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you know we're back. Give it
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here if the chat over there is
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doing it again. I thought I
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I haven't solved the problem. Okay, screens still tearing, but might not

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be fixable in a reasonable time frame. It looks like it's not the Uh.

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who knows. Maybe it's bannedwidth.
I don't think it's bannedwith I think this

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is it. All right, let's
go go. I want to tell you

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about my talk at University of Utah
yesterday. It was the Federalist Society,

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so it was at the law school. It was on free speech and Western

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civilization. That title created quite a
still in the universe on the campus.

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Not only is free speech questionable these
days, but it turns out the Western

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civilization it's not a concept people like, people support. It's a little i

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don't know, west centric or something. In a multicultural world, it's not

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acceptable so anyway, so we got
a good turnout for fet SoC is one

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of the largest fet SOX events I've
done. Utah Law School is a relatively

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small law school is compared let's say
a Harvard or something like that, and

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we got like seventy studence, which
was fantastic, and most of them were

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not Federalist Society students, so they
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from outside the Federalist Society. Many
of them are leftists, And as a

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consequence, there was a really good
mix of questions, really challenging, real

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positive back and forth. It was
videotape, but I think really really poorly.

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Unfortunately, when I rely on other
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out, it doesn't really work out
usually. But they said they would videotape

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it, they said they would have
high quality. Anyway, we'll get some

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videotape, we'll get audio. We'll
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worth publishing. But the Q and
A was particularly excellent. Lots of challenging

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questions, lots of attend to insult
me, or to catch me, or

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to get me at a contradiction,
or to put me into a corner,

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or to you know what they were
really a lot of them were trying to

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do is hold me right? You
know? Is he a conservative? Is

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the A level? They couldn't figure
out what I was. They couldn't figure

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out where to pigeon me hold me. So that was a lot of fun.

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And hopefully that I'll be out at
some point and uh and you'll be

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able to U you'll be able to
enjoy that, uh and uh and benefit

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from it. But so that was
a good a good event. Thank you

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to the organizers, thank you for
putting it together, and uh and uh

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and yeah, really good event.
And then today the Leadership program of the

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Rockies, which is always really good
and uh was uh was fantastic, talked

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about capitalism and I'll be I'll be
doing that again. I'll be coming back

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to Denver for the leadership program in
the Rockies in January. I do.

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I do two of these talks a
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what is capitalism and has capitalism this
capitalism produced good results? And the second

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is the morality of capitalism. So
I did the practical side on January.

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I'll do the morality of capitalism.
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so let's talk about World War Three. What a topic, right, But

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I think it was good, good
clickbait. But more importantly, it's a

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topic everybody seems to be talking about. There's a lot of discussion out there

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about World War three. It is, I think, in the minds of

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many, many people, a real
possibility. I think people are looking around

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the world and they're seeing a war
in Europe, a major war in Europe,

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a major war between two very you
know, well armed military forces on

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the continent of Europe. I don't
think anybody expected to see that. They

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see a war now in Israel,
and everybody is looking worth a lot of

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caution and a lot of angs towards
China and to see what's gonna happen with

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China and Taiwan. So I think
that's one reason why there's a lot of

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angst, there's a lot of warri
when the world sees Russia in China aligned

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with one another and the two of
them aligned with Iran, and Iran being

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behind Hamas and the Palestinians, that
I think is a source of significant warr

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If you add in North Korea,
North Korea is aligned with Russia, it's

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providing weapons and ammunition to the Russians. And in a sense, if each

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one of those is a separate conflict, if each one of those is a

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fragment, then it's no big deal. Then there's a conflict in Ukrainian,

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there's a conflict in Gaza, and
there's a conflict maybe in China Taiwan,

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and each one of those can be
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not that big of a deal,
although Taiwan would be. The lenge becomes

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is if you start seeing them as
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it as a the the the Russia
China Iran block, as a block that

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is challenging the United States and the
West. And once you see that,

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then it you know, there's reason
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Add to that the fact that there's
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the world about about the global South, about bricks, the kind of bricks,

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bricks being Brazil, Russia, India, China, uh in South Africa,

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as being an alternative to the West, about an alternative currency and new

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currency to replace the dollar. So
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and more and more real sustainable angst, and people really worried and seeing this

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not in terms of independent, unrelated
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real, not yet world war,
but a real global challenge. The global

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South plus China, Russia, Iran
really facing off against the United States and

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the West. And then if China
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world war? It does it become
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does not face off in Taiwan.
If China just continues to support Russia,

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and if it's willing to support Yuan
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East, what does that look like
and to what extent does that evolve into

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a world war? So it does. I mean there is a real life,

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a global geopolitical realignment going on right
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us really saw coming. I don't
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some exceptions, but I don't think
they Many people expected a war in Ukraine.

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I don't think many people expected China
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quickly as it has to reject kind
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quickly as it did. And then
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then to align somehow with Iran.
I mean both China and Russia. Both

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China and Russia have any islam is
a problem. Both China and Russia are

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threatened by Islam. China have the
Uga problem in Western China, which they

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are dealing with with concentration camps and
with you know, collective punishments on a

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massive scale. China has had Islamish
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If you remember the two Chechna Wars, talk about killing innocence and flattening

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cities. What Israel is doing in
Gaza is like kids play as compared to

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what Russia did in Chechnia. Nobody
said anything at that time. It is

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interesting, and this is what you
know. It just doesn't aside here.

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People wonder why everybody jumps from criticizing
Israel to anti semitism. And I think

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the main reason a lot of us
jump from people attacking Israel to a broader

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idea that this is motivated by anti
Semitism is the fact that Israel is not

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doing anything that other countries have not
done. Israel is not doing anything that

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a lot of other countries have not
done. It's not happening right now as

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we speak, in a lot of
other parts of the world, Old Sudan,

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where the Islam is just slaughtering men, women and children, where there's

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a brutal civil war, you know, Russia in chechena war Yemen right now

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where the hoodies and the civil war
in Yemen where civilians, hundreds of thousands

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civilians are casualties of that war.
Not a peep out of the world,

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not a comment, nothing. Israel's
defending yourself, clearly, defending yourself,

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clearly responding to aggression, clearly responding
to an enemy committed to its own destruction.

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And the whole world goes apoplectic.
And every story now has ceasefire somewhere

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in it. There's this happening,
and what about the ceasefire? And this

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happening? But what about a ceasefire? Is if Israel has some more responsibility

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to do a ceasefire? Why because
you know civilians are dying in Gaza,

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Why didn't Hamas think of that?
Aren't there the responsibility comas anyway, we've

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talked about all that. You've got
a situation where Russia and China aligned with

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the Islamist regime, which they shouldn't
really be aligned with because it's not their

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friend. It is indeed their enemy, and they know it's their enemy,

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and they've taken action against Islamists in
their own countries. But it is an

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alliance of convenience. It's an alliance
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thing primarily, and that is to
be anti US. So is this the

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because of four World War? Are
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China, Iran and the Global South? I don't know what the global

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South is? Is that Brazil,
Argentina? Is it so all of South

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America? Does it include much of
Southeast Asia? Does the Global South include?

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Is India part of this because they're
part of breaks? Does it include

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in Indonesia and Malaysia? Does it
include South Africa? Does include the rest

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of Africa? Nobody really says.
They talk about a global South as if

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it's some kind of you know,
one thing, one block, and of

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course it's not. Are they countries
in that block or would like to join

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Russia and China in attacking the West
and in the US? Maybe maybe not

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clear who. So there's a there's
a lot of hand waving when people talk

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about the Global South, and people
talk about this idea, this potential,

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this potential of of of World War
three. So it's utly who the who

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the combent that's are. You can
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ron is clearly being hostile to the
United States and to Europe. But what

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does a World War three mean?
A World War three would mean, you

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know, UH, Russia and China
being willing to engage militarily against the United

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States and Europe, NATO, maybe
against Japan, South Korea, Australia,

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kind of a Western if you will
alliance. Does that seem feasible? Does

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it seem that that's where they're heading
now? I think there's at least two

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parties that you could imagine would be
interested in such a such a would would

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be at least be flirting with that
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One is Prutin, who I think
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and and really you know, embraces
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in some kind of Russian destiny to
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that in such a alliance with China
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to Sorry, Russia is clearly a
junior partner to China. Do Putin really

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embrace a role as a junior partner? Does Putin really want to conflict with

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NATO? He's having a hard enough
time with Ukraine. Ukraine is undermanned,

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under equipped, It still has mostly
second tier weapons systems from the from the

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West. Russia is not fighting against
F thirty five. It's not fighting against

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you know, the full military force
that a NATO could put together, that

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the United States could put together,
and it's not doing well. Argue about

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how badly it is doing, but
clearly it's not doing well. Does Russia

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really want to expand that conflict to
armies that I think it is quite reasonable

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and obvious would completely annihilate it and
destroy it. Well, certainly not alone,

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but would it be willing to do
it together with China? And that

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puts into question, well, what
does China want? Does China really want

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a war right now, a significant
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Does it want to risk losing?
It's on this path that at least

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until a few years ago, seem
to be leading it towards riches to its

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success to its power. Does it
really want to jeopardize whatever path it's on

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for the sake of a war now
risk losing it probably would lose. Do

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either one of those Russia or China
want to risk nuclear war? And annihilation

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does strike me the China or Russia
a suicidal that the leaderships is suicidal.

