1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,880
Speaker 1: War will visit us here on the continent. The world

2
00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,480
Speaker 1: has changed. There is no long term national strategy to

3
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:08,320
Speaker 1: deal with anything.

4
00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,119
Speaker 2: In the Ukraine conflict, maybe the US was sort of

5
00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,760
Speaker 2: exposed as being a little bit incompetent or behind what

6
00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,920
Speaker 2: the Russian military was.

7
00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,919
Speaker 1: Russia has won. One point eight million Ukrainians in uniform

8
00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:20,600
Speaker 1: are dead.

9
00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:21,239
Speaker 2: Terrible.

10
00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,600
Speaker 1: Russia will determine what Ukraine looks like beyond the Polish border.

11
00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,240
Speaker 2: The most heinoused evil type of crime that you could

12
00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:29,960
Speaker 2: even imagine.

13
00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,800
Speaker 1: Are we going to admit that our drug problem is

14
00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,839
Speaker 1: here in the United States.

15
00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,879
Speaker 2: It's a serious conversation that needs to be have.

16
00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,800
Speaker 1: The average African warlord cares more about the people he

17
00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,320
Speaker 1: leads in Central Africa than most of the senators and

18
00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,440
Speaker 1: congressmen care about us. You may not have a job

19
00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,960
Speaker 1: here anymore. Things are about to change, you know, we

20
00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,440
Speaker 1: went through this before it was called the Civil War.

21
00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,680
Speaker 2: We're living through the biggest global power shifts since World

22
00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,920
Speaker 2: War II, and most Americans don't even see it yet.

23
00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,360
Speaker 2: Now the rest of the world does. We see nations realigning.

24
00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,839
Speaker 2: Old alliances are cracking. The US is stretched thin in China, Russia,

25
00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,319
Speaker 2: and the global South they're all moving into the vacuum. Now,

26
00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,759
Speaker 2: the question that every investor, every entrepreneur, every family should

27
00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,520
Speaker 2: be asking is what comes next? Because whatever this new

28
00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,480
Speaker 2: world looks like, your wealth, your freedom, and your future

29
00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,560
Speaker 2: is going to be shaped by it. So today we're

30
00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,839
Speaker 2: going to be joined by somebody who's been warning about

31
00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,559
Speaker 2: this moment long before it hit headlines. I'm talking about

32
00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,160
Speaker 2: Colonel Doug McGregor. He's a career Army officer, military strategist.

33
00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,560
Speaker 2: He's someone who's not afraid to tell the truth, no

34
00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,639
Speaker 2: matter how uncomfortable it is. We're going to talk about

35
00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,319
Speaker 2: NATO Ukraine. We're going to talk about Venezuela, China, the

36
00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,480
Speaker 2: collapse of American influence. We'll talk about the global power

37
00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,840
Speaker 2: realignment that's already underway, and most importantly, what it means

38
00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,080
Speaker 2: for you. So let's get into it. Colonel, you've openly

39
00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,000
Speaker 2: talked about the US being financially exhausted right now, right now,

40
00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,880
Speaker 2: you know, thirty eight trillion dollars in debt and rising,

41
00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,800
Speaker 2: rising global commitments. What typically happens when an empire expands

42
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,800
Speaker 2: while it's balance sheet collapses, Well.

43
00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,360
Speaker 1: Eventually catastrophe, but in the short run, and we're still

44
00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,440
Speaker 1: not yet. In the long run, we're getting there, but

45
00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,959
Speaker 1: we're not there yet. I think we have to understand

46
00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,480
Speaker 1: that our problems really began with the Vietnam War. A

47
00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand that Lyndon Johnson actually bankrupted

48
00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,360
Speaker 1: the country the cost of the Vietnam War along with

49
00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,560
Speaker 1: his social programs, but primarily the war essentially bankrupted the country.

50
00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,400
Speaker 1: And so on fifteen August nineteen seventy one, Richard Nixon

51
00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:45,960
Speaker 1: discarded the gold standard. Now some people will say, well, why, well,

52
00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,720
Speaker 1: you discarded it because he couldn't pay for anything. We

53
00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,800
Speaker 1: have to remember that historically, if you wanted to do something,

54
00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, if Washington wanted to spend, they had to

55
00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:01,360
Speaker 1: tax the American people. There was a limit. But after

56
00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,119
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one and the abandonment of the gold standard,

57
00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,359
Speaker 1: there was no limit. You needed money, you simply printed it.

58
00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,360
Speaker 1: And as a result, over a long period of time,

59
00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,960
Speaker 1: they printed away our savings, our income, everything, our heritage,

60
00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,799
Speaker 1: our standard of living. They didn't print wealth. What they

61
00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,800
Speaker 1: printed for themselves was power. So the printing press for

62
00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,000
Speaker 1: dollars is essentially the mother of unending war. You know,

63
00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,120
Speaker 1: for two trillion dollars in Afghanistan over twenty years and

64
00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,960
Speaker 1: four presidents. We replaced the Taliban with the Taliban and

65
00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,160
Speaker 1: there's no accountability.

66
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,000
Speaker 2: Why yeah, well.

67
00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,520
Speaker 1: It didn't matter to the average American. You know, if

68
00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,280
Speaker 1: the government had to tax us directly to bomb countries

69
00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,120
Speaker 1: that most of us can't even find on a map,

70
00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,600
Speaker 1: then there would be a revolution or rebellion. But because

71
00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,600
Speaker 1: they could print, war was invisible. You know. The printing

72
00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,200
Speaker 1: press also is the foundation for endless bureaucracy. When money

73
00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,240
Speaker 1: is infinite, you can hire armies of bureaucrats. You can

74
00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,760
Speaker 1: take seventy thousand pages of federal code and turn them

75
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,120
Speaker 1: into two hundred thousand. The printing press is also the

76
00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,360
Speaker 1: source of uncontrolled immigration. They tell you it's about compassion,

77
00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,400
Speaker 1: it isn't. It is a wage suppression operation. Why pay

78
00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,760
Speaker 1: an American a living wage when you can import a

79
00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,320
Speaker 1: replacement from some other place in the world Latin America, Africa,

80
00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,200
Speaker 1: the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent for half the price.

81
00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,560
Speaker 1: So what's the result. Millions of people fled into the

82
00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,919
Speaker 1: United States, not necessarily people we really need or necessarily want. Certainly,

83
00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,159
Speaker 1: not necessarily people that are remotely interested in becoming Americans

84
00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,520
Speaker 1: or even can be. But we drive down the cost

85
00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,400
Speaker 1: of American labor, while Washington prints money to drive up

86
00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,719
Speaker 1: the price of their assets. So we don't have a

87
00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,400
Speaker 1: border crisis. What we have is an economic weapon that's

88
00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:01,000
Speaker 1: deployed against us. And printing money without constraint is also

89
00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,719
Speaker 1: the mother of endless outsourcing. Fake money allows them to

90
00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,000
Speaker 1: ship factories overseas. Behind those closed doors lie rusted towns,

91
00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,440
Speaker 1: broken families, an opioid epidemic that kills more than three

92
00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,920
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people a year, a lot more than died

93
00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:24,000
Speaker 1: in Vietnam. So I think we're heading into the currency

94
00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:29,040
Speaker 1: debasement problem now. And of course this then elevates something

95
00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,360
Speaker 1: like bitcoin to considerable importance, because we clearly cannot go

96
00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,239
Speaker 1: back to a pure gold standard. It would be nice,

97
00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,200
Speaker 1: but I don't think there's enough gold left in the

98
00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,320
Speaker 1: United States, maybe not even in the world to do it.

99
00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you stop and think that in the last

100
00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,520
Speaker 1: twenty two months, we've printed thirty percent of all the

101
00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,480
Speaker 1: dollars that have ever existed. Now, that's an enormous, enormous

102
00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,159
Speaker 1: quantity of dollars. And the President smiles and says, Oh,

103
00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,839
Speaker 1: everything's just fun, everything's getting better. All the presidents have

104
00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,400
Speaker 1: done that. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican.

105
00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,000
Speaker 1: And they say, well, this is capitalism, this is a

106
00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,000
Speaker 1: free market. No, it's not. Capitalism requires competition, periodic failure,

107
00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:18,799
Speaker 1: or creative destruction. So in this current environment, given the

108
00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,520
Speaker 1: ability to sort of inject liquidity whatever you like, or

109
00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,799
Speaker 1: quantitative easy and call it what you will, when big

110
00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,760
Speaker 1: business fails, Washington prints money to bail it out. Now

111
00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,040
Speaker 1: that assumes that if you're in big business, you have

112
00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,160
Speaker 1: the right friends in Washington. And if you aren't big

113
00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,000
Speaker 1: business and you don't have friends in Washington, you're foreclosed.

