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Glenn: Signs we’re in a PROXY WAR against Russia AND China

It’s not just spy balloons from China we should be concerned about. In this clip, Glenn details Russian spy ships that were recently spotted off the coast of Hawaii, as well. ‘It’s almost as if Russia and China are now in bed together,’ Glenn explains, and that America is fighting a proxy war against BOTH nations. In this clip, Glenn details the signs that we could be facing tense times against both Russia and China, and he explains why perhaps it’s time to ‘just kind of back down a little bit’…

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GLENN: Okay, So we've got some very exciting news for you. The Defense Secretary and the White House had to address something, that I think is very, very important. We lead with.

Let's go to cut eight. This is John Kirby at the Pentagon.

VOICE: The top officials at the Pentagon when asked explicitly, if they were ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence that they weren't ruling anything out. And yet, at the beginning of today's briefing, albeit with their usual winning smile, Ms. Jean-Pierre seemed to rule out any extraterrestrial activity.

VOICE: I don't think the American people need to worry about aliens, with respect to these craft, period.

I don't think there's any more that needs to be said there.

GLENN: Okay. All right.

I just want to say, do you recognize your country today?

The spokesperson from the Pentagon, without any law enforcement, from the press Corp, said, quote, I don't think the American people need to worry about extraterrestrials today. Oh. Okay. Well, that's normal. All right. I got it. I got it.

Now, we've heard from Austin. They are not a threat.

And then we've heard, they are a threat. And then we've heard, they're not a threat.

And then we see, that they use sidewinder missiles to take them down.

Why would you do that, if it's not a threat?

By the way, just so you know, in the balloon fight, we had to use two Sidewinders. First one missed it. That's just a half a million dollar missile.

Or, I'm sorry. Yeah. Half a million dollar missile. It missed it.

My favorite part of the story is, and the Pentagon didn't track where that missile landed. But they're pretty sure, that no harm was done.

Pretty sure?

Pretty sure?

Okay.

STU: We don't want to shoot the balloon down in the first place, because of the shrapnel that might hit the ground. But we'll just let missiles fly randomly into societies.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

And they're trying to get a better sense of what these things are by going and looking at them.

But it proves to be very difficult. Because it is -- the debris is landing in the sea or in the water.

Here's an idea: Don't shoot it down over the water. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Don't shoot it down over the water. I know it's very, very complex.

Now, Biden has ordered the creation -- listen to this. He's ordered the creation of interagency team, to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.

You -- UAP. Okay.

That's what they now call UFOs.

Okay?

Does anybody want to step in and tell me what's wrong with this story? The president, through his national security adviser, today has directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and dispossession of unidentified aerial objects, that pose either safety or security risks.

We already did this, in Congress, two years ago! We have one! Marco Rubio set it up.

It's why we've found out about possible alien life, in the first place.

You already have a commission. An interagency commission. That is studying this.

They have produced a report!

And yet, yesterday, he announces, we're going to do another one.

STU: We need a committee to study that committee.

GLENN: We need -- we need a committee of doctors, to study the brain.

All right. So now, the US military first shot at an unknown octagonal -- say it.

STU: I'm not even sure.

GLENN: Octagonal. An octagon. An object that was an octagon, over Lake Huron.

Okay. Yesterday, they said, we don't think it was a balloon. We don't think it was a balloon.

STU: Was it a kite?

GLENN: No. We just don't think it was a balloon. Because it was an octagon. And you don't have balloons that are octagon.

Well, Scott Adams just searched Google for five minutes. And he found an octagonal balloon weather balloon on sale for Google. So apparently, they don't make them. But maybe the Pentagon doesn't have Google!

Not sure.

STU: Maybe you covered this while I was gone. But do you have -- what's your -- what's your cohesive theory that explains this? Is it just that we've always had lots of balloons going over our head, and we didn't know it?

GLENN: I'll get to that in a minute. I'll get to that in a minute.

Because yesterday, I spent a lot of time just explaining, I don't think the extraterrestrial life has come from alpha Centauri.

And then invading us with weather balloons. I just don't think --

STU: That would be a weird approach.

GLENN: Again, let's get into the hot air balloon, and go down and visit them.

I just didn't think that that would be the mode of invasion.

STU: It feels low probability to me.

