My daughter ordered some things from Shein. We all had a good laugh at what she received. The dresses looked nothing like the pictures, and were the cheapest fabric imaginable. They were literally see-through and pull apart, with your bare hands, cheap. Meanwhile, some guy in China knew he lied, sold crappy things and didn't care one bit. He also knew that 99% of Americans won't send his junk back. It's too expensive to ship there.

Lesson learned (I hope)

~NightSky

I did an interview with a Russian news outlet in Moscow last week, and I said the same thing I say on American TV networks -- Americans don't want war, we want peace and prosperity.

I want the war to end, and I don't respect those in the American national security sphere who paint the Ukraine conflict as somehow existential to the United States -- It's not.

By the way, I wrote for a Ukrainian newspaper in Kyiv a while back and I said the same thing there too, in 2015 when the war was getting deadly in Donbass.

After talking with the TV production crew, and many other sources across the Russian Federation - one thing became very clear -- Russians want American products back on their shelves.

I was told this reality in several conversations, unprompted. All of my sources wanted to know if Trump would bring peace, real peace.

"I want to buy a Mustang," said one young producer.

They don't trust Chinese products -- "It's all cheap garbage," one source lamented.

"We should not be fighting each other," said another.

Russians realize they are not fighting the American people, they are fighting a criminal gang in the West.

Muscovites also don't trust Chinese labor, brought in to work in Russian factories and infrastructure projects. They realize the CCP does not care at all about the Russian people, and will stab Moscow in the back when it becomes in their advantage to do so, taking jobs, natural resources, and technology.

The world is realizing China is the cancer, despite the howling of CCP captured European leaders, or the CCP's American financial class minions.

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L Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd has been a national security columnist for The Washington Times and contributed to One American News, Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, Novaya Vremya (Ukraine), the New York Post, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, Zero Hedge and others. He is also founder/publisher of CDM. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.