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China has ambitions, ambitions that I
think more realistic and are more substantive than

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Russian ambitions. But those ambitions first
have to be achieved on the economic wealth

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front inside China before China can be
dominant internationally and can take on the United

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States militarily. And there's no question
China knows this. They're not delusional,

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They're not as crazy as I think
Putin is. So what is the incent

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of China has to go to war
with the United States? I think the

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only incentive they would have and the
only circumstances I think there are probably two

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circumstances that they would do it when
is if they thought they could win.

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I mean, they thought they could
win decisively, that the odds were clearly

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in their favor. And I think
that's unequivocally just not the case. They

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would cause a lot of damage to
the United States even at a conventional war.

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But the chances of winning a below
fifty percent. I mean, the

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chances of taking Taiwan are not that
great. And Taiwan's a tiny little island

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with a small military. You know, partially because America, in Japan and

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South Korea might come to Taiwan's defense, but also just Taiwan is a strong

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military and amphibious landing and all of
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None of that is easy. So
Chinese not can engage you a war that

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it is likely to lose. It'll
wait. And I think the Chinese believe,

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I think falsely, but they believe
that they will get back on tract

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for economic growth. They will back
on track to economic wealth. They will

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grow, they will achieve, they
will succeed, they will become the richest

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country in the world. They'll invest
heavily in the military, and then and

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then they will take over the world. Then, well, maybe not take

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over the war, but take on
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also don't think China has ambitions,
let's say, to occupy the United States

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in the same way that I do
think Russia has ambitions to occupy Europe.

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I do think Russia has ambitions in
its fantasy world to basically control all of

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Western Europe. I don't think China
has those ambitions. It's philosophy doesn't drive.

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It wants to be the respected,
dominant player in the world. It

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doesn't necessarily want to rule the entire
world. Just don't see China's motivation to

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launch into World War three. The
other reason it might do it, when

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I said, is if they thought
they could win. I mean thought confidently

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they could win. The second is
if things are so bad in China that

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the only way for she to survive
somehow is to launch a war. But

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I just don't I don't see that. I mean, she has complete control

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of what's going on in China,
there's no real opposition to him, and

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I think a war would completely destabilize
his rule. There's no reason to believe

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that a war would actually solidify his
control over China quite to the country.

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So it is as I said,
I am skeptical about China's incentives. Ewan

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is different, but Iran. Here
it has to be clear, is the

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junior junior partner. Iwan has no
economy to speak up. It has oil

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exports, but the oil export terminals
could be taken out basically in a day

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by an air attack by Israel or
the United States. Iran has global ambitions.

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Iran wants the domination of Islam over
the world. Iran is some mystical

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unattached from reality. Sense believes that
that is possible. Iran wouldn't mind nuclear

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war because it is a suicietal death
worshiping ideology that many of the people who

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controlled Iran have. They share that
with Kramas. But Iran has no military

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force, It has no real military
standing. It poses no military threat to

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the West. Israel, the United
States, Western Europe, NATO could annihilate

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the Iranian military and the Iranian regime
in a matter of hours if they chose

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to do so. There's just no
military threat that Iran poses to the West.

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It only poses a military threat to
the West because the West won't go

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anything right. I mean, American
basis in Syria and Iraq are being attacked

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almost every hour, maybe twice an
hour. In the US is doing nothing

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zero is zilch. That makes Iran
seem incredibly powerful, but they are not.

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So we have three countries, the
one that Creek Mayhem in the world

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they don't share interests. Russia has
its ion, its empire in Europe.

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China has an eye on being a
dominant economic and ultimately military power. Iran

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wants to control of the world through
Islam. They don't share much in common

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except the hatred of the West,
a hatred of Israel, which is surprising

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coming from China. But I guess
not so much hatred of the West,

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the hatred of Israel. But no
positive framework. No, I don't know.

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Communism, global communism. We're going
to instill communism all over the world.

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No global global vision for you know, the Arian race and space for

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the Arian race. Again, Russia
wants Russia wants Europe, and it wants

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to expand its territory. But it's
not some global ideology driving it. There's

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just no basis to take this to
World War three. There's just no there

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there eight They would lose, and
they would lose pretty quickly depending on how

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it developed. But be there's no
incentive. The main party it's such a

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world would have to be China.
China is the only country in the world

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today they could feel the military they
could challenge, if at all, the

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United States and its allys so with
that China, nothing goes. Russia is

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not going to see leadership of World
War three to China. China has no

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interest in going to the war since
Russia can take Europe, so that it's

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a distraction, and there are territorial
disputes between China and Russia. Who gets

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the rule Asia. There's massive competition
between China and Russia over who gets the

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influence Central Asia, the Stans,
the various countries that are Stans. It's

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just basically no rational basis for that
matter, any basis. There's never a

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rational basis for there's just no basis
for these countries to launch World War three

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against the United States and Europe.
Now we could get there by accident.

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I guess that would have to involve
China invading Taiwan and then Russia expressing sympathy

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with the Chinese, and somehow United
States getting imashed in defending Taiwan and not

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being successful, and the Iranians using
that opportunity to create format in the Middle

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East. So you can imagine as
something descending into a kind of World War

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three scenario where there are there's fighting
going on in Asia and Europe and in

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the Middle East, all kind of
guided by the same alliance. But even

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there, a war in the Middle
East cannot be sustained. If if you

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want is really at war with the
United States, and the Unites States takes

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out the Iranians, war in the
Middle East would end pretty quickly, you

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know. It is all can defend
itself for the most part, and and

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whatever resources the United States has in
the Middle East could be deployed to Asia

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or to Europe or whatever is needed. Again, if NATO got into this

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war, the Ukrainian war would be
over a long long time ago. You

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know. So there's so and then
what do you do do you do you

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take Moscow? Or do you fear
nuclear war? So you just hold them

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at the ball. I just don't
see it how how the pieces come together.

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Now. I'm not saying there will
never be a World War three,

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because the real impetus for World War
three is not China, Russia, Iran.

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The real impetus impetus for World War
three is not the strength of our

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enemies. It's not the strength of
those countries. It's not some alternative competing

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ideology. There is none. It's
not like Russia has an ideology other than

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Russia. That's the ideology. It's
not like China has an ideology. Their

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ideology is not communism. It's not
exactly anything. It's Chinese philosophy applied to

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China. It's control. It's the
Chinese Communist Party, which is badly named

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because they're not communists controlling China.
But there's no like the Soviet Union had

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this notion of global you know,
just like a global jihad, a group

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global communism. There's no China has
no ambitions for global communism. Iran has

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ambitions for global jihad. But Iran
is an insignificant player. So it's not

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the strength of their ideology that would
lead to World War three. What could

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lead to World War three the weakness
of the West, the capitulation of the

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West, the lack of any kind
of ideology and any kind of belief in

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any kind of self esteem in the
West. It is the West's collapse that

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could lead to World War three.
If the West descends into chaos, if

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the West descends into you know,
if it starts shrinking economically, if it

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goes into real stagnation or worse,
real depression, if the United States cannot

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keep up its military, if it's
military starts to decay because we don't have

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the funds anymore, because our government
is bankrupt to actually keep up maintaining our

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ships, maintaining our tanks, maintaining
our airplanes. If NATO starts splintering and

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fighting within each other, if Israel
doesn't have the courage or the determination to

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finish the job in places like Gaza
and ultimately in Iran, If the United

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States just leaves the United the Middle
East with its tail between its legs and

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never takes care of the enemy,
that kind of weakness which we are already

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exhibiting, which is already part of
the West, but not that could lead

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to woe. That could lead to
somebody Russia, China, Islam taking advantage

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in trying, trying to test poking
the West, poking the United States,

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instigating wars, and ultimately that could
develop into a world war. But it

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won't happen as long as the West
is strong. In the West is not

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because of any particular virtues right now, but the West is strong because of

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a history. The West is strong
because we still have the best military force

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in the world, and we're very
rich. We're very rich because of our

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past, not so much because of
our present, but because of our past.

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As we become poorer, I think
China, Russia, Iran become poorer

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as well. But as the West
becomes poorer, and if that poverty accelerates,

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if that really speeds up and it
becomes a real force, yeah,

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people will want to take advantage of
that. People will start chipping away,

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people will start poking at us,
and people will be willing to risk a

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world war in circumstances like that.
So I have to admit that in the

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world in which we live right now, over the next ten years, let's

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say fifteen years, I believe we
will face the World War three, We're

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gonna face a lot of challenges.
I still don't know how Ukraine is gonna

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end, because I don't know that
the West has the resilience to continue to

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support the Ukrainians and they fight against
Russia. I have no doubt the Ukrainians

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can win if they get the kind
of support they need from the West,

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and they need to win. They
have to win in order to make clear

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to the Russians how weak they are
and how united and strong the West potentially

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is. That is what to keep
the barbarians at bay, What keeps the

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barbarians at Bay is our strength.
A weakness will only encourage them. I

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don't know exactly how things are gonna
work out in Gaza. I fear that

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is well again will not do everything
that needs to be done. It's doing

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more than it's ever done before,
arguably, and it isn't finished yet.

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But will it go all the way? Will it do what is Will it

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destroy Hamas? And more than that, will it destroy the will of the

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Palestinian people to continue to fight Israel? Because Hamas is not the problem.