GLENN: It does. It does. It does.

Okay. So what is happening?

Well, did you know that on January 28th, the US Air Force spotted the spy balloon. Right?

Coming in, from Alaska. And it went over the Aleutian Islands. It was in Canadian airspace. And then by the 31st, somebody was looking up. They were hike, hey. That looks like a balloon. What is it?

And the government had known about it, the whole time, and had decided to just be quiet. Like, we're not going to see this balloon up in the sky.

Okay. Did you know that just a few days prior to this, the Coast Guard caught a Russian spy ship, gathering intelligence near Hawaii.

Now., the media was focused on one spy ship. The Coast Guard released photos of several.
Now, these are not ghost balloons.

These are ships that just kind of like materialize. Nobody had seen them.

They had been -- they had been going back and forth, changing directions.

Avoiding all of our ability to track these ships. And then they just kind of like within came out.

That's great. That's wonderful.

So we have that.

Now, I don't know if anybody has checked this, but it's almost like Russia and China, are now in bed together.

And maybe we're in a proxy war, with not only Russia, but also China.

They're checking our defenses. They are seeing, are we spotting them?

Can they get past us? And they are just -- they are just testing, I think, our president on the balloons. So they're playing chicken with us.

Okay. They're not losing. They're not winning. But they're not losing.

Okay? So why is this happening? Well, has anybody noticed the volume of trade between Russia and China?

It's gone through the roof. So Beijing, is now in the role, where they are pretty much funding Russia's war in Ukraine.

You know, kind of like us, funding Ukrainian side of the war.

So -- wow. It sounds like we're on the losing team.

It looks like we have Russia and China, now as the axis power, and us and Ukraine, yay.

STU: Theoretically, Europe, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Theoretically Europe.

So this is what, I think, is truly happening.

Now, in about ten minutes in Washington, DC, they're getting a confidential briefing about the spy balloons.

So we should have some idea. China just came out yesterday, and said, well, you know, there's been ten balloons in our airspace since 2022. Washington, DC, sends the balloons over at our place, all the time.

Okay. Don't know if that's true.

But can we -- maybe we should just kind of back down a little bit.

Seeing that we are now facing China and Russia.

I mean, I don't know about you, I don't want to go to war with China and Russia.

I don't want to go to war with China, and, you know, Ethel, who lives down at the end of my street.

I -- you know, let's not go to war. What do you say?

STU: Ethel is pretty spicy.

I mean, she brings it. So you don't want to get her involved in this.

GLENN: Correct. You know Ethel.

STU: Oh, yeah. Everybody. Everybody knows Ethel.

GLENN: All right.

So we have that going for us.

Now, we find out, that Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade. Near Donetsk, coal mining town.

So it's not going well for them.

However, yesterday, the State Department said, hey, you know, if you're an American citizen, okay?

You should not travel to Russia. Oh, you think so.

But if you're there, you need to depart immediately. Now, part of this is because what's left are dual citizens. Okay?


And what we're saying is, quote, due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, by Russian military forces. Americans in Russia, face harassment, unlawful detention, and the possibility of terrorism.

Also, Americans in Russia could be subject to mobilization, and conscripted to the Russian military.

So they're saying, they might just grab people. And just say, you. You're in the military. Or they might just send you to a gulag.

So that seems like, that seems like, you know, really good news.

Now, one last story. This comes from Forbes.

Carl Sandberg. He's the guy who wrote the Lincoln, you know, autobiography.

Or the biography. And he said, near the end of the Civil War, how improbable it was, that the nation had turned into a one horse lawyer. To a one horse town to save it.

And the president confided that he too thought it was strange. And observed it was the time when a man with a policy, would have been fatal to the country.

I've never had policy. I've just tried to do what was best, as each day came.

Abraham Lincoln.

Next, the next paragraph. President Biden's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has a similar flavor.

He had no policy for dealing with such an invasion, when he entered office. Because he wasn't expecting one. But once the invasion became imminent, Biden did everything he could to dissuade President Putin. But the war began. And Biden and his advisers expecting a quick Russian victory, just tried to do the right thing.

STU: This is -- that is a magnificent story in so many ways.

First of all, I mean, Abraham Lincoln was really smart and said a lot of really good things.

