Well, holy crap folks of Vladimir Putin is now stepping up the stakes again discussing staging strategic nuclear weapons in Belarus's breaking news. You're gonna need a lot more than life insurance, 12 free stocks and a coupon that's linked down below. After this one is said and done, let's get started. Look, it was just last week that Xi Jinping visited with Putin.

They talked about how they were going to create a change that the world has not seen in over a hundred years. We didn't think that a week later we would hear about nuclear weapons being moved into Belarus which PS is right on the border of Poland which is part of NATO and remember, an attack on one is an attack on all. But let's get into the details of this. So this uh, carefully orchestrated statement with Putin and and Z took place as uh as they shook hands in front of Uh cameras and media spectacle and a lot of people were speculating over.

okay, well well did did Putin end up negotiating with XI Jin's ping Are we going to see a de-escalation Well, guess what we got? We got an Escalade not a de-escalation now. Putin Wants to move nuclear weapons strategic tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus This is a country that, uh, per treaties nonproliferation treaties does not currently have nuclear weapons and this comes after they've deployed or after Russia has deployed their naval fleet in the Arctic with nuclear weapons. This is something that has not happened since the 1970s. Cold War So think about this first.

we get nuclear weapons. Moved on to ships in the Arctic. Now we're hearing we're moving nuclear weapons to Belarus, which again is on the border of Poland Now, uh, this? uh, this idea of people downplaying this war between Russia and Ukraine as uh, just a territorial dispute Mr Ron DeSantis is really starting to look incredibly risky. And potentially Reckless This situation is escalating more than de-escalating especially as Russia is seeking to recruit group more than 400 000 troops to prepare for Ukraine's or to counter Ukraine's spring offensive.

And sadly, this is eerily similar to the disaster of the Cuban Missile Crisis I'll give you a quick reminder on this and let's talk some more details here about what's actually going on in Belarus. So quick. Background: The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962. it was a 35-day confrontation between Guess Whom Russia and the United States.

The then Soviet Republic Cuba is just 90 miles away from Florida and the confrontation arose out of the U.S government making two big moves. Number one, the U.S government installed Jupiter nuclear missiles which are medium-range ballistic missiles highly accurate for 1960s technology designed to strike China in the Soviet Union in Italy and Turkey that is kind of near where they're designed to go. and now it's kind of like we're getting a revisit of that some 61 years later. but now Russia Basically doing it to us.

On top of that, Then the U.S government attempted to actually invade Cuba via the Uh famously failed Bay of Pigs Invasion on the south coast of Cuba the attack. By the way, the Bay of Pigs 1500 Special Forces Some people think it was a small attack 1500 special forces were involved in that 30 planes, B-26 bombers, ships, tanks. but it was a spectacularly failed attempt at overthrowing the then dictator Fidel Castro And what did it end up doing? well? It ended up galvanizing support for Fidel Castro and he ended up becoming a national hero in Cuba And guess what? U.S escalations with missiles and the Special Operation ended up leading to well, this Cuban Missile Crisis were then Khrushchev decided to partner with Castro and what did they do? They decided to install Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba then Grusha. Well, I mean it's worth noting that now you know.

Now we know we have history on our side. We know what history and what happened. We know that Khrushchev was later the same person who fortunately helped negotiate with the U.S to reduce Cold War tensions. Cooler heads ended up prevailing.

but we narrowly escaped nuclear war once before. and now instead of Khrushchev with Poten and today's provocations In Fairness are coming from both sides. It's not great. You're getting both sides provoking nuclear war.

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Anyway, now today's provocations are uh, coming in from Uh, both are coming basically uh, from both sides, right? We know this already. Russia is armed and supplied by Iran China Uh, China's already been uh, supplying uh, lethal Weaponry uh to Russia for many months now. They just recently came out and admitted that uh, they're also covertly being supplied by Uh Kazakhstan and turkey. Uh.

And then on the other side, of course, we've got the United States, Ukraine and NATO. Continuing to ramp up tensions rather than de-escalate, the United States, for example, has contributed twice as much as the European Union and supplies weapons in direct Aid to Ukraine over twice that of the European Union and NATO. That's crazy. That's why many people are saying this is basically a proxy war between the United States and China.

