➡ Russia’s use of air power is aiding Assad against rebel forces, which could increase tensions between Russia and Israel. Israel supports Assad’s downfall to prevent weapons from Syria reaching Lebanon. There are speculations about potential escalations, including the return of nuclear weapons to Ukraine. Despite the rejection of this idea, the fact that it’s being discussed indicates a possible increase in weapon supplies to Ukraine.

➡ The text discusses the ongoing international tensions, focusing on Russia’s expensive weaponry and its impact on NATO. It also mentions the limited damage caused by a strike on a Ukrainian missile program facility. The text further discusses the potential consequences of Trump’s tariff threats and the possibility of a civil war affecting the US dollar’s dominance. Lastly, it touches on the escalating situation in the Middle East, the potential involvement of the US, and the possibility of Russia conducting nuclear tests.

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This is your day X World War 3 update. I hope everybody is keeping warm as we descend into the winter months. And I got to tell you, it has been cold up here and it reminds me to remind you that if the shit is going to hit the fan, there’s a good chance it’s going to happen in winter. You see, Hollywood doesn’t tell us that because it takes a much bigger budget to make a winter movie than it does a summer one. Which is why 95% of apocalyptic films always seem to take place when the weather is mostly good.

But if you live a place where I do, where half the time it’s winter, then it’s a mathematical certainty that there is an extremely high probability that if the hits a fan it’s going to happen in wintertime. So you got to winterize your bugout bag. We’ve had the craziest weather this month. I mean in November I should say, you know, the month started out record high temperatures. I was wearing shorts mid November and then come the second half of November we just got dumped on a lot of snow. Very cold temperatures down to minus 40 if you factor in the wind chill.

And it’s just been absolutely crazy. And these aberrations and perturbations of the weather system are only going to continue to intensify which is going to just compound any unnatural man made disaster if and when it does happen. In fact, out there on the east coast they got 5ft near Buffalo and 5ft for Buffalo is not a big deal. But I mean that’s unfathomable out here. We couldn’t imagine getting five feet of snow. But you got to understand a few things are going to happen in winter. In an SHTF situation that’s not going to happen in summer.

For one, the roads are not going to be passable. So it’s going to be ask to ask gridlock. It doesn’t matter if you have four wheel drive, that’s not going to make a difference. If you don’t have a ski skidoo or a tracked vehicle, you’re going to be pretty much screwed. So do make me a favor right now, winterize your vehicle survival kit, okay? Especially if you live in a place that gets a lot of snow and it can go down below, you know, minus 10 degrees Celsius and below because you’re going to get stuck out there.

If we’re talking about an actual nuclear exchange, you’re going to have gridlock. EMP is going to knock out, even if it only knocks out one out of every 100 vehicles. Imagine the chaos that gets caused during rush hour when there’s one accident on a major corridor. Now imagine a hundred accidents, okay? There are 100 vehicles that stall at the exact same time. It’s going to be chaos. Even without the snow that’s piling up the machines and the operators and the diesel is not going to be able to clear those roads. So you’re going to want to just do these three things, these four things.

Okay? I’ve done extensive videos on this topic. I’ve probably done dozens of videos. We’ve left no stone unturned in terms of winter preparedness. But if you can do these four things, you’re going to be more prepared than 95% of the population when it comes to winter vehicle preparedness. Okay, Number one is just getting some alternate heating source, a small little propane heater with a few canisters of propane. While it’s true that you can heat yourself with the engine of your vehicle, you could be, you could have vehicle problems. Maybe your car won’t start. There’s a variety of things that could happen.

Having a small little space propane heater could save your life with enough fuel for at least, ideally would be 72 hours. But if you can only have a few canisters, the small 1 liter ones for 24 hours, that’s fine. Just get something. Secondly, or probably firstly, should be filling up your gas tank. Make sure that gas tank is 100% topped off to the best extent possible. I know it’s not, not practical to be always topping it off, but keep it over 3/4 at least over a half a tank at all times. That engine will idle for a day or so just on, you know, if you’re not moving.

So that can keep you alive. Also make sure you have ample amounts of provisions, so you want to have food because of course you got to feed your physiological furnace. And you’re going to be burning a lot of calories when you’re shivering. So make sure you have a lot of dry foods, things that are not going to freeze. And lastly, make sure that you have the clothes that you’re going to need should you have to go somewhere on foot and bug out to a safe location. You’re going to want good boots because if you got a trudge through the snow, ideally you’d even have snowshoes in there.

