Based National Security？ Trump Lays Out a Plan
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In this episode, we discuss the Trump administration's new national security strategy, and how it's going to change our relationship with the European Union, and why we love it. Also, we talk about how much we love the fact that the EU doesn't allow Trump s shady real estate business on their soil.
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Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today because we have reached a new era in
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American geopolitical strategy. The days of Team America World Police are over. We are gone from
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America. Yeah, we've gone from that basically to America. Don't look at me. I don't know.
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No, I really like this. The Trump administration basically released a plan for how we're going to
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act in terms of national security going forwards. And they said that essentially Europe has been
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taken over by hostile actors. Can you let me? In November, the Trump administration released a
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new national security strategy that is pretty based. It basically reframes the EU from a partner
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to a problem quite clearly, which is amazing. And it insists that countries basically need to handle
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their own problems. In other words, like the big shift, if you just want to sum it up,
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is that America has gone from being helicopter parent to being the F around and find out parent,
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which is exactly our style of parenting. Yeah. And like even per our style of parenting,
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we don't just do it because we're lazy and selfish that we are. We do it because it produces better
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outcomes. Like it produces children who are not feckless and helpless. It produces people who can
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solve their own problems. So, you know, a lot of people right now, they're admittedly pretty mad
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about this. And we're like, you know what? This is good for you, sweetie. Like you need to,
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you need to learn how to solve your own problems. And I love it. I love it. And you know that it's
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good because Redditors be mad. And when prompted to explain the new strategy, like here's some quotes
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from your just representative Redditor. The EU is in Putin's way. The US is currently in the habit of
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agreeing with Putin on everything, word for word. Also the leader of the US, because they can't even
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refer to him by name. He's like Voldemort to them. No, 100% though. It's making a lot of noise to
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distract from being the name mentioned in most of those Trump files from Epstein's pedophile island
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that everyone isn't on the list once released. This is a good distraction. Another person wrote,
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the EU doesn't allow Trump's shady real estate business. So there are no Trump towers here.
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He is now making deals with Hungary and other right-wing led countries to finally get a foot
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in EU soil. But as for business opportunities, he is rather friends with Russians and Arabs who
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flatter him as much as they can. And another Redditor took some choice quotes from this new strategy
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document that was released by the White House in November. That really goes to show kind of just one,
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how much this would make leftists mad. But like all these quotes, I read them and I'm like,
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yeah. So one quote, our elites, this is, this is from the document itself. Our elites badly
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miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which American people
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saw no connection to the national interest. Also.
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They're like, I hate that. How very dare. And I'm like, yeah, absolutely. It's yeah. I mean,
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I do love this because it's, they see this as damning and I'm like, no, this is fantastic.
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Another, the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.
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You have stolen my dreams. People are suffering.
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Right. Another, we will assert and enforce a Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And I'm like,
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yeah, absolutely. This is why he was voted into office people. Like, you know, Monroe, he did. Okay.
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Can we start something a little fresh? Another, Europe's economic decline is eclipsed by the real,
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man. More stark prospect of civilizational erasure. Yes, actually. And another, we want Europe to
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remain European to regain its civilizational self-confidence and to abandon its failed
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focus on regulatory suffocation. Oh, like I cannot tell you. Like the scene for me is that scene where
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that woman basically has an orgasm in a restaurant at this point. Like, I'm just like, oh, like this is
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just such a, I love it. They're going to be like, what? They want Europe to stay European.
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That's well, but also like the, when I was in college in, in, in Cambridge and we, we did a
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visit to the EU, I was at first it was like, oh, the EU like prestigious gotta be, it's gotta be cool.
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Right. And I came away so angry, like just, it was just bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy. I was
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horrified. I was like, this, this thing needs to be burned down. It is, it is, it is literally like the,
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it is holding a pillow over the face of Europe going, shh, and I don't like it. Okay. Final quote
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from Reddit in brackets, America goal, America's goal is, end brackets, cultivating resistance to
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Europe's current trajectory within European nations. Absolutely. Europe is not going in a
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good direction. An analogy that you've used with journalists is like, basically there's,
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there's an anchor that's, that's like slowly falling off a ship and everyone is like chained to
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the anchor and America's like removing their, their ankle from the chain because the anchor
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is quickly like now more quickly sliding into the ocean. And it was like, why are you removing
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yourself from the chain? And you're like, dude, it's going into the ocean. Like I'm not tying
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myself to this, but I'm, I'm, I'm really excited about this. And also in more seriousness though,
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I think this is all perfectly serious and I'm not joking about any of it. We as citizens,
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but I think pretty much anyone in the world, because we're all affected by American foreign policy,
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should probably be aware of what the shift in strategy actually entails. And so I wanted to do
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a little look into it. So let's, let's, let's go over it. You know, we won't go too deep, but we'll,
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we'll get the important stuff. Okay. And I'd love to just hear your reactions to this. So does that
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sound good? Like I'll tell you what's going on and you tell me what it means. Cause that's kind
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of how our relationship works. Yeah. You did the thinking. I do the stating. So it's just cause I'm a
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man. Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brains of bronze. I do, I do the work. I clean. So first
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what, what I wanted to look at with this document is what is actually changing about strategy with
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the U S like what's going to be different now, because that's all that really matters. Right.
