WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.279 All right, everybody, welcome to another edition of The Cage 2 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.720 to Night Live. I am your host the Cage Night 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.199 Jacob Mook and as of time of recording, Happy Mardi 4 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.440 Gral to everybody. Uh, from what I've been hearing, I 5 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.600 didn't participate in any of the parades or anything this 6 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.839 year because I just really have lost my knack for 7 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.640 it and my taste for it. Apparently there was only 8 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:30.800 one death and that was in a small little town 9 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.479 called Mammoo, New Orleans. Only had a couple of gunshots, 10 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.479 no stabbings. From what I've been told, I mean, the 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.479 night is young. You know, it's only nine pm Central time. 12 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.439 You know, as this area goes so things can still 13 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.920 pop off. But so far, everybody kind of kept it, uh, 14 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.039 kind of kept it cocopaesthetic as far as everything should 15 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:53.479 be done. So that's great, that's good things. What the 16 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:57.240 fuck with the hold on? Hold on? Gob Alex just 17 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.880 sent a message, what the fuck with the hell? What 18 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.960 to shit? This ain't the cult of Conspiracy? Yeah, yeah, 19 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.040 you're right. We had to shift things around. Jonathan's going 20 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.359 to a rodeo and because of that, we have to 21 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.280 shoot a cult tomorrow night, which is usually the night 22 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:12.879 that we would go live, so we had to make 23 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.200 a slight adjustment, but no big deal. No big deal. 24 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 Tons of things going on in the world around us, 25 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.640 a lot of things to discuss, and I would very 26 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.680 much love to hear y'all's two cents or have y'all 27 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.159 way in on some of these things. For now, I'm 28 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.359 gonna go ahead and share the screen. I don't know 29 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.239 if anybody will be able to really watch it, and 30 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.439 everybody's kind of got their own lives going on everything. 31 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.959 But you know, I keep hearing these things about Trump's 32 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.200 trade war, right, and how now the stock market's going 33 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.519 to shit now because of these trade wars and these 34 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.000 terrorists that he's putting on things. He's basically spitting in 35 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.799 the face of NAFTA and all this. So you know, 36 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:50.920 with that in mind, I decided to go to one 37 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:54.040 of the most if not the most liberal publication I 38 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.120 can who is going to take every opportunity they can 39 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.799 to just shit all over Donnie t and see what 40 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.200 they have to say about how these trade wars are 41 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.159 hurting America. And you know, we're gonna see what some 42 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.719 positive things might be as well. Matter of if I'm 43 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.400 gonna take the PGS off so I could read this. 44 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:16.919 Trump's trade war draws swift retaliation with new tears from Mexico, Canada, 45 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:22.000 and China. There's old Trudeau talking about things. This is 46 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:26.080 the Washington Associated Press. President Donald Trump launched a trade 47 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.240 war Tuesday against America's three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate 48 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.360 retaliation from Mexico, Canada, and China and sending financial markets 49 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.120 into a tailspin as the US faced the threat to 50 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:42.879 rekindle inflation and paralyzing uncertainty for business. Just after midnight, 51 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.240 Trump imposed a twenty five percent tax or excuse me, 52 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.439 twenty five percent taxes or tariffs on Mexico and Canadian imports, 53 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.520 though he limited the levy to ten percent on Canadian energy. 54 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:58.039 Trump also doubled the tariff he slapped on last month 55 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:03.360 on Chinese products to Okay, Now, if I'm not mistaken, 56 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.919 China was already under a fifteen percent tariff that he 57 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.400 put on last time he was in office that Biden 58 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.080 did nothing to repeal in any way, shape or form. 59 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.639 So now he's putting them on another twenty or is 60 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.919 that just like five more? I think it might be 61 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:25.120 another twenty person kind of hope. So, but anyway, here 62 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:31.680 we go being retaliated, Yeah, retaliated with terrafs of up 63 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.400 to fifteen percent on a wide array of US farm exports. 64 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.639 It also expanded the number of US companies subject to 65 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.800 export controls and other restrictions about to by about two dozen. 66 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:48.280 So the top US China goods that will be affected 67 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:53.840 by these tariffs cell phones, computers and accessories, electric and 68 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:59.520 industrial equipment, toys, games and sporting goods, appliances and furniture. 69 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.199 All right, And that's that's from the UH. That's imports 70 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.240 from China to incur a new twenty five or twenty 71 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.759 percent tariff. The exports to China that will incur a 72 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.400 ten to fifteen percent tariff, which I don't really know 73 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.079 why China thought that would be cool or a smart 74 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.160 anyway to throw a tariff back on us to retaliate. 75 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:28.759 But okay, soybeans, meat and poultry, cotton, sugar or sorghum. 76 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.160 I'm not sure exactly what this a food product, I 77 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:37.560 know that much. And fish and shellfish. So you know, 78 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.319 I know that I take every opportunity I can to 79 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.439 shit on West Taiwan aka China, and I will continue 80 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.759 to do so because the CCP is a horrible institution. 81 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.319 Fine with this, but as all right, and this might 82 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.639 upset some people, and it's not intended to. Before Russia 83 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:02.839 stepped foot into Ukraine years ago, I said that Russia's 84 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.319 military is more along the lines of a paper tiger. 85 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.680 Nobody from the lowliest private to the highest general had 86 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.279 been shot at in like forty years. They prove that 87 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.199 to themselves. This special military operation was supposed to be 88 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.040 two weeks long. They just rounded the corner of the 89 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:23.959 third year of the two week military operation, not taking 90 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:25.759 the opportunity to show on Russia. Just hear me out. 91 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.079 I am of the belief that China is America's biggest 92 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.480 enemy slash threat. I do not mean in a military standpoint, 93 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.879 if for nothing else. The sole reason that the exports 94 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:43.360 that they are trying to screw us over with are food. 95 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.600 China is starving. They can't feed their people, and somehow 96 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.920 they're supposed to be the military powerhouse that's going to 97 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:54.639 take over the world. I just don't see it now, economically, financially, intellectually, sure, 98 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.480 we could have that conversation, but I don't believe that 99 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.399 China is ever going to actually try to step up 100 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.319 and slap by America. As far as that's concerned, I'm 101 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.879 just I'm not of that belief. But anyway, moving on here, 102 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.279 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his country would 103 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.439 plaster tariffs on overall hundred billion dollars worth of American 104 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.399 goods over the course of twenty one days. This is 105 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.560 quote today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada, 106 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:24.720 their closest partner and ally, that's a bit of a statement, Trudeau. 107 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:29.199 But okay, I'll let it slide. Their closest friend. Okay, 108 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.560 now you're being a little bold there, Trudeau, calm down. Anyway, 109 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.720 At the same time, they are talking about working positively 110 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:41.240 with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make 111 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:47.079 that make sense, Trudeau said, Oh true, du Keep in mind, 112 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:50.240 he's got one foot out the door. He's resigned. He 113 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.399 I don't know when his final day is gonna be. 114 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:54.240 I actually should have probably looked it up before we 115 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.319 started this. But it's not like he's gonna be in 116 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.279 by the end of the year. At this point, he's 117 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.920 just trying to pissing everybody's cheerios and kick as many 118 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.720 hornets as as possible, because it's not gonna be his 119 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.759 problem here soon. And I get that, But is it 120 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.079 that Trump is trying to snuggle up to Putin or 121 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.040 is it that he's trying to be a businessman and 122 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.759 he's trying to make the best deal possible to end 123 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.639 the violence. I got another article pulled up here in 124 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.399 a minute that we'll we'll discuss that a little deeper 125 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:26.360 with the top US Canada goods affected by the tariffs. 126 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.600 So these are imports from Canada to US that are 127 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.199 about to incur a twenty five percent tariff. Oil and 128 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:39.839 petroleum products, okay, cars and trucks, auto parts, aluminum and 129 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:44.240 box site and metal products. Okay, these are industrial things. 130 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.759 I'm with you, I hear this. So they're saying that, 131 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.439 now we got that to deal with as far as 132 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:54.519 I goes twenty five percent tariff on that exports to 133 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:00.800 Canada to incur a twenty five percent tariff. Household appliances peril, 134 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:08.000 wine and beer, orange juice, and motorcycles, all right. So 135 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:10.600 I didn't expect that list to go that route when 136 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:16.839 I first read it. Household appliances meh, okay, apparel, I 137 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.120 mean all right, cool wine and beer. I did not 138 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.319 think that Canada really needed any more alcohol as far 139 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.240 as that's concerned. Canada kind of got their alcoholics in line, 140 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:30.639 you know, that's a whole thing with them orange juice. 141 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.480 That was out of left field for me. I didn't 142 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.399 realize that Canada was that thirsty for the OJ to 143 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.519 where it had to be listed in the top five 144 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.039 things that are gonna be affected by the tariffs. But 145 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:45.200 all right, and motorcycles, yo, y'all are crazy as hell. 146 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.200 Y'all are basically the South Arctic Circle and you're riding 147 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.919 motorcycles out there. Ya, y'all are part Polar Bears. That's 148 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.240 the Great White north Man. They're insane. But all right, 149 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.000 fair enough, the motorcycle industry is gonna suffer a tariff 150 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:03.000 on that. Moving on here. Later in the day, Commerce 151 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.279 Secretary Howard Lutnick said the US would likely meet Canada 152 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.440 and Mexico quote unquote in the middle, with an announcement 153 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.639 coming as soon as Wednesday. Lutnick told Fox Business that 154 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.919 the terriffs would not be paused, but that Trump would 155 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:19.919 reach a compromise that you know, I'm sure there's going 156 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.960 to be some sort of a compromise to be made here. 157 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:26.759 Here's the thing with the whole Mexico thing. They recently 158 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.240 gave over some cartel members as a sign of good 159 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.039 faith to America. I think it was like twenty three 160 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.399 cartel I'll call them leaders. It's not like they were 161 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:38.639 the top dogs by any means, but some sort of 162 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:42.639 like street captains, some mid to you know, high mid 163 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:46.000 level guys, and they handed them over to the US 164 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.720 as a way to say like, hey man, we got you. Now, 165 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.519 can you stop with the whole tariff talk. America's response 166 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.919 was basically, yeah, we'll take off the tariffs as soon 167 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.639 as drug stopped flowing into our country. And Mexico kind 168 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.080 of laughed about that, which, all right, the tariffs are 169 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.159 going to continue. I guess, let's see here in the 170 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:08.639 Canadian side of things, I don't really know what the 171 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.000 overarching goal here is other than to just screw them, 172 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.840 you know, I don't know. Mexican President, like I was 173 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:21.000 saying here, Claudia Shinbaum, God, I hope I'm saying that right, said, 174 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.360 Mexico will respond to the new taxes with its own 175 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.519 retaliatory tariffs. Don't think that's gonna play out. The way 176 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.879 they think it's gonna play out. Shinbaum says she will 177 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.080 announce the products Mexico will target on Sunday. The delay 178 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.080 might indicate that Mexico still hopes to de escalate Trump's 179 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.399 trade war. The president is abandoning the free trade policies 180 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.440 the United States pursued for decades after World War Two. 181 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.799 He argues that the open trade costs America millions of 182 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.840 factory jobs, and the tariffs are the path to national prosperity. 183 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.080 He rejects the views of mainstream economic economists excuse me, 184 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:59.240 who contend that such protectionism is costly and inefficient. Import 185 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:03.159 taxes are a very powerful weapon that politicians haven't used 186 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:06.200 because they were either dishonest, stupid, or paid off in 187 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.159 some other form. Trump said on Monday, and now we're 188 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.720 using them. Okay, Yes, and not of this. I see 189 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.320 where he's going. I don't necessarily disagree. What I will 190 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.080 say is, as soon as NAFTA was formed, look at 191 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:24.039 what happened to Detroit. Okay, as soon as these manufacturers 192 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.200 realized that they could make cars just south of the 193 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.600 border and transport them to America for free because of NAFTA, 194 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.919 or at least with no extra taxes or feast thone 195 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:38.679 on there. Detroit went down instantly and became the shithole 196 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:42.039 it is now. Not talking shit to any people from Detroit. 197 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.320 I love you all. I'm not talking about the people. 198 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.320 I'm talking about the industry right. The same could be 199 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.600 said for Philly, for the steel right. There's so many 200 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.679 different types of industrial jobs that as soon as NAFTA 201 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.279 came into play, so many American cities and industries went 202 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:02.360 to shit. Now, that's not government fault. That's how business works. 203 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:04.919 If you can make something for a fraction of the 204 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.080 price and sell it for the same price that you 205 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.000 were beforehand, why wouldn't you do that? That's capitalism. That's 206 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:14.080 how this works. Good business. However, Trump is not in 207 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.639 the place for good business. He's in this office for 208 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.679 the betterment of America at this moment. So, yeah, the 209 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.120 tariffs are trying to bring industry back to this country. 210 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.159 I don't know if it's gonna work out the way 211 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:28.559 he thinks it will. I have hopes. You know, there's 212 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.200 at least a little bit of some some leg work 213 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.480 to do. But is it possible that we could get 214 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:39.039 some industrial jobs back in America? I hope so I 215 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.120 also hope that there's enough people that are willing to 216 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.320 actually work for their dollar to do that, because judging 217 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.879 from what we just saw through COVID, so many people 218 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.679 just don't want to work. Like they had jobs, they 219 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.360 were begging people please apply, please come to work, and 220 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.960 the people just really didn't want to because like, why 221 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.559 would I work when I don't have to and the 222 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:04.200 government will take care of me, right, So I just 223 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.679 I don't know. I hope that the workforce would be 224 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.399 there and that this younger, newer generation is hungry for 225 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:13.399 work and hungry to make some money. I know that 226 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.120 home ownership is at pretty much an all time low 227 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.960 from thirty to eighteen right now. It's really rare for 228 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.399 somebody to buy a home. I don't I never saw 229 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.000 that in my neck of the woods. Most of us 230 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.200 bought homes relatively early and started families. But that's because 231 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.879 we have jobs and we have industry, and most people 232 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.480 in Louisiana and Texas are very capable and very willing 233 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.600 to get out there and sweat for their dollar. So 234 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.519 I don't see the same things that we look at 235 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:44.759 when we're looking at everything on the macro for the 236 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:49.200 entire country scale. That being said, COVID was a really 237 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.759 prime example of what that does look like. And I 238 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.879 am hoping that either a we do bring the industry 239 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.080 back and into this country, and we could get off 240 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.919 our asses and make it happen and be that AI 241 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.039 and automation don't take those jobs anyway. That's the other 242 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.440 side of this double edged sword. As much as Elon 243 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.200 is pushing these things, and as much as the tech 244 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.799 industry is pushing these things, automation could replace all of 245 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.600 the actual manpower jobs that were required in the auto 246 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:20.720 industry a few decades back before Detroit went downhill. So 247 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:27.039 will these tariffs bring industry back to America? Perhaps? Will 248 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:32.200 it bring jobs back to America? I don't honestly know. Again, 249 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.759 I have hope, not a lot of it, but there's 250 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:40.039 hope moving on here. Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin, allthrough 251 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.360 of a twenty seventeen history of US tariff policy, has 252 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.960 calculated that Tuesday's hikes will lift America's average tariff from 253 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:51.200 two point four to ten point five percent, the highest 254 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.000 level since the nineteen forties or in a new era 255 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.200 for sure. As the trade disputes escalated, stocks racked up 256 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.399 more losses Tuesday, one Wall Street wiping out all the 257 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.600 gains since election day for the S and P five hundred. 258 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.480 Markets in Europe also fell sharply. Now I have a 259 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.840 whole or other article that we're going to talk about 260 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.440 with the S and P five hundred in the stocks 261 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:17.360 right now, it's interesting to me, and the stocks are, 262 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.519 if nothing else, just to gamble. Right. There's nothing guaranteeing 263 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.039 that stocks will do anything. You'll see a new election happen. 