Freelandās allegiance, free helicopter rides and 'Team Americaļ¼ World Police'
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It's the first Pipeline of the new year, which means it's time to get back to work for The Western Standard. Derek Fildebrandt and Corey Morgan are back after a long break, and there's a lot to talk about, including: Chrystia Freeland's new job in Ukraine, the disappearance of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and why Canada should be mad about it.
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good day welcome back to the pipeline happy new year today's january 7th
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Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and this
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former Western Standard Opinion Editor, Nigel Hannaford.
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Corey Morgan, Senior Western Standard Columnist
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Nothing happens, right? That's why we don't need any reporters working. It's not like, I don't know, Canada's former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, is going to sign up working for a foreign government while a sitting member of the Canadian Parliament.
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Oh, yeah, Donald Trump goes, kidnapped a guy. Kidnapped the president of Venezuela.
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Okay, we'll get to free helicopter rides in a bit.
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So this was, you know, one of Trudeau's best girls.
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Former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, etc.
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Anyway, she is still a, she was in one of Carney's cabinets.
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She's a member of parliament right now for Canada, I should clarify.
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Member of parliament for Canada, but she is also now the economic advisor or whatnot for Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.
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So for those following along at home, Ukraine is this whole other country that is not Canada.
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And Canada has no formal alliance with Ukraine.
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uh we have no formal alliance otherwise we'd be of war explicitly at least with russia uh but now
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christian freeland is now an official employee or working for in an official capacity the
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government of ukraine she's not the canadian representative to ukraine on economic issues
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which i'm sure would be effectively amount to the same thing but it's not a canadian appointment
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to represent Canada to Zelensky advising him on economics
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because everybody knows Chrystia Freeland has all sorts of great economic advice
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coming from her time in the Trudeau government to impart on Ukraine.
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They can give Ukraine advice on smart economic policy and how to fight corruption.
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She's not Canada's special representative to Ukraine on economic development or something.
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while she is a sitting member of parliament that blew up pretty quick she is announced
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she will eventually in a few weeks resign her seat in parliament um i don't know i i'm not
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one to throw around the treason word lightly and yeah i mean ukraine's not a hostile government
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to us but it is a foreign government to us and it is so it's not our government it's not our
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country and we're not even in a formal alliance with them i think we'd be having a different
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conversation if she had become the economic advisor to vladimir putin certainly well you
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know i'm kind of surprised that it's happening with mark carney at the helm i mean just think
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about it it's what brookfield management his his company supposing that somebody had walked into
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the office one day while he was there and said you know what it's been great here at brookfield
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They're not paying me, and I'm not leaving here,
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thing he can think about is the fact that it's actually
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member of the conservative party to cross the floor and take her place so the whole thing stinks
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really badly but at the very basement level that anybody can get at this is a simple conflict of
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interest she's taken her job with the ukraine good luck to her i hope she does well i hope she's
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made if she's going to give them economic advice let it be to buy all your good stuff in the calendar
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okay so i i you know just just a shameful thing i mean
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uh is she a dual citizen for ukraine i don't ever so no her parents are ukrainian yeah
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i mean because she was born in alberta yeah she's she's born in alberta uh she's canadian
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think it goes as far as treason perhaps unless it was a
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bad. And even if this was the private market, if I had said, Hey, I'm going, I got a good gig down
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at the national post. Oh, but I'm going to keep collecting the check here. I'm not going to do
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anything here. Even I just expect you to keep paying me while I go work for the competitor.
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Uh, how quickly would the coffee cup hit my head as you're throwing me out the door with my neighbor?
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I have fired people for that. So she, it's just, it's robbery. You aren't doing your job. You're
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not doing the job. You're getting six figures and an incredible pension to do. You aren't even in
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the country. There's one of the problems with accountability in the Canadian system because
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we don't have a mechanism to fire her. Only she can do that to herself, which I understand with
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an MP. It should be difficult to take one out of office, but this is a point. You can't say,
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I'm going to kick it down the road and not do my job for a few months for the sake of carning.
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What you're seeing here is actually the liberal mentality.
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Their basic assumptions about how things ought to work in their favor.
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And as I said, it wouldn't have flown with Mark Curry if he was still at Brookfield and she was an employee there.
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So that's the only thing that makes any sense to me, and it may not be the whole answer,
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is that he just wants her around for the sake of her vote for a little longer.
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You know, it should matter if we're friendly with Ukraine or not.