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I mean, as far as I'm concerned. So the really big thing is again, this takes away the America world
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police imperative that has been slowly been fading away. Anyway, it replaces a global rules-based order
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and democracy promotion language, which of course you saw with like things like USA,
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which we've already dismantled with a much narrower definition of us interests focused on sovereignty
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borders and domestic strength rather than universal values, which absolutely I'm for also weirdly,
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I feel like, you know, the whole joke with, with team America, world police, the movie was like
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the conservatives were all about this, you know, like go blow up. Like, you know, like
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fix things and like make, so, so progressives in the past were like, Oh, you know, how dare we go in
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and impose our values on these other cultures. And now we're like, you know what, we're just going to
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like, but the reason it shifted because, and we've mentioned this many times in the nineties,
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the dominant culture in the United States was Judeo-Christian culture. Today it's the urban
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monoculture. So of course, now that they're the dominant culture, they want to use the apparatus of the
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state to push their culture into other countries in the same way that the Judeo-Christian culture in
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the United States did, uh, back in the nineties. Yeah. It's just so funny because at first they
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were like, how dare you intervene? And then they're like, how dare you not intervene? How dare you not
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intervene? What are you doing? Yeah. Ask for this. Yeah. So this, this, there's also a shift in really
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elevating the Western hemisphere to the top priority and it's making migration and drugs and cartels and
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China's regional footprint, the central focus, instead of putting great power competition with
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China and Russia and the Indo-Pacific or Europe at the core, which is what we had before. It treats
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mass migration itself as a primary national security threat and justifies using military force, including
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cross-border strikes on cartels, as a routine tool for hemispheric enforcement, far beyond the earlier
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strategies of law enforcement and humanitarian framing. And I think this is really prescient
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of the Trump administration strategy. Yeah. It's our Bob strategy. They just adopted our parenting
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philosophy. Some parenting strategies, when a child is misbehaving, you like have to hold them down
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until they stop. That's like invading and maintaining a space. Yeah. And other parenting strategies,
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you like sit down and you talk with them. That's like the UN strategy. Like we're going to send
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you up on the scene. We'll see. And Trump just turned Soleimani into salsa. Bop. Yeah. Just bop. Just
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bam. Boom. Yeah. Big, beautiful turrets you have. Yeah. It'd be a shame. Exactly, man. Like that's,
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and I think it, it, one, it's more lightweight, it's more effective, and that is going to be the future
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of foreign policy. And I think this is, it's really helpful to see this in the strategy document,
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because what we're seeing now is a sort of literary formalization of something we've already
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seen in practice. And I really, one, I also love that. I mean, you know, we are like 100% against
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deontology. Actions speak louder than words for us. And also like results speak louder than like,
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you know, the, the performativeness of anything. And what we're seeing here is that the administration
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has already spoken with its actions. Now it's just sort of presenting the philosophy behind it,
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but we don't have to be like, well, we'll see if they actually follow through because this is what
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they've been doing already. So I also really like that about this. Another thing that's shifting
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is we're reorienting, reorienting our alliances in our European policy, especially around burden
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sharing and trade balances and Western identity. While we also openly critique European migration
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and regulatory policies, instead of emphasizing cohesive liberal institutions and shared democratic
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values. Like we're not like, oh, we're working with the EU on promoting democracy when we're like,
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Europe, what are you doing? Like, why are you erasing yourself? Like you're falling apart. And
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we're also kind of like, I think there's this in the document, you see this over and over this like
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general acknowledgement that Europe has lost the plot and basically shot itself more and more like
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not, it hasn't even shot itself in the foot. It's like shot an essential artery in its leg and it's
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bleeding out. And like, well, it was nice to know you. Yeah. Yeah. It was like Europe. I'm sorry.