264 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.000 They'll jump up, or they'll drop down, or whatever the 265 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.080 case may be. I am not of the belief that 266 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:32.600 these stocks are a good litmus test for a nation's economy. 267 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.240 I know that there are those that believe that it is. 268 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.399 I am not of that belief. What I will say is, 269 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.120 as soon as Trump took office, things went up. Things 270 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.600 were happy, happy, joy joy. Now with these tariffs, the 271 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.159 S and P five hundred has it's flatlined for the week, 272 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.679 which is not good. It's not bad, But what's the 273 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.120 old adage, be a bowl, be a bear, but don't 274 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.799 be a pig. At the moment, it's a pig. It's 275 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.240 not going up or going down. It's stagnant. And that 276 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.320 time is money that's not good for anybody as far 277 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.679 as the business world is concerned. It may not be 278 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.799 a loss for the investors, but it's also not a 279 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.240 gain for the investors either, so it's it's still a 280 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:15.720 net negative overall. But these tariffs shouldn't make the stock 281 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.840 markets go down, especially not in Europe. American stock's doing 282 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.759 what they're gonna do. Sure, they get freaked out and 283 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.360 drop their money or put their money on things whenever 284 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.120 they even get a whiff of some wild shit happening. 285 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.399 Why is Europe's stock market going up or down depending 286 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.519 on our tariffs with Canada and Mexico? Like I really 287 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.000 must have missed that. I don't know, but I find 288 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.519 it interesting to say the least, as much as people 289 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.039 want to still shit on America and say that we 290 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.639 are not the world's greatest superpower or the only superpower 291 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:48.320 any of that, as much as they want to shit 292 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.360 on us, they still look to us as a lead 293 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.600 for everything that they do. This is another example of that, 294 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.840 in my opinion. But with that being said, NATO and 295 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.559 the EU is talking a lot of noise right now 296 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:05.000 about what they will do in a post America. NATO 297 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:10.240 not post America as in America's gone, post America, NATO 298 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.839 as in we leave NATO, and they will be on 299 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:15.920 their own to foot the bill. And I'm jumping ahead 300 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.039 of myself. That's like five articles ahead where we're at now. 301 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.640 But anyway, and by the way, if anybody's listening would 302 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.559 like to chime in on anything I'm saying, please feel free. 303 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:30.319 But anyway, here we go. Trump has said the tariffs, yeah, said. 304 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.559 Markets in Europe also fell sharply. Trump said tariffs are 305 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.480 intended to address drug trafficking and illegal immigration, but he's 306 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:39.960 also said the tariffs will calm down only if the 307 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.880 US trade deficit narrows. The American president has injected a 308 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.319 disorienting volvalidity into the world economy, leaving it off balance 309 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.160 as people wonder what he will do next. During his 310 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.200 first term, Trump and post tariffs only after link the 311 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.519 investigations into the national security implications of relying on foreign steel, 312 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:04.000 for example, said Michael House. Michael House, co chair of 313 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.559 the international trade practice at the Perkins Coal law firm. 314 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:11.440 But by declaring a national emergency last month involving the 315 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.720 flow of immigrants analysted drugs across the US border, he 316 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.359 can modify these terrfts with a stroke of a pen, 317 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.599 he said. It's just chaotic Democratic lawmakers. Oh, for the 318 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.039 love of fuck, get out here, ap. Democratic lawmakers were 319 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.920 quick to criticize tariffs. Presidents don't get to invent emergencies 320 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:35.319 just to justify bad policies, said Representative Gregory Meeks, the 321 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:40.400 top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. I'm I'm 322 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:42.519 going to reread that in just a second. Hold on now. 323 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.960 Abusing emergency powers to wage an economic war on our 324 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:52.720 closest allies isn't leadership. It's dangerous, all right, real quick. 325 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:56.680 This is the top Democrat at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 326 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.799 Presidents don't get to invent emergencies to justify bad policies. 327 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.480 My brother in Christ, where was this energy last administration 328 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.400 or the one prior to the one prior to that? 329 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.200 For eight years Obama did literally that, where was this energy? 330 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:19.519 At that time? He created emergencies all of the time 331 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:23.640 to justify a record set of executive orders that were 332 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:29.880 written and signed to justify dropping bombs, dropping drone strikes 333 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:34.480 on weddings, y'all remember that. And then Operation Fast and Furious, 334 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.519 a gun that was sold to cartels by America was 335 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:41.160 later used to kill a cop in LA And we 336 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:43.599 know that because we trace the zero numbers that was 337 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:48.200 justified because of emergencies. Shall we bring up Benghazi? I'm sorry, 338 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.839 what are we even talking about here. 339 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:56.119 That's the difference though, between one political party and the other. 340 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:01.119 It's okay for that to happen. How Whoever, whenever the 341 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:04.640 coin is reversed, doesn't happen. Say anything with the audits, right, 342 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.960 Like when the first time he was in, they're like, audit, Hey, 343 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.319 we want to see your taxes, show us your taxes. 344 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.960 And then and then hit, hey let me show you, 345 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.200 let me see your taxes. 346 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. 347 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.920 We can't do that, right, So you know, it's like 348 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:22.640 it's as long as it's only going one direction, it's fine. 349 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:27.720 Yeah, you know. And that being said, they were super 350 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.200 hardcore about seeing Trump's tax returns, right. That was a 351 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:33.880 whole talking point to to what you're saying there, Royce. 352 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.680 Now we have Elon that is trying to get into 353 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.359 the irs, and everybody's like, well, why does he need 354 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:44.319 to see everybody's taxes? Why? It's like, wait, I'm so confused. 355 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.920 I heard Andrew Schultz and Charlomagne and the God. They 356 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.920 have a podcast they do together, and he said it beautifully. 357 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.240 If the cops come to your house with a warrant 358 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:58.279 right there, they have the warrant to go into your house, 359 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:00.720 and they are trying to get into your basement, and 360 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.079 the guy's like, wait, you know, don't go in the 361 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:05.240 basement right off the bat. You have something in that 362 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:07.640 basement we need to see. You're obviously breaking the law 363 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.000 in some way, shape or form. The fact that we 364 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:13.519 are seeing so much pushback at this moment tells us 365 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:15.680 all we need to know as far as what we 366 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.480 need to find out, Like clearly he needs to keep 367 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:23.279 digging and dig harder. So you know. Anyway, anyway, Yeah, 368 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:25.160 one hundred percent agree with you, Royce. When it's one 369 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.200 side of the aisle, it's whatever. When it's the other, 370 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:31.759 it's infringement, it's illegal, it's a moral. Yeah, that side 371 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:34.559 wants to talk about morals and ethics. It's fucking hilarious 372 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:39.559 to me. But anyway, even some Republican senators raised alarms. 373 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.799 Maine and Canada's economy are integrated, said Senator Susan Collins, 374 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.279 Republican from Maine, explaining that much of the state's lobsters 375 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.400 and blueberries are processed in Canada and then sent back 376 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:56.000 to the US. Hey, here's a wild idea. Why not 377 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:01.279 open processing facilities in Maine and give more jobs to 378 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:04.759 the people that live in Maine. I don't know. I'm 379 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:07.640 not like an expert in the lobster in blueberry industries. Okay, 380 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:09.839 I'm completely speaking out of my ass on this one. 381 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.519 I get that, but I feel like there's probably people 382 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.160 in Maine that don't have jobs or that would like 383 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:19.680 to have a job, especially one that is as American 384 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:23.880 as lobster. Right, that's as main as it gets. Blueberries. 385 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.079 I didn't know they had a really big, thriving blueberry industry. 386 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.000 But fine, that too, Okay, why must you send them 387 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:34.720 to Canada to process them to send them back to America. 388 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:38.839 This is kind of the point. Open a facility, open 389 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:44.559 multiple start a chain, get sponsorships, get money involved with this, 390 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:47.640 make money for your state, get tax revenue off of 391 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:52.160 those businesses. I know it's a wild concept, but all right, cool, 392 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.160 I'm not mistaken. That's the same one that told Trump 393 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:00.440 that they were not going to listen to his and 394 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:01.680 then he said, well, you're not going to get any 395 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:03.400 federal funding. Well, we'll see you in court. And he 396 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.079 was like, well, I guess you will. I think that 397 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:08.279 might be the same one. I'm not sure. It sounds 398 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:11.720 like a white woman from Maine saying these things. I 399 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.000 could be wrong. I don't know. Anyway, Uh, moving on here. 400 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.480 Truck driver Carlos Ponce fifty eight went about business as 401 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:26.319 usual Tuesday morning, transporting auto parts from see you, Dad, whatever, Warrez, 402 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:29.519 Mexico to El Paso, Texas, just as he's done for decades. 403 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:31.759 Like many on the border, he was worried about the 404 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.920 fallout from the tariffs. Why is a truck driver worried 405 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:38.000 about the fallouts from the tariffs? Okay, anyway, things could 406 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.680 change drastically. Ponce said. Truckers could lose their jobs or 407 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.359 have to drive farther to coastal ports as Mexican manufacturers 408 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:49.039 look for trading partners beyond the US. That is what 409 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:53.319 would happen. Next agreed, it's literally what we're talking about here. 410 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:57.119 But see, that's the thing. Why would the president of 411 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:01.799 the United States be worried about Mexican truckers. His job 412 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:05.839 is to worry about American truckers. But I don't understand 413 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:09.680 why we're even hearing that from this side of things. 414 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:15.000 But you know whatever. Alan Russell, head of TECHMA, which 415 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:18.319 helps factories set up in places like Juarez, it's skeptical 416 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.839 that Trump's tariffs will bring manufacturing back to the United States. 417 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:25.559 He says, quote, nobody's gonna move their factories until they 418 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.079 have certainty. Just last week, he said, TECHMA helped a 419 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:33.400 North Carolina manufacturer that moved to Mexico because it couldn't 420 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.160 find enough workers in the United States. And here in 421 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.319 lies the problem, ladies and gentlemen, I agree if we don't, 422 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:44.400 if we have the manufacturing jobs but nobody's there to 423 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.200 work them, then that's another problem. This is when automation 424 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.200 will take over and take root and become a problem 425 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.200 that we can't We can't put Pandora back in the 426 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.039 box on this one. Okay. I had a friend of 427 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.279 mine who was working in the I don't know exactly 428 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:02.920 which auto manufacturer, I know it is out there towards Reno, okay, 429 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:09.039 and they were on strike. Now, I am not going 430 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:12.039 to go into a tear about pro union or anti union. 431 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:15.160 I believe the unions have their place fine, but I 432 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:18.240 also acknowledge that unions can go a bit overboard and 433 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.400 fuck themselves out of their jobs if they don't work 434 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:26.279 with the companies. You have to have a partnership. You 435 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:28.319 can't have one person trying to big dick the other 436 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:30.279 one out of more money or out of more raises, 437 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:33.200 because they'll just hire scabs, which is what they did. 438 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:36.400 And that auto manufacturer that she was working for, she 439 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.519 was a union person. She was Every post I saw 440 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:39.759 on her Facebook was just like. 441 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:42.839 Oh, the scabs are taking our job. Fuck that union 442 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.720 workers all the way. And it's like, so what is 443 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:47.920 the strike about? What exactly are y'all asking for better benefits, 444 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:50.839 better pay? Whatever the case was. 445 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.559 And I'm not one hundred percent on what the rates were, 446 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:57.720 but basically they wanted like a fifteen dollars an hour increase, 447 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:03.000 and shocker that the car manufacturer that they were working 448 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:05.640 for said, no, I'll just hire a guy for like 449 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:07.599 three dollars more an hour than I'm paying you, and 450 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.519 you can get fucked. I know, I know it's a 451 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:13.480 wild concept, but this is kind of my point. Now, 452 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:17.160 I'm hoping that that won't happen here and that manufacturing 453 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:19.519 jobs can come back and that the unions can start 454 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:21.880 working with the companies and all of these things. I 455 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.799 worked for a union company at one point in time. 456 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.519 The union reps and the CEO of the company were 457 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.880 in They were great friends, both on site and off 458 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.799 of site, and that worked well for everybody. Everybody benefited 459 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.519 from this, and it was a true team ball mentality. 460 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.480 The company didn't want to fuck over the union hands, 461 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.920 and the union hands didn't want to fuck over the company. 462 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:49.319 That's how it's supposed to work. But anyone, anyone, let's 463 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:53.599 move on here. US businesses near the Canadian border scrambled 464 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:57.079 to deal with their impact. Guthrie Lumber is a suburban 465 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:01.279 Detroit reached out in suburban Detroit, excuse me? Reached out 466 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:04.079 on Tuesday to Canadian suppliers about the cost of eight 467 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.200 foot wood studs. About fifteen percent of the lumber that 468 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.680 Guthrie's yard in Lavonia, Michigan comes from Canada. Sales manager 469 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.839 Mike Mahoney said Canadian suppliers are already raising prices. They're 470 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.240 putting that twenty five percent on studs. Builders will strain 471 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.400 to stay within their budget, Okay, and I understand that 472 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.720 as well. Do we not have lumber in America. I 473 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:29.519 feel like we do. I feel like there's tree farms 474 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.559 all over the country. I understand that, Yeah, they might 475 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:34.640 have better quality or be able to do things cheaper 476 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:39.519 in Canada, but we could open more wood mills. We 477 00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:42.960 absolutely could open more sawmills to process more trees and 478 00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:45.279 tree farming. Yes, I understand, they've got to save the 479 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:47.319 trees and all that. I'm with you. I'm with you. 480 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:50.640 I'm talking about tree farming for the sake of making 481 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:55.359 lumber happen. It's a booming industry. It's all over the country, 482 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:57.160 as a matter of fact, mostly around here. It's for 483 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.680 like pulpwood, which is a trash industry. But I know 484 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.799 for a fact that Washington and Oregon have a thriving 485 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:11.079 lumber industry. Ravenlee, go ahead, I fixed, I don't know, 486 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:13.920 can you hear me? 487 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:20.440 Yeah, okay, it's because the true lumber takes so long, 488 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.920 Like they have more square miles of lumber that's really 489 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:28.160 available than we do here because it takes so long 490 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:33.720 to regenerate. That's why so like the processing places in Oregon, 491 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.000 like they have them close to the coast. As you 492 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:39.920 go to the coast, it's about like forty five minutes away. 493 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:43.000 But they have like certain sections that they're allowed to 494 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:45.920 harvest and then like they have to replant and they 495 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:48.799 can only harvest like certain sections at a time. Because 496 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:52.279 it's like a big deal to Oregonians, you know, about 497 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:55.240 the about the trees. So but they have like certain 498 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.440 areas so like they don't want to deforced too fast. 499 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.799 So like, but in Canada they have mass amounts of 500 00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:05.640 land where people can't live, so like it's so cold 501 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:09.000 in those areas. But like they can harvest quicker than 502 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.440 we can. 503 00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:13.119 So okay, that makes more sense. That's true, because I 504 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:16.240 mean their their population is really close to the American border. 505 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.720 Most of the Great White North is uninhabited for the 506 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:21.720 most part. So okay, that makes sense, I hear you. 507 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:25.039 But okay, maybe concessions will be made as far as 508 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:28.960 lumber is concerned, you know, I don't know. I hope 509 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:31.640 that building materials don't go up twenty five percent. That 510 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:36.480 would suck. We shall see how it plays out, he says. 511 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.559 Going on here, after years of effort and thousands of 512 00:29:39.559 --> 00:29:43.039 dollars in investment, Tom bart, a Kentucky craft bourbon distiller, 513 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:47.200 gained a foothold in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia 514 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:50.880 and Alberta, and watched his sales grow north of the border. 