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Livestream: Ukraine & Russia Hit With NUCLEAR Warnings! · Combat Veteran News

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  All right, let's talk about it. What
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  else are we doing? Nothing.
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  Residents across Ukraine and Russia are
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  reporting that their phone alerts are
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  going crazy with emergency alerts of
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  nuclear attacks, chemical attacks,
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  terror attacks, and more. What's really
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  going on? And more importantly, why is
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  this a troubling port end of things to
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  come? Take take a look. So, this is a
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  this is a story that isn't getting a
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  fraction of the play that it deserves.
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  Why? Because Ukraine and Russia both
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  have robust air raid alert systems that
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  actually push right to your phone. I've
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  actually gotten them uh on my phone and
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  they're in a bunch of different
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  languages. I think they actually are
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  translated to the phone's native app.
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  So, mine said in English, "Hey, extreme
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  danger alert. Uh, drone strike
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  incoming." All right. Drone a missile
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  attack incoming. Seek shelter
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  immediately. Uh, I literally have a
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  screenshot of it. Uh, I that I obviously
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  did not send to my wife because I'm not
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  crazy. But the point is is that these
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  are robust systems that have been
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  developed and are, you know, used on a
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  daily basis in Ukraine and now in
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  Russia. So it is troubling then that so
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  many of the uh individuals in these
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  countries are reporting that their air
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  raid alert systems are just sort of
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  blasting out alerts. You can see this
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  one in English uh saying alert street
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  fighting alert there are street fighting
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  in Kev don't go outside alert chemical
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  threat right you can see they all happen
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  within about a few minutes of each other
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  chemical attack in Kev uh you could see
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  radiation hazard radiation hazard alert
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  in Kev don't go outside you know and and
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  obviously if you got all of those alerts
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  simultaneously
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  you wouldn't probably understand this to
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  be some kind of error within the system
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  but I want to talk for a second about
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  sort of the the the the the the dangers
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  here that yes, these systems were both
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  hacked almost simultaneously, right?
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  Russia's air raid alert system was also
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  hacked in the early hours of November
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  2nd. Ukraine's air raid alert system
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  hacked late November 1st, literally
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  probably within uh hours, even minutes
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  of each other. Now, before we talk about
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  make it through the holidays, okay? And
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  I know you do, too. So,
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  here's what I want to point out
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  is that
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  these kinds of hacks are unbelievably
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  dangerous.
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  Why? Because
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  there is real fear if you can. Now, I
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  telling Ukraine, "Hey, nuclear alert
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  incoming is scary, but what Ukraine
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  doesn't have is the ability to respond."
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  Ukraine doesn't have its own nuclear
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  arsenal anymore, but Russia does. And so
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  what would have happened if the Russian
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  government, if Russian government
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  employees received alerts on their
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  phones that said nuclear strike
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  incoming? Well, official Russian
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  doctrine is that if someone nukes
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  Russia, Russia fires its nuclear weapons
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  in response. It's mutually assured
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  destruction. America has the same
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  policy.
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  And so
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  now obviously the cell phone is not the
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  normal method of communication
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  for official orders of this nature. The
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  problem of course is that
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  especially within Russia there are
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  oftentimes dead men protocols where if
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  someone gets where if if in the absence
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  of orders if the Kremlin is reduced to
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  glass some operators may have
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  instructions that listen if you can't
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  raise anyone at the Kremlin assume they
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  have all been nuked and you are told to
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  launch immediately right and that is a
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  pretty scary prospect but It's part of
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  the mutually assured destruction
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  strategy to ensure because part of what
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  keeps nuclear weapons safe is the idea
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  that that the launch is extremely
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  credible and that there's no strategy
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  that in the case of the Russians,
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  there's no strategy the Chinese or
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  Americans could pursue that would result
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  in a victory. Right? Even if you were to
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  flatten Keev and kill every single
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  decision maker, the nukes would just
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  launch on their own.
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  The danger is that if a nuclear weapons
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  operator in Russia were to have received
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  this cell phone alert and then be unable
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  to raise key to verify its authenticity
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  for even a an an uninteresting reason, a
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  severed phone line or something, that
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  person might chose choose to actually
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  launch a nuclear strike. And obviously
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  if one person launches a nuclear strike,
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  the US by doctrine would respond.
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  Chinese would by doctrine respond, you
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  could potentially have a catastrophic
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  event. Now, what worries me is you got
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  to ask who's behind this. And I think
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  the answer is that we don't really know
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  because it doesn't serve anyone's
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  interest, right? Blasting the the
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  emergency alert system for Keefe,
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  blasting the emergency alert system for
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  Moscow doesn't really help anybody that
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  I can discern.
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  It doesn't serve the interests of the
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  Russians or the Ukrainians or the
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  Americans or the Chinese or the Bellar
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  Russians. There's almost nobody that was
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  served by this hack. That's why I think
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  it may actually just be a rando. Just a
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  guy or some kid, some teenager in
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  Ukraine or Russia just [ __ ] off. But
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  obviously
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  to do to hack both systems within hours
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  of each other, that looks like the acts
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  of a professional level hacker. But
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  those things are not mutually exclusive
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  anymore. That's the fear is that you can
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  be a 16-year-old in Kev and if you can
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  or or or in in Yakarenburg
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  and if you can get access to a
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  jailbroken AI model that's sufficiently
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  powerful, you could potentially hack
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  into both of those systems, you could
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  have done this. You could have found
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  that zero day exploit. Maybe they even
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  use the same software, something in the
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  towers or the providers or or or
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  something. You don't even need to be an
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  expert as long as the AI itself is the
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  expert. And that the fear that I have is
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  that you're going to see these kinds of
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  things escalate. You're going to see the
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  ability of people with no real
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  meaningful objective or maybe not even a
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  sense of an objective
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  begin to hack into things, begin to hack
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  in ways that you would only really see
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  nation states do. Right? When North
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  Korea hacks, part of the thing that's
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  that's I don't want to say good, but
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  part of the thing that's reassuring,
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  right, you look at, for example, the uh
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  Binance hack, right, that a lot of
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  people think was done by North Korea,
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  right? 6.4 billion cryps in
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  cryptocurrency stolen by the South North
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  Korean state sponsored cyber crime
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  group, Trader Trader.
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  Now, I'm no cryptocurrency fan, but when
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  North Korea does these hacks, it does so
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  to make money. Like, the North Koreans
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  want to make money doing this. But
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  again, a 16-year-old with a jailbroken
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  AI model, he may not give a [ __ ] about
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  making money. He may just want to be an
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  [ __ ] and not think these things
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  through. And that's pretty scary, right?
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  Because again, part of the reason why
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  North Korea doesn't, for example, just
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  fixate on a random American citizen and
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  just torment them endlessly with hacks
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  is because it's not worth it. Like the
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  North Koreans don't care about hacking
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  into your bank account or your life
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  insurance payments in part because it
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  doesn't matter to them.
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  But what happens when you have North
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  Korea's hacking capability in the hands
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  of an of a a 17-year-old anime fan?
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  What are they going to do with that
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  incredible power? Nothing good. And
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  they're not going to think through the
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  the consequences. One of the reasons why
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  this is so
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  troubling is that nuclear weapons are
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  not to be trifled with. This is another
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  story for example that I think I is is
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  Tucker Carlson who by the way guys we
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  should take Tucker Carlson stories with
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  a severe grain of salt. He's been
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  identified as someone who repeats
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  Russian propaganda um with and has
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  repeatedly shown that he has either a a
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  a frightening lack of willingness to
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  like interrogate things that are said or
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  ideas he has. Um but he is a person who
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  really does exert a lot of influence.
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  and he is reporting quote that under
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  pressure from Benjamin Nanya, the Trump
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  administration may be within days of
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  launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The
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  target would be pickaxe mountain where
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  Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian
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  government has restarted its nuclear
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  enrichment program. No conventional
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  weapon in the American arsenal can
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  penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to
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  destroy the tunnels where it's taking
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  place. The only option would be a
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  nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been
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  pushing hard for one. Quote, according
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  to one source, Tucker Carlson, quote, BB
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  calls Trump about it every day. Right?
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  He points out that again uh the
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  Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. He
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  desperately wants a win against Trump.
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  Uh again the
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  there's a whole bunch of theories that
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  he's sort of squeezing people uh trying
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  to again like that there's all sorts of
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  reasons for this to happen. Uh now again
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  I I want to point out that Russia revels
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  in the Iran war and it revels in the
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  United States expending uh the bulk of
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  its military prowess in a useless and
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  ineffective Iran war and creating these
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  rumors or this this this
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  difficult misinformation
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  environment serves Russian interests
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  right regardless of whether or not this
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  is true.
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  Now,
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  uh
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  the
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  the terrifying thing about nuclear
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  weapons is that right now
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  everybody kind of likes the status quo
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  mostly. Why? Because big countries with
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  strong governments, right? namely
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  especially India, uh, China, Russia, uh,
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  the United States, France and Great
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  Britain all possess nuclear arsenals.
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  These are countries, right? You also
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  have some some less than stellar
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  governments with nuclear weapons,
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  Pakistan. Um and then you have a truly
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  difficult to uh ungovernable
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  very enigmatic very eccentric um very
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  bellose country North Korea that also
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  has nuclear weapons
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  but excluding North Korea who was
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  allowed to get nuclear weapons. Um and
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  you should also just keep that in your
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  brain when you hear all this rhetoric
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  about Iran, how Iran can never ever have
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  a nuclear weapon. They are so evil.
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  They're so destructive. and and just
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  bear in mind North Korea basically does
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  almost all the behaviors Iran engages in
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  um and is it was
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  people they got a nuclear weapon and
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  people went oh drat and then moved on
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  with their with their Korea policy and
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  um
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  I I point these things out because the
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  current nuclear environment is one in
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  which a hand a small number of countries
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  have nuclear weapons those countries
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  have stable robust governments that
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  aren't really going anywhere
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  And these countries like it that way.
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  Why? Because nuclear weapons are a great
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  equalizer.
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  Imagine a world in which Iraq had
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  nuclear weapons. Saddam Hussein, if he
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  had them, would have used them in 2003.
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  Right? The Taliban, the Afghan Taliban,
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  if they had nuclear weapons, would have
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  used them in 2001.
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  Muar Gaddafi in Libya in his last
• 18:19
  moments probably regretted giving up his
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  nuclear weapons program. And that's
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  because they would have represented a
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  ability to block uh American military
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  intervention.
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  And that's true, by the way. Taiwan
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  would love to have nuclear weapons
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  because it would give them the ability
• 18:38
  to hold Beijing hostage and say, "You
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  will never have your forces land on
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  Taiwanese shores because the moment you
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  do, we will glass Beijing." The reason
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  Taiwan doesn't do that is because the US
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  guarantees them from a conventional
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  perspective.
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  allegedly, supposedly maybe.