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I know this is politically incorrect to
say, but Ramas is not the problem.

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The problem is the Palestinian people.
The problem is that overwhelming majority of

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the Palestinian people want to continue a
war with Israel. We have to worry

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about Taiwan and China, and China
will continue to test us and test the

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Taiwanese. China will continue to do
that. But again, I think the

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likely of that China becomes much much
stronger than it is today is small because

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China is facing massive economic problems that
are not going to be solved easily and

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only going to get worse. China
is not going to become as rich as

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it believes it is, and I
think that if we continue to supply weapons

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to Taiwan, Taiwan will only become
stronger and only become a more substantial enemy,

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a substantial a challenge for the Chinese. Well, you know, you

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have to keep an eye on China, you have to keep an eye on

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Taiwan. I don't worry about Taiwan. I don't worry about I worry about

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Israel, but I don't worry about
it survival. Israel is strong. It's

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not going to do the right everything
he needs to do to crush the Pealstinian

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people's will to fight it. But
what Israel can do is it can kick

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the can down the road and we'll
just all Israel is doing now is what

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israe will do is to guarantee that
that war will continue. But it's not

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gonna. It's not gonna. It's
not represents the individual anymore than the disgusting,

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horrible retreat of the United States from
Afghanistan guaranteed a the end of the

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United States. No, it was
another sign of weakness, perpetuation of a

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war with Islamism. But when you
know Israel as US, it's just not

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going to disappear. So I have
to admit I'm not worried about World War

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three. I'm not worried about external
threats. I worry about internal threats.

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I worry about the disappearance of freedom
in the United States. I worry about

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the decline of economic liberty in this
country, a personal liberty in this country.

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I worry about the state growing and
growing and growing in power, no

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matter who who is in the White
House, who runs Congress. I worry

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about the tribalism in this country,
about the hatred that dominates our political discourse.

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I worry about the fact that our
politicians cannot get anything done, and

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a lot needs to be done in
order to dismantle the power of the American

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state. I worry about Donald Trump
getting re elected and moving us another few

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steps towards authoritarianism and a complete breakdown
of the American system of government. So

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the United States is where the problems
are. I worry about the fact that

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Europe, because of the European Union, because of the regulatory state that is

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the European Union, is not growing
economically, sees no real innovation, entrepreneurship

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is in decline, and at some
point Europe will start turning against itself.

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At some point when there's no economic
growth, Europeans will start thinking of it

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as a zoo some game. The
Germans will start resenting the Italians who within

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somebody else, and you'll get strife, strife within Europe. So, uh,

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you know, the United st So
the real challenge we face is not

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a World War three. The real
challenge we face is the weakness of our

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own countries. It's the lack of
any kind of unifying philosophy. It's the

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lack of any kind of ideals,
it's the lack of any kind of values.

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It's the lack of any principles,
and it's a lack of a focus

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on freedom. And right now it's
hard to be optimistic about the direction in

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the United States is heading. I
mean, in spite of the horror of

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a first run presidency, we're going
to get a second one maybe, and

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if not, we'll get a horror
of second bien presidency. I mean talk

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about horrors of horrors. I don't
think we're going to get a civil war.

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I feel much more that we ultimately
attract a charismatic, authoritarian leader.

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But even if that doesn't happen,
what I do see just this slow decline.

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What I do see is the country
struggling to pay its bills. By

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the way, the government would probably
be shut down a week from now,

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not because anybody wants to shrink government
significantly, but because you Republicans just don't

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have a clue what they're doing.
I worry that the Western world is going

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to fragment, disintegrate, turn against
each other, be weakened and destroyed from

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within. Europe has a massive Muslim
problem that it's gonna struggle with and it's

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going to have to deal with for
decades to come, and is not equipped

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to deal with it. It doesn't
know what to do. The United States

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has a leftist problem, but it
has a right wing problem. It has

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an incompetence problem, it has a
tribalist problem it has and of course all

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of this leads to the economic stagnation, no development, no growth, no

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innovation, and that ultimately would lead
to military weakness, and that could lead

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to World War Iie in ten fifteen
years, I'll still be a life I

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guess. So. Yeah, it's
it's depressing out there, not so much

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because of Russia, China, an
Iran. I don't really worry much about

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Russia China any roon I don't think
you should worry much about Russia China any

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roon. I think you should worry
about what's happening inside America. We should

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worry about what's happening inside Europe.
I mean, we should stand up to

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Russia, China and Iran. We
should do all kinds of things to stand

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up for them, push them back, delay, weaken them to the extent

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that we can, and in the
case of Iran, we should just destroy

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them. But the real challenges there
were a cause of World War Three,

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there were a cause of real disaster
in the West is going to be the

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West. What we need is what
we've always what I've always talked about,

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we need. We need a philosophical
revolution. We need a real dramatic change

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in the philosophy of the culture in
the West, in America. And without

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it, you know, again for
talks in four days, and you have

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to say that the ignorance out there, the I mean the ignorance, are

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going to give them the benefit of
the doubt. That it's mostly ignorance is

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astounding. The lack of understanding word
America is about what it stands for,

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its value, what it represents,
astounding. The lack of knowledge of any

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history, of any understanding of history, astounding. We can't survive as a

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civilization with this level of ignorance,
in this extent of bad philosophy. So

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World War IIE is more likely to
be a slow decline. Maybe then there'll

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be a world war. There might
not even be a world war. Then

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there will just be a slow decline. And that's what I see in the

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West day slow, slow, slow
decline. All right, on that wonderful

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optimistic note, there's not gonna be
a world go through and it's and soon.

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That's optimistic. I'm making a prediction. We'll see. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Let's make sixty out of one hundred
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did the last twenty on what I
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was an applause. I sent you
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I appreciate that. Just send me
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me to review, Okay, Chad. Do altruists have to value justice in

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order to support injustice to make a
worthy sacrifice? No, I don't think

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it works that way. You know
it's not that that God. We need

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an example here to think about this, do do uh? You know,

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do autrus support Tramas rather than Israel
as a form of injustice? Uh?

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Because they think through and they say, oh yeah, Israel isn't the right.

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But what I actually want to do
is sacrifice, So I'm going to

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support Ramas. I don't think that's
what happens. Altruism is internalized. It

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becomes, if you will, automatized. It's part of their value response.

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They value Haramas because they're altruists.
It's not that they and they think Ramas

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the justices on Ramas because they're oppressed, because oppression defines justice. The sacrifice

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is internalized. It's not the oh, I need a sacrifice today. It's

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not how altruism works. It conditions
your thinking to make you sacrifice, to

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drive you towards the action that is
a sacrifice or the idea that is a

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sacrifice. Hopefully that's clear. Chat
okay, Liam says, I can see

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how nationalism an existential crisis can bring
people together to take life and values more

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seriously. Look at it as well. Those people love intensely. Yeah,

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but it'll pass right, So it's
not it's crisis does not change minds.

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Crisis brings people together for a while, It allows them to challenge the status

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quo for a while, but it
doesn't change anything fundamentally. And it is

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still the case that you know that
as soon as the crisis is over,

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they go back to the old habits. They go back complacency. I don't

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think Israel has changed. Israel doesn't
love intensely because of nationalism. I don't

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even think loves intensely because of extential
crises. It's rasy As love intensively because

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they have a good life, because
they value their freedom to some extent,

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and because they have a set of
values that dictates that they want to change

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the world. They want to do
stuff. They are motivated, they are

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productive, and I think that's what
leads to intense loving. It's intense living,

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and maybe that is intensified by an
existential threat. I don't think it's

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intensified by nationalism. I don't think
nationalists speak people love more intensely. They

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might love strangers more. That's a
really risky proposition. I don't think they

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love in the sense that we mean
love more intensely. James, what do

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you think of Mauritius. Mauritius,
the country doesn't that potential to be another

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Singapore? Are there any islands or
places that are going to be great to

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have residents or place to live in? During World War three? How does

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Southeast Asia come into play in World
War Three? You know, I don't

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know much about Mauritius. There's no
reason to believe that it's going to become

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a Singapore. Singapore was Singapore because
it had something very very rare. It

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had a benevolent dictator who was inspired
by the West, a benevolent dictator who

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was inspired by you know, British
common law, by system of freedom of

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contract law, somebody you understood that
the economic success comes from entrepreneurs who are

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left free to innovate and produce.
And even there, they're not completely free

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in Singapore. And yet you know, it's also a culture that restricts freedoms

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and other dimensions across many other dimensions. I don't know that you're going to

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find another place that's exactly Singapore.
And who would be the inspiration? When

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Singapore came into being, there were
lots of inspirations. The West generally was

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an inspiration. But the West since
then has become such a mixed bag and

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unprincipled and doesn't have any self esteem
and doesn't stand up for itself. Freedom,

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free markets are uninspiring. So I
just don't see it. Is there

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a place that could become the next
Singapore? I mean Singapore? You know,

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World War three happens, you could
go to Singapore. Would Singapore be

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safe? I don't know. I
mean depends how the World War three comes

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about. But look, if China
lands up having territorial ambitions, if China

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wants to dominate Southeast Asia, then
why wouldn't it occupy Singapore? Why wouldn't

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it invade Vietnam and try to take
Taiwan and that whole region. And maybe

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World War three happens because of a
conflict between India and China. And if

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a conflict between India and China,
that whole region is going to be affected.

