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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 12 MIN

How China Uses Russia, Iran & North Korea

from Common Sense for America · host Bruce Rutherford

Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea aren't four separate problems they're four coordinated moves in one long-term strategy to end American leadership. Bruce Rutherford breaks down the full board, the money flows connecting all four players, and the Reagan-era playbook that proves America can win this without sending a single soldier into direct combat. In this episode: Why treating these as separate crises is exactly what our adversaries want How China funds Iran, Iran arms Russia, and North Korea supplies the ammunition The $175B Ukraine investment and what it actually bought America strategically Reagan's Operation Cyclone: 630M/year vs. 14,000 Soviet casualties (no Americans lost) Taiwan's 90% semiconductor stranglehold and why it's the real endgame The constitutional argument for Congressional oversight regardless of who's in the White House Why walking away before the job is done is America's most dangerous habit This is Episode 2 of a 4-part series. Next week: the single move retired General Jack Keane calls the "checkmate move" and why it changes everything about how you see Iran. Common sense over narrative. Data over opinion. Follow the money, not the spin. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly geopolitical analysis that follows the money, not the narrative. Sources & References: Operation Cyclone funding figures — Congressional Research Service North Korea troop deployment — U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency briefings Iran drone transfers to Russia — NATO Intelligence assessments, 2023–2024 China dual-use component transfers — U.S. Commerce Dept. export control filings Ukraine aid totals — USAID/DoD combined reporting Russia-Iran 20-Year Strategic Treaty — January 2025 #GeopoliticalAnalysis #ChinaThreat #GlobalStrategy #AmericaFirst #ForeignPolicy #RussiaUkraine #Taiwan #NorthKorea #Iran #CommonSenseForAmerica

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