That's it one you're pulling out? I didn't know about this.

I winged it. That's not a good quote from Lincoln. He should have had a policy on slavery.

GLENN: Right. Right. Right. Well, the story goes on, and says, maybe we should have a policy in this one.

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Rumors explained: Is Fed Chair Jerome Powell OUT?!

After rumors spread that President Trump would soon fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Trump has said that he's "not planning" on it right now. But is it possible for Trump to fire him? Will he resign? And how is the Fed Chair even chosen in the first place? Glenn and his head researcher Jason Buttrill explain ...

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GLENN: Well, last night, I was rapidly looking the lie some of these rumors, on X.

Pretty incredible people on what's going on with Jerome Powell and the fed.

What the heck?

I was actually popping popcorn and watching this. It was so crazy.

GLENN: So it's just the rumors, that he is going to be stepping down?

JASON: Well, yeah.

Yeah. Anna Paulina Luna. Congresswoman. She was saying, it was almost imminent, that he was about to be fired. Actually fired.

There were other rumors saying, well, we're not sure about fired.

But he's considering resigning.

GLENN: Yeah. You know why.

JASON: We were like, what the heck is going on?

GLENN: So do you know why?

Do you know why he's resigning? Any guesses? I mean, you had popcorn out. I would love to hear what you have come up with.

JASON: So there was the CPI stuff coming out. The interest rates going up.

We know that the President wants interest rates to come down. I'm assuming that is what the deal is, and there's some sort of internal battle going on.

GLENN: Well, and the president can't fire the Fed chief. Okay?

So the Fed chief is the one that nominated. The federal reserve is the biggest crock of bullcrap I've ever seen in my life.

It's nothing, but the five biggest banks. Okay? And you know which ones they are. They're the ones that keep getting bigger. And everybody else is falling to the wayside.

So the Federal Reserve is the arm of those five banks.

Okay?

And they suggest, who the president can select from.

So the president can't say, I don't want any of these guys. I want this guy. Can't do it.

He has to take a look at the list that all the banks have put together. Is. Say, pick from this list, Mr. President.

Did you know that?

JASON: It's kind of how Iran chooses their next president.

GLENN: It's exactly. It's exactly that way. Except, this religion is all about the almighty dollar.

Okay. So he can't -- he can't pick on his own. But the president has a right to pick one, you know, every term. If it comes up in his term.

The president wants this guy out. And I think he's been really, really bad.

Because he's been wrong on almost -- on almost everything. But show me the -- show me the Fed, you know, the guy who the Fed was right ever.

So he can't fire him. But he wants him out. Because he wants interest rates dropped.

And, you know, the jobs are coming back. Things are coming back.

But interest rates keep coming up.

And the -- and the interest rates, if we keep our interest rates high, we have a harder time borrowing money for our debt.

And it just gets more and more expensive for everybody all along. So the president wants him to back off interest rates. But the Fed chief believes that that could cause more inflation.

Which I think he's right on that one. And I hate to say he was right on anything.

Because I don't think he was ever right.

Makes me question myself. When he's like, well, I think he might have a point on that one. But the president is like, no. He can handle it.

I want them down. I want cheap money again.

He refuses. So what has the president done?

The president can only fire him, with cause!

So what do you do when you can only fire somebody with cause, and you want them out.

You find a cause, and this one is easy.

So the Fed has been the one leading the way saying, we can't keep borrowing money.

We've got to have some fiscal sanity. Right?

This is going to kill us. We have to keep these interest rates high, because you are borrowing too much money. And maybe this is the only way to stop you.

So we got to keep it high, because you've borrowed too much money. And how many times has he testified in front of Congress? We've got to cut. We've got to cut. You can't keep spending like this.

Okay? Well, did you know that the Federal Reserve, with our tax dollars, the five biggest banks, a/k/a the Federal Reserve, is redoing their offices. To the tune of two billion dollars!

Now, I don't know what kind of wallpaper they need there.

But that seems like a pretty hefty renovation, especially when everybody is looking at cutting things. And you're lecturing me about spending money. So they get money from the government, okay? They're telling us, stop spending.
Stop borrowing.

Except, okay. What you've borrowed. I need $2 billion of that, to redo our offices in Washington, DC.

Excuse me?

