We start today's double podcast discussing developments associated with Ukraine and why attitudes are beginning to shift markedly in the west. We then move onto why Japan is increasingly unwilling to support the US with respect to a future Taiwan conflict and why this also relates to ongoing developments in the sphere of their respective militaries between China and Russia. We then return to the theme of US intervention in Afghanistan as further developments in that region suggest this could be a possibility as previously stated. We then discuss the growing ties between Pakistan and Iran. We conclude by discussing some very peculiar developments in Israel and how it now appears even the US is running out of patience with the Netanyahu government and Tel Aviv's ongoing isolation appears to be gathering momentum. We also discuss China Israeli relations and why the US is desperate to seek rapprochement between Israel and Saudi, even via vanity projects.