# DEEP DIVE: US Senate Hearing Reveals US Foreign Policy, Weaponizing Energy, Subordinating Asia (2/3) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-foreign-policy-weaponizing-energy-subordinating-asia-2-3 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-foreign-policy-weaponizing-energy-subordinating-asia-2-3.md Podcast: [The New Atlas (previously Land Destroyer) on Odysee](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554) Published: 2026-05-03T03:33:39+00:00 Episode link: https://odysee.com/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-2:81d25d5cf7f6ef05a1cbd202b88e66e8000404df Audio file: https://odysee.com/$/rss/media/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-2/81d25d5cf7f6ef05a1cbd202b88e66e8000404df/c4d907.mp4 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554/episodes/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-foreign-policy-weaponizing-energy-subordinating-asia-2-3 Duration seconds: 7039 ## Resource Part 2 of 3 Part 1: https://youtu.be/x9ban3AI5oE?si=cgM2ZCxkeF7M8GZn Part 2: https://youtu.be/BTlUKqZSo4c?si=MLiS7Ip3bOmBqurF Part 3: https://youtu.be/tyXGuyJ5F2k?si=Ly05C_8sd9uSNMtY US foreign policy is driven by US corporate interests but often buried by public political theater and daily headlines designed specifically to distract away from the true nature and purpose of US foreign policy objectives. However, during US Senate and House hearings, there are relatively unfiltered discussions about these policies made public with a fair degree of confidence most Americans will NOT watch them. I provide a breakdown of one of these hearings (April 21, 2026) focused on encircling, containing, and confronting China within the Asia-Pacific region - contradicting many of the misconceptions created by Western media using the words of US Senators and their witnesses themselves to do so. References: NYT - The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Dec. 2025): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 2025): https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/ FT - Iranian tankers bypass US blockade (Apr. 22, 2026): https://www.ft.com/content/21dff2c7-1e27-4f74-81d8-31dcdbe9188e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Politico - 5 charts show China’s oil dilemma after US strikes (Mar. 2, 2026): https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/02/iran-us-strikes-china-oil-supply-charts-00806415 Reuters - How China is plugging energy supply gaps left by US-Iran conflict (Apr. 15, 2026): https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/how-china-is-plugging-energy-supply-gaps… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554/episodes/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-foreign-policy-weaponizing-energy-subordinating-asia-2-3/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-atlas-previously-land-destroyer-on-odysee-6857554/deep-dive-us-senate-hearing-reveals-us-foreign-policy-weaponizing-energy-subordinating-asia-2-3.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.