December 1, 2025 • 8 mins
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Billions flow through defense contractors, D.C. think tanks, and foreign oligarchs—while U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Chris digs into the real drivers of the Ukraine conflict: natural resources, post-Soviet wealth grabs, Western meddling, and the people who profit from endless war. With Trump now seeking a deal that could free up Russia’s frozen assets, the question becomes whether peace is finally more profitable than conflict.
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Billions flow through defense contractors, D.C. think tanks, and foreign oligarchs—while U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Chris digs into the real drivers of the Ukraine conflict: natural resources, post-Soviet wealth grabs, Western meddling, and the people who profit from endless war. With Trump now seeking a deal that could free up Russia’s frozen assets, the question becomes whether peace is finally more profitable than conflict.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Chris Markowski Ukraine, Peace and Money. I have again pretty
skeptical of the entire Ukraine Russia conflict from the get go,
and the narratives that have been pushed upon us by
(00:34):
the military industrial complex, by the various major media networks
here in this country that always, you know, without a doubt,
sign on to every single war that's out there. A
lot of money has been made by defense contractors and
people in Washington, DC based upon this conflict, without a doubt,
(00:56):
and we the taxpayers have patron It's come out of
our pockets. And again, you know the thing got started.
You know, evil Putin invades country. And again I'm not
saying Putin is a good guy by any stretch of
the imagination. Maybe there aren't any And that's one of
(01:18):
the things that I think we fail to understand. I
try to explain this to people all the time, because
you know, we again have this false belief that Elon Musk,
the richest guy in the world, Jeff Bezos, the richest
guy in the world. No, they're not. Okay, they're not.
Their businesses are worth x amount of dollars based upon
(01:42):
a share price that you see up there. You can
type it up TI about Okay, what's Tesla trading that?
What's Amazon trade? And how many shares do they have? Well,
it's worked this much thing that people fail to understand
that there is a bid. So you start selling Amazon
or Tesla stock, Well, that price is only good for
(02:02):
a certain amount of shares. You hit that bid, guess
what the price drops. That's what happens. Real money, Real
money is the stuff that comes out of, for lack
of a better phrase, faucets, commodity money, oil gas, cause
(02:26):
there's a myriad of different things. Any type of commodity
is real money. Why do you think there was so
much interest in the Ukraine? They have again, period of
natural resources available there, talked about everything, stuff that even
developed from litium, rare earth minerals, you name it farmland.
(02:52):
How are you amazing? How many people go back to
the Biden family, What the hell did they know about
the freaking Ukraine? How are they involved with this? Listen
I'm able to travel, and I got away with my
family in the summertime. My wife's family had talked about
(03:13):
this before and in the Mediterranean and the yachts that
you see, the yachts that you see in the Mediterranean
in the summertime, and it's funny. We crack jokes about it.
They all have. You know, you can look at the
name on the back. These are two hundred and fifty
foot yachts. Yeah, nine out of ten times, at Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia,
(03:43):
you name it. Yeah, it's all these areas of the world.
They don't own a tech company there. Okay. These are
people that control commodities. And this is what this has
always been about, printing real money, whether you want to
(04:03):
believe it or not. Okay, you want to come up
with some sort of fantasy that it's about something else,
it's about the people that No, no, it's about who
controls these assets. After the breakup of the Soviet Union,
we screwed that up royally, We really did. We screwed
it up royally. Could have you want to say it,
(04:25):
you want to say, democratize their natural resources and allowed
a little bit more to go to the people the
way we do it here in the sense of you know,
you look at Exxon Mobile and how you know, our
natural resources. They're not controlled by few players, you know
what I'm saying. No, that didn't happen there. Okay, it
was people that were in power. These are people that
(04:47):
communists all of a sudden became you know, for lack
of a better phrase, kind of quasi capitalists communists now
capitalist capitalists, fascist types, if you will, in the sense
that you know, they control it all and that that's
that's what happened. That's what happened there. And again you
(05:10):
get a bifocated economy to some degree and that but
that's what you have when you have that type of
mineral wealth within those countries. Right now, we're seeing the
Trump administration try a different tact and trying to open
(05:31):
up Russia and do basically trying to basically cut a
deal with Russia, bringing Russia back into the fold as
far as their economy is concerned, fring up. They got
three hundred billion dollars in assets that are frozen within
Europe trying to you know, again, it's not it is
(05:52):
America first move. Europeans are not going to be happy
about this by any stretch the imagination. I don't have
any problem quite frankly, with what he's doing, trying to
cut a deal, trying to cut a deal to put
an end to this and again position America ahead of
Europe when it comes to these various different assets and
(06:16):
developing them once again, getting various different players in there. Again,
will certain people connected to the president get really wealthy?
Sure so, I honestly I don't care. I really don't care.
That doesn't bother me, as long as the bomb stop
(06:39):
falling and people stop getting killed, and you know, God willing,
God willing, there might be a little bit of a
rising tide that will lift all of the boats there.
But from the get go, from the get go, our
involvement in that it was a mis calculation. Orange Revolution
(07:02):
early two thousands, and you had that Maiden Revolution in
twenty fourteen where you had McCain and Lindsey Graham basically
telling people to overthrow an elected government for crying out loud.
Victoria Newland was caught on a telephone call planning who
would run the post coup government.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Again, this is right, didn't you want? But this is
right on Russia's doorstep. We don't, and I like it
if it was right on our doorstep and it was
the Russians or the Chinese doing it. It's the fact
that we need to stick our nose in the bloody everything, get.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It, do business, do business, and that's the way to go.