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I don't know if you want to
be in that region. So I

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don't know how you are saved where
you are saved in World War three.

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Now again, I don't think it's
gonna happen anytime soon, so I wouldn't

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worry about it. But but where
do you go? I don't know.

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You know, maybe South America is
not part of World War three. It's

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not clear anybody is going to be
seeking It's not close to anybody. Any

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of the combatants right Russia, Europe, Middle East in flames. Who's going

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to go to Latin America? So
maybe somewhere in South America Uruguay. Uruguay

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is a relatively It's between Brazil and
Argentina. It's a relatively relatively free place,

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relatively good rule of law, relatively
stable, relatively low crime relatives to

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South America. Uruguay. Maybe Iurguay
is a place you want to go.

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A lot of the rich of Brazil
and Argentina have homes in Iuruguay and plan

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to escape there if things get really
bad. So but I don't I think

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if you assume China is going to
be involved, I'd be wary of choosing

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any place in Asia. All Right, thank you, James. That was

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a fifty dollar question, really appreciated. Okay, here's one hundred dollars one

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from not another account. All right, not another count says great shows.

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Given that the only way to finally
defeat an enemies to destroy its will to

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fight, it seems to me that
the only way to decisively and Islam terrorism

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is to demonstrate that Allah is impotent
by destroying the holiest mosques in Mecan Medina.

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Thoughts. I mean, I have
no objection, ultimately, particularly after

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nine eleven, to destroy Mecan Medina. But I'm not sure that would do

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it. I'm not sure that would
be enough. Religionists have the capacity to

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rationalize things like that quite well.
Suddenly Islam is being defeated over and over

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and over again, and God has
not stood by them. So it is

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it is they can rationalize it away. I don't know what kind of mechan

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Medina attacking Mekan Medina, what impact
that would have on Islam. I'm not

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sure surrender is what the response would
be. You know, their basic rationalizations

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could be we have not been dedicated
enough to so God is sending out a

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message. It could be this devil
of the West is even a big a

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devil than we thought. Look,
the only way to defeat the enemy is

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to defeat the enemy first identified and
then defeated. What destroying Islamic terrorism requires

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is a multi pronged, coordinated attack
on the bastions of Islamic totalitarianism. That

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means the destruction of Iran, of
this regime in Iran, not the country,

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but the regime, the elimination of
its military, of its National Guard,

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of its ability to export oil,
of its institutions of governance and of

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00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:05.559
the and of you know, it's
institutions of the government and including its institutions

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of learning where they learn this kind
of interpretation of Islam. So I think

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it requires the taking out of Iran. Second, it requires the taking out

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of the various organizations that affiliated now. Taking out of Iran will go a

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00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.000
long way to take these institutions out
because they take they want ally and they

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want those of capital. But that
means hamas Islamic jihad, Buslim brotherhood and

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all the varieties there are, which
again I don't think would be that difficult

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to do. Once Israel the United
States together are committed to doing it,

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the West NATO are committed to doing
it. Third, it requires that the

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Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and the
rest of the Gulf States abandoned the radical

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form of Islam. Explicitly right now
they pretend well, implicitly and explicitly right

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now they pretend, but they cultivate
radical Islam on the side. They're afraid

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to challenge it directly. Saudi Arabia
has to be made to understand it to

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the extent that they will protect the
radical Islamists to the extent that they support

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them. The United States will either
withdraw support for them or just replace them,

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just get rid of the of the
King of the Kings of Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Arabia has no sense of how
well it does have a sense,

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but we don't exploit that sense.
How dependent NBS and the rest of the

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Saudis are in America, how much
they need us one hundred times more than

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we need them. We need to
make that very clear to them and demand

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demand that they pacify whatever elements of
radical Islam they have within the regime.

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So I think Saudi Arabia needs to
be dealt with. I don't think militarily

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is necessary, but it needs to
be dealt with. It needs to have

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a solid understanding who the boss is
and who they cannot offend. In terms

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of supporting organizations, it's still true
the charities in Saudi Arabia, though hobbies

565
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are still popular in Saudi Arabia,
are still supporting Islamist theocratic organizations and schools

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and learning all over the world.
And that needs to stop, and he

567
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:37.599
needs to stop yesterday. That's how
you defeat them. It's just no other

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way. I don't think bomb on
MECAD Medina would be enough. I think

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you need to do that plus everything
else that I said, or if you

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do everything else. I said,
I'm not sure you need to bomb Meca

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Medina. All right, Michael says, I had a prof tell me Hitland

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and Nazis were copying the American ideal
manifest destiny as justification to expand their empire.

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When people make giant leaps in logic, they have to be dishonest and

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00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:12.039
motivated by evil. That is clearly
dishonest, that is so evasive of reality.

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It's definitely that is evil, and
it's driven by a hatred, hatred

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of America. To associate America in
any way with the Nazis is just the

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00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:30.920
peak of dishonesty, and it's a
hatred of America, which a lot of

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00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:35.800
people have. Unfortunately they're out there. Both the left and the libertarians seem

579
00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:40.559
to embrace that hatred of America.
So no, you know, the manifest

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destiny is not a manifest destiny of
a race. The manifest destiny is the

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destiny of a country that is a
country based on them all principle, the

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principle of individual rights, the extent
that it was used in various periods of

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00:54:55.440 --> 00:55:01.239
time to justify racism. Racism is
bad, but that racism never elevated itself

584
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:06.079
to the level of the Nazis,
and when it did, like through slavery,

585
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there was a Civil War in the
United States to eradicated. And even

586
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then, the slavery was not everywhere
in the United States, it didn't infect

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00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:24.159
vast parts of the United States.
Harper, Vivic's absolute asonine and dishonest comments

588
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:29.079
in Ukraine and is constant kissing up
the Trump are pathetic. He has lost

589
00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:32.400
my vote. I think DeSantis is
the most competent and reasonable choice. I

590
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:38.199
certainly agree with about Vivic. I
mean, Vivic is just is becoming Nattia

591
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as he becomes more desperate, as
he drops in the polls and is becoming

592
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:50.639
more desperate for attention. He is
becoming Nattia. He's a guy who I

593
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:55.440
don't think is stupid enough to believe
in conspiracy theories, but he's ridiculous comments

594
00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:00.360
in Ukraine and even some of his
comments in Israel, and his comments about

595
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:07.480
building a wall on the Canadian border
and going to war with Mexico all nutty

596
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:12.840
and and and crazy, and this
guy should not be a lot in the

597
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:15.840
White House. Of course, we're
gonna elect Trump, so you know,

598
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.400
we don't have standards in terms of
sanity and uh and and the White House.

599
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:22.280
But yes, I think Vivic is
particularly bad. I think is sucking

600
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up to Trump is awful. And
I think his but I think his positions

601
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.559
and these issues, He's got a
lot of good stuff, and it's sad

602
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:37.840
to see the mixture of a few
good things that he has to say with

603
00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:45.480
all this really really bad stuff,
really really bad stuff. As with the

604
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:50.800
Santis, you know, I I
don't like the Santas. I don't think

605
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:55.719
he's a good choice. I think
in many respects he's terrible, but I

606
00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:00.119
would take him over the alternatives.
Other than I think the best candidate out

607
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:06.199
there is Nikki Haley. I think
she's in some polls leading DeSantis. I

608
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.320
think she could win. I definitely
think she could be Biden. I think

609
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:15.239
she'd be a decent I think she'd
be a decent president, you know,

610
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:22.079
not a great president, but a
decent president. And uh, you know,

611
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:24.320
I don't think Vivic wants to be
a VP. I don't think he

612
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:29.519
has any chance in hell. That
Trump nominated it takes Vivic as a VP

613
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:34.920
candidate. I mean, Vivic is
too charismatic, too energetic, too domineering

614
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.760
for Trump to take him out.
Trump needs somebody subservient. He needs something,

615
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:43.239
somebody like Mike Pence. I mean, the only person who might have

616
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:49.039
a chance is Nikki Haley. But
I don't think anybody else on that stage

617
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:58.840
is going to be a vice president. So candidate with Trump, j J

618
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:06.719
jigbees. If the uproar driving anti
Israeli sentiment is fundamentally anti Semitic, what

619
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:10.480
is driving the pro Israeli sentiment?
The issue brings our passion in people,

620
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:17.679
regardless of relations one may have or
not have with either side. Look,

621
00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:24.719
I think that the modern left and
the the mo and left. Let's start

622
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:28.480
with the mode left. I get
a show on the left and anti Semitism.

623
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:35.400
I think the modern Left is necessarily
anti Semitic just because of their logic

624
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:38.880
of oppressor and oppressed, and viewing
everything from the perspective of oppressor and oppressed.

625
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:44.480
Jews are too successful, therefore they
must be their pressor therefore we must

626
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:47.760
be anti Jews in that sense,
they're anti Semitic. They're anti Jews for

627
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:58.920
being Jews. So I think the
modern Left is indeed anti Israel and anti

628
00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:05.920
Semitic. And it doesn't mean everybody
who's anti Israel is antisemitic. Right,

629
00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:10.400
but it does mean that some people
are in a significant number of people on

630
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:15.079
the modern rights the same thing.
The modern right is anti Semitic. You

631
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:21.159
can see it in their statements,
in the way they articulate and Muslims Hamas

632
00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:22.760
is anti Semitic. You see it
in the fact that they don't talk about

633
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:29.199
annihilating Israelis they talk about annihilating Jews. So I'm not sure what the issue

634
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:31.679
is. So to pro Israel is
to be pro Israel. It's to be

635
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:36.599
somebody. You know a lot of
reasons why you would be pro is l

636
00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:38.159
Your pro isl because you're pro American
and you see Israel as an ally.