114
00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,080
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good way to look at

115
00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,440
Speaker 1: the problem that we have right now. And there's no

116
00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,800
Speaker 1: easy way out, and nobody wants to default because that

117
00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,480
Speaker 1: could have profound consequences. So what do we do. We

118
00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,719
Speaker 1: continue to print, and we have a very elaborate game

119
00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:02,080
Speaker 1: involving balance sheets and bonds and T bills. And now

120
00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,400
Speaker 1: the stable coin business is another scam in my judgment,

121
00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,040
Speaker 1: it's not bitcoin, And why would anybody want to invest

122
00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,559
Speaker 1: in stable coin? If each coin is worth one dollar,

123
00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:18,200
Speaker 1: We'll forget it. Let's all buy bitcoin, forget stable coin. Right. Anyway,

124
00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,640
Speaker 1: I think those things are coming together. These forces are converging. Now.

125
00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,520
Speaker 1: The other part of this is, in addition to running

126
00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,560
Speaker 1: out of wealth, which is effectively where we are we

127
00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,160
Speaker 1: don't produce anything. What do we manufacture. We manufacture some

128
00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,720
Speaker 1: military equipment, but much beyond it. No, our manufacturing base

129
00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,600
Speaker 1: was driven out of the country. So we're trying to

130
00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,440
Speaker 1: restart that. But that's not something you snap your fingers

131
00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,920
Speaker 1: and change. It's going to take a long time. What

132
00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,240
Speaker 1: have we done in the energy industry? What have we

133
00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,000
Speaker 1: done for agriculture? Those two things used to be pillars

134
00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,800
Speaker 1: in the high church of productivity and wealth in the

135
00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,680
Speaker 1: United States. We're not getting nearly out of energy or

136
00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,680
Speaker 1: out of the agrarian sector. In my judgment, what we

137
00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,760
Speaker 1: need there needs to be a focus on that. You know,

138
00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,400
Speaker 1: just look at mining. We talk about mineral wealth, and

139
00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,120
Speaker 1: we're worried about rare earth. Now, we found some rare

140
00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,680
Speaker 1: earths deposits up at Alaska. But I've got news for you.

141
00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,800
Speaker 1: There's rare earth all over Canada. There's rare earth in

142
00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,080
Speaker 1: the United States, but we haven't bothered to do anything

143
00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,080
Speaker 1: with it. Why well, it wasn't to financially rewarding. It

144
00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,880
Speaker 1: was cheaper, faster, better to go somewhere else. And the

145
00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,080
Speaker 1: worst part is we don't even have a refinery for

146
00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,320
Speaker 1: the stuff. So where do we send our rare earth

147
00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,040
Speaker 1: to be refined? Times up China, you know, so it

148
00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,560
Speaker 1: goes to China or you know, Kazakhstan. I don't know

149
00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,920
Speaker 1: if Mongolia has an operating refinery right now, but we

150
00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,480
Speaker 1: haven't built one. You know, we need to build one.

151
00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,920
Speaker 1: It's crazy. And we have friends that are sitting on

152
00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,760
Speaker 1: enormous rare earth deposits that nobody ever bothers to mention.

153
00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,360
Speaker 1: Norway has perhaps the large just rarest department in all

154
00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,679
Speaker 1: of Europe. So I think we've just got problems in

155
00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,920
Speaker 1: Washington because there is no long term national strategy to

156
00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,320
Speaker 1: deal with anything. There's no long term national strategy for

157
00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:20,520
Speaker 1: military purposes, none for scientific industrial development, none for mineral

158
00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:26,040
Speaker 1: wealth and extraction, none for agriculture, none for energy. Everything

159
00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:31,720
Speaker 1: is ad hoc, last minute, a short term. And that's

160
00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,400
Speaker 1: not surprising because every four years, what do we do

161
00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,839
Speaker 1: in Washington? Every four or eight it depends on how

162
00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:43,679
Speaker 1: long the president lasts. Well, we lobotomize the government. We say, oh, well,

163
00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,560
Speaker 1: everything they did was wrong. Now we're going to do

164
00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,079
Speaker 1: all of these things. Well, it doesn't really change the country.

165
00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,000
Speaker 1: The country remains the same thing, but there is no

166
00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:57,319
Speaker 1: framework for development, no framework for improvement. So I think

167
00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,360
Speaker 1: at this point, I think we're on the road to

168
00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,360
Speaker 1: what Nasam Talent calls the perhaps the mother of all

169
00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:06,280
Speaker 1: black swans.

170
00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,040
Speaker 2: Well, that's a really good frame, and it all kind

171
00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,319
Speaker 2: of starts with your case for sound money, which I

172
00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,960
Speaker 2: thought was really well put. The interesting historical fact is

173
00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000
Speaker 2: that the first central bank that was created was the

174
00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,280
Speaker 2: Bank of England in the late sixteen hundreds. That was

175
00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,719
Speaker 2: created specifically so they'd have more money to continue to

176
00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,880
Speaker 2: fight wars. So it was started so they could print

177
00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,439
Speaker 2: money so they could just keep these never ending wars going.

178
00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 2: And that's what we've seen, and you mentioned, you know,

179
00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,760
Speaker 2: spending two trillion dollars in Afghanistan. So while the US

180
00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,960
Speaker 2: government certainly has the power of the money printer and

181
00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,680
Speaker 2: can continue to print essentially at this point endless amounts

182
00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,400
Speaker 2: of money to fight these wars. The symptom of that,

183
00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,360
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, then it also requires sort of maybe

184
00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,320
Speaker 2: hollowing out the manufacturing base, which I think brings to

185
00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,040
Speaker 2: maybe a more crucial point. You're talking about not being

186
00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,200
Speaker 2: able to refine our own rare earth elements and things

187
00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,640
Speaker 2: like that. So currently, right now the US has this

188
00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,199
Speaker 2: massive amount of debt. The money printer is still working

189
00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,760
Speaker 2: at this point, it's having diminishing returns. But maybe the

190
00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,679
Speaker 2: real crux or maybe pain point that we have right

191
00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,720
Speaker 2: now being able to sort of project power globally is

192
00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,600
Speaker 2: not just in the money or the debt that we have,

193
00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,240
Speaker 2: but the ability to even fight a war, to even

194
00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,600
Speaker 2: be able to produce the goods that we need. You've

195
00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,560
Speaker 2: heard me talking about investing in layers and things like.

196
00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,439
Speaker 2: The reason you have to work so hard is because

197
00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,960
Speaker 2: your money doesn't well. I want to invite you to

198
00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,280
Speaker 2: a special event. I'm having a three day live event

199
00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,800
Speaker 2: called the Wealth Operating System. It's an accelerator event. I'm

200
00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,520
Speaker 2: going to teach you all the tools that the one

201
00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,960
Speaker 2: percent use to have their money work harder than they do,

202
00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,080
Speaker 2: getting their money to do one job, two jobs, three

203
00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,600
Speaker 2: five jobs at once, so it can work faster and

204
00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 2: harder than you. Over three days, we're going to go deep.

205
00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,480
Speaker 2: I'm going to bring in guest speakers. It's workshop style.

206
00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,840
Speaker 2: I got about fifteen tools and We're going to go

207
00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,480
Speaker 2: through a methodical process so you can learn how to

208
00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,400
Speaker 2: reclaim ten to fifteen hours of your time back per week,

209
00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,080
Speaker 2: how to keep more of your money, how to invest

210
00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,640
Speaker 2: it and multiply it faster than you've ever imagined by

211
00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,920
Speaker 2: the individual. Have a ninety day plan of exactly what

212
00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,800
Speaker 2: you need to do to go make twenty twenty six

213
00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,520
Speaker 2: the best year you've ever imagined. It's all going to

214
00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,000
Speaker 2: be live, it's all going to be virtual. There's a

215
00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:23,640
Speaker 2: link down below if you want to come check out.

216
00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,400
Speaker 2: I'll put a QR code up on the screen. If

217
00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,200
Speaker 2: you want to get your money working harder than needed

218
00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,120
Speaker 2: to grow your wealth faster than you've ever imagined, like

219
00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,520
Speaker 2: the one percent, check out the Wealth Operating System Accelerator event.

220
00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,679
Speaker 2: Check out the link down below.

221
00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,120
Speaker 1: Well, I think you're you know your British analogy is

222
00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,520
Speaker 1: Merit's closer attention because you're right. They created the Bank

223
00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,120
Speaker 1: of England for those purposes. It was also the strategic

224
00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,760
Speaker 1: engine in many ways, at least in monetary terms, for

225
00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,079
Speaker 1: the founding and expansion of the British Empire. But having

226
00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,600
Speaker 1: said that, Britain did recognize limits and constraints and they

227
00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,960
Speaker 1: operated within these limits and constraints. They understood the criticality

228
00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,160
Speaker 1: of gold backing their currency, and so they were able

229
00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:11,200
Speaker 1: to be part of various alliances and coalitions that defeated

230
00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,520
Speaker 1: various enemies, whether it was Louis the fourteenth or Napoleon Buonaparte,

231
00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,040
Speaker 1: and they were able to do it without enormous loss

232
00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:23,240
Speaker 1: of life and without fielding enormous forces. The large forces

233
00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,319
Speaker 1: that did most of the fighting were always continental, largely

234
00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,840
Speaker 1: German speaking and Russian speaking armies, connected with some others

235
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,200
Speaker 1: on the periphery, but those are the main ones to

236
00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:38,080
Speaker 1: defeat these French forces. That changes in nineteen fourteen and

237
00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,800
Speaker 1: a very very bad decision is made, and that decision

238
00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,000
Speaker 1: was to intervene in the First World War, something for

239
00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,680
Speaker 1: which the British were not prepared and could not sustain.

