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So this is 22 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:59.320 from the Hill Trump on Norway denying the Nobel Prize. 23 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:06.400 He says, I don't care which you know, it's silly, right, 24 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.239 It's silly to me. And then didn't he get it 25 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:11.920 from like Venezuela or something like that, And it was 26 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.599 the I think it was the Venezuelan one of the 27 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.480 laureates that just got it. She basically like gave her, 28 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:21.799 gave him hers or something like that. But it wasn't 29 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:23.439 the point. He was just pissed that he didn't get 30 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.359 the Nobel Peace Prize because I've done nord for peace 31 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:28.879 in this world than anyone else right now, And it 32 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.560 was silly things Ian realistically it was. But yeah, we 33 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.519 might as well read on this one because that ties 34 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.879 into Davos, and that ties into everything else we're going 35 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.359 to talk about next. But let's start off here. President 36 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.599 Trump insisted Monday that he does not care about the 37 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:47.439 Nobel Peace Prize, but maintained that Norway controlled quote unquote 38 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:50.079 the award, despite the country's leaders denying any involvement in 39 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:55.959 deciding who receives the prize. Yeah, the nation of Norway 40 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.640 doesn't have like I say so in that it's it's 41 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.560 from the Nobel Peace Prize organization. And I should just 42 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.640 say the Nobel Prize, right, because like I mean, hell, 43 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.159 Teddy Broosevelt was awarded a Nobel Prize, but for literature. 44 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.080 So I mean, like it's I'm just saying it's for this. 45 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:14.680 I'm just gonna go ahead and just say the Nobel 46 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:20.240 Prize organization, you know, I'll go ahead, Sam, It wasn't 47 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:20.879 the nob. 48 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.800 As Nobel as in the guy who created the prize. 49 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.319 He wanted to create that so that it would be 50 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.879 a way to fix his reputation after his first invention. 51 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:32.919 I can't remember. 52 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:35.719 I think it was dynamite and it was used it 53 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.840 killed so many people. 54 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.919 Yeah, and he invented dynamite as a way to try 55 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.400 to be the weapon to end all weapons, because he thought, 56 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.840 if you make a weapon that's so destructive, nobody will 57 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.319 want to fight wars anymore, and it will save lives. 58 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.199 And he said that same thing with the Gatling gun. 59 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:56.560 They said the same thing with the gatling gun. They 60 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.240 said the same thing with Archimedes fire. They said the 61 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.960 same thing. Why I should say Greek fire? Excuse me? 62 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.680 They said the same thing with nuclear weapons. That's not 63 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:09.000 how humans function. But yeah, the dude who mister Nobel himself, right, 64 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.639 And there's a couple of different categories. You can be 65 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.360 awarded the prize for one of them is peace, and 66 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.120 Trump was kind of but hurt that he wasn't given 67 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:18.879 the Peace Prize and said that it was the country 68 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.800 of Norway that was the ones that prevented that from happening, 69 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.240 which is silly. But anyway, he says, I don't care 70 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.159 about the Nobel Prize. He told reporters, First of all, 71 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.680 a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and 72 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:32.719 really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize, and I 73 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:38.800 appreciated that, he added, referring to Venezuelan opposition leader, I'm 74 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.879 gonna try to pronounce this on Maria Corina Machado. Yeah, 75 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.319 her decision to give her eighteen care Gold Medal to 76 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.680 Trump during a meeting at the White House last week. Yeah, 77 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.039 she literally just got awarded this. Most of the country 78 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.159 of Venezuela doesn't even know about it, what they probably 79 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.960 do now, But because she was an opposition leader, Maduro 80 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:00.240 made sure that nobody in the country had heard about 81 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:02.599 this whatsoever. And she's been I don't even think she's 82 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.639 been in the country for years because like she was hunted, 83 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.520 she had a price on her head. But basically she 84 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.159 felt that, yeah, you do deserve one, mister Trump, And 85 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.039 here's mine. She just got awarded that like a few 86 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.680 months ago, as a matter of fact. But basically that 87 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.639 wasn't the point, Okay, wasn't about the medal. It was 88 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.920 about the status. That move, though not mentioned directly, prompted 89 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.319 the Nobel Committee to note that while the symbol of 90 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.040 the prize a medal and a diploma, can be given 91 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:33.319 away to honor itself, is inseparably linked to the winner. 92 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.120 Trump's comments came days after he linked the prize, which 93 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.839 he has long coveted, to his aspirations to acquire Greenland, 94 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:45.439 in a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Joha Stor, writing 95 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.639 that he no longer felt an obligation to think purely 96 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:51.839 of peace. See he was basically I'm gonna read the 97 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.199 direct quote, but basically he's saying the only reason why 98 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.519 he hasn't done more war things is because he wanted 99 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.360 the Nobel Peace Prize, and now that that's not how opening, 100 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:05.120 he doesn't feel obligated to think of only peace, which 101 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.120 is again it's a rather silly take honestly, direct quote here, 102 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:15.000 dear johann or Jonas, considering your country decided not to 103 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.360 give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight 104 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:20.480 wars plus. I no longer feel an obligation to think 105 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:24.519 purely a peace, although it will always be predominant, but 106 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.079 can now think about what is good and proper for 107 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.279 the United States of America, the President wrote. According to 108 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.720 News Nation Storm, the Prime Minister clarified in a statement 109 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.279 on Monday that the Norwegian government holds no sway over 110 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.279 who receives the Peace Prize, which again, that's I feel like, 111 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:46.000 that's crazy, that's I wish I could and this is 112 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.879 not a fair comparison, but just bear with me here. 113 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:54.519 That would be like somebody being pissed off that they 114 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:58.879 didn't get Magna cum laude at Louisiana State University in 115 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:04.600 engineering and blaming the governor of Louisiana for not That's 116 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.319 not how that goes. That's not how that goes at all. 117 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.639 Although the prize is based out of Norway, the Norwegian 118 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:15.279 president and the Norwegian Royalty and every version of that 119 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.879 you want to take has no actual sway in the medal. 120 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.639 But all right, cool. As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, 121 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.480 I have clearly explained, including to President Trump, what is 122 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.480 well known the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel 123 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.319 committee and not the Norwegian government, the Prime minister wrote. 124 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.879 Speaking to reporters Monday night, Trump rejected that notion. If 125 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.720 anybody thinks that Norway doesn't control the prize, they're just kidding. 126 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.240 He said, they have a board, but it's controlled by Norway, 127 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.160 and I don't care what Norway said. Yep, yep, that's 128 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.839 that's a thing. The President spent months publicly lobbying to 129 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.279 win the Peace Prize before it was awarded to Machado, 130 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.240 often claiming he deserved it because he had helped to 131 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.240 end several wars. And I mean, to be honest with you, yeah, 132 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.120 I think, especially if you look at other laureates who 133 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.600 have been awarded. Yeah, Trump has definitely done more in 134 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.959 certain regards and could be I think has a pretty 135 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.959 solid nomination, right. But again, blaming the Prime Minister of 136 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:21.319 Norway for this one, that's wild. That's wild. But I 137 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:23.839 really don't care about the Nobel pricy in system Monday. 138 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.399 What I care about is saving lives, and I think 139 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.920 I've saved tens of millions of lives. We stopped eight wars, 140 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.600 and maybe we'll stop a ninth very soon. We'll see. 141 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.439 The Trump administration has ratcheted up the pressure on European 142 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.680 countries in recent weeks, as the president eyes a US 143 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:43.040 takeover of Greenland, a self governing Danish territory. He announced 144 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.800 Saturday that he would implement a ten percent tariff on 145 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.360 Denmark and its allies starting February first, and potentially raising 146 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.079 to twenty five percent in June until a deal is reached. 147 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.079 The President and other senior US officials have argued that 148 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.639 the island must come under US ownership to protect national 149 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.759 security interests and thwart threats from Russia, China, Russia and 150 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:04.839 China in the Arctic region. Now, this is why I 151 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:09.199 brought up this nobel situation. It's silly. It's it's silly. 152 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.439 It's Trump being a little bit of a whiner, a 153 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.439 little bit. He a little but hurt. Okay, got a 154 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.199 little stand in the snatch, and he's feeling some type 155 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:20.680 of way. All right, fine, but that's not the important 156 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:26.120 portion here. It's about Greenland. And Trump started saying that 157 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.439 he well, first, first things first, he started making more 158 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.480 of a push towards Greenland, and he was saying that 159 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.399 we're gonna take it, not militarily, but I mean, maybe 160 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.039 we could if we have to, but like we don't 161 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.279 want to, we'll just buy it. And somebody threw out 162 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.600 a number, and I saw a couple of different reports, 163 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.200 but a report that I saw pretty consistently was somewhere 164 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.000 in the ballpark of seven hundred billion dollars, which, all right, cool, 165 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:53.720 I just dropped a TikTok and an Instagram and whatever 166 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.759 the socials about what my personal take is. As far 167 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.679 as what Norway is about, what Greenland is about, I 168 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.759 don't think it was for the military strong point right. 169 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.200 America has a base there and has had a base 170 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.879 there since the Cold War. They just changed it from 171 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:15.039 the Thule base to the Patufic Base, I believe, and 172 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.120 it has the capabilities of housing thousands of troops, not 173 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.759 not no, hundreds of thousands, no, but you could pretty 174 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.120 easily find a way to house about ten thousand troops 175 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.320 there right now, and nobody would Batny. Greenland has never 176 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:34.840 had an issue with America bringing troops over that way. 177 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.000 I don't think they ever will, to be completely honest 178 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.279 with you, it's not like they're an ally. They're a 179 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.320 NATO ally, so it's no big deal. But he was 180 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:45.879 also talking about maybe buying it out right. Denmark said 181 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.000 they don't want nothing to do with that. It's not happening. 182 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:53.039 Then you had France step up and say like, hey boy, 183 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.799 enough's enough, that's enough of that that crazy shit Donald 184 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:00.320 Germany stepped up and said something similar. Britain step Duppin 185 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.480 said something similar. There was one more country. I forget 186 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.080 which one, but one of these other European NATO allies 187 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.279 was talking about, hey, hey, that's enough, Donald, we don't 188 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.840 need none of that. As soon as Trump threatened ten 189 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:18.480 percent tariffs, every one of them just went silent. Funny 190 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.600 how that works out, and then cut to a deal 191 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.159 has indeed been reached as of today as a time 192 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:28.720 of recording. Let's learn about that one together, y'all. 193 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:31.960 Fash new's a learned out of Davos, Switzerland, breaking right now. 194 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:36.279 New information from President Trump about Greenland, posting moments ago 195 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.080 on truth Social he said, based upon a very productive 196 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.919 meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, 197 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.159 Mark Ruta, we have formed the framework of a future 198 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.480 deal with respect to Greenland and in fact the entire 199 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.679 Arctic region. This solution, if consummated, would be a great one. 200 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.440 For the United States of America and all NATO nations. 201 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.720 Based upon this understanding, and here's a big part of this, 202 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.399 I will not be in posing the tariffs that were 203 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.480 scheduled to go into effect on February the first. Watch 204 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.600 your four oh one K. Additional discussions are being held 205 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.480 concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further 206 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.240 information will be made available as discussions progress. Vice President Jadvance, 207 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.360 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoys Steve Wiccoff, and 208 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.679 various others as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations. 209 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.480 They will report directly to me. Thank you for your 210 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.200 attention to this matter. Donald Trump, President of the United States. 211 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:34.120 Ed Lawrence slivin Davos watching all of this, I think 212 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:35.279 the markets are going to like this. 213 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.000 Yeah, markets will like this. And one thing we've heard 214 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:43.519 from I've spoke to several commissioners from the European Union 215 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.159 and they said that they wanted to start from a 216 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:49.080 place of negotiation, so maybe there would be some wiggle 217 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.960 room for the European Union to come and talk about this. 218 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:55.639 They did say, though, in unison, that the European Union 219 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.679 would not sell Greenland. They said Greenland flat out is 220 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.200 not for sales. We're gonna have to see where the 221 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.559 movement on that will be. But clearly the NATO Secretary 222 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:09.039 General has been in President Trump's corner from the beginning 223 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.960 of this President posted on true social note that was 224 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:17.200 passed to him from Mark Ruda, the Secretary General of 225 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.320 supporting him and strife for Greenland. The President is making 226 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.159 the case here and this is what we've heard from 227 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.399 this administration saying that that US is the best position 228 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.759 to protect Greenland should something happen from China or Russia. 229 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.559 And that's the argument the President's making, and the administration 230 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.240 coming in here saying, look, you need to allow us 231 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.879 to make this argument, come in with an open mind, 232 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.000 and we can negotiate something fair. Because the point of 233 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.679 the President made in his address today was that Denmark 234 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.639 really hasn't put in the resources where the money needed 235 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.399 to support Denmark the way I mean to support Greenland 236 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.600 the way it needs to be supported. So it'd be 237 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.159 very interesting to see where this goes forward. But at 238 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.159 least now we have a group of folks that have 239 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.919 come together with a plan and the President, as you 240 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.600 know his strategy, he talks big, gets people talking and 241 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.120 then his next step is to put forth something and 242 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.960 this is where the negotiations can start. So maybe that's 243 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.919 where we are at the moment, a starting point for negotiations. 244 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.759 John Mark Brunter, where surgery cooler heads to prevail. So 245 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.000 we'll see if we're there. Ed, thank you for the 246 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:19.240 other all right. 247 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.000 So you know, perhaps that was his plan all along. 248 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.120 I don't know this for a fact. This is just 249 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.600 me speculating here. Perhaps it was just it was the 250 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.360 same thing that he did well pretty much every time 251 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.639 he's tried to make some outlandish claims and some outlandish threats, 252 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:36.799 it's just to get people talking. 253 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:37.279 Right. 254 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.240 Think about when NATO he was talking about how everybody 255 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:44.320 needs to up there spending and the NATO countries basically said, yeah, 256 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.039 we can't do that, bro, And then he's like, okay, 257 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:49.399 well the US could just withdraw from NATO. That's an option. 