Dubai there's some reporting that there's a black site that China uses to capture their dissidents and interrogate them and stuff in other countries. So of course China has its own black sites within its country to interrogate people in the worst possible way. But apparently they have one in Dubai or at least in the country there. So that's pretty bad.

And why is it that any Islamic country would deal with China? What's up with that? Why would any Islamic country deal with them? They are literally trying to erase Islam at least within China and anything that they control.

Here's the weirdest story. Russia and China did joint military exercises. Did you know that Russia and China had any kind of military coordination? Did you know about that? Clueless Scott, there's never any infighting I understand. No. I tell you that there's nothing that annoys me more than somebody telling me I don't understand something that everybody understands. Like a comment that I'll get is Scott doesn't understand that rain clouds create rain. And I think everybody understands that. Scott doesn't understand that if you run over a squirrel with a car it's going to hurt the squirrel. Actually I do understand that. So whatever it is you think about my opinion, probably not because of that. So don't tell me what I don't understand, especially when they're easy things to understand.

So Russia and China did this joint military exercise which experts say was probably just a complete waste of time. Because apparently if you're doing joint military exercises, if you do choreographed stuff it's sort of just for politics and show and propaganda. So you need what they call the free range things where the military people can make decisions and see what the other people do and then maybe you learn something. So it wasn't that. So it wasn't the useful kind of military exercise. It was more for show.

But why in the world are Russia and China coordinating on what exactly? Now there was some thinking that it was about terrorism. But do they really need to coordinate military for terrorism? I mean how much terrorism is going to happen in either one of those countries? Seems like they would just handle it with their own militaries no matter what. So it's probably just good politics that Russia and China, because they're neighbors, that they work together on as many things as they can figure out to work together. It's probably good for both of them.

But here's my take on all this. Russia should have been our ally. Russia should be our ally against China. Now that's probably too hard for them to do because they're right next to each other. They have a border. But we need to find some way that Russia is on our side militarily. And it's hard for me to believe that there's so many things that Putin wants that we don't want that we couldn't find some way that we're both better off. Because I feel like Russia, they're deal makers. Now maybe you can't trust them. That's a separate issue, right? Maybe they make a deal and you think they'll break it. But they're deal makers. And I can't see any scenario in which we're not better off working with Russia instead of against them.

Now China is a different story. If we worked with China for the long run they would be trying to dominate us and it would probably be dumb to even try. But I think Russia just has interests that are common with ours or could. I mean right now we're spending all our time with these cyber attacks against each other. Why? It's because we're trying to suppress Russia. Why? Because we think that they're trying to do bad stuff to us. Because they are. Why? Basically any dispute between Russia and the United States is completely about what the other one did yesterday. It has nothing to do with our strategic interests I don't think. I don't see Russia wanting to conquer Europe. I mean there are some disputes about Russian-speaking territories and you know we have to deal with that. But the bigger picture I ju