515 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.920 Now Kentucky Bourbon in Canada's cross is in Canada's crosshairs 516 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:59.319 and in order for his Canadian distributors is on hold. 517 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.839 God I had an issue reading that one basically orders 518 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.559 are own hole from his Canadian buyers. That hurts. He said. 519 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:09.279 At his small distillery, every single pallet that goes out 520 00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.640 the door makes a huge difference. The last thing you 521 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:13.759 want is to have an empty spot where the bottles 522 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.160 are supposed to be on the shelf. And I could 523 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:19.599 agree with that one hundred percent. Bard co owns the 524 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:23.519 bar distillery and with his wife Kim, in western Kentucky 525 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:27.519 Mullenberg County, about one hundred and thirty five miles southwest 526 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:32.680 of Louisville. Trump overwhelmingly carried Kentucky in the November election, 527 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:37.039 and Mullenberg County Trump defeated Kamala Harris by more than 528 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.200 a three to one margin. Moving on to the China's 529 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.960 harriffs here, the China tariffs also threatened the US toy industry. 530 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:49.799 I kind of was blown back when I read this 531 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.119 one initially because I thought we were buying all of 532 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.759 our toys from China. I was unaware that China was 533 00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.200 buying a bunch of toys from America. I feel like 534 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.599 that was a little bit of uno verso on that one. 535 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.960 But let's see. Greg Aarhearn, president and CEO of the 536 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.920 Toy Association, said that the twenty percent terraffs on Chinese 537 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.480 goods will be crippling as nearly eighty percent of toys 538 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:13.759 sold in the US are made in China. Okay, fair enough. 539 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.319 Rachel Lutz, owner of Peacock Room four women's boutique shop, 540 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.519 Oh wait wait wait wait wait wait, hold on, Yeah, 541 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.200 the toy industry is saying that the toys in America 542 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:31.000 will go up exponentially. Okay, we shall see, we shall see. 543 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:35.240 Rachel Lutz owns the Peacock Room four women's boutique shops 544 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.440 with about fifteen employees in Detroit. She's been bracing for 545 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:42.759 the terriffs but doesn't understand the logic behind them. I 546 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:46.160 didn't think that boutiques got a lot of business in 547 00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:50.799 Mexico and Canada that are based in America. That's a 548 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.559 new one. Or maybe talking about like materials let's see here, 549 00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:57.319 I'm struggling to see with the wisdom in picking a 550 00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:59.680 fight with our largest trading partner that we have had 551 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:04.480 history wonderful relationships with. I'm struggling to really understand how 552 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.160 they can't see that will profoundly impact our economy in 553 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.799 ways that I think the American consumer has no not predicted. 554 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:16.119 We're about to find out. So, okay, Associated Press is 555 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.680 obviously going to be saying things about how these tariffs 556 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:20.920 are a really bad thing. This terror for is just 557 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:21.920 bad for business. 558 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.119 Well, you remember a while back, I was talking about 559 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:27.839 that German company that does the vaccines and like has 560 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.640 like their hand in minerals and everything else. I was 561 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.480 looking more into it, and I cannot, for the life 562 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.160 for me remember their name. I was just looking at 563 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:38.839 like the mineral thing apparently so like the mineral fight. 564 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.720 That German company is like also leading the forefront of 565 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.000 trying to get the minerals everywhere, and they have their 566 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.400 hands and vaccines and stuff, And I was like, I 567 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.079 wonder if that company is going to be one of 568 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.559 the top players for the mineral grab overseas. 569 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:00.680 Well. I could see a random and off topic, but no, 570 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.920 not really, because we're absolutely going to be talking about 571 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.680 Ukraine here in a moment, and how Zelensky just screwed 572 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.960 himself out of some sort of a deal with America 573 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.799 and they have a lot of minerals that they're looking 574 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:14.519 to sell. Germany, being a NATO member, is absolutely going 575 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:16.119 to come in and try to fill that void. So 576 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:20.319 that wouldn't shock me if Germany, with that mineral company 577 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:21.880 does try to make a little bit more of a 578 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.839 play in Ukraine. I didn't know that it was a 579 00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.160 mineral slash vaccine company. It's a weird combo. 580 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:34.480 But they have their hand in a lot of different things, 581 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:38.200 like they'refore, They have their hand in like all different 582 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:40.440 types of stuff, and they work with a lot of 583 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:46.079 the other NATO countries helping develop their business models or 584 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.599 gaining money with minerals and vaccines and all this sorts 585 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.680 of stuff, and like diamonds. I don't know, it's weird. 586 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:54.839 It's a weird company. 587 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.000 See if you could find something out about it and 588 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:01.039 post it in the comments, we'll pull it up. Hell yeah, Okay, 589 00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:04.200 So moving on with this whole tariff situation here, the 590 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:08.280 Dow drops thirteen hundred points in two days amid Trump's 591 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.320 trade war. That that's kind of huge, Honestly. The DW 592 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.119 Jones Industrial Average dropped thirteen hundred points of the last 593 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.320 two days. Donald Trump moved forward with the tariffs against Mexico, Canada, 594 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.440 and China, America's most prominent trading partner. Now, why does 595 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.159 this matter? Global markets are bracing for the effect of 596 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.920 Trump's tariffs and retaliatory tariffs from Canada, China, and Mexico 597 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.519 will have on the American consumers. What to know? The 598 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.960 US on Tuesday and Posday, twenty five percent tariff on 599 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.280 goes from Mexico and Canada and increase the ten percent 600 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.119 tariff on China to twenty percent. Okay, so that's it. 601 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.760 It was, they've increased it from ten to twenty. My 602 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:49.239 badness misspoke earlier. Canada and China immediately retaliated, while Mexico 603 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.159 said it would announce its response later this week. As 604 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.719 a result of the tariffs, the Dow dropped one point 605 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:58.079 five to five percent, or six hundred and seventy points, 606 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.599 adding to a six hundred and fifty point plummet on 607 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.000 Monday is The Nasdaq closed ato point three five percent 608 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:09.400 down and its lowest was down two percent. Briefly entering 609 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.199 correction territory, which indicates more than ten percent drop in 610 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:17.079 the index from its recent peak. The S and P 611 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:20.159 five one hundred dropped one point two percent and erased 612 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:24.039 its post election gains. About eighty percent of stocks that 613 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.960 make up the index were down for the day. That 614 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.079 slip came despite a rebound in major tech stocks like 615 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:34.159 Navidia and alphabet Yeat Navidia, I'm not mistaken. They're actually 616 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.320 they're still coming up. I think they may have like 617 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:41.480 plateaued and gone stagnant, but they're not losing, So call 618 00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:44.679 that for what it is. Retailer's Target and Best Buy 619 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:48.400 saw their share prices decline after warring warning of sale 620 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:55.280 pressures and higher prices for consumers. Shocker shocker. The teriffs 621 00:35:55.280 --> 00:36:00.079 also negatively impacted trading across different industries, including automakers, banks, 622 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:04.679 and other retailers, including Ralph Lauren and Williams Sonoma. Trump, 623 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.079 for his part, has acknowledged the Americans could feel some 624 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.920 pain quote unquote associated with terrorists, but insisted it would 625 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:13.960 quote all be worth the price that must be paid 626 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:19.480 in quote what people are saying, I'm sure this is 627 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.480 going to be positive. Canadian Prime minister, drussing Trudeau is 628 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:24.920 on his way out of office. Didn't Min's words when 629 00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:27.719 calling out Trump over the tariffs resulting in trade war. 630 00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:31.320 A fight with Canada will have no winners, said Trudeau. 631 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.840 It's not. I really wouldn't call this a fight. I 632 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.519 understand the idea of a trade war and all of that. 633 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:43.599 I don't. It's a pretty non violent fight, but whatever. 634 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:48.199 He added that the trade war is very dumb. Yeah, 635 00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:50.119 Trudeau is going to speak on what's what's going to 636 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.440 be dumb? Okay. Trump hit back in America's northern neighbor 637 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:56.320 and alluded to his desire to annex Canada as the 638 00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:59.760 fifty first state. He said, quote, please explain to Governor 639 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:03.400 True of Canada that when he puts on a retaliatory 640 00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:07.840 tariff on the US, our reciprocal tariff will immediately increase 641 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:12.800 by a like amount. Okay, So we're having a little 642 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:15.920 bit of a pissing contest here, boys, all right. Ontario 643 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.679 Premier Doug Ford said his province is quote unquote ripping 644 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.719 up a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink in retaliation for 645 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:28.079 Trump's tariffs. We're ripping up Ontario's contract with starlink. He said, 646 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:32.039 it's done, it's gone. I don't feel like that's gonna 647 00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:35.119 play well for them. Getting involved in business with Elon 648 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:38.480 seems to be a very smart business move. You tearing 649 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:41.119 that up kind of seems like it's just gonna screw you. 650 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:44.480 But I mean, you know, it's a bold strategy. You'll 651 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.280 see if it works out for him, Cotton. What happened next? 652 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:51.119 Trump on Monday announced additional tariffs on agricultural products that 653 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.320 are set to take effect in a on April second. 654 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.679 That's gonna be a weird April Fool's Day prank. But okay, 655 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.199 so we are seeing that there are global markets that 656 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:04.920 are suffering as a result of all of these things. 657 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:07.639 What are y'all's thoughts on this? 658 00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:14.960 So the pison contests are always very interesting between you know, 659 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:18.400 I guess Trump and these are other countries. 660 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.400 I mean, whether it's these tariffs or. 661 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:25.079 Anything else, it's almost like if it evolves Trump, people wants. 662 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:29.280 To completely go against it regardless. So I don't know. 663 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:33.360 Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. And it seems like 664 00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:35.760 the media is not exactly fond of Trump. They never 665 00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:39.960 have been for the record, So yeah, I thought Newsweek 666 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:43.599 would be a little more gracious towards Trump, which I 667 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.639 mean they were a little more than AP, which, to 668 00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:50.320 be fair, AP just to test everything that Trump even does, 669 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.920 the fact that he's breathing makes them mad, so you know, 670 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:56.760 all things considered fair enough. I stand by what I 671 00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.280 said earlier, though. I see what he's trying to do 672 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.920 to bring me manufacturing jobs back to America, to bring 673 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:05.159 industry back to America. I just hope it works out, 674 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.599 and I hope that Americans aren't too lazy to take 675 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.639 these jobs and do them and make money and make 676 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:15.079 careers out of them. I just I don't know. I 677 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:17.440 feel like he's also going out of his way to 678 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.480 shit all over NAFTA, which if that's the case, then 679 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:25.239 we're just going to tear up the free trade agreement. 680 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.599 Then just go ahead and do that. Starting a tear 681 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:32.360 war is like, that's like a Cold War version of it. 682 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:35.519 Just pull the trigger and just tear it up and say, no, 683 00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:37.639 we don't have free trade with anybody. If that's the case, 684 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.800 which I mean, I guess is his overarching goal here, Raven, 685 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:41.599 go ahead. 686 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.320 I agree with you. I think that there is benefits 687 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:49.559 to this. I mean, our industries have gone way down 688 00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:53.039 and a lot of jobs have gone away for American people, 689 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:56.679 and more and more companies have moved overseas to get 690 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:01.559 deeper product made. It comes down to are they going 691 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:04.320 to make the same cheap product or are they going 692 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.199 to actually go back to like the nineteen fifties like 693 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.199 and actually make good quality product here that last and 694 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.280 give like the American people benefits to stay with the 695 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.199 company long term, or are they going to screw them 696 00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:20.800 over where people work for them for like forty years 697 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.599 and then screw them over, you know. So I mean 698 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:30.119 that's that's Amy Royce. 699 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:30.559 We can hear. 700 00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:35.480 Oh, sorry, I'm excared, you get my path. 701 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:41.199 Oh, I was just saying that. I think that there's 702 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.199 a benefits to it, I think, But the problem is is, 703 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.480 like you said, do people actually want to work, But 704 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:49.000 then you have a whole bunch of people that are 705 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.000 willing to work, like you know at McDonald's, Which there's 706 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:53.960 nothing wrong with that if that's what you can do 707 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.800 and afford and have time for, but like if they 708 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:00.400 have incentives to stay with the company to or work 709 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:03.239 for these companies, but then you have AI coming in 710 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:07.239 and taking over everything. Anyways, So that's going to be 711 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.320 an uphill battle in fighting the cost of how much 712 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.639 it's going to cost for each person. Are they going 713 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.400 to be at the minimum wage of seven twenty five? 714 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.360 Are they going to be at like organ wage at 715 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:18.360 fifteen dollars an hour? 716 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:18.920 Like what? 717 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:21.239 Where it's going to be the happy balance where we 718 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:25.679 can actually afford the product that they're making versus them 719 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:30.760 paying two dollars and ten cents to somebody who oversees Yeah, not. 720 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:34.480 One hundred percent agree. And yeah, like you said, there's 721 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.760 nothing wrong with somebody, regardless of whatever age, working at 722 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.840 fast food or at what most would consider a dead 723 00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.159 end job, if that's all they have the ability to work, 724 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:44.920 you know what I mean? 725 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.000 You. 726 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.679 I believe that people should be able to move, you know, 727 00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.960 and go to places where there is industry in order 728 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:53.840 to get the jobs that they want and make the 729 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:56.119 careers and the lives that they want for themselves. I 730 00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:59.400 understand that that is not always an option for every 731 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:03.840 single person out there. I get it. But if more 732 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:08.719 industries come back to US soil in theory, that means 733 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:12.599 more jobs should come back to American soil. But as 734 00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:15.679 AI and automation are taking over, I just I don't know, 735 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.599 I don't know. I don't trust AI. I've said that many, many, 736 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:24.119 many times, and there's a whole slew of reasons why 737 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:27.960 I do not, especially with the innovations that they're making 738 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.599 in that regard. This is actually from the Jerusalem Post. 739 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:33.840 I didn't realize that it was going to be from 740 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:36.039 that publication whenever I clicked on the link. But then 741 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.480 I saw I was like, oh, okay, sure, why not 742 00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:41.159 As we're talking about AI and all of these things. 743 00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:45.280 We talked about quantum computers that Elon Musk was making, 744 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.400 and now Microsoft has announced a tiny processor that will 745 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:53.719 change the world. The major Aana major Ana, I don't 746 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:56.719 know how to pronounce the word one an advanced processor 747 00:42:56.760 --> 00:43:01.519 capable of performing complex calculations at incredible speeds. Now this 748 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:08.119 is to be used alongside the Topographal quantum processor. It's 749 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:11.960 it's insane what these people are doing. Tech giant Microsoft 750 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.159 announced today Wednesday. I think this might be from the 751 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.599 last week actually, oh March fourth, twenty twenty five, ibydan 752 00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:25.039 that it has successfully developed a new quantum processor called 753 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.119 Majorana one, which, according to the company, will help reduce 754 00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:33.280 the time required to build powerful quantum computers from decades 755 00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:37.239 to just a few years. This breakthrough could come could 756 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:41.400 bring closer the momentum when quantum computing can tackle complex 757 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:45.239 problems on an industrial scale, a challenge that technology companies 758 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.760 have been struggling with for years. For seventeen years, Microsoft 759 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:51.679 has invested in research and development of a new material 760 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.039 and a revolutionary architecture for quantum computing. The result its 761 00:43:56.079 --> 00:44:00.840 first quantum processor, based on a particle called major onum Majorana. 762 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.079 Don't know, We'll continue. First ascribed to nineteen thirty seven 763 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:09.360 by theoretical physicists, it tore Majorana. I'm probably going to 764 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:11.599 butcher that the entire time. We continue this. By the way, 765 00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:16.480 unlike the traditional approach of using electrons for computation, Microsoft 766 00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:19.159 has found a way to control and harness this unique 767 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.800 particle to create more reliable quibbits, the core of the 768 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.360 quantum revolution. Quibbits are the quantum equivalent of the regular 769 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.320 bits we know from today's computers, but they suffer from 770 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.119 high sensitivity and external noise, making it difficult to build 771 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:38.280 stable quantum computers. Microsoft claims its new technology allows the 772 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:41.400 integration of a million quibbots on a single chip with 773 00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.480 a size not far from the conventional computer processors we 774 00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:47.199 are familiar with. We did an episode on this as 775 00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:50.119 a matter of fact on the Cult a couple weeks ago, shit, 776 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:54.079 probably over a month ago. And essentially for the quantum 777 00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:57.039 computers to work, they have to be at just above 778 00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.280 absolute zero, if not absolute zero, I say just above. 779 00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:06.760 I think it's like, is it negative point two kelvin 780 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.079 that they can operate at and be okay. But any 781 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:14.159 kind of external heat throws off the computations. Any type 782 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:18.199 of excess electrical noise throws off the computation, external light 783 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:21.840 throws it off. External everything can throw off this computation. 