258 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:51.240 Now all of a sudden, all of the NATO countries 259 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.039 are like, hey, you know, five percent is doable, it 260 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.320 really is, you know. And now all of a sudden 261 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:02.600 European leaders are praising him for demanding and commanding the 262 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:07.919 European nations to up their defense spending. So perhaps and Again, 263 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.720 I don't know this for a fact, but perhaps this 264 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.320 was his plan all along. This is him still trying 265 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:14.960 to do the whole art of the deal kind of 266 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:20.919 situation here. He's he's making some bombastic claims, some borderline threats, 267 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.039 and he does it so hard and so seriously that 268 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.120 they started to capitulate, which is what he wanted in 269 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:29.039 the first place. I don't know. I don't know. I 270 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.679 would love to hear y'all's take on that one. But 271 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.120 I have an article puote up here from Politico. It 272 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.840 says Trump says he won't impose tariffs after reaching Greenland 273 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:40.679 deal framework quote unquote. A deal wasn't met, but a 274 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.879 framework for a deal was met, and that's enough for 275 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.039 him to calm down on the whole tariff conversation, Trump 276 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.360 said that he's reached an agreement with NATO on a 277 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.200 Greenland framework and will not be imposing planned tariffs on 278 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:54.000 European allies. The president said in a social media post 279 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.559 that the deal quote will be a great one quote 280 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.879 for both the US and NATO allies, but did not 281 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.480 elaborate on the details of the agreement with NATO Secretary 282 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:06.519 General Mark Root. Based upon this understanding, I will not 283 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.600 be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go into 284 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.399 effect on February first, Trump wrote, the deal eases tensions 285 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.279 over control of Greenland, which Trump has aggressively sought to 286 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.360 rest control of from Denmark while citing national security concerns. 287 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:23.279 In an interview with CNBC conducted shortly after his social 288 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.879 media posts, the president said quote, we have a concept 289 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.440 of a deal. I think it's going to be a 290 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.639 very good deal for the United States also for them, 291 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.559 and we're gonna work on We're gonna work together on 292 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.919 something having to do with the Arctic as a whole, 293 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.279 but also Greenland, and it has to do with the security, 294 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:42.879 great security, strong security, and other things. He literally, I 295 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.039 tried to a Trump impression, but it's just his speech 296 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.600 pattern is wild. But anyway, Trump steered clear, providing further details, 297 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.639 including whether the framework involved any degree of US ownership 298 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:57.200 of Greenland or mineral rights. And this is why I 299 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.120 thought it was all about that in the first place, 300 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.919 because I don't think many people know this about Greenland. 301 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:15.679 They have untapped mineral reserves, iron, uranium, rare earths, cobalt, gold, diamonds, zinc, copper, 302 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.919 they have all of these things, and they being a 303 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.639 country that only has fifty seven thousand people living there, 304 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.200 they don't have the manpower to properly mine and smelt 305 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:31.360 and take advantage of these minerals whenever. And you especially 306 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.440 if you look at China and you look at all 307 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.519 of what's going on, and they are like the lynchpin 308 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.639 as far as the rare earth's go on Earth. If 309 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:40.399 there's another spot where you can get your hand on 310 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.639 some of those rare earths for those magnets that are 311 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.879 needed in all of our electrical components, I could understand 312 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:47.679 why he is saying that that is a matter of 313 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.159 national security, even though it's not a military or defense 314 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.080 thing as what we're thinking of when we think of 315 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:57.120 like kinetic warfare. It's more like setting America up for 316 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.120 the next five, ten, fifteen years. But again, no real 317 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.480 word on if this framework quote unquote has anything to 318 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.960 do with these minerals or not. I don't know. It's 319 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.359 a little bit complex, but we'll explain it down the line. 320 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.640 Asked how long the deal will last, Trump said forever. 321 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:15.799 So I have a weird feeling that it's going to 322 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.160 tie into the minerals. I could be so wrong. Here 323 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:19.839 and it had nothing to do with that anyway, But 324 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.359 I just I got a feeling, you know, I got 325 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.519 a feeling. Trump, in his true social post said discussions 326 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:28.000 around a missile defens system pertaining to Greenland are part 327 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.640 of the negotiations, which will be led by jd Vance, 328 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.920 Secretary of State Mark Arubia, and Special ENVOYE step Woitkough. 329 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.880 NATO spokesperson Alison Hart said in a statement that the 330 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.200 framework will focus on Arctic security through the collective efforts 331 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.440 of allies, especially the Seven Arctic Allies. Heart added the 332 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.039 negotiations between the US and Denmark over Greenland will go forward. 333 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:55.160 Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen welcomed Trump's decision to back 334 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.480 off the tariff threat and rule out military force in 335 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.640 Greenland in a post on Wednesday evening. US stock markets 336 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.440 railed Wednesday on news that Trump had backed off his 337 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.960 tariff threat. Yeah, as the reporter just said, Watcher four 338 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:09.960 one K, because man, that was a thing, that was 339 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.920 the thing people were really worried about. He's back on 340 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.279 the tariff kick. It's like, shit, we just got everything 341 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.400 back to a working place. Why But that's because Trump 342 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.559 be doing Trump shit. You know moving on. Prior to 343 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.359 his trip to the World Economic Forum and Devo, Switzerland, 344 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:28.119 Trump had threatened new duties on eight European nations, including 345 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.640 Denmark and major NATO allies such as the UK, France, 346 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.039 and Germany. At the time, the president said the terriffs 347 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.559 would be in effect until quote a deal is reached 348 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.839 for the complete and total purchase of Greenland. US imports 349 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.880 from the eight countries were about three hundred and two 350 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.160 billion dollars from January through October of twenty twenty five, 351 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.000 about ten point five percent of total US imports in 352 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.880 that period. Trump had also dangled the possibility of using 353 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.720 military force to annex the Danish territory, and was exploring 354 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.240 a range of options that included military action to take 355 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.039 control of Greenland earlier in Jane anyway, but in a 356 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:03.400 speech of Davos on Wednesday, Trump ruled out the use 357 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.039 of military action. Which is good that nobody wants that. 358 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.599 Really we don't. We probably won't get anything unless I 359 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:13.880 decide to use successive strength and force where would where 360 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.480 we would frankly be unstoppable. But I won't do that, okay, 361 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.839 Trump said in his speech, which okay, yeah again. The 362 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.359 entire nation. This place is three times the size of 363 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.440 Texas and has a population of fifty seven thousand people. Y'all. 364 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.440 The parish that I live in, which granted, everybody else 365 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.720 in the United States has counties. Louisiana has parishes. The 366 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:39.759 parish I live in has three times or just under 367 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:41.880 three times the amount of people that live in it, 368 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:46.319 as does the entire nation of Greenland. So yeah, we're 369 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:49.359 talking about the United States military. If we were trying 370 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.759 to annex it, I don't think there would be any opposition. 371 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:54.920 I think the people of Greenlan would probably be like, well, 372 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.440 all right, they wouldn't be happy about it, but I 373 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.279 don't think we would see like, uh, you know, violent 374 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:02.759 rebellions or anything like that either. Hell, Greenland could have 375 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.480 claimed autonomy from Denmark anytime they wanted for the past 376 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:08.880 few years. They just haven't done it. They're kind they're 377 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.920 kind of nonchalant about the whole thing. So it would 378 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:15.759 have been, like you said, kind of unstoppable. Yeah, obviously 379 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.559 obviously where the American military like duh, but all right. 380 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.079 The US campaign to take control of Greenland has been 381 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.680 met with unusually strong resistance from European allies, who have 382 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:31.400 insisted that Greenland's geographics, significance Jesus and defending the Arctic 383 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:34.279 is critical to NATO's member states and should be controlled 384 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:40.359 in coordination with NATO. Again, it is already but all right. 385 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.079 European allies have been threatening strong responses to the looming tariffs. 386 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.000 European Commission President Ursula of vonder Lehan said Wednesday that 387 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.359 the EU is quote fully prepared to act in retaliation 388 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.480 to the tariffs. I don't know what they would have, 389 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:59.039 like counter tariffed okay cool. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of 390 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.079 the UK and and Beta male, he's just gonna throw 391 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.240 that out, said he will not yield over Greenland despite 392 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:08.440 the threat of tariffs. Again, UK, you need to not 393 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.319 yield to protect your own citizens right now. But like, yeah, 394 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.359 please speak up more. We love hearing from you. A 395 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:16.720 spokesperson for the Danish embassy in the US did not 396 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.000 immediately respond to a request for comment, and a panel 397 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:23.720 at Davos on Wednesday Roots said that the NATO nations 398 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.559 should be happy with Trump's role in reshuffling NATO a 399 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.160 security alliance, and he has sharply criticized dating back to 400 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.839 his first term in office. Route acknowledged that he is 401 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.680 embrace of Trump is not popular with European nations. Yeah, 402 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:40.920 I could see that. I could see that multiple European 403 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:43.119 nations are kind of tired of Donnie t in his mouth. 404 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:47.519 I sure sure. In backing off, Trump may be able 405 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:50.160 to maintain a fragile status quote with Europe, even as 406 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.400 US officials have expressed frustrations that the European Union isn't 407 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.160 living up to a July trade agreement that eliminated tariffs 408 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:58.440 on a variety of US goods in exchange for a 409 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.920 fifteen percent tariff on most European goods. Yeah, that's the thing. 410 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.240 Remember whenever Trump was going on his big tariff thing, 411 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:07.240 and all these European nations said that they would remove 412 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.319 these tariffs on US goods being sold in Europe. Some 413 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.000 have absolutely stood by their word and they have removed them. 414 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:16.319 Some have not. 415 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.240 And it's been six months, and so Trump's not exactly 416 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.599 too jazzed up about that either. So maybe that had 417 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:27.240 to do with the Greenland situation, right, Maybe he's trying 418 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:28.920 to use as much leverage as he can to get 419 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.359 what he wants out of this, But who knows if 420 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:33.720 he actually wanted Greenland to become a US state or 421 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.119 territory or whatever. It's very possible that all of this 422 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.000 was to strong arm his way into the mineral reserves 423 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:43.160 in Greenland. But I've heard people say it's for the 424 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:43.880 military thing. 425 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:44.319 Bro. 426 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.480 We could build another base in Greenland right now with 427 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:50.079 nobody stopping us. And I'm not saying that because like 428 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.720 they would not dare no, no, greend would be fine 429 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.200 with it. Greenland has no problem with more jobs and 430 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.000 more industry and more money being basically sent into their names. 431 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.119 They'd be fine with it. It's not an issue. So 432 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.480 I don't yeah anyway, But the latest episode renews questions 433 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.880 about the reliability of the United States as a trading partner. 434 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:13.839 Last year, the Trump administration struck trade deals with both 435 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:17.759 the EU and the UK that set new reciprocal US 436 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:21.519 tariffs on them at fifteen and ten percent, respectively. Speaking 437 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.440 in Davos on Wednesday at an event hosted by Axios, 438 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:28.960 US trade representative Jamison Greer probably mispronounced it's fine. Brush 439 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.160 aside such concerns, saying that Trump's agreements aren't intended to 440 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:35.640 permanently spare countries from tariff threats if new issues rise. 441 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.519 So again, it's it seems like the tariff thing is 442 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:42.279 what actually got people motivated to do something about Greenland. 443 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:44.599 But now the deal has been struck, or at least 444 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:48.359 a framework for a deal has been proposed and has 445 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.079 made Trump calm down on the tariff conversation in Europe. 446 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.440 So I mean, I'm taking that as a w honestly. 447 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:58.119 But while we're talking about Trump and Dalla dollar bills, y'all, 448 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.640 I don't know how many of your heard about this, 449 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:06.279 but Trump has decided to enact and found a Board 450 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:12.400 of Peace involving Gaza, and he is charging nations who 451 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.799 want to be lifetime members of this Board of peace 452 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.279 a billion dollars for a permanent seat on this board. 453 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:24.440 That's that's hilarious to me, especially when you see the 454 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.440 countries that have already signed up. We're gonna get to 455 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:29.400 it anyway. This is from France twenty four. Here, a 456 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:32.799 permanent seat on US President Trump's Board of Peace, aimed 457 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:35.920 at resolving conflicts, will cost countries one billion dollars each 458 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.519 according to its charter. For the record, that's just for 459 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.720 a seat that has nothing to do with the other 460 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:45.039 costs that are going to be associated with peacekeeping operations 461 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:47.960 quote unquote when it comes to the Gaza situation. But 462 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.640 you know, just to get your foot in the door, 463 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:52.400 it's gonna be a billion, cold hard cash right off 464 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:55.599 the top. So take that for what it is. According 465 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:01.480 to its charter. Invited world leaders include Russian President Vladimir Putin, 466 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:07.440 oh shit, Hungarian Premier Victor Orbun and the Canadian Prime 467 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:12.640 Minister Mark Carney. Apparently Trump extending an invite to Putin. 468 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.359 People are kind kind of giving some side eye glances 469 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:18.720 about this. But perhaps and I'm not saying this is 470 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.720 actually gonna happen. I don't think Putin actually gives two 471 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.319 shits about what goes down in Gazi. He's got his 472 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:29.400 hands full of other stuff. But the invitation extension, right, 473 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.279 the extending of an olive branch. There are those that 474 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.279 are hoping that perhaps this will kind of change the 475 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.880 mood of Putin to where he'd be a little more 476 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:43.039 willing to talk about peace in other regards. I don't 477 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:45.079 think it's gonna happen, but like that seems to be 478 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.359 the going consensus here. But let's read in more. Trump's 479 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:51.640 government has asked countries to pay a billion dollars for 480 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:54.799 a permanent spot on his quote. Board of Peace aimed 481 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:58.480 at resolving conflicts. According to its charters seen Monday by AFP, 482 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.039 the White Houses asked being areous world leaders to sit 483 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:04.640 on the board chaired by Donald Trump himself, including the 484 00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.880 three that we mentioned earlier. Member countries represented on the 485 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:09.559 Board by their head of state would be allowed to 486 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:12.960 join for three years or longer if they paid more 487 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:15.440 than a billion dollars within the first year. The charter 488 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.599 says each member state shall serve a term of no 489 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.359 more than three years from this charter's entry into force, 490 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.680 subject to renewal by the Chairman. 491 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:24.759 The board. 