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00:00:00.000 may god bless the men and women of the united states armed forces and may god bless

00:00:06.080 the united states of america thank you very much and good night

00:00:10.400 whole lot of nothing if you ask me uh yes but there was something in there the europe the europe

00:00:22.580 thing well the europe thing was not in there um it was it was well if you have such a problem you

00:00:29.080 go take it yeah well let's let's talk about all this okay i've got you yeah sorry i was just

00:00:36.680 looking to get this set up right so there were rumors and you actually retweeted one of these

00:00:44.340 rumors coming from anonymous uh which is that this speech was going to be about the pulling out of

00:00:51.520 the nato alliance now nato was not mentioned here and i had seen that i even think like

00:00:58.180 polymarket mentioned something like that that that was really floating around today but that

00:01:03.880 did not happen and daily mail reported it as well oh daily mail well they

00:01:08.900 i mean they've reported on a lot of z is saying

00:01:14.280 well they did break the christy dome story so that is true and that seems verified so

00:01:23.660 that is weird it is as an aside like the national acquirer will get like nine out of

00:01:29.600 10 things like just radically bizarrely incorrect but then they'll like win a pull it surprise for

00:01:36.040 i forgot what they won one for but they actually were getting at the facts but anyway it only takes

00:01:41.480 one it only takes one yeah um i should win a pull it surprise because everyone copies me five

00:01:48.900 10 years later and give me no and they give me no credit i'm looking to the pulitzer to to finally

00:01:55.100 credit me with my takes but i think i'll make a call on that a long time um but uh anyway uh

00:02:03.460 nato was not mentioned however that was fairly sinister in the sense of like we ask you we

00:02:11.120 wanted you to be involved but you weren't so sad and the idea of demanding that uh basically europe

00:02:21.360 i mean i don't i don't think i from what i have read chinese bound vessels are getting through

00:02:27.260 china is dependent upon the straight-up form moves in a way that we aren't physically dependent

00:02:31.780 obviously everyone's dependent on it in the sense that it's 20 of oil and the price is set globally

00:02:37.560 so you can't just like it's not like we can have all the good oil and you know it won't be reflected

00:02:44.600 at the pump but it will be reflected in like berlin or or beijing or whatever it doesn't

00:02:49.300 the price doesn't work that way um but that was fairly sinister i mean it's like you should go

00:02:55.980 over there and take it i mean he seems to be imagining this world and i do think that there's

00:03:02.340 an id to donald trump where he imagines things are just about he imagines the world is just like 0.65

00:03:07.540 taking shit you know and that was very early you can find early clips of trump in 2012 which i would 0.65

00:03:15.240 still consider early it was 15 years ago it was 2012 when there was discussion or maybe it's 2010 0.99

00:03:20.800 actually and there was discussion that he might run for president and i think he was floating it

00:03:25.620 and so on and he was like you know iraq was terrible but we should have taken the oil he 0.97

00:03:31.180 said that again in 2016 early 2016 when he was denouncing the iraq the iraq war which you know

00:03:37.760 we all were excited about at the time but uh he also mentioned taking oil and i think there are

00:03:43.840 actually older clips where i think this is how he thinks for better and for worse he has a sort of

00:03:50.340 like id energy of conquest and rape and like possession and so on i i do think he thinks in

00:04:00.300 these terms whereas the eurocrats and freshly coiffed hair and dark suits and blue ties they

00:04:06.860 don't think in this way at all and so i i think statements like that are actually quite provocative

00:04:14.640 and and sort of unsettling uh for those type people so uh but so he didn't he's not pulling

00:04:22.040 out of nato but he's basically demanding that the nato countries go rogue take the in a way in a way

00:04:30.600 by encouraging them to act on their own and in their own interest it almost is kind of an

00:04:37.780 accelerationist multi-polarity type of arguments like go be a pole of power then you are oh you

00:04:44.080 think you you think you are not our our vassals go do it go do something why do you need us to

00:04:49.440 do it for you we don't need it yeah but like any normal unipolar type of president would be like

00:04:57.780 well no we have to because we have to safeguard europe's interests we're gonna do this in concert

00:05:04.380 with our allies that came out of the second world war and that's what george w bush tried and pretty

00:05:11.600 much failed to do with the uh coalition of the willing during the iraq war but it was an attempt

00:05:18.880 to do something i mean people forget that the the korean war was authorized by the united nations

00:05:24.060 wasn't authorized by congress and where did you know george w bush went to the united nations like