637
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:44.800
Your pro Israel because your poor individualism
and you see Israel as standing up relatively

638
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:49.039
for individual freedom is compared to the
barbarism of Hamas. You're pro Israel because

639
00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.880
you see in the geopolitical scheme of
things, it's good for the West if

640
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.800
Israel wins. Your pro Israel because
Israel's fighting the same enemy as the United

641
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.000
States fighting. There are lots of
reasons to be pro Israel that don't have

642
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:05.119
to do with pro Jewish or anti
Jewish. But the reality is that the

643
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:10.199
reasons people have for hating Israel depressive. You know the success of Israel.

644
01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:20.039
The label of Israeli as a suppressors
is something they can easily and do extrapolated

645
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:29.880
about all Jewish people and anti Semitic
as well. I think I understood the

646
01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:37.360
question J. J. Decrees.
Let me know if I did not lebrn

647
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:42.119
What inspired the positive sense of life
in eighteen hundreds, How does it differ

648
01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:49.880
from what influences today's negative sense of
life? That's a great question. What

649
01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:54.840
inspired the positive sense of life in
eighteen hundreds? Was the Enlightenment in the

650
01:00:54.840 --> 01:01:04.159
seventeen hundreds. It was a philosophical
revolution that elevated reason, elevated human competence,

651
01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:09.119
human ability. And one of the
things that is common to the Enlightenment

652
01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:15.519
and is a theme throughout the Enlightenment, is the possibility and the virtue of

653
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:20.400
progress, of the future being better
than the past, which is a new

654
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.920
idea because it was never being progress
in the past, or very little progress

655
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:28.920
in the past. So the idea
that progress was good and progress was achievable

656
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:32.360
and probably was doable and there was
no limit to it. The idea that

657
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:37.239
human beings were able, competent,
could understand the world, and achieve great

658
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.679
things in the world comes out of
the Enlightenment. And finally, the idea

659
01:01:42.719 --> 01:01:51.119
that happiness is achievable, the pursuit
of happiness, and arguably a unifying factor

660
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:54.360
of the Enlightenment is the idea that
happiness is achievable. Individual should achieve,

661
01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:00.679
should pursue happiness and try to achieve
happiness, and that unify at least I'm

662
01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:07.679
all thinking of the Enlightenment. So
it's an overwhelmingly positive view of the world,

663
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:14.440
an overwhelmingly pro man view of the
world, an overwhelmingly pro reason view

664
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:17.199
of the world, an overwhelmingly po
individual view of the world. And that

665
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:25.119
drove this sense of life, a
happy, positive, engaging sense of life.

666
01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:29.760
Man's competent and able to be on
this earth and be successful on it.

667
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:38.079
Switch to the twentieth century. Suddenly, since World War One, man

668
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:45.320
is fallible, but worse, he's
riddled with the original sin, not just

669
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:52.920
coming from Christianity but from our secular
philosophers. Yeah, there's a whole topic

670
01:02:52.960 --> 01:03:01.559
there. We'll talk about it another
time. Man is falling. So in

671
01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:09.679
a sense, taking christian any more
seriously, a sense that progress is not

672
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:19.119
that good. Suddenly we get that
today progress has limits. Progress is bad,

673
01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:23.199
bad for the environment. Let's say
the whole environmentalist issue. People are

674
01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:31.119
going to end the world. Individualism
is bad. Individualism means, you know,

675
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:42.440
isolationism, depression, detachment from the
good, an ambrasive collectivism at least

676
01:03:42.440 --> 01:03:45.239
the beginning of the twentieth century,
an ambrasi of nihilism towards the end of

677
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:52.079
the twentieth century. But fundamentally,
it all boils down to count the evil

678
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:53.960
thing that con did, which is
separate reason from reality. That is,

679
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:59.320
if reason is impotent, impotent,
there's no reason I have a positive sense

680
01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.280
of life. If reason is impotent, things are not going to go well.

681
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:05.000
If reason is impotent, we can't
know reality. We can't know the

682
01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:11.840
truth with dependent on mystics or dependent
relation with dependent on religion, life sucks.

683
01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:18.119
The world sucks. Yeah, so
it really does bail down to a

684
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:25.239
respectful reason. In the twentieth century, at least qua intellectuals, we've seen

685
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:29.400
a dramatic decline in respect for reason, which is filtered through the society that

686
01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:34.400
has led to a deep pessimism.
Whether it's on the left environmentalism or on

687
01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:40.920
the right traditionalism, they're all fundamentally
pessimistic. About the future, pessimistic of

688
01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:44.880
that state of man, pessimistic about
the ability of human beings to be successful

689
01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:50.880
in the future, and that is
destructive for sense of life. All right,

690
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:57.480
Howard, how should the US and
Israel deal with Katu? I mean,

691
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:03.719
the US should first of all le
eve qata. Israel should be fear

692
01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:09.480
free to assassinate, bomb, do
whatever is necessary in Katau to destroy the

693
01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:18.039
people Haramas operatives who live in Katau. Katau should be told without any question,

694
01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:23.559
to the extent that they are funding
terrorism, they are target on the

695
01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:27.599
list of targets for both Israel and
the United States. That is, if

696
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.840
they send money to Ramas, they
become an enemy of Israel, and Israel

697
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:36.840
has the weapons systems to destroy them, and it will. It's a tiny

698
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:44.039
little country with very little resources other
than royal and no real military capabilities in

699
01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.320
Israel or the United States should destroy
them to the extent that they support Isis

700
01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:54.480
or a Kaida or Ramas or any
terrorist Islamist terrorist organization that poses a threat

701
01:05:55.039 --> 01:06:02.039
to the United States or Israel.
Thomas says, yes. Mean. While

702
01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:08.320
Thomas I would have had many things
to criticize about the US in nineteen forty

703
01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:12.119
one, but I would have been
one hundred percent pro American in World War

704
01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:15.760
Two. Equally, one can have
criticism of politics of Israeli government, but

705
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:19.239
be one hundred percent Proisal in this
conflict. Absolutely, and that's me right.

706
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:23.840
I was very critical of the Nitenniel
government, have been for twenty years,

707
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:26.519
thirty years, forty years, fifty
I mean, my whole life,

708
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:30.760
I've been critical of the Israeli government. I can't remember a time where I

709
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:33.480
was happy with the Israeli government.
I've always criticized them, I've always saught

710
01:06:33.559 --> 01:06:40.559
thought they were terrible, and yet
in this conflict I'm one hundred percent behind

711
01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:46.239
them, because when you're facing with
evil, you have got a side with

712
01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:51.119
whatever elements of good they are in
the world to destroy the evil. And

713
01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:56.360
we're facing the kind of evil the
Hamadrus presents is the kind of evil the

714
01:06:56.480 --> 01:07:00.559
Nazis represents. It's the kind of
evil Stalin represented, in some ways worse

715
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:08.800
because it's backed by a religious theology
that justifies everything to do, that gives

716
01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:14.559
them a certain They relish blood,
they relish slaughter, they relish humiliation,

717
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:20.159
they relish rape and pillage. I
mean, the Nazis try to hide what

718
01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:25.719
they did. Ramas puts it up
online for all the world to see.

719
01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:29.199
They are proud of it. They
call up their mothers and talk about how

720
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:33.559
many Jews they've killed today. So
there's a there's a there's an evil like

721
01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:38.679
it's very rare, this kind of
evil to see in the world. Human

722
01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:43.639
beings really have to be depraved to
reach this level. You've got a side

723
01:07:43.719 --> 01:07:45.639
with whatever elements of good they are
out there, and is all fundamentally is

724
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.719
a good country. Very critical of
almost every aspect of what they do,

725
01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:55.360
and yet they're still fundamentally good.
You know, Libertarians, many libertarians can't

726
01:07:55.360 --> 01:08:01.840
make that distinction. The state government
qua state government is evil and therefore there

727
01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:05.639
is no States that are better than
states are the worst. They're all evil

728
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:11.360
because they tax you. Right,
I said this, and people are horrified.

729
01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:18.119
But then people actually wrote on Twitter
exactly what I said. Yeah,

730
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:21.880
states commit evil. That doesn't make
them all the same. Some states are

731
01:08:21.880 --> 01:08:28.079
more evil than others some states because
the state fundamentally is a good thing.