492 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:27.519 Draft charter says, interesting, how you would make it a 493 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.960 three year thing? Because he only has that long in office, 494 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.480 So I find that interesting. Basically, whenever he leaves office, 495 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.160 this Board of Peace very well might just take off 496 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.039 with him. I guess we'll find out. We'll see how 497 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.720 it goes. The three year membership terms shall not apply 498 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:44.759 to member states that contribute more than a billion dollars 499 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:47.119 US and cash funds to the Board of Peace within 500 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.319 the first year. The board was originally conceived to oversee 501 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:53.440 the rebuilding of Gaza, but its charter does not appear 502 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.759 to limit its role to the occupied palace any in territory. 503 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:00.359 It's for that purpose, but it might have some some 504 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.839 other tentacles if you catch my drift here. The White 505 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.440 House said there would be a main board, a Palestinian 506 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:10.359 committee of technocrats meant to govern devastated Gaza, and a 507 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:13.759 second executive board that appears designed to have more of 508 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:16.920 an advisory role. The Board of Peace is an international 509 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.559 organization that seeks to promote stability, restore dependability and lawful governments, 510 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:25.559 and secure enduring peace and areas affected by or threatened 511 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:29.519 by conflict. That's what the charter says. Anyway, failed institutions. 512 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:32.039 Now it appears that to take a swipe at the 513 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:35.039 international institution such as the United Nations, saying that the 514 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:38.759 Board should have quote the courage to depart from approaches 515 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:44.319 and institutions that have too often failed, which I'm gonna 516 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:49.480 be honest with you, there's some credibility there. There is 517 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.519 not all of it. The UN has done some good 518 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:54.680 things around the world for humanitarian aid and. 519 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:55.160 Things like that. 520 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:59.880 However, grand scheme of shit right, all cards on the 521 00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:03.640 and again not in a military sense. Right when the 522 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:06.160 UN peace troops come in typically things have gone so 523 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:10.119 far sideways that it's it's a whole international crisis at 524 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:13.480 that point. But for the humanitarian aid that the UN provides, 525 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.279 especially to third world countries whenever like a natural disaster 526 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:20.200 or something hits, there are cases of them doing good work. 527 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:24.519 But as a as a litmus test, litmist test, excuse me, 528 00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:28.200 of of where the money actually goes that comes from 529 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:32.480 the UN. Yeah, it's it's a bit murky, to say 530 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:35.119 the least. Before I continue, Sam, I see your hand, brother, 531 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:35.559 what you got. 532 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.200 Do people tend to forget that this wouldn't be the 533 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.000 first time that there's been something other than the UN 534 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.279 quote unquote Do people forget the League of Nations? 535 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.039 The League of Nations was the precursor to the UN, 536 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.640 was it not? That was after World War One? 537 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:53.400 Yes, but it still failed miserably. 538 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.920 It did. But also that's because Europe as a whole, 539 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:01.400 I mean, I don't even know how many non European 540 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.000 countries are a part of the League of Nations. But 541 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.160 world War One, whenever they took out all of the 542 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:08.799 monarchy of all of the countries of Europe for the 543 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:12.559 most part, and established republics and democracies and things like that. 544 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:19.279 They were rebuilding centuries long legal systems with new framework, 545 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:20.759 and then they were trying to do it in the 546 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:24.319 best way possible. But it that was doomed to fail regardless, 547 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.880 especially when you look at the amount of debt that 548 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:30.640 had been accrued and all of it was thrown on Germany, 549 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:32.839 all of it to the point there was no way 550 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.720 they could ever pay them, Like I understand, America's got 551 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:39.480 more debt, but Germany could never have made those payments happen. 552 00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:41.119 So all these countries that were a part of the 553 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.000 League nations were gonna be just out. They were never 554 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:47.400 gonna get their money anyway. So in my opinion, the 555 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.559 League was doomed to fail from the onset, But I 556 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.960 think it had good intentions behind it. They just it 557 00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:55.519 was the first time that something like that to that 558 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:57.599 scale had ever been really attempted though. 559 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:02.440 Ill right, yes, but Spaniard still have a king, I believe. 560 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:09.000 Yeah, multiple European nations still have kings and royal classes, 561 00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.640 but it's very much more for figureheads. I mean, hell, 562 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.240 the King of Sweden, the King of the King of Norway, 563 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.279 the King of Denmark. France has a nobility class still, 564 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.440 but it's it's very much just uh yeah, it's it's 565 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.000 kind of like a historical nod to the past. It's 566 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.960 not like they actually have any real pole or sway 567 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:29.880 or on how things goes. The only nation that I 568 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.039 know of that actually still operates with true monarch, well 569 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:38.599 not technically monarchy, but essentially would be Luxembourg. And they're 570 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:41.880 actually a grand duchy. They're the only grand duchy on earth, 571 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.759 and they ever really they don't have a king. They 572 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:49.000 have a grand duke and he runs his country full 573 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.279 tilt as a monarchy. But at the same time, it's 574 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.200 such a small nation that it's that he's beloved by 575 00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:57.119 his people. Luxembourg isn't known for throwing their hat in 576 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:01.359 the ring as far as military is concerned. It's you know, so, yeah, 577 00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:04.359 they still have monarchy, but it's not to the level 578 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.680 that it was prior to World War One. But yeah, 579 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:12.720 I agree, the UN is the let's let's call it 580 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:17.319 the stepchild of the League of Nations, but it had 581 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.440 more credibility at one point in time, it seemed like 582 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.559 it could be used for a greater good for a 583 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:28.680 bit there. But as time has gone on, yeah, it's 584 00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.200 kind of gone into the realm of ineptitude, So I 585 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:35.519 don't know, right. Trump has regularly criticized the United Nations 586 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.559 and announced this month that his country will withdraw from 587 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:43.359 sixty six global organizations and treaties. Roughly half are affiliated 588 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.640 with the UN. We talked about that a couple of 589 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.680 weeks ago. As a matter of fact, he's pulling out 590 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:51.240 of everything that he sees to be wasteful, and we 591 00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:52.920 could look at the math on that. I don't know. 592 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:54.799 I don't know how much of this doge had anything 593 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:58.400 to do with, right, But he's basically pulling out of 594 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.519 a lot of things. And when you look at how 595 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:04.279 much of these organizations that America was footing a giant 596 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:08.720 chunk of the bill on, Yeah, it's a thing. Members 597 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:11.279 of the Board would be limited to states invited to 598 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.279 participate by the chairman, So not just any old country 599 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.319 can be bop up to the Board of Peace and 600 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.000 decide they want to be a member. You have to 601 00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:20.799 be invited. Trump would have the power to remove member 602 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.079 states from the Board, subject to a veto by two 603 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.200 thirds of members, and choose his replacement should he leave 604 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:28.920 his role as chairman. The Board of Peace began to 605 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.400 take shape on Saturday, when leaders of Egypt, Turkey, Argentina 606 00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.839 and Canada were asked to join. Trump also named as 607 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.680 members Secretary of State Mark Rubio, former Prime Minister of 608 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.039 Britain Tony Blair, senior negotiator Steve Witkoff, and his son 609 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:51.119 in law Jared Kushner. Shocker shocker that Jared Kushner got 610 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:52.799 asked to be a part of the Board of Peace 611 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:57.160 and in response with gazam okay anyway, Israel has objected 612 00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:02.319 to the lineup of Gaza execute board UH to operate 613 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.680 under the body, which includes Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fadad 614 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.359 and Katar diplomat Ali al Thawadi. Yeah, members of the 615 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.559 board is also a Turkish dude. Turkey hates Israel by 616 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:18.359 the way, for anybody who didn't know, and a Katari 617 00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:23.039 diplomat because you know how those Kataris love them some Israel. 618 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.240 So yeah, Israel's not exactly jazzed up about this either. 619 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:29.640 But Trump is saying, screw it, We're gonna make this 620 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.359 board a piece and if you want to be a 621 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.319 part of this ball team, it's gonna cost you a 622 00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.559 billion off the top. Go ahead, sam, is. 623 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:39.079 It in Turkey like the redheaded stepchild of the Ottoman Empire, 624 00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:41.480 like at one point ahead of you. 625 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:45.920 Yeah, they are what you could consider the last remnants 626 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.000 of the Ottoman Turks. But even even that is a 627 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.000 bit of a stretch, because the Ottoman Empire was so 628 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.400 vast and come with so many different groups of people. 629 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.920 But yeah, if we're gonna really start pulling hairs here, 630 00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:59.119 Turkey is the last remnants of that. But they're also 631 00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:03.400 the fucking bastard of NATO and of the EU. Nobody's 632 00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:06.440 happy that they're a member, but they come through in 633 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.320 weird strategic ways. But then they also cause shit too. 634 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:14.679 They they love hate America so damn much. They named 635 00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:16.519 themselves after one of our birds. 636 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:18.559 Bro shut up. 637 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:22.880 I mean, you don't get turkeys over there. 638 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.239 I looked into it. 639 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:24.519 They do. 640 00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:28.840 They got the fucking thunder chickens over there. 641 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:31.480 They're not as big as the thunder chickens in America, 642 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:40.119 but they do have a a native population of turkeys also. Uh. 643 00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:47.519 But Ben Franklin, the mac Daddy gangster that he was, Unfortunately, 644 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.280 when we were throwing up the suggestions of our national board, 645 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:55.119 he actually was disparaging against the Eagle. He said he'd 646 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:58.000 much rather have more of a nobler bird, such as 647 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.119 the turkey, and I'm just like, motherfucker. 648 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:03.239 We eat those, we don't eat the bald eagles. 649 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:06.559 Yeah. Apparently he thought that the bald eagle was a 650 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:12.400 scoundrel of a bird and wasn't noble but the turkey. Yeah. Yeah, 651 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:15.800 Which there's a lot to unpack when it comes to 652 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.360 old Ben Franklin. Again, if anybody has not read his 653 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:25.880 literature on very strategic topics, specifically young men's choice in 654 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:29.599 finding a mistress, not a wife, not a girlfriend, a mistress. 655 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:33.039 Ben Franklin wrote a pamphlet on this, and it is 656 00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:36.280 hilarious to read. Your boy was he was out there 657 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:36.840 doing the most. 658 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.719 I mean, how many royal like members that dude cooked 659 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:45.199 over in France and all like cook. 660 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:46.119 The entire parliament. 661 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:49.639 Yeah, but it's that's more widely accepted there even to 662 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:52.559 this day. That's why DNA tests aren't allowed in France 663 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.320 because infidelity is so rampant there. 664 00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:59.679 They know that if they ever have, like, huh, all 665 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:01.599 they supposed to be Catholic. 666 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:08.159 Yeah, because that matters, that matters. Yeah, there's been multiple 667 00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:09.360 popes with kids. 668 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:13.000 So like, look at the bourgeoisie. Look what the fuck 669 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:17.880 that they did. They dude, legitimmy through orgies in the Vatican. Like, 670 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:21.039 I ain't Catholic and I don't get down with them, 671 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.920 but even I wouldn't throw an orgy in the House. 672 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.239 Of the Lord. 673 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:28.239 Yeah, it'd be like that. So, yeah, in Fidelia. Is 674 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:30.840 so rampant in France that they don't allow DNA testing 675 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:35.039 companies to operate there because they know that if it did, 676 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:38.199 it would pretty much just crumble whatever fragment of their 677 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:39.440 society still exists. 678 00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:40.920 So is that why? 679 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:43.840 Is that why that they're too busy fucking? Is that 680 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.880 why they surrender in every major war? 681 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:47.039 You know? 682 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:52.039 I like the joke about France always surrendering, even with 683 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.039 this whole thing with the tariffs in Greenland thing. I've 684 00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:56.920 seen so many people where it's like, oh, America's trying 685 00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:59.480 to take Greenland. France won't stand for this. I'm sorry, said, 686 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.079 I'm sorry. Thats like I've seen the jokes and it's funny. 687 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:05.519 But they fought a twenty year war in Vietnam. That's 688 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.000 the because of France. That's the reason why we, I 689 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.760 guess said over there, it was it's we called the 690 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.840 Vietnam War. But it's the fune end of China War. Yeah, 691 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.920 and like, I'm sorry, we really shouldn't have been over there. 692 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:24.599 France agreed, agreed, But yeah, I'm the whole thing about 693 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:28.559 France surrendering and stuff. Look, Rommel took over that country 694 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:33.360 in two weeks. It wasn't one day. It was like 695 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:35.880 two weeks to go from top to bottom of France essentially. 696 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:42.239 But oh yeah. But at the same time, they were 697 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.440 using blitz creek tactics involving tanks, and the world had 698 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.440 never seen something like that actually done on a battlefield. 699 00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:49.880 So I mean, I'm trying to give them a little 700 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.360 bit of credence here. World War One, they didn't surrender. 701 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.119 They fought tooth and nail. Now, granted, they would have 702 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.119 been taken if it wasn't for other nations helping them out, 703 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.360 but historically France hadn't been bitches, you know. It's there's 704 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.039 a couple of times where they have absolutely not shown 705 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:10.360 their most courageous selves. And I have no idea what 706 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:13.320 the current status of Francis legion are sick. 707 00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:17.000 They did send a fleet to us in the Revolutionary War. 708 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:19.719 We wouldn't be a nation without them. So while we 709 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.280 do have to. We do give them the shit, we 710 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:24.880 also have to give them at least a little bit 711 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:27.960 of respect on their name for the history of it, 712 00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:28.559 you know what I mean. 713 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.960 But I thought we do, we have Ucasians as a 714 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:32.639 part of us. 715 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:35.639 We do, but we actually started out as a penal colony, 716 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.039 come to find out. So you know, I know, I 717 00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:40.480 was the one who told you, dude, It's funny you 718 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:43.639 mentioned that right around the time when I actually saw 719 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:45.679 a quick little docu series on it. And I'm like, 720 00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.280 I am thirty three years old, and I didn't know this. 721 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.760 As much as we talk about Australia being the penal colony, 722 00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:56.000 how did I never know that Louisiana was literally. 723 00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:00.360 That because unlike Louisiana, Australia was six As for. 724 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.239 We got successful later, yes, but y'all the bet. 725 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:12.159 Like y'all started out with convicts and whores as the residents. Yeah, 726 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:17.440 Australia that at least that they their their guards were armed, 727 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:20.719 their guards weren't gaiters in fucking wildlife. 728 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.280 For the record, not much has changed as far as 729 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.639 Louisiana is concerned, and still and still be like that. 730 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.239 You know, we in Louisiana go. 731 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.920 Luck finding tags right now. They have a lottery system 732 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.199 and you have to have land to get certain tags. 733 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.119 But if you know somebody who I mean, unless you're 734 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:40.239 gonna go out lawn, which is an option to strongly 735 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.119 recommend against that, because boy, if the game warden catches 736 00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:46.880 you with alligator meeting your freezer and you can't account 737 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:50.039 for where you got it from, they'll they'll take a house. 