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  But you can see how being a big country
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  and having conventional nuclear weapons
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  represents
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  a a tremendous amount of asymmetric
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  leverage that the world's global powers
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  like having. Again, when you look at at
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  the largest countries by GDP, right,
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  you can see actually in fact that
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  nuclear powers feature basically in the
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  top 10 list. You could see here that of
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  the top 10, one, two, three, four, uh,
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  five, six of the, I think, nine
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  nuclearpowered states, nuclear, uh, we
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  nuclear armed states feature in the top
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  10, right? And
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  like, it's not an accident. These are
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  prestige countries that like to be able
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  to use these as kind of decisive uh
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  they're they're they're guaranurs that
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  no one's ever going to try to destroy
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  your government. Again, you can see
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  nuclear countries with nuclear arsenals,
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  United States, Russia, UK, France,
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  China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and
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  North Korea. Um
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  though Israel, it's worth noting has
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  never acknowledged publicly that it
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  possesses nuclear weapons in part
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  because if they did so um US assistance
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  would h US aid to Israel would have to
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  stop immediately because again they are
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  a nonparty to the NPT. So again they're
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  not legally allowed to, right? It would
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  be like us again arming North Korea. Um,
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  and
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  the
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  danger is again that when you have tons
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  of states with nuclear weapons, not only
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  does it sort of create this very
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  asymmetric advantage and you don't want
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  to normalize that, you also have the
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  fact that you know nuclear exchange even
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  in the limited nuclear exchange again
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  between say a Russia and uh Ukraine
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  scenario you would see tens of millions
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  immediate deaths possibly up to a
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  billion in a large scale war, even in a
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  limited war in Europe, you would still
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  be looking at about 10 million
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  casualties plus. Uh these are these
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  would would rate among the most
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  dangerous events ever in human history.
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  And you may think, well, what kind of
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  person would facilitate that? And that's
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  the fear. The fear is that a 14-year-old
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  edge lord with a with a with a strong
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  enough AI system in his control might do
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  this for the lols. Right? Imagine
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  shooter right in America. Uh uh but
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  instead of having an AR-15, an already
• 21:31
  frighteningly dangerous weapon in the
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  instead had an AI capable of hacking
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  into any number of systems and
• 21:42
  could create again these sort of events.
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  So, so yes, there is not actually a
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  nuclear attack, but there is a real
• 21:51
  failure, I think, to appreciate by even
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  the media uh just how dangerous this
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• 22:35
  Oh, I see. We're talking about Elon,
• 22:36
  guys. You want to talk about Elon? I got
• 22:38
  an Elon story. A whole big [ __ ] thing
• 22:41
  about Elon, right?
• 22:49
  Okay. I saw some some some people make
• 22:52
  doing some super chats. Let me try to
• 22:54
  answer your questions here. Uh, okay.
• 22:57
  Ace Cams, thanks. Claude hack everyone's
• 22:59
  systems. Make no mistakes. Yeah. Oof. I
• 23:02
  would trust Acecams uh
• 23:06
  before I would trust the median internet
• 23:08
  user. Uh okay, I see somebody else.
• 23:10
  Wait, I'm going to try to Wait, it's not
• 23:12
  actually letting me see your message. Uh
• 23:14
  but I see you. I see you, Joe. John.
• 23:18
  Huh? Yeah. Okay.
• 23:25
  India has a strong government. Uh yeah.
• 23:27
  Yeah, it does. Yeah. I mean India is one
• 23:30
  of the fastest growing economies in the
• 23:31
  world, right? And people I I understand
• 23:34
  it's like cool and edgy to hate on
• 23:36
  India. Um
• 23:40
  but I I I just want to show you guys
• 23:43
  uh India's growth 8% yearon year. Okay,
• 23:48
  that's insane.
• 23:51
  And I mean I mean I mean look at these
• 23:53
  numbers, guys. All right, we we'll give
• 23:55
  it the 10 year. Yeah. Okay. Co. All
• 23:57
  right, let's let's ignore CO for a
• 23:58
  second, but 965797776887.
• 24:05
  That's crazy numbers. That is not You
• 24:08
  cannot put up numbers like that without
• 24:11
  having a uh stable functioning
• 24:14
  government that implements a rules-based
• 24:16
  order. Right?
• 24:20
  And when you look at China's GDP growth,
• 24:22
  you can see uh again, we'll do the same
• 24:25
  10-year chart here.
• 24:27
  You can see China 77767748345
• 24:33
  55 545 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55
• 24:34
  5455
• 24:36
  huge but India remember a 2% growth rate
• 24:41
  difference multiply over 10 years you're
• 24:43
  going to end up with economies that are
• 24:45
  like
• 24:47
  much closer.
• 24:52
  So when you compare for example uh
• 24:54
  actual GDP
• 24:56
  uh
• 24:58
  yeah uh here's comparing
• 25:04
  uh okay this isn't that helpful
• 25:12
  uh India verse China GDP
• 25:16
  trying to find it
• 25:26
  Okay. So, this random chart,
• 25:30
  I don't know. I I haven't vetted this.
• 25:32
  It's a random Instagram post. But again,
• 25:35
  this has China with 19 trillion to
• 25:39
  India's 4 trillion. But again, I point
• 25:41
  these things out that
• 25:44
  you're looking at
• 25:46
  India's growth rate is really escalating
• 25:50
  in its own right. And I think that's
• 25:53
  like not should not be forgotten about
• 25:58
  if that makes sense.
• 26:01
  Because these are these are countries
• 26:02
  again that are in like pretty robust
• 26:03
  comparison. And if there's one thing
• 26:04
  Ukraine has taught us, by the way, it's
• 26:06
  that yo, you should not uh you should
• 26:09
  not sit there and use uh the size of an
• 26:11
  economy as a proxy for its fighting
• 26:14
  force effectiveness. Sergeant, thanks
• 26:15
  for the 25. The ASOV leadership had a
• 26:17
  small press conference on Operation
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  Vivaldi. Consider checking it out. Yeah.
• 26:20
  Okay. Okay. Uh
• 26:25
  John, I see you're two. For some reason,
• 26:27
  I'm getting an error in my in my chat
• 26:31
  box. It's not letting me read what your
• 26:32
  actual chat is. Unless it's just a thank
• 26:34
  you. Unless it's just a $2 Australian
• 26:36
  thank you, in which case I I really
• 26:38
  appreciate it.
• 26:42
  Okay, I see people talking about Elon.
• 26:44
  You want to talk about brain dead Elon.
• 27:00
  It's interesting to see everybody talk
• 27:02
  about reading. Uh yeah, I feel like
• 27:05
  maybe the Bookb Bro world is coming is
• 27:08
  having a comeback, which I I love. I
• 27:11
  think more people need to read and I
• 27:13
  think you can get a lot of you can learn
• 27:16
  things when you read.
• 27:25
  Elon playing Hank playing War Dogs on a
• 27:28
  jet. There's no way Elon Elon would be
• 27:30
  terrible at War Dogs. terrible path of
• 27:32
  exile.
• 27:42
  Let's talk about Let's talk about Papa
• 27:44
  Elon.
• 28:11
  Oh man. Okay.
• 28:25
  So, let's let's let's talk about Elon.
• 28:40
  Elon Musk is not exactly the most stable
• 28:43
  or intelligent person on the face of the
• 28:47
  planet. Despite being the world's
• 28:49
  richest man, he's really having a pretty
• 28:52
  bad crash out on Twitter, proving that
• 28:55
  if you spend enough time on social
• 28:56
  media, you too can ruin your entire
• 29:00
  life. But we're going to talk about
• 29:02
  actually more importantly, what exactly
• 29:05
  is Elon saying? And why should we just
• 29:08
  not trust this guy? Let's take a look.
• 29:10
  Okay, so one, I thought this was this is
• 29:12
  kind of my jumping off point because
• 29:14
  this is kind of wild. Elon has dodged
• 29:17
  for years um again rumors of ketamine
• 29:21
  abuse. Now obviously reporting from
• 29:24
  numerous numerous sources have outlined
• 29:27
  that Elon has a frightening relationship
• 29:29
  with ketamine but also Elon himself has
• 29:31
  admitted to using ketamine um you know
• 29:34
  recreationally.
• 29:36
  So the idea that he's out here tweet
• 29:39
  tweeting saying oh I have a great idea
• 29:41
  for a drug called regretamine. one dose
• 29:44
  and all your regrets are gone, including
• 29:46
  obviously having taken regretamine in
• 29:48
  the first place. Now, this is
• 29:51
  uh this is like kind of maybe autism
• 29:54
  spectrum humor. Uh it's a really bad
• 29:56
  joke, but what I think is funny again,
• 29:58
  because Elon Musk almost never jokes
• 30:01
  about things that he uh isn't actually
• 30:03
  serious about, right? He has a lot of
• 30:05
  jokes about uh you know, how hard it is
• 30:07
  to be a white guy or whatever. Um but
• 30:09
  he's obviously not joking. What I think
• 30:11
  is most interesting is that this is the
• 30:14
  closest this is the closest I've ever
• 30:16
  seen Elon come to actual insight to say,
• 30:19
  "Whoa, I kind of regret using it's not
• 30:23
  ketamine, guys. It's regrett." And he
• 30:26
  regrets having taken ketamine in the
• 30:29
  first place. Now, what's wild to me is
• 30:31
  that in the comments, nobody mentions
• 30:34
  the actual important part, right? I
• 30:36
  mean, here's video. Actually, this is
• 30:37
  unaltered video of Elon in uh in a
• 30:40
  ketamine hole, right? Appearing to be
• 30:44
  unbelievably high. I mean, look at this.
• 30:46
  This is this is unaltered. This is real
• 30:48
  video, by the way, of Elon, who has
• 30:51
  definitely never taken uh drugs in his
• 30:54
  life. But what I want to point out
• 30:58
  uh is that when you and this is this is
• 31:01
  part of the argument here, right? Again,
• 31:03
  Elon almost certainly coming out and
• 31:05
  saying, "Listen, I I take a lot of
• 31:06
  ketamine." Uh,
• 31:11
  and we've talked about the fact that
• 31:13
  when you take a lot of when you're on
• 31:16
  long-term ketamine use, uh, again, this
• 31:19
  is a study from, uh, 2022, and it's
• 31:22
  called brain changes are associated with
• 31:23
  long-term ketamine abuse, a systematic
• 31:25
  review. Uh, it says, "Recently, abuse of
• 31:28
  ketamine has soared." This is it's
• 31:30
  certainly soared on a per capita basis.
• 31:33
  Uh and
• 31:35
  when looking at it, the effects of
• 31:38
  prolong ketamine on the brain can be
• 31:39
  observationally studied from chronic
• 31:40
  recreational users. Systematic review of
• 31:42
  studies reporting the function of
• 31:43
  structural brain changes after repeated
• 31:45
  ketamine use. And what they found
• 31:49
  uh was that in fact uh the ketamine use
• 31:55
  resulted in a significant and uh easily
• 32:00
  documented um u formation of brain
• 32:04
  lesions. Right? These people had uh
• 32:06
  results. All right. 16 studies in the
• 32:08
  review, 440 chronic ketamine users. So
• 32:11
  this is not a huge end, right? You
• 32:13
  usually like to see over a thousand to
• 32:14
  be good, but uh 500 caretamine users
• 32:19
  again is going to be quite a bit. Um
• 32:23
  right, use between was between 2 and 10
• 32:26
  years. Again, for Elon, we've started to
• 32:30
  see documentation of ketamine use around
• 32:32
  2021. So, uh again, he's actually on the
• 32:36
  the more extreme end of this. Uh and the
• 32:41
  studies describe structural gray matter
• 32:42
  and white matter changes, differences in
• 32:44
  brain functionality, differences in
• 32:45
  neurotransmitter receptor binding. Um
• 32:48
  again, you're looking at smaller gray
• 32:51
  matter volume in the left superior
• 32:53
  frontal cortex, right? These are parts
• 32:54
  that are uh in right middle frontal
• 32:56
  cortex. So we know for example that
• 32:59
  documents that hey it's going to cause
• 33:01
  some level of brain atrophy in the uh
• 33:05
  frontal cortex and uh the frontal cortex
• 33:08
  guys um it's uh it's not that important.