But if you can’t have that, just have a good pair of muck boots or some baffin boots. We’ve done reviews of all those types of things on the channel, a good parka, good toque, good gloves, you’re going to need that. If the shit hits the fan, chances are you don’t live or you probably don’t work from home. You probably, you know, work a job eight hours of the day. So there’s a good chance that if something bad were to happen, you’re not going to be home with your loved ones. So you’re going to need to get there.

All right. And wintertime, that can be very challenging, especially if the roads are congested, which they. There’s a much higher chance that that’s going to happen during the winter time. Okay, where should we begin today in terms of the situation in Syria? The Battle Royale. It really starts to look like a battle royal, like the Hunger Games, like every country sends one of the representatives. I believe there’s 81 countries that are party to this conflict in some way, shape or form. And really what you have happening now is the hardening of the east, west divide. So it’s just the delineation between the Russians, the Iranians, the Assad regime and the entire axis of resistance versus NATO and Israel, period, point blank that that’s really all it is.

With all of their mishmash of hot headed, radicalized sectarian nut jobs that, who appear to be very well kitted out. A little too well kitted out, if you know what I mean. So you know, they’re getting some black budget funding from somebody somewhere. Let’s face it. It is no coincidence that an Israeli ceasefire happens and Aleppo falls the next fucking day. Give me a break. These guys are on camera beheading people left and right and the media is calling them rebels, almost as if to present them as having some sort of righteous cause. Say what you want about the Assad regime, say what you want about Saddam.

Say what you want about Gaddafi. The fact of the matter is, when you have so many hotheads in one region of the world, you pretty much need a dictator to keep that shit in check, okay? And if you don’t have one, it turns into a total cluster of chaos. We’ve seen that happen with Saddam, We’ve seen it happen with Gaddafi. Every time we go in there, you’re going to see a refugee crisis that’s bigger than the last. Gaddafi was basically the lid that was put on North Africa. That was one of the preventative factors which limited the amount of illegal immigration that you’re seeing into Europe.

So if you’re somebody who is not a fan of all of this illegal immigration, then you should be against any form of interventionism in the Middle east, because it’s only going to make it worse. So even if you don’t like Assad, and I’m not saying I do necessarily, but to be brutally honest, you know, if the same people that are lying to me about every other thing are saying that these people are bad, then maybe they’re not as bad as we’re being told. Which is not to say they’re great guys and there’s not corruption or anything like that.

It’s just to say that, you know, it’s perhaps the lesser of evils. Perhaps just having rag tag battle royale tribalism taking place and having a bunch of people forced from their homes because of this craziness happening in the streets is not a good idea. And it’s better if there is a guy in charge, even if he is a despot. Okay, so, you know, leave your opinions in the comment section below. The problem is this. This is Russia’s southern flank. Russia does not have the resources and the manpower right now to commit to another front. They just don’t.

If the Iranians don’t pull their weight in this one, it’s going to bode very poorly for the Assad regime and the Russians. Now, the Russians have some very vital interests within the regions. They have a warm water seaport on the Mediterranean which is comprised of a very sizable naval force. And if they lose that, then that is going to drastically diminish their influence within the region. And it’s just not going to bode well for the axis of resistance as well. Because of course, Russia is the one who is, who is applying the air power. And that has really given Assad an edge against a lot of these rebel forces who don’t have that sort of capability.

And this, of course, could potentially deepen the divide between Russia and Israel, in fact, because of course, Israel is in many ways tacitly endorsing and supporting and all of their Internet influences are cheering this on because they want the downfall of the Assad regime. Because that means that weapons can no longer flow from Syria into Lebanon, which of course is why there’s currently a ceasefire. They’re probably thinking that maybe these guys can overthrow the Assad regime in the next 60 days. After that ceasefire is over, we can proceed with trying to neutralize Hezbollah. Now, Hezbollah won’t be getting as much weapons as they were once from Syria, we’ll have a better chance.

We won’t be getting our ass kicked as we have with our loss of 64 Merkava tanks in just the last month alone, which is completely unsustainable levels of attrition for the Israeli army, who as far as I know started off all of these wars with like 400 Merkava tanks. And I don’t think all of those were like fully operational. So, you know, this is a problem, right? But it’s a problem because the fewer options Russia has, the more backed into a corner they are, the greater the likelihood that this thing escalates vertically on the Ukrainian side and that ultimately is the more important side.