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Like you're over now. I think maybe a better metaphor is like, we, we understand now that
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like Europe is, is, is like terminally ill or like irreparably addicted to fentanyl. And like,
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there's just no way around it. And we're like, I'm sorry, I have to disassociate from you. Like
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there's, you are not listening. You are incapable of listening at this point. I have tried to help you
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multiple times. It's over now. Like you need to help yourself. I do like that. They talk about
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promoting, you know, European values in Europe where they can basically be like, we can't put
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a foot on the lever to try to prevent the civilizational collapse of Europe. Like we
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will. But actually, so I'm, I'll jump ahead to, to, cause the other key thing is sort of what does
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this mean for our relationship with Europe? And my favorite thing about, or I think maybe the most
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clever thing that surprised me about this document insofar as it relates to our, our relationship
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with Europe is it basically, it's like, it says we're not, we're not, the United States is not
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going to closely work with the EU anymore, but it is going to essentially work with, how do they word
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it? They calls for cultivating resistance to the EU's current trajectory by encouraging and working
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with euros, euroskeptic or patriotic parties and governments inside member states, rather than
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primarily channeling relations through Brussels. In other words, it's going to go to like the
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dissident nationalist parties. Well, like, like Vance did when he met with the AEL in Germany.
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Exactly. And here it is formalizing that as a policy, but I think it's really brilliant. And
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this never would have occurred to me as a formal geopolitical national defense strategy, like,
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because I'm like, well, okay, like Europe is being written off, but no, the United States isn't
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actually writing off Europe. The United States is choosing to invest in the facets of Europe that may
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have a shot that are not terminal. And I like that. I think that's really cool. Now, of course,
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people on the left are like, Oh, like they're just going to invest in white nationals parties and like
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all these things. Right. But like what they're really trying to do is, is like, these people are
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attempting to create a sustainable version of Europe that isn't going to be completely financially
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drained. That may be solvent. That may have a shot at a future. And we will try to build alliances with
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them and the rest, like, I'm sorry, but they're gone. And I love that. I think that that's really,
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really cool. But of course, they're also like, Europe, you got to pay for your own stuff. Now,
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you know, we're not gonna, we're not gonna bankroll you anymore. There there's less deference to EU
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institutions in general, like they acknowledge that you guys are just bureaucratic. It's it's like,
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just like Sid, they're robots. They don't feel anything.
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They're just robots, Morty. It's okay to shoot them. They're robots.
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Yeah. And it's much more strict with US security guarantees. Like, sorry, we're not gonna like come
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in and solve your problems. Like you need to solve your own problems. And I think that's really cool.
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I mean, it's still frames quite cool to see formalized because so much of, you know, Trump
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doctrine, you know, he'll say it and his fans may get it. But then, you know, he takes the White House
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and his team took the White House, like the first administration of his. And they weren't putting
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stuff together like this because they didn't get it yet. They were like, well, they were so busy
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basically dealing with an openly antagonistic deep state that was actively undermining every move
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that like, what could they do? Really? Yeah. I mean, I loved what happened with the deep state that
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we went through the saga where they were like, the deep state doesn't exist. It's a paranoid
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conspiracy. And then we find out that Biden is like, basically incapable of thinking. And we're like,
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shouldn't we like, be doing something about the fact that we don't know who's running the government
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right now? And the left was basically like, oh, no, it's a bunch of unelected and really competent
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officials. I'm like, well, that's the thing we were worried about. Trust me, bro. Yeah,
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it was not great. We were talking about what do you mean? Like they went from the deep state isn't
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real to actually the government's in good hands because the deep state's been running it all along.
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Yeah. But speaking of the deep state, what I love about this too, and I just feel like I feel so heard
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is that Europe is very distinctly framed in this document as undergoing civilizational decline
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because of migration and regulation. Like they're being explicit about it. They're like Europe,
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like you boned, like demographic collapse, like just economically and specifically like the EU driven
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regulatory morass you are imposing on your own people. Because, you know, we've done episodes on
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like, well, Europe is opting out of relevance because of their privacy rules, because of their
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AI rules, because of all these things that they really are economically and technologically,
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let alone civilizationally, you know, like opting out of the future.
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Recently, which I thought was really big is, you know, we have a whole episode on like EU's erasing
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itself from history because it's erasing itself from AI training data, right? You know,
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I mean, you can't easily. And I love, I love though that the US like government, or at least
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the Trump administration is openly recognizing that.