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It should be maybe an aggregating factor if it's a hostile regime or not.
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But you've got to remember, the Canadian federal government,
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until extremely recently, did not consider the People's Republic of China
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When all the Chinese foreign interference stuff came up,
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Everybody who's talking about Chinese foreign interference, you're racist against Chinese people.
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Actually, most people blowing the whistle were Chinese who were being bullied and coerced by the People's Republic.
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But, you know, the Trudeau government was very, very friendly with China.
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Maybe not to the extent we're friendly with Ukraine, like sending weapons, sending money, that kind of thing.
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China was not as explicitly then seen as a hostile actor.
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This isn't election interference, but it's worse.
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We've got a sitting member of Parliament who is working for a foreign...
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As soon as she's run this through the conflict, Ventress Commissioner,
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I've got to think that Carney probably isn't thrilled with this.
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I mean, it was true, though, where she, you know,
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at Christmas time, she cut the legs out from when you had them, too.
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But as Nigel said, though, I mean, Carney should be saying,
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We either got to get you out of that seat and run a violation
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keep paying you. Well, Parliament's not sitting right now.
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need to seat at this exact moment. Parliament's not
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no immediate budget vote. They've already done the budget
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for it, it's now. Unless there's an emergency sitting
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or something but uh yeah he didn't he doesn't need it right now he not desperately he could
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just quickly call it he'll get get one of his buddies from brookfield put him that's a safe
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seat in downtown toronto okay great he's got another yeah it's not like that'll seat's gonna
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go conservative anyway no it's a solid liberal seat so he gets to put like you know some some
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guy from brookfield or wherever he gets to bring in someone from the outside maybe someone a little
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more competent finance that champagne and uh you know like this is actually a good opportunity for
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My guess actually is that she wants to keep it for some reason.
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Okay, so as for her reasons, I gather that this is an unpaid position for a while.
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And she's got to wait until around about July before she starts working for the Rhodes Trust, which will be well remunerated.
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So this is a simple matter of cash flow for Ms. Freeland.
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the um what's the betting by the way that uh as the conservative convention comes up here in
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calvary in a couple of weeks time there's a couple of more conservative mps who've been
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to to cross the floor just to muddy the waters for the different subject but it has to do with
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you know the number of people you have on the floor in the house of commons under your label
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I'm not in the caucus, but I just say the math is very strong for Carney.
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This, the next guy to cross the floor, has massive leverage.
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Now, he might not get the cabinet post that day,
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so it doesn't look as cynical and transactional as, say, Belinda Stronach
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But, like, okay, six months you're going to get a cabinet.
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There's going to be, you know, there's all sorts of guys who are in swing seats.
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Will they have a chance to keep their seat as a liberal?
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And also remember, there's the other side of the ledger.
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The NDP guys are even more right for the plucking.
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So if you're a new Democrat, you're probably going to.
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I remember the polling was showing that the NDP were on the uptick.
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Now that doesn't mean they're going to be an effect.
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Not grand resilience, but the party is bankrupt.
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I mean, if I were to be, you know, Machiavellian and, and, and do the, the, the nasty political
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plays, if I were Kearney, well, then I, where I would be sitting strategically, if I had
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negotiated a couple of MPs in the bag over Christmas, I wouldn't want to announce it
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right now. I want to do it a week right before the conservative conference. I want to own
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the news cycle because that's all they'll be able to talk about during the conference.
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Any messaging they had, any plans they had for the conference will be gone. And so I
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wouldn't be surprised if he's got a couple in the pocket already.
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So once he's got a couple more over across the floor from the Conservatives,
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Yeah, that could be the time, too, where you take out the trash.
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Yeah, I think the timing of that would be smart if the Lippos can't.
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Now, I guess the downside to that is word leaks out.
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Also, the guy might wiggle off the hook by then.
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Maybe the MP who's going to cross gets cold feet.
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But maybe they don't know who each other are, right?
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I doubt they all sat in the waiting room to go outside the Prime Minister's office.
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The holidays are ideal because you have so many of those social functions and things
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going on where you can have informal meetings and get-togethers all over the place.
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It's going to happen. It's going to happen from
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Constituents tell me they want me to join Mark Carney.
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conservatives are good. That's why everyone wants to join
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the conservatives. And when it's the other way,
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When you have a number of people orchestrated to cross the floor in sequence, well, then that's a different kind of political maneuver and one that doesn't make these people look very good.
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Actually, the ability to floor cross is a critical part of our system.
