Come here across our border, and they don't have the resources to catch the fentanyl. So fentanyl is now coming into the US in record volumes across our southern border. Now these fentanyl gangs are large they're international and in China's near total surveillance state, Beijing, obviously knows what's going on, and obviously approves of what's going on. So we have to assume that China, deliberately wants Americans dead from this drug, if they want it to stop fentanyl drugs, they could do it tomorrow. They could do it today, but they don't. So that shows the maliciousness of the Chinese regime. We live in a democracy, and we have a hard time understanding that concept of evil. The Chinese Communist Party is evil, and we can see this from what it's doing, it wants to be the world's number one country, it's got this notion of comprehensive national power which they actually borrowed from the Soviets, which is a series of vetrix to rank the strength of countries, and there's two ways to become number one, you can strengthen yourself, which is fine. Or you can weaken everybody else. And what China is doing with fentanyl is weakening the United States, and how is that it has the trajectory of the basically the flow of fentanyl changed in recent times, I guess this is what I'm this is what I'm trying to get at. Well, from what we can tell, the flow of oil has certainly increased in recent months because of what I mentioned that the Border Protection agents are no longer able to deal with the Mexican cartels that mix the precursor drugs from China and make fentanyl.
We don't know the exact number of deaths from fentanyl, each year in the US, I mean I've heard the number 53,000 for last year but I don't know if it's true or not, but we, it's a hard thing to actually put our finger on because it's not only deaths from fentanyl directly is increasingly deaths from cocaine, methamphetamines, and marijuana, which have been mixed with fentanyl. So, this is a this is a drug epidemic which is becoming worse year by year, well, and so,
you know, you did a session today, you know, type the world war three was in the title
I've been looking at, you actually have a piece actually recently at that that was looking at, talking about various indicators on the for example the Indian border, and so forth that China is going to readying for some sort of conflict. There's talk of great these gray zone operations with respect to Taiwan. And this you know of course a lot of saber rattling a lot more overflights and so forth. So you know, where are we at overall in terms of, you know, very real prospects of Chinese aggression, well there's a growing awareness in Washington, of the aggressiveness of the China of China and the danger, but I don't think that we are as aware as we shouldn't be largely because China is making moves, which, at least on their face are exceedingly dangerous and we're not taking the appropriate steps, so I'm afraid that, although there's more and more awareness of the China threat that awareness has not caught up with the reality of what Beijing is actually doing.