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Well, they had their pro AI thing that everyone was freaking out about recently.
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Their one AI rule, you know, for, for, for every state, every region, which everyone freaks out
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about because they're like, it's an executive order. You can't do that at an executive order,
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which I mean, you can't, but large companies will find a way to use that because they don't care,
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you know, what you as a state have to say if they're operating in every state, right?
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Which makes a lot of sense, but outside of the, the Trump executive order on AI,
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the, the other big problem, which you told me about the EU and AI is EU has been trying so hard
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to make themselves green for a long time that they've been cutting down the amount of power
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that they're producing. And there's basically nowhere in the EU where it is cost effective
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Yeah, it is. It's a thing. So also there's so clearly, right? Like we're, we're stepping away
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from the EU, right? Like we're, we're, we're awkwardly like sidestepping, you know, at the
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party, like away from what used to be our good friend, which is great. I'm just loving it.
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But it's also kind of, then the question is, and we need to ask this and look at this, who then are
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our new allies? And in this document, there's a very clear elevation of some alliances and
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deprioritization of others, not just Europe. The new emphasis really is on partners in the Western
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hemisphere and like-minded, but not necessarily liberal governments elsewhere. And this is where
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a lot of very progressive policy outlets are freaking out because it used to be like, well,
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if they're urban monocultured and if they're quote unquote democratic, then they're going to be our
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ally. Whereas the, the focus here is more on, I would say alignment of, of interest in sovereignty
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and like mutual interest. And like, even if you're a totalitarian government, as long as our ends,
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like our desired end state and our, our mutual respect for sovereignty is there, like we're,
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we're happy to work together. So the document defines a strategy of what they call enlist and
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expand in the Western hemisphere, which prioritize, prioritizes regional champions. It will help the
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U S block migration, fight cartels and secure supply chains. And it's signaling that such
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hemispheric partners could receive more U S troops or security assistance and that economic integration
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than many traditional allies outside the region. And so it's kind of like, I mean, I think in a very
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practical way, like we'll help you if you help us, like it's much more mercenary, which being able to
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take this perspective actually gives us a lot more flexibility diplomatically. And I feel like it's a lot
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more transparent as well. Right. So for example, like if you can, which Trump was able to do,
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which is what the way he was able to end the war in Gaza was to get Erdogan on his side, right? Like
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Turkey. And then, you know, the fact that he's able to go to Erdogan and be like, Hey buddy, like,
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I understand that like, not exactly a democracy, not exactly, you know, friends with the Europe and the
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way that things are done, but like maybe, and if he had been a progressive, he wouldn't have been
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able to make that deal. He wouldn't have been able to go to him and be like, Hey, like, let's talk
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this through, like, let's figure something out. Right. Yeah. But under this new system, he's able
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to be like, look, you're broadly conservative, right? I'm broadly conservative, right? Like we have
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a lot that we hate about those people in the EU together. Well, and I want to be clear that the
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document still names NATO and a bunch of also Pacific allies like Japan and South Korea and
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Australia as important, but more like the really important theme here is that it's conditioning
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the close cooperation on higher defense spending and tougher economic policies toward China. And it
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also gestures toward a de facto great power tier with the US, China, and Russia as the key shapers of
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border, implying that many other states will be treated more as like swing partners or sub-regional
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allies rather than like specific partners. I think, you know, it's not really relevant economically on
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the global scale, geopolitically, like, yeah, but here's like, here's how it actually stands with
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Russia. Cause this all, cause that like matters, like, you know, so where do we sort of stand with
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Russia and Ukraine? And it's, it's no longer like, well, here's how things would be fair.
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Like here's where, you know, it's, it's not the parent who's like, well, to be fully fair,
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like you need to give Jimmy back this and you need to apologize to him. It's more just like,
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shut up and stop fighting. It's just like, stop, like, just stop. I don't care anymore. I don't
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want to hear it. Just shut up. Or I will like, you know, box all around. I don't care. Yeah. And
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it's not like a, well, like, so, so this, this document kind of implies like, honestly,
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if you guys just shut up, just stop. I don't care if the borders are right where they are right now,
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just stop. Like, it's not like, well, you have to give back this land and we're going to broker
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this. It's no, it is just stop. And I think that that's honestly a much more pragmatic approach.