738 00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:53.039 Like get the game wardens do not fuck around in 739 00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:58.400 Louisiana's throw that out anyway, all right, moving on as 740 00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:00.280 we're still go ahead, Sam, you have one more thing. 741 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:03.760 I was just gonna say, fuck green bitches and a 742 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:07.159 good thing. I don't live in Louisiana. I was gifted 743 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:08.199 the meat by the Lord. 744 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.320 Look, most of the game wardens are good dudes, right 745 00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.320 and I know I know a good number of them. 746 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.440 They're solid guys. They're not out here trying to ruin 747 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:18.440 nobody's day. They're just making sure that everybody's being legal 748 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:20.960 about it, and not just for gaters for everything right 749 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.360 that's being said, going. 750 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:25.840 In they're the only fucking thing that does not need 751 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:28.280 a warrant. They can go into a house, take it out. 752 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:30.519 Everything at your fucking house, all your guns and have 753 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.440 you convicted for fucking no goddamn reason. That alone is 754 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:36.960 why I do not fucking I do not like them, 755 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.559 and I'm typically back to the blue. But fuck the 756 00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.360 ATF and fuck the game warns. 757 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:44.519 Well, I'm with you as far as the no warrant 758 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:48.400 needed for things, and that's shitty. But let's be honest here. 759 00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:52.000 If you've at least in Louisiana, if you have the 760 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:54.920 game wardens kicking in your door without a warrant because 761 00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:58.440 they have that much probable cause to do so, brother, 762 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.440 you are you're fucking around on a level that most 763 00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:04.480 people can't comprehend because the game wardens, they have so 764 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.639 much square mileage that each individual warden has under their 765 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:11.199 jurisdiction that they have to cover on any given weekend. 766 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:14.079 For them to pick out one person in particular is like, 767 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.880 you know what, I know you're doing something illegal and 768 00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:19.880 I'm gonna find out you have to have pissed in 769 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.159 so many high profile cheerios that, like you, you asked 770 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.440 for it at that point, because I have outlaws of 771 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.880 my family, like legit outlaws that be doing the wildest shit. 772 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:31.239 As far as that's concerned, the game wardens am even 773 00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.679 concerned with them, Like really, well, I mean as far 774 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.119 as outlaw hunting goes, you know, like, yeah, I got 775 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:41.480 some of those dudes. But and it's not even like, 776 00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:43.519 oh because the game warnings are all dirty, No they 777 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:45.840 are not go ahead and try to bribe one of 778 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:46.440 those boys. 779 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.119 Oh no, they're some of the most molly correct people. 780 00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:53.000 But like, at the same time, how are you gonna 781 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:55.960 bust on on on a kid just going fishing just 782 00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:57.719 because he doesn't have a fucking license. 783 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.440 Most of the game wardens here wouldn't fuck around with that. Honestly, 784 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.239 It's not worth their time to p to fuck with 785 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.280 a kid who's fishing without a license. Come on now, now, 786 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:13.760 if you're going deep offshore fishing or something, then like, okay, perhaps. 787 00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:18.199 It's happened to me and out the fucked up thing 788 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:21.159 of was I was finishing all my cousins lan mm hmm. 789 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:23.000 Oh, if it's on private land, then fuck them. 790 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:26.199 Yeah. That that that my aunt came out and said, hey, 791 00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:28.239 do all this is private property my pond, get the 792 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:28.719 fuck out. 793 00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:29.440 H huh. 794 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.360 Yeah, So that experience is why I've always said fucked them. 795 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.880 Yeah, game warins are out there be on the lookout. 796 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.360 Everybody anyway, moving on here talking, We're going to Al 797 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:47.440 Jazeera next. The US forces seized a seventh Venezuela linked 798 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:50.440 oil tanker. Yeah, they're saying it's more of the Russian 799 00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.480 shadow fleet, and here we have it. The US has 800 00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:56.079 moved to a cert strict control over the production in 801 00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.000 sale of Venezuela and oil since the attacking the country. 802 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.280 This month, the United States military announced they have seized 803 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.199 a seventh Venezuela linked oil tanker in the US titans 804 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.679 control over the production and sale of the country's considerable 805 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.320 oil resources. The US Southern Command or SOUTHCOMB, which oversees 806 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:16.079 military operations in Latin America, said on Tuesday that it 807 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:20.760 captured the motor vessel Sejeta Sagita. Not sure if that's 808 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.199 a softer hard gen as part of the blockade and 809 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:28.400 on oil vessels leaving and entering the country. The apprehension 810 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:33.639 of another tanker operating in defiance of President Trump's established 811 00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:37.440 quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean demonstrates our resolve 812 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.199 to ensure that the only oil leaving Venezuela will be 813 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.280 the oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully, Southcomb said 814 00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.800 in a statement. It added that Tuesday's tanker seizure occurred 815 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:51.880 without incident, sharing a video appearing to show US forces 816 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.440 flying towards the vessel and landing on its deck. The 817 00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.719 US began seizing sanctioned tankers on December tenth as part 818 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.119 of the campaign to increase pressure on Venezuela. Tensions between 819 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:05.599 the US and Venezuela came to a peak on January third. 820 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:07.800 We talked about that already, whenever they came in and 821 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:11.079 bagged and tagged Maduro and his wife. In the lead 822 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:14.280 up to that operation, Trump and allies like Stephen Miller 823 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:18.719 had been increasingly vocal about laying claim to Venezuelan oil, 824 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.480 given the US's history of prospecting for petroleum there is 825 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.360 in early in the twentieth century, But by nineteen seventy one, 826 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.519 Venezuela had nationalized its oil industry, which is never a 827 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:34.840 good idea. Efforts to expropriate assets from foreign oil companies 828 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.559 in two thousand and seven have further fuel criticism from 829 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:42.519 the Trump administration, which considers Venezuela oil stolen from US owners. 830 00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:47.760 Now that's a claim, that's a claim. Here legal experts, however, 831 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:52.000 largely consider such arguments in violation of Venezuelan sovereignty. Yeah, 832 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.400 that's accurate. Trump has nevertheless said the US will control 833 00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:01.000 Venezuelan oil and has used the threat to further military 834 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.199 attacks to pressure Venezuela's government to compliance, which they are now. 835 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:08.679 And that's the thing they keep trying. They keep sending 836 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.159 out these vessels. I don't know how many oil tankers 837 00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:14.880 Venezuela has within its fleet here, but I feel like 838 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:17.960 they might be running out. I don't know here. The 839 00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:22.039 Trump administration has also placed steep sanctions on Venezuelan's economy, 840 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:24.880 as part of a trend stretching back to the Republican 841 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.360 leader's first term as president. The US has framed the 842 00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.599 tanker seizures as a way of enforcing those sanctions, although 843 00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:35.400 the legality of using military force to enforce economic penalties 844 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.840 is disputed. Yeah, you know, other nations have been upset 845 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:42.440 by this, but at the same time, they're not really 846 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.599 doing much to stop it. Could that be because they 847 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.920 don't want none of the smoke with the US. Or 848 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:49.559 is it because they don't want to catch a tariff 849 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.320 from running their mouth too much? I don't know, I 850 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:56.360 don't know. Both are viable options, I suppose, Trump said. 851 00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:58.320 Trump and his officials have said that the sale of 852 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:01.280 Venezuelan oil on the world more will be dictated by 853 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.079 the US, and that the proceeds from those sales will 854 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:07.239 be placed in a US control bank account. It's straight 855 00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:11.199 up theft, it's straight up schoolyard bullying, and honestly, I'm 856 00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:13.480 kind of here for it when it comes to just Venezuela. 857 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:16.840 Not everybody, not everybody. America doesn't need to go on 858 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:19.480 some conquest shit and start running everything on earth. But 859 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.119 I'm not mad at it. When it comes to Venezuela. 860 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:26.079 I'm just throwing it out any or any socialist nation, 861 00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:28.960 any socialist nation. I'm good with US bullying though. That's 862 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:31.400 fine with me anyway. I know a lot of people 863 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:33.280 are gonna be mad that I said such a hot take, 864 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:36.559 but yeah, fuck them, Fuck socialism. Trump has also used 865 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:39.519 control over Venezuela's oil to ratchet up pressure on Cuba, 866 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:44.239 for which access to Venezuelan oil is an important economic lifeline. 867 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.519 The US presidential reporters on Tuesday at a waffle House 868 00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.559 briefing or Jesus Christ, I misread that a White House briefing. God, 869 00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:54.480 that that's how y'all hungry? I am, I just read 870 00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.039 White House as waffle house. Good God, Almighty. 871 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:03.760 You know it makes sense either, Honestly, bro, I want 872 00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:07.199 Trump to address a fucking press conference from a waffle 873 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:08.000 house location. 874 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.199 That would be phenomenal. 875 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:11.880 I mean, he did a Walmart, so why not? 876 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:16.000 Right, Look, I'm just saying my bad on the misreading, 877 00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:17.639 but also I kind of wish I would have rolled 878 00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:21.679 with that. Uh, we've got millions of barrows of oil left, 879 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:24.079 he said at the White House. We're selling it on 880 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:27.440 the open market, and we're bringing down oil prices incredibly. 881 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.800 I will say that gas prices have been looking pretty 882 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:32.719 nice in my neck of the woods here recently. And 883 00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.159 I'm not saying that's because of Venezuelan oil. I'm not 884 00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:37.039 saying it's because of the tariffs. I'm not saying it's 885 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.000 because of the sanctions. I'm just I'm just saying it. 886 00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:43.159 It's nice to see gas prices go closer to two 887 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.760 dollars a gallon as opposed to whatever the hell they 888 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:48.719 were two years ago. You know, let's at least take 889 00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:50.639 some of that good with some of the bad. 890 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:55.960 Here, go ahead, voice just curiosity. What is gas in Louisiana. 891 00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:59.280 It's getting It's around two dollars a gallon right now. 892 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:01.639 It depends on where you go. Like at Walmart, you'll 893 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.199 probably get like it two eight to ten. If you're 894 00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:08.119 going to one of the smaller mom and pop shops, 895 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:09.840 it might be like two fifteen. 896 00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:14.320 Gotcha, by the way, So two things. 897 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:19.000 One, Walmart has horrendous gas and it's watered down, so sure, 898 00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:22.440 don't waste don't wish to waste your time money. Second 899 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.920 of all, I'm sure you know this, but for anybody 900 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.960 else who doesn't realize it, gas prices changed throughout the week. 901 00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:32.440 Yeah, So like. 902 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:36.639 Basically, if you if you find a good. 903 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:42.639 Store that provides a good, good gas, then check each 904 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:46.440 day for like two weeks and we'll know whenever they 905 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:48.760 are the lowest bike and carors I go. 906 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:51.159 I go to a Maverick, which, thank god, has a 907 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:51.840 really good gas. 908 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:58.119 There can sometimes be a sixty six zero cent difference 909 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:07.559 between sudden and Monday. Damn, but holy shit, it's it's 910 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:13.000 gone from like two thirteen to two seventy nine and 911 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:15.440 then like and then a couple of days later it'll 912 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:20.199 drop like you know, twenty cents or thirty cents, but yeah, 913 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:24.400 so definitely do some shopping around on days. 914 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:27.960 That way, you don't screw yourself over holy shit. 915 00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.840 Now to your point about Walmart having watered down gas, agreed, 916 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.639 which is why whenever I do go to Walmart, I 917 00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.800 try to get a little octane booster in a little 918 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:37.480 bit some sea phone, you know what I'm saying. Just 919 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:39.360 if you're gonna go for the cheap gas, try to 920 00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:41.239 take care of your vehicle. But they also have a 921 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.760 couple of gas stations around my area that sell non 922 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:47.840 ethanol gas, which is way better for your engine just 923 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:50.880 in totality. But that's also because we're so close to 924 00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.920 the water and boat motors do not do well with 925 00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:56.599 ethanol gas. So it's it's they're a little more expensive, 926 00:49:56.679 --> 00:49:58.639 but also it's better for your engine. And honestly, I 927 00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:00.920 have no idea what the price on that is because 928 00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:03.039 the last time I filled up was a Walmart. I 929 00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:03.800 need to see. 930 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.119 That because they do have so that's say. 931 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:13.400 Maverick also sells like I think e eighty five, but 932 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:16.599 I've never known whether or not I should or should 933 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:17.280 not put. 934 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:21.559 That in my dodge, So depends on how new it is, yeah, 935 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:28.599 twenty seventeen, yellow or green, or if it's yellow, you 936 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:29.320 should be good. 937 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:31.719 It's definitely not green. 938 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:37.320 I mean, if it's yellow, you want to run your 939 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:42.119 fuel all the way almost empty, because there's a sensor 940 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:44.960 in your fuel tank that's going to sense whether the 941 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:46.480 alcohol level in it. 942 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:52.760 So ethanol versus gasoline. Yeah, so if you want to 943 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:56.360 run ethanol, run ethanol. But I'd say either stick to 944 00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:56.880 one or the other. 945 00:50:58.039 --> 00:50:59.840 And it also depends on the type of motor too. 946 00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.960 I mean, every car that's made these days are fuel injected. 947 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.199 But if you're fucking around with a older carbureted engine, 948 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:09.559 do not put ethanol in that vehicle. My god. I 949 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:12.559 learned that the hard way with my first motorcycle because 950 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.320 it was carbureted. It was a little Yamaha v Star 951 00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:19.360 one thousand or eleven hundred rather and I didn't know, 952 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:23.159 see Jacob learned some lessons the hard way. After eight 953 00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:25.599 months of riding that thing as my daily commuter vehicle, 954 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.320 I had a solid inch layer of gel that had 955 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:31.719 formed on the inside of my carburetor and I couldn't 956 00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:34.519 figure out why. And you know, I talked to some 957 00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:36.159 mechanics like no, get you a little one of those 958 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.400 little three dollars. It looks like a five hour energy drink, 959 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:40.280 but it's for your fuel. Throw that in as an 960 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.920 added of and it will help clean that out. But 961 00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:44.800 at that time I was living in Virginia and I 962 00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:47.880 couldn't find a gas station to sell non ethanol gas, 963 00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.800 so just it was what it was. But the next 964 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:53.320 bike I got was fuel injected, and even still it 965 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.719 was better. But yees, smaller engines, lawmers, boats, whatever the 966 00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:01.480 case is, don't put ethanol. Don't don't even play that 967 00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:05.480 game unless you unless you really want to start working 968 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.960 on motors on every single weekend you have available, then 969 00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:11.159 like get after it. You know, that's that's a you thing. 970 00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:14.199 But yeah, like you said, if it has a yellow cap, 971 00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:17.639 it's made for the e eighty five. If it has 972 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:20.599 a green cap or a black cap, use it at 973 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:22.920 your discretion. But also if you're going to do that, 974 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:25.599 run some sea phone through it, you know, once every 975 00:52:26.199 --> 00:52:29.840 month to give or take just kind of clean out everything. 976 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:36.239 At least that's my my advice. Uh, Sam, I'm sorry Royce, 977 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:40.599 what you say, no, because I just said thank you, Yeah, 978 00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:42.039 no doubt, I lest say hex s head am I 979 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:43.280 am I about on the money on this. 980 00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:45.719 Yeah, yep, you're exactly on the money. 