But Syria, it’s just the crossroads of everything. It is really where. It’s where we get some finality in terms of who’s on whose side. It’s where we finally get to decide is Turkey going to be on the side of the Russians? And it appears they’re not. Okay, so it appears as though the Turks have now double crossed the Russians once again and that this is going to escalate and we’re going to see the reason why the United States has nuclear weapons in Turkey materialize very soon. Now, on the topic of nuclear weapons, Jake Sullivan fielded some questions today about the possibility of returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

Now if you would have told anybody that Jake Sullivan was even dignifying such a question from the press a year ago, you would have been laughed out of the room. I mean, this would not have even been. This was in a time when F16s weren’t even certain, never mind long range missiles, nevermind long range missiles into Russia. Okay, so this would have just been seen as preposterous to even entertain this notion at all. Now. Well, Sullivan did reject the idea. I’m going to tell you what the reason was for the question in the first place, because a lot of these questions are kind of scripted in advance and I’m sure that they have their select media agencies that ask them the questions that they want to be asked so that they can, you know, shape public opinion on various matters.

Essentially the reason why he was asked that question was because when you reject Ukraine’s getting nuclear weapons, everything else seems a bit more reasonable, you know, so you can say, well, we’re not going to give them nuclear weapons. That’s absurd, we’re never going to do that. And I don’t think he said that. I think he just said that the United States is not going to be giving Ukraine nuclear weapons. Right? It wasn’t like that’s preposterous. Right. It makes the delivery of Taurus missiles, Tomahawk missiles, Jason’s missiles, maybe some more advanced, more tanks, or something. It may, everything else seem a lot more reasonable.

It’s a, it’s an age old sales tactic. You promote something first that is completely unreasonable, then by contrast, everything else seems reasonable. Even though those things that now seem reasonable, if you were to initially have proposed them, would have seemed preposterous themselves. So that’s the tactic being used here. And the simple fact that this conversation is being had at all is incredibly, incredibly insane. So we know that indeed they’re going to move up the escalation ladder because Sullivan has said in the same press conference that they are going to be giving Ukraine as many weapons as possible before Biden takes office.

The guy who’s currently busy pardoning his son. I’m sure you guys have all heard that. I mean, we all knew that was coming anyways. And at the end of the day, you know, one, drug addicts antics are really the least of our concerns in the grand scheme of things. Even though they might have some relation to these geopolitical matters at the end of the day. I mean, I’m not losing sleep over it at this point. I’m losing sleep over at what could potentially go down here in, in Russia. So we know that they’re going to continue to ramp it up.

They’re going to likely start doing deliveries of Jason’s missiles and possibly even Tomahawks. The fact that that’s even, that’s even in the discourse at all as well, Tom. Because why would Ukraine need Tomahawk missiles when you think about it? I mean, they have a range that would far exceed any utility to the Ukrainians because they have drones that can go that far. And the Russians, you know, they don’t have the capability to cover these large spaces. So this is why Ukrainian drone strikes, as we’ve seen just in the last 24 hours, again, they attacked another drone manufacturing facility deep in Russia.

They’re very effective. So why would you need Tomahawk missiles? Well, you might need them in exchange. And you know, this conversation came up after Russia launched Orozhnik, which is an IRBM intermediate range ballistic missile. It’s basically in defiance of the INF treaty. So not only were we putting Tomahawks in Germany, which I think starts in 2026 or something, likely it’s already there or it’s already in motion, put Tomahawks in Ukraine not for the purpose of fighting Russia conventionally, but for fighting them strategically for the purpose of a decapitation strike. And this is precisely why Russia has been grieving this particular issue for so Long because this is what they didn’t want it to come to.

They didn’t want to be surrounded by NATO who has the potential to put nuclear weapons very close to its major cities. Now, would this be any different from the fact that you got B52 Stratofortress bombers currently in Finland and you got F35s in Finland and potentially nuclear weapons in Finland? Probably not at the end of the day in terms of the way the crow flies, probably not. But it is just one more, you know, one more flank that they have to cover and that forces them to stretch their resources. Now they can do that to an extent, but they’re starting to, they’re starting to reach a limit in terms of how much they can disperse their forces.

The Russians have committed to a record setting military budget for 2025. I believe it’s going to be $145 billion now still, compared to the US Department of Defense. That is paltry numbers. But I would really like to see an audit of the US DoD and the Russian MoD and really do some comparison to there to see where the money is going and to see how it is actually being spent. Because I would not be surprised if at least half of what the US is spending is bloat. At least half, probably way more than that. And a lot of it is, you know, pensions and, and taking care of like these aircraft carriers and all of these expenses that Russia really doesn’t have because they’re not a real naval power.

