A D.C. think tank is urging the U.S. to get out of Ukraine. They're saying that getting a protracted war there is going to turn the country into Ukraine. We're going to get into that and so much more.
00:02:16.060Indelibly tied to Washington, D.C.'s foreign policy, particularly our military policy around the world.
00:02:21.060This new report is urging Washington, D.C. to get the heck out of Dodge in Ukraine as, quote, U.S. interests would best be served by avoiding a protracted conflict and, quote, costs and risks of a long war outweigh the potential benefits, outweigh the potential benefits.
00:02:45.960All right, I'm just going to read this to you, although this is crazy, by the way.
00:02:50.100It's crazy because the Rand Corp, you got to understand, for years has been pushing for escalation with Russia, this idea that, oh, it's in the United States interest to, by the way, this is how D.C. understands things, right?
00:03:04.720It's like this video game thinking of the world is this grand chess match and it's all a zero sum game.
00:03:11.440And for every time Russia loses, America wins.
00:03:15.920They never quite explain how they never quite explain how these things benefit American citizens, American children, American families, moms and dads, you people at home, myself, all of us.
00:04:50.340So to understand the difference here, what we're clear seeing is mission creep.
00:04:56.500And so when you see a place like Rand Corporation come out and basically say, don't do this, you realize that even some in Washington, D.C., it's like somewhere deep down in the bowels of memory.
00:05:28.180The authors identify key impediments to Russia, Ukraine talks such as mutual optimism about the future of the war and mutual pessimism about the implications of peace.
00:05:36.980The perspectives highlight for policy interests the United States could use to mitigate this, clarifying plans for future support for Ukraine, making commitments to Ukraine security, issuing assurances regarding the country's neutrality, neutrality for Ukraine and setting conditions for sanctions relief for Russia as a as a as a potential carrot here.
00:05:57.140So. So. Isn't that what all of us have been saying from the start on the right, that rather than escalate this thing and sending more tanks and more tanks and more bombs and everything else, you know, like we're in a bad cranberry song that instead.
00:07:42.200And just like we saw from the James O'Keefe videos this week in Project Veritas, Pfizer looks at illness and health care and sickness as a business opportunity.
00:08:18.660And that's why we do need somebody, though, more importantly, who understands that the way we make money is through prosperity, through exploration, exploring space.
00:08:28.860But no, no, they just want invasion after invasion instead.
00:08:34.000I want to read a few quotes about Twitter's practices, and I just want you to tell me if they're true or not.
00:08:43.300Social media is being rigged to censor conservatives.
00:10:16.980And look, so people ask me about Twitter all the time and, you know, I don't like to get into it too much because sometimes it can sound like it's complaining.
00:11:01.240Because the tweets that you're posting are not being sent to the people that have asked to follow you.
00:11:07.040And that's the point of any social media.
00:11:09.280The people who follow it, decide who they want to follow, would like to see content from those people, those outlets.
00:11:17.320So if you're following Human Events Daily, subscribing to the podcast, you would want the podcast to be downloaded every time that we drop a new episode of Human Events Daily.
00:11:27.800Yet what if, all of a sudden, it wasn't doing that?
00:11:32.420What if you didn't get the notification?
00:11:35.200What if it didn't download to your phone or whatever platform you're using?
00:12:18.540And both times that they met, they were after midnight.
00:12:21.300He said he met with several engineers who were doing deep dives on why his account and so many others seem to be absolutely crushed after that two or three week return to normalcy when Elon first took over.
00:12:31.480They still have much more questions than answers, but they did learn a lot of stuff.
00:12:35.760Now, what's interesting is that Dave found that there are layers upon layers of shadow bands and labels that you put onto you when you were on Twitter.
00:12:48.820This means that when the Wokies at Twitter and believe me, there's obviously still some sleepers that are still there, even beyond Elon buying the thing.
00:12:57.840That what they were doing was that every time they came up with a new label, every time they came up with a new misinfo on COVID, misinfo on elections, misinfo on, I don't know, homicide rates by race, whatever it is, whatever it is.
