00:03:05.000I thought the president was supposed to make a speech today because I'm watching and watching.
00:03:12.000And waiting for the speech to happen, you know, because I watched the clip he posted on Twitter earlier today, which is two minutes, and I got all jazzed up.
00:03:19.000I wasn't able to sleep so well last night, tossing and turning all night, all kinds, you know, it's very difficult.
00:03:26.000But then I wake up while I get out of bed.
00:03:29.000I pick up my phone at around five or six, and I see this is epic.
00:04:35.000Now, people said this was because I didn't eat before I worked out.
00:04:38.000People said it was because I didn't sleep.
00:04:40.000There are a lot of reasons people say that it didn't go the way I thought it would.
00:04:44.000But, you know, I'm thinking to myself, when I consult people about fitness advice, I'm talking to Anglos, I'm talking to Slavs, I'm talking to these kinds of people.
00:04:55.000And then it dawned on me wait a minute, I'm talking to all the wrong people.
00:04:59.000I'm talking to my Slavic friend today, you may know him, and he's telling me to eat an apple.
00:05:52.000And I think if I get on that program, that'll be much more conducive to my biology, my epigenetics.
00:06:00.000You know, they have me doing this Protestant thing or this Slavic thing where I'm working really, really hard and I'm eating very meager preparation.
00:06:08.000Portions and I'm eating, you know, all these tubers and things.
00:06:14.000What I need is to have a woman, either my wife or my mother, make me a big plate of pasta, and then I need to take it easy for a little bit, and then maybe I do some leisurely exercises.
00:07:32.000But, I mean, it was really something special.
00:07:34.000So I'm going to pull it up for you, and then we'll discuss, we'll analyze, we'll talk about NATO's relationship with Russia, we'll talk about the pipeline he brings up and other things.
00:07:43.000So I'm going to bring it up right now.
00:07:56.000I'm gonna mute my mic and I'll play the clip for you.
00:07:59.000It's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
00:08:13.000So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
00:08:19.000And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.
00:08:28.000So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia, and I think that's very inappropriate.
00:08:35.000And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas.
00:08:41.000Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas.
00:08:52.000I mean, I've been complaining about this from the time I got in.
00:08:55.000It should have never been allowed to have happened.
00:08:58.000But Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline.
00:09:07.000And you tell me if that's appropriate because I think it's not.
00:09:10.000And I think it's a very bad thing for NATO, and I don't think it should have happened.
00:09:14.000And I think we have to talk to Germany about it.
00:09:16.000On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent, whereas the United States, in actual numbers, is paying 4.2 percent of a much larger GDP.
00:09:30.000You know, we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting everybody, and yet we're paying a lot of money to protect.
00:09:36.000Now, this has been going on for decades.
00:09:39.000This has been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents never did anything about it because I don't think they understood it or they just didn't want to get involved.
00:09:47.000But I have to bring it up because I think it's very unfair to our country, it's very unfair to our taxpayer.
00:09:53.000And I think that these countries have to step it up, not over a 10 year period, they have to step it up immediately.
00:11:02.000So he's talking about number one, he's talking about the contributions of the member states.
00:11:08.000He's talking about the fact that America pays a lot more for the military.
00:11:12.000And I talked about this on the World Report podcast yesterday, if you've gotten a chance to listen to it.
00:11:17.000The way that NATO works and what it's predicated on is something called collective defense, which is to say that the Soviet Union, as it were, would be less likely to attack a country like West Germany if it were attacking 20 countries as opposed to just one country.
00:11:34.000And so, the whole point of collective defense is that if you have the UK with a strong military, and you have Italy and France and Spain and America and Canada, and they all have strong militaries, well, Russia's not going to attack all those countries.
00:11:51.000It would be a much bigger undertaking if they're talking about going to war against many developed, advanced, strong, militarily countries as opposed to just one.
00:12:00.000And so, the point of NATO, what we're talking about when we talk about these percentages, is what percentage of GDP, which is the size of the economy, that people are spending on defense.