240
00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:51,040
Speaker 1: And by nineteen seventeen it was pretty obvious to anybody

241
00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,400
Speaker 1: looking at the facts on the ground that France and

242
00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,720
Speaker 1: Britain were losing, and so the pressure for the bankers

243
00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,520
Speaker 1: was enormous for us to come into the war ultimately

244
00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,920
Speaker 1: bail out the French and British imperialists. So we ended

245
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,240
Speaker 1: up doing that and had terrible consequences for US because

246
00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,840
Speaker 1: we destroyed Europe and we eliminated the major powers in

247
00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:18,600
Speaker 1: Central East Europe that held the European civilization together. Wherever

248
00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:23,920
Speaker 1: we have intervened historically, we have distorted the natural dynamic

249
00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,680
Speaker 1: forces in the area, which ultimately determined how people would

250
00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,720
Speaker 1: be governed and how people would live. And that's been

251
00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,840
Speaker 1: disastrous because we are, much like Great Britain, ultimately a

252
00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:40,800
Speaker 1: maritime and aerospace power. We are not a continental military

253
00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,960
Speaker 1: power anywheres but in the Western hemisphere. So like the British,

254
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,440
Speaker 1: we've never had a requirement for a very large army,

255
00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,920
Speaker 1: and having to field large armies, especially during and after

256
00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,080
Speaker 1: World War Two, was an expense for which we weren't

257
00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,080
Speaker 1: prepared and we had to sustain this all through the

258
00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,280
Speaker 1: Cold War, which was frankly not a good thing. I mean,

259
00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,080
Speaker 1: people don't realize how much of our wealth was squandered

260
00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,640
Speaker 1: on containing the Soviet Union. So here we sit at

261
00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,120
Speaker 1: the end of this whole process. In nineteen ninety one,

262
00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,800
Speaker 1: we saw ourselves as having quote unquote won the Cold War.

263
00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,720
Speaker 1: In reality, the Soviet structure simply collapsed. It didn't make

264
00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,720
Speaker 1: any sense. State socialism was a disaster. There was an

265
00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,400
Speaker 1: opportunity then to do a lot of things. It made sense.

266
00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,880
Speaker 1: The first was to get out of NATO, or at

267
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,320
Speaker 1: least set NATO up to operate without us. You know,

268
00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,880
Speaker 1: NATO is kind of like I'm sure some of you

269
00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:44,320
Speaker 1: have contracts with ADT. This is a nationwide security service

270
00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,360
Speaker 1: that cuts to your phone and wires your doors, your windows,

271
00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,000
Speaker 1: and then you have an alarm system. Well, NATO has

272
00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:58,160
Speaker 1: been the ADT analog for Europeans now for what almost

273
00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,760
Speaker 1: seventy sixty five years, and they've never had to pay

274
00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,200
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, that's the problem. They said, Oh, well,

275
00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,960
Speaker 1: that's not true. We put money here in here. Let

276
00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,240
Speaker 1: me tell you it's a pittance. I served most of

277
00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,160
Speaker 1: my military career in Europe. I lived over there for

278
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,360
Speaker 1: ten years. The school there served there twice three times

279
00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,880
Speaker 1: actually twice in Germany and then once in Belgium. We

280
00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,920
Speaker 1: provided free of charge ADT for the Europeans, and oh,

281
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,360
Speaker 1: by the way, we've provided ADT free of charge for

282
00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,120
Speaker 1: Japan and to a lesser extent, Korea. The Koreans did

283
00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,400
Speaker 1: join US in Vietnam tried to reduce the burden on

284
00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,360
Speaker 1: US there, but not Japan. Japan's national strategy has been

285
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,720
Speaker 1: to extract as much wealth as possible from us and

286
00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,560
Speaker 1: get a defense for it without paying for any of it.

287
00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,320
Speaker 1: And it's worked. So what Donald Trump has been saying

288
00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,520
Speaker 1: is now saying publicly this needs to end. And of course,

289
00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,840
Speaker 1: you know you're dealing with countries es actually in Europe

290
00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,640
Speaker 1: that have been spoiled, rotten like children, and they don't

291
00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,560
Speaker 1: want us to leave. They want us to continue to

292
00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,359
Speaker 1: pay for everything and protect them for nothing. Now, there

293
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,600
Speaker 1: are a lot of people in Washington that don't like it,

294
00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:17,120
Speaker 1: because in Washington everything is mortgaged to vanity as well

295
00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,800
Speaker 1: as money. That means everybody likes the fact that we

296
00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,000
Speaker 1: have US forces all over the world. People like to

297
00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,800
Speaker 1: stand up and talk talk, and even President Trump does this,

298
00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,480
Speaker 1: which is really annoying. Frankly, we have the greatest armed

299
00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 1: forces in the world. Nobody can stand against us. Well,

300
00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,439
Speaker 1: if you're like the British before World War One, and

301
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,440
Speaker 1: you skillfully avoid fighting anybody who can really fight back,

302
00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,960
Speaker 1: you look pretty good. And Britain looked pretty good in

303
00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,000
Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen until it faced the Imperial German Army and

304
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,720
Speaker 1: the rest is history. Same thing happened again in World

305
00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:54,919
Speaker 1: War Two. So your point is accurate. We're really not organized, trained, equipped,

306
00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,720
Speaker 1: and ready, if structured, to go after anybody who is

307
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,240
Speaker 1: a near peer opponent if you will, or appear opponent.

308
00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,800
Speaker 1: And I hope people begin to understand that. And the

309
00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,359
Speaker 1: answer to that is not to pour money into the

310
00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,200
Speaker 1: old structure and the old defense establishment because we need

311
00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,879
Speaker 1: a new one. It's to cut back on spending defense spending,

312
00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,560
Speaker 1: figure out what it is that we need, and then

313
00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,320
Speaker 1: build that, and then steer a different course in foreign policy.

314
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:29,119
Speaker 1: And that course is war avoidance. You mentioned that in

315
00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,119
Speaker 1: Washington and people look at you and say, what conflict

316
00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:39,560
Speaker 1: avoidance will Why? Yeah, because war will visit us here

317
00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,200
Speaker 1: on the continent. It's not what it was. The world

318
00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,800
Speaker 1: has changed. The technologies we once enjoyed a monopoly over

319
00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,640
Speaker 1: have now proliferated. War is dangerous. The last president who

320
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,240
Speaker 1: really understood that was Eisenhower, and he understood that World

321
00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,240
Speaker 1: War II is no great march to victory without massive,

322
00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,119
Speaker 1: massive loss of life. And you know, this disruption of

323
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,479
Speaker 1: our way of life. So you know, you put together

324
00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,840
Speaker 1: the end of the fat system, which I think is

325
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,320
Speaker 1: staring us in the face or it's collapsed, together with

326
00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,840
Speaker 1: this giant force it's not really the force we need

327
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,240
Speaker 1: for the future. It happens to be the force that

328
00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,040
Speaker 1: we've used for the past fifty sixty years to pulverize

329
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,680
Speaker 1: anybody we didn't like and bullied people into submission. How

330
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,640
Speaker 1: do we rectify this? And that's where you come into

331
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 1: a discussion of where do we go from here financially

332
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,200
Speaker 1: And I don't really feel competent to discuss that in detail,

333
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,240
Speaker 1: but I think bitcoin fits into that because the fat

334
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 1: system is not going to survive, not in its current form.

335
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 2: You talk about when you talked about the British army

336
00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 2: looks strong until they met the German army, and sort

337
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,119
Speaker 2: of the US is sort of looks strong if you

338
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,960
Speaker 2: look at it, and I think, you know, I've heard

339
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 2: many of your interviews talking about this sort of the

340
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,360
Speaker 2: US was sort of put on a global stage, well

341
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,040
Speaker 2: two times maybe, So if you have heard of like

342
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,240
Speaker 2: the generations of warfare, maybe the third generation of warfare

343
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,520
Speaker 2: was like the industrial armies of like World War One

344
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 2: and World War two. Fourth generations sort of being maybe

345
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,160
Speaker 2: starting in Vietnam, more of like a guerrilla type warfare.

346
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 2: And so if you look at like from Vietnam, Ford,

347
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,840
Speaker 2: I mean, how many of these wars have been have

348
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 2: we been winning from the US side? But then maybe

349
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,240
Speaker 2: more specifically in the Ukraine conflict, maybe the US was

350
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 2: sort of exposed as being a little bit incompetent or

351
00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 2: behind maybe what the Russian military was.

352
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 1: Oh, I think it has been. It's been very much exposed.