732
01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:33.359
This is the difference with libertarians in
that they preserve peace some states. What

733
01:08:33.399 --> 01:08:36.880
they the positive they do outweigh the
negatives they do. I still want to

734
01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:43.279
see the negative gone. But I'd
rather take I'd rather take a state like

735
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:53.000
is Well in the United States than
anarchy any day, any day, JJGB

736
01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:57.560
says, I guess my point is
this, this issue gets people on both

737
01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:02.279
sides wiled up like no other.
If anti Semitism and antipression explains one side's

738
01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:06.079
passion, what explains the other side's
passion, especially people with no skin in

739
01:09:06.119 --> 01:09:09.039
the game. Well, first,
I don't think it rolls up. I

740
01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:12.319
mean, we've got people on my
chat complaining that we spend too much time

741
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:15.640
talking about this issue, and they're
not riled up. I think what gets

742
01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:23.079
them riled up is what I just
said, the shit evil that Aramas represents,

743
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:33.560
the sha barbarism, and the fact
that that barbarism is not only relegated

744
01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:38.560
for Israel. People still remember nine
to eleven, They remember the terrorist attacks

745
01:09:38.560 --> 01:09:43.399
and fans and in London and in
other places. They know what these Muslims

746
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:50.119
Islam is capable of. So they
get very riled up because they see this

747
01:09:51.199 --> 01:09:59.960
correctly in my view, as is
existential threat. How do you stay neutral,

748
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:01.840
or how do you stay calm,
or how do you stay unriled up

749
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:13.560
when you see barbarians raping and torturing
young women. Of course, that riled

750
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:18.319
you up, and it should roll
you up. And it's happening to a

751
01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:25.840
Western country. It's happening not in
conditions of barbarism, in conditions of civilization.

752
01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:28.399
So it's one thing to say,
well, this happens every day in

753
01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:33.079
Africa. Yeah, Africa is a
barbaric place. We expect that, we

754
01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:38.199
don't, we don't. You know, it's not a direct threat on us

755
01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:44.039
in a sense because it's barbarians fighting
each other in terms of barbaric civilization cultures.

756
01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:48.800
But here it's within a civilized world. This is happening that I think

757
01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:54.119
outrageous people, and I think it's
should I think there's a difference if these

758
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:57.479
things happen in the United States or
in Israel, or in Europe, or

759
01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:01.560
if they happen in you know,
the Republic of the Congo, which is

760
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:06.439
a place with no real government,
a place of tribal warlords fighting each other

761
01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:15.079
constantly, that has never really had
a civilizing force. How can we tolerate

762
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:20.840
this under civilization is what really wells
people are. Michael says, in the

763
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:27.359
future will if in the future will
be we will be able to genetically engineer

764
01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:34.520
geniuses. Will we be able to
produce billions of Iran's No, because it's

765
01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:42.840
not an issue. Iran's genius is
not genetic. Ironman's genius is not genetic.

766
01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:45.760
Nobody's genius is genetic. Genius are
component, but they're not a major

767
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:56.159
component. To make an Iran a
young Ironrn had to make certain choices how

768
01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:00.479
to create a certain spirit, how
to create a human being she became.

769
01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:05.800
That doesn't happen because of genes.
Genes give you the all horspower. They

770
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:12.199
don't give you the roadmap of how
to use the hostpower where to take it.

771
01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:15.479
So you'd create a lot of geniuses
maybe, but you wouldn't create a

772
01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:20.000
lot of vine rams. James says, is Tucker Coulson an anti semi?

773
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:25.279
I don't know. I don't know. I haven't seen his commentary in Israel

774
01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:30.760
or in Jews or anything else,
so I don't really fully know. But

775
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:34.119
I also think that teckle Cousin doesn't
really believe in anything. Techo Cosson believes

776
01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:39.520
in building Techer couls In an audience. Tucker Cousen believes in catering to the

777
01:12:39.520 --> 01:12:45.359
Tecker Culson audience. Tucker Cosson believes
in being on the fringe, and because

778
01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:48.000
that's where you get the most passionate, dedicated audience, is on the fringe,

779
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:53.560
not in the center. And that's
what techer Colson is. He dabbles

780
01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:59.279
with conspiracy theories, he dabbles with
all kinds of nonsense. Whether he believes

781
01:12:59.319 --> 01:13:01.159
any of it, I'm skeptical.
I think he does it because he knows

782
01:13:01.199 --> 01:13:06.760
his audience. I think he thinks. I think tackle Corson thinks that most

783
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:14.119
Americans are dumb, really really really
dumb, and that he can exploit that

784
01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:16.920
he can make money off of it, He can achieve fame and fortune because

785
01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:21.960
other people are dumb. Bonnie says, did Biden force the cease fire?

786
01:13:23.039 --> 01:13:26.840
Shameful? Yeah, no question,
you know, not the first time,

787
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:29.720
not the last time. I don't
know if there's a ceasefire. My understanding

788
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:33.119
is there's this pause for a pause. But yeah, all of this is

789
01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:40.000
engineered by Biden, but with the
full corporation of people like Ntenau, and

790
01:13:40.359 --> 01:13:43.159
of course the Europeans are putting a
lot of pressure on and so on.

791
01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:46.800
So but yeah, it's chainfall.
But if you believe that Trump, Bush,

792
01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:50.680
Obama, Reagan would have done anything
else you're delusional. They all would

793
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.760
have done exactly the same. Every
American president, every single American president,

794
01:13:55.920 --> 01:14:00.319
has tied the hands of Israelis and
forced them to retreat and to announced cease

795
01:14:00.319 --> 01:14:04.960
fires before their time, including Donald
Trump. There were incursions, there were

796
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:11.880
problems with Gaza during Donald Trump's presidency. It's not like he gave Israel a

797
01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:15.880
thumbs up, going and do whatever
you want to do. It's not what

798
01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:20.079
American presidents have done, any of
them. Harp up. It's amazing how

799
01:14:20.119 --> 01:14:25.800
effective altruism is at floating abstractions.
It's so automatized that our impulses and emotional

800
01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:31.279
lurtures absolutely completely automatized into the culture
and therefore into us as individuals. All

801
01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:35.439
right, James says, intellectuals today
have become masters of using the most words

802
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:41.199
possible to say absolutely nothing. I
don't think it's intellectuals today. I think

803
01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:45.399
this has a long tradition, particularly
in German. Yeah, maybe it's the

804
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:51.399
absolutely nothing that is more unique to
today. At least in those days in

805
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:58.199
the eighteenth century, nineteenth century,
they had the pretense of saying something.

806
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:02.600
Now they don't have even a pretense. James says, is Germany the most

807
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:09.079
intellectual culture in Europe. Ironic.
The German philosophy explicitly seeks to destroy the

808
01:15:09.119 --> 01:15:13.960
intellect it is ironic. Is Germany
the most intellectual culture in Europe? I

809
01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:19.640
don't know. Northern Europe is generally
very intellectual, so it's the UK.

810
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.319
But I don't know. I don't
have any measure of who's more intellectual than

811
01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:29.239
the rest, and what that even
means. If intellectuality boils down to postmodernist

812
01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:32.479
nonsense, is that really intellectualism?
What do we count as intellectualism? I

813
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:36.560
don't know. That's a whole topic. I'm not sure about. Michael says,

814
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:41.039
it's hard for me to believe all
this anti Israel activity is calculated anti

815
01:15:41.039 --> 01:15:45.520
Semitism. Do most people think about
Jews that much? No, it's not

816
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.680
calculated. I mean nothing here is
calculated, and I never suggest that it's

817
01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:54.680
calculated. I don't think people think
that much about Jews. They emote about

818
01:15:54.760 --> 01:15:59.079
Jews, they feel it, and
when you stimulate them, they blame the

819
01:15:59.119 --> 01:16:03.439
Jews. It's not like antisemitism in
Europe was calculated. Mostly the Nazis were

820
01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:10.279
calculated, but jewsually antisemitism was just
a response to the other you know,

821
01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:15.800
to the idea of the other causing
mayhem and causing destruction. It's embedded into

822
01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:18.520
American culture on the left because of
what I talked about the other day,

823
01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:26.560
which is the left of obsession with
dividing everybody up into oppressor and oppressed because

824
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:30.800
of intersectionality and other things. And
Jews because they're successful, always going to

825
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:33.960
be the oppressed soul, and Palestinians
because they're because they're poor, always going

826
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:40.000
to be depressed, and that drives
a lot of this attitude towards Jews and

827
01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:45.760
Israel. Michael, a bit off
topic, but do you regard addiction as

828
01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:49.119
a disease. That strikes me that
low will power, our self esteem isn't

829
01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:54.119
a disease. Well, it depends
what we mean by addiction. I think

830
01:16:54.159 --> 01:17:00.199
the definition of addiction has dramatically shifted
over time. If you talk about addiction

831
01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:02.960
as something like addiction to heroid,
I don't think it's a disease, but

832
01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:09.239
it's clearly a biological condition that is
very, very difficult to overcome and requires

833
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:15.319
medical care to overcome it. It's
almost impossible to go cold turkey on heroin

834
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:24.159
without having really really horrific physical side
effects. What we have today is a

835
01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:31.119
pseudo addiction epidemic. Are people addicted
to tobacco? Not really? You know,

836
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.000
I know so many people who just
went cold turkey. Is it hard?

837
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:40.279
Sure? A lot of habits are
hard to give up. Is there

838
01:17:40.439 --> 01:17:45.399
some small biological addiction of tobacco that
the body has? Sure? I crave

839
01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:47.880
coffee. Am I addicted to coffee? No? I could stop tomorrow if

840
01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:53.479
I really wanted to, And I
go days without drinking coffee and I might

841
01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:57.880
feel a little bad as a consequence. But does that mean I'm addicted to

842
01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:01.920
it? So? I think there
are certain drugs. There's sudden chemicals that

843
01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:09.159
clearly are addictive and it caused a
real physical response if you try to go

844
01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:14.359
off of them. But is chocolate
addictive? I mean some say it is,

845
01:18:15.479 --> 01:18:19.520
you know, is pornography addictive?
Sex addictive? No, all of

846
01:18:19.560 --> 01:18:27.560
those things are not physiologically addictive.
There's psychological habits, and it's just a

847
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:31.319
matter of will, And it's just
a matter of you know. Again,

848
01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:36.079
anything you put a you put a
bag of nuts in front of me,

849
01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:40.720
and I start eating nuts and start
to stop, it's hort to stop.