00:12:10.000Now, NATO says that in order for the alliance to be effective, in order for collective defense to actually work, well, everybody needs to have a military that's at least.
00:12:20.0002% of GDP that constitutes at least 2% defense spending per year of GDP.
00:12:26.000Well, there's only five countries that are meeting that obligation.
00:12:31.000By the way, they all happen to be countries, with the exception of the UK, that would be most affected should Russia decide to get aggressive.
00:12:39.000It's the US, Greece, Estonia, the UK, and Poland.
00:12:42.000These are the only countries paying the requisite 2%.
00:12:46.000And America, as he says in the video, is paying 4.2% by some calculations.
00:12:51.000Most, it says, between 3.61 and 3.67 percent.
00:12:55.000But by some estimations, you could say it's 4.2 percent.
00:12:59.000And then you have countries like Germany, which are a major beneficiary.
00:13:02.000We have 30,000 troops stationed there, and they were originally the tripwire, so to speak, of the alliance when the Soviet Union bordered the West along that East Germany West Germany line.
00:13:59.000You know, this is the guy we put into office, and at times there's excesses we're uncomfortable with, but this is what the country needs right now because this is a situation that's out of control.
00:14:09.000So that's what he's talking about with the contributions.
00:14:12.000The way that it works, and this is kind of a misconception, is not that people are contributing to NATO.
00:14:19.000NATO does have a budget of something like $80 billion, and everybody meets their contributions in that regard for facilities and equipment and that kind of thing.
00:14:28.000But when we're talking about the percentages, that's what percentage are.
00:14:32.000These countries spending on their own military.
00:14:35.000And that's for their own benefit, by the way.
00:14:39.000You know, I think maybe some people have it in their heads that it's like, well, you know, why would France spend money on NATO when France probably wouldn't be under the gun if Russia decided to get aggressive?
00:15:01.000And we talked about this on the podcast as well yesterday.
00:15:04.000The reason that Germany is able to have such a rich country, such a great social safety net, free education, great transportation system, they're able to bring in millions upon millions of refugees, or they think they can, is because they're not paying for a military.
00:15:20.000If we didn't have to pay for our military, if we didn't have to pay for our defense, and you had foreign troops here defending us, could you imagine what we could do with that money for infrastructure, for education, for health care down the line?
00:15:35.000So that's what we're talking about with the member state contributions.
00:15:38.000None of them, really none of them, with the exception of a few, are paying their fair share.
00:15:44.000Since Trump got into office, they're all increasing their budgets.
00:15:47.000This has been a complaint for 20 years.
00:15:49.000Barack Obama, George W. Bush, they all had this complaint that member countries are not paying their fair share.
00:15:54.000Trump is the only one to speak up about it.
00:15:57.000And since he got into office, people are increasing their budgets.
00:16:00.000Every single country in NATO has increased their defense spending, but none of them are increasing the budget enough to the point where it would be acceptable or where it would even make sense to have this alliance.
00:16:11.000So then Trump goes on to say, and this, we'll get into this in a moment, he goes on to say, actually, not only should they meet the 2% requirement, but they should make it 4%.
00:17:25.000Think about for a moment the narrative about Trump in Russia, what they say about Trump's relationship with Russia because of what?
00:17:33.000Because of, oh, well, this person who knew Trump's advisor's best friend also knew Vladimir Putin's oligarch's nephews, you know, these outrageous connections.
00:17:47.000And they say, well, that basically means that Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987, right?
00:17:53.000Because Trump went to Moscow one time.
00:17:58.000German Chancellor Schroeder in 2005, this is days after he's pushed out of office, he signs on to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, where they build this huge, like 1,300 mile underwater pipeline from Western Russia into Eastern Germany.
00:18:45.000Then he goes on immediately after to oversee that project, working for Russia, overseeing the shareholders' committee that's overseeing this project.
