EPISODE 438： THE RISE OF BRICS, THE FREE FALL OF THE WEST
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Today s headlines: The rise of the BRICS nations, next, China threatens a blockade around Taiwan, and finally, President Macron meets with Xi Jinping while Paris burns. All this and more ahead, on today s edition of Human Events Daily.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board. Today's edition of Human Events Daily powered by Turning
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Point USA. Today is Thursday, April 6th, 2023. Anno Domini. Today's headlines, the rise of bricks.
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Next, China threatening a blockade around Taiwan. And finally, President Macron
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meeting with Xi Jinping while Paris burns. All this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
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Since the Second World War, the whole world was, has been dominated by one single country,
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the United States. And this scenario, this kind of position is changing quite rapidly.
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Organizations like the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, plus South Africa, has a great deal
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of connections with the rest of the world. Iran sits at a very important position in China's
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Belt and Road Initiative. China's Belt and Road Initiative, especially the economic belt,
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in other words, the economic connections over land, starting from the western part of China
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through Central Asia, and then extending all the way through the Middle East, including Iran
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and Turkey, and all the ways to Central, to Eastern Europe, and to Central Europe, all the way to
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Duisburg, Germany. Of course, Iran is a major energy exporter in gas and oil and also minerals.
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And these are very, very important because these are the very things China wants. And China's trade,
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likewise, with Russia, also very rich in resources. And China is the world's largest energy importer.
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And of course, China exports its affordable products, which could improve the lives of the people all
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around. The rise of the BRICS nations. So Mexico, America's closest neighbor, a country where you
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would think that the economic heft, the weight of the United States of America might, I don't know,
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play a role in getting Mexico to stay on board with America's foreign policy. They're also, by the way,
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a member, a former member of NAFTA, we remember this, and now a part of the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement.
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But under the current administration, they've decided to enter into a new economic agreement.
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And Mexico, this is how bad our foreign policy has gotten. That our own southern neighbor,
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a country that by all rights, if the United States were a great power, that we would be able to have
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favorable relations with a country that we should have incredible trade with a country that we should
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be able to. And by the way, that doesn't mean shipping all our jobs down there. Like, of course,
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we've seen. No, but we should have favorable relations and favorable trade with Mexico. But what do we have?
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If you look at the mismanagement of this relationship, we've allowed the cartels to
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basically dictate whatever they want, dictate their terms. We've allowed them to flood our
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country with fentanyl and killing as many people as possible, especially our youth. We've allowed
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the cartels to commit horrific acts of violence on both sides of the border. We do very little about
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it whatsoever. And in exchange, what's going to happen? Oh, they're going to go ahead
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and join China, who is the leader of BRICS. And don't for a second you think otherwise. Don't
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for a second think otherwise. They're the senior partner of BRICS. Brazil, India, South Africa,
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Russia, they're all together. You know who else is getting in on it? Saudi Arabia and Iran. In fact,
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the Saudis are saying that the era of U.S. influence in the Middle East is also waning. Now,
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what does this mean? This means that BRICS is taking the place. They're backfilling it. Now,
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I've talked about this for a while, how we are moving to an era of multipolarity. And this is also,
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all things being equal, this is also why the United States would be better served,
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reforming itself under what I talked about yesterday, the new American Republic.
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And what do I mean by this? This is actually something that the America First movement has
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been talking about for a long time, but possibly not put in such terms. If we are going to be in
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a competitive world where we're going to have to compete with BRICS, we're going to have to compete
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with OPEC, we're going to have to compete with Russia, obviously, for oil and gas sales around the
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world. Then does it make sense for the United States to also pursue these adventures and designs
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of global empire at the same time as trying to force the rest of the world to adopt our economic
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policies? It makes no sense whatsoever. None. What? Now, of course, in the past, this has always been
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an implicit threat. Essentially, do business with us or you'll be invaded. Join our system and accept
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our whatever amount of democracy you want or is demanded, I should say, by the regime and you'll
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be pushed in. Well, that old republic is gone. It was a slow, gradual process. But the new regime is
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in power now. Biden is a figurehead at most. He's not actually in control of any of this. I've always
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pointed out that in foreign policy, Victoria Nuland seems to be the one who's mostly in control. But why do
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you see the rest of the world doing this? Simple. They see the United States in chaos. They see that the
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United States is losing influence, economic influence, diplomatic influence around the world. And so what
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are they going to do? Of course, they're going to cut deals with China. Of course, they're going to cut
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deals with Russia. The Saudis, the Iranians, that's absolutely what they're going to do.
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And so from the perspective of the United States, we need to understand and potentially that means
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renegotiating alliances, re-understanding our position in the world, re-examining our position
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China has launched an inspection of ships in the Taiwan Strait that includes moves to board vessels.
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Taiwan has denounced the one-sided inspections and says it will not cooperate. The move comes amid
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heightened tensions between China and Taiwan. Taiwan's president held talks with the U.S.