• 33:12
  It actually um just acts as the brain
• 33:14
  central command center for high level
• 33:15
  thinking, movement and personality. All
• 33:17
  of which almost every observer would say
• 33:21
  Elon has had massive changes in since
• 33:24
  2021. again he has become uh a kind of a
• 33:28
  vowed white nationalist or someone who
• 33:30
  believes in white grievance. Um
• 33:34
  and again we've seen we just saw a video
• 33:36
  of his bizarre movements um and his
• 33:39
  higher level thinking again seems to be
• 33:41
  somewhat impaired. Uh
• 33:45
  again, I also would like to point out
• 33:48
  that
• 33:50
  uh that if you invested in his company
• 33:54
  uh let's see uh we'll we'll we'll take
• 33:57
  it back actually. If you invested in his
• 33:59
  company around the time he was first
• 34:00
  identified as using ketamine on a
• 34:02
  chronic basis, you would have bought
• 34:03
  about 47 USD per share. And if you had
• 34:08
  held like a true Elon Musk fanboy over 5
• 34:10
  years, you would have made $6 a share.
• 34:13
  In adjusting for inflation, you've lost
• 34:15
  significant amounts of money investing
• 34:18
  in Tesla Motor Corp. And that would be
• 34:22
  aligned with someone who is um I'm
• 34:25
  trying to think of how to put this
• 34:26
  nicely. Uh whose executive function has
• 34:29
  become impaired, right? Because again, a
• 34:32
  a real CEO uh their job is to push the
• 34:35
  stock price. And it's not that hard to
• 34:37
  figure out. Again,
• 34:39
  um uh
• 34:42
  like
• 34:49
  again, I can't I can't actually get the
• 34:50
  side effects of long-term ketamine use
• 34:53
  um from studies, but again, here's one
• 34:55
  from Colombia from two years ago. Uh
• 34:59
  again, widespread structural change of
• 35:01
  the brain's dopamine system. Bolster
• 35:02
  case for developing ketamine therapies
• 35:04
  that target the brain. Uh
• 35:07
  again, the
• 35:11
  chronic ketamine use, I mean, it it's
• 35:14
  it's
• 35:16
  yeah, here's another summary from 2013
• 35:18
  describing MRI finding uh brain damage.
• 35:20
  Uh
• 35:22
  so, I mean, again,
• 35:26
  significant neuroiming pretty pretty
• 35:28
  much a uh it's basically a given. Again,
• 35:33
  these guys found uh lesions were
• 35:35
  observed in all 21 of the ketamine
• 35:37
  addicts that were profiled in this
• 35:38
  study. Um, those who had two or less
• 35:40
  regions of the brain with lesions were
• 35:42
  classified as light damage. Those who
• 35:43
  had three to four regions of the brain
• 35:45
  with lesions were classified as moderate
• 35:46
  damage. Those with five or more regions
• 35:48
  with lesions were classified as severe
• 35:50
  damage. Um, again, this is uh they first
• 35:56
  appear after one mean of act one year of
• 35:58
  active ketamine addiction. Um, and most
• 36:02
  of these legions spread uh by 3 years of
• 36:05
  the ketamine addiction. Again, if you're
• 36:07
  assuming that the rumors are true, the
• 36:09
  allegations are true of Elon, that would
• 36:11
  be pretty uh terrible. Uh, again,
• 36:16
  uh, the Oval Office or the New York
• 36:19
  Times has alleged that must drunk drug
• 36:21
  consumption is far more extensive,
• 36:23
  claiming he frequently used ketamine
• 36:24
  ecstasy and psyched mushrooms. His
• 36:26
  frequent ketamine use was severe enough
• 36:27
  to cause chronic bladder issues. Um,
• 36:30
  reports circulated that in the Oval
• 36:31
  Office, Mush Musk lashed out at a
• 36:34
  reporter asking about his alleged daily
• 36:36
  drug use. Musk denied the claims on
• 36:38
  Twitter, calling it a fabrication and
• 36:40
  saying he had only used prescribed
• 36:41
  ketamine years prior to escape dark
• 36:43
  mental holes, but that's not what he of
• 36:45
  course claimed. Um, Musk claimed to have
• 36:48
  released a formal uh drug test uh
• 36:51
  returned negative for cocaine,
• 36:52
  ecstatine, and ketamine. But again, Musk
• 36:55
  has also said he does use ketamine. So
• 36:58
  if he uses it a little bit every two
• 37:00
  weeks but then doesn't doesn't use it it
• 37:02
  well again it's pretty hard to to square
• 37:06
  that. Uh but again before we talk about
• 37:09
  his other claims that again this sense
• 37:12
  of what's wrong with his brain should
• 37:13
  inform the rest of the claims that he
• 37:15
  makes. You should understand that this
• 37:16
  is the ravings of someone who has um who
• 37:20
  whose brain
• 37:22
  is could have been damaged by ketamine
• 37:24
  use. I'm probably going to get sued by
• 37:26
  Elon for saying this, but again, I'm in
• 37:29
  the clear because he's a public figure
• 37:31
  and I've laid out my evidence uh for
• 37:33
  these claims. So, again, uh you know,
• 37:39
  we could also though though I guess if
• 37:41
  he sued me, we I would get to I get my
• 37:44
  own lawyers and I'd get to depose him on
• 37:45
  his ketamine use. Um maybe even drug
• 37:47
  test him, right? Maybe I could get that
• 37:49
  lab that did the drug test to verify
• 37:51
  that he really took it. Who knows? I
• 37:52
  could get all kinds of stuff. we get a
• 37:54
  hair sample. That would be dope. Get one
• 37:55
  of those hair samples. Um assuming his
• 37:58
  hair is real. Anyway, guys, uh if you
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• 38:02
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• 38:15
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• 38:20
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• 38:23
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• 38:45
  let's talk about some other uh
• 38:48
  unwell Elon claims because Elon's been
• 38:50
  absolutely on a crash out uh about the
• 38:53
  midterm elections. And it makes sense.
• 38:56
  Elon Musk is located in Texas. He has
• 38:58
  spent massively to try to support Ken
• 39:00
  Paxton, one of easily the most corrupt
• 39:04
  politicians in Texas. Um, uh, I won't
• 39:06
  even bore you with the Ken Paxton
• 39:08
  impeachment allegations, but you can ask
• 39:10
  your favorite chatbot to be like,
• 39:12
  summarize all the corruption allegations
• 39:13
  against Ken Paxton. And, um, again,
• 39:16
  you'll probably use your monthly budget
• 39:17
  for tokens. Uh, but Elon, of course, has
• 39:22
  been on an absolute crash out because
• 39:24
  Elon and his business interests are all
• 39:26
  located in Texas. And again, there's so
• 39:29
  many of his contracts that will be
• 39:31
  placed in jeopardy um if the Democrats
• 39:34
  take power in the Senate because uh they
• 39:36
  may, for example, realize that Elon, a
• 39:39
  major government contractor, is in
• 39:40
  regular contact with Vladimir Putin and
• 39:42
  other sanctioned Russians, which would
• 39:44
  prohibit his companies from taking uh
• 39:46
  any kind of government money. They may
• 39:48
  also realize that Elon Musk himself
• 39:51
  couldn't pass a real drug test, an
• 39:52
  independently administered drug test,
• 39:54
  and that that would prohibit him from
• 39:56
  having government contracts. They may
• 39:58
  also investigate his actions with Doge,
• 40:00
  which also were likely uh sweeping
• 40:03
  crimes that Elon has explicitly and on
• 40:06
  Twitter um literally said, "I am the
• 40:09
  person who, for example, misuse social
• 40:11
  security data in violation of the
• 40:13
  Privacy Act." So, if I was Elon, I'd be
• 40:15
  I'd be freaking out, too. And that's why
• 40:17
  he has spent nearly a half a billion
• 40:20
  dollars if I remember correctly on these
• 40:23
  elections, spending more than George
• 40:25
  Soros ever did in his entire life. So
• 40:29
  Elon Musk conspiracy theory is stating
• 40:31
  that if the Democrats get the House,
• 40:32
  Senate, and presidency in 2028, which
• 40:35
  worth noting is not 2026, he says,
• 40:38
  quote, "They will make DC and Puerto
• 40:40
  Rico states to gain a strong majority in
• 40:42
  the Senate." Already we're seeing uh
• 40:44
  Elon doesn't really fully understand
• 40:46
  here. Um because
• 40:49
  uh
• 40:51
  because to become a state uh the state
• 40:54
  has to first ask for statehood which I
• 40:56
  think DC and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico has
• 40:58
  repeatedly rejected uh referendum to
• 41:01
  become a full US state. Um second there
• 41:05
  has to be a uh you know they have to
• 41:08
  draft a constitution which is not fast.
• 41:11
  Then they petition US Congress for
• 41:12
  admission. Both US House of
• 41:13
  Representatives and the Senate must pass
• 41:15
  an act of Congress joint resolution by a
• 41:16
  simple majority agreeing to admit the
• 41:17
  new state. Um then the president must
• 41:20
  sign it again. And I I point these
• 41:22
  things out because you know Elon thinks
• 41:25
  that oh they might eliminate the
• 41:26
  filibuster and let these states in. I
• 41:29
  think it's possible uh but it is a long
• 41:31
  way off. And I want to point out that um
• 41:34
  taking American citizens who don't have
• 41:36
  a vote and letting them vote is not the
• 41:40
  same thing as as Elon alleges destroying
• 41:43
  democracy. He says this would result in
• 41:44
  America becoming a permanent one party
• 41:46
  state and the end of democracy in any
• 41:47
  meaningful sense of the word. Again,
• 41:49
  allowing Americans citizens to vote is
• 41:53
  not destroying democracy. Okay. Then he
• 41:56
  says they're going to open the borders
• 41:57
  and legalize everyone living in America
• 41:59
  illegally to cement a permanent
• 42:01
  majority. Now this is just fantasy. He
• 42:04
  said the same thing about Kla Harris.
• 42:06
  But what we can do is use the last time
• 42:09
  the Democrats controlled the House,
• 42:11
  Senate, and Presidency to to to preview
• 42:14
  what they would do. Did they try to do
• 42:15
  this? The answer is no. In fact, the
• 42:18
  Biden administration during the CO9
• 42:19
  pandemic carried out 3 million Title 42
• 42:22
  expulsions between March 2020 and
• 42:24
  through May 2023. Um over 1.5 million
• 42:28
  deportations and returns uh through late
• 42:30
  2024, including a decade high of the
• 42:33
  last year of the Biden administration,
• 42:34
  he deported um a 271,000
• 42:39
  uh people right when combining formal
• 42:42
  deportations, border returns, and title
• 42:43
  42 expulsion. B administration uh
• 42:46
  expelled or repatriated 4.4 million
• 42:50
  people. Um even if you look at for
• 42:52
  example proposals um for granting what
• 42:56
  they call a path to citizenship most of
• 42:58
  those focus on um dreamers for example
• 43:01
  the I think the fastest path to
• 43:03
  citizenship proposal from a democratic
• 43:06
  congressman had the fastest you could
• 43:08
  get citizenship would have been 5 years.