00:13:13.120But they were adding it on top of the other layers.
00:13:18.400And so you can't just roll the entire that actually asked Dave.
00:13:26.220And so that when one piece is pulled out, then the other pieces fall into different places and you make one wrong move, then other things happen.
00:13:34.380And so the argument, of course, this being had is do you let it run?
00:13:39.180Do you continue to try to fix it or do you set up a new piece of it?
00:15:54.080You go into ChatGPT and you ask it anything political.
00:15:57.260By the way, so it says, if you go and ask ChatGPT, what do you think of Jack Posobiec?
00:16:02.440They'll say, he's a controversial guy who's done a lot of things that I don't agree with.
00:16:05.960Then you ask if, then you ask ChatGPT, what do you think of Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow?
00:16:10.400It says, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow are highly respected journalists that work hard to get their truthful information out to their audience.
00:16:42.920One is we enjoy a very strategic relationship with China and we enjoy that same strategic relationship with other nations, including the U.S., and we wanted to develop that with Europe and other countries who are willing and able to work with us to advance the public good in the world.
00:17:01.920I think with regard to China, they are the largest trading partner with Saudi Arabia.
00:17:07.220I think there are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is the U.S. dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the Saudi real or their currency.
00:17:17.260There was no discussion on that at all.
00:17:18.600I don't think we are waving away or rolling out any discussion that will help improve the trade around the world.
00:17:27.120The United States is currently the world reserve currency.
00:17:34.720One of the key pillars of that status, the reason the U.S. dollar is used all over the world.
00:17:48.600That means when petroleum is traded on the international market, it's done so in U.S. currency, greenbacks, U.S. dollars, the almighty dollar.
00:18:04.500Now, to be sure, the United States has stood to gain tremendously and has gained tremendously from the war in Ukraine in terms of the petrodollar status.
00:19:35.640The United States isn't the only one in this because the United States largely abrogated its position as the world's leading, what we could have had, what we certainly had under President Trump, as the world's leading energy provider.
00:19:50.940And this is something that the folks that argue for the gold standard to come back, I think they always kind of miss this point because the U.S. dollar, I'm not saying I'm against that, by the way, just listen where I'm going.
00:20:05.700The U.S. dollar isn't just floated by fiat.
00:20:08.360The U.S. dollar is propped up by the fact that it's the world reserve currency and the petrodollar.
00:20:14.480Well, there's a new article and a new analysis out of Alt Market that I wanted to respond to here.
00:20:18.800The decline of a currency's world reserve status is often a long process right with denials.
00:20:25.360There are numerous economic experts out there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar collapse for years.
00:20:30.800They just don't get it or they don't want it.
00:20:32.380The idea that the U.S. currency could ever be dethroned as the de facto global trade mechanism is impossible in their minds.
00:20:38.940And, of course, we have the United States Navy defending the seas, defending the strategic choke points.
00:20:44.820We talk about that a lot here on the show, strategic choke points.
00:20:47.620It's the Taiwan Strait, the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Babel Mendeb at the other end of the Red Sea.
00:20:56.440The Strait of Hormuz going into the Persian Gulf, pretty much the only way in and out from a maritime perspective.
00:21:02.520The Panama Canal, the Gulf of Suez, etc., etc.
00:21:07.060Terra del Fuego, where the Chinese are building a naval base.
00:21:11.320So understand, strategic choke points, control the choke points, control the world.
00:21:16.840We can also talk about the Northern Passage that's coming.
00:21:19.900One of the key pillars keeping the dollar in place is the world reserve status as its petrodollar.
00:21:25.180And this faction is often held up as the reasons why the greenback cannot fail.
00:21:28.940But what happens if places like Saudi Arabia and Russia and Iran, obviously, is already doing this,
00:21:34.640China and others stop trading, India stop trading in the U.S. dollar?
00:21:41.320Do you remember those stories out of Weimar, Germany?
00:21:45.180About people who would ask for a half day's wages and then run out to go buy what?