784 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.519 So now they have even better and more efficient ways 785 00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:30.599 of getting it through. Here it says this breakthrough. I'm sorry, good. 786 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:34.159 Oh, I just have one thing to say. For absolute 787 00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.320 zero's negative two hundred and seventy three celsius, and that 788 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.440 would be zero calvin zero kelvin. 789 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:45.239 Oh, you're good, So it's zero kelvin. I saw somewhere 790 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.719 that it was either they can be it to the 791 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:50.719 positive side point two kelvin or to kelvin and it 792 00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.679 would still work. But it's basically right at or around 793 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:58.320 absolute zero where they can make this happen continuing. It 794 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:01.480 says this breakthrough was made possible by the creation of 795 00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:05.559 a topo conductor, a new material developed in collaboration with 796 00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:12.199 scientists composed of indium, our indium arsenide, and aluminum. This 797 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.960 material not only enables the observation of MAJORANA particles, but 798 00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:18.679 also allows for control over them in a way that 799 00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:22.199 leads to the creation of more stable quibots. The findings 800 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.480 were published in a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature, 801 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:28.960 providing a solid foundation for further development of a practically 802 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:34.480 scalable quantum computer. According to Zolfi Alam, God the I'm 803 00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:38.199 butchering names the president of Microsoft and leader of the 804 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:44.280 whope whope I hate when articles do that. A new 805 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:46.800 ad pops up and throws the entire page off here 806 00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.079 Okay Zolfi Alam, the company's leader of the company's quantum 807 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.280 computing division. This achievement is the result of years of 808 00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:59.559 thorough research. After seventeen years, we are presenting results that 809 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.079 are not only amazing, they are real. They will completely 810 00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:07.719 change the way quantum journey progresses Okay Alam, who was 811 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.800 previously involved in the HoloLens project, helped lead Microsoft's efforts 812 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.360 in developing innovative manufacturing methods that led to this accomplishment. 813 00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:21.039 This breakthrough earned Microsoft selection by DARPA, the US Department 814 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.599 of Defense's Advanced Research Agency, as one of two companies 815 00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:29.599 advancing to the final stages of the US two QC program. 816 00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:32.920 An innovative initiative. Excuse me to build a large scale 817 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.280 quantum computer. Now the company will work on producing a 818 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:40.960 prototype of an error resistant quantum computer with not with decades, 819 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:47.480 but with just a few years. That is pretty insane. 820 00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:50.079 This is not just a milestone, it's a gateway to 821 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:55.079 a new world of problem solving, says Chattan Nayak, technical 822 00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:59.320 fellow at Microsoft. Our path to practical quantum computing is clear, 823 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:03.000 the foundational technology has proven, and our architecture is scalable. 824 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:06.039 The new agreement with DARPAP proves we are on the 825 00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:08.840 right track to develop a machine that can lead to 826 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:14.320 scientific breakthroughs and solve truly significant problems. So again, as 827 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.920 we were talking about what jobs may or may not 828 00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:20.400 make their way back right to American soil, as far 829 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:23.800 as manufacturing and things go, I find it interesting that 830 00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:27.719 they're also advancing the AI and the computations that very 831 00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:30.440 well may take those jobs from Americans, even if they 832 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:33.199 were willing to work them. Royce, where's your thoughts on it? 833 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:39.119 So obviously, on one hand, AI is good because of 834 00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:41.639 all of the computing that it's able to do and 835 00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:46.239 all the innovations that could feataily be Obviously it's also 836 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.079 it could also be bad because, as you said, it 837 00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:51.119 can be taking. 838 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:52.599 A lot of jobs away from Americans. 839 00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:55.880 However, at this moment, at least where AI is and 840 00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:59.719 where at least the robots even are currently, at least 841 00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.559 they're are some jobs that it won't be able to 842 00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:03.079 take away. 843 00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:06.639 Right, So, welding is it like. 844 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.880 You know, being out in the fields, because going to 845 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:12.800 require a real person that's you're not really going to 846 00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:15.960 have a robot that's going to be able to you know, 847 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:18.119 be on the pipeline for sixteen. 848 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.519 Hours a day or you know, in water rain whatever. 849 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.599 So I mean, at least there are some jobs that 850 00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:30.719 will be less affected. I mean, there are plenty of 851 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:35.239 welding jobs that use AI or that will use robots 852 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:40.280 because obviously you can have a robots quote unquote hand 853 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.840 will never will be much more steady than a normal person's. 854 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.360 But there are still things that the human is able 855 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:54.719 to do whether it's computing, angle, speed, et cetera, that 856 00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:58.400 at least as of this moment, it can't do. 857 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.599 You haven't seen robotic welders yet, have you? 858 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:05.519 No? I have not. 859 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:12.199 They are it's about scale, right, so like most auto 860 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:15.599 manufacturers are using robotic welders, right, And I'm with you. 861 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:18.400 It depends on the type of welding being used and 862 00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:22.480 all of that. I saw a it was a CGI. 863 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:25.679 It fucking may have been AI video as a matter 864 00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:28.440 of fact, that showed a pipeline welder. And when I 865 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:30.760 say pipeline, I mean like the oil pipeline, like that 866 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.280 type of welding being done by a massive robot, and 867 00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:35.800 that was something that they were trying to bring to 868 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:41.960 the main surface here soon. It's what they're able to 869 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.960 make technology do when programmed the right way, is scary. Now. 870 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.079 I agree with you that at this exact moment in time, 871 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.480 we're still secure in a lot of these jobs. But 872 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.960 how far away is that? Really? One year, three five 873 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.920 before these things take over more jobs and it's more 874 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:04.400 of like a fab shop type of situation where maybe 875 00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:08.199 that's the case, right, Maybe only in fabrication would they 876 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:10.800 use robots to do this work and not for like 877 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:13.360 field work. I could see that as well, but then 878 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:18.119 you're taking away jobs from the fab shop. It's yeah, 879 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:22.079 go ahead, Raven. What you got. 880 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:27.159 There is that's the thing you're talking about. Like the neuralink, 881 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:31.079 Like they have multiple robots they've developed that, Like you 882 00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:34.880 can be sitting in your room and like you're neuralink 883 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.159 to it and it's out doing the work for you 884 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:41.239 in a separate area. You're controlling it via your brain power. 885 00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:45.280 So like, realistically, it's the more that they come up 886 00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:48.079 with stuff, like they have the new one that has 887 00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:52.800 more dexterity and it's stronger and everything else, and it's 888 00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:54.880 like able to do all sorts of stuff like why 889 00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:57.360 would you have a human that has air when you 890 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.480 have a computer that has zero air on pipe line, 891 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.760 Like it can compute faster than we can even compute, 892 00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:08.119 and then it has a zero percent you know, rate 893 00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:12.119 of not getting it wrong. So I mean, I think 894 00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:15.519 right now we're safe, but like as it continues to develop, 895 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:19.159 like they are developing all over the world for all 896 00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:21.800 different things. They had the they have that whole hospital 897 00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:26.239 in China that they are testing with just the AI robots, 898 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:28.519 and then they have their testing it on the kids 899 00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:31.079 to be their teachers, and they're they had that one 900 00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:33.159 that just attacked that lady in the crowd and they 901 00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:35.079 had to like pull it back. I don't know if 902 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:35.920 you saw that video. 903 00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:37.480 I have not where. 904 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:41.400 Yeah, so it went rogue and they pulled it back 905 00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:44.199 and they were like, oh ha ha ha, it was 906 00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:47.519 just playing and I was like, okay, that was like 907 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:50.559 it really did try to attack the lady. It like 908 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:55.079 malfunctioned quote unquote. But the one that's scary is the 909 00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:57.119 new one. It has all like the muscles and stuff. 910 00:52:57.119 --> 00:53:00.280 It's like really creepy looking that one is. But they 911 00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:02.599 have all the ones that they want to introduce into 912 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:05.320 the houses, like the I think the new models are 913 00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:07.880 coming out this year to be able to be purchased 914 00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:11.480 by like normal people. And I mean seeing they're going 915 00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:14.480 to try to replace everyone in everything to where we're 916 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:16.559 just existing with AI. 917 00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:22.599 So in my limited experience with dealing with automation and 918 00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:25.280 jobs being taken and stuff like that, so the place 919 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:28.599 I used to work at, to load a palette full 920 00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:32.360 of fifty pound bags of sugar throwing it out, you 921 00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:35.360 used to have people that would load these palettes by 922 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:40.519 hand right, that's bag breaking labor, and that sucks. It's 923 00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:44.719 dumb grunt work, like one hundred percent. Now we got 924 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:48.960 robots and automated equipment and palatizers to do the work 925 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:51.480 for us, and we got a stretch trap machine to 926 00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:53.719 stretch trap it all down whenever the time came, and 927 00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:56.159 all this stuff, and the people that worked there were 928 00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:58.119 not in fear of losing their job because you still 929 00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:01.559 needed people to work the machine. And when the machine 930 00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:05.679 would screw things up because it inevit inevitably does. We 931 00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:08.519 are in an imperfect world, and all that you needed 932 00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:10.239 people to be able to operate it and get it 933 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:14.800 back up to snow. Okay, great, that's excellent. But with 934 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:18.079 more innovation coming, like you said, it's gonna become more 935 00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:23.440 perfect and less likely to have fuck ups. And then 936 00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:25.400 we're gonna get to a point to where we have 937 00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:32.320 maintenance robots to fix the manufacturing robots. It's like the 938 00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:36.119 future is now. Honestly, again, I don't see this going 939 00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:40.679 more than only a few years. It's about scalability. Could 940 00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.360 we have a good decade left of manpower in the workforce? Possibly? 941 00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:52.159 Is that likely? Time will tell, So what's the end goal? 942 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:53.880 So what's the end goal? 943 00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:57.000 So let's just say, so, let's just think for a second, 944 00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.760 hypothetically twenty years in the future. 945 00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:05.519 So then are they trying to be where where do 946 00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:10.719 we fit in in general? I mean, like as far 947 00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:12.920 as far as as far as workforce, you know, just 948 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:16.639 like like uh, I think Wally right the movie where. 949 00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:20.480 Right, like they people just kind of got fat and 950 00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:22.239 lazy because they just don't wan I'm doing anything in 951 00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:24.239 the and the robots just you know, trying to take over. 952 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:29.480 That seems like human innovation would be nil as that moment, 953 00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:31.119 and that just that doesn't seem. 954 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:32.639 Like it would be a good place, Like how are 955 00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:36.760 how are we supposed to make money as of that moment? 956 00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:39.719 It's everything is supposed to be going back to socialism 957 00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:40.639 and communism to. 958 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:44.719 Where every everybody gets equal to are you know whatever 959 00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:46.400 the AI says, like what's the end goal? 960 00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:48.760 I think that we don't work for a living. 961 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:51.880 I think you pretty much just said what the end 962 00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:57.639 goal is, honestly, is that they eventually want to antiquate humans. 963 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:00.679 I'm not I don't believe that they are trying to 964 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.800 get all of us to upload our subconscious minds into robots. 965 00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:08.000 And have that happen, Although there are people that are 966 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:09.800 definitely trying to go that way into the full on 967 00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.039 transhumanism movement. And I don't mean trans is in the 968 00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:18.079 sexual orientation. I mean trans is in like bionics and 969 00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:22.119 robots that are operating with what some would call a 970 00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:25.800 human soul. There are those that believe that I am 971 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:28.400 not one of them. I am of the belief that 972 00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:30.639 they are absolutely trying to get us back to where 973 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:33.599 we rely on the government and the system quote unquote 974 00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:36.039 whether you know, name whatever system you want to go 975 00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.880 off of here, that humanity will be forced to rely 976 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:43.280 on the system for everything, and at that point, what 977 00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:48.280 are we but slaves and meat bags? A raven go ahead. 978 00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:53.480 I actually think that they're going to push for space 979 00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:59.679 exploration and using the human workforce as going to Mars, 980 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:04.679 establishing colonies there, because they've already been pushing hard for 981 00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:08.960 people to be going to Mars soon. I think that 982 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:11.800 if the world is being ran by AI, that means 983 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:15.000 that it gives them the opportunity to take us there 984 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:18.480 and like to push us further out, because that's been 985 00:57:18.519 --> 00:57:21.119 the whole talk is, you know, how far can we go? 986 00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:25.000 Can we establish a colony or colonies, how far can 987 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.679 we go into space? Like, I don't think that's out 988 00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:30.440 of the realm of question. I mean, maybe they'll use 989 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:32.400 the AI to go that way, or they. 990 00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:36.480 Why not send the robots to Mars. They're way more 991 00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:42.280 adept to operating in an atmosphere with no air, you know. 992 00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:44.920 Maybe they use them instead of us. Maybe they're trying 993 00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:48.079 to just get them to work better down here and 994 00:57:48.119 --> 00:57:51.719 then use them. I don't know, but I think I 995 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.159 think expanding what humans can do and can't do, I 996 00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.679 think is the angle of that. Either way, I think 997 00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:01.760 we're going to be used as cannon fodder and just 998 00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:05.760 you know, we're just here existing in the elite world. 999 00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:09.800 I'm with you. I'm with you. I don't really know 1000 00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:14.960 what the overarching end goal is to the elite's royce. 1001 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:18.000 To answer your question, I have a bunch of theories, 1002 00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:21.039 and so does pretty much everybody else on the internet. Right, 1003 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:25.360 but it seems to be going in that direction, and 1004 00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.039 regardless of what exactly that end goal looks like, it 1005 00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:33.840 looks bad for humans as a whole. I don't know. 1006 00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:38.039 I would also I'm very curious to see as far 1007 00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:41.599 as the war fighting front goes what robotics will look 1008 00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:46.639 like in that regard. Not to go terminator here, but 1009 00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:50.599 as we have more and more battlegrounds opening up and 1010 00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.239 springing up all over the world right now, and we're 1011 00:58:54.239 --> 00:58:57.880 talking about robots being used in the house for household 1012 00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:01.519 items and doing these type to things, It's like, how 1013 00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:04.760 far away are we from the movie I Robot? You know? 1014 00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:08.199 And then once we're at that point, does America need 1015 00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:11.400 a military or what? We just have battalions of robots 1016 00:59:11.679 --> 00:59:16.400 straight up clone war type shit. I mean, I don't know, 1017 00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:19.480 because at that point, what would be the point of 1018 00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.599 having our sons and daughters go to the front line 1019 00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:25.840 when we can send these robotics of lights and clockwork 1020 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:28.639 that are ran by AI that never miss a shot. 1021 00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:33.159 I mean, in theory that sounds badass. On the other 1022 00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:35.440 side of that, what's to stop one of them from 1023 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:39.199 going on the fritz and declaring war on everything around them, 1024 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.840 including us? I don't know. I don't know what the 1025 00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:44.559 end goal is, but I know that it is not 1026 00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:49.880 positive for humanity. Speaking of things that are not necessarily 1027 00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:54.360 positive for humanity, here is from Al Jazeera which I 1028 00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:57.360 need to make a mention of this. I tried pulling 1029 00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:02.920 up an Al Jazeera article on what was it? There 1030 01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:04.639 was a there's another talking point I wanted to bring 1031 01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:08.519 up here in just a second. Uh oh yeah, if NATO, 1032 01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:13.159 we'll be able to defeat Russia without the United States. 1033 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:17.199 There was a brilliant Al Jazeera article on it, and 1034 01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:20.119 they wouldn't let me open it up on this server. 1035 01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:23.159 Google would not let me open it. Duck duck Go 1036 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:25.400 would allow me to open on my phone. When I 1037 01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:27.760 tried to airdrop it to my computer, it would not 1038 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:29.719 let me open it, but it will let me open 1039 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:34.360 an Al Jazeera article on the Israeli conflict. Found that 1040 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.679 to be very interesting. But we already know that the 1041 01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:42.440 Internet is absolutely shadow banning things and you know, saying 1042 01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:46.039 what we can and cannot see. So here we have 1043 01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:50.800 here updates on the Israeli demands for demilitarization of Gaza. 1044 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:55.159 Arab blah blah blah. Jesus, I can't speak. Arab leaders 1045 01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:02.599 adopt a plan. So here's what's happening today. Arab countries 1046 01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:06.480 have unanimously agreed on a scheme for Gaza's reconstruction in 1047 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:11.039 an emergency summit in Cairo. Hamas has welcomed the gathering 1048 01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:15.320 and the adoption of the Egyptian proposed plan for reconstruction. 