• 43:10
  So, you would have had to have lived in
• 43:12
  the US a long time, not commit any
• 43:14
  crimes, applied for legal permanent
• 43:15
  residency status, and then sort of
• 43:17
  slowly started the climb from your green
• 43:19
  card to citizenship. Um, so again, the
• 43:22
  idea that it's going to rapidly produce
• 43:24
  a permanent majority is is
• 43:27
  doesn't make any sense. It also doesn't
• 43:29
  make electoral sense because let's
• 43:31
  assume for example um not that
• 43:34
  controversial that the individuals who
• 43:37
  are granted citizenship are vote like
• 43:40
  Hispanics, right? Hispanic American
• 43:42
  citizens. And as you can see in 2024,
• 43:44
  Hispanic American citizens voted for
• 43:47
  Harris um by 51 to 48, a incredibly
• 43:52
  narrow margin, right? So the idea that
• 43:56
  suddenly by giving Hispanics
• 43:59
  like a path to citizenship, even if they
• 44:01
  were to get handwaved and suddenly gain
• 44:03
  citizenship, it would represent a
• 44:06
  threepoint advantage over how willing
• 44:09
  these guys were to vote Republican.
• 44:12
  And again, that's unlikely to happen in
• 44:15
  this case. But you cannot argue that
• 44:20
  a that
• 44:22
  allowing Hispanic voters to vote is
• 44:25
  going to like cement some kind of
• 44:27
  majority. You see, these claims by Elon
• 44:29
  are disproved by a incredibly trivially
• 44:32
  small um a trivial amount of googling, a
• 44:35
  trivial amount of analysis allows us to
• 44:37
  show that Elon is just full of [ __ ] Um
• 44:39
  again, increase the size of the Supreme
• 44:41
  Court. This didn't happen in the uh in
• 44:45
  the Biden administration and they
• 44:46
  certainly could have. In fact, during
• 44:48
  the Biden administration, you saw um
• 44:51
  Ruth Bader Ginsburg die and her
• 44:53
  successor uh actually she was mocked on
• 44:56
  her deathbed by Mitch McConnell as Mitch
• 44:57
  McConnell would show her lists of
• 45:00
  ultra-conservative justices who are
• 45:01
  going to replace her. Um if you're like
• 45:04
  that seems pointlessly cruel to do to a
• 45:06
  dying old woman, um that's because Mitch
• 45:09
  McConnell is a monster. Uh, and so the
• 45:13
  idea that this is going to happen, that
• 45:16
  the Democrats are magically going to
• 45:17
  stuff the Supreme Court is kind of wild.
• 45:19
  And again, the idea, the fundamental
• 45:22
  concept of like eliminating democracy by
• 45:27
  maybe creating a path to citizenship and
• 45:30
  granting American citizens the right to
• 45:32
  vote is kind of absurd, right? And then
• 45:38
  Elon says it would be game over for
• 45:39
  America. Now, where where does this come
• 45:41
  from? This comes from obviously the
• 45:42
  ketamine. Uh but also because remember
• 45:45
  Elon Musk isn't actually an American uh
• 45:47
  by birth. He came here and again listen
• 45:51
  foreignb born American citizens are real
• 45:53
  citizens. But Elon probably misses some
• 45:56
  things because he grew up in apartheid
• 45:58
  South Africa and indeed the end of
• 46:00
  apartheid has seen a huge decline in the
• 46:03
  South African economy and I believe the
• 46:05
  decline in South African standard of
• 46:06
  living I think or it's been stagnant. Um
• 46:09
  but certainly he maintains that the
• 46:14
  uh it is not a function of the
• 46:16
  corruption of political parties. Elon
• 46:18
  believes that it is a function of
• 46:20
  allowing too many of the wrong kinds of
• 46:22
  people to vote. Now I also want to make
• 46:26
  a few other hot takes. This is the sort
• 46:28
  of highlevel brain thinking that Elon's
• 46:31
  posting. He says this is what they stole
• 46:33
  from us and it is an AI picture
• 46:35
  depicting Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker.
• 46:38
  um the character of Padme and uh Luke
• 46:41
  and Leia now I in charge of the empire.
• 46:44
  I want to point these things out because
• 46:47
  I often mock people who adopt a Star
• 46:50
  Wars view of morality in which um in
• 46:53
  order to educate children, right? Star
• 46:55
  Wars or Harry Potter. um they impart
• 46:58
  moral lessons to children by telling
• 47:00
  them explicitly that this character is
• 47:03
  bad and because they are the bad
• 47:06
  character, you as a child can learn
• 47:08
  about the tricks that bad people use
• 47:11
  because you can watch a bad person do
• 47:13
  them. This is like my daughter's book,
• 47:15
  right? In the fairy tales she reads, the
• 47:17
  fox is always a trickster. The fox is
• 47:19
  always up to something. And so she gets
• 47:21
  to learn about the tricks a human being
• 47:22
  might attempt to play with her. for
• 47:24
  example, luring her out of her house
• 47:26
  with candy. That's a that's a trick a
• 47:28
  fox plays. So, she gets to learn that
• 47:30
  this is something that the evil
• 47:32
  trickster does. And um Star Wars uses
• 47:35
  that, right? We get to learn about good
• 47:37
  and evil. Children can learn about good
• 47:39
  and evil because we know Darth Vader is
• 47:41
  bad. So, being cruel to his
• 47:42
  subordinates, we know Darth Vader, it's
• 47:44
  bad to be cruel to your subordinates
• 47:46
  because Darth Vader is cruel. We know
• 47:48
  it's bad to um liquidate an entire
• 47:51
  planet of civilians. And we know that
• 47:53
  because Darth Vader is bad and he does
• 47:56
  that. So, um, again,
• 48:00
  Elon's being like, "It's bad that Darth
• 48:02
  Vader was the bad guy
• 48:04
  and he wouldn't have had to kill
• 48:06
  everyone in Aldderon
• 48:08
  if he like had just been allowed to not
• 48:14
  fight Obi-Wan. This doesn't make any
• 48:16
  sense, right?"
• 48:19
  Again, Elon kind of laughs. Strong
• 48:21
  people don't put others down, they lift
• 48:22
  them up. Darth Vader, philanthropist. Uh
• 48:26
  what if Padme was like, "Yeah, babe.
• 48:28
  You're right." Uh then I love the fact
• 48:30
  that they're like, "Yeah, that's how
• 48:32
  Elon really looks." Um
• 48:35
  and again, of course, the faction is
• 48:38
  going to miss the whole point of Star
• 48:39
  Wars. Um right, somebody else being
• 48:42
  like, "Imagine how it's propaganda it
• 48:43
  took women to be convinced that this is
• 48:45
  oppressive." Um that's because this is
• 48:47
  fake. This is actually AI generated. So,
• 48:49
  this is the sort of brain rot. Uh,
• 48:52
  actually, okay, this is pretty good.
• 48:54
  Shocked you would identify with the
• 48:55
  child murdering, self-sabotaging,
• 48:57
  emotionally stunted failure of a father.
• 48:59
  Uh, that's true. Anakin was a fascist
• 49:01
  who tried to murder his own wife by
• 49:02
  putting her in a choke hole. Do you not
• 49:03
  understand Star Wars? Right. This is
• 49:06
  pretty wild. Um,
• 49:09
  again,
• 49:11
  also funny, Elon and maybe his mom and
• 49:13
  Doge, right?
• 49:19
  Yeah, there's Elon.
• 49:22
  Okay, watching Elon get dragged in the
• 49:23
  comments is actually pretty rich. Uh,
• 49:25
  now I want to point out some other
• 49:26
  things, right, that Elon doesn't
• 49:28
  understand. Uh, here it depicts Texas
• 49:31
  Democrat James Trico saying, "What would
• 49:34
  Jesus do if he visited Texas
• 49:35
  legislature?" He would tell us, "Blessed
• 49:36
  are the trans children." Now,
• 49:39
  and I want to point out that anybody
• 49:41
  that uh attended any kind of religious
• 49:44
  schooling understands that
• 49:49
  Jesus blessed uh all the people who the
• 49:53
  rest of society treated as paras. That
• 49:56
  was actually like that was maybe the
• 49:58
  central message um of of of the New
• 50:03
  Testament. Um now Elon obviously didn't
• 50:05
  get a religious education but that
• 50:06
  doesn't stop him from trafficking in
• 50:08
  religion. Um and he misunderstands
• 50:12
  saying listen Jesus like famously also
• 50:15
  said like tax collectors who were
• 50:17
  notoriously corrupt or um uh uh
• 50:22
  prostitutes who were prostitutes were
• 50:24
  were also blessed by Jesus. That's like
• 50:26
  really I can't emphasize this enough
• 50:28
  that is like core to the message. And uh
• 50:32
  Elon interpreting that as Trico will
• 50:34
  vote to trans your kids. The irony of
• 50:37
  course being that Elon Musk himself has
• 50:39
  a trans child who hates him. Um he's so
• 50:43
  close to getting it. Again, this is
• 50:45
  somebody that's like Darth Vader was
• 50:47
  based when he murdered all those kids.
• 50:49
  Um,
• 50:52
  and by the way, uh, the problem is, of
• 50:54
  course, as this commenter points out,
• 50:57
  um, that Elon, uh, if the kids have
• 51:01
  gender confirming surgery, Elon may not
• 51:04
  be attracted to them and therefore not
• 51:05
  able to party at Epstein's Island, as
• 51:08
  Elon requested, uh, in repeated emails
• 51:11
  asking to party at Epstein's Island. Um,
• 51:16
  so
• 51:18
  yeah, as this one points out, in any
• 51:19
  sane country, an individual spending 175
• 51:21
  million lying that James Taro is going
• 51:23
  to change the gender of your children
• 51:24
  would be election fraud. Uh, again,
• 51:27
  Trico has actually repeatedly said that
• 51:31
  he has no problems with the existing
• 51:33
  well, I don't think he said he has no
• 51:34
  problems, but he has no problems with
• 51:36
  the existing ban on gender- affirming
• 51:38
  surgeries and hormone treatment for
• 51:39
  children under 18. Um,
• 51:44
  so again, I mean, he's just getting
• 51:46
  dragged in these comments. It's actually
• 51:48
  pretty hilarious. And part of the reason
• 51:49
  he gets dragged in the comments is
• 51:50
  because he's one of the most least the
• 51:52
  least popular human beings on the
• 51:54
  planet. You can see actually um again
• 51:56
  when he massively pivoted to influence
• 51:58
  the um uh Trump agenda. You can see at
• 52:03
  his peak he was he was listed as being
• 52:05
  as having a 47% popularity rating. Uh,
• 52:09
  and you can see now he's down just 37.
• 52:11
  Um, and that, by the way, guys, is
• 52:13
  someone who is spent um billions in
• 52:18
  terms of manipulating the Twitter
• 52:19
  algorithm to make him look cool. Uh, so
• 52:22
  I I want you to understand that he is
• 52:24
  also though uh one of the most disliked
• 52:26
  people on the planet actually. Um,
• 52:28
  again, as of July,
• 52:31
  actually at his peak, July 1st, 2025, 50
• 52:34
  nearly 60% of Americans describe
• 52:36
  themselves as disliking Elon Musk, which
• 52:39
  is wild, guys. Uh, I mean, I I can't
• 52:42
  emphasize this enough. I I I'd love to
• 52:44
  see other like really terrible figures.
• 52:46
  Um,
• 52:48
  but Elon is is is genuinely one of the
• 52:52
  uh most unfavorably viewed people on
• 52:54
  planet Earth. net favorability for Elon.
• 52:57
  You can see here a negative 15. Um
• 53:01
  Elon truly I mean he was negative 25.
• 53:03
  The fact that he's only5 is actually
• 53:06
  kind of wild. Um
• 53:09
  that's huge. Uh like
• 53:14
  compared to uh the Trump unfavorability
• 53:16
  rating. Um,
• 53:20
  again, uh,
• 53:23
  let's see if we can find it. The Nate
• 53:24
  Silver puts him at a disapproval rating
• 53:27
  of 60% and an approval rating of 38. So,
• 53:29
  I think him and Elon are actually almost
• 53:31
  tied for their level of disapproval.