353
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 1: Now how profoundly has that affected our standing in the world.

354
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: It'll take time to sort that out. The quickest way

355
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 1: to demonstrate, you know, the weakness of the United States

356
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,399
Speaker 1: strategically would be to disable or sink an aircraft carrier.

357
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 1: People don't realize the enormous impact of the loss of

358
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,639
Speaker 1: the Prince of Wales. It's giant British battleship that it

359
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 1: had been sent along with a cruiser by Churchill to

360
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 1: Singapore in nineteen forty two, and at the time the

361
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 1: admirals told Churchill, don't do this, they're at risk. And

362
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: he said, what do you mean they're at risk? These

363
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,680
Speaker 1: are the greatest warships in the world, said, ye know,

364
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 1: but they don't have any air cover and their air

365
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 1: defenses on board the vessels are inadequate. And he said, nonsense. Well,

366
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,880
Speaker 1: we know what happened The Japanese found it, they flew

367
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,479
Speaker 1: out to it and they sank it. That was the

368
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: beginning of the end of the British Empire. And then

369
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: subsequently we have the defeat at Singapore, which pretty much

370
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 1: nailed the coffin shut. So those kinds of events matter.

371
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 1: We haven't really experienced that yet, but it doesn't mean

372
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: we could very easily and very suddenly. One example I think,

373
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,919
Speaker 1: of course, of the Hoodies. Look at the success the

374
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 1: Hoodies had against the United States Navy in the Red Sea. Well,

375
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 1: was that the fault of the sailors on the ships

376
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 1: that they weren't able to avoid being struck and they

377
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,159
Speaker 1: weren't able to damage fatally the Hoodies, No, of course not.

378
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: And the wrong vessels doing the wrong things for the

379
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,439
Speaker 1: wrong reasons, with the wrong weapons systems. This is years

380
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: and years of negligence. It's also years and years of

381
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: continuing to buy the same things and spending money on

382
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 1: the same things that we always have because that makes

383
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 1: people inside the belt Way wealthy, that makes the donors happy,

384
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: it creates money. It doesn't help us in defense, which

385
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: is why spending more money for defense is not an answer.

386
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: It matters how you spend it and on what you spend, right,

387
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: it also matters the quality of the soldier, sailors, airminham

388
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: marines that you have the quality of discipline and leadership. So,

389
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, I think your question is a valid one,

390
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: and I would say, yes, we have been exposed to

391
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 1: some extent, and I don't see any evidence that we

392
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: are seriously examining what has been exposed. I really don't.

393
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 1: I don't think the majority of the people I talked

394
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: to has still all sorts of fantasies about what is

395
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 1: really happening on the ground in eastern Ukraine and what

396
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: isn't complete failure to understand what the Russians have really done.

397
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: And I think it's unfortunate, but there's not much that

398
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: we could do about. It's very, very hard to take

399
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 1: a power with the kinds of armed forces we have

400
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: and persuade the people that lead it to pay attention

401
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: to reality on the ground, especially if that reality is

402
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 1: so radically different for what they imagine.

403
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately, in life, sometimes you have to take a

404
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,719
Speaker 2: loss or hit rock bottom before you change direction, and

405
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 2: certainly we hope it doesn't come to that point. But

406
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 2: kind of talking about the Russia Ukraine, conflict. You said

407
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 2: that the conflict is essentially over, but maybe just not officially.

408
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 2: Now there are some terms of a treaty that have

409
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 2: been proposed. It looks like that's coming to a head.

410
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,160
Speaker 2: But you said it is essentially over, just we haven't

411
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 2: really Reality hasn't caught up to that.

412
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: Well. The opportunity to have influenced this positively in a

413
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: way that would have led to peace and stability was

414
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: lost a long time go because the people in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin,

415
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: the globalists that are ruling us weren't really interested in peace.

416
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: The problem that President Trump has is I think he is,

417
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: but he doesn't control Congress, and Congress has no interest

418
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: in peace. The Senate and the House are happy if

419
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: we continue to spend wastefully on what's happening in Ukraine,

420
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: as are the people in Western Europe. Now, the reason

421
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: in Europe's a little different. I think the Europeans still

422
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 1: delude themselves into believing that they can harm Russia, but

423
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: the sanctions haven't really had the desired impact. Whatever impact

424
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 1: they had was rapidly balanced out by other actions, and

425
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: we found that most countries, in most cases can find

426
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: a way around sanctions, so that's not really our interest anymore.

427
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: I think the President Trump really would like to normalize

428
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: relations with Russia and be on a better footing, sure

429
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: footing with the Russians than we are. I just don't

430
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: know that he can make it happen. And if you

431
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: look at these twenty eight points, I think somebody pointed

432
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: out to me recently, well, if you want to read

433
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: the twenty eight points that have now been reduced to

434
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: nineteen that are probably going to become ten, you need

435
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: to go to the men's room in the Kremlin and

436
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: look at the current version on the wall, because it's meaningless.

437
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: Russia has won. Russia will determine what Ukraine looks like,

438
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: what Eastern Europe looks like beyond the Polish border. That's

439
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. The Russians have no interest in conquering

440
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: Eastern Europe, never have. They don't even want to move

441
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: much beyond where they are right now. They want to

442
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: get on with business as usual. They would like, I think,

443
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: to have good relations with us for the same reason

444
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: we would like have good relations with them. But again,

445
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: President Trump had the opportunity after he took over to say, look,

446
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: I didn't start this. I don't like it. I don't

447
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: see any value in it, and I'm going to end it.

448
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: And the only way for this to end is if

449
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: I in Washington pull the plug. I halt the flow

450
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: of funds and equipment to Ukraine. This will compel the

451
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: Europeans and the Ukrainians in Kiev to reach some sort

452
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: of deal, because as long as we continue to support them,

453
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: they are simply not incentivized for peace. And they don't

454
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: care how many millions of people that are killed, you know,

455
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: one point eight million Ukrainians. It's about the latest number

456
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,959
Speaker 1: I've gotten. One point eight million Ukrainians in uniform are dead, terrible,

457
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: and we don't care. You know, we don't care. Yeah,

458
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't see any evidence to anybody on the hill

459
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: gives a damn.

460
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

461
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: In fact, I've begun to think that the average African

462
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: warlord cares more about the people he leads in Central

463
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: Africa than most of the Senators and congressmen care about

464
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: US Americans, let alone the Ukrainians.

465
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're so detached from it. But I think it

466
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: has seemed like Trump has tried to pull the plug,

467
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 2: as you said, But your point, maybe the neo cons

468
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 2: and the warmongers in Congress keep pushing forward on that.

469
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: But what we haven't stopped the money, right, We haven't

470
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: stopped the intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance information that is vital and

471
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: essential to anything that the Ukrainians want to do. Haven't

472
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: done that. We haven't holded all the equipment, although the

473
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: equipment that's promised that the Europeans are now being expected

474
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: to pay for probably won't arrive for two or three years.

475
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: Is some of that maybe just to keep a little

476
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: bit of pressure on to get Putin to tell us

477
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 2: what his terms are going to be to reach that

478
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 2: peace agreement.

479
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: He's already done that. He's troubles his terms for three

480
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: plus years. Okay, it's not a secret, don't There's no

481
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: pressure on Putin anymore? Yeah? None. There might have been

482
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: two or three years ago because at that point the

483
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: Russian military was much smaller. They hadn't yet geared up,

484
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: their manufacturing base was not running at full speed. Right now,

485
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: Russia is mobilized for war, and if they're pushed by

486
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: the stupidly billlobilized for total war. And I'll tell you

487
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: that Putin is right. A war between our European allives

488
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: and the Russians would end very quickly, and it wouldn't

489
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: end well for the Europeans. Again, it takes at least

490
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: ten years just to build an army.

491
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of this then hinges on NATO.

492
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: You're mentioning Russia and the Europeans. You talked about, you know,

493
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: for a long time, the US footing the bill for NATO.

494
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: Trump has been very vocal about getting every country to

495
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: pay their fair share. They haven't lately. Just in the

496
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, I've been seeing this increasing rhetoric

497
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: around the US leaving NATO, but not for the reasons

498
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: that we typically would think about. It's not so much

499
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: about hey, it's a relic of the Cold War. Hey

500
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: they're not paying their fair share now. It's like we

501
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 2: don't even share a ligne values with any of these

502
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 2: countries any longer. So that seems to be the rhetoric

503
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: I'm seeing popping up. Curious your take on that. Every

504
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: day we see headlines about inflation and dead and diminishing

505
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 2: control over our own money. That's why I always come

506
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: back to bitcoin, because it's built for generation, it is

507
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 2: built for legacy. But protecting your bitcoin legacy the right

508
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: way is not always simple. It demands discipline, focus and

509
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: the right partner. Now that's why I personally use Unchained Signature.

510
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: It's a premium private client service for serious bitcoin holders

511
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: who want expert guidance, resilient custody, and an enduring partnership.