981 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:48.519 Okay, good ship, good ship, Sam, what you got dog? 982 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:52.480 So it's kind of off topic, but it's something really 983 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:54.920 cool about the human body or do you know? Did 984 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.719 you ever hear about the name Daniel kesh k I 985 00:52:57.960 --> 00:52:58.239 s h. 986 00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:02.559 I can't say that I have, but yeah, how off topic. 987 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:04.880 We're talking about Venezuela and oil and engines over here. 988 00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:06.119 You what are you talking about? 989 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:12.960 Dude was born blind, but yet he used he legitimly 990 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:16.360 used human eco like location to see and everything like it. 991 00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:18.880 Not the guy that would click his tongue. Yeah. 992 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:25.039 I just watched a thing about him, and apparently even 993 00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:29.760 stan Lee had him on Stanley's Superhumans, and dude was 994 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:31.079 legit daredevil. 995 00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:32.960 I just think that's kind of cool. 996 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:36.480 That is really cool. And also I'm glad you gave 997 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:38.599 the heads up that it was going to be super 998 00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:41.039 off topic because I ain't had nothing to do. We 999 00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:42.559 were talking about it. 1000 00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:45.280 It popped in my head and I thought you would 1001 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:48.360 enjoy the fact that, hey, there's literally somebody that can 1002 00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:50.239 walk my faith and not by sight. 1003 00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:54.639 That is dope as ship, that is true, that is true. 1004 00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:57.119 Well, you know, it's about as good a time as 1005 00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.039 any to steer away from the Venezuela conversation and go 1006 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.800 on to the next one. Well, actually, we're kind of 1007 00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:05.079 still on Venezuela a little bit here, But it's more, 1008 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:08.920 it's not so much the oil tanker situation. This I 1009 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:11.400 thought was gonna is an interesting article. It's from the 1010 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:16.079 Times here. Venezuela was embarrassing for China. Did Putin fail 1011 00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:20.000 to tip them off? Moscow knew a raid was coming, 1012 00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:24.400 but ge was kept in the dark. So that's another thing. 1013 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:27.559 I think Maduro knew that this was coming. I think 1014 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:31.920 that he willingly handed himself and his wife over, and 1015 00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:35.800 apparently so did Putin. Now why is that so important? Well, again, 1016 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.000 if we're talking about the old tankers and their shadow 1017 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.280 fleet and how that's how you know they've been getting 1018 00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:43.960 oil to and from Russia and selling Russian oil with 1019 00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:46.840 different banners and different numbers and different flags on the back. 1020 00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:50.519 I think it's kind of important that Putin knew that 1021 00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:52.480 a raid was coming and he was about to lose 1022 00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.880 his plug. But g and China has also been making 1023 00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:58.440 some pretty size well plays in Venezuela in the past. 1024 00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:01.400 Few months and years. How was she left in the dark. 1025 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.639 Let's talk about it here. More details have started to 1026 00:55:04.679 --> 00:55:08.280 emerge about the American raid that sprite spirited Nicholas Maduro 1027 00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:11.039 out of Venezuela two weeks ago. There have been reports 1028 00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:14.679 that US forces used new weapons, including sonic devices or 1029 00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:19.280 ones with directed energy capabilities, to overcome a Duro's security. Again, 1030 00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:23.719 it's not people are losing their minds about that. I 1031 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:26.960 cannot tell you how many content creators and news media 1032 00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.519 people have heard. I can't believe they use sonic weapons 1033 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.039 on these people. They're all still alive. That is a 1034 00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:38.239 better alternative than catching a suppress three hundred blackout to 1035 00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:41.239 the dome piece. I'm just saying, And it's still not 1036 00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.480 even confirmed if they did or did not use that. 1037 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:48.840 It's also equally possible that these Venezuelan guards quote unquote 1038 00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:52.480 security forces heard the choppers coming in, knew that what 1039 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:55.440 in theirs, and they went and hid until they no 1040 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:58.320 longer heard the bombs and the choppers, and then they 1041 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.639 came out and was like, oh, it was a sonic 1042 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:03.760 weapon that did it to me. Both of these are 1043 00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:09.239 very very viable possibilities, but even still America's had this 1044 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:12.280 tech for decades. We may not have had an occasion 1045 00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:15.280 to play with our new toy in a while, but 1046 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.679 I think this was a pretty If this was accurate, 1047 00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.480 and if they did use it, this is a pretty 1048 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:23.079 awesome way to get a test run in a field 1049 00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:26.159 usage out of it. But all right, Sam, go ahead. 1050 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:31.559 Before I get into the reading here, it's almost you kind. 1051 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:32.400 Of have to ask a question. 1052 00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:37.559 They are they happy to be alive and discombobulated or 1053 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:42.000 would have it been more dignified today following your orders 1054 00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:46.639 to protect your president? But so they're they're alive, discombobulated 1055 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:51.280 and dishonored, or would have been more dignified dignity, dignified 1056 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.079 for them to take the three hundred blackouts to the dome. 1057 00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:59.519 Take Yeah, And from what everybody is saying, they're not 1058 00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:02.079 even worth about the dignity of these soldiers. They're saying 1059 00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:05.679 that it was like inhumane to use it, and it's like, 1060 00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:10.599 I'm sorry again, they got a little disoriented. Some are 1061 00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:14.159 claiming they had a nosebleed. All this is unverified. It's 1062 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:15.760 still like just kind of talk. 1063 00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:18.599 But at their point, I think they should have just 1064 00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:20.559 went with the three on a blackout and it'd just 1065 00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:21.119 be done with. 1066 00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:26.079 Well that's just the pestimus semi So no, no, I mean. 1067 00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:28.639 I'm with you. But and this is another crazy point. 1068 00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:35.079 So thirty two thirty four Cuban born guards were killed, right, 1069 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:41.559 the allegedly three hundred Venezuelan soldiers that got hit with 1070 00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:45.480 this energy weapon are all still alive. It's almost as 1071 00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:48.199 if they wanted the death toll of this to be 1072 00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:53.280 three hundred and thirty two. It's mind blowing out loud. 1073 00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:58.360 But whatever did anyway, And now also seems that the 1074 00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.440 Venezuelan military had not con their Russian made S three 1075 00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:04.360 hundreds and bulk into surface to air missile batteries to 1076 00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:08.239 radar networks, which effectively meant that they were non operational 1077 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:15.239 when America struck. So two things. One, if they were 1078 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:18.639 connected to a radar, the growler that they had in 1079 00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:21.239 the air would have knocked out that radar and rendered 1080 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.960 them non functional anyway, So even if they were connected 1081 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:27.960 and were improper for working order, it would have meant 1082 00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:33.400 nothing point A point B if they weren't connected. That 1083 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:38.599 further shows how this wasn't a they were such a 1084 00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:41.679 viable military I can't believe no, dude, it was Venezuela. 1085 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:45.079 It's okay, they're not. Nobody is scared of the big 1086 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.760 bad Venezuela military coming after them, So I mean it 1087 00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:50.079 is what it is. The build up of pressure on 1088 00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.639 Maduro's regime was not exactly easy to miss. A month ago, 1089 00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:56.559 President Trump himself said that Venezuela is completely surrounded by 1090 00:58:56.599 --> 00:58:59.960 the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America, 1091 00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:03.519 including his deployment of the world's largest and most advanced 1092 00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:06.320 aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. 1093 00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:06.920 Ford. 1094 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.760 Yeah, that bit is huge. A few weeks earlier, the 1095 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:13.840 US had reopened the Roosevelt Roads, a naval base in 1096 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.400 Puerto Rico that had been closed for more than twenty years, 1097 00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.280 and installed a high tech radar unit at an R. 1098 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:24.440 Robinson Airport in Tobago. That's of Trinidad and Tobago. That 1099 00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:28.239 and intervention was imminent, was understood by Russia, one of 1100 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:32.360 Venezuela's most enthusiastic partners over the last two decades. Towards 1101 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:35.480 the end of the last month, Moscow began pulling diplomats 1102 00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:38.760 and their families out of the capitals in Caracas, which 1103 00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:41.519 we did talk about that months ago, right when Russia 1104 00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:44.639 started pulling their people out of there. The riding was 1105 00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:47.360 on the walls, And I honestly wouldn't be shocked if 1106 00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:51.199 Trump gave Prutin a phone call or something akin to that, 1107 00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:53.000 his people got with their people and was like, hey, 1108 00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:55.039 big dog, we about to go in there and grab 1109 00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.639 you boy. So just so you know, just so there's 1110 00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:01.679 no collateral. If you want to ixnaure people out of there, 1111 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:04.760 now would be the time. Who knows. Russia's assessment of 1112 01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:07.880 the situation and its withdrawal of personnel were not shared 1113 01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:11.840 with Beijing. According to well placed sources in China, this 1114 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.000 has caused eyebrows to be raised about what it means 1115 01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:18.079 for a relationship between the two countries that is supposed 1116 01:00:18.079 --> 01:00:23.119 to be comprehensive, quote unquote, mutually beneficial quote unquote, and 1117 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:29.079 eternal quote unquote. These are their words, not mine. So 1118 01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:31.840 whenever we say about how Russia is doing all these 1119 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:35.280 things with Ukraine and China and Russia are inseparable and 1120 01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:37.880 they're linked in all these things. This goes back to 1121 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:41.920 the Soviet Union and the CCP, Communism and the Marxism 1122 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:45.559 and all the things. Still to this day, their words 1123 01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:48.679 say that the relationship between Russia and China are supposed 1124 01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:53.920 to be comprehensive, mutually beneficial, and eternal. I feel like 1125 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:58.119 that can't be overstated. Honestly, Beijing was not simply blindsided 1126 01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:00.559 by the US operation. It was in rist by it. 1127 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:03.960 I'm not gonna even try to pronounce that Chinese name, 1128 01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:06.920 but china special envoy to Latin America had arrived in 1129 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:10.880 Caracas and met Madurou hours before the latter was captured. Yeah, 1130 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.159 remember hearing about that, y'all, Remember hearing that Russia had 1131 01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:17.719 just sent some emissaries to Caracas and they had just 1132 01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:19.760 met with Madurou. They had just got done with dinner. 1133 01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:23.679 These dudes had the worst work trip ever. They just 1134 01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:27.079 had this talk with the president. They're in their hotel room, 1135 01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:30.679 they're getting all the five star accommodations. All things are good. 1136 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:34.239 Next thing, you know, they got bombs dropping, sirens going off, 1137 01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:36.599 and now the president they just met with has been 1138 01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.880 bagged and tagged is in New York. That's the worst 1139 01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:43.480 fucking business trip that a politics or political figure can 1140 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:47.519 even fathom, aside from them being you know, arrested them damnselves. 1141 01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:54.679 But anyway, shortly before Wang Yee Yvonne Gill and two 1142 01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:01.039 country foreign ministers. Wow Wang Yee, what an unfortunate name. Anyway, 1143 01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:04.440 the two countries foreign ministers had spoken by phone to 1144 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:08.400 a firm China's quote solidarity and firm support for Venezuela 1145 01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:13.360 in defending its sovereignty, independence and stability. They made that 1146 01:02:13.639 --> 01:02:17.719 call right before Maduro was just joint which again I 1147 01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:20.960 think that's great. These words would serve less as a 1148 01:02:21.079 --> 01:02:23.760 show of resolve than a measure of how limited China's 1149 01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:27.920 ability was to translate diplomatic language into meaningful protection or 1150 01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:31.519 leverage on the ground. Yeah, because China sucks, right, Like, 1151 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:33.440 that's crazy. They are so out of the loop on 1152 01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:36.800 so many things. And this is also something that needs 1153 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:38.599 to be accounted for as well as they keep talking 1154 01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:40.599 about Taiwan and what they're going to do and all this. 1155 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:43.800 They were this out of the loop when it came 1156 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.760 to something that they were literally meeting with the guy beforehand. 1157 01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:50.440 And that's not because the US was super secretive about this. 1158 01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.119 The CIA has been operating in Venezuela for months. It 1159 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:55.679 was very clear that something big was about to go down. 1160 01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:59.079 China is that far out of the loop on one 1161 01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:02.599 of their homeboys nations like that. It's not it's not 1162 01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:05.800 a good look. China stands to lose out from the 1163 01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:08.559 many billions of dollars of loans it has made to 1164 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.239 Venezuela in return for its oil. Yeah, they ain't getting 1165 01:03:11.239 --> 01:03:13.440 that money back on me. I'm sorry, Go ahead and 1166 01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:17.199 call those defunct. It also stands to lose the half 1167 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:19.440 a million barrels of oil a day it has been 1168 01:03:19.480 --> 01:03:22.599 getting from its ally about four percent of its total 1169 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:26.400 oil imports. Such was Beijing's confidence and its partnership with 1170 01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:30.199 Maduro and his regime that it invested an estimated nine 1171 01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:36.039 billion dollars in building a petrochemical plant in Xiyang, Guangdong Province, 1172 01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:39.599 capable of producing twenty million tons of refined oil a year. 1173 01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:45.559 Once again, big shwinging a miss, Big shwinging a miss 1174 01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:48.039 for China, and that sucks, but you know sucks to suck. 1175 01:03:48.119 --> 01:03:50.639 I guess it's easy to make crass comments about the 1176 01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:54.400 significance of losing face in Chinese culture. Oh yes it 1177 01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:56.800 is in this case, though, the fact that Beijing has 1178 01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:59.880 been caught badly out of position, outmaneuvered by the US 1179 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:03.199 and let down by Russia has sparked vigorous discussion in 1180 01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:06.760 China and in some quarters, speculation that the failure of 1181 01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:09.760 the Russian built defense systems in Venezuela was not a 1182 01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:14.639 coincidence but evidence of high level cooperation between Moscow and Washington. 1183 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:20.079 That's possible. I don't really think so. And the only 1184 01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:24.400 reason why I'm saying that is because, and again I 1185 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:29.840 don't mean to sound shitty. Then the systems that were 1186 01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:32.440 being used, the M two and the S three hundred, 1187 01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:36.880 have been used by both sides Ukraine and Russia in 1188 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:40.239 the conflict over the last four years of this two 1189 01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.239 week special military operation, four years, they have both been used, 1190 01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.199 which means that every frequency that these systems know to 1191 01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:49.679 look for, right, if you look at how these radars are, 1192 01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:53.079 how they look for aircraft, if you look at the 1193 01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:57.119 guidance systems on these ground to air defense systems, the 1194 01:04:57.239 --> 01:04:59.400 frequencies that they are using to be able to actually 1195 01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:04.000 target and strike air targets, right, it's we already knew 1196 01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:07.599 the entire playbook to these systems. So once again, even 1197 01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:10.920 if they were online, and even if they were fully 1198 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:14.760 operational and fully functional, we've been getting all this data 1199 01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:18.000 from Ukraine for four years there's nothing that they could 1200 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.599 have possibly done to prevent this from happening. Even if 1201 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:23.719 we gave them a twenty four hour advanced notice, it 1202 01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:26.239 would have been a lot more deadly on their part. 1203 01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:29.239 There would have been way more bodies. But there's nothing 1204 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:31.519 that could have been done to stop this at all. 1205 01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:36.039 To say that this means that there was cooperation between 1206 01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:39.679 Moscow and Washington, that's, in my opinion, a bit of 1207 01:05:39.719 --> 01:05:43.840 a stretch. In testimony before Congress in twenty nineteen, Fiona 1208 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:49.119 Hill twenty nineteen, seven years ago, but all right, Fiona Hill, 1209 01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:51.840 Trump senior advisor on Russia during his first term in office, 1210 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:54.280 recounted a conversation that at the time seemed like a 1211 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.440 geopolitical oddity. Hill said that Russian officials repeatedly floated a 1212 01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:02.599 very strange swap arrangement whereby Moscow might ease back its 1213 01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.400 support from Aduro if the US gave Russia a freer 1214 01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:13.039 hand in Ukraine. So again, this special military operation. Russia 1215 01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:15.159 was already trying to grease the wheels on that in 1216 01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:19.920 twenty nineteen, long before they ever actually stepped foot into Ukraine. 