So, you know, that’s just something to consider. Crazy, crazy times, man. Crazy times. B52 bombers simulating weapons drops in Finland on November 25th. Two US Air Force B52H Stratofortress bombers assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron conducted a simulated weapons drop training mission as a part of the bomber task force in Finland. We are hearing rumors that Ukraine could potentially. And this is from Ukrainian sources, Ukrainian sources cited by Russians, if that makes any sense. Or was it Russian? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s, that’s what it was. That Ukraine is going to be doing another big arrow invasion into Russia.

Okay, this is important. I don’t know when this is going to happen, but rumors are they’re going to come in through Kharkov and they’re going to do a real invasion into Belgorod. Not like the fake invasion that they did or the Pyrrhic invasion that they’ve been doing for the last couple where you have the partisan group stumbling over the border for photo ops. This is going to be a real one. Much like the Kursk style invasion, and that they are going to do this to continue to put some pressure on Vladimir Putin with the hopes that at some point he’s going to negotiate.

And the problem is with this whole Orezhnik display is that all this has done, all this has done is emboldened NATO even more now. NATO, like a kid in a candy store, because they think that Russia is not going to go nuclear. They think that, oh, they got this new weapon, it’s got no radioactive fallout. So there’s going to be no blowback, okay? There’s not going to be any real international blowback as a result of this. So we can continue to ramp things up vertically. And the worst that’s going to happen is Russia is going to continue to fire this incredibly expensive weapon, which was designed to deliver nukes.

It’s so expensive, they’re going to continue to burn it, you know, conventionally, which is actually better for NATO, you know, presuming that the rush, the targets that Russia hits, that they aren’t able to successfully hit those targets, or at least that the damage that is exacted is not proportional to the cost of the weapon itself. Now, the Ukrainians are saying that the. This is the first statement that I’ve heard about this, that the Azmush plant was actually not hit. Okay? So they’re saying that this strike, not that was not hit, but that it didn’t cause any significant damage.

This was an underground industrial facility that they’re saying made ballistic missiles for the Ukrainian missile program. Now they’re saying that there was very limited damage. Of course Ukraine would say that. And of course the Russians are going to say it’s a wunderwaffe and it’s the best thing since sliced bread and it completely destroyed the facility. Even though, you know, I’ve seen very, very tenuous anecdotal evidence to support both of those views. So I’m not convinced in either direction. I’m sure there was a little bit of damage, but the Russians can’t just rely on Orozhnex to deter NATO at this point.

It is only going to make the problem worse. Until Russ, Russia uses a nuclear weapon, NATO will not stop. They absolutely, positively will not stop. There is no reverse gear and no Trump is not coming to the rescue. That’s abundantly clear at this point. The mendacity of Trump’s comments up until now should be quite telling. The fact that he hasn’t commented on this particular issue at all. Look at the placements in his cabinet. They’re all Russia hawks, for the most part, this Kellogg guy that people are praising, he was the one who wanted to impose a no fly zone in NATO, which would absolutely have brought us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

So don’t hold out any hope for Trump to do anything significant with respect to foreign policy. In fact, it could get monumentally worse. What he will do is probably make good on a lot of his domestic policy promises. But of course, there is the issue of this tariff situation that he is throwing threats about how he’s going to raise people’s tariffs by 100% if they don’t trade in US dollars. And, you know, I mean, it may work, it may not, but chances are I’m going to go with my intuition on this one. That’s going to come at a cost, you see, because ultimately, at the end of the day, what are we saying as Americans? They’re saying, I say we because Canada, America.

Tomato, tomato. I put my quarters in your pop machine, you put your quarters in mine. It’s the same country, basically, more or less. I’m surprised we haven’t been usurped by the US Yet. I’m sure they’ll annex us at some point if Trudeau stays in long enough. But. And honestly, if I can get more guns, I guess I. I really don’t care at this point. I mean, what do we have to lose, really? I’m going to piss off some Canadians in saying that. But anyways, what was I saying? I totally lost my train of thought there. That’s what happens.

I’m not even. I don’t even have adhd, believe it or not, but maybe I should try some Ritalin, see if that. See if that helps me deal with some of this autistic thought patterns that I have. What the hell was I talking about? Now, I’m sure people at home are like, what the. Okay, yeah, I was talking about bricks in the dollar and the tariffs and all that stuff. Some of these statements that Trump is making, it. Look, this is what the exchange is. We tell the world, we’ll give you this piece of paper if you send us a bunch of stuff.