It's essentially our opportunity to weaken Russia without risking American lives or what people are saying. Uh, times are very different today though than they were back then and it's worth considering those and I hate using that phrase. This time is different, but this time is different. Okay, and it's in a bad way.

Uh, back then the United States had 5 000 nuclear warheads, Russia had just 300. Well, guess what today Russia and the United States together have 90 of the world's nuclear warheads and guess how those numbers break up? Well, Russia has 5977 to our 5428. They have more nuclear warheads than we do now. Maybe ours are better.

Maybe our Warheads are best offense has, but still, numbers wise, they're kicking our butt. They got about 10 more than we. uh, we have. Additionally, back in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were actually able to insulate ourselves from a nuclear attack from Cuban missiles by using a naval blockade that JFK helped orchestrate, which is great.

In other words, hey, if we see you shoot a missile, we're gonna shoot it down from our ships because we have 90 miles essentially of between Cuba and Miami. Uh, well, maybe not Miami. Southern tip of Florida would be more like Key West. But anyway, today, what do we have? Well, we've got basically nothing between Poland and Belarus.

Slightly scary. So the snakes are here are extremely clear here. nuclear escalation is ramping up and and where are these weapons going and what are they for and why are they being placed? Let's talk about that. But before we talk about that, we have to take as neutral of a possible as a jab at Governor DeSantis.

You all know me. I Try to be in the middle here, but here's the thing: Governor DeSantis Kind of shot himself in the foot last week by making a comment he shouldn't have made. and this is a politically very terrible time to make comments like this because this is the kind of stuff that follows what did DeSantis say DeSantis Perfect example of terrible political timing told us. well.

I don't have a lot of foreign policy experience by suggesting that this Ukraine Russia conflict is just a territorial dispute and what happens right afterwards. Putin visits with XI Jin Bing and deploys nuclear weapons in the border of Poland in Belarus. That's not great. If only there had been some hints to help prevent DeSantis from making such a mistake.

Like perhaps maybe Vladimir Putin could have made it very clear that he would suspend his participation in The Start Nuclear Arms Treaty. Oh wait, that's exactly what he did last month. Last month he suspended his participation in the New Start Treaty, which was a bipartisan agreement between the United States and Russia to reduce and limit strategic offensive weapons. basically a style of nuclear non-proliferation which is just a fancy way of saying less nukes boys and girls.

Well, Putin's like it. no thanks. I'm done with that crap. Start by the replace by the way, replaced sort if you've ever heard of that.

That was the Treaty of Moscow which expired back into 2012. But anyway, he walked out of that on February 21st. So oopsie, oopsie Mr uh DeSantis making some uh political faux pas here and really highlighting that lack of foreign policy experience. But anyway, motivation here.

Why is this happening? Well, uh, specifically Putin says that his choice to deploy tactical nuclear weapons follows the United Kingdom's disclosure that Britain is sending shells made of depleted uranium to Ukraine Now uranium is a very, very thick mineral metal element. uh and Uh. these Munitions are not nuclear. Despite the word uranium.

they are very, very dense and the reason they're used is because they're very capable of penetrating thick armor or bunkers. And Putin saw this as a threat to his neighbor. Uh Belarus and so Putin will actually be in control of these nuclear weapons. Some details: There are 10 aircraft presently positioned in Belarus capable of carrying carrying these nuclear weapons from Russia to Belarus Apparently starting April 3rd A Putin will start ordering the training of Cruz to be able to handle these Icelander short-range missiles strategic nuclear weapons in the near-term Probably little will change since the storage facilities for these nuclear weapons will actually not be available until the until, probably around July That's when the storage facilities should be available.

It doesn't appear that Chinese discussions though with Putin had really any effect in helping reach a compromise. And so I think the impact to us here short term is probably we've got to pay attention more. Little is likely to happen over the next few months, but we are starting to see that escalation of nuclear tensions and it really follows the escalation of military tensions that we've seen over the entire last year. So I think the impact here is caution.

Increase caution, hopefully increase pressure on our politicians to ensure the reduction in this nuclear risk that we're facing. I Know many of us care about our stocks, the banking crisis, a recession, but frankly, I care more about my child about my children uh, than than numbers in a bank account. And ultimately, I respectfully care for you and your family as well. Nuclear war is not an option and this is terrible.

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