1217 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:23.199 But okay, this was not a formal offer, Hill stress, 1218 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.920 but a hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink wink. How about 1219 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:29.719 doing a deal? This was out of the question, according 1220 01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:32.599 to Hill, who was sent to Moscow in April that 1221 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:35.960 year to underline that Ukraine and Venezuela are not related 1222 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:40.719 to each other, but especially these days, perhaps they are. 1223 01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:43.360 Perhaps there's a little bit more of a money exchange 1224 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:46.400 that can be exploited. Over the last few years, the 1225 01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:48.599 question of whether Russia is both a reliable and a 1226 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:50.760 good ally has become one of the key talking points 1227 01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:54.519 among policymakers, advisors and thinkers in China. They don't really 1228 01:06:54.559 --> 01:07:00.880 do much thinking there actually. Professor Jia Chingwu, Yeah that's 1229 01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:04.519 a name, former dean of the School of International Studies 1230 01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:07.719 at Peking University and one of the most well known 1231 01:07:07.880 --> 01:07:11.559 figures in Chinese strategic thinking, noted that while Russia's isolation 1232 01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:15.199 because of the war in Ukraine had brought economic benefits 1233 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:19.599 to China, these have come at a cost. That is 1234 01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:24.599 a really hot take from one of the most well 1235 01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:30.639 connected strategic thinkers in China. Yeah yeah. Being a homie 1236 01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:34.360 of Russia during this conflict has come at a cost. 1237 01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:39.679 Whoa In particular, he noted in an interview just before 1238 01:07:39.719 --> 01:07:43.239 the Maduro Operation that Moscow's defense or dependence on China 1239 01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:46.400 has meant that the latter's current and future relations with 1240 01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:50.400 Europe have been compromised. As such, he added, a solution 1241 01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:54.760 to the war in Ukraine would be of benefit to China. Yeah, 1242 01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:57.239 I think that's kind of the going consensus, and it 1243 01:07:57.280 --> 01:07:59.760 doesn't take some sort of a brainiact from China to 1244 01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:03.800 acknowledge this. The war has run its course. The people 1245 01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:06.000 that were out to make money have made whatever money 1246 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.119 they were gonna make. The military industrial complex of many 1247 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:12.679 nations have made some money. It's good things. It's time 1248 01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.039 to wrap it up. It's time to call it quits. 1249 01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.760 But that really and truly will all depend on Putin right, 1250 01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:22.720 because Zelensky has been willing to come to the negotiating 1251 01:08:22.760 --> 01:08:27.920 table for three years, but more more adamantly, for the 1252 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:33.560 last two years. Putin has consistently rejected every time that 1253 01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:36.079 a possibility of coming to the table has been proposed, 1254 01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:42.439 and he has made. It depends on which interview with 1255 01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:46.239 him and which speech he's given. Some are saying that 1256 01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:49.119 he wants all of Ukraine. Some are saying he just 1257 01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:53.640 wants the Oblasts, that he's already taken. I don't know. 1258 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:56.880 I don't know at what line he's gonna decide enough's 1259 01:08:56.960 --> 01:09:01.039 enough or if it's an attrition thing. I don't know. 1260 01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:07.680 But yeah, even China, their eternal homeboy there where it's 1261 01:09:07.720 --> 01:09:11.479 not mine, is saying that, Yeah, if ending this would 1262 01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:14.960 be really beneficial for even US. Bro, So, I think 1263 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:17.560 that's something that's kind of important here. That is a 1264 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:20.439 view that started to gain currency in recent months in Beijing, 1265 01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:23.479 where more questions are being asked about the wisdom of 1266 01:09:23.560 --> 01:09:27.399 an alignment with Russia's supposed to be based on shared interest, 1267 01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:31.680 but which in practice has become increasingly asymmetrical and uncomfortable. 1268 01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:34.600 Russia's willingness to ignore the UN Charter, to rely on 1269 01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:37.680 military force as a first resort, and to use the 1270 01:09:37.760 --> 01:09:41.960 threat of nuclear escalation and coercion as diplomatic tools sits 1271 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.880 uneasily with China's preferred self image as a stabilizing power 1272 01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:50.920 that works through institutions, rules and long term balance. Yeah, 1273 01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:54.880 China does have that self image right, that they are 1274 01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:58.479 a stabilizing power. But all right, for Chinese strategists, the 1275 01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:01.960 problem is not simply reputageational damage in Europe or the US, 1276 01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:04.159 but the deeper risk of being tied to a partner 1277 01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:07.159 whose way of doing things cuts directly against China's own 1278 01:10:07.239 --> 01:10:12.079 instincts about order, predictability, and control. On Friday, China Trust 1279 01:10:12.119 --> 01:10:14.960 struck a deal with Canada to reduce tariffs on Chinese 1280 01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:19.640 electric vehicles and on Canadian agricultural products. The significance of 1281 01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:22.239 this agreement lies less in what it says about the 1282 01:10:22.279 --> 01:10:25.439 Western countries hedging against the US under an aggressive and 1283 01:10:25.520 --> 01:10:28.880 seemingly erratic Trump, and more in what it signals back 1284 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:32.840 to Beijing itself. The deal, while modest in scale, is 1285 01:10:32.840 --> 01:10:35.520 a reminder that China still sees value and engagement with 1286 01:10:35.680 --> 01:10:40.039 advanced economies that operate within established legal and institutional frameworks, 1287 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:43.680 and that there are alternative pathways open to it beyond 1288 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:48.439 dependence on a sanctioned, militarized Russia. For policymakers in Beijing, 1289 01:10:48.920 --> 01:10:52.439 the contrast is stark. One partner leads on force, disruption 1290 01:10:52.600 --> 01:10:58.159 and intimidation, and the other offers markets, rules and negotiated stability. 1291 01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:02.439 The question increasingly being debated inside China is not whether 1292 01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:05.680 Russia is useful in pushing back against American pressure, but 1293 01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:08.600 whether following Russia's example leads China towards the kind of 1294 01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:12.319 global role it actually wants to play. And again, honestly, 1295 01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:15.319 when you look at China making their own military push, 1296 01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:19.000 or at least wanting to in Taiwan, you know, I 1297 01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:21.640 could see it going both ways. That was already being 1298 01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:25.000 discussed before Maduro was spirited to a courtroom in New York. 1299 01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:27.760 But the significance of the US operation is not limited 1300 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.439 to what it means to Venezuela or even to oil, 1301 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:35.039 but to a profound reshaping of the global order. I 1302 01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:37.479 really do hope that this leads to some sort of 1303 01:11:37.560 --> 01:11:40.039 drama between China and Russia that would just that would 1304 01:11:40.079 --> 01:11:42.800 make twenty twenty six just one of the best years, 1305 01:11:43.079 --> 01:11:46.479 you know. Anyway, all right, moving on to the next topic. Here. 1306 01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:50.119 We were talking about Davos earlier, and apparently hundreds of 1307 01:11:50.239 --> 01:11:54.319 protesters in Davos were forming up ahead of Trump's visit. 1308 01:11:54.439 --> 01:11:58.399 Let's talk about it here. Hundreds of protesters are hundreds 1309 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:00.640 of protested in Davos ahead of President and Trump's visit 1310 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:03.239 to the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of the 1311 01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:07.000 global business elites. It comes as OXFAM released a report 1312 01:12:07.079 --> 01:12:09.720 Monday warning that the collective wealth of billionaires hit a 1313 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:13.199 record eighteen point three trillion dollars, and that the total 1314 01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:16.039 number of billionaires surpassed three thousand for the first time 1315 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:20.439 in history. Last year. OXFAM also reported that high unequal 1316 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:23.760 countries are seven times more likely to experience the erosion 1317 01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:27.000 of the rule of law and the undermining of elections. 1318 01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:31.720 This is oxfam's executive order. But anyway, moving on into this, 1319 01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:35.279 So we talked about Trump threatening to impose tariffs. I 1320 01:12:35.319 --> 01:12:37.600 thought it was interesting at least for the whole protest thing. 1321 01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:42.119 So basically these protesters they were forming up just because 1322 01:12:42.199 --> 01:12:44.159 of the wealthy elites that were showing up. And it's 1323 01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:50.159 very liberal. It's very acronym people, you know, it's of 1324 01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:54.119 that screaming libtard variety. Hell, you can see a flag 1325 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:56.000 right here in the middle with all of the different 1326 01:12:57.760 --> 01:13:00.760 quote unquote genders, all seventy four of them are somehow 1327 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:04.279 in that picture. I don't understand it, but whatever. Anyway, 1328 01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:08.039 So they were protesting already before Trump got there. Now 1329 01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:11.319 that he's there, they have ramped up the protest on 1330 01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:14.880 in Davos for the World Economic Forum, So I mean 1331 01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:17.520 just wanted to bring that up. Not everybody around the 1332 01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:20.239 world is a fan of what's going on. Some people 1333 01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:22.920 are just out there losing their collective shit over it. 1334 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:26.640 So Poland, Now, let's shift gears a little bit here. 1335 01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:30.800 Poland's prime minister praises cyber defenses after attempted attack on 1336 01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:34.600 energy infrastructure was foiled. Yeah, for anybody who didn't hear 1337 01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:38.960 about this, Poland had a cyber attack that was targeting 1338 01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:43.760 their energy infrastructure and apparently their cyber defenses were good 1339 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:46.079 enough to actually stop it in its tracks, which is 1340 01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:48.600 I mean, that's pretty bad ass to me personally. But 1341 01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:52.840 let's get into it here. Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk 1342 01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:56.239 praised the country's intelligence services on Thursday for foiling an 1343 01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:59.319 attempted cyber attack on energy infrastructure that could have left 1344 01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:02.600 up to half a million consumers without heating during Poland's 1345 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:05.520 bitter winter. Now where could that have come from, you 1346 01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:11.800 might ask. I don't know. I'm not speculating, but there 1347 01:14:11.880 --> 01:14:14.680 is one country that has been eyeing Poland and invading 1348 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:17.239 their airspace and all these things in the past few weeks. 1349 01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:18.439 But I have that. 1350 01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:20.600 We'll read the article. It does bring them up. I'm 1351 01:14:20.680 --> 01:14:24.880 not saying it, Jacob's not speculating they will Speaking after 1352 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:27.760 meeting with the energy officials and security agencies in Warsaw, 1353 01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:30.640 Tusk said that Poland had successfully defended itself and that 1354 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:34.399 the critical infrastructure was not compromised. The attempted attack targeted 1355 01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:37.840 two combined heat and power plants and wind farms and 1356 01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:40.760 happened in December of twenty twenty five. I just found 1357 01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:43.159 this article two days ago, though, so I mean it 1358 01:14:43.239 --> 01:14:45.359 stopped in December, but I'm just now hearing about it. 1359 01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:46.840 So I felt like it was important to bring up. 1360 01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:51.079 Tusk blamed Russia. Yeah, there it is, and urged the 1361 01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:55.079 Polish parliament to swiftly pass new cybersecurity legislation to strengthen 1362 01:14:55.159 --> 01:14:59.920 protection against foreign interference. Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Digital 1363 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:08.520 affairs Minister Gaukowski Chris Christoff CHRISTI is off, Chriss is tough. 1364 01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:13.680 Gaukowski Jesus christ Poland said Poland came very close to 1365 01:15:13.760 --> 01:15:15.520 a blackout and called the cyber attack one of the 1366 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:19.479 most serious in recent years. Digital tanks are already here, 1367 01:15:19.640 --> 01:15:23.319 he said to RMFFM radio, emphasizing that modern warfare is 1368 01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:27.520 being waged in cyberspace. So who was behind the cyber attacks? 1369 01:15:28.079 --> 01:15:31.239 Tuss said that so far there is no definitive evidence 1370 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:34.079 to identify the perpetrator, but he did say that much 1371 01:15:34.119 --> 01:15:36.399 of what had been gathered points to the involvement of 1372 01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:40.840 groups connected to the Russian security services. I mean again, 1373 01:15:40.960 --> 01:15:45.039 I'm color me shocked, Color me shocked, But again we 1374 01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:50.520 don't know that purely in the speculative route, allegedly, allegedly 1375 01:15:50.960 --> 01:15:53.119 Russia may have had something to do with this. He 1376 01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:57.199 said that as in earlier attempted cyber attacks to Polish infrastructure, 1377 01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:01.199 the key was early detection and robust response mechanis. European 1378 01:16:01.319 --> 01:16:03.840 allies of Ukraine said in December that Russia is waging 1379 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:08.640 a campaign of hybrid warfare through sabotage, assassinations, cyber attacks 1380 01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:12.920 and disinformation to sow division in Western societies and undermined 1381 01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:15.640 support for Ukraine. Yeah, and of all the countries are 1382 01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:18.920 going to try that with poland little European Texas who 1383 01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:22.319 are gearing up waiting for Russia. They're not gearing up 1384 01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:26.279 to because they think Germany is about to attack them again. 1385 01:16:27.079 --> 01:16:30.279 They're gearing up and buying every single armament that any 1386 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:34.720 country will sell them specifically because of Russia. So you know, 1387 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.560 he and maybe that has something to do with it. 1388 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:40.399 Maybe the cyber attack really had nothing to do with Russia. 1389 01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.079 Maybe it was a hacker group, it's one of these, 1390 01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:46.319 you know, mercenary hacker groups or something like that. But 1391 01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:49.920 perhaps they want to dependent on Russia. That's very possible too. 1392 01:16:50.720 --> 01:16:53.439 That comes after a series of incidents in countries such 1393 01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.399 as France, Denmark and Sweden in which critical infrastructure has 1394 01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:02.600 been targeted. European intelligence agencies say investigations into Russian interference 1395 01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:08.199 now consume as much time as terrorist threats. Wow, a 1396 01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:11.439 coordinated international operation has hit the infrastructure of a pro 1397 01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:14.680 Russian cybercrime network linked to a string of denial of 1398 01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:18.439 service attacks targeting Ukraine and its allies, the European Union's 1399 01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:25.239 police police agency EUROPOLE said in July. Code named Eastwood, 1400 01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:29.039 the operation targeted the so called No Name zero five 1401 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:33.359 seven sixteen group, which Dutch authorities identified last month as 1402 01:17:33.439 --> 01:17:36.359 behind a series of denial of service attacks on several 1403 01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:41.039 municipalities and organizations linked to a NATO summit in the Netherlands. 1404 01:17:41.880 --> 01:17:45.000 Europoles said that the cybercrime network was also involved in 1405 01:17:45.079 --> 01:17:50.039 attacks in Germany and Switzerland, so again Poland's readiness for 1406 01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:53.000 similar threats In recent years of attacks on critical infrastructure 1407 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.880 have become increasingly sophisticated and dangerous, making cybersecurity in the 1408 01:17:57.039 --> 01:18:03.359 energy sector crucial to Poland security. As Derata not gonna 1409 01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:05.920 try to pronounce that name, an editor at the Defense 1410 01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:10.000 twenty four portal told euro News effective protection requires not 1411 01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:14.079 only technology, but also cooperation between the public and private sectors. 1412 01:18:14.520 --> 01:18:17.319 In response to growing threats, we need to prioritize the 1413 01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:22.239 development of safeguards. Attacks are taking ever new forms, so 1414 01:18:22.359 --> 01:18:25.640 we too must move with the times and strengthen our defenses, 1415 01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:28.920 she said. She also pointed out that poland cyber defense 1416 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:33.399 systems function correctly. During December's attempt to attack on power plants. Well, 1417 01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:36.560 good good. I'm happy that Poland was able to defend themselves. 1418 01:18:36.600 --> 01:18:40.319 And again, we don't know if Russia had anything to 1419 01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:45.840 do with it. We are saying that it is very 1420 01:18:46.159 --> 01:18:51.119 very likely and very probable at this time, but you know, hey, 1421 01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:54.720 we'll see how that shakes out. I don't know. Again, 1422 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.079 I'm happy that their cybersecurity has been beefed up, especially 1423 01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:01.800 with Russia waging the hybrid war that they have been 1424 01:19:02.199 --> 01:19:04.720 for quite some time now because they are losing the well, 1425 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:07.279 I'm not gonna go there anyway, Sam, go ahead. 1426 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:11.000 Yeah, sorry, is it all? 1427 01:19:11.760 --> 01:19:12.079 I know that? 1428 01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:14.760 Aren't they're trying to buy like the the aren't they 1429 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:16.399 still trying to buy the F twenty twos. 1430 01:19:16.479 --> 01:19:18.479 But we can't legally sell them. 1431 01:19:19.119 --> 01:19:22.159 Oh we could sell them, but we're not gonna sell them. 1432 01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:23.840 That's our that's our ace. 1433 01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:24.159 In the hole. 1434 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:26.199 Yeah. 1435 01:19:27.119 --> 01:19:30.560 But even then, I don't even have them. 1436 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:31.760 Didn't we use them in a war game? 1437 01:19:31.800 --> 01:19:33.520 And even then we had them, like not even at 1438 01:19:33.600 --> 01:19:35.680 twenty five percent ornament or whatever. 1439 01:19:36.479 --> 01:19:39.920 Yeah, and it still smoked the fuck out of them. 1440 01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:44.399 So depending on the war game itself. So, and I 1441 01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:47.319 just heard HLC talk about this. So if you have 1442 01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:50.359 five F twenty twos and five F thirty fives go 1443 01:19:50.439 --> 01:19:53.159 against each other, the F thirty fives are gonna take 1444 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:55.960 the win. If you have one F twenty two versus 1445 01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:58.399 one F thirty five, the F twenty two is gonna 1446 01:19:58.399 --> 01:20:01.199 smoke check that every single time. And the reason why 1447 01:20:01.279 --> 01:20:03.199 is because the F thirty five has so many on 1448 01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:07.039 board computers and systems. They are made to work off 1449 01:20:07.119 --> 01:20:10.680 of each other and make the airspace a more dynamic battleground. 