see too many windows knocked out or anything like that nothing is known about the device itself as usual literally all we have to go on are witness accounts and the completely ignorant local news media so i'm not sure if this counts as a true ied attack but yeah i did want to mention it so just based on how weird it is you don't normally see this kind of thing but i guess in los angeles anything goes these days and moving on to the meat of the matter for this time which is significant governmental actions first up is the ups fiasco so right now i don't really have a lot of new details that i can talk about uh just yet still kind of working through the the process to figure out what is actually uh going down with that but um maybe i'll have som talk about uh just yet still kind of working through the the process to figure out what is actually uh going down with that but um maybe i'll have some more information next time of course as you might expect a lot of people are kind of you know anxious to figure out what's going on with this ups stuff is ups banning or trying to seize packages are they going after individual consumers uh the only thing that i can say at the moment right now just from you know my basic analysis is that it's more complicated than you think but this again does not set a great precedent moving forward with regards to shipping and online firearms dealers or firearms parts dealers things like that so when i have some more information i will bring it but for right now i just wanted to remind everyone that this is still going on and did not forget about it because as we all know once something gets out of the 24-hour news cycle we tend to forget about it and the ups potentially cracking down on firearms parts distributors is kind of a big freaking deal so i don't want to let this one slip into the abyss of you know last week right so we'll just keep that one on the slide for now up next is the fbi documen don't want to let this one slip into the abyss of you know last week right so we'll just keep that one on the slide for now up next is the fbi document leak which is interesting i'm sure everyone on the planet has heard about it by now to me i am i don't want to be condescending but to me this is not really exciting news because we've already kind of seen this much of what was leaked in the fbi's uh domestic terror brief right much of what was briefed in that document has already been circulating throughout law enforcement communities for gosh at least over a year now we remember the dod's extremism stand down most of what was in the fbi paper that was leaked was also in that saying that anyone who is a fan of american history anyone who has a betsy ross flag is an extremist uh that's none of that's new so i don't know why the sudden outrage over this uh other than you know just i guess people maybe not keeping up to date with what the federal government has been doing i don't know again i'm trying not to be super condescending but when i saw this it was like okay you know okay we now have it formalized that the fbi has been doing this i mean we formalized this last year i thought en i saw this it was like okay you know okay we now have it formalized that the fbi has been doing this i mean we formalized this last year i thought so anyway uh yeah the fbi document leak happened uh and all of that being said the the the most interesting thing to me which i've seen a few people online mention as well is that the the groups that were not listed on the fbi's extremism brief right so the groups that were not mentioned were any kind of imagery or symbology tied to antifa or blm which again is to be expected because the fbi is well they're they're what they are we all know what they are now uh but what was also interesting to me is that the patriot front was not listed so the patriot front is all about symbols they're all about nice uniforms and interesting little you know formations and things like that but the patriot front was not listed very interesting i don't quite know what that means just yet and i'm not trying to imply that the patriot front is entirely the fbi but i think that there's probably a good portion of the patriot front who is either willingly or unwillingly serving the fbi in some capacity either with informants or just being stupid either way i'm f the patriot front who is either willingly or unwillingly serving the fbi in some capacity either with informants or just being stupid either way i'm not entirely certain but all the memes going around about the the patriot front are at least kind of entertaining and i just don't have enough information to say what that group is either way maybe we'll do a deep dive on on that group in the future but for now i think that's really all that kind of i have on that up next is the irs so as many people are finding out now after the fact congress just passed a bill to to more than double the size of the irs this will mean that the irs when this becomes law which it most certainly will this will mean that the irs will have more employees than the fbi the pentagon and customs and border protection so that's very interesting to me right the irs is specifically going to be targeting middle class taxpayers which is not just something that conservative pundits have been kind of bringing out right this is actually what their history is less than nine percent of people making over five hundred thousand dollars are to be audited right because that's what they did last year so this bill also incr nine percent of people making over five hundred thousand dollars are to be audited right because that's what they did last year so this bill also increases the irs's budget by over six times at least by my math uh from reading the bill this is a they're going to increase their budget by 600 percent from just last year which it was already increased uh for last year so yeah um the democrats and republicans in congress who supported this bill claim