• 53:34
  Crazy. Crazy. Um, you can also see this
• 53:39
  I thought was hilarious. Just one more
• 53:41
  to show that again El Elon just is
• 53:45
  not connected to reality and he's not
• 53:47
  interested in trying to even ground
• 53:49
  himself into into the shared reality
• 53:51
  into like baseline reality because here
• 53:53
  he shared this post um that claims to be
• 53:57
  from Thomas but it's actually a
• 53:58
  commentary account um saying Elon Musk
• 54:00
  claims this is from a Joe Rogan
• 54:02
  interview that the mainstream media
• 54:03
  rarely gives positive coverage to people
• 54:04
  who don't align with his political
• 54:06
  views. He argues that even something as
• 54:08
  extraordinary as saving a bustload of
• 54:09
  orphans wouldn't make the headlines.
• 54:10
  Positive coverage about someone who's
• 54:11
  not the far-left tribe will get no
• 54:13
  coverage. This is untrue because here
• 54:15
  Elon Musk again the owner of Doge u you
• 54:19
  might recall uh about 6 months ago or
• 54:21
  not even yeah four months ago he took an
• 54:24
  unprecedented step to block the Russian
• 54:27
  military from using Starlink terminals
• 54:29
  creating a white list with the Ukrainian
• 54:30
  government. And as you can see, that
• 54:32
  story was covered by such no-name
• 54:35
  outlets as RBC Ukraine, uh the BBC,
• 54:38
  obviously, uh Business Insider, no one's
• 54:40
  ever heard of them. Uh the Atlantic,
• 54:43
  uh uh again
• 54:46
  like CNN, uh Ukraine defense starting
• 54:49
  terminal used by Russia cut off. Uh
• 54:52
  again, PC Mag, Reuters, Ukraine starting
• 54:54
  to use by Russia deactivated and blow to
• 54:56
  Moscow. Uh so again, all of these
• 54:59
  articles describe Elon in in glowing
• 55:02
  terms uh for this intervention. So this
• 55:04
  is just another example of Elon saying
• 55:07
  things that just just simply aren't
• 55:09
  true. And and again, I'm not here to
• 55:11
  dunk on celebrities. Like I don't ask
• 55:12
  celebrities to be massively informed,
• 55:14
  but this is someone whose views are
• 55:18
  massively to a scale that no other human
• 55:20
  being in American electoral history has
• 55:22
  ever done are massively being deployed
• 55:24
  to influence your thinking. So if Elon
• 55:27
  endorses a stance, you should understand
• 55:29
  that the context in which he is
• 55:32
  endorsing again the the basically the
• 55:34
  Republican candidates in every federal
• 55:36
  election. And by the way, you should do
• 55:38
  some research on your own candidates. In
• 55:39
  my city council race, in my town of
• 55:42
  80,000 people, there is an Elonbacked
• 55:45
  candidate. In fact, a candidate actually
• 55:47
  employed by Elon Musk. Um, so I I point
• 55:51
  these things out because um the this is
• 55:56
  a unbelievably um an unbelievable level
• 56:00
  of uh not just corruption. Sure. Like
• 56:04
  every real country would not allow this
• 56:05
  to happen. But also this is the actions
• 56:07
  of someone whose values have literally
• 56:09
  nothing to do. I mean literally if you
• 56:11
  say I wish the I wish Darth Vader won
• 56:14
  Star Wars. Okay. Like imag like a
• 56:17
  Saturday Night Live sketch. The man who
• 56:20
  says, "I wish Darth Vader won Star Wars.
• 56:22
  I'm so mad that he didn't kill all of
• 56:25
  those children. I wish there were like
• 56:27
  10 Aldderons." Uh if you can't if you
• 56:31
  can't look at that guy and be like, I
• 56:32
  think he's a bad man. Um again, this is
• 56:35
  a guy who who like stopped AIDS
• 56:40
  medication for Africans. like we were
• 56:44
  giving them free AIDS medications and we
• 56:46
  stopped it. It's wild, dude. It's just
• 56:50
  wild. And if if you can't sit there and
• 56:53
  go, "Listen, I don't think this guy's
• 56:54
  values align with mine."
• 56:57
  I can't help you. You can vote however
• 56:59
  you want, but tomorrow's election day
• 57:02
  and stay sharp out there. All right.
• 57:05
  Thanks to Alfred, Allan, Andreas,
• 57:06
  Bastion, Brent, Brennan, Charles,
• 57:07
  Christine, all the Lieutenant folks. We
• 57:10
  appreciate you guys. We couldn't do
• 57:11
  without you.
• 57:15
  Okay, I saw a bunch of of super chats.
• 57:18
  Uh, I'm gonna try to get you ace cams.
• 57:19
  Uh, can't believe everyone here actually
• 57:21
  thought that Trump was going to pull
• 57:22
  some election rigging BS, including you,
• 57:24
  Paul. But me, I was never worried. Uh,
• 57:25
  buddy, the elections are tomorrow. We
• 57:28
  don't know for sure. They will probably
• 57:30
  pull some BS
• 57:32
  again.
• 57:34
  Tomorrow afternoon is is when we're
• 57:36
  going to know. Okay,
• 57:39
  so that's that. I just want to point
• 57:41
  that thing out.
• 57:53
  Let's see. I want to take a look at this
• 57:54
  here.
• 57:59
  Let's see. I want to look at the South
• 58:01
  African Human Development Index over
• 58:02
  time.
• 58:05
  Uh, okay. Here's the South African Human
• 58:07
  Development Index over time. 63. It's
• 58:10
  now 71 actually. How about HDI ranking?
• 58:14
  It's actually
• 58:16
  Oh, also been on a steady upswing, huh?
• 58:20
  See, there you go. No, no, I'm sorry.
• 58:22
  I'm sorry. It's It's
• 58:25
  uh
• 58:28
  No, no, I have it wrong. It's actually
• 58:31
  been declining steadily over time. Uh it
• 58:34
  actually looks like in 1990 pre-apartid
• 58:36
  the human development index it peaked in
• 58:38
  94
• 58:41
  was the 69th most developed country
• 58:44
  and
• 58:46
  it bottomed out in 2005 at the 122nd
• 58:50
  most developed country but it's
• 58:52
  consistently sitting around near the
• 58:54
  bottom since then. Uh again currently as
• 58:57
  of 2022 it's about 110. Wonder if I can
• 59:03
  Let's see. List of countries by human
• 59:05
  development index. Okay.
• 59:09
  So here we'll do it by rank
• 59:12
  and let's try to find it.
• 59:16
  Okay. Here human development index South
• 59:18
  Africa between Tunisia and Usbekiststan.
• 59:23
  But you know it could be a lot worse.
• 59:24
  well ahead of most other
• 59:27
  subsaharan African countries
• 59:30
  which is wild
• 59:33
  but again I mean you can be like oh it
• 59:35
  used to be much higher in fact in the
• 59:38
  last 10 years it's fallen by only one
• 59:40
  place actually so it's not great to fall
• 59:43
  on the human development index um but
• 59:47
  again the annual growth rate
• 59:51
  uh has been rising by just 0.5% so a low
• 59:54
  growth. Again, I'm not going to sit
• 59:57
  there and be like South Africa's like
• 59:59
  destroyed, but basically HDI, life
• 1:00:01
  expectancy at birth, expected years of
• 1:00:03
  schooling, mean years of schooling, and
• 1:00:05
  uh GNI per capita
• 1:00:09
  uh PPP, right? Again, the highest in the
• 1:00:12
  world, Iceland, which has been rising.
• 1:00:15
  Norway has also dropped one place in the
• 1:00:17
  last 10 years. Germany's fallen a
• 1:00:18
  little. Australia's up a little, Hong
• 1:00:20
  Kong's down one. Right? You don't see
• 1:00:22
  that many big collapses. Ireland having
• 1:00:24
  a huge come come up over the last 10
• 1:00:26
  years. The UAE rocketing over the last
• 1:00:28
  10. Uh Canada kind of falling, United
• 1:00:31
  States unchanged,
• 1:00:34
  South Korea rising. Hey, so you know,
• 1:00:36
  again, uh here I am talking all this
• 1:00:38
  [ __ ] on South Africa, and I'm sure it
• 1:00:40
  has its problems, but
• 1:00:45
  uh
• 1:00:48
  but maybe it's just like we're learning
• 1:00:49
  more uh about like like things that used
• 1:00:53
  to be pushed to the side. Um
• 1:00:59
  interesting. Okay, this says that
• 1:01:00
  actually late apartheid 93 to95 the
• 1:01:03
  murder rate surged in the late 80s and
• 1:01:05
  early 90s uh reaching a historic high of
• 1:01:08
  60 per 100,000 in 95. Post a partid
• 1:01:11
  there was decline and there's been a
• 1:01:12
  rebound in recent years but it's 44 to
• 1:01:17
  45 per 100,000. So still uh just a
• 1:01:21
  fraction of what it was during late
• 1:01:23
  apartheid. Still about only about 75% of
• 1:01:26
  you know it's still j down about 25%
• 1:01:27
  from apartheid. Um but that's been only
• 1:01:31
  in 2023. So interesting.
• 1:01:34
  Again uh
• 1:01:38
  yeah to me this is a pretty significant
• 1:01:40
  story. This is people are like really
• 1:01:43
  freaking out about like a I mean I would
• 1:01:46
  worry right if I was a South African and
• 1:01:48
  I was like yo 15 years ago 2011 it
• 1:01:50
  wasn't like this but you can't sit there
• 1:01:52
  and be like okay if you're Elon you
• 1:01:55
  can't be like yo apart tid was was was
• 1:01:57
  was a blast right and now South Africa
• 1:02:02
  sucks you're like no dude you just lived
• 1:02:04
  in a super gated community and like the
• 1:02:06
  places where the murders happened were
• 1:02:07
  just the the pe like the places where
• 1:02:10
  the murders
• 1:02:11
  They weren't allowed to be near Elon. So
• 1:02:15
  again,
• 1:02:17
  this is like
• 1:02:20
  this is like pretty clear.
• 1:02:24
  So
• 1:02:27
  again, I'm I'm there you go. I'm wrong
• 1:02:30
  too, even to be like, "Oh, Elon said
• 1:02:31
  this and that about South Africa,
• 1:02:33
  right?" But the problem is that Elon
• 1:02:35
  would likely say things like, "Well,
• 1:02:37
  well, those are just made up. Those are
• 1:02:38
  liberal lies." Whatever.
• 1:02:51
  Okay. I love gentle goam judo being like
• 1:02:53
  South Africa is a great place if the
• 1:02:54
  evil people will leave. I want to point
• 1:02:56
  out let's just let's just let's just
• 1:02:58
  look here.
• 1:03:04
  Uh okay. Elon left South Africa in 1989,
• 1:03:10
  right?
• 1:03:15
  And
• 1:03:17
  let's see,
• 1:03:25
  also want to point out that David Sox
• 1:03:27
  also was a a South African immigr
• 1:03:30
  fleeing fleeing the end of apartheid. um
• 1:03:35
  as was Peter Teal. So it's, you know,
• 1:03:38
  that's just a that's just a fact for you
• 1:03:40
  guys to just stick in your brains. Now,
• 1:03:42
  I just want to point out that again, we
• 1:03:43
  don't have 1989,
• 1:03:45
  uh but I want to point out that again,
• 1:03:47
  six years after Elon left, you started
• 1:03:50
  to see like magic, the homicide rate
• 1:03:54
  plummet. So, I'm just going to say uh
• 1:04:05
  uh David Saxs left in 77 when he was
• 1:04:08
  five. Uh and let's see, what year did
• 1:04:13
  Peter Teal leave South Africa? In 77.