512
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: Now a Signature, you're paired with your own dedicated account manager,

513
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: someone who understands your goals helps you every step of

514
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: the way. You're going to get white glove onboarding, same

515
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: day emergency support, personalized education, reduced trading fees, and priority

516
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: access to exclusive events and features. Unchained collaborative custody model

517
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 2: is designed to provide the same security as the world's

518
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: biggest bitcoin custodians, but for those who prefer to hold

519
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: their own keys. Now I've been using and recommending Unchained

520
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: for years. I even got my parents to set up

521
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: with them. So if you want to get set up,

522
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: check out Unchained Signature at unchained dot com, slash mark

523
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: Moss and as a loyal listener, I got a discount

524
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: for you. Just use code Moss ten at checkout to

525
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 2: get ten percent off your first year. Because your bitcoin

526
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: isn't just for life, it's for generations.

527
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: Well, First of all, all of the problems that President

528
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: Trump points to with regard to the massive impact of

529
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: migrants that have flooded in from Africa, the Middle East,

530
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: the Indian subcontinent, and so forth, we have it too.

531
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, we have.

532
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: The same thing here. Who's he kidding? He needs to stop.

533
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: And I mean, if you live in a glass house

534
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: and we are in one, it's probably not a good

535
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: idea to hurl those stuff.

536
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: Well, he's been calling out dearborn Michigan. He's been calling

537
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 2: out the Somalis in Minnesota as well.

538
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, but what are we going to do

539
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: about it?

540
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 2: Right?

541
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: And see the Europeans, they're in a it's an existential

542
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: question for them. One out of every five adults in

543
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: France is a Muslim. Now that means he's a Muslim

544
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: from Africa or the Middle East, and all probability, all right,

545
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: and you do the math, look at the birth rooms.

546
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: So either they find a way to expel these people

547
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: or that's the end of France and French speaking civilization

548
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: and culture is one of the foundations of the West.

549
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: It could go away. Don't kids yourself that Italy is

550
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: not in the greatest shape it's not as bad as France.

551
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: Germany has its own set of problems. Once again, not

552
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: quite as bad as friends. What he is saying to

553
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: them is something that we need to come to terms with.

554
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: If you want to survive, you've got to defend yourselves,

555
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: and you need to defend yourselves internally, determine what you

556
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: will and won't tolerate. Look, he's you know you mentioned dearborn.

557
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Chicago and Governor Pritzker in Michigan, who

558
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: effectively says that ICE is a terrorist organization, that he's

559
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: openly rebelling against the federal government. And you know, we

560
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: went through this before it was called the Civil War.

561
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: I thought we settled that question. But this, this is

562
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: not a good thing. This is destructive to the body politic.

563
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: This is very serious threat to national cohesion. And President

564
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Trump needs to focus there, which is why I have

565
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: argued for a long time. Get the troops out, bring

566
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: them home, get them back into the United States. You know,

567
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: let's let's ratchet down the operational tempo. You know, these

568
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: just imagine these poor bastards that were over in the Mediterranean,

569
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: in the Navy. They were over there for a few months.

570
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: Now they've sailed down to the Caribbean and there's there's

571
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: sort of sitting around sailing there. You know, this wears

572
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: you out. You know, these are human beings. They have

573
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: to perform, they have to operate the systems, they have

574
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: to make it all work. We seem to have lost

575
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: touch with these things. But here they sit and no

576
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: decision seems to have been made. And I still haven't

577
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: figured out what we expect to accomplish in Venezuela. Again,

578
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: are we going to admit that our drug problem is

579
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: here in the United States.

580
00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way to put it.

581
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: You can the hell out of Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and

582
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: anything you want. What are you doing about it here?

583
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: I heard someone say it's like, you know, these other countries,

584
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: whether it's China with their fentanyl or Venezuela, whatever country

585
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: you want to put onto it, like their job sort

586
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: of is to destabilize us. Our job is to not

587
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 2: be destabilized.

588
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: Like, no, you're you're exactly right. And I don't think

589
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: first of all, China and people do. I don't know

590
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,479
Speaker 1: how much time you spend in Northeast Asia, but very

591
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: few Americans understand Asia it bears no resemblance to our world.

592
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: They could just as easily be on a different planet.

593
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: That's how different Asia is from the United States and

594
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: the West. The Chinese have no interest in a war

595
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: with us under any and all sort of says. They

596
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: don't want a war with anybody. If the Chinese live

597
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: in fear of something, I think they live in fear

598
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: that the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy will come back.

599
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't think they fear us militarily now. They are

600
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: prudent people, and we have made it very clear that

601
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: if we choose to do so, we can block all

602
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: of China's ports. We've threatened those things in the past.

603
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: We have been very, very aggressive towards China militarily. So

604
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: the Chinese have invested heavily in this One Belt one Road.

605
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: And what is One Belt one Road. It's a Eurasian

606
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: network of transportation and communication that the United States Navy

607
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 1: can't distrust. Right, They've done what they can to protect

608
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: themselves against the things that we might do to them.

609
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: I don't think President Trump wants anything to do with

610
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: the war against China, and I think privately he's figured

611
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: out if you tried to defend Taiwan against a determined

612
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: attack by the Chinese. You're going to lose, right, that's

613
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: six thousand miles from the United States. This was the

614
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: problem with going to Ukraine. Where is Ukraine? It's on

615
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: Russia's doorstep. Who are we kidding? That's a war they

616
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: can't lose. That's like saying, well, the Russians and the

617
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: Chinese are going to jointly develop a Mexican military establishment

618
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: designed to invade the United States and retake the lost

619
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 1: territories from the Mexican War in eighteen forty six. Yeah,

620
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: good luck, we could crush that quickly. They're not stupid.

621
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: So you know, there's an awful lot of irrational behavior.

622
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: There's too much emotion, not enough thinking, and not enough

623
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: honesty about what the hell are problems are.

624
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 2: Doesn't it look like there's been a renewed push maybe

625
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: for this if you call it the Monroe doctrine, but

626
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: sort of it seems like Trump has been saying, Okay,

627
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 2: we're done being over all over the world, done in

628
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 2: the East in China, and let's just focus on the

629
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: northern hemisphere.

630
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: No, he didn't say northern, he said western.

631
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, that yeah, that's what talk is.

632
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: Cheap bart sounds great, Let's see what happens. That's my

633
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: first remark. Come awful lot of hot air in Washington

634
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: about doing things or not doing things, and I've been

635
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: listening to it for decades, So I think, you know,

636
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: these are great ideas. Let's see some implementation. Sure, there's

637
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: nothing in that National Security Strategy that talks about implementation.

638
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: There is no framework for action. They're just assertions. This

639
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: is the way I feel. I don't think we should

640
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: be there. Great, I don't think we should be there either. Okay,

641
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: so now what you know? This is the so what now?

642
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: What the now? What is missing? And I think that's

643
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: what we need desperately. Now maybe he'll provide that, but

644
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it.

645
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: It goes back to how you opened up and about

646
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: you know, now whatever fifty sixty years of endless money

647
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: printing and what all the consequences of that, one of

648
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 2: which you pointed out very correctly, which is this massive

649
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 2: expansion of the bureaucracy inside the government and all of that,

650
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: and so you kind of get to this point where

651
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: we're at now. It's like, you know, the government's not

652
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 2: a monolith, so It's like, there could certainly be many

653
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 2: people who would be happy to sort of withdraw back

654
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 2: to the Western hemisphere. But to your point, you know,

655
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 2: we got the neocons, the warmongers, you have the bureaucracy,

656
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: and so I'm guessing it's much harder than it sounds, right,

657
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: easier said than done sort of thing.

658
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure that you can do it with

659
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: the current government that we've got. And remember that you

660
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: do have a number of forces inside the government, in

661
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: the court system, on the hill, inside the federal bureaucracy,

662
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: who are going to fight you to the death because

663
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: you are potentially telling them you may not have a

664
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: job here anymore. Things are about to change, Our policies

665
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: are about to change. Yeah, it's like you get into

666
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: a discussion about illegal immigration. Oh, I don't think we

667
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: should have borders. Everyone who wants to come here should

668
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: be allowed to come here.

669
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: Okay, great, yeah.

670
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: And we all know that's not going to work. But

671
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: then you say, well, wait a minute, why can't we

672
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: hire Americans to do these jobs? Oh, Americans don't want

673
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: to do that. Well, you know, I have two sons,

674
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: and when they were growing up, they went to work.

675
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: You know, where they worked. They worked at a large

676
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: food produce store, something like Giant Orter, and they stacked

677
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: vegetables and they recovered carts. They did all the things

678
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: that Americans don't want to do. You know, that's nonsense. Secondly,

679
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: one of them went into it, you know, and he

680
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: did very well. And he worked in a company where

681
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: he was one of three or four Americans in a

682
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: company of four hundred people from India. And he came

683
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: back to me and he said, you know, Dad, we

684
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: don't have to bring in these Indians. There are Americans

685
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: who will do these jobs. But he says, you've got

686
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: to pay them a living wage. Right, these people are

687
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: brought over here, they're paid nothing. They're treated badly by

688
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: their own people. He said, it's awful. He didn't like

689
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 1: it at all. And he said, these are not bad people.