1049 01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:19.519 Israel claims that the results of the summit fails to 1050 01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:24.840 address the realities of the situation following the October seventh attacks. 1051 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:32.440 The UN chief Guierrez Gutierrez whatever says that commitments must 1052 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.840 be upheild and implemented in full regarding the Gaza cease 1053 01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:40.000 fire deal, and also the Palestinian Civil Defense says it 1054 01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:43.599 recovered forty eight bodies in an ad hoc mass grave 1055 01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:49.719 near Camal Adwin Hospital in northern Gaza. So as already 1056 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:54.320 discussed and known about, the situation is messi It's messy 1057 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:57.519 as hell, but you know, let's get into it here. 1058 01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:03.719 Israeli forces tear down This was three hours ago. Israeli 1059 01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:07.480 forces tear down a raid. A town near tul Karim 1060 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:14.039 occupied on the west bank Alba shak Aksaraki's shar Kiyas 1061 01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:18.920 Yeah has been stormed by Israeli troops. The Waffa News 1062 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:22.559 agency reports. Local sources told the agency that soldiers deployed 1063 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:26.559 in the streets, specifically in that neighborhood and searched vehicles 1064 01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:29.360 without any arrest being reported. Drones were heard flying at 1065 01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:33.719 low altituits over the community. Next. This was three hours ago. 1066 01:02:33.800 --> 01:02:38.039 Hesbela struggles with the new relationship to state In post 1067 01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:41.719 war Lebanon, Hesbela railed thousands of its supporters for the 1068 01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.280 funeral of its longtime leader Hassan Nasraala, who was killed 1069 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:50.320 in an Israeli airstrike in September, because yeah, he was 1070 01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:54.599 and that's a good thing. However, analysts told Al Jazeera, 1071 01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:56.480 the show of strength does not make up for the 1072 01:02:56.519 --> 01:02:59.960 impact of Israel's war against Hesbela, which saw much of 1073 01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:03.519 the group's top leadership killed and a significant portion of 1074 01:03:03.519 --> 01:03:07.920 its military arsenal reportedly destroyed. Again, this will be a 1075 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.440 good thing. They are an internationally recognized terrorist organization in Israel. 1076 01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:15.880 Just crippled them, So yeah, that's a good thing. And 1077 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.280 Hassan Israela was also a massive piece of shit. Here 1078 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:23.639 we have four hours ago. Of course, Hamas praises attempted 1079 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:27.880 attack on Israeli troops, no doubt. A statement by the 1080 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.239 group comes after a man was shot dead in Israeli 1081 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:34.840 forces near the illegal Israeli settlement of Homesh in the 1082 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:39.440 Occupied West Bank yesterday. The group called Ahmad muffed al 1083 01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:44.360 Khalani Jesus, I cannot pronounce these names whatsoever. A heroic martyr. 1084 01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:48.639 He was eighteen, by the way, saying that the attempted 1085 01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:52.199 attack confirmed that resistance will not stop until we achieve 1086 01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.920 our goals. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Al Kalani was 1087 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:59.280 killed near the Homesh checkpoint between the cities of Nabilis 1088 01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:04.440 and Janine. What are their goals? You might ask, Camas 1089 01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:06.719 is not going to stop until they get their goals 1090 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:12.079 met and all these things. Look, this is an uncomfortable 1091 01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:17.320 thing to say. An insurgency can only be defeated in 1092 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:23.519 one way, and that's not pretty. There's nothing heroic or 1093 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:29.039 pretty about what it takes. A war with belligerents can 1094 01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:32.880 be ended with paperwork and with agreements made and with 1095 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:41.599 deals being struck to defeat an insurgency. There's no nice 1096 01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:44.599 way for me to say this eradication. That is the 1097 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:46.760 only way to get rid of it. You could look 1098 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:50.480 at the IRA, for instance, who I'm not necessarily saying 1099 01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:52.519 I do or don't support, but just throwing it out. 1100 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:56.519 When the IRA signed the peace deals, that should have 1101 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:58.719 been the end of it. Yet somehow we still have 1102 01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:03.559 bombings and shootings going on and Belfast why Because an 1103 01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:08.039 insurgency is ideas and the only way you're gonna kill 1104 01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:11.519 an idea is to eradicate those that are spouting it. Now. 1105 01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:14.559 I am not in favor of genocide by any means, 1106 01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:19.360 but Hamas is not gonna stop. They may go more underground. 1107 01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:23.159 They you know, they may pull the victim card, as 1108 01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.599 they did. They started this shit allegedly. I know people 1109 01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:28.800 are gonna say, well, no, they did in Israel started 1110 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:33.599 look look look the attack on October seventh, Green led 1111 01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:37.760 them to get wrecked. Then they got so wrecked that 1112 01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:40.719 they started going to social media and playing the victim card. 1113 01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:46.280 This hard to where now people have sympathy for Hamas. 1114 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:50.880 The terrorists sell this, this will be like having sympathy 1115 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:55.480 for al Qaeda. It's it blows my mind, But the 1116 01:05:55.719 --> 01:06:00.280 world population listens more to social media than they due 1117 01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:02.679 to the people on the ground that were actually fighting it. 1118 01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:04.719 On the call to conspiracy, we have a guy that 1119 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:07.039 actually was on the front lines. He came on our 1120 01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:10.480 show as a guest. He's an Israeli guy. He told 1121 01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:14.480 us exactly what was going on, and it didn't sound fun. 1122 01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:17.280 It sounded like they fully saw this as a fight 1123 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:21.679 for Israel's future. If they don't take out all Hamas now, 1124 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.360 they'll just regrow themselves and be back in action here soon. 1125 01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:29.639 With that in mind, Hamas also grew ten thousand strong 1126 01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:32.840 in the last month. How and why, you might ask, 1127 01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.199 because they took their foot off of their necks and 1128 01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:41.400 allowed them to repopulate and refill their ranks. I'm war 1129 01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:45.639 as hell, y'all, war's absolute hell. Let's see. Civil Defense 1130 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:48.960 recovers forty eight bodies in Gaza. The group says in 1131 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.079 a statement on telegram that the bodies were discovered in 1132 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:56.079 an ad hoc mask grave near Kamal Adwan Hospital in 1133 01:06:56.239 --> 01:07:00.039 northern Gaza. The grouping includes twenty two unknown bodies, the 1134 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:03.519 rescue organization said, adding that all will be buried in 1135 01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:09.920 the Salt solateen Cemetery in bait Leahea. Additionally, our teams 1136 01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:13.119 have recovered the remains of a martyr from beneath the 1137 01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:16.119 rubble of a house belonging to the Katib family near 1138 01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:19.639 the Islamic University in western Gaza City. The statement added. 1139 01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:24.719 You notice they didn't mention that they were women and children. 1140 01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:28.119 If they were, they would have made a mention of that, 1141 01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:30.920 because they love pulling on the heartstrings whenever they're trying 1142 01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.880 to make Israel the bad guys, right, Instead, they just 1143 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:37.119 said it was twenty two unknown bodies and an unmarked grave. 1144 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.239 This was probably twenty two enemy combatants that got got 1145 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:43.360 and yeah, they just kind of threw them in a 1146 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:47.159 mask pit and moved on with their day. Now. I'm 1147 01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:49.119 sure there's somebody that's going to be spewing about how 1148 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:52.599 this is an infringement on the Geneva Convention or something 1149 01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:56.840 like that. But again, you you know, would Hamas give 1150 01:07:56.920 --> 01:08:01.840 the Israelis time to properly bury their dead. I'm stowing 1151 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:05.360 it out here. A white elephant in the room at 1152 01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:09.159 the Arab League summit, Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan 1153 01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:12.519 Bashira has highlighted that the core issue in the Middle 1154 01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:17.000 East is not a Palestine problem, it's an Israel problem, 1155 01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:21.640 and here we go. Bajar suggested that the real elephant 1156 01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:25.079 in the room is a white elephant, a concept referring 1157 01:08:25.159 --> 01:08:29.760 to a losing investment. Watched his comments below. I'm not 1158 01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:34.840 gonna play that. That's just ridiculous. Israeli forces attack football 1159 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:39.520 fans and occupy West Bank's Ni Lynn report. I don't know. 1160 01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:44.119 I don't know. As expected here, this is all going 1161 01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:46.199 to be very anti Israel, but I did want to 1162 01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:49.800 read this one. In particular, US welcomes Arab summit on Gaza. 1163 01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:53.800 The White House says it welcomes input from the Arab nations, 1164 01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.720 but that Hamas cannot remain in power in the Strip. 1165 01:08:57.159 --> 01:08:59.920 President Trump has been clear that Hamas cannot continue to 1166 01:08:59.920 --> 01:09:06.399 governing Gaza. White House National Secretary Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said, 1167 01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:09.239 while the President stands by his bold vision for a 1168 01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:12.560 post war Gaza, he welcomes input from our Arab partners 1169 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:15.159 in the region. It's clear his proposals have driven the 1170 01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:17.560 region to come to the table rather than allow this 1171 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:21.399 issue to develop into further crisis. Trump's proposal, which has 1172 01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:25.439 been roundly rejected by the international community, call for Palestinians 1173 01:09:25.479 --> 01:09:28.880 to be permanently removed from Gaza and for the development 1174 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:36.479 of the territory into a riviera resort. Okay, So this 1175 01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:39.800 whole situation in Israel, Yeah, it seems like there's gonna 1176 01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:42.880 be a ceasefire happening. People go back on the ceasefire, 1177 01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:44.880 then they say that deals are going to be made. 1178 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:48.159 The deals aren't exactly made. Now they're trying to call 1179 01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:51.479 and help from their Arab neighbors, when in reality, Trump 1180 01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:53.399 is saying the same thing. He wants the Arab neighbors 1181 01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:55.600 to take them so that they could rebuild the area. 1182 01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.239 I don't know if the whole Riviera thing is actually 1183 01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:02.000 gonna happen or not. I know Trump says a lot 1184 01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:05.279 of things that again, the people that are listening that 1185 01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:08.479 hate him are gonna hate everything he says no matter 1186 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:12.640 what he says. I think rebuilding it into some sort 1187 01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:16.319 of a resort spot would be cool. I don't know 1188 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:19.239 with what funding and what way he plans on doing that, 1189 01:10:19.439 --> 01:10:24.399 But okay, that's a flex. But that's not gonna happen 1190 01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:27.720 as long as AMAS remains in power and while Hamas 1191 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:32.279 is still operating. Long story short, Yeah, I just I 1192 01:10:32.319 --> 01:10:35.640 don't see it being a pretty conclusion of this situation. 1193 01:10:36.600 --> 01:10:39.159 I also am really happy that nobody is talking about 1194 01:10:39.159 --> 01:10:42.560 getting US troops involved in it. That makes me very 1195 01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:45.720 very happy, very much the same way that I don't 1196 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.560 want US troops to get involved in Ukraine. The US 1197 01:10:48.680 --> 01:10:51.159 needs to worry about us things right now. I think 1198 01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:53.800 we can give, you know, thoughts and prayers and support 1199 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.079 and try our best to try to make deals happen. 1200 01:10:56.880 --> 01:10:58.880 I don't want us to get involved in the military 1201 01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:02.560 place whatsoever this time, but y'all feel free to chime 1202 01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:05.159 in on this. I know, I know, Royce, you've got 1203 01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:08.640 a particular standpoint on this one, and I get that. 1204 01:11:09.399 --> 01:11:10.840 But you know. 1205 01:11:13.720 --> 01:11:17.239 For sure, Yeah, what are your. 1206 01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:18.960 Thoughts on the whole Gaza Riviera thing. 1207 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:25.159 I mean, so I saw the clip or the AI clip. 1208 01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:28.039 I thought it was cute, although, like you know, the 1209 01:11:28.039 --> 01:11:30.319 internet is kind of blowing up with with how ridiculous 1210 01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:31.479 it was it was. 1211 01:11:32.159 --> 01:11:37.279 If you can take some place and make it better, 1212 01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:38.760 I support that. 1213 01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:42.319 If you can. If there's any way to eliminate the 1214 01:11:43.239 --> 01:11:47.239 terrorism that's going on there, that would be cool. I mean, 1215 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:53.039 having a US presence there, which I guess, or which 1216 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:59.880 might be a quote unicote neutral party maybe. I don't know, 1217 01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:06.039 as you said, unfortunately, unless the terrorist organizations are rooted 1218 01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:12.319 out and annihilated, which is extremely difficult to do, then 1219 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:16.520 I don't know if it's possible. Unfortunately. Yeah, that's the 1220 01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:18.159 biggest that's the biggest part. 1221 01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:21.239 You know, as you said, how many peace deals, how 1222 01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.600 many cease fires, how many et cetera have been betrayed 1223 01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:28.560 because that's a part of their culture to say, all right, 1224 01:12:28.600 --> 01:12:32.079 well you're allowed to lie to the you know, the infidels, 1225 01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:36.720 Christians use, et cetera. So when you already are trefacing 1226 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:39.199 everything with hey, well we're going to tell you one thing, 1227 01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:40.439 but we're going to do another, like. 1228 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:44.960 Come on, yeah. I remember finding that section in the 1229 01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:47.319 Qur'an once upon a time because I had heard that 1230 01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:52.640 and I didn't believe it. But essentially, if a Islamic 1231 01:12:52.920 --> 01:12:57.960 person slash group, slash country signs a deal with an Infidel, 1232 01:12:58.920 --> 01:13:01.720 they feel like they are righteous in going back on 1233 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:03.840 that deal because they don't have to tell the truth 1234 01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:06.760 to infidels and they don't have to back their word 1235 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:09.800 to them, and that's just that's a part of their religion. 1236 01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:12.960 Apparently I thought that was a lie. No, that is 1237 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:18.399 black and white within the Qur'an. So yeah, yeah, and 1238 01:13:18.399 --> 01:13:20.720 again we're not talking about your average Muslim that's just 1239 01:13:20.760 --> 01:13:22.880 out there trying to live their life. We're talking about 1240 01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:26.640 the extremists and that, ma'am. And that's the thing. Let's 1241 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:30.680 say that you were to eradicate Hamas. Let's just hypothetically speaking, 1242 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:33.399 with no civilian casualties you were to drop? 1243 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:33.800 Uh? 1244 01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:38.439 Were those like the the flying bayonets, the Samurai sword 1245 01:13:38.479 --> 01:13:41.439 Jadam that they made right? And it was strategically targeted 1246 01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:43.359 to where it was only bad guys getting killed, and 1247 01:13:43.399 --> 01:13:47.680 you were to take out the entirety of Hamas tonight. Okay, cool. 1248 01:13:48.439 --> 01:13:50.479 All it's going to do is leave a power vacuum 1249 01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:53.800 in that volatile state. And I mean, what's to say 1250 01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:56.119 that Hezbollah would not come in there, What's to say 1251 01:13:56.159 --> 01:13:59.199 the Muslim Brotherhood wouldn't step up. What's to say that 1252 01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:02.680 some other unknown terrorist organization would step up to fill 1253 01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:06.399 that void? You can't. You can't get rid of an ideology. 1254 01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:09.840 And I'm not gonna support genocide, even if it is 1255 01:14:09.880 --> 01:14:14.119 on people that would genocide us. It's it's just it's 1256 01:14:14.159 --> 01:14:17.319 a messy situation and I would like to see a 1257 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:21.880 two state solution happen. They keep playing this game the 1258 01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:24.880 way they're doing, and that's just gonna get eradicated off 1259 01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:28.239 the table, which is no comment right right? 1260 01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:28.600 I do. 1261 01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:30.840 I don't know. 1262 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:34.640 The whole thing. I don't think is is gonna work. 1263 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:40.039 Not whenever you have people with this type of conviction 1264 01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:45.800 at making it not work and that and that's that's 1265 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:46.760 just what it's gonna be. 1266 01:14:47.560 --> 01:14:50.880 But there's also a conviction on both sides for sure, obviously, 1267 01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:58.439 so you have the general Jewish belief that in its 1268 01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:07.239 entirety belongs to them us whatever. Obviously, I think that Israel, 1269 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:12.199 at least to the Israeli government, has tried to capitulate 1270 01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:17.479 and tried to make make deals. But I mean, at 1271 01:15:17.479 --> 01:15:18.600 the end of the day, if it's. 1272 01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:22.760 Not going to work, have them leave, which is what 1273 01:15:22.960 --> 01:15:26.199 I do agree that, or I understand that is not a. 1274 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:30.199 Popular opinion that I would be talking three minority for 1275 01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:37.600 having some very strong religious opinions about that, and I'll 1276 01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:38.199 take that hit. 1277 01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:40.359 Yeah, I get that. 1278 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:44.720 I got a question, why does Israel want Gaza because 1279 01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.720 I've seen some ancient maps of Israel and it doesn't 1280 01:15:47.760 --> 01:15:51.720 include Gaza at least in about seven hundred BC. Did 1281 01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:58.880 that ever change at any point seven hundred BC? Yeah? 1282 01:15:59.560 --> 01:15:59.880 Did they? 1283 01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:02.319 I will have Gaza. 1284 01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:05.439 So I need to look at them at to tell you, 1285 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:06.159 to tell you the truth. 1286 01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:08.079 So I'm not going to I'm going to try not 1287 01:16:08.159 --> 01:16:11.039 to spout things that I don't know, so I will 1288 01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:12.880 have to look at a map and see exactly where 1289 01:16:12.920 --> 01:16:15.880 Gaza is as far as what the borders of what 1290 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:16.760 the Torah. 1291 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:21.840 Says, So I don't know off off the top, okay. 1292 01:16:22.560 --> 01:16:25.239 I'm also aware that there is a lot of dispute 1293 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:30.079 about this whole subject within Judaism as to where the 1294 01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:34.119 borders of greater Israel should be at some point in 1295 01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:38.840 the future, near or distant future. And some of the 1296 01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:44.279 larger concepts of this include definitely Gaza and the Sign 1297 01:16:44.279 --> 01:16:46.279 and I all the way down to the Nile River 1298 01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:50.159 and all the way east to the Euphrates River. I 1299 01:16:50.199 --> 01:16:52.159 think that's kind of crazy, and I think it's not 1300 01:16:52.279 --> 01:16:56.239 a majority opinion. It's more of a fringe opinion. So 1301 01:16:56.399 --> 01:16:59.880 there's definitely people who want it now over there within 1302 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.199 in Israel. But the most ancient maps that I've seen, 1303 01:17:05.079 --> 01:17:08.039 and you know, many pro Israel people post these maps 1304 01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:12.600 because they show the entire west bank Judea, Samaria and 1305 01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:16.560 even a great big chunk of the eastern bank of 1306 01:17:16.640 --> 01:17:19.399 the Jordan River belonging to ancient Israel. But they don't 1307 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:24.680 show Gaza or Ashdad or Ashkalan in Israel. I don't 1308 01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:26.520 know who would own them at the time, nor Ali 1309 01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:29.880 way down in the South. So yeah, this country, the 1310 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:33.239 borders move around a lot. Anyway, I'm sort of in 1311 01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:37.760 favor of Trump's full proposal to develop it, even if 1312 01:17:37.760 --> 01:17:43.119 it means kicking people out, and I'm not actually totally 1313 01:17:43.119 --> 01:17:45.439 in favor of it, but to the extent that it's 1314 01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:49.079 forcing all the other Arab countries over there right now 1315 01:17:49.119 --> 01:17:52.079 to say no, no, no, no, no, we want to do 1316 01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:56.119 something else. I think getting as many ideas on the 1317 01:17:56.119 --> 01:17:58.399 table as possible is a good thing. So I guess 1318 01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:01.039 I'm in favor of Trump's proposal a little bit on 1319 01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:04.439 that front. But yeah, that's all I gotta say. It's 1320 01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:08.319 it's a formal situation, and I guess I'll just keep quiet. 