that the bill will not increase audits on people who earn less than 400 000 a year uh and i'm just going to say this is an outright lie this is the most false thing i have heard today because last year 51 of every single human being audited by the irs made less than 75 000 last year over half of who the irs targets is the middle class so what's the deal here 4.8 percent of all the audits irs did were on people making over 10 million dollars so less than five percent are going to be millionaires right and the interesting part is that in this bill 57 of this new budgetary increase has already directly been allocated to targeting americans so the irs has targeted the middle class uh lower classes always always always which is something that i irectly been allocated to targeting americans so the irs has targeted the middle class uh lower classes always always always which is something that i cannot shout loud enough to anyone who will listen i guess but oh well i've contained my rage on the irs for as long as possible so let's move on to something else before i say something that will get me in trouble uh like talking about the raid that occurred in florida so i am sure that by now uh everyone has realized what has happened last night as i'm making this brief right now donald trump's compound down at mar-a-lago in palm beach florida was raided by the fbi last night it is unclear as to what the fbi was doing uh however there have been several rumors that have been floating around uh i will that the main rumor that's been floating around is that the fbi has been uh trying to investigate slash c's documents related to the donald trump's potential or alleged removal of documents from the white house uh following uh his uh you know tenure in office right so they're saying the fbi is trying to say that donald trump illegally took documents and is improperly storing classified material so i don't know if that's going to hold wa i is trying to say that donald trump illegally took documents and is improperly storing classified material so i don't know if that's going to hold water because here's the interesting thing that a lot of people might not understand about classified information is that the president of the united states is an original classification authority this means that the president of the united states has the ability to say they have the ability to change the classification level of anything so they can declassify whatever they want so i'm not entirely sure how the fbi is going to try to justify this but really again this just occurred this just happened last night so i haven't really had time to think about it and as usual this points to this brief being more haphazard than normal but i think that one of the things we need to consider is the potential for the fbi to use this as an intelligence collection opportunity obviously obviously obviously people were going to flock to mar-a-lago once they realized the fbi had raided it donald trump has a lot of supporters right either passively or very very actively and you have to admit that his his people will most certainly turn up and they did t a lot of supporters right either passively or very very actively and you have to admit that his his people will most certainly turn up and they did they immediately flocked to mar-a-lago me just looking at the tweets of that and the the video of that uh last night my first thought was okay where's the fbi surveillance van collecting intelligence on their cell phones uh because you've got live streamers showing up to mar-a-lago like dude the fbi is there collecting intelligence on you so i think that they're going to get a lot more intelligence on this from the actual people who showed up rather than donald trump himself and the same thing applies online the we we know for a fact that one of the fbi's main tricks is to see who is outraged about something they did online so someone gets online they get really angry they say something they shouldn't online and that stays online forever yeah i think that's some i think that's probably the biggest lesson the average american can can take from this in this incident so far again this is not an unexpected event we were expecting donald trump to not just be raided but most likely arrested at some point they're going to have to whatever one an unexpected event we were expecting donald trump to not just be raided but most likely arrested at some point they're going to have to whatever one's feelings are about donald trump i think are kind of irrelevant at this point with regards to this specific kind of raid and for whatever reason i feel the need to caveat once again that i'm personally no fan of donald trump either uh for for many different reasons um but the the fact of the matter is is that this is a president of the united states who has been raided his personal residence has been raided by the fbi now when i look at that i see a lot of different things for one i wonder okay was the secret service in on this as well because donald trump still writes secret service protection so that the secret service agents on his personal detail cooperate with the fbi i also question whether or not donald trump himself got the tip off somehow my guess is he probably did the the man was president of the united states he's got intelligence collection networks working for him no matter where he goes he's got friends in very high places right so i find it very hard to believe that he would not have been prepared for this raid and t er where he goes he's got friends in very high places right so i find it very hard to believe that he would not have been prepared for this raid and that shows the naivety of the fbi that conducted the raid it's not just a political move to target the president united states but but look like even andrew cuomo has figured out that this was going to hurt the liberals more than it's going to help them because now you just made the man a martyr even you know