850
01:18:41.359 --> 01:18:45.560
Does that mean nuts addictive? No? I can't stop if I deploy enough

851
01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:50.520
will to do it. So the
fact that something is hard does not mean

852
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:57.159
it's addictive. Addictive should mean some
kind of biological resistance to stopping it,

853
01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:02.279
and a significant biological resistance, not
a mild one. And look, some

854
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:06.640
there's probably variation across people. Some
people are more addictive to stuff than others.

855
01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:13.079
Is alcohol addictive probably for some people. There's even genes associated with that.

856
01:19:14.479 --> 01:19:18.920
I don't find it addictive, but
you know, I don't abuse it

857
01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:25.760
either. Harpa Campbell says, what
did you make of vivic sexist remarks to

858
01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:30.159
Nikki Haley? He's a sexist.
He's trying to put it down. He's

859
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:32.039
trying to do everything to put it
down. And part of the tactic is

860
01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:36.720
to try to shake her up a
little bit and try to destabilize her so

861
01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:43.960
she comes off she doesn't come off
as credible, he realizes and who the

862
01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:45.720
enemy is. But yeah, I
mean, it's stupid. I hate these

863
01:19:45.720 --> 01:19:51.600
debates. There's stupid debates that anti
intellectual. They play into the hands of

864
01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:56.000
people who who throw bombs. They're
play into the hands of the Trumps and

865
01:19:56.039 --> 01:20:00.359
the Vivics of the world instead of
you know, you should have five minutes

866
01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:03.159
to answer questions, or at least
two three minutes to answer questions, not

867
01:20:03.279 --> 01:20:08.279
one minute, one minute answer.
The questions are stupid. You learn nothing

868
01:20:08.319 --> 01:20:14.199
from them. Their sound bites.
They're well prepared. That's not interesting.

869
01:20:14.920 --> 01:20:18.600
The ability to deploy insults or to
deflect insults, that's not what I need

870
01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:21.199
a president to be able to do. I need to be able to president

871
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:25.399
to be able to think. I
need a president to be able to be

872
01:20:25.439 --> 01:20:30.479
decisive. I need a president to
be able to have good ideas. Debates

873
01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:34.600
should be about ideas. They should
be about the implication of those ideas for

874
01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:42.319
action, and they should You should
be able to see an experience whether these

875
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:49.520
candidates have the knowledge and the foresight
and the commitment to to to really govern

876
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:54.760
properly. All right, we have
a lot of questions, and I need

877
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:56.760
to leave in a little while,
so we're going to do this quickly.

878
01:20:57.560 --> 01:21:01.039
Do you consider yourself more how it
worked in John Gold I don't consider myself

879
01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:04.640
either one of those. I can't
think in terms of John Galton hired work.

880
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:10.920
They're both inspirations, they're both things
to strive towards. I'm neither a

881
01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:15.560
genius in architecture or genius in anything, really know the perfect human being,

882
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:19.079
which is John Galt. I just
can't see myself in those. I'm much

883
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:25.800
more I'm much more sympathetic to dagny
which are weird than I am to walk

884
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:31.039
in John Galt. Who are who
are complete right, who are who don't

885
01:21:31.119 --> 01:21:35.079
change, who struggle with very little, who just know exactly what they are

886
01:21:35.159 --> 01:21:41.479
and what they want to be and
what they want to do. Clark says

887
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:46.319
it's hard to calibrate the nihilism level
in the culture and amongst intellectuals. Maybe

888
01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:51.359
they're not fully nihilistic enough to want
to tear it all down. Yeah,

889
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:57.399
they've got nihilistic elements. They're not
suicidal enough to tear it all down,

890
01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:00.640
but they do enjoy tearing when they
have a chance to do it. You

891
01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:03.479
saw that during BLM. You saw
that in the relishing of what Hamas has

892
01:22:03.479 --> 01:22:13.760
done. Liam says Obama's comments literally
made me nauseous. He has no boundaries

893
01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:17.560
on his narcissism. Well, I
mean, there are people who are more

894
01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:23.960
narcissistic. We've had a president who
is more narcissistic than Obama by quite a

895
01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:29.479
long shot. Obama's problem is intellectually
corrupt, but Obama actually has an intellect,

896
01:22:30.159 --> 01:22:36.079
whereas Trump is just narcissism with no
intellect. Richard says, in the

897
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:41.880
nineteen sixties presidential debate, JFK and
Nixon had three minutes to respond. Do

898
01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:45.239
you know what changed culturally since then? Their ideas weren't great, but they

899
01:22:45.239 --> 01:22:48.680
were forced to get into specifics on
policies and be more thoughtful. Yeah,

900
01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:54.640
I mean what changes. We've become
a television addicted, sound bite addicted culture

901
01:22:54.720 --> 01:23:00.399
that wants instant gratification and is much
more interested with entertainment value then with ideas

902
01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:06.680
and with actually policy recipes. We've
taken the JFK and Nixon pragmatism to a

903
01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:12.760
whole new level, and we're really
not really interested in anything more substantive than

904
01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:15.279
what we can get in a minute
answer that these guys give, and what

905
01:23:15.359 --> 01:23:19.680
we want and demand from our candidates
are insults, and what get them points

906
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:26.439
are the insults. I mean.
Donald Trump taught us that he called one

907
01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:31.560
of the one of the debating partners
ugly. He accused that other you know,

908
01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:36.880
he made accusation about family members of
others. He was just a horrific

909
01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:44.039
but he was entertaining and and he
won the nomination. People have lunched.

910
01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:48.319
That's what Americans want, at least
that's what Republicans want, all right,

911
01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:54.920
Liam says, I was listening to
rashidat Talib getting hysterical about Israeli genocide and

912
01:23:54.960 --> 01:24:00.640
ethnic cleansing. I'm surprised she didn't
scream alahcaba and detonate. Yeah. I

913
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:08.600
don't think she's quite suicidal, but
she's definitely hateful. She's definitely hateful and

914
01:24:09.159 --> 01:24:15.279
irrational and emotionalist. No question ed. What would the response be if Israel

915
01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:19.520
decided at some point to destroy Uan's
oil fields? Especially the US response.

916
01:24:20.039 --> 01:24:25.199
Oh, the US would be horrified. The US would would slam sanctions in

917
01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:29.159
Israel, they would stop supplying them
with weapons. The United States would go

918
01:24:29.239 --> 01:24:34.000
apoplectic, apoplectic, price of oil
would go up. Americans, many Americans,

919
01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:40.760
would turn against Israel. Yeah,
I think Israel should do it,

920
01:24:41.279 --> 01:24:47.359
but let's not be naive about how
America will respond. America hates that idea

921
01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:55.840
and doesn't want to war with you
on and doesn't want to instigate anything,

922
01:24:55.920 --> 01:24:59.520
and wants to keep the oil flowing. That's the most important thing is to

923
01:24:59.560 --> 01:25:09.880
oil, keep flowing. James says, we're living at times when the bullies,

924
01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:19.319
when the bullies are winning, because
the good people are submitting and they

925
01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:25.520
have to submit because they don't have
Inrand. Well, yes, but they

926
01:25:25.600 --> 01:25:29.600
have to submit because they don't have
principles. They have to submit because they

927
01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:33.319
don't have you know, any kind
of principles. It doesn't have to be

928
01:25:33.760 --> 01:25:38.680
you know, any kind of pro
life principles like a RAND is the end

929
01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:43.760
result. But you know, the
West didn't submit. America didn't submit to

930
01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.359
the Nazis or to the Japanese.
America fought them and destroyed them. There

931
01:25:47.399 --> 01:25:54.319
were values in America that that prevented
America from submitting without Iron Ran, and

932
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:59.439
they can be resurrected without Iran.
But some values need to be What we

933
01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:03.079
have today is a complete void of
values, not just dyron Man. Richard

934
01:26:03.079 --> 01:26:08.560
said, I just finished Arthur Human's
biography of Douglas MacArthur, very much worthwhile

935
01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:12.800
reading, perhaps one of my favorites
this year. The decision of his confidence

936
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.239
he exuded seems very fond compared to
modern leaders. Yes, I mean that's

937
01:26:16.279 --> 01:26:19.920
true of Douglas macarthy, it's true
of Patent, it's true of many of

938
01:26:19.920 --> 01:26:24.760
the leaders. Unfortunately, the guy
who got the most credit for World War

939
01:26:24.800 --> 01:26:30.399
Two and ultimately benefited by becoming president
is Eisenhower, who was the whimp of

940
01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:33.760
World War Two, who is exactly
the opposite of Douglas MacArthur and patent,

941
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:40.079
but he got rewarded for his wishy
washiness by becoming president of the United States.

942
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:45.279
Richard Cummings, can you think of
a better example of pseudo self esteem

943
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:48.239
than Donald Trump? No? I
actually can't. I actually can't. And

944
01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:51.239
I've said this all the time.
Donald Trump does not have self esteem.