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Our leaders are already far too powerful in the ability to leave your caucus.
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I've been out heavily for writing and saying that before, but there's truth to it.
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That is one of the only remaining checks on the power of leaders in the Canadian parliamentary system.
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It was the threat of, you know, they were going to lose the majority of caucus.
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The ability to leave caucus when you have a leader doing bad things and a party doing bad things, it's necessary.
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It gets abused all the time for, oh, this has nothing to do with the cabinet post I'm getting
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or this committee appointment etc and it never has anything to do with that i mean so there's
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there's always a principle they resign and as mp and fight the election again under a different
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flag how about that no i i don't know because you'll technically we're still not electing
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parties we're electing mps we know that's not the case in reality but it's one of the only checks
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we have on a leader at this point so anyway two across the floor we can before the convention
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Older people who were around when it was taking place tend not to get it.
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Well, when you're talking about free helicopter rides,
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the Guatemalan government used to do that as well
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Did Argentinian and Junta do something similar with the Argentinian government background?
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It's kind of a Latin American thing, but Pinochet was the one most known.
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He really perfected the art of free helicopter rides.
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So, you know, when the United States comes in and scoops up Maduro in the middle of the night in a helicopter,
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and wearing some pajamas, he fell out of the helicopter
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talk to any like i don't know a ton of venezuelans but all the ones i know
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you know they're they're having a little uh they don't mariachi bands are mexican but particularly
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that any diaspora population and because they had to run from their homeland yeah because the people
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like him this is good for the venezuelan people generally but i'm actually pretty skeptical of
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this you know world police thing and america just comes in and does its thing if yeah yeah
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When I first watched it, you know, Bush was still around.
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Oh, it's a point that's salient today, actually, very much so.
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Was, was Monero presenting such a threat to the United States?
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And again, it's not, that's where the discussion, unfortunately, goes off the rails immediately.
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I'm just, is this the appropriate way to deal with it?
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And maybe it is, but we should be hoping to discussion on it.
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And right now that discussion's a little heated.
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So, Nigel, I hold several mutually exclusive and contradictory opinions at the same time on this.
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You know, Trump, if this was Bush or Obama, if this was anyone going back to Woodrow Wilson,
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they would say this intervention is about making the world safe for democracy or some highfalutin idea.
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and it's not it's raw politics and power uh for for one thing or another it's it's serving some
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kind of agenda and they would always try to cloak it in flowery language of a liberal democracy and
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you know america's pretty cynical about that now very rightfully so i think iraq was kind of
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finally finished that off we're not that's we're gonna be a america first is supposed to be about
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pragmatic. You know, it's the tractors saying, well, they're isolationists. No, there's a big
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difference between isolationists, which is we pretend that the oceans, the world stops at the
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oceans, the coasts, and the world doesn't exist. And that pretty much doesn't exist in America.
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It almost never really has. America first is America shouldn't be embroiled and fighting
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other people's wars and playing world policemen, but American power can be used for American
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interests and trump he did not say yeah we did this for tomorrow he's like yeah we're gonna take
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their oil we're gonna we're we're we run venezuela now and we're we're gonna take back the oil uh
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now actually have to and he does have a minor point on that not a minor point yes at some point
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hugo traves had nationalized american oil assets which is stealing so america actually does have
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When you were talking about America and the world policemen,
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I thought, well, no, no, no, this has got nothing to do with being the world police.
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This is looking after things on the home front.
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Don't forget, it's not just the oil, although that's what we're focused on at the moment.
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The drugs were a bit, but it wasn't mostly the drugs.
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Okay, but then they would have been in Mexico first, Columbia first.
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Venezuela is a part of it, but they're not the fair guy.
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Well, I don't know. Has the price of an e-ball gone up yet?
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He's asking if the price of Coke has gone up yet.
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Well, the issue for us, of course, here in Alberta,
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going to be leaving venezuela ending up in the coast refineries uh that's actually where alberto
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lowe goes so alberto lowe is going to be at a bit of a discount and not that this is the subject of
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this segment but if you want to feel mad with anybody again feel mad with mr trudeau who
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canceled arbitrarily talk about arbitrary we should already northern gateway should be right
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there and we should be pumping oil through that to new customers because it's going to be difficult
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when you have got a steady stream of oil coming from Venezuela.
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Thankfully, the Venezuelans have been such economic illiterates
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for so long that it's, some of the estimates I've seen,
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it would take about a trillion dollars and a decade
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to get Venezuela's production up to our levels.