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House Speaker this week, the first to take place in the United States in decades. The brief visit came
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despite warnings from China, which rejects Taiwan's self-governance and views the island as part of
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its own territory. Okay, so tensions mounting around Taiwan Island exactly as we predicted. If you've been
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following along at home, we know that this has been in the cards since Vladimir Putin's invasion of
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Ukraine. Now, the United States, of course, is pushing back. So China has announced these
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inspection operations because, understand, from the Chinese perspective, they say that Taiwan is part
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of China. Taiwan also, by the way, says that Taiwan is part of China. They just argue who should be the
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legitimate government of China. They disagree. Taiwan claims it should be them. Beijing claims it should
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be them. Obviously, Beijing has the bigger military here. So for them to say they're conducting inspection
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operations, this would be the best way for China to be able to institute a backdoor blockade. Because remember,
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under their law, they view all Taiwanese ports as domestic ports of China that are underneath Chinese military
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sovereignty of the CCP. So from their perspective, again, Taiwan to them is a rogue province. And we
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discussed this in our China File series. They view the island of Taiwan as a essentially a rebel island
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controlled by a provincial government that has essentially sought de facto independence in these
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relations with the United States and others. Obviously, the real history is much longer than that. The
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Republic of China was the original government of all of China until 1949. And so what's going on right now?
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Speaker McCarthy meeting with the president of Taiwan Island in California. That's going on right now. But
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the super carrier, the USS Nimitz, the flagship of carrier strike group 11, is on maneuvers about 400 nautical miles
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east of Taiwan. They're conducting military exercises with who? The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
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and the Republic of Korea, the South Korean Navy. Why is that significant? That's significant for two
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reasons. Number one, because the Japanese and the Koreans, at least from a defense standpoint, do not
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always work very well together. They do not have a history of this. Korea still has a lot of feelings
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on their side regarding World War II and the atrocities of Imperial Japan. But the second most
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important issue is that the Chinese aircraft carrier, the Shandong, is operating in the very same waters
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east of Taiwan Island. Those waters, by the way, are close to some of the largest shipping routes in the
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entire world. And tens of billions of dollars in exports come off of Taiwan Island every single
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year. This is a huge superconductor hub for the entire world. And I wish those businesses, by the
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way, had never left Silicon Valley. That's why Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley, by the way, because
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they used to make all the chips there. It's where they made all the silicon. But obviously, that's moved
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around the world. Taiwan has beaten the pants off of us. I would love for those businesses to come back in
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those industries to come back. But this is the current situation. What else is happening? So
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they're 400 miles off. The Chinese aircraft carrier is 200 miles off. If they were able to conduct those
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operations and say, we're inspecting every commercial vessel that goes into Taiwan, what happens then
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when Taiwan says no? If a Taiwanese flagship says, we are not going to submit to this interdiction,
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we're not going to submit to your patrol, we're not going to stay in. Well, let's look at this, folks.
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Obviously, you can see Taiwan Island, it's very small. It is 17 times smaller than the country of
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Ukraine. It's about 1.5 size times the size of New Jersey. So that island also obviously very, very close
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to mainland China. Additionally, a blockade could be devastating for Taiwan because nearly 90% of Taiwan's
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energy and their energy supplies are all imported. Their oil, their liquid natural gas, their coal,
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it's all imported from us and the U.S. and also the Persian Gulf. So a blockade for them is more than
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just a military exercise. It could mean life or death. It could mean cutting them off from energy
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and their reserves are very, very small. And don't even get me started on the fact that renewable
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energies are going to be doing anything for them. By the way, this energy security issue for Taiwan
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could have been potentially prevented had Taiwan sought more nuclear energy. And yet there was a movement
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that you can guess who was supporting that, a movement on Taiwan Island to stop and actually ban nuclear
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energy from the island. Even though it is a key security risk for the island,
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they decided not to go down the nuclear power route. No, no, no, no, no. They decided to continue
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sticking with the route of importing 90%. Now the measure did fail, but they've still failed to really
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pursue this. And this is a huge problem that I see with a lot of these countries, the same problem
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that Germany found themselves in when it came to the Ukraine war, because so much of their energy
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was reliant on fossil fuels. And that's fine, by the way, if you want to go down that route,
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but also you need to have security over those imports. If you are going to import your resources,
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and why wouldn't you, why wouldn't any country seek to use fourth generation nuclear, you would solve
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the problem of getting into situations like this. Because at this point, you've walked into a ravine
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and you are entirely surrounded. And so can Taiwan rely on the United States? Will the rely,
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will the United States not only send this aircraft carrier, but would the USS Nimitz under President
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Biden be willing to actually fight to break that blockade under President Biden? I don't know.