1321 01:18:08.680 --> 01:18:10.680 I know I agree with you. It is a horrible situation. 1322 01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:13.880 And I'm wondering because again, Trump, being the guy who 1323 01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:16.399 wrote the art of the deal, I'm wondering if that 1324 01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:20.199 was the whole point, if he actually had no intentions 1325 01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:23.479 of Americans coming in there and rebuilding Gaza. But he 1326 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:26.840 is going to beat that drum until other countries around 1327 01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:29.079 the area are like, wait, no, no, we don't want 1328 01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:31.680 more America over here. We'll we'll do it, We'll step in, 1329 01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:33.800 we'll put we'll foot the bill, you know what I mean, 1330 01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.960 Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe he's maybe he's like, uh, 1331 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:40.800 you know, he's tricking him a little bit, give him 1332 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:43.760 that old tricky dick like that, a little ropodope. I 1333 01:18:43.880 --> 01:18:48.199 am hoping that that's what he's actually doing, because I mean, 1334 01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:55.520 I'm not I'm not not in favor of America become 1335 01:18:55.640 --> 01:18:58.159 and taking that and making it more like a resort 1336 01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:02.520 town for Americans. But that's just because I like the 1337 01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:09.039 sound of that. For a geopolitical and economic standpoint, that 1338 01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:15.000 makes less than zero percent sense to me. But it 1339 01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:17.680 is making Saudi Arabia step up, It is making the 1340 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:21.079 Jordanian king step up, it is making Egypt step up, 1341 01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:24.239 and they're all saying now that they want to come 1342 01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:27.159 up with a plan of what to do now, which 1343 01:19:27.239 --> 01:19:31.279 they were not doing last year. So I'm taking it 1344 01:19:31.319 --> 01:19:34.000 to be a net positive. Even though it's Trump kind 1345 01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:37.720 of being a little extra with some of it, I'm 1346 01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:40.119 not too terribly mad about it at the same time, 1347 01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:42.159 So I'm with you on that front as well, Tony. 1348 01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:47.960 All right now, as we are talking about foreign things 1349 01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:52.079 and warfronts and ugly bad situations, let's go ahead and 1350 01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:56.319 talk now. ABC News has to chime in. UK Prime 1351 01:19:56.359 --> 01:20:00.800 minister announces framework for peace plan after summit with it's Zelenski. 1352 01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:05.279 So Zelensky basically decided to have a little NATO summit 1353 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:09.039 that America was not invited to because he's still mad 1354 01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:14.000 about Trump and jd Vance having a little tet to 1355 01:20:14.039 --> 01:20:16.640 tet with him and kicking him out of the White House. Uh, 1356 01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:18.560 let's go ahead and read about it now. In London, 1357 01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:21.920 European leaders gathered in London on Sunday to meet with 1358 01:20:22.079 --> 01:20:28.520 Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelensky following a tempentious, tempestuous whatever they 1359 01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:30.680 got mad as hell at each other White House meeting 1360 01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:34.359 that thrust the United States Ukrainian relations further into crisis. 1361 01:20:34.760 --> 01:20:37.439 During a news conference following the summit, British Prime Minister 1362 01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:40.880 Keir Starmer said, we have to learn from the mistakes 1363 01:20:40.880 --> 01:20:43.439 of the past and we can't accept a weak deal 1364 01:20:43.800 --> 01:20:47.399 that Russia can break. All European countries must contribute to 1365 01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:50.560 making a strong deal and quote set up their own 1366 01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:54.279 share of the burden or step up their own share 1367 01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:57.680 of the burden and quote, Sturmer said. Starmer outlined a 1368 01:20:57.720 --> 01:21:00.720 plan to support Ukraine, including continue doing the flow of 1369 01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:04.399 aid to Ukraine and keeping up economic pressure on Russia. 1370 01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:09.319 He said, any lasting peace agreement must ensure Ukraine's sovereignty, 1371 01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:13.800 sovereignty and security, and Ukraine must be at all the 1372 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:18.079 negotiating table in the event of a deal. Starmer said 1373 01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:21.239 Europe will continue to help Ukraine militarily to delete any 1374 01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:24.920 future military action by Russia. He also said there will 1375 01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.199 be a coalition of the willing to help defend Ukraine. 1376 01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:31.920 Says a picture of them, all these European nations, that 1377 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:37.079 and Canada, and Canada to meet up with Zelenski. It 1378 01:21:37.079 --> 01:21:39.079 doesn't look like he even changed his clothes from when 1379 01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:42.640 he was in the White House. I'm just saying. Starmer 1380 01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:44.600 said the United Kingdom is ready to back the plan 1381 01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:47.159 with boots on the ground and planes in the air. 1382 01:21:47.840 --> 01:21:50.880 He said he also recognizes that not all countries will 1383 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:54.560 be able to make this kind of commitment boots on 1384 01:21:54.680 --> 01:22:01.960 the ground and planes in the air. Starmer said that 1385 01:22:02.079 --> 01:22:05.600 for a deal to work, it will need strong US backing. 1386 01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:10.239 We are working on a durable peace, Starmer said. When 1387 01:22:10.279 --> 01:22:13.239 asked by a reporter about whether President Donald Trump would 1388 01:22:13.319 --> 01:22:16.439 support the plan's framework, Starmer said he spoke with Trump 1389 01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:19.479 last night and that he wouldn't be going down this 1390 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:23.319 road if I didn't think it had a chance. Okay. 1391 01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:27.560 Starmar also included a two point two billion pound loan 1392 01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:31.840 about two point seven billion US dollars for Ukraine backed 1393 01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:36.199 by profits from Russian assets, that his government announced on Saturday. 1394 01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:39.199 Zelenski also met with King Charles the Third on Sunday 1395 01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:46.840 at sangrig Sangrigam House, Buckingham Palace. Said real quick, I 1396 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:50.159 just want to make sure we understood that because Zelensky 1397 01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:52.920 in the Oval Office said that those were not loans, 1398 01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:56.600 that those were gifts from America. The one hundred and 1399 01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:59.800 forty one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Apparently he didn't 1400 01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:02.560 see those as loans. He saw those as gifts and 1401 01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:06.279 government grants. Starmar is saying that he's going to give 1402 01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:09.840 him a two point seven billion dollar loan. I wonder 1403 01:23:09.840 --> 01:23:12.720 if Zelensky understands that that's a loon or is he 1404 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:14.640 going to try to play that game with the British 1405 01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:18.319 as well. I don't know, but all right, I know 1406 01:23:18.359 --> 01:23:20.159 that was at least one of the sources of contention 1407 01:23:20.199 --> 01:23:22.279 when they had their little meeting in the Oval Office. 1408 01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.279 In a statement release Sunday evening, Zelenski thanked the European 1409 01:23:26.359 --> 01:23:29.239 leaders for the London summit, saying we are discussing with 1410 01:23:29.319 --> 01:23:33.640 our partner security guarantees and the conditions for a just 1411 01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:37.439 piece for Ukraine. Zelensky said a series of important meetings 1412 01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:40.760 are being prepared for the near future. In a special 1413 01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:43.800 European Council meeting a scheduled for Thursday to discuss Ukraine, 1414 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:47.520 to which Kelensky has been invited, I should think so. 1415 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:51.279 We feel strong support for Ukraine, for our people, both 1416 01:23:51.319 --> 01:23:55.399 soldiers and civilians, and our independent Zelensky said, Together we 1417 01:23:55.439 --> 01:23:58.319 are working in Europe to establish a solid foundation for 1418 01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:02.199 cooperation with the United States in pursuit of true peace 1419 01:24:02.319 --> 01:24:09.159 and guaranteed security. Okay, before I read anymore, I have 1420 01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:16.000 tried to scrounge up any bit of backstory that I 1421 01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:22.399 can to what's going on here, because the over under 1422 01:24:22.439 --> 01:24:26.720 of it, the grand scheme of shit, says that America 1423 01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:30.479 wants to make a mineral deal with Ukraine. And they're 1424 01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:33.479 not talking about a military mineral deal. They're saying we're 1425 01:24:33.520 --> 01:24:38.840 gonna set up American corporations in Ukraine. Basically new age imperialism, 1426 01:24:39.079 --> 01:24:43.039 corporatocracy the like, which that's what America does. We like money, 1427 01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:46.079 We really like making money. That's like our whole shit 1428 01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:48.279 that in war, right, We're trying to not go the 1429 01:24:48.319 --> 01:24:52.880 war route this time. If hypothetically America was to set 1430 01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:57.479 up mining companies and drilling operations and all these things 1431 01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:03.159 around Ukraine, around that area Whererussia's currently pushing, Russia would 1432 01:25:03.279 --> 01:25:07.840 stop pushing because they wouldn't dare fuck up an American 1433 01:25:07.920 --> 01:25:11.399 company in Ukraine because that would be considered an active war. 1434 01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:13.199 And Putin and Trump don't want to get into it 1435 01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:16.439 with each other. They don't They're not like beefing like that. 1436 01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:22.000 They're cool. So that could potentially force a peace and 1437 01:25:22.039 --> 01:25:27.159 then into this war in a non military way. Zelensky 1438 01:25:27.239 --> 01:25:30.159 is saying, You're not going to set up mining operations 1439 01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:33.600 until I have some sort of a security guarantee. And 1440 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:37.680 I understand his reasons for this. Essentially he is saying that, like, okay, cool, 1441 01:25:38.279 --> 01:25:40.319 You're only in office for the next four years. The 1442 01:25:40.600 --> 01:25:44.079 Donald Trump. Okay, so you're saying for the next four 1443 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:47.039 years things will be chill. I can understand that, But 1444 01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:49.760 what's to say that the next administration won't come in 1445 01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:52.319 and be weak, and then Russia will just go back 1446 01:25:52.359 --> 01:25:56.000 on their ceasefire like they've done multiple times. So they 1447 01:25:56.039 --> 01:25:59.880 want a guarantee that no matter who's in the Oval office, 1448 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:04.039 this won't happen. Trump can't make that promise because he's 1449 01:26:04.039 --> 01:26:06.039 only going to be in office for another few years. 1450 01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:11.479 So it's like both sides want the same thing, but 1451 01:26:11.600 --> 01:26:15.319 it's about timing and who can trust who At this point, 1452 01:26:16.760 --> 01:26:20.199 I think that's about the overarching theme here, Tony. I 1453 01:26:20.239 --> 01:26:23.079 know you're you're pretty invested in this conversation, so please 1454 01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:23.600 chime in. 1455 01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:27.600 Yeah, I wish I knew more about the minerals angle, 1456 01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:30.960 but I did hear a story recently from a couple 1457 01:26:31.079 --> 01:26:34.399 places that the UK has already made some deal with 1458 01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:38.840 the Zelensky government to take advantage of a lot of 1459 01:26:38.840 --> 01:26:41.760 the mineral resources in Ukraine, and that means that the 1460 01:26:41.880 --> 01:26:46.000 US can get those minerals either. So that's another part 1461 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:48.800 of the reason why Zelenski can't give him to Trump, 1462 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:50.880 or he doesn't want to. I had not heard the 1463 01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:53.079 whole theory that if you get a bunch of US 1464 01:26:53.159 --> 01:26:57.039 companies there, that would be a deterrent to for their 1465 01:26:57.119 --> 01:27:01.960 Russian incursions, But that makes sense. I hadn't considered that angle. 1466 01:27:03.159 --> 01:27:08.560 It's kind of like I don't know, though, because when 1467 01:27:08.600 --> 01:27:11.840 it comes to oil, there's joint ventures all over the world, 1468 01:27:11.960 --> 01:27:15.159 and sometimes the US or a US company has some 1469 01:27:15.279 --> 01:27:17.840 limited footprint in it, but it's always a co owner, 1470 01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:22.920 a co owner with some other national oil company like 1471 01:27:22.960 --> 01:27:26.760 Petro Ecuador for example. Chevron did a bunch down there. 1472 01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:28.920 I know this is a bit far afield. 1473 01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:31.760 No, No, we're speaking the same language. You're a big down. 1474 01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.800 Yeah, but I'm with Scott Horton. Just screw the minerals 1475 01:27:35.840 --> 01:27:40.319 and get a peace agreement. And I don't know why 1476 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:44.760 Trump is so focused on this mineral deal. I guess 1477 01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:46.960 I just don't know enough about it. Maybe Trump has 1478 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:49.840 friends telling them that you need to get this mineral deal. 1479 01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:54.720 We need the the amrisium or something that's not even 1480 01:27:54.920 --> 01:27:59.079 a naturally occurring element, I don't think, but he's telling it. 1481 01:27:59.239 --> 01:28:04.760 He's getting told we need this, And yeah, I don't know. 1482 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:08.760 I'm more along the lines of just just make peace 1483 01:28:09.359 --> 01:28:13.119 and let the chips fall where they may. As far 1484 01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:15.399 as Zelenski goes, I don't think he's really in charge 1485 01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:19.359 of that country. I think he's actually being threatened by 1486 01:28:19.399 --> 01:28:23.319 all kinds of other people there, including the far Western nationalists. 1487 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:26.800 I read early on that they were the ones who 1488 01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:29.199 wanted this war a lot more than he did, and 1489 01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:36.039 they threatened to actually assassinate him if he didn't prosecute 1490 01:28:36.039 --> 01:28:40.880 a serious war with Russia. Right, because these Western Ukrainian nationalists, 1491 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:45.319 in my opinion, are just insane, and they have just 1492 01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:49.680 as exaggerated a view of their own abilities as the 1493 01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:52.199 most pro Russian propaganda at the beginning of the war 1494 01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:54.039 that it would be over in two weeks or three 1495 01:28:54.079 --> 01:28:57.640 days or whatever it was. Everyone gets into these wars 1496 01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:01.479 too optimistically, or you know, all sides have a lot 1497 01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:04.199 of optimism, because there has to be a belief that 1498 01:29:04.239 --> 01:29:06.800 you're gonna win. And that's why even in World War 1499 01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:10.199 One one hundred years ago, everyone thought, or everyone said, 1500 01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:13.079 that we'll all be home by Christmas, and obviously my 1501 01:29:13.159 --> 01:29:16.520 side's gonna win, and nobody won for four years. 1502 01:29:17.039 --> 01:29:18.680 Yeah yeah, so. 1503 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:24.039 Yeah, yeah. Anything else specifically going on over there, I 1504 01:29:24.560 --> 01:29:27.560 can't remember anything more recently than the big White House 1505 01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:29.800 argument from. 1506 01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:35.039 To kind of break down the mineral conversation. It's this 1507 01:29:35.159 --> 01:29:39.159 is gonna get We're going to the macro here and 1508 01:29:39.199 --> 01:29:44.920 then circling back to the micro. So the conflict minerals 1509 01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:49.520 in question, America does not want to have to go 1510 01:29:49.560 --> 01:29:53.159 to China to buy them, right, so most of them 1511 01:29:53.239 --> 01:29:55.680 we go to Africa for. And the Congo is like 1512 01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:59.520 our primary suspect in that regard. The Congo has got 1513 01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:02.399 some shit going on there right now, a full ethnic 1514 01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:04.039 cleansing as a matter of fact, I know it's in 1515 01:30:04.039 --> 01:30:06.520 the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not just the Congo. 1516 01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:08.560 I get right. 1517 01:30:08.680 --> 01:30:12.119 The DRC is the big one, and the Republic of 1518 01:30:12.199 --> 01:30:15.880 Congo is like a third the size to its northwest right. 1519 01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:19.079 But aside from the conflict that's going on in all 1520 01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:21.119 of that section of the continent right now. As a 1521 01:30:21.159 --> 01:30:23.920 matter of fact, Rwanda's got shit going on. South Africa 1522 01:30:24.079 --> 01:30:27.239 has i was I was. I said this before and 1523 01:30:27.279 --> 01:30:29.279 people got mad at me for saying that the racial 1524 01:30:29.479 --> 01:30:32.840 relations in South Africa aren't what they are they are. 1525 01:30:33.279 --> 01:30:36.520 They're full on trying to genocidally get rid of the 1526 01:30:36.560 --> 01:30:39.800 white Africanas in South Africa right now. It's not to 1527 01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:43.800 genocide scale right now, but the attacks on the white 1528 01:30:43.800 --> 01:30:46.760 farmers have not slowed down. They have gone up exponentially, 1529 01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:51.199 but neither here nor there that section of Africa, aside 1530 01:30:51.199 --> 01:30:54.880 from the conflicts, their mineral reserves and those minds are 1531 01:30:54.960 --> 01:30:58.800 starting to get tapped. I'm not saying they're completely out. 1532 01:30:59.279 --> 01:31:01.600 I'm saying that they only have a few more years 1533 01:31:01.640 --> 01:31:04.720 before they will only be allowing so much to leave 1534 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:09.079 their country. Therefore, we will be stuck going to China 1535 01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:12.000 for these mineral reserves and things like that, or other 1536 01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:15.760 countries that are not exactly our homies. That being said, 1537 01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:19.680 if hypothetically we were to set up a mining operation 1538 01:31:19.800 --> 01:31:22.359 in Ukraine for a lot of the minerals that we 1539 01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:25.279 would go to China for, that gives us a better 1540 01:31:25.319 --> 01:31:28.079 playing field, that gives us better leverage. And to your 1541 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:31.359 point about having like a co op situation, one hundred 1542 01:31:31.359 --> 01:31:34.600 percent the same way as Chevron in the Congo. As 1543 01:31:34.640 --> 01:31:38.119 a matter of fact, it was fifty one percent owned 1544 01:31:38.159 --> 01:31:41.880 by the Congolese forty nine percent owned by America. Even 1545 01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:45.039 though America was the American company, I should say Chevron 1546 01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:47.239 was the one footing the bill and putting in the 1547 01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:49.600 infrastructure all of that, But like fifty one percent of 1548 01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:52.760 the jobs had to be done by the Congolese. Even 1549 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.800 if they were just show up jobs, and in their opinion, 1550 01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:57.439 you had made it. If you had a job where 1551 01:31:57.439 --> 01:31:59.439 you were inside with air conditioning, where you could go 1552 01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:02.239 online shop on Amazon all day. Didn't matter if you 1553 01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:03.840 did your job or not, as long as you had 1554 01:32:04.039 --> 01:32:06.479 a job with internet. Oh bro, you were somebody in 1555 01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:08.439 that area. I remember my buddy in the oil field, 1556 01:32:08.439 --> 01:32:11.399 tell me all about it. That being said, if it 1557 01:32:11.520 --> 01:32:15.439 was a Ukrainian co op and Ukraine owned fifty one 1558 01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:17.880 percent of the mind sixty percent of the mines whatever, 1559 01:32:17.960 --> 01:32:20.520 and America owned forty of it, and we still got 1560 01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:23.960 cut rate prices on the minerals, that is still a 1561 01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:29.119 really good strategic foothold. That being said, Ukraine doesn't have 1562 01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:33.199 endless amounts of these mineral reserves, and they're already striking 1563 01:32:33.239 --> 01:32:35.560 deals with all these other countries who are probably making 1564 01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:37.239 the same type of deal that we're talking about right now, 1565 01:32:37.239 --> 01:32:41.560 Britain being one of them. That being said, if and 1566 01:32:41.640 --> 01:32:45.439 I don't think the same thing with the Chevron and Congo, 1567 01:32:47.119 --> 01:32:50.760 an enemy state wouldn't attack those oil fields in the 1568 01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:54.039 Congo if they're owned by an American company, because now 1569 01:32:54.039 --> 01:32:56.800 you're going to start corporate war, which will bleed into 1570 01:32:56.840 --> 01:33:03.119 political war because corporatetocracy and is they're connected, they are intertwined. 1571 01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:06.960 That's just how it works. That would be at least 1572 01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:09.720 a hope, right. I wouldn't say that would work one 1573 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:12.159 hundred percent, but it would be a hope that American 1574 01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:17.199 minds in Ukraine wouldn't be attacked and perhaps the Russian 1575 01:33:17.399 --> 01:33:21.359 forces would steer away from them, or maybe just stop altogether. 1576 01:33:22.000 --> 01:33:26.239 Maybe America could strike a deal with Russia and you know, 1577 01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:28.840 maybe sell some of those minerals, because Ukraine and Russia 1578 01:33:28.840 --> 01:33:30.920 will never have good relations again. But bab Bab, I 1579 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:33.319 get it, fine. But it's the same way that everybody 1580 01:33:33.359 --> 01:33:36.359 thought the Russian and myself included for the record, thought 1581 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:38.600 that the Russian economy was like three steps away from 1582 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:44.279 collapsing at every conceivable step of this conflict. No, they 1583 01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:46.279 just sold to people that had no dog in that fight. 1584 01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:48.479 India and China have been propping up their country this 1585 01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:52.119 whole time, and those Russian ships with full of oil that, oh, 1586 01:33:52.319 --> 01:33:55.439 we can't buy Russian oil here. They just painted over 1587 01:33:55.479 --> 01:33:58.399 the side of the boat that said Russian numbers. That 1588 01:33:58.520 --> 01:34:01.279 was it. And then they still soul to countries who 1589 01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:04.239 weren't allowed to do deals with Russia. They still bought 1590 01:34:04.279 --> 01:34:07.920 Russian oil, they just claimed it wasn't Russian oil. It 1591 01:34:07.960 --> 01:34:09.960 was like freelance oil at that point, or through some 1592 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:12.000 sort of a third party or some shit like that. 1593 01:34:12.760 --> 01:34:17.119 So we could hypothetically make this a win win for everybody. 