690
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: But he said, I can go out this afternoon and

691
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: find ten Americans for twenty or thirty foreigners, and they'll

692
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: do the soft software work, the coating. If we're engineering

693
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: all of that extremely well. We have a lot of

694
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: schools now that have set up excellent training courses to

695
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: train Americas to do these things. Yeah, so we got

696
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: to get out of this. Well, if you say that

697
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: you're a racist, if you say that you're this, you know,

698
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of hearing people called Nazis, communists, racists, whatever, bigots.

699
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: These people don't know what they're talking about.

700
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's two part, and you're

701
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: absolutely right. But the second part of that is that

702
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: when you're paying people fifty sixty thousand dollars a year

703
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: to sit at home and do nothing, they also don't

704
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 2: want to go do that job. Why would I want

705
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: to go stack produce for fifteen twenty bucks an hour

706
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 2: when I can just make thirty forty bucks an hour

707
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: doing nothing. And then with the immigration then, you know,

708
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: is something like sixty I hate I want to be

709
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 2: fact checked it on my own show, but it was

710
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 2: something like sixty five percent of illegal immigrants were like

711
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: on welfare.

712
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's that's because we don't even have control

713
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: of the social security system. Remember when Elon Musk went

714
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: there with his team and then he was castigated and

715
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: attacked by everybody for turning up the truth. Yeah, you

716
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: know that what you had twenty million, thirty million, forty

717
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: million people receiving benefits that didn't even.

718
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: Exist, and I looked like, so we have immigration rules

719
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: that have I mean, and our founding fathers talked about

720
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 2: the dangers of bringing in too many immigrants at one

721
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: time that couldn't assimilate, so that we've been talking about

722
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 2: this since the founding of the country. And currently there's

723
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: a rule I believe it's only six hundred and fifty

724
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 2: thousand immigrants per year, and over the last five years

725
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: we've doubled that legally and then illegally it's, you know whatever,

726
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 2: it's ten to fifteen million.

727
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: On top of that, Well, here's here's a factoid for you.

728
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to find the book here because I've

729
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: found it so useful. I've learned so much about it.

730
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: It's about the growth of the United States. It explains

731
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: our climb to economic power, and it points out that

732
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: our greatest leap economically as a scientific industrial power occurred

733
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 1: between nineteen twenty four and nineteen seventy. And the author

734
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: points out that from nineteen twenty four until the nineteen fifties,

735
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: we had no immigration none. However, we did have a

736
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: law on the books, and it was called the Exceptional

737
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: Skills Act, and that law said that if the individual

738
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: who wants to come into the country, has skills and

739
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: abilities that we can utilize, it can be a benefit

740
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,760
Speaker 1: to the American society, then that person could be admitted.

741
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: That's how we cut Einstein. I mean, if you start

742
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: going down the list of the people that did come in,

743
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: they were superstars, they were wonderful. And then immigration starts

744
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: to pick up again. But then in nineteen sixty five

745
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: we changed the laws. We threw a lot of things out,

746
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 1: we opened the floodgates. It didn't really affect us until

747
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Frankly, I remember that Ronald Reagan then

748
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: issued amnesty to all of the people from Latin America

749
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: that were here illegally. And they said, well, that'll solve

750
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: the problem. Nobody'll come anymore.

751
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: Right.

752
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: That's when it's spiked, Right, so you know, the immigration

753
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: thing is not what it appears to be. And now

754
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: if all of the projections and predictions for AI are accurate,

755
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: then the last thing you need are people coming into

756
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: this country that don't read and write, even in their

757
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: own languages. People that are not skilled, people are not

758
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: well educated. Somebody said, well, you just don't like Mexicans.

759
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: I said, no, I'll stand on the border and invite

760
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: every Mexican into the United States that has a degree

761
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: and applied mathematics you know, science, technology, engineering, mathematics by

762
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: the way, and preferably speaks English. They said, well, that's unreasonable. No,

763
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: it isn't. More people in China speak English than inside

764
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: the United States.

765
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 2: What Yah. Wow, that's a shocking.

766
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: More people in China could speak English than speak English here.

767
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: That's if you have three hundred and fifty million and

768
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: you assume that everybody speaks English, there are more Chinese

769
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: that speak English than we have living in the United States. Wow.

770
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 2: People, that's a shocking statistic.

771
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: I think there's there's no excuse for not speaking English anymore.

772
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: We could, we could set that standard.

773
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: The world has, you know, and probably social media as

774
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 2: I'm sure very uh partly or massively to blame for this,

775
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 2: But we've lost the ability to have even to civil discourse,

776
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 2: but more specifically like nuance where it's like I can

777
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent pro immigration, that could be one

778
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: hundred percent promegration, but not want to bring everybody like

779
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 2: we get to separate those two things.

780
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,479
Speaker 1: Well, I think I understand your point, but I think

781
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: we're beyond that now I think things are going to

782
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: get ugly. Yeah, and again it's back to the economy, right,

783
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: you know, we've hollowed out the economy. Now now we're

784
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: talking about AI and people are saying already that A

785
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: is going to cause massive layoffs. I've seen predictions for

786
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: the coming year. Well, if that's true, we really have

787
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: to sit down and very carefully scrutinize who is here.

788
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: We think there are fifty two million people inside the

789
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: United States who were not born here, and of that number,

790
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: we may have thirty plus million that are illegal. Right, Well,

791
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: if we're looking at this AI avalanche, it's going to

792
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: fall on everybody and it's going to eliminate jobs. What

793
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: are we doing in immigration?

794
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 2: It's a serious conversation that needs to be had. I

795
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: want to jump back a little bit more. We'll stick

796
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,479
Speaker 2: in the Western hemisphere topic you've been talking about quite

797
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 2: quite a bit lately, and I'm pretty interested in. You know,

798
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: hopefully we've talked about the rust of Ukraine thing, and

799
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 2: to your point, it's already been resolved, we just don't

800
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 2: know it yet. But now we have this situation going

801
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: on in Venezuela. You know, there's a lot of attack

802
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: going on with Trump and Hegsath because you know they're

803
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 2: bombing the narco boats and what's your take on what's

804
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 2: going on? Why are we involved in trying to take

805
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: out drug boats? There? Is it more than just drugs

806
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 2: in your opinion.

807
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the drug business has much to do

808
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: with it. You can certainly make an argument that the

809
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: banks in Venezuela have helped to launder money involved in

810
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: the drug trade, but then again, you could make that

811
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: argument about Hong Kong, Grand Cayman. I think this has

812
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: more to do with, frankly, resources, especially when you look

813
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: at oil, gas, gold mines, emerald minds, rare earths, and

814
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: so forth. I do think there are people in Washington

815
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: that truly believe that if we can install a puppet

816
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: government down there that will be responsive to us, that

817
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: we can then gain undisrupted, uninterrupted access to all of

818
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: those resources, and that those resources could even be collateralized

819
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: and perhaps help to offset this tremendous debt problem that

820
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: plagues us. I'm not sure how you do that. I

821
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: haven't figured it out. And the other thing is that

822
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: even if you were able to get in there and

823
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: put a government in that you say is friendly to you.

824
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: It's Missus Moschado or whomever else. How do you stop

825
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: the people that decide they don't like you and don't

826
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 1: want you and start to blow up your oil rigs,

827
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: who throw explosives into you know, mines. The country's enormous.

828
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: It's the size of Germany, Austria, France combined. The population,

829
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: depending upon which source you go to, is twenty eight

830
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: point five million to thirty million. I mean, this is enormous.

831
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: It has one thousand, three hundred and eighty mile border

832
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: with Colombia, a one thousand three hundred mile border roughly

833
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: with Brazil if you go in there. The Colombians have

834
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: already said that they'll support the Venezuelas against us, even

835
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: though they don't like the Venezuelans. They have real conflicts

836
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 1: the Brazilians. They they have perhaps fifty to one hundred

837
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 1: thousand paramilitaries that they can send across the border from Brazil.

838
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: I mean, we want to turn this into some sort

839
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: of Latin American crusade against the evil Yankees who are

840
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: back trying to exploit us. I mean, I think that's

841
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: a bad idea. I don't see this being necessary or good,

842
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: but again, another reason that's given. We have to show

843
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: those Chinese and Russians we're in charge and they need

844
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: to get out of Venezuela. Okay, good luck with that.

845
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: Let's assume that you can do that. What's going to

846
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: prevent them from coming back. You know, five years from

847
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: now or ten years from now. We do live on

848
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: a planet that is increasingly globalized. Trade is globalized, commercial

849
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: activity is globalized. We're all doing business. Surely there's a

850
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: way to resolve some of this tension. You mentioned the

851
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: Monroe doctrine. I'm glad you did, because everybody's been taught

852
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: for years how important this is. When President Monroe mentioned that,

853
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: everybody nodded and thought this was interesting. But at the

854
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: time when he was president, everybody knew we had no army.