• 1:04:17
  Oh, weird.
• 1:04:20
  I also want to point out that like
• 1:04:27
  uh
• 1:04:31
  the South African border war with
• 1:04:34
  Namibia took place in 75. So really I
• 1:04:37
  think those guys left because of the
• 1:04:39
  [ __ ] war
• 1:04:41
  like Suapo MLA Q I mean look at this by
• 1:04:44
  the way if you want and I have sympathy.
• 1:04:46
  This is this this the South African
• 1:04:49
  border war slash the Angolan civil war
• 1:04:52
  was crazy because you had South Africa,
• 1:04:54
  Portugal, Yidita, FNLA um you had the
• 1:04:58
  Swapo, the MPLA, Cuba, Swano, ANC,
• 1:05:01
  Zamibia military advisers. All right,
• 1:05:04
  that's uh code again. And if you roll in
• 1:05:08
  the
• 1:05:10
  uh the Angolan Bush war, you get like US
• 1:05:14
  intervention, you get um Soviet
• 1:05:17
  intervention, you obviously have South
• 1:05:19
  African I mean this was a this was by
• 1:05:21
  most accounts six major world powers
• 1:05:23
  were involved in the Angolan civil war
• 1:05:25
  and South African border war. All right.
• 1:05:29
  Again, you can see executive outcomes.
• 1:05:31
  The mercenary group was in there. um the
• 1:05:34
  former country of Zahire. I mean, this
• 1:05:36
  is just this was just a shitow.
• 1:05:39
  No, no, no shade for fleeing it. No
• 1:05:41
  shade to families that were like, "Yo,
• 1:05:43
  I'm worried about this war."
• 1:05:53
  Yeah. Every time I hear Mark Andre
• 1:05:55
  speak, who's another one of these guys,
• 1:05:57
  though he's I don't think he's South
• 1:05:58
  African. Um I I almost have a a a stroke
• 1:06:03
  because he says the dumbest things. Uh
• 1:06:08
  truly
• 1:06:16
  um
• 1:06:27
  again [ __ ] Mark Andre dude I saw an
• 1:06:30
  interview where he was like he was
• 1:06:32
  saying that like in the west uh
• 1:06:35
  companies uh the west hasn't grown own
• 1:06:37
  in 30 years because there's too many
• 1:06:39
  managers and not enough founders with
• 1:06:40
  absolute power over their companies. And
• 1:06:43
  he uses for example uh
• 1:06:48
  Henry Ford as an example um of uh a
• 1:06:54
  founder who led his company better than
• 1:06:56
  professional managers. But it's worth
• 1:06:58
  noting uh that he retired from Ford
• 1:07:00
  Motor Company in September of 45. Uh but
• 1:07:06
  like
• 1:07:11
  if you trace Ford Motor Company's market
• 1:07:14
  capitalization uh going uh back through
• 1:07:18
  the 1950s
• 1:07:21
  uh you can see that you know I'm going
• 1:07:22
  to go ahead and say that Ford Motor Corp
• 1:07:26
  um
• 1:07:28
  see here's the 54 years of stock price
• 1:07:30
  history of Ford Motor Corp. Let's see if
• 1:07:32
  we can take it all the way back. We
• 1:07:34
  can't get that far back. I'm trying to
• 1:07:36
  get it cuz yeah, like after the great
• 1:07:38
  financial crash, Ford like fell and
• 1:07:40
  never recovered. I I hear that. But um
• 1:07:46
  Ford Motor Corporation is like a
• 1:07:50
  is like a behemoth, man. I I don't know
• 1:07:52
  what to tell you. Um,
• 1:07:55
  it it grew by orders of magnitude after
• 1:07:59
  its founder uh died because Henry Ford
• 1:08:01
  was a neo-Nazi or he wasn't a neo-Nazi.
• 1:08:03
  Neo-Nazi implies recent. He was just a
• 1:08:05
  straightup Nazi. Um,
• 1:08:09
  so so
• 1:08:14
  again, it can't actually it won't
• 1:08:16
  actually show me Ford's stock price. I
• 1:08:19
  wonder if it doesn't have data from the
• 1:08:20
  1950s.
• 1:08:25
  Uh
• 1:08:27
  here here's a here's a good example,
• 1:08:29
  right? Uh here's Dupant,
• 1:08:34
  right? Chemical company. Uh I'd say that
• 1:08:39
  after its founder died, I think in the
• 1:08:40
  20s or 30s, um I'd say that DuPont
• 1:08:43
  Chemical probably is a you know, pretty
• 1:08:46
  strong bet. I'd say it's I'd say it's
• 1:08:48
  grown just fine under professional
• 1:08:49
  managers,
• 1:08:51
  right?
• 1:08:55
  So, I don't know.
• 1:09:00
  That's just one of those things where
• 1:09:01
  Mark Andre is somebody who just like I I
• 1:09:04
  hear his interviews. I think I think
• 1:09:05
  he's got there's no way he's that
• 1:09:07
  stupid. I think he actually gives
• 1:09:08
  interviews just to rage bait like us us
• 1:09:10
  plebs.
• 1:09:15
  That's right. Elon didn't found Tesla.
• 1:09:20
  That's right. And when Walt Disney died,
• 1:09:22
  uh, I'm going to go ahead and say that
• 1:09:23
  Disney Corp did pretty good under some
• 1:09:25
  professional managers, right? Like if
• 1:09:27
  you're an investor,
• 1:09:32
  let's see if we can find the max for
• 1:09:34
  Disney stock. Uh, here we go. Walt
• 1:09:36
  Disney long dead, but in ' 86 it was
• 1:09:39
  trading at $3 a share. Uh, today Disney
• 1:09:44
  trading at 113.
• 1:09:46
  I'm gonna say a 30,000% gain in the last
• 1:09:49
  just 30 years. I'd say professional
• 1:09:51
  managers have a pretty good uh pretty
• 1:09:54
  good look right now over the last 30
• 1:09:57
  years.
• 1:10:03
  Again, that that's classic Mark Andre
• 1:10:06
  [ __ ]
• 1:10:07
  You guys want to talk about some dead
• 1:10:09
  Russians?
• 1:10:28
  Andrea is all about disruptive
• 1:10:29
  businesses. Well, which which of his
• 1:10:31
  crypto businesses has disrupted an
• 1:10:33
  industry?
• 1:10:35
  Which which crypto business are you like
• 1:10:37
  Mark Andre? Mark Andre's investment in
• 1:10:40
  this crypto company has completely
• 1:10:42
  changed the way the average American
• 1:10:44
  does X because I have yet to see it. The
• 1:10:47
  only crypto companies that make money
• 1:10:49
  are ones that
• 1:10:52
  sell crypto to unsophisticated investors
• 1:10:56
  who sell cryptocurrencies as investments
• 1:10:58
  when they are not.
• 1:11:00
  Nothing else.
• 1:11:21
  Yeah, but PayPal. Okay, PayPal, Uber,
• 1:11:25
  not A16Z companies, right on ice. Obama
• 1:11:30
  bringing up Ukrainian struggles while
• 1:11:31
  getting stabbed in the back by the
• 1:11:32
  current US. Also, hearing a coherent
• 1:11:35
  speech and giving nod to allies was
• 1:11:36
  refreshing with US threats against my
• 1:11:38
  neighbors, Greenland, and our US
• 1:11:40
  ambassador joking about annexing us.
• 1:11:42
  Yeah. Yeah. America's allies.
• 1:11:46
  Yeah. Watching. I mean, it's hard to
• 1:11:49
  overstate what incredible support we
• 1:11:50
  have from our allies. And I'm going to
• 1:11:53
  I'm going to share a theory with you
• 1:11:55
  guys, right? The Europeans,
• 1:11:58
  I I never discount the European ability
• 1:12:01
  to be
• 1:12:02
  inactive in the face of threats. But
• 1:12:05
  here's what I want to point out is that
• 1:12:07
  uh Trump did a bunch of [ __ ] to the
• 1:12:09
  Europeans. He he he threatened them. He
• 1:12:13
  bullied them. He was an [ __ ] to them.
• 1:12:16
  And you know who buys US treasuries?
• 1:12:20
  Who are the largest buyers of US
• 1:12:22
  treasuries? Europeans, aren't they? They
• 1:12:25
  buy a lot of US treasuries. And as you
• 1:12:27
  can see over the last two years, you can
• 1:12:30
  see here's here's 2021.
• 1:12:33
  You can see that over over especially
• 1:12:35
  once Trump really started threatening
• 1:12:38
  people with the tariffs. You can see
• 1:12:39
  let's find when Trump took office.
• 1:12:40
  Here's Trump taking office. Oh,
• 1:12:42
  treasuries are trading about 3.86. Not
• 1:12:45
  great, but not terrible. And you can see
• 1:12:47
  that somebody somebody stopped buying
• 1:12:50
  treasuries right right around here and
• 1:12:55
  ran those [ __ ] things up to 5.2%.
• 1:12:58
  Guys, that's [ __ ] the the country
• 1:13:00
  pretty hard. I I I can't emphasize this
• 1:13:03
  enough. Not buying US treasury US
• 1:13:06
  treasuries is is is [ __ ] the country.
• 1:13:19
  Yeah. Let's see. Largest buyers of US
• 1:13:21
  treasuries,
• 1:13:23
  Japan, the UK. Here we go. Here's a nice
• 1:13:25
  little helpful chart. Oo, it's Japan who
• 1:13:29
  we tariffed pointlessly and then
• 1:13:31
  actually um sold out Taiwan. That that
• 1:13:34
  can't have been great for them. China,
• 1:13:36
  who obviously we're in a trade war with.
• 1:13:38
  Oh, the UK. Interesting. Luxembourg,
• 1:13:40
  which is almost certainly a proxy for
• 1:13:42
  European-based uh private entities.
• 1:13:44
  Canada, oh, we have a great relationship
• 1:13:46
  with Canada. Ireland, another country we
• 1:13:48
  have a great relationship. Oh, Belgium,
• 1:13:50
  and of course, the Cayman Islands,
• 1:13:51
  right? Again, more proxies.
• 1:13:54
  Interesting. Again, depending on the
• 1:13:56
  year, you see here, Japan, UK, mainland
• 1:13:59
  China, Cayman Islands based entities,
• 1:14:01
  right? Private pension funds and the
• 1:14:02
  like. Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada,
• 1:14:05
  France, Ireland, Switzerland, Taiwan.
• 1:14:08
  Wow. Everybody that buys US debt has a
• 1:14:11
  reason to be pretty pissed at America.
• 1:14:14
  John, thanks. The deep dive has been
• 1:14:16
  great. Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
• 1:14:20
  Ah, Japan. I'm fascinated. I love a good
• 1:14:23
  Trump troll because their largest buyer
• 1:14:26
  and their currency is tied to our
• 1:14:29
  dollar. Didn't we have to intervene to
• 1:14:33
  prop up the Japanese yen? Why? Why? How
• 1:14:35
  would they have propped up the yen if
• 1:14:36
  the US didn't intervene? What could they
• 1:14:39
  have used? What what thing is in the
• 1:14:41
  Japanese central bank that they could
• 1:14:43
  have sold on the open market to
• 1:14:45
  strengthen the yen? Something something
• 1:14:48
  liquid, something with a large quantity,
• 1:14:50
  something that the Japanese government
• 1:14:52
  has a lot of that they might want to get
• 1:14:54
  rid of.