1594 01:34:17.239 --> 01:34:20.960 Ukraine gets more mining infrastructure paid for by America, we 1595 01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:23.800 get the minerals. Russia gets to pay for the minerals 1596 01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:26.119 not you know, maybe not at the same cut rate deal. 1597 01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:28.680 But if we're trying to make things amicable, perhaps we 1598 01:34:28.720 --> 01:34:30.880 could cut them on a deal. Like I'm just saying, 1599 01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:35.079 it's it is a wise business move, but Zelensky is 1600 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:37.720 not interested in the business side of it. He is 1601 01:34:37.800 --> 01:34:41.159 being pushed by, like you said, the Western extremists. I 1602 01:34:41.239 --> 01:34:47.079 just recently heard a story of how corrupt Ukraine is. Okay, 1603 01:34:47.359 --> 01:34:49.359 and this is I'm not gonna be able to remember 1604 01:34:49.399 --> 01:34:51.560 the guy's names or anything like that, but bear with me. 1605 01:34:52.199 --> 01:34:57.920 This was twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen. I forget this 1606 01:34:58.039 --> 01:35:02.199 American guy. He's mayor to a woman who was from Ukraine. 1607 01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:05.279 Cool cool, and he decided he wanted to help out 1608 01:35:05.319 --> 01:35:07.279 his brother in law, who was living in Ukraine at 1609 01:35:07.279 --> 01:35:10.239 the time with a business venture. They were going to 1610 01:35:10.359 --> 01:35:16.239 open up the first gas station car wash combination type 1611 01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:20.039 of thing in Ukraine or whatever the case. Maybe it 1612 01:35:20.079 --> 01:35:22.520 was in They're oblast, I don't know, whatever it was. 1613 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:24.600 It was like the first thing that like that to 1614 01:35:24.720 --> 01:35:28.680 happen in that area. Cool things. So he fronted some money. 1615 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:31.720 They had built it, they bought the land, built the 1616 01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:37.279 building and all this stuff. A Ukrainian guy sued them 1617 01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:41.079 for basically he said, no, you didn't buy that land, 1618 01:35:41.399 --> 01:35:44.479 that's my land. I'm gonna sue you for it. And 1619 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.479 he bribed the local judge to rule in his favor, 1620 01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:52.159 which is totally a thing that happens there. So the 1621 01:35:52.199 --> 01:35:54.760 American calls up his lawyer and is like, Okay, what 1622 01:35:54.760 --> 01:35:56.119 do I have to do. He's like, dude, it's so 1623 01:35:56.239 --> 01:35:58.720 corrupt here, here's what you have to do. You're gonna 1624 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.119 have to go one step up and bribe a judge 1625 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:05.039 to overrule that ruling. So he did. It wasn't like 1626 01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:08.479 the local, you know, city judge. He went to like, uh, 1627 01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:11.720 I guess the equivocal ble of our like state judge. 1628 01:36:12.520 --> 01:36:14.359 I don't know what they call their states, oblo, I 1629 01:36:14.359 --> 01:36:17.960 think I don't know Oblasti. Anyway, he bribed that judge 1630 01:36:18.000 --> 01:36:20.640 twenty five k and he did he ruled it in favor. 1631 01:36:21.319 --> 01:36:23.960 The guy who sued them for the land then goes 1632 01:36:24.000 --> 01:36:27.000 to the Ukrainian Supreme Court and bribed one of their 1633 01:36:27.119 --> 01:36:31.159 judges to ruin his favor. The next step would have 1634 01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:34.840 been for this guy to find a Ukrainian Supreme Court 1635 01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:40.079 judge with more stroke to countersue that and win. Instead, 1636 01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:41.800 he just washed his hands of it and said, fine, 1637 01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:44.960 fuck it, he won. I'm not doing this to the 1638 01:36:45.079 --> 01:36:48.279 end of time here. That is how business gets done 1639 01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:54.039 in Ukraine. That being said, Zelenski has those types of 1640 01:36:54.079 --> 01:36:57.319 people that are on his ass to continue this war 1641 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:01.720 because so many people have gotten rich off of this war, 1642 01:37:02.439 --> 01:37:05.479 literal blood money. But business doesn't care about that. Business 1643 01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:10.399 is business, so it would make more business sense for 1644 01:37:10.640 --> 01:37:13.600 Zelensky to take the deal that America is offering them. 1645 01:37:14.359 --> 01:37:17.680 And instead he basically is throwing up middle fingers and 1646 01:37:17.720 --> 01:37:21.880 he is expecting NATO countries to come to his aid 1647 01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:26.560 and come to his defense and back him and try 1648 01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:32.680 to win this war, which is mathematically at this time unwinnable. 1649 01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:36.079 I don't even see an option where Russia wins this 1650 01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:40.039 aside from them taking over the entirety of Ukraine, maybe 1651 01:37:40.039 --> 01:37:43.680 that would be considered quote unquote a win. But again, 1652 01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:45.880 at that point, it's more like a pyrrhic victory. 1653 01:37:46.520 --> 01:37:49.319 Right, And the Russians definitely wouldn't want to do that. 1654 01:37:49.479 --> 01:37:52.680 It would be very unwelcome in most of Ukraine, except 1655 01:37:52.800 --> 01:37:57.960 for the four disputed oblasty that they've mostly taken so far. 1656 01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:00.560 But I was just thinking a lot on the lines 1657 01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:02.800 of what you were just saying, Why does a war 1658 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:05.720 like this happen when there's so many losers? But the 1659 01:38:05.760 --> 01:38:09.159 reason it happens is that there's some winners, and there's 1660 01:38:09.399 --> 01:38:13.039 different business interests and media interests and political interests that 1661 01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:16.279 will try to come out ahead in a crisis like this. 1662 01:38:16.279 --> 01:38:19.359 This is a large part of why World War One happened, 1663 01:38:20.039 --> 01:38:23.439 and it's the large part of I think in our lifetimes. 1664 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:29.119 The biggest analog would have been the COVID panic. Why 1665 01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:32.000 would we want to shut down our economy for one 1666 01:38:32.119 --> 01:38:35.680 hundred for trillion dollars a month in the early months, Well, 1667 01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:37.960 a lot of people did benefit from it. There were 1668 01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:39.800 concentrated benefits. 1669 01:38:39.640 --> 01:38:44.000 To More billionaires were created during the twenty twenty than 1670 01:38:44.119 --> 01:38:47.520 ever before in human history, when economies were collapsing somehow 1671 01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:49.680 there were billionaires being created. 1672 01:38:49.840 --> 01:38:53.279 It was insane, and everyone felt like they had to 1673 01:38:53.319 --> 01:38:55.720 go along with it, because you're a good person if 1674 01:38:55.720 --> 01:38:57.199 you go along with it, and you're a bad person 1675 01:38:57.239 --> 01:38:59.680 if you don't. And there's the same kind of moralizing 1676 01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:03.880 about wars, in particular the First World War or the 1677 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:08.119 Ukraine War. Yeah, that's how you regiment to everybody to 1678 01:39:08.199 --> 01:39:09.439 go along with a bad idea. 1679 01:39:10.479 --> 01:39:13.520 And I don't believe that Trump is trying to continue 1680 01:39:13.560 --> 01:39:16.600 the bad ideas. I think he's trying to find some 1681 01:39:16.640 --> 01:39:21.600 sort of a there's no win win scenario here, but 1682 01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:24.279 this is about as close as they're gonna get, you 1683 01:39:24.319 --> 01:39:27.479 know what I mean. I could be wrong. I could 1684 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:28.359 be so wrong here. 1685 01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:32.199 Yeah, he's been so much better than I expected, though, 1686 01:39:32.279 --> 01:39:33.239 honestly so. 1687 01:39:33.920 --> 01:39:36.039 But that's the thing. Because it's Trump doing it, and 1688 01:39:36.039 --> 01:39:39.560 because he's a dick, everything he says sounds like he's 1689 01:39:39.560 --> 01:39:42.880 being an asshole. There's like five d chess being played, 1690 01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:46.039 but people are going off of the initial thing he's saying, 1691 01:39:46.119 --> 01:39:50.239 rather than looking at what the not necessarily the blowback 1692 01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:53.039 will be on that, but how these dominoes will fall 1693 01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:57.960 you know, the same way. So I'm abolishing the IRS. 1694 01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:01.600 I am currently of the that he's not actually gonna 1695 01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:04.319 abolish the IRS. He's going to threaten it to the 1696 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:06.960 point to where they will pass new legislation to lessen 1697 01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:09.680 the tax burden on the people, which is what we 1698 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:13.560 initially wanted anyway. Right Like on pawn Stars, you'll see Rick, 1699 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:15.960 they'll bring in some sort of an artifact and they'll 1700 01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:18.359 be like, oh, I'm asking ten thousand dollars. They'll be like, oh, 1701 01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:20.760 the best I could do is three, and then they'll 1702 01:40:20.760 --> 01:40:23.239 meet somewhere in the middle at about like five or six, 1703 01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:26.560 which is what should have been paid in the first place. 1704 01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:28.199 But they've got a dicker about it. They got to 1705 01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:31.279 play that game. Trump is an expert at playing this game. 1706 01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:33.720 I think that that is kind of what's going on 1707 01:40:33.840 --> 01:40:37.359 here on a grand scale in all of these regards. 1708 01:40:37.800 --> 01:40:40.359 But because the media hates Trump and he is doing 1709 01:40:40.399 --> 01:40:44.279 that thing where he's right now offering three, the media 1710 01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:48.119 is losing their minds on him right now. I don't know. 1711 01:40:49.600 --> 01:40:51.520 I don't know. We'll see how it all plays out. 1712 01:40:52.760 --> 01:40:54.600 I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen again. Because 1713 01:40:54.600 --> 01:40:56.159 there was a couple more articles. I wanted to get 1714 01:40:56.199 --> 01:41:00.680 to here. Uh So, as I was looking at this, 1715 01:41:01.479 --> 01:41:06.920 Oh God, Zelensky, he's under the impression and like Britain 1716 01:41:06.960 --> 01:41:09.000 just told him boots on the grounds and planes in 1717 01:41:09.039 --> 01:41:11.720 the sky. He's talk about sending British sons and daughters 1718 01:41:11.760 --> 01:41:18.600 to the Ukrainian warfront. Will that actually happen? Maybe? Maybe not, 1719 01:41:19.199 --> 01:41:23.560 We shall see. But it got me thinking here, and 1720 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:27.399 we're gonna talk about this in a second, but could 1721 01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:32.600 NATO actually do something of note, not just in this conflict, 1722 01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:37.880 but in any conflict without America. Looking at the numbers 1723 01:41:37.880 --> 01:41:39.880 of it, it does not look promising. We'll get to 1724 01:41:39.920 --> 01:41:42.279 it in a moment. For now, I wanted to read 1725 01:41:42.279 --> 01:41:47.479 this one the Guardian, Zelensky, Europe cannot guarantee Ukraine's security 1726 01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:52.800 without America. Okay, uh. If Donald Trump withdraws the US 1727 01:41:52.840 --> 01:41:57.159 support for Ukraine, Europe all alone, excuse me alone, will 1728 01:41:57.159 --> 01:42:00.359 be unable to fill the gap. Vladimir Zelensky has warned 1729 01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:03.039 on the eve of what could be his most consequential 1730 01:42:03.159 --> 01:42:06.680 diplomatic trip since Russia's full scale invasion three years ago. 1731 01:42:07.079 --> 01:42:10.560 There are voices which say Europe could offer security guarantees 1732 01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:14.760 without the Americans. I always say no, he said the 1733 01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:17.800 Ukrainian president during an hour long interview with The Guardian 1734 01:42:17.880 --> 01:42:22.439 at the Presidential Administration in Kiev. Security guarantees without America 1735 01:42:22.520 --> 01:42:26.079 are not real security guarantees, he added. Trump said that 1736 01:42:26.159 --> 01:42:28.960 he wants to end the war in Ukraine, but skeptics 1737 01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:32.239 feared that a US broker deal could involve forcing Ukraine 1738 01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:37.479 to capitulate to Vladimir Putin maximalist demands. Zelenski said he 1739 01:42:37.560 --> 01:42:39.920 was ready to negotiate, but wanted Ukraine to do so 1740 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:42.960 from a position of strength, and said he would offer 1741 01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:48.920 American companies lucrative reconstruction contracts and investment concessions to try 1742 01:42:48.920 --> 01:42:53.720 to get Trump on side. Okay, so he's trying to 1743 01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:57.520 get himself in a position of strength and then screwed 1744 01:42:57.640 --> 01:43:02.000 himself by pissing off Trump JD and biting the hand 1745 01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:05.119 that was offering to feed him. I find that to 1746 01:43:05.159 --> 01:43:08.399 be interesting. This article was published. Let me see if 1747 01:43:08.399 --> 01:43:12.479 I can find a date on it here. Of course, 1748 01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:14.520 whenever I'm trying to look for someone I can't find it. 1749 01:43:14.600 --> 01:43:21.039 That'd be the way it goes. Sometimes. No, damn, if 1750 01:43:21.079 --> 01:43:23.920 I'm not mistaken. This was posted last week. I feel 1751 01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:27.039 like I saw that when I found the article initially, 1752 01:43:27.079 --> 01:43:29.960 but we'll see. He's basically saying, though, that if America's 1753 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:33.000 not at the negotiating table, then the deals might as 1754 01:43:33.039 --> 01:43:37.119 well just be written on toilet paper, because whether people 1755 01:43:37.119 --> 01:43:39.479 want to acknowledge it or not, America is still the 1756 01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:43.840 world's only superpower and that has a lot more stroke 1757 01:43:43.920 --> 01:43:47.720 than what other countries and the liberals really want to 1758 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:51.520 give it credit for anyway. Zelenski will traveled to Munich 1759 01:43:51.600 --> 01:43:55.920 Security Conference later this week, where he expects to meet 1760 01:43:55.960 --> 01:43:58.800 the US Vice President JD. Vance, one of the most 1761 01:43:58.880 --> 01:44:03.520 hostile towards Ukraine among Trump's inner circle. At last year's conference, Vance, 1762 01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:06.640 then a senator, refused to meet Zelensky, and he has 1763 01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:09.159 previously said that he does not really care what happens 1764 01:44:09.159 --> 01:44:12.199 to Ukraine one way or another. Yeah, I was a 1765 01:44:12.439 --> 01:44:16.119 I forgot that JD. Vance and Zelensky had beef, like 1766 01:44:16.840 --> 01:44:20.920 actually like standing beef between them. JD. Vance is not 1767 01:44:21.239 --> 01:44:25.199 a fan of Zelenski even before the conversation in the 1768 01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:28.880 Oval office took place, but that is also why Zolensky 1769 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:31.680 started taking a tone with him once JD chimed in 1770 01:44:32.439 --> 01:44:35.920 and then yeah that that kind of just went to 1771 01:44:35.920 --> 01:44:40.960 shit whenever he said what he said, and then Trump 1772 01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:42.720 basically told him get the fuck out of my house. 1773 01:44:42.840 --> 01:44:45.319 That was That was great, But you know, again, he's 1774 01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:48.199 trying to show a position of strength and has done 1775 01:44:48.239 --> 01:44:50.279 everything in his power to do the opposite of that. 1776 01:44:51.119 --> 01:44:54.159 But okay, we'll see. Zelensky also plans to meet other 1777 01:44:54.159 --> 01:44:57.720 members of Trump's team, as well as influential senators in Unich, 1778 01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:01.920 but there is not yet a date to meet Trump himself, 1779 01:45:01.960 --> 01:45:04.000 he said, although his team is working on fixing one. 1780 01:45:04.039 --> 01:45:06.319 Trump said over the weekend that he would probably meet 1781 01:45:06.399 --> 01:45:09.479 Zelensky this week, and it is possible that the Ukrainian 1782 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:11.720 president could fly to Washington from Munich. And I do 1783 01:45:11.800 --> 01:45:15.520 believe that happened, and that is when the situation in 1784 01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:20.000 the Oval Office happened. But now talking about this, could 1785 01:45:20.159 --> 01:45:25.079 NATO actually do something of note without America? This is 1786 01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:31.399 a breakdown from Armedforces dot EU. I don't believe a 1787 01:45:31.439 --> 01:45:34.439 lot of these numbers, but the ones that are provided 1788 01:45:34.479 --> 01:45:40.960 are pretty interesting. USA versus NATO without USA. Okay, so 1789 01:45:42.279 --> 01:45:46.640 long story short, we understand the American military might Okay, 1790 01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:49.960 no need to kind of go into drastic speeches about that. 1791 01:45:50.159 --> 01:45:53.119 We understand that we are, in fact the biggest dick 1792 01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:55.640 in the locker room. And that's not even a source 1793 01:45:55.680 --> 01:45:59.840 of contention. That's an understood fact. The military budget for 1794 01:45:59.880 --> 01:46:03.279 the United States as of was it twenty twenty two 1795 01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:06.319 that this was talking about, Oh, I think this actually 1796 01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:09.560 might be twenty twenty four? Excuse me? Is nine hundred 1797 01:46:09.560 --> 01:46:18.920 and sixteen billion dollars just America NATO collectively four hundred 1798 01:46:18.920 --> 01:46:24.600 and twenty two point seven billion, less than half of 1799 01:46:24.680 --> 01:46:28.479 America's entire spending. And that's what all of the NATO 1800 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:31.640 powers bring to the table. Uh, that is three point 1801 01:46:31.640 --> 01:46:33.960 four percent of our GDP. The other ones, I mean, 1802 01:46:33.960 --> 01:46:35.520 it's kind of a lot. That's why they didn't give 1803 01:46:35.560 --> 01:46:38.079 an estimated percentage of all of their GDPs because some 1804 01:46:38.119 --> 01:46:40.600 of them don't put in any some of them put 1805 01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:42.399 in more. So they kind of left that one open 1806 01:46:43.039 --> 01:46:48.520 active personnel. America has one point three million active personnel. 1807 01:46:49.399 --> 01:46:53.640 All of NATO has one point nine million. Okay, yes, 1808 01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:56.800 they have more numbers active and in the reserves. We 1809 01:46:56.880 --> 01:46:59.880 have just under eight hundred thousand. The rest of NATO 1810 01:47:00.079 --> 01:47:05.319 has one point nine million in reserve. Okay, fine, fair manpower. 1811 01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:09.520 But then we talk about force multipliers. Actually, I want 1812 01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:12.760 to say this one as well, available for military I 1813 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:16.000 feel like this number is also a bit skewed because 1814 01:47:17.439 --> 01:47:20.800 when you look at the average fighting age of the 1815 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:24.880 guys on the Ukrainian front line, the median age is 1816 01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:31.680 between forty and fifty five. That's not what America will 1817 01:47:31.760 --> 01:47:36.359 consider available for military service if and when the time 1818 01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:39.279 ever came. So I don't know what all of these 1819 01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:44.079 European countries classify as ready for service or fit for service, 1820 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:46.960 big big air quotes on that, but I know what 1821 01:47:47.000 --> 01:47:49.560 America considers fit for service, and it's saying that we 1822 01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:53.960 have seventy three point two million available for service, and 1823 01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:56.399 it's saying that the NATO countries have one hundred and 1824 01:47:56.399 --> 01:48:00.920 thirty eight point three million. Okay, maybe again it's about 1825 01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:05.760 quality not quantity at that point, but I digress landforces. 1826 01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:10.359 They only have a little over twelve hundred more tanks 1827 01:48:10.359 --> 01:48:16.880 than we do. Collectively as a nation, we have six 1828 01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:20.000 hundred and fifty two tanks. All of NATO has sixty 1829 01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:25.880 eight hundred coming up on sixty nine hundred. That's a 1830 01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:28.039 lot of countries to come up with a number that's 1831 01:48:28.199 --> 01:48:31.239 not much bigger than ours. Armored fighting vehicles. We have 1832 01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:35.119 thirty eight thousand. They have forty seven thousand. Again, a 1833 01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:38.000 lot of other countries are contributing to that pot, and 1834 01:48:38.039 --> 01:48:40.520 we still are pretty comparable to them in the grand 1835 01:48:40.520 --> 01:48:44.479 scheme of things. Total artillery, it makes sense to me 1836 01:48:44.560 --> 01:48:47.079 that they have three times the amount that we do. 1837 01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:51.720 NATO has ninety nine hundred artillery pieces. America has thirty 1838 01:48:51.720 --> 01:48:55.000 one hundred. And I'm generalizing some of these numbers to 1839 01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:57.800 all the good people listening right now. These aren't exact figures, 1840 01:48:57.840 --> 01:49:02.399 these are roundabouts. Makes sense to me because America doesn't 1841 01:49:02.680 --> 01:49:05.359 need to worry about artillery for the most part, because 1842 01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:09.399 we are protected by oceans and neighbors to the north 1843 01:49:09.439 --> 01:49:11.520 and south that would never dare to fuck with us 1844 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:14.720 in that regard. Europe, on the other hand, has fought 1845 01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:18.640 wars on their home soil before, so investing in artillery 1846 01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:20.720 pieces makes sense for a lot of them because their 1847 01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:25.920 militaries are more defensively structured instead of offensively structured. Not all, 1848 01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:29.680 but most, I would say most. So Again, it makes 1849 01:49:29.720 --> 01:49:35.000 sense self propelled artillery they have three thousand across all 1850 01:49:35.039 --> 01:49:38.520 of NATO. America has fifteen hundred rocket artillery. They have 1851 01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:44.039 eleven hundred, coming up on twelve hundred. America has seven hundred. Again, 1852 01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:47.760 that's not that far off as far as compared to 1853 01:49:48.000 --> 01:49:54.000 one nation compared to like twelve. Throwing this out total aircraft, 1854 01:49:54.039 --> 01:49:57.640 and this is when America absolutely pulls away from the pack. 1855 01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:02.239 Total aircraft, we have thirteen seen thousand. All of NATO 1856 01:50:02.319 --> 01:50:05.680 has eight thousand fighters. We have three hundred and seventy 1857 01:50:05.680 --> 01:50:08.479 seven fighter aircraft. All of NATO has a five hundred 1858 01:50:08.520 --> 01:50:13.279 and twenty seven multi role. Multi role is a very 1859 01:50:13.319 --> 01:50:17.760 broad term for what these could be. Some of these 1860 01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:21.520 have offensive weapons, some of these are ricon whatever, all 1861 01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:25.319 over the place. America has twenty four almost twenty five hundred. 1862 01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:30.319 All of NATO has just under fourteen hundred. Attack planes. 1863 01:50:30.840 --> 01:50:33.119 We have five hundred and thirty one. All of NATO 1864 01:50:33.199 --> 01:50:38.319 has one hundred and eleven helicopters. America has forty nine hundred, 1865 01:50:38.880 --> 01:50:44.600 NATO has three thousand. Understand that we have more helicopters 1866 01:50:44.640 --> 01:50:49.319 than all of NATO has attack jets and multi roll 1867 01:50:49.399 --> 01:50:54.479 craft and fighter jets. We have more choppers than that. 1868 01:50:56.119 --> 01:51:00.720 Just throwing it out here combat drones. Again, this is 1869 01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:03.439 I don't necessarily agree with these numbers. Because we've seen 1870 01:51:03.439 --> 01:51:06.880 what drone warfare has become in the Ukrainian conflict and 1871 01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:10.199 then Israel for instance. But at least what they are 1872 01:51:10.239 --> 01:51:13.680 reporting anyway, combat drones. America has four hundred and forty 1873 01:51:13.680 --> 01:51:17.359 four and all of NATO has five hundred and fourteen, 1874 01:51:18.119 --> 01:51:22.720 so they're ahead of us by sixty seventy. Excuse me, 1875 01:51:22.760 --> 01:51:28.199 my numbers are off here. Navy total naval assets, America 1876 01:51:28.239 --> 01:51:30.960 has four hundred and sixty six, all of NATO has 1877 01:51:31.239 --> 01:51:34.920 nineteen hundred. Okay, that's nothing to look down on. They 1878 01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:39.479 have some naval assets. Aircraft carriers America has twenty. All 1879 01:51:39.520 --> 01:51:44.720 of NATO has ten destroyers. America has ninety nine destroyers. 1880 01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:48.199 All of NATO has twenty three. Now I will say 1881 01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:51.279 that NATO has one hundred and twenty frigates and America 1882 01:51:51.319 --> 01:51:53.560 has none, but that's because we did away with our 1883 01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:59.079 frigate fleets a good while ago. Corvettes we have twenty six. 1884 01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:03.880 All of has thirty eight. Submarines, we have seventy. All 1885 01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:09.119 of NATO has eighty. So basically, if my numbers be 1886 01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:12.359 numbering here, and somebody correct me if I'm incorrect on this, 1887 01:52:13.479 --> 01:52:19.159 America is alone just as capable if not more capable 1888 01:52:19.199 --> 01:52:24.319 in some regards than all of NATO combined. Just looking 1889 01:52:24.359 --> 01:52:27.640 at the numbers, did I miss anything? 