re there were no jobs. So I don't know the answer to that, but I think that's our only hope, is that it creates more jobs than it takes.

Tulsi Gabbard was on Fox, head of the DNI, and she said that China has made it very clear that they don't want war. And you know, we've made it clear we don't want war. Now, I definitely believe that about China because the only thing that could just totally destroy China would be a war. And same with the US. The only thing that could sort of totally destroy us would be a war. So it would be the dumbest thing we ever did, especially with each other.

But China doesn't need a war. China can just keep growing its economy until it dominates everything, which is a way smarter way to take over the world. So no, I don't think China wants war. I think they want to be capable of war just in case anybody takes a run at them. But no, I think that's the last thing they want.

Speaking of China, according to John Hayward at Breitbart News, there's an EU report that finds that China is behind 80 percent of Russia's sanctions avoidance. Now, didn't we already know that? Didn't you assume that China was the one who was buying mostly energy, I assume, from Russia? And so those two are sort of attached at the hip. And doesn't that mean that Russia is basically China's? Because if China is buying 80 percent of their oil or probably their gas plus oil, doesn't that mean that China essentially controls Russia now?

Because the whole reason we didn't like the Russian pipeline that got blown up is that we didn't want Europe to be dependent on mainly one source of energy. But it works the other way too. If you're the customer, if you're buying 80 percent of the energy from Russia and energy is their main export, doesn't that really mean China can make them do just about anything they want? Seems that way to me. So I don't think that Putin's in a good position. He may be in a good position vis-à-vis Ukraine, but he's not in a good position in the world because China sort of owns his ass at this point. Seems like it.

Greta Thunberg is on a boat and she's heading to Gaza. So she's going to join the latest Gaza-bound freedom flotilla and they're going to protest Israel's actions. Well, that should solve everything. It seems to me that Greta has done such a great job in other topics that if she can't end the war in Gaza, I don't know who can. So we'll see if she survives that. The *Times of Israel* is reporting that.

Meanwhile, you will not be surprised to know that the latest push to get a deal with Hamas looks like it's not going to work out, as if it ever could. Steve Witkoff says Hamas's response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal is unacceptable. And you know, there's details, but of course you don't even need to know the details. You just have to know that there really is no way that Hamas is going to make a deal because I think the Israelis are offering the following deal: if you surrender, we'll put you in jail forever or kill you. I don't think the Hamas fighters really have a second play. It's not like they're going to find some new way to make a better life. The only way they're going to stay alive is if they keep their hostages and they stay underground. As soon as they come above ground, things are not going to go well for them at all. So how could there possibly be a deal? I don't know how there could be. And I don't think they care about getting their own hostages back. So that's probably no big deal, even though there are lots of them.

And then there's some fake news that came out of Israel that said Israel opened fire on some civilian crowds. That appears to not be true based on video of the event.

And in other news, Ukraine is ramping it up and apparently they did a major drone hit on multiple Russian air bases. So they're just taking out the Russian planes on the ground. Now that's not good because if they can reach all of these bases, at least the bases that would be close enough to threaten Ukraine, are most of the airplanes just sort of sitting there on the airport tarmac? Because it looked like they could just destroy them at will if they were willing to go that de