even if not literally you've made him a figurative martyr in the political game and even andrew cuomo has taken to twitter to mention that this is going to decrease the legitimacy of the other extreme leftist stuff they're doing which in fact it will my guess is that donald trump if he has any brain cells left would never never never keep anything incriminating at his house like that's the most like junior level stuff right so the fbi raiding his residence did they actually seriously think they were gonna find anything maybe they did i don't know either way a lot of ecos got involved of a very important decision-making process and that's dangerous because as we're getting ready to as i'll talk about when we get to international is of a very important decision-making process and that's dangerous because as we're getting ready to as i'll talk about when we get to international issues i think that incompetence and and egotistical thinking is is going to get a lot of people in trouble inside the federal regime at this point when it comes to thinking about how government works i'm trying not to take a side with regards to how i know internal federal agencies work i'm trying to see things as objectively as possible and i tell you that like look raiding the home of a former president is not good you're talking about things like invoking executive privilege privilege concerns you're talking about watergate level stuff like matt you're it's it's a huge deal and as if these concerns were not strong enough uh we're finding out this morning that the federal magistrate judge which authorized the fbi raid into donald trump's personal residence has a history this guy is the same guy who left the u.s attorney's office about 10 years ago or so to represent legally employees of jeffrey epstein so yeah this is quite literally something that even i don't think even hollywood could come up with uh the levels of corruption that jeffrey epstein so yeah this is quite literally something that even i don't think even hollywood could come up with uh the levels of corruption that we're seeing here which again is not surprising but i think that the larger lesson for all of us here is that we should most certainly expect more political persecution by federal agents i mean if they're going to raid donald trump's house and not be afraid of what's going to happen to them then what do you think they'll do to you and me so i think that's probably something that we should be mindful of but to bring my sort of disorganized rambling to a close uh i think that this event is really just for most people going to be a an indicator of just how serious the situation is like i mentioned if they're going to raid donald trump's house what are they going to do to you i think that for most people in the country this is really just going to be a solidification of how serious the situation is i think this event is going to wake up a lot of people to what's going on this is not just some conservative pundit right saying uh the fbi did this the fbi is doing that no this this is this is real here uh the the president of the united stat e conservative pundit right saying uh the fbi did this the fbi is doing that no this this is this is real here uh the the president of the united states the former president united states uh had his home raided by the current administration's fbi you know that that is really hard to deny and the fact that that even occurred i don't i don't care what the raid was about right the fact that that occurred is is pretty shocking um i can guarantee you that this is an event that is going to live in infamy for a very very long time and i think that this is not going to be the last one for whatever reason the current regime has decided to target donald trump in any way possible using any resources possible again regardless of whatever your feelings are about the man i think that it's very interesting to to see that the biden regime is so terrified of him that they're willing to risk all of the the the the fallout from raiding his opponents home uh they're willing to risk that fallout simply because of how scared they are of him i don't know if that is a i don't know if that fear is misplaced or not uh but in any case it's what's happening and i would expect it to continue quite seriously at that is a i don't know if that fear is misplaced or not uh but in any case it's what's happening and i would expect it to continue quite seriously at first i thought when this stuff kicked off i thought you know what they're probably going to just go after his chief his chief people right his leadership his chiefs of staff things like that but no um we're here now they've raided donald trump's house so there's no coming back from that and i think that the only way forward for the biden regime is to continue on forward and double down because that's what they've been doing with quite literally every single event they have done every single thing they've done so far so so yeah i'll i'll shut up talking about that for now and we'll kind of see what the fallout from this is i'm not really going to pay attention to what's going on in congress with regards to congressional republicans because i think it's going to be interesting to see which republicans do not denounce this raid that's going to be interesting but i think that really any actions that congressional republicans are going to take is mostly going to be political theater and i don't think it's going to be any kind of effectiv tions that congressional republicans are going to take is mostly going to be political theater and i don't think it's going to be any kind of effective you know whatsoever so anyway i guess we'll have to see what happens so let's go ahead and move on to international issues so again this brief is quite haphazard this time i haven't really had time to talk about sri lanka or india just yet but it looks like the famine that is underway in sri lanka uh has started