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France will be a guest of honor in future relations and future events when we focus on striking
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a new balance. Because we need to ensure that companies working within Chinese borders can
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do so normally. Coming closer over Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is a welcome change. We could
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also speak of Lebanon and the sense of stability that needs to be brought into the region. We
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could also talk about the situation in North Korea and Iran. But to speak of peace and stability
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today, obviously that means we have to speak of war. War that is being waged by Russia in Ukraine.
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Also, we take very seriously the matter of nuclear powers. And if you understand that
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France agrees with you in saying that nuclear warfare should not be part of any way forward.
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Paris is on fire as Emmanuel Macron is over in Beijing, sucking up, but also trying and failing
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to win over Xi Jinping in this meeting they just had. And this is ridiculous. The whole thing is
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completely upside down. You've got Emmanuel Macron in Beijing. Telling Xi Jinping, totally misreading
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the situation, by the way, totally misreading who needs who in this situation. Xi doesn't need
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Macron. Macron needs China. And so they've decided to continue their economic
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relationship. They've even said, we must continue our economic relationship. Meanwhile, back in
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Paris, they're storming the offices of BlackRock, or at least the building that the BlackRock offices
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are in. Protesters there briefly stormed it over the privatization of the pension system in France,
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as well as the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64. Now, keep in mind, this is the same thing
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here in the United States that our social security system is. It's essentially a nationwide pension
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that we're all supposed to pay into, and that eventually we expect to at least get some of. Well,
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for people who have been paying in their entire lives, how do you think it feels if the government
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suddenly comes in and tells you you're not going to have that anymore? Okay? Just understand how people
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are going to react. This is how they're going to react. And they see it as benefiting who? Benefiting
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places like BlackRock. And so that's why you're starting to see them actually targeting the World
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Economic Forum's operation arm. And I've called this out many, many times. BlackRock itself. Now,
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again, again, we don't do violence around here. We do peacefully, politically, and patriotically.
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That's what we do around here. But when you look at the anger that's out there,
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this anger against Macron, this anger against what the neoliberal order is doing at the same time
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that he's over there trying to suck up the Xi Jinping, who, by the way, even Politico pointed
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out, he committed a major faux pas because Xi Jinping had. So when two leaders, okay, this is
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just basic one-on-one level diplomacy. I think everybody should know this, that when the world
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leaders are speaking and you go and speak in someone else's country and you're welcomed in
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and you're treated as a peer, as Macron was probably the last time, Macron decided to speak
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for twice as long as Xi Jinping. He doesn't understand the basic rules of diplomacy or even
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just, I don't know, politeness, formality, manners. He seems to not even get this. So he spoke for twice
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as long. And then during the diplomatic remarks at the press conference, he started going into
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castigating Xi Jinping again, saying, you need to push Russia to end the war in Ukraine. You need to
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do more. You need to go in. It brought up sanctions at one point. This is ridiculous. This is not how you
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get, this is not how you negotiate. Emmanuel Macron, you're an idiot when it comes, you know what you
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need? You need to read one time, the art of the deal. Have you ever read it? Because I don't know
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if they still do this, but you know, business schools used to actually have art of the deal
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as the center of their MBA classes. They understood that the negotiation skills in and taught him and
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imparted in that book that Donald Trump used when he was a businessman are just classic examples of the
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best ways to negotiate. And not, and one of them is not insulting the person that you're trying to get
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something out of. That's probably the last thing you're supposed to do, especially going to their
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own house and doing that. Emmanuel Macron is an absolute fool. He pushed through this pension reform
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without even a single vote. He's the one who's ruling as an autocrat right now, not Xi Jinping in this
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instance, even though obviously Xi Jinping is a dictator, but not Victor Orban, not President
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Trump. He never did anything like this. And yet Macron is going to sit up there and say he stands for
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democracy. Or is it egalitarianism, fraternity, liberté? No, I don't think so. I think that what he's
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doing is designed to implement the World Economic Forum agenda. And what you're seeing there is Xi
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Jinping telling Macron, because he knows, by the way, that Macron isn't just there on his own behalf,
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that he's an agent of the globalist American empire, the World Economic Forum's lackey,
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their little page boy. And he's telling the page boy, go and tell your masters like Mr. Klaus and Mr.
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George that I am no longer for sale. I'm not going to be the junior partner anymore. I'm going to be
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the senior partner. And that's exactly what's going on. He's telling him and treating him
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like a page boy. Because guess what? Xi Jinping can see what's going on inside Paris. He knows this
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guy can't even control his own capital, can't even control his own people. He's running around here
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sucking up. Our leaders have put the West in the worst position that we've been in in 50 years. And we
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need to understand that that's been the theme of today's show. No wonder the US dollar is tanking.
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No wonder the globalist American empire is getting more and more desperate. The prime minister of
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Finland just lost her election. She was just removed from office. Do you understand? People can sense
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what's going on now. And they want change before it all crashes down around us. Ladies and gentlemen,
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as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.