00:18:54.000He then goes on to be a major or majority shareholder in companies that are related to, or consortiums rather, related to Gazprom.
00:19:03.000Which is one of Russia's biggest natural gas companies.
00:19:06.000And then now he is the chairman of Rosneft, which is the number one Russian energy company.
00:19:20.000Trump goes to NATO and says, hey, nobody knows about this, but actually, the German chancellor signed on to a project that gives Russia enormous leverage over Germany.
00:19:30.000I mean, understand this Russia supplies 70% of Germany's energy, okay, or their natural gas.
00:19:38.000You think that gives them a little bit of leverage over Germany?
00:19:41.000Russia has major natural gas pipelines into Ukraine.
00:19:45.000And when they were undergoing their transition of government from Yanukovych to Poroshenko, from a pro Russian regime to a pro Western regime, Vladimir Putin cut off the gas and said, Well, we're not going to supply energy to Ukraine if this is going to happen.
00:20:00.000That's a way that you exert power over another country.
00:20:02.000So you already have these massive imports of Russian natural gas, Russian energy into Germany.
00:20:08.000And energy is a hugely understated component of.
00:20:31.000This is supposedly, and remember the rhetoric we heard about Angela Merkel in Germany, right?
00:20:38.000You know, after Trump got into office, they said, well, we look around the world, and the only leaders that are left remaining.
00:20:46.000Of the liberal world order under Obama because what's his name?
00:20:51.000Holland from France is gone, and Theresa May's in power now in the UK with the Brexit government, and you know, everybody else is going away, but Germany, Merkel is still in charge.
00:21:33.000And then, of course, we have to consider the grand paradox of it all.
00:21:38.000I mean, you take these two things separately and, like, you have a problem with each of them, but then you understand the whole reason NATO exists, well, the whole reason NATO was founded was to counter the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, which was seen as this consolidation of.
00:21:54.000Moscow's power in Eastern Europe, a huge potential threat to Western Europe.
00:21:58.000So they said, let's build this defensive alliance.
00:22:00.000Well, for some reason, after 1991, after the Soviet Union collapses, December 25th, 1991, it's Christmas, and officially the Soviet Union dissolves, Russia becomes the Russian Federation.
00:22:12.000NATO not only doesn't go away, but it expands right up to Russia's border.
00:22:42.000Russia's like a third world country with a big military.
00:22:46.000But the defensive alliance has to aggressively expand to many more countries over the course of 20 years as Russia is in turmoil.
00:22:55.000In the 1990s, they consolidated under Putin.
00:22:58.000But they're expanding rapidly right along the border.
00:23:01.000They're talking about expanding NATO to Georgia, which is on their southern border, Ukraine, which is directly west of them, to the point where the so called defensive alliance would control the entire border.
00:23:13.000Then we have the biggest military in Europe, or rather the most powerful country in Europe presently, continental, which is Germany.
00:26:01.000By the way, Milton Friedman, very smart guy, but he has done irreparable harm to the American public discourse by telling people, lying to people, That deficits don't matter.
00:26:13.000Because I remember I watched the free to choose lecture series, I read the book.
00:28:15.000And we have to pay for it in ways that hurt our economy.
00:28:18.000Because in exchange for consumer goods, which is to say that on a yearly basis, we get consumables, and this could be raw materials, for example, steel from Germany, it could be manufactured goods, whatever it may be, we're getting things that we're consuming now.
00:28:39.000We're giving them, in exchange for, let's say, steel, which we use, we consume, whether that's for appliances, whether that's for vehicles, infrastructure, which we consume now, we're giving them real estate, which is a big investment.
00:28:54.000We're giving them assets, companies, stocks.
00:28:57.000I mean, these are things that are long term.
00:29:02.000Not only do they get interest payments all the time, but then they get the principal and they get our currency, which means they can control.
00:29:20.000Yeah, it would be a problem if, for example, you were to go to the grocery store and say, Oh, I'd like a bag of apples, a box of cereal, and a gallon of milk.