855
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: We had great little navy. It was no way for

856
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: us to enforce any of it. The first time it

857
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: comes up for serious discussion, believe it or not, is

858
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties, and people said, well, we've got

859
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: to be sure that our hemisphere is free of infiltrators.

860
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: That could be anarchists, communists, socialists, later on fascists and

861
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: so forth. But it never had that much teeth, and

862
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: I think we're deluding ourselves. I don't think we can

863
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: wall off South America or Central America from everybody who's

864
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: not any Western hemisphere.

865
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 2: What about you know, General Mike Flynn has been talking

866
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 2: about color revolution happening inside the United States. We see

867
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: there's the Seditious Six that are telling the military that

868
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 2: could stand down and not you disobey unconstitutional orders. So

869
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 2: we see these things going on. You talked about Pritzer

870
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 2: saying ICE is A is a terrorist organization. So this

871
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 2: so this idea that Mike Flynn is talking about. General

872
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 2: Flynn is talking about with this Color Revolution, and there's

873
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: a lot of people talking about how Venezuela is it's

874
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 2: not about the resources there, it's really about their role

875
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: in this deep state, in this CI black ops. We

876
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: have this l POYO. You know, there's a couple people

877
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 2: who have now come from Venezuela that are giving the

878
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 2: US intel on this, and it seems that maybe this

879
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 2: is an attack on resource, it's more about an attack

880
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 2: on that deep state kind of shutting down this insurrection.

881
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 2: Have you seen that? Do you think there's any you know,

882
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 2: smoke fire there. Governments will never stop printing money, so

883
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 2: inflation it's not going away.

884
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: Now.

885
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: If your money's not earning at least ten percent a year,

886
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 2: you're losing purchasing power. Now, that's why I talk about bitcoin.

887
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 2: It's the number one way to beat inflation and secure

888
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 2: your future. And the question I get asked almost every

889
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 2: day is where do you buy your bitcoin?

890
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: Now?

891
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 2: For years, I've personally use River dot Com and I

892
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: only take on sponsors that I use and I trust,

893
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 2: and I trust them because River's bitcoin only. They have

894
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 2: one hundred percent reserve, and they keep your bitcoin safe

895
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 2: in cold storage with no middlemen, and you can actually

896
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 2: talk to a real person, a US based support dedicated manager. Now,

897
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,479
Speaker 2: try getting that peace of mind from coinbase. Of course

898
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: you can't. Now the perks. If you set up auto buys,

899
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 2: you can pay zero fees plus instead of you're bank

900
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 2: paying you, you know, zero point four percent on cash.

901
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 2: River pays you three point seventy five percent on cash

902
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 2: paid in bitcoin. So if you're ready to build your

903
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 2: bitcoin position with confidence, go to River dot com, slash

904
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 2: Mark Moss and get up to one hundred dollars in

905
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 2: bitcoin when you sign up. Because freedom starts when you

906
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 2: own your money and your money starts with bitcoin.

907
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: Well, I'm familiar with the allegation that Dominius software was

908
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: developed under Hugo's Chabez for his purposes, and that it

909
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: was used in the United States allegedly to rig the

910
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: last election or the next to last election for the

911
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,919
Speaker 1: presidency against Trump. I don't know. I mean, that could

912
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: be the case. I just don't know very much about it.

913
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: I do know that there was a lot of irregularity

914
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: and there still is in the system in the United States.

915
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: I think voting integrity is a huge issue, a very,

916
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: very difficult thing to deal with, and I don't think

917
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: it was solved this last time around. Beyond that, I

918
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: don't know now as far as the six senators and congressmen,

919
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: whatever they were, you know, that was a shameless attempt

920
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: to undermine the authority of the commander in chief, the

921
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: president of the United States. That's all. You don't have

922
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: to follow an order, Well, I've got news for you.

923
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: If you're in the regular armed forces of the United States,

924
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: you damn wellware and have to follow the order. Now illegal, Well,

925
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: what illegal order are you being issued? I did not

926
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: have illegal orders issued to me. Well, I was on

927
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,720
Speaker 1: active duty for twenty eight years. However, I did see

928
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: a case of an illegal order that was favorably resolved.

929
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: But it's a very difficult proposition. Now what they were

930
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: talking about should be divorced from what we now know

931
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: about these drug boats. First of all, if you follow

932
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,439
Speaker 1: our own law of war, in our own national law,

933
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: we should not be destroying these boats in international orders.

934
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: Somebody sent me an email and said, well, there's no

935
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: flag on it. If there's no flag, it's free game.

936
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: You can blow them up. No, you cannot. We are

937
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: not under our own laws. We're not even talking about

938
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: the wooden closed to the law of the sea. I'm

939
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: talking about American law. You do not have the right

940
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 1: in the United States Navy or Coastguard to simply see

941
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: a vessel and say, well, it's not flying a flag,

942
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 1: so we can blow it up. Now, under certain circumstances,

943
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: you can board it and inspect it. And one of

944
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: the things that we have not seen since this got

945
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: underwagh is any attempt to stop board and inspect. And

946
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm very suspicious of that. You know, this take no

947
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: prisoner's approach, which is allegedly what happened kill the remaining

948
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: two that are alive strikes me as an attempt to

949
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: ensure no one can survive and explain who or what

950
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: they are. And you know, I don't know if you

951
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: know this or not, but in war as well as

952
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: in peace time, you always want to capture people. That's

953
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: how you find things out. So at I been there,

954
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: my concern was absolutely, rescue these people. Let's find out

955
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 1: who they are, where did they come from? And you

956
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: can do that. But I'm beginning to think that people

957
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: don't want to find out that particular truth because we

958
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: know historically if you go to the DEA's website, look

959
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: at Venezuela, Mexico, these other places, less than four percent

960
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: of the illegal drugs that do come out of Venezuela

961
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: come to the United States. Whatever does, for the most part,

962
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 1: goes to Africa and Europe. Now I'm not saying that's

963
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: a good thing. We don't care about the rest of it.

964
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: But if you compare the fentanyl influx into the United

965
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: States it comes out of Mexico, it's nothing. And quite

966
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: recently there was a raid up on Port City called

967
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: Traverse Port City in Michigan. They found three point eight

968
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: tons of drugs, most of it was fentanyl. It had

969
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: come in through Michigan from the Great Lakes, from the

970
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Now, this was a brilliant operation.

971
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: People should look into it, the federal marshals, the local

972
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: police ever. I mean, it was a great operation. We

973
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: were successful. But my point is that's where we need

974
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: to focus, not in Venezuela. Bombing Venezuela, I would argue,

975
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: bombing Mexico is not going to help us deal with

976
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: this drug prom Sealing off the border, keeping people out,

977
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: and by the way, we have a huge problem at

978
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: the legal crossing points because we don't pay customs off,

979
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: let alone border patrol. But enough money, right and what

980
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: happens is the cartail comes in and we'll pay you

981
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars extra a month. Just let this truck through.

982
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: What's he going to do? You know, we're not realistic

983
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: about these things. We have not sealed off the coastlines

984
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: by any means. These semi submersibles have been around for years,

985
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: they continue to operate. They could bring in all sorts

986
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: of things, people, drugs. One of the things when I

987
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: was involved in this down in Key West and join

988
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: Integrated Task Force South Chiada South and Joint Inner Agency

989
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: Task Force South. Excuse me, we were very worried about

990
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: the possibility that people infected with terribly infectious and dangerous,

991
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: deadly diseases could be brought in on semi submersibles right

992
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: into mobile bay, off loaded in mobile bay, and then

993
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: wander around in the United States until suddenly somebody starts

994
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: it becomes very ill, and they discover wow, my god,

995
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: it's smallpox, right, and then you find that how many

996
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: people is this person touched and being there? I mean,

997
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: this is a big deal border and coastal security. And

998
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: then you go to the airports and what are we

999
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,760
Speaker 1: doing in the airports. I'm not saying we're doing nothing.

1000
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is you've got to enforce this. You've

1001
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: got to enforce the law there, but you got to

1002
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: enforce the law inside the United States. What do you

1003
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: do when you catch two men that have thirteen children,

1004
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: little children that are being trafficked, that are brought up

1005
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: from Mexico and you catch them in Phoenix, Arizona. What

1006
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: do you do with a truck driven by two people

1007
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: and they're bringing up enormous quantities of drugs? They pull

1008
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: into a warehouse and the drug peddlars come in to

1009
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: collect their wares so they can disseminate them, and you

1010
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: capture them. They're all found guilty in a court of

1011
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 1: law or as you take them to court and they're guilty,

1012
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: what do you do with them?

1013
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 2: Wow?

1014
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: I mean I would execute them. And people say, oh,

1015
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: it's too much, that's harsh. You want to stop it, right,

1016
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: Every law enforcement officer I've spoken to and asked, what

1017
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: if we made the penalty death for trafficking and children

1018
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: and women trafficking drugs? Bring it in? Oh, well, gee,

1019
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: it would stop.