• 1:14:55
  US treasuries. They could have sold US
• 1:14:59
  treasuries for yen and use that to
• 1:15:02
  strengthen the yen, couldn't they?
• 1:15:05
  That would have been bad, though. That
• 1:15:07
  would have been tragic, wouldn't it
• 1:15:08
  have?
• 1:15:11
  Uh, how unfortunate.
• 1:15:14
  Luckily, the US taxpayer bailed them
• 1:15:17
  out.
• 1:15:19
  Imagine, again, imagine if if the United
• 1:15:22
  States government
• 1:15:24
  if if when those rates were rising so
• 1:15:26
  much, the Japanese were also selling
• 1:15:28
  treasuries like it was going out of
• 1:15:29
  style. That would have been a a disaster
• 1:15:31
  for the Americans for the American
• 1:15:33
  budget. It already is. We're already in
• 1:15:35
  a lot of trouble.
• 1:15:37
  But it's going to get so much worse.
• 1:15:42
  Miles remembers they threatened to sell
• 1:15:44
  a US bond, so Trump backed off.
• 1:15:45
  Interesting.
• 1:16:06
  All right, let's see.
• 1:16:18
  Japan is forced to sell dollars to pump
• 1:16:20
  their own currency.
• 1:16:23
  Mr. Naughty, your videos are awesome. I
• 1:16:24
  just want to say Slava, Ukraani, Herom,
• 1:16:26
  Slava, and Trump is trash. Yeah, amen to
• 1:16:29
  that, dude. Amen to that. Hope you guys
• 1:16:32
  donated to the fundraiser. I think it's
• 1:16:34
  still ostensibly open, but um I think
• 1:16:36
  Preston Stewart is doing one now um with
• 1:16:39
  the folks at UO. Uh I should uh let's
• 1:16:44
  see. Let's see if I can find UO on
• 1:16:46
  Twitter.
• 1:16:48
  Uh oh, it's funny.
• 1:16:52
  Oh, here's their blog. Let's see.
• 1:16:56
  With with the government of Canada,
• 1:16:57
  which I think is awesome.
• 1:17:00
  Okay. UAO partnering with the Liberal
• 1:17:03
  government of Canada, which is sick.
• 1:17:15
  Uh, and here's Defenders of Donbas.
• 1:17:18
  Yeah, I think this is it. Yeah, this is
• 1:17:19
  Preston Stewart. Defenders of Donbas.
• 1:17:27
  Keep it the 93rd. Yeah, these guys.
• 1:17:29
  Yeah. Sweet.
• 1:17:47
  Yeah. So,
• 1:17:51
  okay. So, anyway, yeah, I hope you guys
• 1:17:54
  can donate to them.
• 1:18:08
  No, I I really like Preston Stewart. I
• 1:18:10
  both like him as an analyst. I think his
• 1:18:12
  analysis is really good. I also like him
• 1:18:14
  as a person. Um, and if you might
• 1:18:16
  recall, last time I was in Ukraine, we
• 1:18:18
  actually did with UAO, I did some
• 1:18:21
  deliveries. Uh, OG, you know, true true
• 1:18:25
  OG's know. Um, we actually delivered
• 1:18:28
  some cars from Preston Stewart's
• 1:18:30
  fundraiser uh uh when I was with UAO.
• 1:18:34
  So, like I did the like thank you video
• 1:18:36
  which I thought was really funny.
• 1:18:54
  A dentist system. I love I love when
• 1:18:56
  people are like inflation's down and
• 1:18:58
  you're like well the the rate of
• 1:19:00
  inflation is down but like if you want
• 1:19:02
  prices to decrease they're not going to
• 1:19:06
  and if prices are decreasing across the
• 1:19:08
  board as I'm sure you know if you truly
• 1:19:11
  have an economics degree like if prices
• 1:19:13
  decrease across the board it's a
• 1:19:14
  national [ __ ] crisis because like no
• 1:19:18
  one would ever invest their money in
• 1:19:20
  anything if a dollar buys one apple
• 1:19:24
  today and will buy two apples tomorrow,
• 1:19:28
  then you will never buy apples. And like
• 1:19:30
  that's annoying. But when you're saying,
• 1:19:32
  "Hey, listen. Why would I buy a car
• 1:19:35
  today if I can buy a nicer car next
• 1:19:40
  year?" And what you end up with if
• 1:19:41
  prices were to go down like that is that
• 1:19:43
  nobody would ever buy a car. They would
• 1:19:45
  always be waiting one more year to buy a
• 1:19:46
  car, right? And you would have a
• 1:19:49
  collapse. And that's one of the reasons
• 1:19:50
  why um even stable prices can be a real
• 1:19:55
  disaster, right? Okay, let's talk about
• 1:19:58
  some dead Russians.
• 1:20:02
  It feels like every month you look
• 1:20:04
  around and go, man, the Russians, it
• 1:20:06
  can't possibly get any worse for them,
• 1:20:08
  right? Well, apparently on at least on
• 1:20:10
  the battlefield, it can still get worse.
• 1:20:13
  And it seems like even Putin might be
• 1:20:16
  just plain old running out of ideas. So
• 1:20:18
  take a look. According to the latest
• 1:20:20
  stats, right, we're starting to see the
• 1:20:22
  the aggregate of some of October's
• 1:20:24
  statistics for the Russian military. And
• 1:20:27
  at least according to Ukrainian
• 1:20:28
  estimates, Russia has lost 2500 soldiers
• 1:20:31
  in a single day. This is an all-time
• 1:20:33
  record for the war. Uh absolutely
• 1:20:35
  unbelievable, right? These are generally
• 1:20:37
  considered unreoverable combat losses.
• 1:20:39
  So killed or severely wounded, unable to
• 1:20:41
  be returned to the battlefield. Now,
• 1:20:45
  uh, this is a crazy crazy number to have
• 1:20:50
  and as I point out, daily totals, you
• 1:20:52
  got to take them with a little bit of a
• 1:20:53
  grain of salt because usually the
• 1:20:54
  Ukrainians, if there's an ongoing
• 1:20:56
  operation, they'll wait a little bit to
• 1:20:58
  really push it out. But I think in the
• 1:21:00
  aggregate, you're seeing some absolutely
• 1:21:02
  insane numbers. And it really should
• 1:21:05
  change the way you view Vladimir Putin's
• 1:21:07
  calculus right now. So before we talk
• 1:21:09
  about exactly what these numbers mean
• 1:21:12
  and put them in some context and what
• 1:21:13
  Putin and the Russian government is
• 1:21:16
  forced to do about it, uh I want to
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  description. Okay, so here's what I want
• 1:21:50
  to point out. These, now you may be
• 1:21:52
  like, "Hey, man, these are Ukrainian
• 1:21:53
  government stats." But every time there
• 1:21:55
  has been a leak from a Western
• 1:21:57
  intelligence service, they've actually
• 1:21:59
  found that the Ukrainians are pretty
• 1:22:01
  accurate reporters of casualties, dead
• 1:22:03
  plus wounded. So, we can actually use
• 1:22:06
  these because we know they're pretty
• 1:22:07
  good numbers. And I want to show you
• 1:22:10
  guys, okay, at the start of the war, you
• 1:22:13
  can see that the Russians were losing
• 1:22:14
  what at the time was considered a
• 1:22:16
  staggering amount of casualties up to a
• 1:22:18
  up to nearly 500 a day. And people said,
• 1:22:21
  "Whoa, that's incredible." Then you saw
• 1:22:23
  the war grow more lethal. And you
• 1:22:25
  started to see 750 a day. Right? By
• 1:22:27
  2023, you were the Russians were losing
• 1:22:29
  over a,000 troops a day on many busy
• 1:22:32
  days. You can see even a peak in 2020
• 1:22:35
  early 2024 where you saw uh nearly uh I
• 1:22:39
  think this is about 1,500 14 or 1500
• 1:22:42
  today but you can see as you look at
• 1:22:44
  this chart that the loss rate of the
• 1:22:47
  Russian military has begun to increase
• 1:22:50
  exponentially right we're seeing um
• 1:22:52
  we're seeing you know 13400 are local
• 1:22:55
  lows uh and you can see now that again
• 1:22:58
  in the last if you look at by months you
• 1:23:00
  can see that the Monthly casualty totals
• 1:23:03
  are staggering. In October, the report
• 1:23:06
  is 54,000
• 1:23:08
  Russian casualties, the single deadliest
• 1:23:10
  day in the the deadliest month, excuse
• 1:23:14
  me, for Russian troops in the entire
• 1:23:16
  war. This is an incredible lawsuit. This
• 1:23:19
  represents nearly the Russians losing
• 1:23:21
  two troops for every individual they can
• 1:23:23
  recruit. And one of the things that we
• 1:23:27
  have talked about on this channel, as
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  I'm sure you guys know, is that this
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  chart here from about February of this
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  year onward is exactly what we would
• 1:23:36
  expect if the Russian military was
• 1:23:38
  unable to prevent losses. Why? Because
• 1:23:42
  the Russian military's ability to
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  protect itself requires a certain number
• 1:23:47
  of troops.
• 1:23:49
  What do I mean by that? Well, for every
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  if you want to properly supply a Russian
• 1:23:54
  soldier in a position in the forward
• 1:23:56
  edge of the battle area, the forwardmost
• 1:23:57
  Russian soldier, he needs what? He needs
• 1:24:00
  a drone team behind him running supplies
• 1:24:04
  into that location as well as flying FPV
• 1:24:06
  drones, strike drones, reconnaissance
• 1:24:08
  drones, doing everything to keep them
• 1:24:10
  safe. They also need behind them
• 1:24:13
  logistics crews bringing forward drones,
• 1:24:15
  batteries, munitions. Uh also the food,
• 1:24:19
  water, logistics, radio batteries, and
• 1:24:20
  more that are going to go forward into
• 1:24:22
  those positions. Right? That individual
• 1:24:24
  drone, that individual position at the
• 1:24:26
  forward edge of the battle also needs
• 1:24:28
  other Russian troops on his left and
• 1:24:29
  right to ensure that their position
• 1:24:30
  isn't surrounded. What happens when you
• 1:24:33
  start to take casualties you can't
• 1:24:35
  replace? Well, suddenly that drone team,
• 1:24:38
  you know, maybe that Russian drone team
• 1:24:39
  behind you, maybe they're running with
• 1:24:42
  only a crew of two instead of their
• 1:24:43
  usual three, and the drones only fly 12
• 1:24:46
  hours a day instead of the full 24.
• 1:24:49
  Maybe that drone team is still in place,
• 1:24:51
  but it's the truck drivers. There's only
• 1:24:53
  truck drivers working three, you know,
• 1:24:56
  working 12 hours a day, not and the
• 1:24:58
  other 12, they're simply not driving or
• 1:25:00
  the mechanics who are supposed to fix
• 1:25:02
  the trucks. the trucks break down and
• 1:25:03
  they send longer lingering on the side
• 1:25:04
  of the road and suddenly the supplies
• 1:25:06
  start to dry up. Now you get hungrier,
• 1:25:08
  you get more tired, you don't have
• 1:25:10
  ammunition, maybe the troops to your
• 1:25:12
  left and right. And what you would see
• 1:25:13
  is exactly what we're seeing here that
• 1:25:15
  the Ukrainians would find it easier to
• 1:25:18
  those Russians are less able to protect
• 1:25:21
  themselves and you would start to see
• 1:25:23
  again exactly what we're expecting to
• 1:25:25
  here, an exponential increase. Now you
• 1:25:27
  won't see this forever. At some point,
• 1:25:29
  you'll get to a point where either the
• 1:25:30
  Russians are forced to make difficult
• 1:25:32
  choices and start to withdraw from
• 1:25:34
  positions they can't sustain, or there
• 1:25:37
  simply won't be as many Russians uh that
• 1:25:39
  can be located. There physically aren't
• 1:25:41
  as many Russians on the battlefield,
• 1:25:43
  right? You would start to see it
• 1:25:44
  actually level off as literally there
• 1:25:46
  just aren't enough Russians to to to
• 1:25:48
  kill.
