“But second, there is no way I am going to take 2+ hours out of the day to watch a YouTube video of someone of whom I have never heard, based on recommendations by people I don’t know and whose judgment I have no reason to trust.,”
This is the video... Pepe Escobar has a Spanish accent so is bit hard to understand. The interviewer do not allow for closed captioning. I am familiar with Pepe he has been talking up Russia, China, the BRICS for years. This is his shtick.
2015.
https://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/how_china_and_russia_are_running_rings_around_washington_partne/