945
01:26:51.560 --> 01:26:57.960
That fake confidence, that in insulting
everybody, that inability to take a blow

946
01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:04.479
is is are the science of a
pseudo self esteem, which is exactly exactly

947
01:27:04.479 --> 01:27:08.840
Trump. All right, God,
we still have quite a few questions.

948
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:12.640
Okay, too bad. All the
energy put towards this is prop up towards

949
01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:15.439
supporting the Palestinians. Isn't being put
towards supporting the Uranian people? No kidding?

950
01:27:15.479 --> 01:27:18.880
Those Auranian goals could help the could
benefit from the support. You think

951
01:27:18.880 --> 01:27:21.319
the feminists would be all over that. No, no, no, They

952
01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:28.520
much rather attack Israel Black Cat nine
ninety seven, The United States and r

953
01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:32.159
Zone and Developed Asia dwarf China and
Russia with regard to economics, level of

954
01:27:32.199 --> 01:27:36.600
technology. Yes, and there's a
consequence level of the military. People underestimate

955
01:27:36.680 --> 01:27:41.560
us and don't understand how large and
the mismatch it really is. Absolutely I

956
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:46.560
agree with you completely black Cat nine
ninety seven. Matthew, given the reporting

957
01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:51.920
a back and forth strikes between US
and Iran or Uranian proxies, would you

958
01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:56.960
say that we are effectively at war
with Iran without either side wanting to outright

959
01:27:57.039 --> 01:27:59.600
the clear it. Yes, but
you know, I think we've been at

960
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:04.319
war with the nineteen seventy nine and
we're too cowardly to acknowledge it and to

961
01:28:04.359 --> 01:28:08.199
declare it. But yeah, no
question. And the United States keeps this

962
01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:13.560
back and forth without doing anything substantive
and without dealing with the Uranians directly.

963
01:28:14.239 --> 01:28:16.880
But that's been going on since nineteen
seventy nine. Michael says, does a

964
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:21.119
humanitarian pause mean that the hostages get
to come home for the weekend? Asking

965
01:28:21.159 --> 01:28:24.960
for two hundred and forty friends,
what do you think? Of course,

966
01:28:25.000 --> 01:28:30.439
not all pauses, all cease fires
are one sided. They only involve Israel

967
01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:34.920
because as well as strong and therefore
it needs to be rained in hamas is

968
01:28:34.960 --> 01:28:39.960
week. Therefore it should be allowed
to do whatever it wants. James says,

969
01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:42.800
do you still recommend London as a
place to live based on how things

970
01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:45.159
have changed in the last three years? Is there any hope for the UK

971
01:28:45.279 --> 01:28:49.600
to rebound? I don't know.
I mean, UK is in bad shape

972
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.359
for a lot of reasons. Economically, it's a disaster. The Conservative Party

973
01:28:54.479 --> 01:29:00.159
has completely abrogated all its responsibilities and
all anything good it had. Uh you

974
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:02.880
know, the police, there's a
whole I'll do it. I'll talk about

975
01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:08.840
this in a show in a couple
of days. The police in London won't

976
01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:14.680
rein in the Islamic demonstrators. They're
too cowardly, they're too afraid. Basically,

977
01:29:14.720 --> 01:29:17.479
the police in the UK of taking
the stand that they're that they're pro

978
01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:23.399
slav that pro the Muslims and against
any brit that stands up to them.

979
01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:29.880
UK is is deteriorating fast in front
of ours. I still love London.

980
01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:31.079
It's still one of my favorite cities
in the world. I still love being

981
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:35.840
there. But the UK as a
place to live is becoming more and more

982
01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:45.479
difficult and more and more challenging because
of the Conservative Parties failure just disastrous policies

983
01:29:45.039 --> 01:29:49.920
and because of what they're letting Muslims
get away with in London. I'm not

984
01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:56.520
afraid of Muslims. I'm afraid of
Muslims uncontrolled by police. I'm afraid of

985
01:29:56.520 --> 01:30:00.159
the lack of the rule of law, which is what UK is moving towards.

986
01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:02.439
Astix says, keep up the good
work you're on. Thank you.

987
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:09.000
JJGB says that answered it, thank
you, Thanks Okay, Frank, it's

988
01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:12.880
the last word. I think.
I asked an anti capitalist to watch Shark

989
01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:17.079
Tank and the Food and the Food
that Built America. He did. He

990
01:30:17.159 --> 01:30:23.960
was unimpressed and viewed entrepreneurs as exploit
as. Why well, because shock Tank

991
01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:27.720
and I don't know what the food
that built America is. These are not

992
01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:31.720
serious attempts to present the value of
entrepreneurship with the value businessman. I mean,

993
01:30:31.760 --> 01:30:34.359
you got to do better than short
Tank Tank is a joke. Most

994
01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:40.119
of those businesses don't survive anyway,
and they certainly don't thrive. You've got

995
01:30:40.159 --> 01:30:44.600
to go to the heart of what
of you know, You've got to provide

996
01:30:44.680 --> 01:30:48.119
history, you've got to provide context. You've got to show the difference between

997
01:30:48.119 --> 01:30:53.079
life under non capitalism and life under
a little bit of capitalism. The difference

998
01:30:53.079 --> 01:30:59.159
between the two and it's massive,
So shot Tank is not a good example

999
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:06.279
of anything. It's entertainment. It's
not business. It's it's entertainment. It's

1000
01:31:08.199 --> 01:31:13.640
it's it's it's the name of disguise
this business. Capitalism isn't about shock Tank.

1001
01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:20.920
Capitalism is about freedom, about liberty, It's about the use of the

1002
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:29.720
human reason. Capitalism is about reason
and individual rights and that results in entrepreneurship.

1003
01:31:30.920 --> 01:31:34.239
But entrepreneurs, I mean, if
you don't have any respectful reason,

1004
01:31:34.239 --> 01:31:38.840
then you don't have any respect for
entrepreneurs. If you don't have any respect

1005
01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.600
for the trade of principle, the
trade, what trade means. If you

1006
01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:45.640
think the will desire some game somehow, you don't have any respect for entrepreneurs.

1007
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.439
They're just exploit us. If you
think all labor is physical labor,

1008
01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:53.720
you're not gonna have and and Shok
Tank is not gonna teach you the value

1009
01:31:53.720 --> 01:31:59.239
of entrepreneurship. It might motivate some
yao's to go and start a business because

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they see pretty mediocre business is being
started in shock Tank, But I don't

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know if any significant business, significant
business that was started on shok Tank.

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Sorry, Silicon Valley. You want
to do a reality show in Silicon Valley,

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that would be cool, all right? Should can be inspirational for people

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who ready are inspired by entrepreneurs.
It's not going to create the inspiration.

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And by the way, if you
look at the companies that Chalk Tank are

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funded, they don't do that well, they're not that successful. All right,

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we're twenty four dollars short of our
goal. H We've got one hundred

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and ninety seven people watching right now
live. There's a lot of people watching

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live right now that are not supporting
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sticker or with a contribution through Patreon
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I'd really appreciate that value for value, I produce something you consume it

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pay for It makes sense. Also, one hundred and ninety seven people watching

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right now, please consider Please subscribe. If you're not a subscriber already,

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please subscribe. I hear that one
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your content. So we've only got
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subscribe to the channel so we can
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today. All right, Frank asks, truly the final question, if you

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want to support the show, do
it with the sticking out with the question,

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because I do have to go.
He says, Dark Days use a

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highly rationalistic in contrast to Islam,
which is dualistic us. This is them

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and power oriented as an absurd mockery
of monotheistic religion. Islam bedfellows with modern

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ideology. I know. I mean, Islam is a lot more in common

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with Christianity than it does with modern
and left ideology. Islam is a universalist

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religion. It wants everybody to become
Muslim, just like Christianity wanted everybody to

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become Christian. Islam is a religion. It is based on faith, just

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like other faith oriented I don't think
Islam is similar in any respects to the

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left. The left supports Islam not
because it's similar, but because the left

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supports anything that's anti Western civilization,
and it embraces Islam. Islamists in particular

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because they were anti Western civilization.
And Islam is a particularly bad religion because

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it never went through an Enlightenment,
it never went through a Renaissance, it

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never was secularized. Christianity and Judaism
awful religions, but they were secularized,

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secularized in the what do you call
it, a renaissance in the Enlightenment.

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All right, thank you, Frank, Thank you to all the super chatters.

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Thank you to all the people who
did stickers whose names I didn't catch.

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Really really appreciate the support we made
our target. And thank you to

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all the people watching. Again,
don't forget to like the show before you

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leave. Just click that like button. Helps with the algorithms a lot.

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Oh ABUSI just did the first super
chat he's ever done. Superchat contribution.

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Thank you obviously. Please like the
show and please subscribe. If you're not

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a subscriber, you'll be notified when
I go live. You can always unsubscribe

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if you land up hating it,
but you know, the most subscribers I

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have it helps with algorithm as well, likes, subscriptions, comments, all

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01:35:40.760 --> 01:35:43.640
of that stuff is very very helpful. All right, I need a run.

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I'm meeting with some people for dinner. I will see you all.

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Next show will be on Sunday,
Sunday evening at eight pm California APM put

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a weekend time, which is seven
pm East Coast time. See you all

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then, buy everybody, and thank
you