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And so when it comes like to what the document is clear is it's basically like, we want this to
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stop it. Quote, an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine. And it wants a restoration
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of quote, strategic stability with Russia. And it's honestly like it is, I will, in all fairness,
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it's, it is not very antagonistic toward Russia, but I also kind of get it because, and I, it is
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more antagonistic towards the EU than Russia in many ways, but I think that's because it inherently
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recognizes the long-term damage that the EU has done to Europe. Like Putin may be, he may have boned
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the Russian people by like shredding the male population and, and preventing that, like, you
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know, accelerating demographic collapse in Russia, but he was one person like the EU, like these people,
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like this is like a giant, huge organization that is systematically and permanently neutering the EU.
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And this is like many countries. I feel like that's, that's a little more insidious. And it's
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like the U S seems a little more angry about that. There's kind of a similar situation with Taiwan
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as well, that the document elevates quote, deterring a conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving
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military overmatch end quote. So it's really just trying to say like, we're trying to make it clear
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in war games and like in from a strategic calculation to China, that it is not worth it to China to invade
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Taiwan. But it's also clear from the document that if in the end, China were to invade Taiwan,
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the emphasis would be on getting other allies in the region to lead and kind of how, like we did
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with Ukraine, like maybe we'll provide some weapons, like we, and you'll have to buy them from the U S and
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we'll all be benefiting from it, like with Israel, but you know, we're not going to like, we're not
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going to do anything ourselves per se. Like it's very much the BOP strategy or like, we may go in
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and vaporize someone, but we're not going to like get super involved. Like what we did with Iran.
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I think what we did with Iran is very indicative of what we can expect in general with U S foreign
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policy in the future until of course the Democrats come and take over and decide that they're going to do
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something. But I think at that point we're, we're so financially screwed as a country that we won't
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be able to afford to return to the old team America world police format. So I think honestly,
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this is here to stay. And I think we're going to get used to it because in the end, this policy is
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what I would expect from any country in their national security policy, like this whole world
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police, like we're going to go and take care of the world strategy or policy that United States has had
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since world war two, which we only really adopted like for a variety of complex reasons after like
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the middle of world war two, right? Like in the beginning, we were like, hands off any normal
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country, their imperative is to focus on stuff within their borders to take care of their own
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citizens. I mean, that's the whole conflict with, you know, internally with Israel that I think is
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driven so much unnecessary antisemitism is that people like, wait a second, like, why are we sending aid
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to like Israel? What, what about me here? Like, stop this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean,
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like, so also, you know, when you look at there's, there's not a lot of direct mention, for example,
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of our policy in Africa, like, well, but what about what's happening in Darfur right now? Like,
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you know, there's, there are genocides taking place, right? Like terrible things are happening in
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the world and they are terrible, but in the end, it's our responsibility is to solve problems for our
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own citizens. Like that's who pays our bills. They're the ones that we need to take care of.
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I'm, I'm, I'm. And I see this being electorally a really smart position to be taking. Yeah. 100%.
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Yeah. I think it's, it's, it's what the average American wants. I think it's what people voted for.
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Yeah. Yeah. Certainly if like Kamala Harris had won, maybe I would see that there'd be more of a
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mandate for our interventionism in things like the genocide taking place in Darfur, which of course
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wouldn't be happening anyway, because no, the genocides in Palestine, didn't you know, Malcolm,
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didn't you know? Yeah. Didn't you know? This genocide doesn't matter because it's happening to
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black people apparently. Yeah. Screw them. But yeah, I just, I think this is absolutely fantastic.
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I think this is extremely favorable. Oh, by the way, yes, the U.S. still does, speaking of Palestine,
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see Israel as a key ally, but very, it's very toned down. This is a very muted thing. We're like,
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okay, sure. Like they're a strategic ally in the region, but it, it very, the document explicitly
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is like, we're over the forever wars. We are no longer, this is no longer a region that we prioritize
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there. The document does refer to quote, ensuring that Israel remains secure, but it wants to protect
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energy flows and shipping lanes and continuing U S interests that, that are relevant in the area.
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But it definitely is like, this is, this is not our priority. Our priority is our border security.
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And, you know, as demographic collapse plays out, like Peter's eye hand in his book,
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the end of the world is just the beginning was really all about this. Like this was exactly what
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you would expect as countries start to price in demographic collapse and recognize the declining
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relevance of many countries and regions, both politically, but from a defense and population
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standpoint as well. So I think this is important for everyone to just sort of internalize is like,
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here's what we can expect from the U S and here's what we can't expect. And I think this is also really
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going to influence how warfare is going to play out in the future. Bop strategy is going to pervade.