1890 01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:31.159 Yeah, I believe. I believe those numbers, but they left 1891 01:52:31.199 --> 01:52:35.479 out one big one nuclear warheads. But NATO does have 1892 01:52:35.560 --> 01:52:38.319 a bunch because the French and the British developed them 1893 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:43.720 before the Non Proliferation Treaty came out, So you're true 1894 01:52:44.399 --> 01:52:47.840 they do have them. But I mean, there's a pretty 1895 01:52:47.840 --> 01:52:50.960 good chance that something like this could go nuclear. And 1896 01:52:51.760 --> 01:52:55.439 to quote Scott Horton, this all this other talk about 1897 01:52:55.960 --> 01:52:58.680 fighting at the folded gap or something is just like 1898 01:52:58.720 --> 01:53:02.399 a junior tank commanders fantasy. But why would why would 1899 01:53:02.439 --> 01:53:04.800 the great powers fight that way when they have the 1900 01:53:04.840 --> 01:53:08.359 trump card of nukes, you know, and maybe in the West, 1901 01:53:08.760 --> 01:53:11.760 in Western Europe, they tell themselves that as long as 1902 01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:15.640 we're not fighting beyond Russia's border, within Russia, they're not 1903 01:53:15.680 --> 01:53:18.920 going to feel threatened enough to use nukes, So then 1904 01:53:18.960 --> 01:53:22.600 we're just all going to be using conventional warfare. But 1905 01:53:22.720 --> 01:53:26.159 I still think that they're just insane to be doing this. 1906 01:53:26.800 --> 01:53:33.239 And Cara Kalis and Anelena Baerbach and Ursula funder Lie 1907 01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:36.479 and they talk about how we need a unified Europe 1908 01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:39.119 to fight against Russia, and some of the alt right 1909 01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:42.840 accounts I followed say, yeah, well you had that once 1910 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:47.600 in nineteen forty one, but you don't want to be 1911 01:53:47.720 --> 01:53:50.520 those people, right, But that was that was the chance, 1912 01:53:51.159 --> 01:53:54.840 And you know, I don't think I believe that that 1913 01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:59.399 was a good fight either. I mean, Russia, Russia's formidable, 1914 01:53:59.439 --> 01:54:01.279 and you know, we should just live in peace. 1915 01:54:03.000 --> 01:54:06.520 I would be preferred, one hundred percent agree with you. 1916 01:54:06.560 --> 01:54:10.439 That would be preferred. But as far as the other 1917 01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:13.920 NATO countries coming to Ukraine's aid in some sort of 1918 01:54:13.960 --> 01:54:18.680 an equal way to what America could do, that is, uh, 1919 01:54:20.479 --> 01:54:24.319 that is a bit of a bold statement. I have 1920 01:54:24.399 --> 01:54:26.840 a hard time believing. I'm not saying it's impossible by 1921 01:54:26.920 --> 01:54:30.439 any means. I have a hard time believing because Germany 1922 01:54:30.479 --> 01:54:34.760 has now made promises, Britain is making promises, and if 1923 01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:37.640 I'm not mistaken, didn't France also make some promises of 1924 01:54:37.680 --> 01:54:42.840 sending not just aid and equipment, but troops to Ukraine. 1925 01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:47.239 France did probably a year ago. They beat the English 1926 01:54:47.279 --> 01:54:51.319 to it, and the Germans. They've sent tanks and stuff, 1927 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:55.439 and those tanks have been destroyed, some of them. Anyway, 1928 01:54:55.479 --> 01:54:57.439 I don't know what the exact number is, but I've 1929 01:54:57.520 --> 01:54:59.960 seen destroyed Leopard tanks on telegram. 1930 01:55:00.760 --> 01:55:04.399 Yeah, I feel like I was. I had hopes for 1931 01:55:04.520 --> 01:55:06.840 Germany's tanks because they had just come out with a 1932 01:55:06.840 --> 01:55:10.239 couple of new not entirely new models, but some new 1933 01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:15.000 defensive capabilities for their tanks, and I think and that's 1934 01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:16.960 the thing, I don't know if those Leopards were the 1935 01:55:17.039 --> 01:55:20.439 antiquated ones or if it was some of their latest 1936 01:55:20.479 --> 01:55:22.640 and greatest technology that they were kind of letting go 1937 01:55:22.680 --> 01:55:27.880 to the warfront to see how they do. They didn't 1938 01:55:28.079 --> 01:55:32.079 do that great. They did some work. They made the 1939 01:55:32.159 --> 01:55:35.479 Russians hurt a little bit, but they also got got 1940 01:55:36.439 --> 01:55:40.239 so I don't know. And then when France, I figured 1941 01:55:40.239 --> 01:55:42.760 they would send maybe some foreign legion you know, some 1942 01:55:42.920 --> 01:55:46.880 legionnaires in that regard. I haven't seen or heard of 1943 01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:49.199 any French troops. There was more of a promise made 1944 01:55:49.279 --> 01:55:52.319 and kind of waiting to see what happens next. Did 1945 01:55:52.359 --> 01:55:54.000 France actually end up sending. 1946 01:55:53.760 --> 01:55:59.039 Troops definitely, not any official ones in any official capacity, 1947 01:55:59.159 --> 01:56:02.359 But there've been mercy from all over the place going 1948 01:56:02.399 --> 01:56:06.239 to Ukraine to fight against Russia, including from the United States, 1949 01:56:06.279 --> 01:56:10.920 from Scandinavia. From Colombia, there's I've seen quite a number 1950 01:56:10.960 --> 01:56:16.199 from Columbia for some reason, and I'm sure there's been 1951 01:56:16.239 --> 01:56:18.640 a few French and others. These are the kind of 1952 01:56:18.680 --> 01:56:21.800 guys who just lived to fight, and if there's a 1953 01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:26.239 war going on somewhere, they'll go volunteer for it. If 1954 01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:29.079 you've ever heard of a guy named Eron Steunger, he 1955 01:56:29.359 --> 01:56:33.520 fought for France in the French Foreign Legion in nineteen 1956 01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:37.079 thirteen before World One War one started, but then he 1957 01:56:37.600 --> 01:56:40.680 joined Germany's military and he wrote a famous book called 1958 01:56:41.840 --> 01:56:45.079 The Storm of Steel. But he was My only point 1959 01:56:45.079 --> 01:56:47.359 here is he's just one of these guys who loved 1960 01:56:47.359 --> 01:56:49.840 the idea of fighting and would have fought for anyone 1961 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:54.000 in any war that happened to be going on if 1962 01:56:54.359 --> 01:56:57.920 there wasn't one involving his own country. And there are 1963 01:56:57.960 --> 01:57:00.960 people like that in all times and places. So these 1964 01:57:01.079 --> 01:57:05.960 North Koreans, for example, who are fighting in Russia, I'm 1965 01:57:05.960 --> 01:57:08.439 pretty sure that they're also the type of people who 1966 01:57:08.600 --> 01:57:10.479 really love to fight, although they are there in an 1967 01:57:10.479 --> 01:57:14.800 official capacity, unlike most of the Western mercenaries going to 1968 01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:15.840 Ukraine and. 1969 01:57:16.720 --> 01:57:19.279 Make sense, they needed to get their soldiers to stretch 1970 01:57:19.279 --> 01:57:22.680 their legs and get some combat experience. That makes perfect sense. 1971 01:57:22.720 --> 01:57:26.079 While Kim Jung would send some dudes in that regard. 1972 01:57:26.840 --> 01:57:29.199 Yeah, Well, one of the reasons I would not want 1973 01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:31.199 to be a volunteer like this is that if you 1974 01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:35.000 are a regular soldier and you're there in an official capacity, 1975 01:57:35.079 --> 01:57:41.560 you get Geneva rights, Geneva Convention rights. They can't just 1976 01:57:41.640 --> 01:57:44.479 execute you. But if you're a mercenary, the Russians will 1977 01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:49.520 just execute you. Probably some telegram videos of that. And 1978 01:57:50.119 --> 01:57:52.119 you know, why would you put yourself there unless you 1979 01:57:52.239 --> 01:57:55.520 just really love the idea of fighting and getting experience. 1980 01:57:56.920 --> 01:57:59.439 There's a YouTuber that I follow. I haven't seen a 1981 01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:01.680 video from in a in a good little bit here. 1982 01:58:01.760 --> 01:58:05.000 So long story short. He was a marine grunt. He fought, 1983 01:58:05.439 --> 01:58:10.239 he loves warfare. He gets out and he decides to 1984 01:58:10.239 --> 01:58:13.720 go fight for the is it the yek Uh the 1985 01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:19.560 Erga Kurdish fighters, Yeah, that's them, that's it, WHITEPG And 1986 01:58:19.720 --> 01:58:22.960 he loved it, He absolutely loved it. Then he spent 1987 01:58:23.000 --> 01:58:25.479 a little time in Africa, you know, fucking around and 1988 01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:29.199 helping some some warfare going on there. Then he went 1989 01:58:29.239 --> 01:58:32.439 and enlisted in the Ukrainian National Guard, and last I 1990 01:58:32.520 --> 01:58:36.399 heard he had done two cycles in Ukraine and come 1991 01:58:36.399 --> 01:58:38.560 home for some rest or to heal up or something. 1992 01:58:38.640 --> 01:58:41.439 He was planning on going back. And he's one of 1993 01:58:41.439 --> 01:58:46.000 these guys. There are still people out there modern I 1994 01:58:46.119 --> 01:58:50.640 want to call it tourists, uh warfare tourism by any means, 1995 01:58:50.640 --> 01:58:54.439 but dudes that are obsessed with the fight. They're they're 1996 01:58:54.880 --> 01:58:59.359 that level of adrenaline junkies, and that you know, They've 1997 01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:02.000 always had the types of people, you know, there's always 1998 01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:05.079 been mercenaries that do this type of shit. He goes 1999 01:59:05.199 --> 01:59:08.119 and joins these groups in an official capacity rather than 2000 01:59:08.199 --> 01:59:12.920 joins mercenaries because he doesn't like blending money with fighting. 2001 01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:16.039 He sees that as dirty And okay, I get that 2002 01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:18.439 your bank account would disagree, my boy, But you know, whatever, 2003 01:59:18.520 --> 01:59:23.600 whatever do you all of these people that are talking 2004 01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:26.319 all this shit about how much they support Ukraine and 2005 01:59:26.359 --> 01:59:29.039 all these things to the level of like we need 2006 01:59:29.079 --> 01:59:32.239 to send US troops, and you understand that you could 2007 01:59:32.279 --> 01:59:36.399 all just join the Ukrainian National Guard. There's nothing stopping 2008 01:59:36.439 --> 01:59:38.920 you from doing that if you feel that strongly about it. 2009 01:59:40.039 --> 01:59:43.520 Yet none of them sign up. There have been a 2010 01:59:43.520 --> 01:59:45.039 few of them. There have been a few. I've seen 2011 01:59:45.079 --> 01:59:48.000 a couple of guys from Mexico. I've seen a couple 2012 01:59:48.039 --> 01:59:50.039 of guys from America, if I'm not mistaken. There was 2013 01:59:50.039 --> 01:59:53.880 an American that just recently died in the Ukrainian conflict, 2014 01:59:54.359 --> 01:59:57.640 and I, if I remember correct, that he was like 2015 01:59:57.720 --> 02:00:00.359 in his early twenties. I don't know if he ever 2016 02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:02.680 served in America or if he just felt the call 2017 02:00:02.800 --> 02:00:06.159 and joined up over there to help in some way. 2018 02:00:06.199 --> 02:00:08.680 I don't know, but I do remember seeing an American 2019 02:00:08.720 --> 02:00:12.319 flag draped over a call from there. So this is 2020 02:00:12.359 --> 02:00:15.520 a thing. Wild shit. 2021 02:00:17.000 --> 02:00:19.800 Yeah, I wouldn't do it, but and I don't even 2022 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:25.199 understand guys who would. But I think I understand why 2023 02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:26.880 some guys might be attracted to that. 2024 02:00:28.039 --> 02:00:32.680 Yeah, I get why, just because, Yeah. 2025 02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:35.800 In terms of reputation and something like that. 2026 02:00:36.800 --> 02:00:40.239 I understand why. But it's also these are typically guys 2027 02:00:40.239 --> 02:00:44.359 that have nothing to lose, right like if and I 2028 02:00:44.359 --> 02:00:47.079 mean I myself, whenever I joined I was seventeen. You know, 2029 02:00:47.159 --> 02:00:49.560 I didn't have a wife for kids or any of 2030 02:00:49.640 --> 02:00:52.119 these things. I was joining because of my own reasons, 2031 02:00:52.159 --> 02:00:55.960 which were justified and fine and good in all these things. 2032 02:00:56.359 --> 02:00:59.279 But it's not like you see a group of gentlemen 2033 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:01.319 that are leaving their wife and kids at home to 2034 02:01:01.359 --> 02:01:05.800 go fight in Zelenski and Putin's war from America. Like, 2035 02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:09.800 it's typically these young guys that I don't know if 2036 02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:11.880 it's necessarily they have something to prove. I don't believe 2037 02:01:11.920 --> 02:01:14.279 that's the case. It might be because they truly feel 2038 02:01:14.279 --> 02:01:19.760 like this is a moral war which shocks people. But okay, 2039 02:01:20.119 --> 02:01:24.359 you know, do you baboo? Maybe it is just the 2040 02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:27.760 adrenaline junkie of it. You know, maybe they see this 2041 02:01:27.880 --> 02:01:30.800 as their generation's great war and they want to be 2042 02:01:30.840 --> 02:01:33.439 a part of it. You know, there's all kinds of 2043 02:01:33.920 --> 02:01:36.600 reasons why people do what they do. I'm with you, 2044 02:01:36.680 --> 02:01:40.119 though I personally will not be going. I have no 2045 02:01:40.199 --> 02:01:42.880 intentions of going. I would very much like to stay 2046 02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:44.600 out of a World War three if possible. 2047 02:01:45.640 --> 02:01:49.279 I have another item of speculation for why this is 2048 02:01:49.319 --> 02:01:53.840 if you go back into the deepest prehistory of mankind, 2049 02:01:54.600 --> 02:01:59.039 before monogamy and stuff like that, scientists estimate that something like, 2050 02:02:00.640 --> 02:02:03.079 you know, eighty percent of women managed to pass on 2051 02:02:03.119 --> 02:02:06.840 their genes, but eighty percent of men do not. It's 2052 02:02:06.880 --> 02:02:10.680 only twenty percent. Yeah, But the way you get women 2053 02:02:10.840 --> 02:02:15.079 in an ancient, prehistoric context is by being a warrior, 2054 02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:19.119 if you're a man, yep, that really, I mean, it's 2055 02:02:19.199 --> 02:02:22.960 high risk, very good chance you're gonna die. But if 2056 02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:26.319 you don't, you're gonna at least have a woman, if 2057 02:02:26.359 --> 02:02:28.800 not from your own tribe, then from some conquered tribe 2058 02:02:28.800 --> 02:02:32.680 that you've you know, been a part of the war against. 2059 02:02:33.000 --> 02:02:35.840 There's a backstory to that as well. Man Russia lost 2060 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:39.520 twenty percent of their male population in World War Two. Okay, 2061 02:02:40.159 --> 02:02:43.800 it was not uncommon for a man to have like 2062 02:02:44.119 --> 02:02:47.600 twelve women and not be seen as a whore for 2063 02:02:47.640 --> 02:02:50.520 that whatsoever. It was more like, look, we have to repopulate. 2064 02:02:50.640 --> 02:02:53.279 It was fine, have as many as you want. It 2065 02:02:53.319 --> 02:02:55.079 doesn't matter if you can afford them. And if you 2066 02:02:55.119 --> 02:02:56.800 have a job and you have a dick that works, 2067 02:02:57.319 --> 02:03:00.880 you are like the guy. Also kind of led to 2068 02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:04.800 a sexual revolution in another regard, because it was no 2069 02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:09.479 longer the men trying to impress the women to you know, 2070 02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:13.479 woo a woman to become their wife. It became women 2071 02:03:13.760 --> 02:03:17.680 fighting for which guy was theirs. And this kind of 2072 02:03:17.960 --> 02:03:20.399 flipped the script in a lot of ways. But that's 2073 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:26.279 also Russians, by and large, I think they require less 2074 02:03:26.359 --> 02:03:29.600 to be happy. And I'm not saying like because they 2075 02:03:29.840 --> 02:03:32.079 don't know what good is or anything like that. It's 2076 02:03:32.119 --> 02:03:37.159 that they they kind of already understand that they're going 2077 02:03:37.239 --> 02:03:40.479 to get screwed eventually by the government, by their own people, 2078 02:03:40.600 --> 02:03:45.279 by some war, by whatever. They require a lot less 2079 02:03:45.319 --> 02:03:49.640 to be happy than Americans require, I would say, as 2080 02:03:49.640 --> 02:03:50.680 a standard rule. 2081 02:03:52.239 --> 02:03:54.039 Yeah, you know, I had a Russian friend in high 2082 02:03:54.119 --> 02:03:57.279 school who said I was too much of a cheap skate, 2083 02:03:57.439 --> 02:03:59.800 and he said, you got money today, but you just 2084 02:03:59.840 --> 02:04:01.600 never know if you're going to have it tomorrow or 2085 02:04:01.680 --> 02:04:04.159 tomorrow is going to be horrible, So enjoy your life 2086 02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:06.680 now a little more. And he wasn't a heat in 2087 02:04:06.680 --> 02:04:10.560 this or anything. He's like, just enjoy yourself now while 2088 02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:14.359 you can if you can. But the pullar opposite of 2089 02:04:14.399 --> 02:04:17.039 what you're describing about Russia with too many women not 2090 02:04:17.199 --> 02:04:20.640 enough men, would be China today with so many men 2091 02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:24.560 not enough women, And we can talk about how that 2092 02:04:24.640 --> 02:04:29.600 may drive them to war someday. But culturally, I would 2093 02:04:29.600 --> 02:04:31.720 say this has had a really negative impact on them 2094 02:04:31.800 --> 02:04:37.119 because women have a little bit too much market value 2095 02:04:37.119 --> 02:04:39.680 over there, and this has led to divorce rates of 2096 02:04:39.760 --> 02:04:43.159 up to seventy percent in Tanjan, which is just south 2097 02:04:43.239 --> 02:04:44.359 of Beijing. 2098 02:04:45.119 --> 02:04:47.920 And about women divorcing the men, right. 2099 02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:52.920 Yeah, it's mostly women driven. And I do, unfortunately have 2100 02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:56.600 some family connection with this, but I don't want to, 2101 02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:59.359 you know, spill too many Beans or docs people. But 2102 02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:06.720 Chinese women I'm not very, not extremely fond of, especially Mainlanders. 2103 02:05:07.159 --> 02:05:09.720 Which is crazy because culturally women were seen as second 2104 02:05:09.760 --> 02:05:14.319 class citizens in Chinese culture up until now. It's wild. 2105 02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:15.319 Yeah. 2106 02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:18.439 And I grew up in Coopertino, California, if anyone knows 2107 02:05:18.439 --> 02:05:21.119 where that is, and it's something like fifty percent Chinese. 2108 02:05:21.159 --> 02:05:23.199 And it was even in the nineties. And when I 2109 02:05:23.239 --> 02:05:28.159 was looking around all my Chinese friends parents were married, 2110 02:05:28.479 --> 02:05:32.520 the divorce was extremely uncommon. Yeah, and I thought that, oh, yeah, 2111 02:05:32.600 --> 02:05:36.680 divorce must be uncommon in China. But then other things 2112 02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:41.199 happened in my in my uh, in my family, and 2113 02:05:41.239 --> 02:05:44.479 then I learned that, oh wait a second, No, Chinese 2114 02:05:44.560 --> 02:05:47.960 women seem to view divorces extremely acceptable. 2115 02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:51.079 That's a lot of modern occurrence, though I would say 2116 02:05:51.119 --> 02:05:53.640 only in the last thirty years, give or take. 2117 02:05:54.920 --> 02:05:58.600 Yeah, yeah, I totally agree, but yeah, it's uh, it's 2118 02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:01.239 the opposite of what I guess Russia had. 2119 02:06:01.479 --> 02:06:01.960 I don't know. 2120 02:06:02.039 --> 02:06:05.800 Maybe I think Russia has high divorce and abortion rates too, unfortunately. 2121 02:06:06.600 --> 02:06:09.800 But you know, the post World War II period would 2122 02:06:09.800 --> 02:06:12.399 have definitely seemed not enough men to go around. 2123 02:06:12.479 --> 02:06:15.840 Exactly, and they did. They got to fucking and they 2124 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:19.439 got their numbers back to some sort of equilibrium, which 2125 02:06:19.439 --> 02:06:22.880 is where we're at now. I don't know how much 2126 02:06:22.920 --> 02:06:27.640 of the Russian population has been deceased or kia or 2127 02:06:27.680 --> 02:06:30.199 whatever because of this war. I know it is not 2128 02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:33.359 nearly as much as post World War two, and I 2129 02:06:33.359 --> 02:06:36.239 don't think we'll ever actually see that type of number again. 2130 02:06:36.720 --> 02:06:40.600 In warfare Russia. Stalin had a whole different kind of 2131 02:06:40.600 --> 02:06:43.159 mindset when it came to war. I didn't know this. 2132 02:06:43.439 --> 02:06:48.600 He arrested his daughter in law because his son was captured, 2133 02:06:49.279 --> 02:06:52.680 and the going standard rule was if you are captured 2134 02:06:52.840 --> 02:06:55.840 by the enemy and you didn't die for your country, 2135 02:06:55.880 --> 02:06:58.880 you allowed yourself to be captured, your whole family's going 2136 02:06:58.920 --> 02:07:03.720 to jail. That included his own son. That is wild 2137 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:06.119 that he was that die hard, and it also makes 2138 02:07:06.159 --> 02:07:08.800 a lot of sense why his final days he was 2139 02:07:08.800 --> 02:07:12.279 in agonizing pain and slowly died and like no one 2140 02:07:12.399 --> 02:07:13.119 helped him. 2141 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:16.159 They just yeah, I think his son died in captivity 2142 02:07:16.159 --> 02:07:21.279 in Germany during the war too. But yeah, I've heard 2143 02:07:21.319 --> 02:07:24.800 different numbers as to how many Russians died, and definitely 2144 02:07:24.880 --> 02:07:29.479 the men the Germans, I guess just let him start 2145 02:07:29.600 --> 02:07:34.520 to death or something. It sounds terrible, but yeah, I've 2146 02:07:34.520 --> 02:07:37.600 heard numbers between nine and twenty million Russians died in 2147 02:07:37.640 --> 02:07:42.439 World War two. The modern Ukraine Russia conflict. I hear 2148 02:07:42.640 --> 02:07:45.920 wild estimates that very by an order of magnitude on 2149 02:07:45.960 --> 02:07:49.399 both sides, But I believe probably three hundred thousand Ukrainian 2150 02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:52.439 soldiers have died and about one hundred thousand Russians have, 2151 02:07:53.359 --> 02:07:55.079 so nowhere near as bad as World War Two, but 2152 02:07:55.159 --> 02:07:57.840 still pretty damn bad for any you know, compared to 2153 02:07:57.840 --> 02:08:01.039 any other modern war has been a part. 2154 02:08:00.880 --> 02:08:05.079 Of very true, and like you said, the numbers drastically different. 2155 02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:09.159 I've heard four hundred thousand Ukrainians and six hundred thousand 2156 02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:12.319 Russians have died. But then it's like, are we talking 2157 02:08:12.399 --> 02:08:16.680 kia or are we talking about like they got hurt 2158 02:08:16.720 --> 02:08:19.000 and they're no longer on the front line, so it's 2159 02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:22.079 like a casualty but not a death, and so it's 2160 02:08:22.439 --> 02:08:25.680 it really depends on the social reading really killed. 2161 02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:30.399 Yeah, so in Ukraine, it's also been largely depopulated by 2162 02:08:30.560 --> 02:08:35.920 men and women moving away, and the injuries are probably 2163 02:08:35.960 --> 02:08:39.720 double the death count. Yea, So probably something like close 2164 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:43.399 to a million total casualties in Ukraine, I believe, two 2165 02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:44.520 thirds of them being injured. 2166 02:08:45.880 --> 02:08:48.119 I mean, and that's not even to talk about the 2167 02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:54.479 civilian casualties on both sides. Honestly, it's it's that's messing. 2168 02:08:55.439 --> 02:08:58.279 I think that this war has actually managed to avoid 2169 02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:03.159 civilian casualties better than most wars. But you know, I'm 2170 02:09:03.159 --> 02:09:05.720 open to other sources of information on that. 2171 02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:14.199 I'm yes and no. I mean, most of the people 2172 02:09:14.239 --> 02:09:17.920 living in the villages when the Russians moved in, if 2173 02:09:17.960 --> 02:09:20.800 they didn't want to be there, they left, But there 2174 02:09:20.840 --> 02:09:23.840 were still some stragglers that stayed behind, some buildings that 2175 02:09:23.880 --> 02:09:27.680 got bombed out, that had a non combatant inside of it. 2176 02:09:28.359 --> 02:09:31.319 I mean, that's that's a part of warfare. You know. 2177 02:09:31.439 --> 02:09:34.119 I agree with you that the number of civilian casualties 2178 02:09:34.199 --> 02:09:36.960 is probably a lot less per capita in this go 2179 02:09:37.119 --> 02:09:41.359 round than we've seen in previous large scale conflicts before that. 2180 02:09:41.520 --> 02:09:44.159 But I mean, we're comparing it against what you know, 2181 02:09:44.159 --> 02:09:46.079 what I mean, like, well, by what. 2182 02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:48.960 Means for example, that's the one I see it compared 2183 02:09:49.039 --> 02:09:49.640 to the most. 2184 02:09:50.119 --> 02:09:53.960 That's fair. That's that's fair, guys. I had a lot 2185 02:09:54.039 --> 02:09:57.920 of civilian casualties. But then again depends on the sorcier 2186 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:00.399 reading because some of them are saying that it was 2187 02:10:00.680 --> 02:10:04.359 Hamas that slaughtered a bunch of civilians and made it 2188 02:10:04.359 --> 02:10:06.640 seem like it was the IDF that did it. Then 2189 02:10:06.680 --> 02:10:09.359 there's other sources that's saying that the IDF just gunned 2190 02:10:09.359 --> 02:10:12.279 down a whole school full of women and children and 2191 02:10:12.319 --> 02:10:14.640 blamed it on Hamas. And it's like, wait, wait, bro, 2192 02:10:14.920 --> 02:10:17.640 what like that? We're missing the point that there's a 2193 02:10:17.640 --> 02:10:20.239 bunch of women and children dead right now. But okay, sure, 2194 02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:24.960 let's the sources are always going to spin the story 2195 02:10:24.960 --> 02:10:29.800 one way or another. So yeah, yeah, it is a 2196 02:10:29.840 --> 02:10:33.439 wild and messy time to be involved in the geopolitics 2197 02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:35.960 and in the war games. I am happy that we 2198 02:10:36.000 --> 02:10:38.079 have the person at the helm that we do right now. 2199 02:10:38.880 --> 02:10:42.159 I am hoping that he is trying to rope a 2200 02:10:42.199 --> 02:10:45.039 dope on some of these cases and not actually trying 2201 02:10:45.079 --> 02:10:49.880 to implement, uh, some of the wilder things that he 2202 02:10:49.920 --> 02:10:53.920 has said. But time will tell. All right, everybody, Well, 2203 02:10:53.960 --> 02:10:56.000 we are gonna wrap up this episode of The Cage tonight. 2204 02:10:56.000 --> 02:10:58.159 I want to thank everybody for coming out and participating 2205 02:10:58.239 --> 02:11:01.199 in this talk To any of the listeners that are 2206 02:11:01.239 --> 02:11:04.960 listening on this Thursday, that's when this will be released. 2207 02:11:05.239 --> 02:11:07.000 Please let me know in the comments what you thought 2208 02:11:07.000 --> 02:11:08.920 about this or other topics that you would like to 2209 02:11:08.960 --> 02:11:13.000 see us bring up into the future. And I appreciate everybody. 2210 02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:14.479 Y'all take care and God bless