We start today’s double podcasts discussing the visit of Patrushev to Venezuela and Cuba and further indications of Syria being brought in from the cold in the Middle East. We then move onto developments associated with Taiwan and Ukraine as the US continues to try and juggle both China and Russia simultaneously. We then discuss why food security is becoming an issue in Europe and then move onto developments between Russia and Azerbaijan, Russia and Bolivia and China and Belarus. We conclude assessing earnings in US corporations and why there are concerns about a widening gap in terms of net income and cash flows.