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Yes. I love it. We need to get on the militarization of bopping when the countries get out of line and
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they're not listening, they get smacked on the nose. It was a, well, I mean, I think we really did.
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That was like Iran recently, right? Like that was very much a bop strategy.
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100%. Yeah. Right. It was okay. We'll, we'll bomb a bunch of infrastructure for like two days and then
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stop. And when it was even like, you know, Israel loosened, loosened the lid. They were like,
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like, we came up and we're like smash and then, you know, opened it for you. Yeah.
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Someone else has to work with us too. And I think that it's such a great example because Israel did
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the vast majority of the legwork and Israel benefited from the vast majority of the legwork.
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Now we absolutely did benefit from, from the contribution that we made, but again, like the
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big emphasis here, which is emphasized again and again, is like, okay, Europe, sure. We'll work with
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you, but you're going to have to pay for like the value that you need. Like when you benefit primarily
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from this, you need to pay primarily for it. We're not going to bankroll you anymore. Someone once said
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also like the best way to understand Trump and his decisions, which I should probably do this is read
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art of the deal. He said that after reading art of the deal, like you can really understand like
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the vast majority of Trump's policy decisions. And, and I do think that it really shows up when he's
00:28:13.980
like, we got a bad deal. Like, it's like, why are we paying for this? Why are they paying
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for this? Like, this is not, I think maybe we should be looking at that, but I do appreciate
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that. I mean, what are you going to do? I thought it was, it was ghostwritten mostly, right?
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Yeah. But it's like the spirit of his strategy.
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Basically based on interviews with him or something.
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Yeah. So he didn't write it obviously, but like he, it's still, it was very much his thing. And
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yeah, it 100% it is, it is a description of his strategy with regard to business dealings and
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whatnot. No, it's, you know, he didn't write it though. Let's not delude ourselves. But when I say
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mercenary, I don't say it in a derogatory fashion, but of course, you know, the, the, the progressives
00:29:00.500
on Reddit who decry this, the, the, the liberals who are writing about this and freaking out you
00:29:06.060
know, they are saying things like mercenary and they're saying things like, Oh, we're no longer
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the world police. And they, they mean it in a really bad way. We're no longer the world police,
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but also there it's, I think it's very, it's like a deeply, it's a deep ideological divide.
00:29:20.020
There is helicopter parenting and there's F around and find out parenting. Right. And we,
00:29:25.620
we are in that quadrant of F around and find out. And I, yeah, I think on a, from a geopolitical
00:29:32.540
standpoint, I'm in favorite as well. So I love you very much, Malcolm. And what am I making
00:29:36.620
you for dinner tonight? We're doing the curry that you started to, I don't know why you
00:29:40.740
started to thaw it out, but you started to thaw it out. Because it's getting to the point
00:29:43.660
where that, that like, you can only keep curry frozen for so long. Like, okay, well let's
00:29:48.720
do it. Mango curry. I'm making sourdough tonight. So you just want that with sourdough to like
00:29:53.180
dip in it or something? No, it will not taste good with sourdough. It's a, it's a,
00:29:56.080
like a military curry. So it needs to be with rice. Okay. And so we'll cook it. You may want
00:30:00.700
to add a bit of like coconut oil or something to it. We don't have coconut oil. It'll come
00:30:04.420
down and taste it a bit early. That's supposed to be how we're handling it.
00:30:07.300
What I can do, how about I saute some peppers or no? I do not think that that's going to go
00:30:13.620
well with mango curry. Okay. Then I'm just, yeah, I'll, I'll just simmer it in a pan to warm
00:30:17.120
it up and we'll go. Sound good? Yep. That works for me. Oh, and would you like me to try to make
00:30:24.060
cuddle corn? I mean, the kids will eat it now, but you could tell me if you like it and then I can
00:30:27.500
make a batch dedicated just to you. Oh yeah. Let's try cuddle corn. See, see how that's done. You are
00:30:32.900
such a thoughtful wife. Then I could just like, you know, we can put it in a container and you can
00:30:37.280
take it to your room. Like, I'm not suggesting you eat it for dinner, but like, I'm going to be down
00:30:41.640
there anyway. Shall I? Yeah. Okay. I love you so much, Malcolm. And I love America. God bless you
00:30:49.040
and God bless America. Why? Oh my gosh. Have a good one. Bye.
00:30:58.260
Oh, Titan. Are you fighting like a power ranger? Which power ranger are you?
00:31:28.300
That is not a good game. That is not what you said you were playing.