Victoria Coates: Don’t put your energy security in Vladimir Putin’s hands

With Bill Walton, Victoria Coates and Sam Faddis

BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow

• Bill Walton talks about Evergrande’s troubling future: China is not going to let a Lehman Brothers happen within their borders
• Walton: The Chinese Communist Party is racing against the demographic clock
• Hong Kong as “another Chinese city” as the region undergoes its first “Patriot Elections”
• How is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission responding to extensive Chinese influence within American capital markets?

VICTORIA COATES, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Security Policy’s Middle East and North Africa Department,  President, USAGM’s Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, National Security Council, Author, “David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art,” @VictoriaCoates

• Victoria Coates: Iran has signaled that they will only enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action again so long as the U.S. relaxes all its sanctions against the Islamic Republic
• Coates: “You can’t have a good faith negation with a partner that doesn’t have a good faith word to give”
• Coates: This would be quite the moment to play hardball and pressure the Iranian regime into abandoning its nuclear program
• Europe’s coming energy shortage is affecting the continent’s lofty climate change goals
• Victoria: Don’t put your energy security for an entire continent in the hand of Vladimir Putin
• The Biden administration blames “price gougers” for the rising gas prices, refusing to acknowledge America’s apparent lack of energy independence since President Trump left office

SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• How close is Iran to “getting the bomb?”
• Sam Faddis: “The Biden administration is in the process of surrendering to all these enemies of the United States, not confronting them”
• Faddis conveys that the Biden administration has not backed away from potentially giving conditional aid to the Taliban
• Faddis: We just transported the Taliban into the 21st century in terms of communications
• Faddis: Stanford, like many of America’s preeminent educational institutions, has taken vast quantities of money from the Chinese Communist Party

Bill Walton

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Victoria Coates

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Sam Faddis

Your owner's manual for your most important possession: Your freedom