Why don't you do that yourself. Okay. I think banks maybe have some money.

So they're borrowing that money, and there's $700 million over.

So it's $2 billion. $700 million over budget. And they're still not finished.

And the problem is: They're putting in water features.

They have a rooftop garden they're building.

JASON: Okay.

GLENN: I mean, it is -- it's insane. The president now knows, really? You want to play this game with me. I will sit your ass down in front of Congress, and you answer to the American people, how you're lecturing us about spending. And you're putting in a rooftop garden and a water feature in your office. No! No.

So the president is now threatening, I'll fire you for this. You want to quit, now would be the time to quit.

Otherwise, I'm dragging your butt in front of Congress.

You answer to the American people for this. And they will beg me to fire you.

That's what's happening.

JASON: I looked at that a lot.

Because I was like. There's got to be some leverage that the president had, because they can't get rid of.

But that is a pretty big cut. That sounds like a Babylon Bee article. $2 billion.

GLENN: It does. It does. $2 billion, 700 million over budget.

JASON: Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: I mean, and these are the responsible bankers. No, I don't think so.

It just shows, they don't mean what they say. They'll just keep doing it for themselves. You know, if you really believed that America was really on that financial cliff, why would you do that?

You would lead the way and say, guys, we are going to be the only responsible ones here.

We will lead by example.

No renovation. You know what, go to IKEA?

You need a new desk. Go to IKEA, and get a new desk. Well, we have to keep up our image. We're not going to have a country.

So what do you say, we go to IKEA?

Our image should be, we are going to lead the way out of this madness!

That's what a leader would do.

JASON: So, Glenn, I still don't think I get this disconnect between Trump and Powell on -- we know Trump wants to lower interest rates.

Powell is standing back and saying, basically, he doesn't want to do it.

Is he trying to undermine President Trump on this?

GLENN: President Trump thinks so. President Trump thinks so.

I think so, to some degree.

I mean, I'm worried about inflation.

Look, you know what happened. Do you know what's happening with yap?

JASON: What's happening with Japan?

GLENN: So what's happening with Japan, is Japan has always had this really amazing image of, we're solid. We're absolutely solid.

This is target to crack. The foundation.

1989.

Let me go back to 1989.

This was the crown jury trial of the global economy.

Back in 1989, you probably aren't old enough to remember.

All of a sudden, Japan owned everything in America. We were just becoming Japanese, and everything was being purchased by Japan. Kind of like it feels a little bit like China now.

JASON: They even owned Nakatomi Plaza, Glenn, that Bruce Willis had to save -- they owned everything in every '80s movie!

GLENN: Oh, yeah, they owned absolutely everything.

Okay? And the -- things were so insane in Japan. The grounds of the imperial palace, in Tokyo, on paper was worth more than the entire value of the state of California.


JASON: Wow!

GLENN: Okay?

So their land. Everything just shot up. And so they had all of -- they were flush with all this cash.

And people believed that Japan had suddenly, you know, cracked the formula for, you know, eternal prosperity.

That's the problem. Then it all started to fall apart. And the asset prices. That they had mortgaged against.

Okay?

They had borrowed. Well, the imperial palace was worth more than California.

That doesn't make any sense. You wouldn't mortgage it like that. At least long-term. I will do this real quick, and pay it off.

You would never, ever mortgage, because you know that's inane. Well, nobody ever wanted -- and it seems in governments, nobody ever wants to believe that this is just a fluke. Okay?

So the asset prices collapse. The stock markets plunged. And for three decades, they have gone into this very polite political coma.

Okay? Economic coma. And so the central bank did something radical. They were the first ones to set your interest rate at zero. They lowered the interest rate. They made money so cheap, it was nearly free. Zero percent interest. Sometimes, they would pay you to take out money.

So the -- they had negative interest rates. Can you imagine that? Now, you're not fixing the problem. You're just printing wallpaper to cover the mold. All right?

So they've done this for decades.

Now their debt is I think 260. Or 280 percent of their GDP.

I think, what is ours?

100?

80 percent.

Something crazy. 120. You never believe back.

The death threshold is usually 120, 140.

They're 260 percent of their entire economy is debt.

That's not a crack. That's a fault line.

So this week. Or was it last week? Things started to creek and grown in Japan.