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I mean, that's just kind of the thing kicking off the air.
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I remember when Trump said, we don't need your oil.
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And the fact that he did bring him back, he brought him alive,
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he's putting him on trial and going through a period of process.
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I mean, we go back to kind of the last time the Americans did something similar
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before he did eventually disappear in the ocean.
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The Americans aren't above and beyond that, perhaps.
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Or CIA or Mossad or the other side about other countries that do those sorts of things.
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I think they did kill bin Laden, but did they get him right then?
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Yeah, but there was no effort to, this wasn't an assassination attempt.
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They didn't just take a drone and blow up his bedroom or he didn't fall out of a helicopter
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or, you know, choke on a green bean on his first day in prison or anything of the sort.
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So I think they are still trying to frame themselves a little bit of saying this is a police action versus a power play.
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I mean, snatching the head of state, an illegitimate one who obviously rigged several elections.
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He's illegitimate, but he is the head of state, according to their law,
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because obviously their judicial system is corrupt, but that judicial system recognizes him as the president.
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That doesn't mean he's legitimate, but it means he's legal, and those are different things.
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I think we've got a legal government that is a legitimate tip, but he is the head of state, and snatching him is an act of war.
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They're not doing it on the grounds of democracy.
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I think the byproduct, I mean, still way too early to say.
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We don't know how it's going to develop in Venezuela.
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are they going to have a new you know some legitimate elections at some point that are
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overseen by international observers very possibly but we don't know uh i imagine
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probably wants to get there at some point but um uh that's a he's seen that as a byproduct
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and and he's and he's not doing the bush and obama and clinton thing where he's just like
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we're doing this for democracy and blah blah blah we're doing it for them say no we're doing it for
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us and at least that is and it's offering a chilling effect to other countries that are
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obstinate or or dictators as well this didn't go like bay of pigs or even the iran attempt to
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rescue hostages this went without a hitch i mean it's quite a gamble if their special forces had
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landed in there and they'd been pushed back and lost a few members and and it not a single american
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it could have turned into a catastrophe obviously their intelligence was amazing uh so you know that
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Greenland and Denmark, we're going to get there, but
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Oh, God, I think they've got him on a leash already.
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with a pop star. I won't have to worry about him anymore.
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than the bigger picture i we didn't stay there but keeping the chinese out of central america
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is a very big thing for trump uh yeah the oil is a big thing the drugs are a big thing
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but you may remember two years ago there was quite a fufara that uh the chinese that gained
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effective control of the panama canal uh they had their people running it at each end and obviously
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everything that went through went through with the with the uh blessing of the government of china
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that's not a place that's not a situation that the americans can tolerate yeah and so here is
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another situation that that production was going straight to china so now they're scrambling to
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find another 400 000 barrels a day of oil from the world market uh they've got a problem and
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And they know they're not going to be able to do what they want to do in Central America.
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That's what nation states do, unfortunately, if they are powerful enough.
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If they're not powerful enough, then they form a League of Nations or a United Nations organization and try to moralize about it.
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But in the end, the international court, if you want to take it that far, can only enforce a judgment if it has the backing of the largest nations.
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I mean, pretend this is about international justice or anything like that.
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We have 80 years of liberal international moralizing about this.
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Actually, we go back to the end of the First World War and the link of the nation.
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I mean, the world is nicer when we go by that, but we don't ever actually go by it.
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And maybe it does give us more norms to go with some guardrails, but end of the day, it's all bullshit.
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It's funny, some of the people decrying, though, what Trump did with Maduro are the same ones who were saying that Netanyahu should be arrested if he steps foot outside of Israel.
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Actually, with what I saw he's doing with the Christians in Israel, I'm actually kind of coming around to that.
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I've seen it with Tony, but he's doing to Christians there.
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Either way, the ability to take a leader into custody for another state is the question.
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That's like going to Israel and stashing of Netanyahu.
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you know could it get to the mediterranean before they
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we can take the we'll take this a bit more broadly
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I was not for that one, because I don't think that was America's interest.
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There was no evidence, still no evidence really provided.
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Yeah, but I don't trust governments with just saying,
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the evidence is down there somewhere, and you're going to trust me.
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They said that in the Gulf War, too, didn't they?
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Yeah, I've just not taken anyone's word for it anymore.
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But I don't think that was in America's interest.
