War Is Getting Closer and Closer... Are You Ready? | Trending Ep422

Last night, a massive drone attack on Moscow.

Over 450 drones were shot down over the Russian capital in what's being described as the largest attack on Russian territory since this conflict began.

Now, have you noticed that in recent days, weeks and even months, talk of diplomacy, talk of peace, talk of truces, talk of ceasefires, talk of agreements to end the war seem to have just gone very, very silent.

That seemed to be something that was being discussed pretty consistently.

up until about two months ago.

Now, all of a sudden, it's just tit-for-tat attacks.

Blueprints of missiles are being given to the Ukrainians by Britain.

More long-range capabilities are being given to them by other people.

And there just is back-and-forth attacks.

Seems to be a bit of a stalemate on the front line in terms of ground being either regained or gained.

And it seems now that inevitable larger, wider conflicts... are exactly that, inevitable.

There's more talk of war, of conflict, of wider NATO involvement, of attacks on NATO countries.

That's what the headlines seem to be dominated with now.

They're not dominated with any discussions of peace or any discussions of ceasefire or anything that I've just mentioned.

And There's obviously reasons for that.

One being, we know that the outcome that they want is conflict.

They don't want peace.

They haven't achieved their aims yet.

The world has not changed enough as a result of this conflict.

Okay, people in Ukraine and people in Russia will probably scoff at that comment because life will have changed a lot for them, and I completely agree.

However, in terms of this being a world conflict and a conflict that changes the direction of travel of the world, it's not done that yet.

In a way, the conflict in the Middle East has actually caused more chaos in the world than the one in Northern Europe, because the one in the Middle East has massively impacted energy prices, oil distribution and so on, which affects the world.

It's affected jet fuel capabilities, it's affected oil supplies around the world, oil prices around the world, which affects you every time you go and fill your car up.

So that's really impacted the wider world and is destined to prolong.

That impact with the issues on the Strait of Hormuz and the other one as well to the Red Sea that the Houthis have now taken over, which we covered on Friday.