1450 01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:14.720 The F twenty two is more brute force. It's the 1451 01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:18.399 it's the oh shit, like all else has failed, so 1452 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:20.920 send in the send in the thing that's here to 1453 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:23.479 eat everyone's ass kind of thing. So that's why we've 1454 01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:26.399 never launched the F twenty two. We've never it was 1455 01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:29.760 over Venezuela. It was in the wing just in case 1456 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:31.640 something got off the ground. The F twenty two is 1457 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:34.359 gonna attack it, but it has still to this day 1458 01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:38.760 not gotten its first intercept, and with any look, it 1459 01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:42.600 never will. Dude. Honestly, if we continue to dominate the 1460 01:20:42.640 --> 01:20:44.439 airspace in the way that we do, when we never 1461 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:47.720 have to use our secret weapon, that is a that's 1462 01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:53.439 an optimal situation for us. But yeah, with that being said, 1463 01:20:53.479 --> 01:20:56.880 Poland has bought a solid number of F thirty five's 1464 01:20:57.159 --> 01:20:58.079 and they've ordered more. 1465 01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:01.920 So yeah, call me. 1466 01:21:02.239 --> 01:21:03.720 It might just be the marine in me. 1467 01:21:03.880 --> 01:21:06.359 But can we make the A T and hog even 1468 01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:07.680 more deadly and faster? 1469 01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:12.680 I mean it shoots red bull can size bullets at 1470 01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.000 a rate of mock fuck. So, I mean, I don't 1471 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:16.640 know how much more DELI you want it, but I 1472 01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:17.600 like where your head's at. 1473 01:21:18.680 --> 01:21:19.119 I don't know. 1474 01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:21.279 Let it be able to shoot chainsaws? 1475 01:21:22.359 --> 01:21:27.520 What that might be the most marine Corps answer I've 1476 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:28.319 ever heard in my life. 1477 01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:32.079 I love it, or or we could have like if 1478 01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:35.760 it's for anti personnel, we could also throw out the ship. 1479 01:21:37.920 --> 01:21:41.000 See that. Now, with that, we are getting into what 1480 01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:45.359 might classify as a war crime. I'm not I'm not 1481 01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:48.840 saying because Flashetts. 1482 01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:52.039 But think about it. It's going at mock fuck. It's 1483 01:21:52.199 --> 01:21:53.960 just a very fancy shotgun shell. 1484 01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:57.399 I hear you, dude, But I mean the fact that 1485 01:21:57.520 --> 01:22:00.760 somehow the fucking samurai sword jade Am is not considered 1486 01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:05.119 a war crime, which is impressive, But also it's a 1487 01:22:05.439 --> 01:22:09.600 It's a bomb that just spring loads samuraized swords and 1488 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:13.000 takes out one individual target as opposed to the entire 1489 01:22:13.159 --> 01:22:18.239 vehicle that the person's riding in, and it's badass. That's okay, Flashetts, 1490 01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:22.960 it does. But Flaschets might hit an innocent bystanderd and 1491 01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:25.239 that's something that we are trying to avoid in our 1492 01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:27.640 modern day and age. We try to avoid that. 1493 01:22:29.079 --> 01:22:32.199 But if you put it on a compound full of 1494 01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:35.000 the enemy, are they really innocent? 1495 01:22:35.560 --> 01:22:38.000 There's not many well of our enemies that we have 1496 01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:41.039 right now, and not many of them congregate on compounds 1497 01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:43.279 like that, right if we were going to some sort 1498 01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:50.079 of a kinetic war with a respectable military China, for instance. Hypothetically, 1499 01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:52.000 if we were to go to an actual kinetic warfare 1500 01:22:52.079 --> 01:22:54.760 with China and we knew that these all of the 1501 01:22:55.920 --> 01:23:01.239 moving things on the radar are guaranteed Chinese military assets, yeah, sure, 1502 01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:03.239 sure we could do that. That's the same reason why 1503 01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:07.399 Trump only dropped one moab because the diameter or the 1504 01:23:07.479 --> 01:23:10.159 radius I should say, of destruction off of that one moab. 1505 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:12.760 You're not dropping that in any old city because you're 1506 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:14.600 gonna fuck up a lot of civilian population. 1507 01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:14.880 Right. 1508 01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:16.840 The only time he dropped it was when it was 1509 01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:20.399 a guaranteed Isis training ground, and every single person within 1510 01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:24.199 that diameter or radius, I just say, excuse me, everybody 1511 01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:26.800 within that radius was a confirmed bad guy. So he's like, wait, 1512 01:23:27.119 --> 01:23:29.000 we have a thing that's almost a nuke, but it's 1513 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:32.199 not a nuke. Send it. And so that was dope. 1514 01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:35.439 But it's that's not something that you know, we just do. 1515 01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:42.560 I don't know. I am personally in favor of linebacker two. 1516 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.479 I mean, yeah, but again that was. 1517 01:23:50.159 --> 01:23:53.039 I understand. But change the topographical map. 1518 01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:56.239 We we have been known to do that from time 1519 01:23:56.279 --> 01:23:57.640 to time that does happen? 1520 01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:01.359 What was the boat that they made it all the 1521 01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:04.600 way through World War Two without getting an entire without 1522 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:07.760 getting hit. Then they got hit by the VC with 1523 01:24:08.079 --> 01:24:11.960 the fucking anti aircraft thing. I want to say it 1524 01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:16.560 was anti aircraft, but they hit it with the essentially 1525 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:19.279 hit it with an artillery. It splintered its deck, so 1526 01:24:19.399 --> 01:24:22.840 it started yeating all it turned all nine. 1527 01:24:22.720 --> 01:24:27.199 Sixteen inch guns. God. Yeah, they said, hey, you see 1528 01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:27.680 that heel? 1529 01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:31.399 Uh uh sir, I don't want to see that heel 1530 01:24:31.800 --> 01:24:35.279 then completely wiped that mitch off the face of the earth. 1531 01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:39.399 And I'm like, well, we have the we have the 1532 01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:43.680 power and the technology. Why don't why don't we just 1533 01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:46.359 say fuck it? Dad has come home. You're all in 1534 01:24:46.479 --> 01:24:47.560 time out go. 1535 01:24:48.199 --> 01:24:51.159 I forgot about that one. Yeah, we changed the topography 1536 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:54.920 of that one section of Vietnam. When they act they 1537 01:24:55.359 --> 01:24:59.279 they they were trying to hit our boat. Yes, nobody 1538 01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:01.520 thought they were actually to hit it, and so they did, 1539 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:04.960 and it was like got you, got you. So we 1540 01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:08.720 gave a proportional response. 1541 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:12.680 And uh, entire dealership of flaming cars. 1542 01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:15.840 Yeah, I forgot I forgot about that. I don't know 1543 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:20.039 the name of the ship I'm drawing a blank, but yeah, Iowa. No, 1544 01:25:20.920 --> 01:25:23.920 mm mmmmm, because Iowa. I'm thinking that's a class of submarine. 1545 01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:27.119 Morgan, I don't know, it's some fucking Midwest state. 1546 01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:29.720 It's yeah, it was. It was a seemed like a 1547 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:31.520 riff snorton good time. To be honest, I don't know. 1548 01:25:32.199 --> 01:25:33.000 I just I don't know. 1549 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:36.680 I just feel like people they keep forgetting don't fuck 1550 01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:37.399 with our boats. 1551 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:38.840 So it's a thing. 1552 01:25:40.279 --> 01:25:42.199 Why don't we care about our planes as much as 1553 01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:43.159 our boats. 1554 01:25:43.520 --> 01:25:46.439 Because our planes do not guard the seas and our 1555 01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:48.720 international commerce like our boats do. 1556 01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:53.640 But there's really expensive as fuck they are. 1557 01:25:53.760 --> 01:25:56.039 But hear me out. Alfred Tayler Mahan, the father of 1558 01:25:56.039 --> 01:25:59.239 the modern navy, wrote a book and I've read the book. 1559 01:25:59.399 --> 01:26:02.640 I agree with pretty much everything that he said, be 1560 01:26:02.800 --> 01:26:06.560 the way, But he wrote this book. He wrote this 1561 01:26:06.600 --> 01:26:10.600 book before planes were invented. Basically, what he said was 1562 01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:13.359 whatever nation has the largest navy will rule the world. 1563 01:26:14.279 --> 01:26:17.039 And he's been correct throughout the course of human history. 1564 01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:19.479 That has been a true statement America. And I know 1565 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:21.039 if people are going to argue and say China as 1566 01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:25.720 a larger navy, no, no, they exactly exactly No. If 1567 01:26:25.720 --> 01:26:29.479 we're talking about actual naval assets. America runs this shit 1568 01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:33.119 hand over fist, there's no question about that. Because of that, 1569 01:26:33.760 --> 01:26:37.720 we are the global police on the seas, and because 1570 01:26:37.760 --> 01:26:43.840 of that, international trade can happen primarily unimpeded, right, and 1571 01:26:44.039 --> 01:26:46.600 we get really good deals on things because of that. 1572 01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:50.560 If that's this is the same reason of how like, 1573 01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:53.920 why don't you shoot at a cop because the cops 1574 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:56.479 keep the law and order and you could do that. 1575 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:59.920 But if you if you kill a cop, you just 1576 01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:02.800 signed your own death warrant. There's no way around that. 1577 01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:04.600 It's the same concept. 1578 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:07.680 Yeah. 1579 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:10.439 Also, don't try to hit them with a car. 1580 01:27:11.680 --> 01:27:14.800 Yeah, that woman found out see, well that was an agent, 1581 01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:20.800 not a cop. But SAME's you know, air changeable dialogue. Yeah, Royce, 1582 01:27:20.840 --> 01:27:22.720 your hands been raised for a hot minute, brother, go ahead. 1583 01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:23.880 So true things. 1584 01:27:24.039 --> 01:27:27.159 First of all, the A ten warhog is awesome, but 1585 01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:30.479 it is slow as shits. So I used to have 1586 01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:32.640 to tdy with those things. And the only way to 1587 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:36.079 bring those bitches across the pond is through the KC 1588 01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:39.640 ten and CASEY one thirty five, And those bitches are 1589 01:27:40.039 --> 01:27:40.760 very very slow. 1590 01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:46.680 They're awesome, amazing aircraft, but they're warmer tent slow. Second 1591 01:27:46.720 --> 01:27:48.800 of all, I don't remember if I told you the story, 1592 01:27:49.479 --> 01:27:54.239 but the very first so the Casey Tens were the 1593 01:27:54.359 --> 01:27:57.560 first ones to bring the F twenty two across the 1594 01:27:57.640 --> 01:28:02.640 pond and across the Internet dateline. I had a flying 1595 01:28:02.760 --> 01:28:05.960 crew chief who was actually on the on the KTY. 1596 01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:10.920 Ten during that first flight, and what he said is, 1597 01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:15.520 as soon as the F twenty two crossed it, all 1598 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:19.920 of their equipment went ballistic and they needed to make 1599 01:28:19.960 --> 01:28:23.039 it basically an emergency landing, and they were down for 1600 01:28:23.239 --> 01:28:25.960 like I don't know how long, it said, whether it 1601 01:28:26.119 --> 01:28:32.399 was a day or a week or so, because like 1602 01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:35.039 they just the computers did not know apparently how to 1603 01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:37.479 deal with it. Which is really really funny because I 1604 01:28:37.600 --> 01:28:39.680 know that you talk about the F twenty two a lot, 1605 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:45.319 but in actuality, the first time it crossed the international dateline. 1606 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:46.640 It fucked itself up. 1607 01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:49.119 What about it fucked up? 1608 01:28:50.640 --> 01:28:52.560 I don't know. So, first of all, I wasn't there, 1609 01:28:52.600 --> 01:28:54.520 so I'm just hearing this secondhand. 1610 01:28:54.840 --> 01:28:57.880 But basically what he said is that like all all 1611 01:28:57.960 --> 01:29:05.000 of the equipment went ballistic because of the the dateline 1612 01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:08.159 and the time change. What it caused, I'm not entirely 1613 01:29:08.239 --> 01:29:10.680 sure but it was enough to where they need there 1614 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:14.880 needed to be an emergency landing and maintenance done on 1615 01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:15.720 end of the people that. 1616 01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:17.680 Built it, be like, we need to fix this. 1617 01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:20.960 And that was give or take what year was this. 1618 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:23.880 Whenever the F twenty two is first came out the 1619 01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:26.840 very first time that they ever crossed the international date line. 1620 01:29:27.119 --> 01:29:29.000 Oh that was that was a good ways back then. 1621 01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:34.199 Yeah, so I was not recent by any means, but 1622 01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:36.279 just the fact that it happened. 1623 01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:41.359 Yeah, I mean, hell, now they have AI drones or 1624 01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:45.600 AI drone jets that are being allegedly able to be 1625 01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:48.359 controlled by the F twenty two, So I mean, I 1626 01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:51.680 have a feeling that they've probably beefed up the computer 1627 01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:54.760 systems on that air platform. But I mean still, the 1628 01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:57.000 F thirty five is seen as the smart jet in 1629 01:29:57.039 --> 01:29:59.159 the grand scheme of shit. I know, we and I 1630 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:02.680 talk of the too, but it's mostly on it's untested, 1631 01:30:03.439 --> 01:30:05.640 so who's to say what would actually happen. They've done 1632 01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:08.199 war games with it, they've done mock dogfights and ship 1633 01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:10.880 like that, and it was it's really case by case. 1634 01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:14.319 It's not the end all, be all best aircraft. Ever 1635 01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:20.359 it is for its intended purpose. I would argue, But yeah, 1636 01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:22.720 and yeah, the A ten wardog it is slow as 1637 01:30:22.760 --> 01:30:25.319 far as its speed goes, but like you said, it's 1638 01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:31.600 it's also really good for its purpose for sure. Yeah, Sam, 1639 01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:32.159 go ahead. 1640 01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:36.760 I love y'all, but y'all disrespect that A ten. I said, 1641 01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:38.920 we need to make it more dead, new man. 1642 01:30:41.399 --> 01:30:46.800 Yes, literally, no. Hold because you have the front cannon. 1643 01:30:47.239 --> 01:30:51.720 It's so powerful that it literally stalls the airplane like. 1644 01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.600 Back up jet engine on that bitch. And also we 1645 01:30:56.720 --> 01:30:59.680 can figure out how to put what is it called? 1646 01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:03.239 Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure we have deathways that straps 1647 01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:05.439 of fucking evasions to the goddamn thing. 1648 01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:11.640 Sure, yeah, we get Maybe that's what we do, right. 1649 01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:16.399 We replaced the cannon at the front with a real gun. 1650 01:31:17.239 --> 01:31:19.560 We keep we keep the cannon, but we we have 1651 01:31:19.800 --> 01:31:22.840 well guns on the mounted on the side and smaller 1652 01:31:23.720 --> 01:31:26.720 fifty cows underneath beside the bombs. 1653 01:31:27.159 --> 01:31:28.359 It's a wind fucking win. 1654 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:29.960 Well that's. 1655 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:34.680 Two people talking the same time. 1656 01:31:34.720 --> 01:31:36.359 Hold on, all right, go. 1657 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:40.199 No, you're good. All right. 1658 01:31:40.279 --> 01:31:42.720 So that's why the eight tent is so deadly. It's 1659 01:31:42.720 --> 01:31:46.520 because it can slow down and shoot. I mean, yeah 1660 01:31:46.640 --> 01:31:51.720 red bullcans with the yeah send you to heaven red bullcans. 1661 01:31:52.239 --> 01:31:54.000 They can pick it up and go. 1662 01:31:54.399 --> 01:31:55.880 They give you the real wings. If you know what 1663 01:31:55.960 --> 01:32:01.960 I'm saying, dude, what. 1664 01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:05.560 Let's make it gets give it a bigger caliber. 1665 01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:10.680 Sam, we're talking about flying red bull cans of hatred. 1666 01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:13.920 Most of them, if I'm not mistaken, have depleted uranium 1667 01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:18.119 in them. What it is so powerful that it literally 1668 01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:25.520 slows the jet down fired. If we up the caliber 1669 01:32:25.640 --> 01:32:28.720 we're making it work, that would make it slow. 1670 01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:32.439 Well, but thinking with this woman, there is one other 1671 01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:36.960 aircraft that shoots very very large bullets, but it's also 1672 01:32:37.159 --> 01:32:40.439 very very slow, and it also moves the aircraft to 1673 01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:41.039 the side. 1674 01:32:41.279 --> 01:32:46.960 Would be the C one thirty, the the H I 1675 01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:49.000 believe Whi's what it was, and. 1676 01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:54.359 Those that caliber is also very very large, because you 1677 01:32:54.439 --> 01:32:59.199 have two different kinds of guns, and they will fuck 1678 01:32:59.680 --> 01:33:00.920 some shit. 1679 01:33:01.079 --> 01:33:02.399 Up for sure. 1680 01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:06.640 I love our planes. They make me so happy. 1681 01:33:07.079 --> 01:33:09.319 And this is when it kills me. Whenever anybody I 1682 01:33:09.439 --> 01:33:11.359 hear talking like, well, you know, if America went to 1683 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.199 war against this country, we wouldn't stand a chance. It'd 1684 01:33:14.199 --> 01:33:16.760 be a real fight. No, it wouldn't. It wouldn't like 1685 01:33:16.920 --> 01:33:20.359 at all. We would get every war game that I've 1686 01:33:20.399 --> 01:33:23.199 seen and people have disagreed with me on this. It's fine, 1687 01:33:23.520 --> 01:33:24.039 it's fine. 1688 01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:25.560 The we. 1689 01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:29.680 Do, Oh my god, we do. But also if we 1690 01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:33.079 were to actually go the last one that I watched, 1691 01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:35.840 it was like if the entire world went to war 1692 01:33:35.960 --> 01:33:40.960 against America all at once. Best case scenario for us, 1693 01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:43.760 we would run the world in seventy two hours. Worst 1694 01:33:43.840 --> 01:33:46.880 case scenario, and by worst I mean like a few 1695 01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:51.680 very critical things fell through. Our forces were already deployed 1696 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:53.640 somewhere else since we had to bring them home and 1697 01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:57.199 do something. Whatever the case, it would take at worst 1698 01:33:57.239 --> 01:34:01.800 case scenario thirty days. That we're kind of unmatched on 1699 01:34:01.920 --> 01:34:04.680 a military stance, and that's the way that we should be. 1700 01:34:05.560 --> 01:34:09.119 But also, yeah, to hear people talk about the naval 1701 01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:11.880 assets and the planes and how oh well, you know, 1702 01:34:11.960 --> 01:34:13.880 the Russians just came out with this thing. Oh well, 1703 01:34:14.199 --> 01:34:16.800 the Chinese are doing this thing. It's like, that's funny, 1704 01:34:17.119 --> 01:34:17.720 that's cute. 1705 01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:18.319 You know. 1706 01:34:18.479 --> 01:34:21.880 The last time Russia's claimed that they had a helicopter 1707 01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:24.840 that could go against our cobras, it was essentially held 1708 01:34:24.880 --> 01:34:29.600 together with duct tape, hopes and dreams. China has gotten 1709 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:33.039 so many things, and basically it's like a legitimate wish 1710 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:36.039 dot com knockoff of something that they think they saw 1711 01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:39.680 once from America. And that's also why we keep having 1712 01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:43.560 military members get arrested for selling secrets to China. If 1713 01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:47.079 China was so much more advanced than us, then they 1714 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:51.119 wouldn't be offering our lower enlisted thousands of dollars, not 1715 01:34:51.319 --> 01:34:53.840 a lot of thousands, but some thousands of dollars to 1716 01:34:54.039 --> 01:34:57.119 sell them secrets, and they wouldn't be using war thunder 1717 01:34:58.039 --> 01:35:01.800 to as an actual litmus test for what our platforms 1718 01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:06.960 can actually do. So, yeah, it's it's actually pretty funny 1719 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:13.000 from our perspective. Go ahead, Sam, So about these traders, Yeah, 1720 01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:16.199 another one just got caught a couple weeks ago. 1721 01:35:16.880 --> 01:35:19.520 I believe there's only one course of action for that, 1722 01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:24.279 and then have won penalty for that. I say, make 1723 01:35:24.359 --> 01:35:27.840 it public, and this is what happens to traders. 1724 01:35:28.239 --> 01:35:31.000 And I'm not disagreeing with you, but I will say, 1725 01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:33.239 and I'm not trying to defend the traders. Before I say, 1726 01:35:33.239 --> 01:35:36.520 I'm about to say, understand, I am not defending these dumbasses. 1727 01:35:37.800 --> 01:35:40.159 Pretty much all of them have been under twenty three 1728 01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:44.479 years old, and most of them I don't believe knew 1729 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:46.760 that they were selling this to China. Now selling it 1730 01:35:46.840 --> 01:35:49.479 to anybody is treason, even if you're selling these things 1731 01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:52.079 to France. Like I'm with you one hundred percent. I'm 1732 01:35:52.119 --> 01:35:55.119 not trying to downplay it. But most of these kids 1733 01:35:55.159 --> 01:35:59.800 were being all for like twelve thousand dollars for these secrets. 