Why? Because everybody wants this piece of paper. Because it’s the most securest, bestest piece of paper ever, right? And so long as that whole racket, that whole scam holds up, and it could hold up for a long time because foreign investment is through the roof. People are scared. And when people are scared, they go for the US the only thing that damages that is civil war. Really. The only thing that dethrones the US dollar is itself is civil war. If that doesn’t happen, they could, they could keep this thing going for a while, no doubt. Russian ambassador to the UK essentially threatened the uk.

He said, I would like to note that the British have completely ignored all of our warnings and opted for escalatory actions to further worsen the Ukrainian crisis. And naturally this is fraught with bigger strategic risks and in the worst case scenario, even a confrontation between nuclear powers. I don’t even know how there’s still a Russian ambassador in the uk because the UK are really the ones who are puppeting Zelensky at this point. It’s the MI6, I believe, who provide his security detail. So the fact that they have an ambassador in the UK and they don’t currently have one in the United States is pretty crazy to me.

I can’t see that relationship lasting much longer, to be brutally honest. In terms of what else in the Middle East. So we got losing my light here. We’ve already had the US get somewhat involved in the Syrian situation by conducting airstrikes on Iranian backed militias in the vicinity of Al Mayaden Desert. So you know, the IRGC is very active in this conflict and so there is a risk that the more Iranian generals get clipped, the greater the likelihood that this Operation True Promise 3, when it does happen, it’s going to be more intense. The Iranians are claiming that they’re going to do this big attack against Israel while we’ve not seen it yet.

And it appears as though that the Assad regime is falling the axis of reluctance as I call them, because Hamas gave them the golden opportunity. They gave them their one in a lifetime opportunity, one in a century opportunity to try to throw down with Israel and they screwed it up. They basically, they got decapitated. They’ve allowed Israel and NATO to just gradually chip away and very meticulously and systematically and masterfully, I should add, on the part of the Israelis up until this point in time. Because these guys are just stupid, man. Like they just, they’re missing all of these opportunities to form a unified front and to actually collectively go on the offensive.

They just don’t because I guess they’re scared of the us. The US doesn’t even have aircraft carriers there, not as many as they did before. So I don’t know, something weird is something’s wrong with this whole situation, right? I’m sure the Russians and the Chinese are doing something in the background of the back channels to prevent things from going too hot. But even the fact that oil, what did oil move like 2% as a result of that supposed ceasefire that’s already been violated by both sides, but mostly by Israel anyways. Israel is now saying that they might even enter the war in Syria because of the situation deteriorating so rapidly.

In what capacity? Who knows? As I indicated, the Novaya Zemlya site where they do Russian nuclear weapon testing, or when the majority of tests have been done up there in the north, is ready to go, according to the chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s 12th Main Directorate, Col. Gen. Vladimir Verhotsev. He says that Russia’s nuclear weapons testing ground on Novaya’s Emily Archipelago is prepared for a potential resumption of nuclear tests. This, of course, just a couple days after Sergei Ryabkov, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia made that statement that they’re strongly reconsidering conducting nuclear tests. This makes me think that the Russians are going to be way too prudent and that they’re going to make the mistake of conducting a nuclear test.

All this is going to do is embolden NATO to keep going further and keep going further. Sergei Karaganov is right. I think this whole thing could have been ended long ago with a demonstrative nuclear strike in the middle of a field somewhere in Ukraine. Nobody could even get harmed. If they would have done that, I have a feeling that we would have put on the reverse gear long time ago. But they didn’t do that because Putin has another strategy. And I can’t say it’s working because the economy there ain’t doing that good. Is it far more resilient than most people ever imagined? Absolutely.

But it has its limits. It definitely has its limits. And 40% of Russians are in favor of using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine in some capacity. I’m presuming if you structure that survey in a certain way that that number would probably rise dramatically depending on how they they word it. So yeah, man. Yeah, that’s what’s going down. Oh, I forgot to mention, I wanted to mention this right at the beginning of the video. This is your last chance to get the Black Friday Special 17 store wide. Okay? You can get 17% off canadianpreparedness.com store wide. I do this once a year for people, usually for a few days out of the year.

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And guys, please take winter seriously. Please take winter seriously. Because the last thing you want is to die before shtf because you didn’t pack a small heater in your car in the midst of a snowstorm or you didn’t have the proper, you know, apparel attire to ride out a cold winter storm or something like that. Definitely winter is one of the, one of the most difficult challenges, but it’s very doable. There’s many ways around it. And if I can do it in the coldest part of North America, or one of you absolutely can do it as well.

Stay safe, my friends. Talk to you soon.
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