And the government bonds, which are like our treasuries. Is this getting too complex.

Are you following this still?

JASON: Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. So their government bonds.

They were the safest investments on earth.

One of them. Okay?

It's us. Japan, Germany.

They started to fall.

Hard. And when bond prices fall, interest rates were the easily go up.

All right?

So they borrow all this money.

260 percent of their GDP is borrowed. Okay?

So they borrowed all of that money. And they had it at like 3 percent interest. Whatever.

2 percent interest.

And they were paying people.

2 percent.

Well, all of a sudden, the cracks started to appear. And people were like, I'm not sure this is stable at all.

And then the belief of the system started to -- to go away. So people started selling their Japanese bonds.

Once they do that, now the yields have to go up.

What happens when yields go up?

What happens when interest rates go up? For a government. You have to pay more interest on your debt!

Okay?

You add two or three points.

Just imagine, you have an adjustable rate. Okay?

This is a government having an adjustable rate. Except, they have 260 percent of everything they make, in debt!

And it's all leveraged.

And now, their adjustable goes up two, three, four points.

You're not able to afford that anymore, okay?

So massive problem.

Because what it really means is. People don't believe in Japan.

They know the con game is now over.

And investors are saying, you know, I want a whole lot more in return.

Because I just don't believe you anymore.

And it's not just Japan's problem. This is not a neighbor's house on fair.

This is -- imagine we're all living under the same roof. This is the neighbor's apartment, on fire.

We're all under the same roof. We all have the same foundation. And so when this happens to Japan, you should pay attention. And I'll show you the ripple effects in just a second.

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GLENN: Okay. So now if Japan -- that means there's a stampede out of Japan.

And people are starting to look and reprice the risk of their money.

Now they're like, wait a minute.

The most stable. You know, if you're driving a car and it is the safest car in the world and all of a sudden, they just start blowing up on the highway.

You're like, I don't think that's the most -- that's the safest car on the highway.

And if that's the safest car, what does it mean for the car I'm in?

You know what I mean? So now, this is going to push US interest rates going up.

Which makes our mortgage rates go can up. And our car loans more expensive. And the national debt. Which is already costing us $1.2 trillion a year, just in interest.

Now, they can't sell their treasuries. People are skittish on treasuries. Maybe they come to the United States, but they're not so far.

They're getting out of the Japanese interest. Or the bonds there.

Japan has to pay their bills.

What do you do when you have to pay a bill?

And you don't have any money coming in.

You don't have enough money coming in. What do you do?

You sell something. Right? You sell your car. You sell something that you have of value.

Well, what do they have? What do they hold of value? US Treasuries.

So now, we are trying to sell our bonds, for our new debt, they hold our old debt.

They're saying, hey. Anybody want to buy this debt? Because I have to sell it. Fire sale. What do you give me for it?

Okay?

Which makes that debt more attractive, because they can get a better deal there.

Which means, if we want to have new debt, we have to raise our interest rates. Which means, we pay more for interest for our mortgages and everything else.

And it floods the market with bonds, crushing the prices, skyrocketing the costs for us.
And causing even more trouble, in other countries, that have US bonds. Because they start to look and go, nobody is buying these bonds.

Well, of course not. You have two countries. The two stablest countries besides Germany.

You have the two stablest countries now selling US Treasury bonds.

Okay? Really, really bad.

Now, let me add this on.

Germany is now having to pay for their own army.

And so they said, they're going to borrow money.

To build the army.

And they're going to lower their interest rate. So they can borrow more money. All right?

And now, the German bund, which is -- you know, like our Treasury. That's now starting to fall apart.

Well, Germany has some assets, they can sell.

What do you think that asset might be that they want to sell?

US treasuries.

We have been playing an extraordinarily horrible game.

This is why I believe the president wants somebody else in charge of the Fed, because the Fed can say, we're lowering the interest rates.

Because he's got to get more money into the system. So people can spend money, can start businesses. Borrow money.

Get things moving, so we can increase the amount of taxes that we collect.

The more people money -- the more people make, the more taxes we collect.

So he's like, we've got to grow the economy. And the only way we can grow the economy is to lower the interest rates.

But at the same time, interest rates around the world because of what's happening with the bonds is going through the roof.

We are in a very -- we've never been in this position before.

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