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there's a pretty strong argument for it actually Panama
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exists as a country because of America they formatted
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Give the credit where it's due. They were blasting Iron Maiden
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The first ones in Denmark, Canada, Sweden, they just don't stir the world a lot.
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They're in the Canadian club of these benevolent, don't-bothering...
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Now, the last time Denmark was at war, they actually have the record, to this day, for being the shortest...
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When they were attacked by Germany in the Second World War, I think it was literally a matter of hours.
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They literally just dropped paratroopers on the presidential palace and the war was over.
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I think it was the shortest invasion in world history.
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And I imagine an American invasion of Greenland would go similar.
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There is no point in fighting an American carrier rolls off the coast of Greenland.
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If America took an aggressive military action against Greenland,
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technically, that's an act of war against NATO.
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But Ukraine attacked NATO when they blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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So technically we should be at war with Ukraine for that.
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And part of it is everybody's got to speculate.
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And it's hard to try and guess what he's really looking at.
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As you said, I mean, somebody wrote a good piece, actually.
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Well, if he went into Greenland, it might be the end of NATO.
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And if it's the end of NATO, then we've got some other bigger issues going on throughout the rest of Europe.
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There's a lot of, you know, ripple effect that comes from these actions.
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You may be right about that, but I personally do not think that the object is to make Greenland the 51st state or the 52nd or the 53rd.
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What are they going to do with the continent that's covered by ice?
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You can't do anything with it except on a few little coastline clubs.
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So the deal is going to be, we need this and we need that.
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There's been an American military presence there.
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So you're in the middle of the Second World War.
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Yes, and Denmark and Greenland have said they can have it.
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Yeah, but they can also support the increase if you're paying the lease.
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What I think this is, is Trump has got a big board, a big risk board sitting somewhere in the Oval Office,
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And I don't even mean these words pejoratively, but this is about demonstrating American expansion,
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manifest destiny over the hemisphere um making america look cooler america is growing again
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it's not a risk for i think that's yes i think that's what he's doing there i like playing
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strategy games and i like to paint the map of whatever country i'm playing here you know the
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map looks bigger for me i've taken it over and i think that's what he's doing because america can
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put all of the military installations and hardware and personnel that it wants in greenland they have
00:35:38.480
There is no restriction on what America can do there, really.
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I will have you out of your cottage and into a New York pen, and we will take your oil.
00:36:10.820
You know, everything he does is calculated to build a reputation of don't mess with me.
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That is actually a very safe thing to do, because the one thing where wars really start,
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I'm talking about the serious ones, is when people can't quite sure what the other side is going to do.
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The First World War is a classic example of that.
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the second world war you could make the same argument it would just take longer to do it
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if he says to china stay out of taiwan the chinese are not going to invade while he is president
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and all of these things contribute to that an image of irresistible force not to be trifled
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with he might be that but actually the taiwan example i think might might be backwards trump
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and America should be the greatest pole of that
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that's russia's sphere of influence always has been nothing we can do about it so we're going
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to write off ukraine but that's russia's sphere of influence taiwan we like taiwan but it's china's
00:37:37.480
sphere of influences ethnically chinese and he just wasn't intercepted two tankers that were
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bound for russia weren't they in america's hemisphere yeah i was saying he's aggressive
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on to the other side of the eastern europe line too but he's saying no no no uh russia you can do
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tacitly that China can do what it wants at the time
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You get to do what you want in your backyards, but this is my backyard.
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I think, broadly, I would agree that he has a view of spheres of influence,
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but the Chinese are so obviously making the whole world their sphere of influence,
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but especially around the United States, this is what concerns him.
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But, yeah, there is a strong element of pushback,
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and Taiwan, of course, is the point at which the Chinese could challenge him.
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And I think if he says no, stay out of it, they'll wait until the next Democrat.
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But I don't think he sees Taiwan as America's national vital interest.
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It's almost come to World War III because what he says will simply be taken.
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Trump is like tomorrow morning the whole plan could be different.
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The Chinese can be thinking a generation ahead.
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And if they've got to wait out an administration, it's just an administration.
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But I just had to laugh on a similar subject with people who are uncomfortable or worried about the states unrealistically or realistically.
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I don't know if you saw the Toronto Star headline that Ford now has to watch his back.
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They're going to come get Doug like they want him.
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But this is the absurdity of Canada's legacy media.
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I just, you know, it should have been a parting shot, but I already have one.
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But the ludicrousness of people's responses to this whole affair.