00:29:30.000And in exchange, I will just start slowly selling you my house.
00:29:36.000Like after a year of grocery purchases, you no longer have a home.
00:29:40.000And you don't have any savings, and you mortgage your car to Jules Osco.
00:29:44.000In order to pay for the food you eat every day, you're giving them all your wealth.
00:29:51.000So, on top of all, you know, they're not paying their fair share.
00:29:54.000We're protecting them from a country that, like, apparently they don't have that big of a problem with if they're completely dependent on them for their energy.
00:30:01.000And then on top of that, forget NATO for a second.
00:32:35.000I mean, really, who's the aggressor in this situation?
00:32:38.000And we're paying all this money to have 30,000 troops in Germany and 17,000 troops in Italy, and we're building up a presence in Poland, and we've got them all over the place.
00:33:52.000Estonia has been a part of Russia forever.
00:33:55.000You go back to the Russian Empire, you go back to any time in history over the last 600 years or so, and Estonia has been a part of Russia.
00:34:06.000Many of them are ethnically Russian, many of them speak Russian.
00:34:10.000But if Russia wants to do a land grab in Estonia, we're going to pretend that we'd be okay with sending people over there to die in Russia.
00:34:16.000We would risk a nuclear war with Russia, really?
00:34:27.000Crimea has historically been a part of Russia.
00:34:30.000It's like 100% ethnic Russians, 100% Russian speaking.
00:34:33.000The same is true of Luhansk and Donetsk.
00:34:36.000And by the way, this is pursuant to their interests.
00:34:40.000Geopolitically, in securing their country, what you have in Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Ukraine is something called the Northern European Plain.
00:34:53.000And this is like what they call the superhighway of empires or of invasions, where because there are no natural land barriers in the northern part of Europe from Germany to Russia, it makes it so that you could very easily overwhelm Russia or vice versa with a surprise.
00:35:12.000This has happened three times in history.
00:35:13.000You had Napoleon come from France into Russia through this northern European plain because there's no mountains, deserts, or big rivers to stop them.
00:35:22.000You've had Kaiser Wilhelm II do it in World War I, and you had Hitler do it in World War II.
00:35:30.000They have no way to protect against this onslaught that could come from the Western countries.
00:35:36.000And we're going to pretend like, oh, yeah, we would like to go and fight and die in Ukraine because Russia wants a reasonable sphere of influence.
00:35:44.000Like, I don't think you have to be a Russophile to say, hey, maybe it's reasonable that Ukraine is at least in their sphere of influence in the same way that, you know, All of the Western Hemisphere is in our sphere of influence.
00:36:49.000Secretary of State Pompeo's been to North Korea, Vietnam, Japan made a surprise trip to Afghanistan.
00:36:55.000He's then going to the United Arab Emirates and then to Belgium.
00:36:59.000And you can listen to America First World Report.
00:37:02.000I covered extensively Trump's European trip in great detail, and I also covered Pompeo's Asia trip in great detail.
00:37:11.000And there's a lot of overlap between the two.
00:37:13.000And I analyzed all the deals that could happen, all the intricacies, how they relate to each other, what's going on with this oil war, with Saudi Arabia being asked to raise production because of sanctions on Iran.
00:38:39.000I guess I'll watch it anyway because I really just get a kick out of it.
00:38:43.000And, you know, look, I don't mean to go too hard on this issue because, you know, some people's a little overkill, but to me, this stuff is just hilarious.
00:38:51.000So we're going to watch this one real quick and then I'll get to your Streamlabs and Super Chats.
00:39:25.000And it's funny when people read a funny burn that's like maybe silly or obnoxious or over the top.
00:39:33.000And then they're like, wow, like that's a little extreme.
00:39:36.000But they don't, in this video, they don't really get that concept because this guy just reads very clinical, very direct, precise attacks on his entire.
00:39:47.000And they both sit there very hurt and they just kind of take it.