1020
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. You can just look at the countries with the

1021
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 2: harshest penalties on crime, and then look at the crime statistics.

1022
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 2: I saw in Singapore the other day. They're like publicly

1023
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: caning people, you know, and they don't have any crime.

1024
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 2: In Singapore, nobody wants to be publicly caned. And so

1025
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: I'm certainly for much much harsher criminal penalties for sure,

1026
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to trafficking women and children. I mean,

1027
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 2: it's just like the most heinoused evil type of crime

1028
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 2: that you could even imagine.

1029
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: But if you're losing three hundred thousand dead a year

1030
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: in the United States defendant the right, What are you

1031
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: going to do? Don't we have an obligation to protect

1032
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: our citizens.

1033
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 2: Well, that's the only obligation of the government, right, Yeah,

1034
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 2: But even if they.

1035
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: We have to protect the citizens from themselves. I mean, obviously,

1036
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: the choice to use drugs is a badwin. Fentanyl is deadly, right.

1037
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: We can't stop everything, but should we not try to

1038
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: stop that?

1039
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, you know, I mean, this is a much

1040
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 2: deeper conversation, but you know, I have kids, teenage kids,

1041
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 2: and unfortunately, they know several people who have died of

1042
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 2: fentanyl in high school. None of them went to do fentanyl.

1043
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 2: They were doing, you know, something, They thought they're doing

1044
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 2: some other type of drug or pill, and it just

1045
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 2: happened to have the fentanyl in there. And so part

1046
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,919
Speaker 2: of me thinks, well, I don't think and I don't

1047
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 2: know statistics on this, but from what I've seen personally,

1048
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 2: like nobody's going out to do fentanyl. It's that all

1049
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 2: the other drugs are so underground that they accidentally get it.

1050
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: And so maybe if we had more liberal drug laws

1051
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 2: like you see in other countries, where kids, teenage kids

1052
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,959
Speaker 2: weren't going underground to get something and then accidentally dying,

1053
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 2: maybe that could stop it. But yeah, it's a whole

1054
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 2: deeper conversation.

1055
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: Well, the society is an experiment with this sort of

1056
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: thing produced some interesting outcomes obviously. You know, China was

1057
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: forced to accept opium at gunpoint by the Royal Navy,

1058
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: and we the Vanderbilts and others made billions of dollars

1059
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: from the opium trade. That almost destroyed China as a nation,

1060
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: and so they subsequently implemented very harsh measures to stop

1061
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: the opium epidemic. More recently, you can go to a

1062
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: place like the Netherlands and see large numbers of people

1063
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: that are engaged in all this sort of legal activia.

1064
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: My only experience with the Netherlands was with the military,

1065
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:41,439
Speaker 1: and it was terrible, and they were as remote from

1066
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: readiness to fight and kill anybody as almost anyone I've

1067
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: ever seen. They're not bad people, but I think this

1068
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: sort of drug dependency or to use for it's a

1069
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: dangerous thing. If you're trying to maintain an effected society,

1070
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: you're trying to organize, train and educate people to be

1071
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: productive members of society, You're never going to have one

1072
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: hundred percent success. But when you do that with drugs,

1073
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: you're you're probably going to have a lot less success. Yeah,

1074
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. My friends out in Colorado tell me

1075
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: that it's been a disaster.

1076
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems to be the case. Well, let's go

1077
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: ahead and wrap this up. Man, We've covered so much ground,

1078
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 2: and I really appreciate you taking the time maybe to

1079
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 2: kind of bring this kind of together and summarize this

1080
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 2: for sort of my main audience thinking about macroeconomic and

1081
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 2: business owners investors. When you think about this and the

1082
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 2: shifting world order that we've talked about, you know, maybe

1083
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 2: the US kind of reaching into its row, NATO potentially falling,

1084
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 2: you know, these different conflicts that we have around the world.

1085
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 2: What would you think for the average you know, investor, entrepreneur,

1086
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 2: how should they be thinking about this over the next

1087
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 2: five to ten years, Like, how would how would you

1088
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 2: be preparing for these shifts if you were in their shoes?

1089
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: Well, I would tell investors two things right off the bat.

1090
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: Demand that laws be enforced. You know, law enforcement is critical.

1091
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: We were very successful economically largely because we had almost

1092
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: perfect rule of law in the United States. I'm not

1093
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: talking about every jury trial was wonderful. What I'm trying

1094
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: to say is that people came to this country, and

1095
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: I've talked to so many from different places, and I said,

1096
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: what strikes you is most important about the United States?

1097
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: He said, oh, you could do business here? Yeah. I said, really, Oh, yes,

1098
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: you don't have to bribe anybody. You're not paying people

1099
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: under the table, you know, and you put your money

1100
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: down and you get what you paid for, and so

1101
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: forth so on. So the first thing, number one thing,

1102
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: is demand law be enforced. The second thing I would

1103
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: tell them is end all these overseas military interventions. Dump

1104
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: this sanctions regime. We have something like thirty two to

1105
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: thirty three countries under sanctions because somebody on the hill

1106
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: or somebody in the state department decide, well, we don't

1107
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: like them because they said mean things here where they

1108
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: entreat women nicely or they put bags on earth. Get

1109
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: rid of all that crap.

1110
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1111
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: In other words, get back to doing business with people,

1112
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: not trying to impose our way of life, our values,

1113
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: our structure, our system on others. If you could get

1114
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: those two things straight, which is halt the wars, stop

1115
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: the sanctions, and enforce the law, I think that would

1116
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: be enormously beneficial to business because you don't. Right now,

1117
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: China has said, well, you know, if you're going to

1118
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: behave this way, you're not going to get any rare earth. Now, personally,

1119
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: I'm thankful because that makes us finally pull our heads

1120
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: out of rectal territories and think seriously about you know,

1121
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: rare earth. But having said that, what possible reason do

1122
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 1: we have for that kind of hostility with China? The

1123
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: answer is none. And by the way, if you change

1124
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: your approach there and then you turn to the police

1125
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: agencies in China and say, we need some help because

1126
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,439
Speaker 1: we know that fentanyl and its ingredients and so forth

1127
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: are shipped, you know, down to Mexico and even into

1128
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: the United States. We'd like your help with that. You'd

1129
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: be surprised. You'll probably get it. Everybody has problems. China

1130
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: has got one point four billion people in it. Good

1131
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: Lord Ge wakes up every morning hoping, hoping that he

1132
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 1: can hold that country together. Yeah, it's not easy.

1133
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, good points. All right, Well, I think that's a

1134
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 2: great place to end. We'll wrap it up there again,

1135
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 2: Colonel I really appreciate you sharing all your insights and

1136
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 2: your experience and knowledge with us today. Anything that. I

1137
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 2: know you create a lot of content here on You're

1138
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,919
Speaker 2: constantly making the rounds, and I appreciate your hard work there,

1139
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 2: and I think you want to point attention to that

1140
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 2: people should be paying attention to, or that they can

1141
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 2: follow you with.

1142
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you get a chance, go to the website

1143
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: Nationalconversation dot org. We developed that last year. It's brand new,

1144
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: it's a nonprofit. It's an attempt to try and chart

1145
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: a course into the future that is not part of

1146
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: the Democratic or Republican parties. Frankly speaking, I'm one of

1147
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: these people that thinks we've reached a point where, contrary

1148
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: to what they say, whatever you do, you're going to

1149
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: get pretty much the same outcome from both parties. We

1150
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: need a different way forward, a different set of principles,

1151
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: different set of ideas, different set of priorities. The National

1152
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: Conversation is designed to attract people to help us figure

1153
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: out what that is. It's not something where you come in.

1154
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's not what is it, Oh gosh, the

1155
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise religion, what's that?

1156
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 2: Scientology?

1157
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: We're not turning you into something like a scientologist. What

1158
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 1: we want to do is have you join us for

1159
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: various meetings that we're going to hold all over the country,

1160
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: meetings and dinners. We're going to have speakers and then

1161
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: we want to hear what you have to say. I

1162
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: still think that's the best way to get forward. You

1163
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: can't if you try to develop a new party structure,

1164
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: a new third party from the top down, it will fail. Right,

1165
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: you need leadership, but you need people from the bottom

1166
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: up who are committed to it. Yeah, and everybody is

1167
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: saying it can't be done. It can't be done, it

1168
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: can't be done. There's too much money in these other parties. Well,

1169
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: that's what people thought about the Republican Party, and it

1170
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: didn't happen that way. The Republicans actually came into power.

1171
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: And that's because of events over which you and I

1172
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: have no control. We don't know what will happen in

1173
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: the next twelve months, and suddenly people based on the

1174
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 1: events may decide, Gosh, these people over here with a

1175
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: national conversation, they've got a good idea. We need to

1176
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: go that way.

1177
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that good idea. I'm gonna

1178
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 2: make sure we'll link all that down below. I'm going

1179
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 2: to join it. I want to be involved in that.

1180
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: A national conversation, thank and good luck with those teenagers.

1181
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks so much, but