And again, this thing could have ended if it wasn't
for Boris Johnson and Joe Biden that wanted to keep
this thing going. Is the Ukrainian people they have victim
of this? Absolutely absolutely did do we play a part
(08:12):
in this? Yeah? Yeah we did. But you know, maybe
just maybe we might want to start, you know, maybe
the non intervention is tracked. Maybe we listen to guys
like Ron Paul. We just keep our nose out of
these things. Watch Dog on Wall Street dot Com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Chris Markowski Ukraine, Peace and Money. I have again pretty
skeptical of the entire Ukraine Russia conflict from the get go,
and the narratives that have been pushed upon us by
(00:34):
the military industrial complex, by the various major media networks
here in this country that always, you know, without a doubt,
sign on to every single war that's out there. A
lot of money has been made by defense contractors and
people in Washington, DC based upon this conflict, without a doubt,
(00:56):
and we the taxpayers have patron It's come out of
our pockets. And again, you know the thing got started.
You know, evil Putin invades country. And again I'm not
saying Putin is a good guy by any stretch of
the imagination. Maybe there aren't any And that's one of
(01:18):
the things that I think we fail to understand. I
try to explain this to people all the time, because
you know, we again have this false belief that Elon Musk,
the richest guy in the world, Jeff Bezos, the richest
guy in the world. No, they're not. Okay, they're not.
Their businesses are worth x amount of dollars based upon
(01:42):
a share price that you see up there. You can
type it up TI about Okay, what's Tesla trading that?
What's Amazon trade? And how many shares do they have? Well,
it's worked this much thing that people fail to understand
that there is a bid. So you start selling Amazon
or Tesla stock, Well, that price is only good for
(02:02):
a certain amount of shares. You hit that bid, guess
what the price drops. That's what happens. Real money, Real
money is the stuff that comes out of, for lack
of a better phrase, faucets, commodity money, oil gas, cause
(02:26):
there's a myriad of different things. Any type of commodity
is real money. Why do you think there was so
much interest in the Ukraine? They have again, period of
natural resources available there, talked about everything, stuff that even
developed from litium, rare earth minerals, you name it farmland.
(02:52):
How are you amazing? How many people go back to
the Biden family, What the hell did they know about
the freaking Ukraine? How are they involved with this? Listen
I'm able to travel, and I got away with my
family in the summertime. My wife's family had talked about
(03:13):
this before and in the Mediterranean and the yachts that
you see, the yachts that you see in the Mediterranean
in the summertime, and it's funny. We crack jokes about it.
They all have. You know, you can look at the
name on the back. These are two hundred and fifty
foot yachts. Yeah, nine out of ten times, at Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia,
(03:43):
you name it. Yeah, it's all these areas of the world.
They don't own a tech company there. Okay. These are
people that control commodities. And this is what this has
always been about, printing real money, whether you want to
(04:03):
believe it or not. Okay, you want to come up
with some sort of fantasy that it's about something else,
it's about the people that No, no, it's about who
controls these assets. After the breakup of the Soviet Union,
we screwed that up royally, We really did. We screwed
it up royally. Could have you want to say it,
(04:25):
you want to say, democratize their natural resources and allowed
a little bit more to go to the people the
way we do it here in the sense of you know,
you look at Exxon Mobile and how you know, our
natural resources. They're not controlled by few players, you know
what I'm saying. No, that didn't happen there. Okay, it
was people that were in power. These are people that
(04:47):
communists all of a sudden became you know, for lack
of a better phrase, kind of quasi capitalists communists now
capitalist capitalists, fascist types, if you will, in the sense
that you know, they control it all and that that's
that's what happened. That's what happened there. And again you
(05:10):
get a bifocated economy to some degree and that but
that's what you have when you have that type of
mineral wealth within those countries. Right now, we're seeing the
Trump administration try a different tact and trying to open
(05:31):
up Russia and do basically trying to basically cut a
deal with Russia, bringing Russia back into the fold as
far as their economy is concerned, fring up. They got
three hundred billion dollars in assets that are frozen within
Europe trying to you know, again, it's not it is
(05:52):
America first move. Europeans are not going to be happy
about this by any stretch the imagination. I don't have
any problem quite frankly, with what he's doing, trying to
cut a deal, trying to cut a deal to put
an end to this and again position America ahead of
Europe when it comes to these various different assets and
(06:16):
developing them once again, getting various different players in there. Again,
will certain people connected to the president get really wealthy?
Sure so, I honestly I don't care. I really don't care.
That doesn't bother me, as long as the bomb stop
(06:39):
falling and people stop getting killed, and you know, God willing,
God willing, there might be a little bit of a
rising tide that will lift all of the boats there.
But from the get go, from the get go, our
involvement in that it was a mis calculation. Orange Revolution
(07:02):
early two thousands, and you had that Maiden Revolution in
twenty fourteen where you had McCain and Lindsey Graham basically
telling people to overthrow an elected government for crying out loud.
Victoria Newland was caught on a telephone call planning who
would run the post coup government.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Again, this is right, didn't you want? But this is
right on Russia's doorstep. We don't, and I like it
if it was right on our doorstep and it was
the Russians or the Chinese doing it. It's the fact
that we need to stick our nose in the bloody everything, get.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It, do business, do business, and that's the way to go.
And again, this thing could have ended if it wasn't
for Boris Johnson and Joe Biden that wanted to keep
this thing going. Is the Ukrainian people they have victim
of this? Absolutely absolutely did do we play a part
(08:12):
in this? Yeah? Yeah we did. But you know, maybe
just maybe we might want to start, you know, maybe
the non intervention is tracked. Maybe we listen to guys
like Ron Paul. We just keep our nose out of
these things. Watch Dog on Wall Street dot Com
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