to either affect india or it's more of a correlation not a causation type thing basically india is having some trouble with rice so the main manufacturer distributor for rice in india has expressed that they're it's kind of confusing i've seen headlines either way they've said that either they're having trouble or they're going to have trouble in the near future again i haven't dug into this too much and probably by the time that we figure things out it's going to be too late anyway but yeah food shortages are certainly uh on the menu or or would it be off the menu either way for the world for this winter so that's going to be something to follow i will let you know again rice is not a huge dietary thing for the united state or the world for this winter so that's going to be something to follow i will let you know again rice is not a huge dietary thing for the united states we don't really consume that much rice as part of our diet and we have a lot of corn which is in the same kind of nutritional class i guess you'd call it it's a staple good right most people in the united states have corn as a significant part of their diet however a rice shortage is going to affect southeast asia like you would not believe because most people in southeast asia you know shocker eat a lot of rice so india most of india's exports go to the rest of southeast asia so that's going to be the market that's going to be hit the most with this i would guess but i would also expect you know rice shortages to kind of pop up in random places as is typical by now moving on to russia this is a very interesting one and something that i would keep an eye on in the future if you're interested in uh foreign defense stuff and that is that the fsb has been arresting scientists uh throughout many of their programs over the past few uh weeks actually so the latest guy to be arrested is alexander shiployok who was arrested by the fsb on ch t many of their programs over the past few uh weeks actually so the latest guy to be arrested is alexander shiployok who was arrested by the fsb on charges of treason so they're not messing around uh he was the director of the institute of theoretical and applied mechanics of the siberian branch of the russian academy of sciences what a job title this entity the the institute has been leading russia's efforts to produce and improve their hypersonic missiles which they have announced are supposed to be implemented uh the newest hypersonic missiles they have uh they're supposed to be implemented on their naval vessels or deploy on the naval vessels sometime this fall yeah very interesting this is the third scientist that has been arrested in the past month from the same exact project area the institute's lead researcher and another researcher in the laser physics department have also been arrested again on charges of treason so when i look at this i think oh there's some international espionage going on either these guys were working for the cia and spying for the united states or maybe even china who knows my guess is that russia has have found out about it and they're cracking down r the cia and spying for the united states or maybe even china who knows my guess is that russia has have found out about it and they're cracking down on some kind of spy network they've got going on in their technology divisions so again this is not uncommon the united states has people leaking secrets to china basically daily at this point but yeah russia also has the same problems so i would be very interested to see what their hypersonic missile program looks like and whether or not these hypersonic missiles actually work and finally let's talk about taiwan for just a second as many of you have already seen many people are kind of freaking out over the recent escalations of tensions between taiwan china and the us nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan to check on her insider trading investments increased tension sharply for a couple of days but for the most part we haven't really seen anything beyond posturing and saber rattling many volumes can and have been filled by discussing the highly complicated and intricate balance of diplomacy in southeast asia so right now let me just take a couple of minutes and alleviate some concerns really really quickly as for me i'm not really worried in southeast asia so right now let me just take a couple of minutes and alleviate some concerns really really quickly as for me i'm not really worried about china right now i'm not really super concerned about world war iii breaking out with china over the next few weeks or months uh no matter how much some people on the planet seem to want that uh my my own personal opinion is that china they're going through a lot of domestic concerns right now that would make war not really an option at the moment ukraine has shown that a major superpower the former soviet union can't even reoccupy one of their former republics in the exact same terrain that their military their entire military was built for china you know looking at the mountainous hellscape of taiwan's terrain and the fact that they're an island uh would pretty much expend the entirety of their military invading taiwan or at least enough to where they're going to be in some serious trouble if they try to go for taiwan plus we we may be outraged at the hundreds of billions of dollars of you know our tax money that's been sent to ukraine but but we must remember that our recent funding of ukraine does not hold a candle to the mo ars of you know our tax money that's been sent to ukraine but but we must remember that our recent funding of ukraine does not hold a candle to the mountains of funding that we have given to taiwan over the past few decades again i'm certainly no southeast asia expert i'm reading up on the region i'm trying to get smart on that but at the moment i will 100 say that every day that goes by i distrust military strategy analysts more and more