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You know, okay, you saw the, you know, remember Little Rocket Man, North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
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And I get the strategy from that perspective, but Greenland, Denmark, it backfires there potentially.
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Because, yes, in international politics, it's important that your adversaries believe you, that I am crazy enough.
00:40:36.420
I will come snatch you out of your presidential palace in the middle of the night.
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But at the same time, trust from your friends and allies is important.
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People have to believe your friendship is worth something, that your alliance means something, that your signature on this treaty means something.
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And, you know, essentially, I doubt anyone would get killed in taking Greenland.
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I would be utterly shocked if there was any kind of battle at all.
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but you know it could still be a non-violent occupation military action that kind of thing
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those happen um how could nato survive that look i'm not shilling for trump i'm just saying that
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this is this is his game plan i don't like you said they've had uh bases there for a long time
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what's different about this one i don't know but uh maybe he's just negotiating a lower lease rate
00:41:35.960
Or maybe the message isn't for the Danes, it's for somebody else altogether.
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Don't screw around with me because I'm, you know, you guys in NATO can go on.
00:41:51.100
And actually, you know, that foreign policy paper that the White House put out
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roughly a month or so ago does look at Europe as now an unreliable partner
00:42:30.420
intentionally trying to just finally scupper nate though because it's it's already finished
00:42:35.160
the lazy you know kind of closure on it just is that 2026 is kicking off the whole world picture
00:42:40.420
is changing now we're in for a heck of a ride this year nothing happened over the break real
00:42:46.420
quiet on the news front okay gentlemen uh who wants first parting shot you go first gory huh
00:42:52.800
i just wanted to remind everybody of all those recalls that uh legacy media and some professors
00:42:58.420
and others were saying we're going to force danielle smith into a spring election out of terror
00:43:02.180
the most possible feasible one of them all was nicholas or i mean uh nicholaitis and it was the
00:43:09.780
one based on him being the education minister and teacher strike and it was a razor thin margin
00:43:13.940
mining yeah it was very close one that's conceivable not even vaguely close to making the
00:43:18.600
signature barrier it's going to fail and the rest will fail even more so obviously so that was just
00:43:24.600
a bunch of show and an abuse of the system and the bar that was set in the legislation is
00:43:30.820
appropriate i think if we did have a an axe murderer in the legislature then the bar would
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be achieved but this wasn't enough thank you for demonstrating the efficacy of the legislation gill
00:43:40.500
uh better luck next time yeah that's a good one yeah so you know for my for my two panels i think
00:43:48.280
we're just we're about to see now whether carney is serious about a pipeline to the coast
00:43:54.060
after all this happened in venezuela we talked about it for half an hour
00:43:58.040
you know the case for getting an alternative export route has for alberto oil never been
00:44:05.820
more obvious so if something isn't on on the rails in 12 months we'll know without doubt that
00:44:12.940
his green values mindset is what animates him he's been just looking for a way to make it look like
00:44:20.580
he's serious but also to make it go away so i i i'm kind of pessimistic about that and i have to
00:44:28.440
say what has you know what has carney actually accomplished in 10 months can you think of
00:44:33.920
anything that's really he got you got rid of the liberals you saved the liberals all right well
00:44:38.460
thanks thanks very much for that now we got somebody we can criticize you know we could
00:44:42.880
have found something else no he's done nothing for for nine months uh except made plans it's like
00:44:50.480
somebody who is very unconfident of their ea job they spend all the time rearranging the desks so
00:44:55.920
now we've got a you know a ministry of fast track products but we've got no products so what's
00:45:02.560
there's the most disappointing tenure of office i came straight here from a meeting and i actually
00:45:08.800
didn't prepare mine but i've pulled one out of my arse and it feeds right into what we would say
00:45:14.240
about where is america going next we've got actually a pool you can't see it on the camera
00:45:36.960
It doesn't have to mean a war actually breaks out, but an
00:46:13.120
I don't know how legitimate those odds are that I'm given
00:46:17.340
uh but the fact that i'm you know 15 to 1 the fact that it's like we're even talking not a
00:46:23.920
billion to one the fact that it's not a billion to one i would obviously not i'm going to win
00:46:29.800
the bet i'm willing to give 15 to one odds on canada i probably should give even better odds
00:46:34.940
but you know i'm not gonna collect pennies here but uh yeah the fact that it's not a billion to
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shows you that we're in a very interesting new world all right cory we are nigel thank you
00:46:47.440
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