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Speaking of betrayals, reversals, whatever else you would 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.920 like to call it, here we have Donald Trump being 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.080 asked yesterday at the Cabinet meeting, where he appears to 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.519 reverse almost every single thing he said on. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.920 The campaign trail here about Ukraine, and. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.120 Now has settled upon the genius solution of trying to 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.239 send them more weapons after expressing a lot of frustration 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.240 with Vladimir Putin. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.160 Let's take a listen. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:00.680 We wanted to put defensive weapons because Putin is treating 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.480 human beings right, skilling too many people, so we're sending 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.840 some defensive weapons to Ukraine, and I have approved. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.440 Then, So who aren't a clause last week? 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:11.920 I don't know, what do you tell me? 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:13.880 You think that's a question. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.600 We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.600 Putin for you one another truth. It's very nice all 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.679 the time, but it turns out to be meaningless. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.120 So Putin is a full of bullshit, he says. And 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.520 so we're going to be sending them defensive weapons. That's interesting, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:37.679 defensive weapons. Part of those defensive weapons. It's now America First, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.680 it appears. Let's put this on the screen. This is 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.440 from the Pentagon, they say, at President Trump's direction, the 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.960 Department of Defense is sending quote additional defensive weapons to 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.800 Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.200 work to secure a lasting piece and ensure the killing stops. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.200 Our framework to evaluate military shipments remains in effect and 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.680 is integral to our quote America First defense priorities. Now, Ryan, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.680 this would be easier to stomach if I didn't have 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.040 to sit through two years of talk about how America 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.720 First is about protecting and preserving all of our resources. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:07.600 We're going to on. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.560 Day one, I will have a peace deal between Russia 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.880 and Ukraine. And look, you can support Ukraine if you 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.880 want to. I think there's a lot of reasons that 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.799 we shouldn't continue to give them aid, mostly because we've 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.519 been doing it for four years and I haven't seen 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.120 anything particularly change. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.639 Ukraine just lost a lot of territory. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.000 They've been basically lost their entire young male force that 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:28.959 remains there. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.800 They had to conscript people. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.000 The average age of their military at this point, I mean, 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.840 the last time even looked at it was in his forties, 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.120 probably in his fifties. Now it's a horrific killing machine. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.600 It doesn't really appear to be accomplishing anything. But really, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.079 what they have settled upon here is the Biden policy, right, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.480 which is, oh, We'll just continue to back Ukraine as 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.079 long as it lasts. And the fundamental theory behind the West, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.000 and this is probably really frustrating for a lot of 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.320 people in the West, is they keep thinking, if we 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.480 just keep giving them more, then eventually Putin has to buckle. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.519 What left is there to give Ukraine other than fighter 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.960 jets that are capable of bombing inside of Russia, other 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.160 than tactical nuclear weapons At this point that we haven't 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.560 given them. We'll give them so much ammunition, tanks, military trainer, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.680 other than boots on the ground and offensive planes. We 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.160 have given them almost everything that they have asked for. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.280 But Biden, remember, basically, by the end of his presidency, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.160 removed any of the offensive capabilities of the Ukrainians, allowed 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.519 them to strike deep inside of Russia. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.320 They literally invaded Russia, if you'd recall, and held. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.240 Large portions of the territory for some time, right, because 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.120 we've got to violate norms to protect norms. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:38.600 Whatever. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.600 But I just come back to the point Trump is 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.120 settled back on the Ukraine policy, and all of the 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.480 arguments for why we shouldn't be supporting Ukraine, which I've 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.520 been making for three years now at this point, are 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.800 actually more urgent today than ever before, because we just 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:02.920 burned billions of dollars and interceptors to protect Israel in 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.160 just twelve days. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.200 And we've vastly to protect our troops and cuts are correct. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.080 We've vastly depleted a large stockpile of Patriot missiletle batteries, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.600 of interceptors and issuers. Yeah, we can put this up there. See, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.200 I wanted to get your reaction. But I can just 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.680 read up this off this as well. This is from 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.880 the Guardian. The US only has twenty five percent of 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.040 all patriot missile interceptors needed for the Pentagon war plans. Well, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.080 lo and behold, literally last night it breaks. Let's put 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.479 C four just up on the screen. Is that the 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.520 White House is weighing giving Ukraine access to another Patriot 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.640 air defense system. Now, this is at a time when 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.760 we only had twenty five percent for what we want. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.840 And by the way, we use one of those where 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.680 oh in Israel, that's right, as well as a number 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.080 of other interceptors munitions. I mean, these things are very expensive, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.080 and it should really shock and concern all of us 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.240 that in twelve days we vastly depleted our entire stockpile. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.159 We had three carrier strike groups over there. One of 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.120 the reasons that I consistently heard from JD. Vance on 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.880 the campaign trail was, oh, well, we barely have enough 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.080 ammunition to defend ourselves. True, we barely have enough ammunition 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.160 actually to protect vital US interests in the Asia, Pacific 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.000 and elsewhere. Also true, And yet the President now has 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.440 reversed course. In my opinion, Ryan, because putin is actually 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.920 not as easy to roll as he might have thought. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.400 And you know, at this point, I mean I even 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:23.760 said this at the time. I'm like, I don't see 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.640 what incentive he really has to negotiate. The sanctions didn't work, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.839 It really doesn't matter. He's got all the ammunition that 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.080 he needs. Ukraine continues to either lose territory, get rolled, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.480 and they have basically more freedom of action at this 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.320 point than ever before. Even more patriot missiles is not 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.080 going to do anything but continue to prolong the situation. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.280 And of course Trump has now tried to settle on 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.200 the genius plan of giving them more aid and also 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.440 signing more sanctions into law. You know, Oh, nobody's ever 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.560 tried it before. Yeah, Yeah, truly visionary. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:56.840 Yeah. And Trump's entire argument during the campaign, when he 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:01.080 would be asked what's he going to do about this war, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.800 he would say every single time, well, it wouldn't have 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.599 happened if I was president, And then he would go 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.560 into a rant about Biden, Biden's week, and maybe he 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.239 talk sometimes to talk about Afghanistan and how that emboldened Putin. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.560 And I think what we're learning now is that Trump 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:26.200 actually one believed what he was saying that his force 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.480 of personality and his relationship with Putin, who he seems 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:36.280 to genuinely like, would have actually stopped Putin from going in, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.240 and that if he was president, this wouldn't have happened, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.680 and therefore, when he's president again, it will all be 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.599 unwound because of his force of personality and because of 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.080 his good relationship with Putin. And I think also Trump 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.600 like genuinely believes that this amount of slaughter is despicable 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.640 and a moral and awful and should not be happening, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.719 is illogical and is in nobody's interests, and therefore cooler 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.000 heads should prevail and people can get together and end 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.159 the slaughter. Like I think that that's that was his approach. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:11.920 But there was no step B to any of this, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.080 and it was just a wing and a prayer that 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.360 his force of personality in his relationship with Putin would 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.960 be able to triumph over all of the other kind 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:27.960 of structural pressures that produced to this this explosion. And 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.160 now I think he's lost total confidence in that analysis. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.680 I think he used to believe it, and now I 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.040 think he doesn't believe it anymore. And it's also causing 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.840 him to question some of his views around America first, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.760 and so now he's like, you know what, all right, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.920 sanctions and weapons, Right, let's see what happens. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.160 But this is what I mean about being sober minded 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.800 about it is. Look, it's nice to think that you 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.560 can do that. It didn't work. It's been years now 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.200 of this policy. It has only made America weaker, more bankrupt, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.160 you know, if you look at the international situation. But 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.720 he had no other plan, That's exactly, and that's what 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.680 it comes down to. You're gonna have to take the 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.920 humility that actually really what this entails is actually literally 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.640 forcing Ukraine to just sit there and to sign a deal. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.040 And you know, it's also just really rich coming from 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.960 mister President who lectured Zelenski in the Oval offices, is 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:19.920 that you have no car. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.800 Maybe Ukraine had the cards all along. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.880 Actually they do have the cards, because they have the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.239 most organized foreign lobby that you've ever seen. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.680 You've seen Lindsey Graham here. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.600 All they had to convince Trump of actually was actually 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.080 he's not a serious negotiator. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.600 And in a way they're right, of course, he's. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.400 Not a serious negotiator. Guys, he tried to invade and 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.840 take over the entire country. You think he's just going 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.240 to give up on that no matter what. The war 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.840 at this point is the backbone of the Russian economy. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.680 You got to give them a lot of stuff to 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.400 make sure that they give up on that war. Aim 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.040 and so I can already hear the Ukrainian you know response, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.439 Yes exactly, that's why you have to give us maximal resources. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.560 It's like, no, the truth is this is bad for you, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.240 it's bad for us, it's bad for Russia. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.640 We want to stop. But that's what Trump said in 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:02.600 the initial phases. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.920 But there's also a theory from the Trump administration, this 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.520 idea that the Madman theory and all that has never 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.440 truly been tested and putin will buckle down, you know really, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.720 And it's like, okay, well what does that look like 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.200 for a country that has nine thousand nuclear warheads. You 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.160 can't iran your way out of this situation. That's what 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.040 the Gordian knot of nuclear weapons does. And you know, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.199 we're just inching closer and closer to basically a forever conflict. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.959 Ukraine as some sort of political. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.680 Entity will continue, it will continue to burn all of 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.360 its young men. No elections, no democracy any event, will 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.360 just continue to ship them, you know, fifty sixty billion 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.959 or so on the sly and it will always get 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.400 the votes in Congress. And meanwhile here at home will 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.800 never have enough ammunition for ourselves. I mean again, it's 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.080 just really galling because I know so many people who rightful, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.880 in good faith talked about the ammunition shortages, talked about 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.000 the supply problems for the Patriot missals defensives, talked about 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.520 the pivot to Asia, talked about out. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.000 Of the Middle East and getting away from the war 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:02.560 in Ukraine. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.360 And now what are the two principal foreign policy you 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.480 know maneuvers here from the Trump administration. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.160 Now, in the first six months. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.560 It's twelve day war with Israel for Israel and Iran 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:17.199 bunker buster bombs which miraculously destroyed Iran's nuclear program, even 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.439 there's no evidence that any of that is actually true, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.720 and you know, depleting vast stockpiles and now continuing the 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.800 weapon shipments to Ukraine. So you're exactly right, and that 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.959 his only plan was that his force of personality right 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.360 would be able to get this over with. And that's 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.559 just like sorry, actually putin, he doesn't care about your personality, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.160 he only cares about himself. In fact, that's what makes 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.599 him a very you know, strategic actor. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.960 Makes him the guy he is. Yeah, there you go. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.560 And I think Washington in general is stuck in this 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.640 binary approach to this conflict, which says that there are 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:54.920 only two ways out. One is, you know, maximalist military 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.920 pressure on Russia until they crack and break and then 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.560 they agree to some terms that are you know, we 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:07.800 consider reasonable in a victory for US, setting aside Trump's 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.440 theory that like his personality was just going to get 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.360 putent to just end the thing. The other approach, as 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.080 Washington sees it, is just complete and total capitulation to 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.040 Russia and saying, Okay, not only do you get CRIMEA, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.880 not only do you get the territory you control? Now 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.320 can you get the territory that you're claiming in these 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.760 four oblesques that you haven't even actually conquered yet, But 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.360 we're just going to give them to you, because like 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.000 we recognize that this is a complete slaughter and disaster 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.480 and this is where it's headed anyway. So basically not 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.720 total surrender, because Ukraine still exists, but it massively shrunken 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.920 down huge capitulation and depete defeat for Ukraine and for 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.120 Washington and probably even for Trump, that's just too much. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.120 But the way to reframe it would be to step 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.680 outside of the kind of US prism and say, maybe 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.559 the US actually has been a significant bad guy here 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.920 for like thirty years, and that setting up, first of all, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:15.560 destroying the Russian economy through the nineteen nineties and then 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.440 setting them up as this boogeyman that needs to be 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.400 crushed and kept as a kind of client state of 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.840 the West was the wrong thing to do. Yeah, strategically, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.160 but also morally and ethically. That the US and its 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:37.679 effort to produce this hegemonic situation was wrong and not 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.560 just wrong morally, but it's not going to work because 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.480 Russia exists. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.560 A lot of this really reminds me of Vietnam Ryan, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.320 where if you read about the people who were in 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.600 charge under Lyndon Johnson as things really got to where 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.160 they were, Johnson continued to believe, if I could just talk, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.240 we'd say this about Ho Chi Minh, If I could 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.920 just talk to the son of a bitch, I could 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.520 get this thing over with. And Ho Chi Minh and 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.360 the people they're like, we don't want to talk to you. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.880 We have one demand, unconditional withdrawal from our country. They're like, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.240 we will never give up or committed to our cause, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.880 and we will die to the last man if we 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.400 have to do it. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.520 And Vietnam is a good example because that is a 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.040 case where we were the bad guys. Yes, and the 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.920 US cannot recognize when it is the bad guy. But 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.080 it is actually helpful strategically to be like, oh, we 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.000 actually shouldn't be in Vietnam. It is. Yes, it is 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.480 a defeat for the United States if we like withdraw 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.840 from Vietnam. But the United States should be defeated in 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.480 an effort which is bad. Well, and the US has 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.520 been trying to destroy Russia for no reason other than 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.439 it wants to have hegemonic global power. That's wrong. A 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.280 defeat of the United States in that strategy is actually 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.600 not a bad way. We say defeat. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.480 Okay, we could say whatever we want, peace with honor, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.200 that's what we used to call it, with all. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.640 Whatever you want. But it's a world in which we 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.680 allow Russia to exist as and flourish and as a country. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:00.440 This is difficult. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.920 So what like what is it to well, I'll give 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.079 a counter, because I've heard it a million times. Is 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.920 they're like, yeah, Russia can exist without Ukraine. I'm like, okay, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.160 but they don't think that. Okay, they don't think otherwise. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.240 And is it really a compelling US interest to say 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:14.199 that you can't? 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:14.800 All right? 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.160 I would say no, all right. I think it's tragic. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.800 It sucks if you're Ukrainian. But you know, there's stuff 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.840 that sucks all over the world that doesn't require fifty 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.480 or sixty billion dollars a year and depletion of US 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.720 stockpiles for a non national security interest, and just talking 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.040 in those terms, I get it. It sounds it sounds harsh, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.680 it sounds callo, but this is the reality. I mean, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.560 it was harsh, and it was callo to basically understand 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.360 that we were going to lose the Vietnam War and 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.760 to sacrifice twenty five thirty thousand American lives for literally 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.800 nothing for nineteen sixty eight up until the withdrawal of 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.160 nineteen seventy five. Eventually, what became of the peace with 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.840 Honor policy was what capitulation surrender the helicopter out of Saigon, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.200 And you know, we had to bleed so many billions 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.160 and all this fakery in the interim, So wouldn't we 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.640 have rather just got now? Whenever we don't have I 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.080 always say yes, ask the people whose family asked the 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.040 families of the people who died, or the people who 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.360 came back with the worst PTSD of their lives, and 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.520 still never talk about it. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.840 And to this day, and Trump has talked about sitting 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.840 down with Russia and China and doing a nuclear treaty. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.880 He's talked to this, and so the next logical step 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.040 to that would be, like, all right, look, we all 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.320 recognize we're entering a phase of multipolarity of the US 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:33.480 is not going to be hegemonic forever. So there's going 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 to be the United States, there's going to be China, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.720 there's going to be Russia. Sit down and work it 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.720 out like or we can just do World War three. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.480 But those actually are the options. And sitting down and 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.800 working it out is going to take American humility to say, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.960 you know what, China and Russia have their own agendas 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.560 and their own ambitions in the world and within their 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.120 own borders and near their borders outside of them, and 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 you know what, that's not our business. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.560 Yeah, And look, it will just take such a radical 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.000 change in Washington, foreign policy and others. Trump has chosen 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.040 to go down the exact same path as Joe Biden. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.400 I'm going to keep saying. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.960 That because I know that if he ever heard that, 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:17.000 he would get very upset. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:17.920 Well, what do you mean? 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.440 You know, Actually it's the force of my character that 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.960 makes this difference. Sorry, on a policy level, what you're 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.200 doing is exactly the same. You're depleting the Pentagon. You're basically, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.760 I mean, you're completely changed. The tune of everything was 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.880 set on the campaign trail. Yes, they're trying to destroy 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.520 people who really believe this stuff, and we're actually trying 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.880 to change it. Inside the Pentagon, knives are out for 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.520 all of them. They're being leaked against their trying character assassination. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.160 And that's just a tale as old as time, I 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:49.880 guess we have here in DC. Finally, let's change to 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.440 the tariffs. Of course, let's talk about that. Trump you know, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.600 has given a multiple deadlines on the tariffs. There was 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.640 a pause, and there was no pause been extended. The pause 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.400 is back, Sorry, the pause is over. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.520 Trump is just teaching a it's a presidential clinic. And 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.080 now we're on. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.000 August first, that's where things are as of right now. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.280 That's the official debt. Today was the day, right, twelve 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.760 o one on. Yes, today was supposedly the day, but 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.520 it's been expended. But now there will be no deals 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:15.640 past August first. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.720 We're told. We'll see. I've been held a lot of 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.280 different things. Here's what he had to say. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.600 We didn't move now. It's always been August first. That's 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.719 what I'm paying. A statement was put out today, and 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.480 I put it out just to make it clear. It 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.040 wasn't a change. It was August first. I didn't make 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:36.840 a change. Clarification maybe no, August first. They pay, and 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.760 everybody pays. Everybody has to pay, and the incentive is 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.040 that they have the right to deal in the United States. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.720 If they don't want to, they don't have to pay, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:44.800 and they don't have to deal here. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.240 Everybody has to pay, and if they don't pay, then 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:47.960 they have to pay. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.120 It's look, it's just. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.000 You don't want to want to show up here, you 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.920 don't have to pay. We're like a concert, all right. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.720 I don't even know what this is all about. Let's 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:55.800 put this up there on the screen. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.800 So here's what the official policy as of today is 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.960 all right. Here he is from Donald Trump, from his 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.040 truth social as per letters sent to various countries yesterday, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.320 in addition to letters that will be sent today, tomorrow 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.600 and for the next short period of time, tariffs will 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.119 start being paid on August first, twenty twenty five. There 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:12.880 has been no change to the state and there will 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.280 be no change. In other words, all money will be 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.840 due and payable starting August first, twenty twenty five. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.399 No extensions will be granted. Thank you for your attention 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.159 to Matt In. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.400 Trump's defense, August first has always been August first. Yes, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.560 there's been no change, has not changed. But since then though, 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.520 but it was there. We change a lot different dates 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.200 for the actual tariffs that has well. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:32.879 Well, there was a ninety day thing and then there 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.240 was actually going to do another ninety days and actually 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.199 they're off, and actually Japan and South Korea are going 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.320 to have their tariffs, but everybody else gets a pause 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:40.680 until August first. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.000 And then they had the report or the letter that 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:43.600 was sent. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.760 To the Prime Minister Japan caps all caps and crown. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.320 Can you imagine sitting in Tokyo and reading that letter 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.119 saying what the fuck we do with the earth? It 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.800 was probably easier for the Imperial Japanese to deal with 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.840 the surrender terms of Hiroshima. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.320 Then it was to deal with whatever bullshit. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.679 At least that made sense. Depends like your pickup trucks 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.440 and your SuDS don't fit on our streets. What do 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.000 you want us to do? What do you want? We 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.760 can't we get forced people to buy them? 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:19.119 You want us to buy or disgusting bug laden chemical rice. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.560 We want to subject our kids to that? Okay, we're 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.400