uh the china boogie man is big business both for the defense industry and for the private sector as well very rarely will defense blogs talk about china's problems which is important to understanding the whole picture and china's problems are numerous like their starving military their almost complete lack of any adequate electrical grid they're failing financial structures they're laughably substandard naval vessels their failing banks the massive drought and food shortages throughout the nation and the hydroelectric dam that is upstream of 15 of the entire world's manufacturing capability the same dam that has been forming 10 meter long cracks in it since 2003. the us defense industry is certainly drooling over the opportunity to do everything t dam that has been forming 10 meter long cracks in it since 2003. the us defense industry is certainly drooling over the opportunity to do everything they can to start localized conflicts uh the powers that be would be very happy to start some of those small wars that have been the standard for a while but they also don't understand that big wars as in thermonuclear wars won't do too much to pad their wallets and will actually make their bank accounts kind of irrelevant if they were to occur so the ultra short bottom line is expect lots of saber rattling by china and the united states china will seek to maintain their dominance over southeast asia and the united states will seek to keep poking the dragon as a way to increase the potential for another series of forever wars which will benefit the us defense industry however with inexperienced and incompetent people conducting diplomacy in southeast asia we average citizens have to be mindful of these sheer stupid mistakes that could be made with potentially irreversible results we can't expect and plan for corruption but we cannot plan for stupid mistakes are always what make me nervous and the current us regime is most certainly pla expect and plan for corruption but we cannot plan for stupid mistakes are always what make me nervous and the current us regime is most certainly playing with fire with their flippant egotistical attitude towards issues bigger than themselves so i don't want to dismiss china as completely not a threat they most certainly are and china's national aspirations are quite clear they you know for lack of a better term have expressed they want world domination or at least domination in southeast asia and i think that that's a little uh a little concerning for everyone even if china is not able to to meet a lot of those goals so now on the other hand the united states gave putin permission to reinvade ukraine we all remember maybe some of us remember the small minor incursion uh scandal from the early opening days of the the reigniting of the ukrainian war and that's something that china has noticed too so my guess is that if china were to somehow get the gumption to invade taiwan the u.s response would probably be the same if not much less than the situation in ukraine the reason for us politicians funding ukraine with so much of our tax money and just printing printing billions hundreds than the situation in ukraine the reason for us politicians funding ukraine with so much of our tax money and just printing printing billions hundreds of billions of dollars is mostly due to corruption and not defense but with taiwan the roles are reversed a bit sort of half of our politicians are quite literally in bed with chinese agents daily so i don't think the dynamic is going to be quite the same with the china taiwan conflict as we have seen in ukraine either way the u.s can do all the poking it wants but at the end of the day china is going to have to be the one to launch the invasion and i don't know if they are militarily capable of doing so at the moment but again stupid exists on both sides of the aisle and china's leadership might think they have a chance at taking taiwan right now maybe they think they're pushed up against the wall with their failing economy and they have to do something although i'm not really sure what they would get from taking taiwan other than national prestige and the potential for further invasions down the line but again i think this is a pretty remote possibility considering the domestic issues china is going through right now of course i co ns down the line but again i think this is a pretty remote possibility considering the domestic issues china is going through right now of course i could be wrong and probably am but out of all the issues we're dealing with in the united states right now china is pretty close to the bottom of my list of concerns so it's already kind of disappointing anyone out there expecting an in-depth analysis of the situation with china in years past i know myself would have been fascinated with stuff like this but these days i'm just having a really hard time caring about the intricate details of diplomacy in southeast asia but again we'll keep an eye out and if anything squirrely starts going on we'll we'll do what we can to keep everybody informed as to what's going on so that's pretty much all i have for today again thank you all for watching uh sorry this is more of a haphazard one than normal but that's the case when things seem to happen very very quickly it's almost like every single day we find out of some milestone groundbreaking event that's never occurred before in history so again it's not it's not easy to kind of keep up with these kinds of things but that's okay we'll do the best hat's never occurred before in history so again it's not it's not easy to kind of keep up with these kinds of things but that's okay we'll do the best we can and thank you again to all of those who support us on patreon and nutrient you guys have really helped us out a lot and you're continuing to help us make these briefs a possibility well into the future so thank you so much for that and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade