Based Camp - What if we just... left the United Nations + NATO？

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be asking the

00:00:03.860 question of, is it really a sound idea and a sound investment for the United States to stay

00:00:12.080 in NATO? And this is an interesting question for me to visit, and I think you to visit as well,

00:00:18.900 because during Trump's first real rise to power, while I had these perverse ideas of,

00:00:25.280 wouldn't it be so fun if he actually won i was still a responsible citizen and i would hear

00:00:33.360 about these ideas of leaving nato and i remember just thinking well of course that's a bad idea

00:00:40.420 because all of them say it's a bad idea and surely they wouldn't just say like they're not being paid

00:00:48.280 by nato or something are they they don't have some vested interest in pretending like nato is an

00:00:52.780 existentially important thing for america to be in it certainly seemed like well it's the

00:00:56.660 responsible thing to do we're all grown up now you know we we work together and have meetings

00:01:02.240 where we put on our business suits and talk sternly about international problems oh my god

00:01:07.160 is nato actually the kid from bojack horseman uh businessman i that is unironically nato but no no

00:01:16.140 so i saw i saw that and and as time has gone on and i want to say like this has been a recent

00:01:22.160 thing for me where i have revisited this question and i was like what was i thinking so like i want

00:01:29.760 to go into this but we're going to do it from simone because she's the one who did all the

00:01:33.060 research this time so take us away simone right so i want to put things into perspective to start 0.98

00:01:41.840 things off a typical middle income american household is paying 337 dollars and 50 cents

00:01:48.220 annually on the european theater and nato related missions via their taxes that's that's a lot of

00:01:54.380 money that's a lot of money for a middle-income family yeah meanwhile what what is nato doing for

00:02:00.120 us like for real actually you know what have they done for us it seems like i mean it's it's clear

00:02:06.360 and i'm going to go into it we are doing america is doing the vast majority of the work it's mostly

00:02:11.000 just us defending europe and and being like their outsourced defense in return for nothing in fact

00:02:19.620 when we ask for them to do us as solid like with the war in iran countries member members of nato

00:02:26.340 like spain are like oh you can't use you know yeah i want to point out how crazy what spain did

00:02:32.020 we have a base in their territory that we pay them to have in their territory and they wouldn't

00:02:42.300 and and keep in mind spain has said like leaders of spain have on multiple times say iran is an

00:02:47.560 existential threat that needs to be dealt with before trump went into this war he called up

00:02:52.880 various european leaders being like are you like they didn't know that he was about to attack but

00:02:57.620 basically they were like yeah this needed to happen right and that is what motivated him

00:03:02.200 partially to do this they then doing a war that is fundamentally on their behalf to an extent

00:03:08.260 they have more terrorist attacks than we do right these attacks are often funded by iran proxies

00:03:14.500 would not and keep on we're like boosting their local economy by having our military base in

00:03:19.660 their region like they're not paying for that they didn't let us refuel there and as a result

00:03:25.100 of us not refueling there and having to do in the sky refuels american servicemen died right like

00:03:33.100 that was some of the only people who died during this war due to spain's incalcitrance on this

00:03:39.180 yeah why are we paying to defend them if they don't come help us and i want to go into that

00:03:44.540 we the taxpayers three hundred dollars a year and this i mean we we probably you know i mean like

00:03:51.980 i'm sure a lot of the people listening to this are paying proportionally actually a lot more

00:03:55.300 in like i want to i actually want to before you get into all the like let's get into like the

00:04:00.040 theory of this the reasons why people say that we're actually paying this right so anybody who

00:04:04.780 looks at this honestly is going to tell you that okay right now nato is a strictly bad deal for

00:04:11.520 the united states to understand why it's a strictly bad deal right now is our current

00:04:16.980 primary geopolitical enemies or core geopolitical enemies are iran which nato refuses to help with

00:04:24.200 and china which nato is not in a position to help with yeah it's not about china at all it's about

00:04:30.420 countering the soviet union right but the soviet union doesn't exist we'll get to that in a second

00:04:36.380 but the point being is that nato militarily right now is completely pointless from the perspective

00:04:44.040 of the united states yeah even if and people could be like but what if russia attacks neighboring

00:04:51.080 countries in europe right and it's like what if russia attacks neighboring countries in europe

00:04:57.780 suppose and we'll get into this but like suppose russia was not bled dry right now did not have a 0.52

00:05:06.000 failing military industry right now did not just show how catastrophically incompetent they are

00:05:13.060 in a military context suppose they had working nukes and if people are like malcolm of course

00:05:19.020 russia has working nukes we basically know as a fact they don't russia has not won a successful

00:05:25.680 nuclear test since before i was born 38 years ago okay sorry correction it's been 36 years since

00:05:37.820 their last nuclear test so a little bit less than i've been alive but still far too long for it to

00:05:43.820 be plausible that they still have working nukes especially given the geopolitical advantage they

00:05:48.220 would have by showing the world they had working nukes if russia had working nukes or was confident

00:05:54.160 they had working nukes they would run a test as a means to show us hey we still have working nukes

00:06:02.740 North Korea can run tests. They do that to show us every other country in the world with working 0.73

00:06:09.760 nukes, other than the US who nobody doubts has working nukes, regularly does tests of their

00:06:14.700 nukes, right? The fact that we saw that Russia couldn't even keep an airplane working or a truck's 0.82

00:06:20.180 tires turned shows us pretty hard that they probably don't have working nukes.

00:06:25.960 So what do they have? But I'm like, suppose they had working nukes. Suppose they did not

00:06:31.720 have a depleted military right now it's still irrelevant for us because the maximum they would

00:06:37.460 do in in like a maximally successful military campaign is conquer estonia latvia lithuania

00:06:45.400 the ukraine and maybe move a bit into poland okay and as supposing they did all of that

00:06:52.460 one their bureaucracy would be completely strained by this the territories that they captured all of

00:06:59.080 competent people would flee and land isn't really that relevant to the current geopolitical context

00:07:04.120 what you need are tech workers and they would be the first to leave right and then or like high

00:07:10.440 paying white collar workers or finance sector workers right like you don't win a lot these days

00:07:14.820 by taking over an effing potato field that you mind okay and then on top of all of that europe

00:07:21.760 would for their own political interests oppose this and fight against this russia economically

00:07:28.440 speaking is puny compared to the rest of europe at this point europe would fight them back and at a

00:07:36.860 best case scenario for russia they'd be stuck on the polish border and get a little bit of polish

00:07:42.740 land like this is absolute best best best case scenario for russia okay that is irrelevant to

00:07:50.220 the united states geopolitical security we do not need to worry about the ussr taking over europe

00:07:57.820 in turning it communist. In fact, there is a much bigger threat of NATO countries themselves

00:08:04.140 voting themselves communists or voting themselves into Islamist states than there is of

00:08:10.880 freaking communist, like the Soviet Union taking over Europe at this point. It is stupid. And now 1.00

00:08:19.480 I'm saying, okay, but now let's look at the reality. Russia right now does not have a big

00:08:24.280 remaining population to play they lost a war against an irrelevant backwater without a 0.81

00:08:32.120 meaningful military the ukraine right at the start of this war they have the their their losses have

00:08:39.840 been staggering their demographic situation is worse than almost any other country in europe

00:08:46.460 and that saying a lot which means that not only could they not for field an army now they're not 1.00

00:08:54.920 going to be able to field an army tomorrow and their freaking military is full of useless junk 0.92

00:09:01.640 at this point if they were going up against a real military power it's just frankly irrelevant 0.97

00:09:07.800 and if the u.s wanted to get into one of these wars like if russia said well we're going to

00:09:12.160 attack because you're not in nato anymore okay well the u.s could still say well we will defend

00:09:18.060 this country if you try to attack them and just remove our pointless spending in other territory

00:09:24.840 we do not need nato to be aligned with the countries we're aligned with we don't need some

00:09:31.680 like like joanie mitchell says in his song lyric we don't need no piece of paper from the city hall

00:09:38.040 like you don't need a treaty to be like i promise to defend you if you're attacked like dude if we

00:09:43.540 think that russia is doing a bad thing we're trying to help out countries that we're we have

00:09:47.860 aligned interests with we'll get in there and i want to point out people can be like well is that

00:09:54.120 really true you know would america and would russia believe that america would actually

00:09:59.600 stand up for these it's like yeah what we did for ukraine we sent them a ton of effing money

00:10:04.320 and a ton of military supplies that makes it very like keep in mind people can be like well

00:10:09.820 that's not the same as telling russia you'll go to war if they attack and i'm like no it's worse

00:10:14.840 for russia it's literally worse because russia would have preferred america got involved in the 0.99

00:10:21.360 war in ukraine because then they would have had a reason to withdraw without looking stupid and 0.99

00:10:26.660 buffoonish but we didn't we just kept giving them money until they bled their own country dry 0.99

00:10:33.420 to an extent that is almost comical that virgozin was able to just turn around and march to moscow 0.60

00:10:39.220 shows that it is actually the fact that nobody's willing to attack russia that led russia to

00:10:45.060 essentially genocide its own fighting forces and not leave protective forces within their

00:10:49.780 own country like you normally would was in a war so okay russia is not relevant people can then say

00:10:54.860 okay well what about europe in 15 or 50 or 100 years europe could if we are not protecting them

00:11:06.320 develop a geopolitical interest that is orthogonal to the interests of the united states and i'm like

00:11:13.000 bro we're already there they are not meaningfully our allies anymore if you look at the way that

00:11:20.500 european countries have been acting recently if you look at the decisions they're making

00:11:24.320 not only are they not our allies right now they're not politically relevant go they act like fascists

00:11:30.720 they arrest people for writing things like islam can be questioned on a wall germany literally

00:11:35.720 the their citizenship voted majority for adl and conservatives and they froze the adl out of power

00:11:41.620 the two parties that wanted to limit immigration through one seeking a secret police force after

00:11:46.880 them and monitoring them just like the Nazis did. And then two, just saying we're basically

00:11:52.160 ignoring election results. Reform won overwhelmingly in the UK recently. And do you think reform wants

00:11:58.820 NATO? No, the factions in Europe that are aligned with us don't want NATO either. So, okay, not only

00:12:05.180 do you have all that, but even if Europe was our bestest of buds and really was long-term aligned

00:12:10.940 with us, economically and geopolitically in the future, they're irrelevant. If you look at their

00:12:15.820 current fertility rate the fact that they have blocked ai training on their own data and the 0.70

00:12:21.260 fact that they shut down a bunch of their nuclear plants or went on all of these green orgasm trips 0.96

00:12:26.340 they are literally the worst place in the world to run an ai company from and that's the future 0.98

00:12:31.780 of the world economy so they both don't have the demographics to make themselves work in the future 0.99

00:12:36.540 and they don't and people said okay well malcolm what about eastern europe like eastern europe

00:12:41.980 there's this idea of like eastern europe combining into like a state that like opposes western europe

00:12:46.220 they're like do you like eastern europe because eastern europe is more trad and i'm like no i don't

00:12:52.600 like eastern europe that much eastern europe is fine i like them more than western europe i will

00:12:57.080 absolutely give you that uh poland's pretty cool some of the other countries in eastern europe are

00:13:02.340 pretty cool but the problem with eastern europe is that it is tremendously corrupt slash catholic

00:13:09.720 basically the same thing and people can be like no it's it's true when people are like oh well

00:13:14.360 some catholic countries are wealthy and i'm like are they tremendously corrupt in spite of that

00:13:18.220 and they're like yeah they're tremendously corrupt it's like yes it's very hard to long-term do

00:13:23.220 business so long as that culture has a grip within those countries so they can be allies but they'll

00:13:30.320 never be allies in the way that western europe used to be our ally because when we said western

00:13:35.400 Europe, everybody knows we didn't mean Italy and Spain. We meant Protestant Europe. That was the

00:13:42.480 heart of the alliance because we had a shared cultural tradition with them. Like everybody

00:13:47.160 realizes that, right? When we're like, we have a shared culture with Western Europe. Nobody was

00:13:51.220 thinking Italy. Nobody was thinking Spain. They weren't. That's why we're mad about Latin American

00:13:57.220 immigrants. They were thinking England. They were thinking Scandinavia. They were thinking Germany. 1.00

00:14:03.700 okay and i don't think we have a shared culture with germany anymore so anyway they were thinking

00:14:09.040 denmark the one country that would be the exception here would be france if you want to say ireland is

00:14:14.580 also an exception here not at all ireland has never really been a meaningful ally of the united

00:14:19.100 states they are a terrorist country formed in terrorism killing children they didn't help us

00:14:25.220 in world war ii uh they've never really helped us in any meaningful war they they are not a 0.65

00:14:30.820 meaningful ally to the united states and never have been the only reason america ever got it

00:14:35.560 into its head that ireland is a country that we should think positively of is because we accepted

00:14:41.780 huge waves of migrants from ireland which i think was probably a mistake because they've 1.00

00:14:49.480 incepted our country into thinking positively about a country that has never done anything 1.00

00:14:53.940 but stab us in the back every opportunity they've ever gotten a note here i say this

00:14:59.240 without bias because i'm saying this as somebody with irish ancestors like my dad's name is michael 0.76

00:15:04.700 collins okay ireland is a terrorist state that has never been an ally of the united states and

00:15:10.440 has always opposed us geopolitically so the point i'm making here is you guys do your thing get

00:15:17.400 together maybe you can come up with some catholic way of dealing with corruption mass executions or

00:15:22.360 something i i don't know you guys figure it out but you're gonna have a very hard time being

00:15:27.540 relevant into the future of the global economy if you can't handle that and the bigger problem

00:15:34.520 that the eastern european bloc countries have is that they are not immune to the urban monoculture

00:15:40.460 it just hit their door later i used to think they were i used to see all these cool gaming

00:15:44.760 companies coming out of these countries you know like cd project red and stuff like that

00:15:48.200 and then they got eaten by woke and i was like oh you guys aren't resistant to this you're just as 0.96

00:15:55.540 your tech leaders are just as excited to jump on woke dick as anyone else so okay that's not 0.97

00:16:02.120 relevant and then it's so okay malcolm if you say you need to pay attention to the countries that 0.98

00:16:08.320 are going to be geopolitically and technologically relevant in the future and economically relevant

00:16:12.820 in the future who are you building stronger alliances with it's like well you know obviously

00:16:18.720 israel oh okay we're already doing that okay well that makes sense that's the alliance that's worth

00:16:23.540 investing in where else might i invest you know maybe bit of poland bit of turkey you know japan

00:16:31.460 i think while they have terrible fertility rates at least they have technology south korea has

00:16:36.260 terrible fertility rates but at least they have technology so those countries are are worth

00:16:40.880 investing in australia worth investing in a relationship in with but yeah i just nato is

00:16:47.000 utterly pointless there is like no reason to keep it operational at this point but continuous instead

00:16:53.520 Simone. Sorry, I had to crash out on this. I understand. It is ridiculous. And in fact,

00:17:02.940 I mean, aside from NATO not really doing anything for us, I would vote that we not only leave NATO,

00:17:07.920 but also the UN. I mean, in addition to that over $300 that your typical taxpayer is paying on

00:17:14.180 NATO, they're spending roughly $90 to $100 per year on the UN per tax return. And that's not

00:17:22.220 for like mid-range tax tax paying household that is like per tax paying household like including

00:17:28.840 low income i'm sorry but the u.n must be firm with you let me see your whole palace or else

00:17:34.060 or else what or else we will be very very angry with you and we will write you a letter telling

00:17:43.120 you how angry we are that's astonishing so that means that per mid-range household that's probably

00:17:49.040 $350, $600. Yeah. So that means for the UN and NATO, you're probably paying around $1,000 a year

00:17:55.180 on the UN. Yeah. And so, and keep in mind, like the NATO is, it operates within the UN

00:18:01.660 charter framework, explicitly referencing article 51 on self-defense.

00:18:05.940 Yeah. F that.

00:18:08.200 No, like actually. So, but let's, let's start with NATO.

00:18:11.340 Look at the UN and people are like, oh, but the UN is, the UN is constantly putting like

00:18:15.420 countries that chop up journalists as like leading their human rights councils and stuff

00:18:19.500 it's it's ridiculous we'll talk about that in a little bit let's start with nato it was in this

00:18:27.680 i think it just when you look at its creation it's just so obvious that it has run its course

00:18:32.340 and it doesn't matter anymore it was created early in the cold war as a direct response to

00:18:37.620 the soviet union's expansionist actions there isn't a soviet union anymore i get that russia

00:18:42.860 is a little expansionist, but it's also about to contract significantly. Just look at their

00:18:46.600 demographics. The situation just isn't what it was. There is no iron curtain anymore.

00:18:54.260 And you also don't have Western European nations crippled by World War II. They've matured.

00:19:02.840 They are much older now. I mean, there's even some language in the NATO charter that kind of

00:19:09.820 implies that they didn't expect it to last very long they're like well after 20 years you know

00:19:14.160 like they say anyone can leave really easily like they were sort of just the language implies to me

00:19:19.600 that the people who wrote it thought it would be sort of a 20-year commitment and that maybe people

00:19:23.840 after that would kind of walk away because you know European countries would recover from World

00:19:28.240 War II and they'd be fine on their own and you know that the Cold War would end and it did but

00:19:33.740 we just kept NATO going and this is something that happens with many bureaucratic institutions

00:19:39.060 and just general like group-based power things they just stick around well past their their

00:19:45.820 point but what nato does because people don't really understand what it's all about is they

00:19:51.940 coordinate on defense they coordinate on crisis management and they engage in cooperative security

00:19:57.800 it's it's very similar to a neighborhood watch group so unlike with the un where where countries

00:20:03.600 like pay in for this overhead of this bureaucratic structure. NATO is much more of a like, hey,

00:20:10.600 let's all promise to like have each other's backs and to make sure that that we are ourselves

00:20:16.840 investing in defense. So there are obligations of members of NATO to spend certain amounts of money,

00:20:23.880 but the spend obligations are on their own internal defense budget. It's not on like,

00:20:28.740 i promise to contribute this or that and they don't spend it we're the only ones who do it

00:20:34.400 yeah so it's well we're not the only ones but i'll get into how much exactly we're spending but

00:20:42.280 here are the things that they that they do they they regularly meet and talk sort of like oh you

00:20:49.380 know here's what's going on with defense here's the strategy what do we think they also do joint

00:20:54.100 military planning and some exercises they they will coordinate on how they deploy standing forces

00:21:00.020 and then they they sometimes commonly fund some some command structures and infrastructure

00:21:06.260 like naval bases and stuff so the most important thing about nato is article five the collective

00:21:12.320 defense point which basically is like if you attack one of our one of the members of nato

00:21:18.500 we consider that an attack on all of us and we will treat it as such like we all we all agree

00:21:23.860 that like basically if you come for one of us we're all going to come back at you yeah but that's

00:21:29.020 you know as as has been demonstrated members don't necessarily have your back and all of this is like

00:21:34.880 it's very non-binding well no hold on people would say that iran didn't technically attack us so

00:21:40.060 article five but that's not really relevant it's like you're being an active d when we are paying

00:21:45.940 to have a military base in your country that's protecting your country and leading to the death

00:21:50.160 of American service members over something so utterly petty is social signaling. Yes. And

00:21:56.260 let's go over what NATO doesn't do, because I think that's the bigger thing. They don't have

00:22:03.140 any concrete financial obligations in terms of like contributing to group efforts. So even if

00:22:08.880 someone is helping you, they might do, oh my gosh, tax, please. They might not actually like help.

00:22:15.640 So, for example, after this 2014 summit, all members pledged to aim for 2% of GDP on defense, with at least 20% of that on major equipment modernization. And pretty much everyone agreed to do this.

00:22:31.120 But then in 2025, there was an updated commitment at the Hague Summit where members, except for Spain, which just seems to always want to be like, yeah, I'm a member, except don't make me do anything the members do, agreed for a 5% of GDP annually by 2035 on core defense requirements and defense and security related spending.

00:22:49.520 so again like spain wasn't really willing to do this but like basically all they're saying is

00:22:55.840 hey i plan on again if this were like a neighborhood watch group it's like well i

00:23:00.160 plan on having security cameras out and i plan on arming my home so that i can be there to help

00:23:05.760 both myself and everyone else here so that we can make sure that we're the kind of neighborhood where

00:23:10.100 criminals don't feel safe that's kind of the gist of it but nato also doesn't guarantee that members

00:23:16.800 will host bases for each other. NATO can't force a country to go to war or host a base and all

00:23:23.020 participation in operations and basing arrangements are negotiated and voluntary. So I don't really

00:23:27.940 know why we need to have NATO when all of this is on a case-by-case basis anyway. We have no

00:23:35.480 more luck approaching Spain about having a base with NATO existing or without it existing. And I

00:23:41.740 almost feel like just having bilateral agreements would be more efficient and more effective because 0.77

00:23:45.760 you actually have more chits in that case you know it's like well oh like we're grandfathered

00:23:50.360 into this whole thing and blah blah blah blah it's more like hey look i'm not going to give you x

00:23:54.700 unless you give me y and it would be much more effective and i think much more efficient another

00:23:59.160 thing that that made of nato doesn't do and the un does this a little bit more is nato doesn't

00:24:03.980 have any sort of standing army everyone's just contributing on a voluntary basis certain numbers

00:24:09.440 of their own troops you don't know what quality you're going to get you know

00:24:11.940 simone don't don't worry you can barely hear him okay good um i'm trying to aim him away from the

00:24:20.740 the microphone but yeah like you don't know if or when troops from any participant are going to come

00:24:26.640 and help out it's just kind of like oh yeah sure maybe like maybe we'll like pitch someone in so

00:24:31.160 it's like if again if we had like a neighborhood watch group it's like yeah like we'll we'll help

00:24:35.440 if someone's like you know invading your home but like maybe they'll send like you know their

00:24:40.060 their 16 year old son with like a like a baseball bat two hours after the police have arrived you

00:24:46.540 know like not very helpful and the uk they're trying to get their one measly ship down there

00:24:52.400 the right exactly exactly you know is it prevents us from attacking european countries yeah

00:24:57.460 that that is something that we should be seriously considering

00:25:12.760 and there's also just no way to meaningfully enforce anything within nato so again i'm like

00:25:18.800 what's the point like we should be i think it would just make so much more sense especially

00:25:23.580 considering the geopolitical situation that we're all in now and the way that dynamics work now to

00:25:31.000 just on an ad hoc basis negotiate bilateral agreements with each individual country using

00:25:37.800 various economic and social incentives trade partnerships etc like as as bargaining chips

00:25:44.760 it's more efficient and effective and i think you would get better results for any participating

00:25:50.620 country plus you would i think you would encourage more alignment like right now a lot of countries

00:25:57.260 that are in nato and in the un are like oh i don't have to actually like be useful to the united

00:26:02.440 states like i'm just gonna i'm gonna benefit from their large broad defense infrastructure anyway

00:26:08.040 whereas if we didn't have all these assumptions associated with nato and the un they would be

00:26:13.420 much more likely i think to try to be less dickish to us so there would be less dickish if they

00:26:22.480 didn't like if they didn't feel they had us in their back pocket like yeah they take it for

00:26:26.600 granted and they shouldn't and we shouldn't be responsible for defending sort of being the de

00:26:35.200 facto security system for nations who are not paying us for it and who are not working to

00:26:42.340 help us in any way, who sometimes work counter to our best interests as a country, and even work

00:26:49.020 with our adversaries. It's ridiculous. Now, so there are lots of examples also of NATO members 0.90

00:26:54.940 not really contributing or helping out when asked. Article 5 was only invoked once in NATO.

00:27:01.360 It was post 9-11. It was by the United States. It was in 2001. NATO invoked Article 5 after

00:27:08.380 we were you know we were hit by terrorists and while allies offered broad political solidarity

00:27:16.640 there were some like limitations once again spain this is this goes way back did not obtain

00:27:26.200 parliamentary approval to send combat forces initially and it provided much more limited

00:27:30.900 support like they provided i bet they don't have a meaningful military so i decided to research how

00:27:37.180 easy it would actually be and spain spends about half what the uk spends on its military and given

00:27:42.620 that due to bureaucratic incompetence indicative of an eu country the uk hasn't even been able to

00:27:50.040 field a single battleship recently i suspect spain is probably in a similar zone of bureaucratic

00:27:56.800 incompetence and lack of will to fight on behalf of the country at this point for people who are

00:28:02.700 being systemically replaced as we've seen the spanish government attempting to do

00:28:07.300 and note here in spain it's different from the u.s there's been politicians that have gone up and

00:28:11.700 said like that's the goal of our uh like in the u.s they've let this through other words in spain

00:28:18.520 it's incredibly explicit that that's one of the goals and and the people that they're replacing

00:28:22.800 don't care about spain either so you know quiero pedirles a las personas migrantes y racializadas

00:28:29.420 that, please, don't leave us alone with so much facha.

00:28:33.420 And of course, we want to vote, of course, we have achieved papers, 0.98

00:28:38.420 regularization already, and now let's go for nationality

00:28:41.420 or change the law so they can vote, of course.

00:28:44.420 Hopefully, theory of replacement,

00:28:46.420 hopefully we can save this country from fachas and racists

00:28:51.420 with migrant people, with working people.

00:28:54.420 Of course, I want to have replacement. 1.00

00:28:56.420 Well, we really, yeah, I don't know what's going on with Spain, especially with NATO.

00:29:00.940 And then some other nations too, when we invoked Article 5, imposed really severe caveats.

00:29:07.460 Like they would, they had all these restrictions on troop use, like there were geographic limits

00:29:12.640 or prohibitions on offensive operations or requirements for home government approval

00:29:17.520 before engaging.

00:29:18.680 And then this really fragmented command, it reduced effectiveness and it increased risks

00:29:24.080 for allies who are willing to fight in high intensity the only time article 5 was ever

00:29:28.580 activated it didn't work yeah like germany like restricted its its troops to like quieter northern

00:29:35.380 regions they're like oh we'll help out like where there's no serious conflict like you know like

00:29:41.700 your home is being invaded and and you're like oh like they're in the basement i'm like locked in

00:29:46.120 this closet or like you know oh i'm going in to try to stop him he's trying to like raid my safe 0.73

00:29:50.780 And Germany's like, okay, I've got the backyard. 0.56

00:29:54.100 We're being scammed. 0.85

00:29:55.560 NATO is an active scam, but far worse than anything Israel is doing. 0.88

00:29:59.440 Yeah, yeah. 0.68

00:30:00.500 And then there was the 2003 Iraq crisis.

00:30:03.840 Turkey had its Article 4 request moment.

00:30:06.520 In early 2003, Turkey, which borders Iraq, asked NATO for defensive assistance.

00:30:11.800 They wanted Patriot air defense missiles and some other measures

00:30:15.020 because it feared retaliation of the U.S. invaded Iraq.

00:30:18.080 And France and Germany and Belgium blocked NATO planning for weeks. They argued that preparing defenses would signal that war was inevitable and then undermine UN diplomacy. And this left Turkey feeling super exposed. And they accused allies of failing their obligations. So it wasn't just the US that was sort of left feeling exposed. Turkey felt that way too.

00:30:38.320 the country the only country in nato that matters is turkey yeah the biggest military in nato they

00:30:44.880 are in an incredibly important geopolitical position we would be better off just forming

00:30:49.560 a better relationship with turkey especially because the values of turkey aren't even in

00:30:54.060 alignment with the values of the rest of nato trump and erdogan get along really well turkey

00:30:59.580 because of russia's actions is increasingly being pushed into the united states sphere of influence

00:31:05.200 but why not just form a nato with turkey and say f you to all of those european

00:31:09.920 p words well and again not a nato we don't need that it's it's a group project okay anyone who's

00:31:18.180 like gone to some you know nonsense make work university in america has or gone through like

00:31:23.940 high school in america has been subject to a group project what is a group project a group project is

00:31:28.820 when you get given a group assignment in a class and inevitably like you know most people do

00:31:35.060 absolutely nothing and then one student ends up doing everything we need to just admit on a on a 0.99

00:31:41.180 geopolitical international societal level that group projects are stupid and that in the end 0.97

00:31:47.280 if you need to agree to something you guys need to like you know between two people you know decide 0.98

00:31:52.360 hey our interests are aligned tit for tat here's what we're going to offer each other you know

00:31:56.920 here's what we're going to do or we both want the same thing here's how we're going to work together

00:31:59.940 and we don't need the standing ongoing group agreements they're just well no but the reason

00:32:06.200 they would say you need the standing ongoing group agreement is for deterrence they would

00:32:09.980 no well yeah but you know what it deterrence exists if you understand okay nations a b and c

00:32:17.100 are all aligned in this one like right like they all these european nations don't like the idea

00:32:23.140 of russia expanding into western europe okay and neither does the united states so if i'm russia

00:32:30.560 i will understand that they don't want that and that they will coordinate on stopping me 0.92

00:32:34.580 if if i go into that we don't we don't need some stupid like weird agreement i want to make 0.90

00:32:41.040 something clear for people who think nato is like a magic wand that forces people to go to war to 0.97

00:32:45.560 defend a country. If Russia decided to attack Estonia, for example, or Finland, for example,

00:32:53.520 the probability that any individual European nation would decide to militarily intervene

00:32:59.640 while NATO was still fully formed and active versus when NATO was not active, like e.g. if

00:33:08.160 the U.S. pulled out of NATO and NATO completely disbanded, would be about equivalent. By this,

00:33:14.060 what i mean is a lot of the countries are just not good they're going to be like i don't want

00:33:17.040 war with russia i don't want to escalate i don't want to you know how european countries are

00:33:21.460 they'll be like yes article five but but but as we've seen before historical limited effectiveness

00:33:26.980 also shows that it it acting as a deterrent is is fairly effectless now russia's gonna be like

00:33:32.540 yeah sure everyone's gonna come and help actually felt like doing something they would do it

00:33:37.740 regardless of whether or not nato was there exactly exactly either your incentives are

00:33:42.240 lined or they're not. And this basically non-binding agreement doesn't change anything.

00:33:48.320 In fact, the fact that it exists and is non-binding and people don't really stick to it

00:33:52.300 only makes it a bit of an embarrassment and wastes a lot of money and resources and time

00:33:57.220 and gets in the way of making much more efficient, strategic, and short-lived but effective

00:34:03.860 agreements. So going back to just to rehash our, oh wait, did I talk about the Afghanistan mission?

00:34:10.360 No, I didn't. But basically, once NATO took on the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, some allies employed really strict caveats in their troops, again, like where and how they could fight. And that meant that combat burdens really fell heavily on the US, the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands, who actually had a pair of balls to like go in and fight where it was dangerous. And the caveats were widely criticized within NATO as a way for governments to claim solidarity while avoiding the riskiest takes.

00:34:37.540 i think totally okay with us saying low heaven dado that's the uk and the netherlands and no 0.98

00:34:43.600 again that's stupid people are either aligned and they're like hey i'm in or they're not okay 0.98

00:34:48.800 and then you know we will we will reward those who are in who show through their actions that 0.99

00:34:53.340 they're helping us right like i think we're way more likely to have you know fewer tariffs or

00:34:58.100 whatever like a better trade arrangements you know more more all these things with with countries

00:35:02.780 show up okay it's who shows up all right i don't i don't care who's on the list everything should

00:35:09.180 be based on actual actions and on on promises everything should be actions even capabilities

00:35:14.240 these countries like when we saw that the uk couldn't even field a single destroyer to help

00:35:19.860 in the operation because all of them weren't working or we see other countries constantly 1.00

00:35:24.380 crashing their destroyers because they keep putting lesbians in charge of them like freaking 1.00

00:35:28.480 new zealand or what was it they had a girl running one in like norway and it sank you know maybe 1.00

00:35:34.000 these countries are too feckless and we should look at entering a page of expansionism again

00:35:39.480 i think what we need to do is fix a fertility rate in the united states and then go on an

00:35:44.340 expansionist crusade to reconsolidate the world under the u.s imperium are you going to make the

00:35:50.520 whole world, America, one day?

00:35:52.980 How? 0.64

00:36:06.200 That's a good plan.

00:36:11.400 That's why we named you Octavian. 0.91

00:36:17.800 Yeah, there is always another way.

00:36:20.520 no please I know how to make sure the world stays free forever I have to make

00:36:26.620 the whole world America I'm going to send pure American freedom across every

00:36:31.520 inch of the planet

00:36:50.520 but also i just so going back to the ways that nato has failed us or failed in general the it

00:37:18.200 wasn't only spain that completely screwed us over with with iran recently another both basically

00:37:27.140 both france and germany had limited and or qualified support and they declined direct

00:37:33.400 involvement or coordinated nato naval effort to open the strait of hormuz so i'm kind of glad

00:37:39.680 they're suffering due to their their decisions right now because they were like i don't want to

00:37:44.600 and I want to get involved. And then in terms of how we disproportionately help NATO countries,

00:37:48.800 despite the fact that people aren't showing up for us. Just to be clear, in 2024, U.S. defense

00:37:53.660 spending was about two-thirds of the total defense spending for all NATO allies combined.

00:37:58.440 We spend as much as everyone else in the alliance put together. And the U.S. overwhelmingly

00:38:04.460 dominates high-end capabilities that NATO depends on. All the strategic airlift and aerial refueling

00:38:10.560 in global intelligence and surveillance and precision strike capabilities and of course

00:38:16.380 the most of the nuclear deterrent that's us like all the stuff that actually matters i mean even

00:38:21.420 people will we spend this much and that means that we're contributing we have all the best toys

00:38:26.420 so that's another really important thing and after seeing what we did in venezuela or what's

00:38:30.660 happening in iran right now like our toys are good and the only other person was toys worst

00:38:34.600 playing with is israel and this is the thing they're actually fighting along with us in iran

00:38:40.300 50 of the ordinance dropped has been dropped by israel and they're not in nato because look again

00:38:45.160 aligned interests well yeah aligned interests for the most part a lot of people are like well

00:38:49.560 israel didn't help us in the war in iraq okay let's give a few things about the war in iraq so

00:38:55.100 there's two important points about israel in the war in iraq one we explicitly asked them not to

00:39:00.260 help us because we were concerned about that further destabilizing the middle east have israel

00:39:05.520 actively involved in the war and two massad put out a big report saying don't go into iraq it's

00:39:13.460 going to be a complete shit show they don't have weapons of mass destruction what are you doing 0.65

00:39:18.540 and they were right okay the the core thing that's real was freaking right well the war in iraq was 0.99

00:39:25.780 a complete waste of time uh and they they told us that day one they are like you cannot nation

00:39:32.860 build there what are you doing and you can look this up this is something that like people complained

00:39:36.880 about at the time that they were not on message that they said you're wrong about this and it's 0.71

00:39:43.560 because they have a high sneak stat look they've really fucked us over it i'm like the first to

00:39:48.920 admit that okay but they have this over less than europe less than the un and right let's talk let's 0.58

00:39:55.980 go back to how we have helped europe so during the cold war and then immediately post cold war

00:40:02.040 We stationed large ground air and nuclear forces in Western Europe, like West Germany and the UK and Italy, specifically to deter an attack on NATO allies by the Soviet Union.

00:40:11.680 And the deployments were largely seen as the core part of NATO's collective defense during that era.

00:40:17.700 It was just basically us being the security guard of Europe.

00:40:21.480 And then even after the Cold War, the U.S. kept substantial forces and nuclear weapons in Europe as a tripwire and security guarantee for allies like Germany and Belgium and the Netherlands and Italy and Turkey.

00:40:31.000 It was, again, just this had nothing to do with them doing a solid for us. It was just, no, we got your back. And then there was the defense of exposed allies after Russia's actions. So from like 2014 to present, after Russia seized Crimea and intervened in eastern Ukraine in 2014, we rapidly increased air, land and sea deployments to reassure all of our NATO allies.

00:40:53.880 And this included extra fighters in in the Baltic air policing mission over Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania. And we also sent F-16 and hundreds of personal personnel, sorry, to Poland. We moved naval forces like the USS Truxton into the Black Sea for exercises with Romania and Bulgaria. And we pledged thousands of troops and assets to NATO's response force as part of a visible shield.

00:41:16.960 like this is a lot of money on our part and and they're just basically locally defending

00:41:22.660 themselves and we are all the way like we're sending troops all the way over to europe and

00:41:27.000 for what like to what benefit of us and you know this is again like over 350 a year for your mid

00:41:32.180 range tax paying family i'm not really sure what they're getting out of it then we have these

00:41:36.800 personal or sorry permanent and rotational deployments in europe and we've met plenty of

00:41:41.400 people who've served on like military bases in Germany for long periods of time. We have key

00:41:46.940 elements of NATO's missile defense for allies, such as radar in Turkey and Aegis ships forward

00:41:52.700 based in Spain and land-based interceptor sites in Romania. There's even like planned stuff in

00:41:58.400 Poland still that's aimed at protecting European allies from missile threats. So much for like our

00:42:03.520 golden dome, which is like, I guess still under development. Like we're basically building the

00:42:08.320 same stuff for our European allies. And then we deploy forces for exercises and forward positions

00:42:13.100 across NATO territories. There's Marines in the Baltics. There's so many more US troops in Europe

00:42:19.760 right now than I even thought after looking into this. And then we also have the largest share of

00:42:25.340 many NATO common programs and high-end capabilities, like all of our surveillance stuff, all the cool

00:42:30.500 toys. I'm not going to go any further into this, but basically, I want to get to the United Nations

00:42:35.700 because this is the, this is the, I think, bigger thing. And I don't see the point in being a member

00:42:40.660 of either of them. My larger thing is again, like either you're aligned with a country or you're

00:42:45.360 not, we don't need these blanket standing agreements, especially when countries are

00:42:50.120 demographically and politically changing quite rapidly and typically in directions that are

00:42:55.040 antagonistic towards us. And you can't have this like standing agreement of like, oh, we'll always

00:42:59.440 be solid when like meanwhile countries are turning against us like bit by bit and suddenly we're

00:43:05.920 going to be in these like standing agreements to defend people who actively hate us and are

00:43:09.420 working counter to our best interests so for 2026 the u.s paid approximately 827 million

00:43:16.220 into the u.n regular budget just as just as just the regular budget this is like their

00:43:21.660 administrative budget like the office stuff okay and for 2025 it was around 820 million

00:43:27.920 Then on top of that, the U.S. has been spending around $1.1 to $1.2 billion on U.S. peacekeeping. And that is through, I will say, to our benefit, the Trump administration is trying to cut this amount, but it's still incredibly embarrassing.

00:43:45.120 To be clear, the difference between NATO and the UN, just to make it clear, is that the UN was established earlier. It was established in 1945 versus 1949 for NATO. It has more members. So the UN has 193 member states, like basically all countries.

00:44:03.220 even more pointless oh no for real it is and nato only has 32 member countries the un is is meant to

00:44:11.060 basically maintain world peace it's supposed to prevent conflicts through various like economic

00:44:18.780 and diplomatic things in addition to like security related efforts whereas you know that the nato was

00:44:25.380 really about the cold war which again is it just makes it seem so ridiculous like nato just seems

00:44:30.680 like this short-term thing on top of the UN to be like, by the way, let's not let the Soviets win

00:44:38.200 the Cold War. And then the Cold War ended and we just forgot to turn it off. It's just so obvious

00:44:43.280 when you look at it in context. And the UN, furthermore, is meant to not act just through

00:44:49.160 coordination on security, but also through diplomacy and international law and human rights

00:44:54.040 and cooperation on economic and social and humanitarian issues. So why does the UN suck? 0.98

00:44:59.060 Well, first and foremost, it is a huge lumbering bureaucracy with six principal organs. There's the General Assembly. There's the Security Council. There's the Secretariat. And then it has these specialized agencies on top of it. The World Health Organization, UNESCO. And then there's also the International Court of Justice. They just kept building like, oh, I need this new. And I don't know. 0.97

00:45:23.980 So we have been in New York City when the UN General Assembly convenes, and the city basically shuts down. Like the number of bureaucrats who are involved in just small facets of the UN are sufficient to just totally shut down entire cities. I've never seen a city shut down like New York does with the UN General Assembly. You can't go anywhere. Like the streets are just clogged. It's bizarre.

00:45:52.140 are I will say that the one thing that the UN does that I do kind of think has some value can you

00:45:57.840 guess what it is it's not the World Health Organization it's not UNESCO I don't know

00:46:03.660 something died to ocean defense or something sort of it's it's actually like UN peacekeeping because

00:46:09.660 I was I was like expecting do anything meaningful I thought it was just a massive waste I thought

00:46:15.120 so too but historically it appears to have actually been helpful there are conditions

00:46:21.000 on the helpfulness so counterfactual and by the way i'm looking to sources in the show notes

00:46:25.540 counterfactual analyses estimate that without un peacekeeping since the early 2000s there would

00:46:31.260 have been three to four more countries in major armed conflict by 2013 with up to two-thirds

00:46:37.000 reduction in major conflicts possible under stronger mandates and budgets so he's pretty

00:46:41.720 sure the un did that study simone um i'm pretty sure people associated with the un did that that

00:46:47.100 does not seem true to me at all. I, I could see other, other people. Hold on. Trump stopped like

00:46:54.660 20 wars in these past two administrations. No, and I'm going to get to that. I'm going to get

00:46:58.700 to that because the, the effectiveness has gone down, but peacekeeping appears to increase the

00:47:05.820 durability of peace agreements in, in instances, in various instances by reducing the risk of

00:47:12.140 repeat war by 75 to 85 percent in some analyses this and it supports sort of like a post a post

00:47:19.940 war stabilization because look i mean admit it after a war just recommend who we gave money to

00:47:26.960 it i i think it makes sense that it doesn't have to be you doesn't make sense but if you have

00:47:34.760 keepers are not a meaningful unilateral force in the way that the american troops are or american

00:47:40.140 I agree with you on that. I agree with you on that. Just let me make my point, okay? Some sort of peacekeeper, some sort of like rule enforcer can help maintain ceasefires. They can support local peace processes. They can reduce communal violence. They can aid demobilization and reintegration.

00:48:00.640 Things are rough when you're like winding down from a war. And I think having like a mod present to just like calm things down is helpful. Does the mod have to be the UN? Absolutely not. In fact, the UN is doing peacekeeping less well now, and it can almost certainly be done better by just the US.

00:48:22.120 So in places like Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeeping missions have more recently struggled against active insurgencies and armed groups and lack of political will.

00:48:35.360 And some have just withdrawn amid rising violence.

00:48:38.700 And they're just like, oh, I can't do it.

00:48:40.880 One analysis of 69 missions found only 43% were fully successful.

00:48:46.840 And there were lower rates of successful peacekeeping after the year 2000.

00:48:52.120 And in general, like of enforcement and humanitarian focused operations, bureaucratic nonsense.

00:48:57.400 And yeah, no, that's the thing is, I think that over time, over time, bureaucracies become more

00:49:02.940 feckless. The UN is just too old as an institution, too bloated, too, too ridiculous and, and to 0.97

00:49:09.540 mission creep ruined, you know, too cancerous to be effective anymore. So what I think would 0.96

00:49:15.680 actually be great is if the UN were to dissolve, at least the UN just is left abandoned by the US

00:49:23.480 and the UN could spend so much less than it's even obligated to pay to the UN peacekeeping

00:49:29.100 mission, which is like $1.1 to $1.2 billion a year, which is a lot. Imagine if the US just

00:49:36.180 spent $1 billion, it would be even more effective in peacekeeping. And it could also put more of

00:49:43.140 that money into peacekeeping measures that utilize u.s defense suppliers so it would be better for

00:49:49.000 our internal industries and defense one of the things that people are like well if you withdraw

00:49:52.760 from the u.n then they'll stop buying american weapons and i'm like okay then they'll be easier

00:49:56.700 to conquer later we would know we would be buying proportionally more because i'm sure like when we

00:50:01.520 pay all this money into the u.n for their peacekeeping there may be some stipulations

00:50:07.100 that we set you know that congress sets of like you have to buy this much from u.s you know based

00:50:11.940 suppliers but we would be able to do 100 u.s manufacturing like all anduril because i love

00:50:18.060 them and they're amazing to to do all this work instead of just like i'm sure like a ton of money 0.82

00:50:22.860 is like lost and laundered by that stupid wasteful bureaucracy so it would just be a lot more

00:50:27.760 effective and then like think about how it will be like post agi you could have some ai driven 0.98

00:50:32.580 organization that that manages peacekeeping and deployment of like enforcement drones it just i'm

00:50:39.040 super ready for it to be gone. So generally I see your NATO doesn't make sense anymore. And I raise

00:50:47.640 you, let's just get rid of the UN because the whole point is I, I, there, there was a place

00:50:53.680 for this world war two, everyone was like beaten up, bloodied, completely weak. The U S was kind

00:51:00.920 of okay. And the U S was like, dude, I don't let's just recover. Look, I've got your back.

00:51:09.040 it was like it was like a big brother being like look uh if someone comes for you again

00:51:14.480 i'll beat them up okay like you're gonna be fine but now our our little friends have grown up

00:51:21.060 and they've they've grown into entitled surly needs and we need to like a like a 30 year old

00:51:29.920 living with their parent at this yes yeah like it the time has passed okay they they're not

00:51:35.260 recently bloodied and impoverished following a devastating war. This is water under the bridge.

00:51:42.560 Also, the Cold War is over and there is no longer a Soviet Union. None of this makes sense anymore.

00:51:48.980 Beyond that, this giant bureaucratic sprawling apparatus that has grown into a bunch of

00:51:54.480 tumorous cancerous growths needs to just be excised. Even if you completely believe in the

00:52:00.000 concept of the UN, if you really care about it, you would be like, well, nuke it and then start

00:52:04.980 it completely fresh now with technology and also like an understanding of current geopolitical

00:52:12.000 tensions and imbalances and stuff like you would you would start fresh and just get rid of all of

00:52:18.960 the bloat that has grown over these years if you actually cared about the mission of the un but i

00:52:23.440 personally don't think that it makes sense to have these standing agreements so the question is why

00:52:28.760 is anyone fighting for this and i think it's it's it's a fear of change it's inertia it's inertia

00:52:33.100 yeah and also i think there's this big like sort of largely leftist view of like this is the

00:52:40.440 responsible thing to do we you know you have to let the authorities do their thing they're the

00:52:45.940 educated ones you know it's all about like trust the experts trust the science and of course the

00:52:50.660 un well we respect the un we respect the world health organization when in the end like no they're

00:52:55.900 not doing respectable work they're no smarter than anyone else and if you want to talk about like

00:53:00.560 the un's reporting on demographic collapse has been astonishingly bad yeah atrocious truly they've

00:53:08.640 gotten the numbers wrong in the exact same way every year for the past 20 years with that famous

00:53:13.600 graph that we show every year they say this year it's going to stop well they don't want to cause

00:53:17.740 alarm when they were reached out to by a professor at pin an american ivy league institution and he

00:53:23.700 said these numbers are wrong are you going to update them and they said we don't want to cause

00:53:28.400 a panic the un sees it as one of its duties to replace you okay i'm just saying i don't want to

00:53:36.640 be i'm i don't want to be too spicy here but if you've heard trump's recent thing on re-migration

00:53:41.340 and all of that the whole idea that demographic transition is a goal for certain groups especially

00:53:48.020 in spain where they have come out and said that's our goal is that hillary clinton has come out and

00:53:52.580 said that's our goal we have an episode on how she became a great replacement theorist

00:53:55.860 The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, despite Trump saying he knew nothing about it, if you'd read it, it's all in there.

00:54:03.440 It's all in there.

00:54:04.300 Return to the family, the nuclear family, return to being a Christian nation, return to producing a lot of children, 0.98

00:54:13.880 which is sort of odd because the people who produce the most children in our country are immigrants and they want to deport them. 0.90

00:54:20.200 So none of this adds up. But, you know, one of the reasons why our economy did so much better than comparable advanced economies across the world is because we actually had a replenishment because we had a lot of immigrants legally and undocumented who had a, you know, larger than normal by American standards families.

00:54:40.680 it's ridiculous at this point like everybody knows populations are changing and that is the 0.96

00:54:46.760 goal for some individuals like the guy here who says he'd kill every white woman and child and 1.00

00:54:52.000 is a mainstream leftist influencer right and make it my mission in life to murder every single white 0.98

00:54:56.940 man woman and child on the eastern seaboard of the continent you know this is a real thing that 0.98

00:55:03.400 a lot of them feel at this point yep it's ridiculous burn it down and i love you very much

00:55:09.380 welcome. Love you too. Oh, by the way, you got a number wrong in yesterday's. Oh, what did I get

00:55:19.360 wrong? So there was a number of news articles that reported that Daily Wire, specifically Ben Shapiro's

00:55:25.360 show had had an 80% reduction in viewership, but it was wrong. It was a 35% reduction that we can

00:55:32.460 measure on YouTube, assuming the official numbers are real. However, if you take the botting argument

00:55:37.560 i made into account the number could easily be 95 no from vid iq it was 85 oh it's from vid iq

00:55:45.200 yeah okay well then i wish i'd known that okay then i'll put that in the discord

00:55:49.600 yeah tell them to look at my show notes i like linked to sources and stuff

00:55:55.320 i say where i get my things okay okay okay i'll put this

00:56:00.680 okay note just look at the tell them to look at the show notes

00:56:08.980 on substack and on patreon on substack they're not paywall during weekdays so

00:56:18.320 but they only show up when i outline the episodes because you don't do show notes

00:56:24.660 you work differently you name files things like stuff and like you know how to do thing

00:56:35.300 i don't i really don't know what your naming convention is i have no idea

00:56:40.120 i can't predict or model it it scares me you are amazing simon i appreciate how diligent you are

00:56:48.180 that you always double check everything do you have a naming convention for yeah just don't name

00:56:55.180 it the same thing as the last thing so like if i have a folder named new folder then the next one

00:56:58.880 is new folder one and then the next one is new folder one and then like a because i happen to

00:57:04.540 mash the keyboard and that's what i got because that was less time than naming it new folder two

00:57:09.380 which would require deleting or highlighting the one oh my god okay i'm sorry i asked simone

00:57:17.560 don't you know about my genius naming convention i really don't because you sometimes use words

00:57:23.660 it's it's really not consistent like that i love tormenting you you are the best woman in the world

00:57:30.140 to torment ai will probably render that irrelevant soon so who cares what tormenting you no the your 1.00

00:57:38.720 naming convention thing like i can just say find the file that's about this and then it will find

00:57:45.680 it regardless of titles which is oh i don't okay octavian are you going deep in the water

00:57:56.240 oh is it gonna eat you okay well then go

Based Camp - May 18, 2026

What if we just... left the United Nations + NATO？

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