00:05:30.340 let's let's get everyone on board he wanted nato to be involved nato was actually um article five

00:05:36.460 of nato was actually triggered uh during afghanistan i believe because we were under attack

00:05:41.960 and and so on uh the iraq war was something different so there was this like hold over

00:05:47.340 mention afghanistan i noticed you didn't mention that no you know that one took about 20 years

00:05:53.140 didn't get didn't really go the way you expected glory be to the taliban it's interesting with

00:06:00.000 afghanistan just to go on a little bit of a tangent here because i don't know if you remember early

00:06:04.340 2017 he gave an address like this where he basically said you know like there's a lot of

00:06:11.580 talk about america first but then i talked to generals and people in the cia and they were like

00:06:16.480 no doing we can't get out of there and it was a sort of like i want to leave but we can't it would

00:06:23.720 be worse to leave than staying more expensive etc um and then of course the plans to withdraw

00:06:30.420 from afghanistan were drawn up by the trump administration and uh who was the guy who used

00:06:37.080 to be fat and he's like a big neocon from kansas i'm forgetting his name at the moment

00:06:41.340 um anyway he's from kansas yeah uh he's a fat christian zionist type but we don't all know 0.95

00:06:49.600 each other right pompeo yes thank you someone oh yeah um he's now thin due to the power yes 0.60

00:06:56.680 but he looks worse he's better that's every another tangent upon a tangent everyone has

00:07:03.320 taken ozempic looks worse they were better you gotta tell yourself richard whatever you gotta

00:07:08.140 tell yourself i do right i think you look great i think you look amazing

00:07:14.920 i won't lose weight because i look better fat no um i'm not that you'll see me in person man

00:07:26.360 yes man strength you'll see me in person actually so you can you said it you said it the cat's out

00:07:33.260 the bag illusion going on here yes so true so true uh okay where was i so yeah pompeo drew up

00:07:41.700 the plans and negotiated the withdrawal from afghanistan biden could have reneged on all of

00:07:49.120 those deals potentially at least but i think he too was ready to get out of there and then of

00:07:55.120 course trump maga and the republican party attacked biden vehemently i did not i was one of the lone

00:08:01.580 voices defending biden's withdrawal because first off just on the basis of continuity like we made

00:08:07.420 these deals let's complete it but also let's get out of there what are we accomplishing and also

00:08:12.580 this notion that like a withdrawal from a war zone is going to be hunky-dory i think is totally

00:08:19.860 unrealistic you know like of course and even though a whole mess even the whole leaving the

00:08:25.420 weapons behind and leaving the stuff behind like that was smart and strategic that gave the

00:08:31.900 incoming government a disproportionate asymmetrical power balance which prevented

00:08:37.880 a replay of the 90s at where afghanistan fell into the civil war in this way the taliban was

00:08:44.440 you know there was no question in questioning their ability to maintain the monopoly on state

00:08:49.000 violence very good point um but so yeah it is funny that he didn't mention that so this whole

00:08:57.440 thing seems incoherent but the other thing about trump and i mentioned that he has this like id 0.99

00:09:02.260 energy of like we're just gonna go and take shit and like we'll we're gonna rape you we are gonna 1.00

00:09:09.500 fucking kill you like he has back to the stone age where you belong exactly he has that energy in him 1.00

00:09:16.820 on the other hand trump is multifaceted and i think he also just desperately wants to be loved 1.00

00:09:25.560 he's like a kid he's like my my son who has the excuse of being eight for being like that you

00:09:34.100 know what i mean like like on some level they want to win and they like get mad when they lose they're

00:09:40.020 like oh you cheated or whatever you know and on on another level they have a a kind of like

00:09:45.160 childlike brutality you know where you know just take stuff and whatever but then on another level

00:09:51.420 they're a kid and they want to be loved they want approval and affirmation and trump desk

00:09:58.180 whatever he says about the fake news media he desperately wants to be praised by the fake news

00:10:04.720 media he needs them their plaudits he doesn't like these poll number these poll numbers are

00:10:10.620 crushing to him because it's it's about being loved that's his little secret that's like if

00:10:17.500 you were to manipulate him and i don't i don't think he's like a russian asset because i think

00:10:23.140 he is totally unreliable as like a spy or like a manchurian candidate or so i i that's i don't

00:10:29.340 believe that at all but he is someone who can be manipulated and it's not just flattery it's love

00:10:36.340 it's like oh you're loved you're the best everyone as he gets older it becomes less about his actual