1734 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:01.800 It's it's not even like they're trying to set themselves 1735 01:36:01.840 --> 01:36:04.159 up for life. They were they were dumb. They got 1736 01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:06.960 offered something and they probably thought, oh, well, this is 1737 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:10.279 the platform we've had for years and years. Whoever's looking 1738 01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:12.319 for this probably already could find it, but like, sure, 1739 01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:14.239 i'll make some quick cash, real quick. And they didn't 1740 01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:16.479 realize that they were selling secrets to the CCP and 1741 01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:17.199 then got caught. 1742 01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:21.520 They sold out, They sold information that could get their 1743 01:36:21.640 --> 01:36:23.039 brothers and sisters killed. 1744 01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:29.039 There no, no, again, I'm not defending them. I'm just 1745 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:32.880 saying that they were also really stupid and ignorant. There's 1746 01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.560 there's definitely punishments there being doled out, but I don't 1747 01:36:36.560 --> 01:36:38.560 think that they knew. I think one of them might 1748 01:36:38.640 --> 01:36:41.760 have known exactly what he was doing and to who 1749 01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:45.119 the information was being sold in all that, but it's 1750 01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:47.079 not like state secrets as far as like where our 1751 01:36:47.159 --> 01:36:49.399 nukes are being housed or like what our launch codes are. 1752 01:36:49.920 --> 01:36:53.840 It was like certain capabilities of certain air platforms public. 1753 01:36:55.800 --> 01:36:58.319 I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that. 1754 01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:06.479 And I said, like full on like British style navy flogging. 1755 01:37:07.960 --> 01:37:11.640 Yeah, that's the thing that definitely could come back into 1756 01:37:11.800 --> 01:37:17.279 the regular Zeitgrist corporal punishment would be, you know, yeah. 1757 01:37:17.239 --> 01:37:20.640 Like yeah, fine, we won't kill you this time, but 1758 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:23.760 you you get one hundred and fifty lashes. 1759 01:37:24.399 --> 01:37:28.479 But that's inhumane. It's well maybe not one hundred and fifty, yo, 1760 01:37:29.279 --> 01:37:30.359 one hundred and fifty. 1761 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:34.880 At fifteen, you have fifteen buddies on a on a 1762 01:37:34.960 --> 01:37:39.359 standard uh I say standard, depending on what type of 1763 01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:41.000 whif you can have fifteen lashes on it. 1764 01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:43.520 Not really whippid. That's more of a kind of nontails. 1765 01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:46.680 We're not trying to beat them. Like Jesus dude, holy shit, 1766 01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:49.960 I was. I was gonna suggest whatever amount of money 1767 01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:53.119 you got paid, it's one lash per one hundred dollars 1768 01:37:53.239 --> 01:37:55.399 or one lash per ten dollars, and like we work 1769 01:37:55.439 --> 01:37:56.119 it out that way. 1770 01:37:56.920 --> 01:37:59.880 You gotta make you have to improve a point and 1771 01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:01.680 make an example. 1772 01:38:01.520 --> 01:38:06.359 A public lashing sends a message, bro, they sold out 1773 01:38:07.119 --> 01:38:09.600 a government, a national secrets to the en. 1774 01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:12.239 Yeah, I can't deny that that's a thing that definitely 1775 01:38:12.279 --> 01:38:12.760 took place. 1776 01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:13.439 Perfect. 1777 01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:17.640 I think either they should get the lashing or exclusifixion. 1778 01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:22.960 I mean, granted, even when I was nineteen, like twelve 1779 01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:25.319 thousand dollars wasn't enough to make me go weak in 1780 01:38:25.319 --> 01:38:27.680 the knees. I mean just just speaking on behalf of 1781 01:38:27.720 --> 01:38:32.239 myself here. But I don't know, Perhaps perhaps these kids 1782 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:35.199 are in those kind of financial straits and they're that 1783 01:38:35.399 --> 01:38:38.039 dumb to realize, like, wait a minute, who would want 1784 01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:40.960 to pay to learn about what new radar systems are 1785 01:38:41.000 --> 01:38:43.560 on our f thirty fives. That's a strange thing to 1786 01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:48.680 specifically ask me. But yeah, no obtect for real for 1787 01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:50.680 sure anyway, anyway. 1788 01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:53.399 But I hope everybody has a good day. 1789 01:38:53.680 --> 01:38:57.119 Noh, for sure, for sure. All right, moving on, we 1790 01:38:57.239 --> 01:38:59.800 are going to go to Spain now. A train driver 1791 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:04.920 killed in second deadly Spain rail crash. In days second 1792 01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:08.000 fatal train crash shocked Spain as death toll from the 1793 01:39:08.079 --> 01:39:11.359 first collision rises to forty three. Yeah, Spain has had 1794 01:39:11.399 --> 01:39:14.239 two different train derailments happen within days of each other. 1795 01:39:14.760 --> 01:39:17.159 Some are speculating it might be something along the lines 1796 01:39:17.199 --> 01:39:21.279 of some saboteurs. Some are saying that it's just a 1797 01:39:21.359 --> 01:39:23.560 really bad chain of events. I don't know, but let's 1798 01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:26.479 read into it here. So commuter rail service in Spain's 1799 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:30.319 northeast Catalonia region was suspended Wednesday after a Barcelona commuter 1800 01:39:30.520 --> 01:39:34.199 train crashed the night before, killing one person and injuring 1801 01:39:34.239 --> 01:39:38.199 thirty seven others. The crash came two days after Spain's 1802 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:41.920 worst railway disaster since twenty thirteen, which left many Spaniards 1803 01:39:41.960 --> 01:39:44.960 in disbelief. The death toll in that crash in southern 1804 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:47.479 Spain rose to forty three. So in a matter of 1805 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:51.279 three days they have had forty four people killed and 1806 01:39:51.399 --> 01:39:56.119 thirty seven people injured from train crashes and derailments. The 1807 01:39:56.199 --> 01:39:58.800 commuter train on Tuesday night hit a retaining wall that 1808 01:39:59.000 --> 01:40:04.039 fell onto the train the Catalonian town of Galita Jelitam. 1809 01:40:04.039 --> 01:40:06.520 I don't know how they pronounce it. There arout thirty 1810 01:40:06.560 --> 01:40:10.319 seven kilometers outside of Barcelona or twenty three Freedom units. 1811 01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:12.640 Officials said. It's very strange. 1812 01:40:12.840 --> 01:40:13.199 All of this. 1813 01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:18.640 It doesn't make sense, said Antonella Miranda a barista in Madrid. 1814 01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:24.560 A barista, maybe that means something else in Spain. They 1815 01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:27.079 went to the local Starbucks to ask what this person 1816 01:40:27.159 --> 01:40:31.560 thought about it. Okay, the man who died from Tuesday's 1817 01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:35.319 crash was a conductor in training. Regional authority said most 1818 01:40:35.359 --> 01:40:38.600 of the injured road in the first train carriage. Reil 1819 01:40:38.680 --> 01:40:42.520 disruptions on Wednesday caused significant traffic jams on roads leading 1820 01:40:42.560 --> 01:40:46.960 into Barcelona. Catalonia's regional authorities asked people to reduce unnecessary 1821 01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:50.760 travel and companies to allow remote work until service was resumed. 1822 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:54.039 This is very bad. If the infrastructure was already faulty 1823 01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:56.479 and there were complaints, they should have done something earlier. 1824 01:40:56.640 --> 01:41:00.479 Delores Sogas said in a commuter town where hundreds of 1825 01:41:00.520 --> 01:41:04.359 people were delayed or stranded on Wednesday. Spanish Prime Minister's 1826 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:08.520 Pedro Sanchez offered his condolences on X, writing all my 1827 01:41:08.640 --> 01:41:13.800 affection and solidarity with the victims and their families. That's 1828 01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:16.119 a weird thing to say. If it was in fact 1829 01:41:16.159 --> 01:41:19.119 that the infrastructure was faulty and that's what caused these deaths, 1830 01:41:19.640 --> 01:41:26.279 all of my affection and solidarity with the victims. Yeah yeah, 1831 01:41:26.520 --> 01:41:29.560 word word, your solidary could have been with making sure 1832 01:41:29.600 --> 01:41:33.319 that your infrastructure was done properly to where this wouldn't 1833 01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:35.199 have happened, you know, seeing as how that was what 1834 01:41:35.319 --> 01:41:39.960 you were elected to do. But like word. While Spain's 1835 01:41:40.000 --> 01:41:44.239 high speed rail network generally runs smoothly at least until Sunday, 1836 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:47.439 had been a source of confidence, commuter rail networks are 1837 01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:52.600 plagued by reliability issues. However, crashes causing injury or death 1838 01:41:52.760 --> 01:41:57.000 aren't common, which is true Spain's railway operator Adith said 1839 01:41:57.079 --> 01:41:59.960 that the containment wall likely collapsed because of heavy rain 1840 01:42:00.159 --> 01:42:03.479 fall that swept across the northeastern Spanish region this week. 1841 01:42:04.600 --> 01:42:08.840 A retaining wall concrete barrier fell onto the railway track 1842 01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:12.800 because of rain. Yeah again, I'm gonna go ahead and 1843 01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:16.399 blame infrastructure issues on this one, but all right. Sunday 1844 01:42:16.439 --> 01:42:18.479 evenings crash happened when the tail end of a train 1845 01:42:18.560 --> 01:42:21.479 carrying two hundred and eighty nine passengers on route from 1846 01:42:21.760 --> 01:42:25.640 Malaga to the capitol Madrid derailed and crashed into an 1847 01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:30.800 inner incoming train traveling from Madrid to Huelva Wuevla, I 1848 01:42:30.840 --> 01:42:34.439 don't know, another southern city. According to Edith, the collision 1849 01:42:34.439 --> 01:42:37.600 took place near Adamuz, a town about three hundred and 1850 01:42:37.640 --> 01:42:40.800 seventy kilometers or roughly two hundred and thirty Freedom units 1851 01:42:40.920 --> 01:42:43.720 from Madrid. The front of the second train, which was 1852 01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:46.279 carrying one and eighty four people, took the brunt of 1853 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:49.000 the impact, which knocked the first two carriages off the 1854 01:42:49.079 --> 01:42:53.000 track and down a four meter thirteen foot slope. Bodies 1855 01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:55.880 were found hundreds of meters from the crash site, according 1856 01:42:55.960 --> 01:43:00.600 to the regional president juanma Morino. Damn. So yeah, that 1857 01:43:00.680 --> 01:43:03.960 was a solid hit anyway. So yeah, Spain has had 1858 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:06.520 these two big trained derailments take place within days of 1859 01:43:06.560 --> 01:43:09.279 each other. Our prayers are actually going out to these 1860 01:43:09.319 --> 01:43:13.279 families who that's horrible, but also Spain's got to get 1861 01:43:13.279 --> 01:43:17.960 their infrastructure back up and running. Dude, my god. All right, 1862 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:25.560 moving on or Sam, I'm sorry your hands raise, go ahead, Okay, 1863 01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:28.439 I'll get it all right, moving on to South America. 1864 01:43:28.439 --> 01:43:29.680 I should have brought this up when I was talking 1865 01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:32.119 abou Venezuela earlier, but I just kind of found out 1866 01:43:32.159 --> 01:43:34.920 about this one a little bit earlier. Honestly, this is 1867 01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:38.079 from NASA. Yes, I understand like NASA or hate NASA 1868 01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:40.640 doesn't matter, but that doesn't take away from the fact 1869 01:43:40.680 --> 01:43:45.720 that wildfires have erupted in South central Chili or Chile 1870 01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:48.880 however you want to pronounce it. Wildfires broke out amid 1871 01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:51.920 a hot and dry conditions in the south central Chile 1872 01:43:52.239 --> 01:43:56.079 in mid January twenty twenty six, prompting evacuations and causing 1873 01:43:56.159 --> 01:43:59.640 extensive damage to infrastructure. As of January twenty eighth, the 1874 01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:02.920 SPA eight of deadly fires had burned more than thirty 1875 01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:06.359 thousand hectares, which is seventy four thousand acres in the 1876 01:44:06.439 --> 01:44:13.520 country's Bobio and Nubla regions, according to Chile's National Forestry Corporation. 1877 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:19.920 The MODUS, which is the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro Radiometer 1878 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:24.840 all RIGHT instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, captured this image 1879 01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:29.000 of smoke billowing from multiple fires on January eighteenth. Dozens 1880 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:31.520 of active fires in the area prompted the evacuation of 1881 01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:34.520 fifty thousand people and destroyed more than three hundred homes, 1882 01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:37.960 according to a January nineteenth report from Chile's UN Resident 1883 01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:41.840 Coordinator's Office. Aerial and ground based photographs showed neighborhoods in 1884 01:44:42.439 --> 01:44:47.560 Concepcion shard in the aftermath. Gusty winds, along with temperatures 1885 01:44:47.600 --> 01:44:50.880 that exceed thirty eight degrees celsius or one hundred degrees 1886 01:44:50.960 --> 01:44:55.079 freedom in places fanned the flames and hampered firefighters' efforts. 1887 01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:58.199 According to the news reports, Chile's president declared a state 1888 01:44:58.239 --> 01:45:01.920 of catastrophe in the regions, not a state of emergency. 1889 01:45:02.239 --> 01:45:05.880 He declared a state of catastrophe, allowing more resources to 1890 01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:09.800 go toward battling the blazes and assisting affected communities. Other 1891 01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:12.520 parts of South America also face hot and dry conditions 1892 01:45:12.600 --> 01:45:15.720 during the twenty twenty five twenty twenty sixth summer, likely 1893 01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:20.800 priming vegetation to burn. About six hundred and fifty kilometers 1894 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:25.239 or four hundred miles south of Conceptcyon, firefighters in Argentina 1895 01:45:25.359 --> 01:45:29.920 battled wildfires in and around Los Alaris National Park, home 1896 01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:33.800 to rare stands of long lived cypress trees. Damn, that 1897 01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:36.800 is upsetting. But yeah, so this image was taken from 1898 01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:41.600 space of the fire and the smoke billowing out of 1899 01:45:41.720 --> 01:45:46.600 multiple locations. Yeah. So, thoughts and prayers also go out 1900 01:45:46.640 --> 01:45:49.199 to Chile and all the wildfires they're after to deal with. 1901 01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:51.680 Right now, all right, now, we are going to go 1902 01:45:51.800 --> 01:45:56.760 to Japan. The Japanese Prime Minister has decided to dissolve 1903 01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:00.920 parliament and hold a snap election on only three months 1904 01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:04.239 after she took office. Yeah, let's talk about that a 1905 01:46:04.279 --> 01:46:07.520 little bit. Oh my god, the BBC just did it 1906 01:46:07.600 --> 01:46:11.760 to me again. Look at that. Wow wow wow wow. 1907 01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:16.439 Go ahead, Sam. So I've been following her for a 1908 01:46:16.479 --> 01:46:16.880 little bit. 1909 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:19.520 Old girl's going hardy in the paint on. 1910 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:24.560 She's the very like Japan first Japan for the Japanese 1911 01:46:24.960 --> 01:46:27.920 and all which he would come to expect. 1912 01:46:28.479 --> 01:46:31.439 Because they are the ship. 1913 01:46:32.199 --> 01:46:36.680 They are currently being outbred and everything, and they've they 1914 01:46:37.000 --> 01:46:40.840 they've had Christmas parades and everything, and they couldn't even 1915 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:46.560 celebrate mill years and all last time I checked, because 1916 01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:47.239 they were afraid of. 1917 01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:49.640 A Muslim attack and all in Japan. 1918 01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:50.880 Yeah. 1919 01:46:51.520 --> 01:46:52.079 Interesting. 1920 01:46:52.960 --> 01:46:56.000 Oh like she's even gotten death threats. 1921 01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:58.479 And everything because she's a woman. 1922 01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:03.439 No that, but because she's going hard after the Islamists. 1923 01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:08.039 Yeah, you'll have that. Okay, fair enough, So let's talk 1924 01:47:08.039 --> 01:47:11.840 about it here. From Al Jazeera. Japan's Prime Minister Takashi 1925 01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.239 to Keashi, I don't know, will dissolve parliament and call 1926 01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:18.640 snap elections. The vote will decide all four hundred and 1927 01:47:18.800 --> 01:47:22.039 sixty five seats in Parliament's lower House and mark Takashi's 1928 01:47:22.079 --> 01:47:26.880 first electoral test since becoming the nation's first female leader. Wow, okay, 1929 01:47:26.960 --> 01:47:29.560 let's get into it here. She says she will dissolve 1930 01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:32.439 Parliament on Friday and call a general election to seek 1931 01:47:32.520 --> 01:47:35.920 voter backing for her spending plans and other policies. The 1932 01:47:35.960 --> 01:47:38.760 snap election announcement on Monday comes just three months into 1933 01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:42.720 her tenure as the nation's first female Prime minister. Today, I, 1934 01:47:43.039 --> 01:47:45.560 as Prime Minister, had decided to dissolve the Lower House 1935 01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:48.960 on January twenty third, she told it in a news conference. 1936 01:47:49.399 --> 01:47:52.079 The snap vote on February eighth will decide all the 1937 01:47:52.119 --> 01:47:54.079 seats of Parliament, all four hundred and sixty five of 1938 01:47:54.159 --> 01:47:57.239 them's Lower House and mark Takashi's first electorial tests since 1939 01:47:57.279 --> 01:47:59.640 become Prime minister. We just said that calling an early 1940 01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:02.079 election she would allow her to capitalize on strong public 1941 01:48:02.119 --> 01:48:06.239 support to tighten her grip on the government's Liberal Democratic Party, 1942 01:48:06.840 --> 01:48:11.119 the LDP, to shore up her coalition's fragile majority. The 1943 01:48:11.199 --> 01:48:14.239 election will test voter appetite for higher spending at a 1944 01:48:14.279 --> 01:48:16.920 time when the rising cost of living is the public's 1945 01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:20.920 top concern. A poll released by the public broadcaster NHK 1946 01:48:21.600 --> 01:48:25.640 last week found that forty five percent of res respondents 1947 01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:29.359 cited prices as their main worry, followed by diplomacy and 1948 01:48:29.479 --> 01:48:33.159 national security at sixteen percent. NHK reported last week that 1949 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:37.359 Takashi would call snap elections while taking into account her 1950 01:48:37.399 --> 01:48:41.680 diplomatic schedule. On January thirteenth, the Prime Minister hosted South 1951 01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:46.920 Korean President Lee j myong sure in her hometown of 1952 01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:50.439 Nara to discuss the two nations security and economic ties. 1953 01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:55.000 Tokyo shares jumped more than three percent on Tuesday to 1954 01:48:55.159 --> 01:48:58.600 speculation that Takashi would call snap elections to capitalize on 1955 01:48:58.800 --> 01:49:01.840 strong poll numbers. So she's basically trying to strike while 1956 01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:04.640 the iron is hot, you know. And I take that 1957 01:49:04.760 --> 01:49:07.800 for what it is. But yeah, Japan is going through 1958 01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:10.279 a little bit of a transitional period at this moment. 1959 01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:12.680 We will keep our eye out to see what goes 1960 01:49:12.760 --> 01:49:16.720 down with them next, all right. So, and I'm sure 1961 01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:18.760 that this BBC article is gonna do the same thing 1962 01:49:18.840 --> 01:49:22.560 to me. But the photos have been leaked to the 1963 01:49:22.640 --> 01:49:27.000 BBC showing faces of hundreds killed in Iran's brutal protests 1964 01:49:27.039 --> 01:49:30.399 cracked down for anybody who does not know the Yeah, 1965 01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:34.119 I knew that was coming. Basically, the protests in Iran 1966 01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:39.439 have pretty much been squashed. I'm sure there are still 1967 01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:41.880 some remnants that are happening around Iran right now, but 1968 01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:47.159 for the most part they have been quelled and hundreds 1969 01:49:47.600 --> 01:49:51.640 of people have been murdered in the streets and pictures 1970 01:49:51.680 --> 01:49:54.680 of them have been seen not just from satellite, but 1971 01:49:54.840 --> 01:49:58.359 also because they didn't have internet access for a while. 1972 01:49:58.840 --> 01:50:04.279 Right the eye and the and the political arm but 1973 01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:07.359 most of the Ayahtola put them on a media blackout, 1974 01:50:07.680 --> 01:50:09.720 shut down internet and hell, half of the places I 1975 01:50:09.880 --> 01:50:14.000 got shut down electricity as well and cut to Trump 1976 01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:17.680 deployed Elon Musk to get starlink in the sky so 1977 01:50:17.800 --> 01:50:20.560 these people could report on what was going down. So 1978 01:50:20.960 --> 01:50:24.479 again not just from satellite, not just third parties, from 1979 01:50:24.760 --> 01:50:28.560 the people in Iran. Hundreds of people were slaughtered because 1980 01:50:28.600 --> 01:50:32.640 of them protesting the current regime. Again, I was very 1981 01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:35.720 hopeful that the regime change would take hold, and not 1982 01:50:35.760 --> 01:50:38.239 even just for the prince that's living in But there's 1983 01:50:38.279 --> 01:50:41.680 the Maryland right now and whatever. Fine, I don't really 1984 01:50:41.760 --> 01:50:45.479 have any opinion on him strong one way or another, 1985 01:50:46.119 --> 01:50:48.439 but just to get the Iatola out of power, yo, 1986 01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:52.960 that would be phenomenal and most Muslim countries around Iran 1987 01:50:53.239 --> 01:50:57.079 agree with that sentiment. Even the Shia do not want 1988 01:50:57.159 --> 01:50:59.319 him to be in charge of Iran, which that's a 1989 01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:04.760 strong state. But yeah, so thoughts and prayers go out 1990 01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:09.560 to the families of the murdered individuals. I hope that 1991 01:51:09.720 --> 01:51:13.560 this gets more precedence and more press time than whatever 1992 01:51:13.600 --> 01:51:16.359 the hell Trump is doing right now, because this is 1993 01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:21.119 a humanitarian crisis, honestly, but I also have a feeling 1994 01:51:21.159 --> 01:51:23.000 that this will get pushed under the rug like so 1995 01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:25.800 many other things doing iron But anyway, I did want 1996 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:28.319 to bring that up on this episode, and with that, 1997 01:51:28.560 --> 01:51:31.239 I think we are going to go ahead and wrap 1998 01:51:31.359 --> 01:51:34.119 this episode up. 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