00:10:44.180 reputation and becomes more about his legacy so that's why a lot of this has to be about

00:10:49.760 you know the the peace prize and i've ended the most wars and etc etc because it's no longer just

00:10:56.180 about in the moment or what are the poll numbers everything is now becoming more and more about

00:11:01.880 i'm going to die and what is my legacy going to be about not going to heaven not going there

00:11:07.940 well you never know you never know he did say it but and also what i noticed too is that it is this

00:11:15.720 kind of like you mentioned this kind of duality of we're going to send you back to the stone age

00:11:20.560 etc etc etc we're going to take it blah blah blah blah blah but at the exact same time in framing

00:11:26.020 iran it's all of these post-war you know type of they're the bullies they are projecting their 0.95

00:11:34.580 power they're a rogue state they're whatever it's like they're crazy but we're crazy and we're going 0.98

00:11:40.660 to do it to them you know it's it's very schizophrenic it's exactly like earlier today 0.86

00:11:44.960 or i believe maybe yesterday hegseth saying oh yeah we did regime change in iran they just don't

00:11:51.820 know it yet right where it's like in Venezuela a decapitation strike is not regime change but in

00:11:57.880 Iran a decapitation strike is regime change they just don't know it yet it's like this esoteric 0.55

00:12:03.460 neoconservatism it's like it's everything all at the same time yes and even the Venezuela thing

00:12:09.820 is extremely ambiguous and I think a lot of it just had to has to do with the fact and I say this

00:12:16.340 as praise that we're dealing with latinos as opposed to muslims and i mean i mean that kind 0.99

00:12:22.440 of seriously like you know we put it what is her name like it starts with a d the new leader of 0.96

00:12:28.480 venezuela delci oh i couldn't give a fuck last whatever her name is rodriguez delci rodriguez 1.00

00:12:33.860 yeah like um that was a weird regime change she is from the maduro apparatus basically and she's 0.97

00:12:42.900 now in charge and she's like oh yeah like you got a lot of refineries over on the gulf coast like 1.00

00:12:48.240 yes venezuelan heavy crude we're going to send it over there like it it was a sort of it was like

00:12:54.040 the weirdest kind of regime change because you let it'd be like going to iraq but making sure

00:12:59.200 that the bath party stayed in power that's like quite literally what they did but i do think that 0.86

00:13:05.740 venezuela is a success because you can sort of and i say this as praise you can sort of act this way

00:13:11.780 with latinos you know you can kind of like those are less ideological in this sense they're more

00:13:17.440 like us in that sense where they're don't really believe in anything it's you know they're very

00:13:21.860 they're post-modernists the way that we are in the way that muslims iranians especially in this

00:13:27.200 and you know i think it's i think the emiratis and the saudis are more like this now are more

00:13:31.980 like latinos but yeah the the iranians and the the taliban are not like that they are committed

00:13:39.020 to their ideological core yes so it it just doesn't work with iran i i mean he said there

00:13:47.220 has been a he's like we didn't use the word regime change they did say now is your moment

00:13:52.440 rise up iranian people and have a bright democratic future they did say that but um i think the what

00:14:01.020 he is trying to communicate is that these iranian leaders are going to be good guys they're gonna be

00:14:06.420 like oops you know dad was really bad but like i want to be friends with you and i do not see that

00:14:13.240 as the outcome at all and yeah i hope i'm wrong because i i don't care about any of this stuff i

00:14:19.600 don't i don't have anything at stake with anything in the middle east i don't want us doing this

00:14:24.220 nonsense so yes a good outcome and like the medium term would be a friendly iranian regime but i just

00:14:31.520 don't think that's how it works and i mean there's a huge elephant in the room of the the tolling

00:14:37.500 that's going that iran says that they're going to do i mean it's a complete absolute failure

00:14:43.460 regression back back step you know it's just completely the only thing that we got in that

00:14:49.300 sense was the the challenge to europe to do something about it but if europe doesn't do

00:14:55.580 anything about it and iran moves forward with keeping a toll in place not only is that a huge

00:15:01.760 failure in terms of the strait itself it's a huge failure in terms of free trade of this like you

00:15:08.100 know the open seas and free trade it's like a complete it's like the first really huge blow to

00:15:13.760 that yes there were some very famous tolls uh throughout the middle ages you know through

00:15:20.100 straits and things like that i think there was a very important one in denmark i would have to go

00:15:24.140 look back on this there's obviously the suez canal but um uh it's very interesting because

00:15:30.960 it is a sort of regression to older forms of

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