• 1:25:50
  You probably won't see that now. You
• 1:25:52
  might see this in the coming I would
• 1:25:54
  estimate and say there's probably at
• 1:25:56
  least a few more months like this. There
• 1:25:57
  might even be a 60,000 casualty month.
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  But
• 1:26:02
  this
• 1:26:04
  is a sign of how desperate Putin is
• 1:26:06
  becoming, right? And this is again from
• 1:26:09
  just a few days ago where Russia has
• 1:26:12
  been found to have been recruiting uh
• 1:26:16
  you know young military-aged males in
• 1:26:20
  countries like Bundi and Zimbabwe where
• 1:26:22
  Russian rubles can be very appealing
• 1:26:25
  salaries for you know the average
• 1:26:27
  Bundian or Zimbabwean. And
• 1:26:30
  but the problem is that these numbers
• 1:26:33
  simply aren't doing the work. Now
• 1:26:36
  there's rumors, for example, that
• 1:26:37
  they've gotten about 700 Bundians who
• 1:26:39
  have signed contract with the Russians
• 1:26:41
  military, about 530 Zimbabweans. But
• 1:26:43
  bear in mind, guys, the Russian daily
• 1:26:45
  recruitment rate is around a thousand
• 1:26:47
  Russians a day. So this these two
• 1:26:49
  countries represent about one day of the
• 1:26:53
  month, uh maybe a little more, one day
• 1:26:55
  of the month's worth of recruitment.
• 1:26:57
  That's just not cutting it, right? Uh
• 1:26:59
  Ukrainian research overall has
• 1:27:01
  identified about 5,000 Africans have
• 1:27:03
  joined the army uh with forces coming
• 1:27:05
  from Cameroon, DR, Congo, Sierra Leone,
• 1:27:07
  and Sudan. Uh Russian authorities have
• 1:27:10
  trafficked men from about 29 different
• 1:27:11
  countries through their army throughout
• 1:27:13
  the course of the war. But these are
• 1:27:14
  tiny numbers. Again, this represents
• 1:27:16
  approximately one day of the month.
• 1:27:19
  Sorry, this represents about onetenth of
• 1:27:21
  just this month's casualties. That's all
• 1:27:22
  Africans have been recruit recruited
• 1:27:24
  forever. And
• 1:27:27
  this is, I think, a function of the fact
• 1:27:29
  that we're seeing again within Putin's
• 1:27:31
  Russia, a way more
• 1:27:34
  aggressive, a way more uh coercive
• 1:27:37
  mechanism. In fact, a lot of people just
• 1:27:39
  are describing it as a backdoor or
• 1:27:41
  clandestine mobilization and taking
• 1:27:44
  place in Russia where you're seeing
• 1:27:46
  again police threaten people to say,
• 1:27:47
  "Listen, you're going to join the army
• 1:27:49
  or we're going to give you fake drug
• 1:27:51
  charges and put you in jail forever."
• 1:27:53
  And
• 1:27:55
  that is uh sort of terrifying uh but
• 1:27:59
  also reflects just how desperate the
• 1:28:00
  Russian state is becoming to sustain
• 1:28:02
  this war. Now it's obviously not
• 1:28:04
  happening among well-connected wealthy
• 1:28:06
  Russians in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
• 1:28:08
  It's happening in kind of the uh lower
• 1:28:11
  economic tiers of Russian society. And
• 1:28:13
  that's not an accident. Those people are
• 1:28:15
  less likely to be able to meaningfully
• 1:28:17
  protest their detention. But it's it is
• 1:28:22
  a sign of the level of desperation. But
• 1:28:24
  it's but what the takeaway is also that
• 1:28:27
  this simply isn't helping. That this
• 1:28:29
  isn't actually aiding the Russians. This
• 1:28:33
  isn't stopping because
• 1:28:36
  the other thing that's being lost here
• 1:28:38
  is Russian resources, but also Russian
• 1:28:40
  training. These troops are worse. Right?
• 1:28:43
  Remember the average Cameroonian doesn't
• 1:28:45
  speak Russian. And while the Ukrainian
• 1:28:48
  armed forces has a huge and highly
• 1:28:50
  protocolized system for integrating
• 1:28:52
  foreign volunteers and the Ukrainian
• 1:28:54
  armed forces because they don't sustain
• 1:28:55
  casualties in the same rate have
• 1:28:58
  actually significant infrastructure to
• 1:29:00
  accommodate English and Spanish speakers
• 1:29:03
  especially.
• 1:29:05
  And so the Russians probably don't have
• 1:29:06
  that to nearly the same degree. And I
• 1:29:10
  suspect that is a huge problem in
• 1:29:12
  contributing to some of these
• 1:29:14
  casualties.
• 1:29:15
  But again, part of Putin's strategy, I
• 1:29:18
  think, is actually going to be escalate
• 1:29:20
  to deescalate to he needs to make the
• 1:29:23
  problem bigger. He needs to be able to
• 1:29:25
  tap into the full manpower of a fully
• 1:29:28
  wartime Russian economy. The only way he
• 1:29:31
  can do that, he can't do it in response
• 1:29:32
  to Ukraine because he's been telling the
• 1:29:34
  Russian people for four years that
• 1:29:36
  Ukraine is is totally won, that he's
• 1:29:38
  just it's been a mopping up operation
• 1:29:40
  for four years. It's not even a declared
• 1:29:42
  war. What Putin would need to to warrant
• 1:29:45
  a mobilization, a full mobilization of
• 1:29:47
  the Russian state would be a true
• 1:29:49
  declared war against an existential
• 1:29:51
  enemy. That enemy has to be NATO. It's
• 1:29:55
  the only enemy that Russia has. And the
• 1:29:59
  that's I think I believe one of the
• 1:30:01
  reasons why you're seeing the escalation
• 1:30:02
  of Russian hybrid attacks. At some
• 1:30:04
  point, Russia is going to do something
• 1:30:06
  that European politicians cannot simply
• 1:30:08
  push back against with strong words or
• 1:30:10
  angry statements. They're going to have
• 1:30:12
  to at some point politically respond.
• 1:30:14
  They're going to look too weak. Again,
• 1:30:16
  imagine an incident like the one at
• 1:30:18
  Leipzig airport. But instead of a cargo
• 1:30:21
  plane being hit by an ineffective drone,
• 1:30:23
  a drone successfully destroys a
• 1:30:25
  passenger aircraft, killing hundreds.
• 1:30:28
  The German government, the Polish
• 1:30:29
  government, the French government, they
• 1:30:30
  won't be able to pretend like this
• 1:30:32
  didn't happen. And they'll have to
• 1:30:35
  respond. And once they do, Putin will
• 1:30:36
  have his pretext to say, "Ah, NATO is
• 1:30:40
  now aggressively moving against Russia.
• 1:30:42
  Now I can justify a large-scale
• 1:30:44
  mobilization, putting enough troops on
• 1:30:46
  the battlefield to win the war." Will
• 1:30:48
  escalation work? Maybe, because again,
• 1:30:50
  the key lynchpin of NATO, which is the
• 1:30:54
  United States, has been pretty clear
• 1:30:56
  that they don't view themselves as
• 1:30:59
  having loyalty to NATO. They think NATO
• 1:31:01
  is a waste of time and stupid and
• 1:31:03
  exploitive. And in that context, Russia
• 1:31:06
  may say, "Listen, this is a narrow
• 1:31:07
  window, a few really just about 30 more
• 1:31:10
  months in which Russia says we can
• 1:31:14
  coersse NATO in ways that may not be
• 1:31:16
  possible when a new administration comes
• 1:31:19
  in, one that might be more pro-NATO."
• 1:31:22
  Anyway, guys, hit subscribe if you
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• 1:31:28
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  Okay,
• 1:31:38
  I see some of you guys. Ace Cams, what
• 1:31:39
  do you think will finally be the trigger
• 1:31:41
  where Putin negotiates in a position of
• 1:31:43
  weakness losing Crimea? China tells them
• 1:31:45
  to stop Democrats. Um, it's all China
• 1:31:48
  telling them to stop or China would tell
• 1:31:50
  them, "Hey man, make a deal and they
• 1:31:52
  would do it." Um the Russian war machine
• 1:31:55
  basically short version Putin is going
• 1:31:58
  to keep fighting as long as violence
• 1:31:59
  achieves him more than uh negotiating.
• 1:32:03
  That's the bottom line. So Putin needs
• 1:32:05
  to experience meaningful battlefield
• 1:32:07
  losses by the metrics he cares about
• 1:32:09
  which is of course getting his gains
• 1:32:11
  rolled back on the battlefield. He needs
• 1:32:12
  to go from controlling um 80% of Donbest
• 1:32:15
  to 79 to 78 77 76. He needs to lose that
• 1:32:19
  control cuz territory taken is his
• 1:32:22
  metric for success. I I don't think
• 1:32:23
  that's a a secret. And once he sees
• 1:32:26
  that, then he's going to start cutting
• 1:32:28
  become interested in cutting sincere
• 1:32:30
  deals.
• 1:32:33
  Again, it's classic. You get what you
• 1:32:35
  incentivize. Art Ice reminder of how
• 1:32:37
  much of a humanitarian Putin is not long
• 1:32:38
  ago Russia bomb civilians waiting for
• 1:32:40
  food or relief in Kamu Kavka
• 1:32:43
  Kamu
• 1:32:46
  Kovka killing at least 26. talking about
• 1:32:48
  dead Russians indeed. Yeah. Yeah. And
• 1:32:51
  remember,
• 1:32:52
  a humanitarian crisis um that is 100% of
• 1:32:55
  Russia's making. Mr. Naughty, thanks for
• 1:32:57
  the 10. Your videos are awesome. Oh,
• 1:32:58
  yeah. We saw that. Um yeah, kills me
• 1:33:01
  because it's a humanitarian crisis of
• 1:33:02
  Russia's making and doing. The the
• 1:33:05
  Ukrainians have contributed nothing to
• 1:33:06
  that because they don't control the
• 1:33:07
  village. Um,
• 1:33:10
  so and again it's not like the
• 1:33:12
  Ukrainians I mean they they are morally
• 1:33:15
  superior because they are defending
• 1:33:16
  their country from an an imperialist
• 1:33:18
  aggressor. Um, but also because the
• 1:33:20
  Ukrainians are like listen if we commit
• 1:33:22
  war crimes the Europeans are going to
• 1:33:23
  stop funding us because they legally
• 1:33:24
  cannot. So I'm confident when I say the
• 1:33:27
  Ukrainians don't didn't contribute to
• 1:33:30
  anything that's happened in Alleski.
• 1:33:31
  They also just aren't in the business of
• 1:33:33
  killing their own people. That just
• 1:33:34
  isn't something the Ukrainians have
• 1:33:36
  done. Anyway, guys, uh I really
• 1:33:39
  appreciate you. Uh I got a bunch of
• 1:33:40
  other stuff to do because, you know, uh
• 1:33:44
  life's crazy, but we're going to be
• 1:33:46
  doing an election live stream tomorrow.
• 1:33:48
  Election day, baby. And we're going to
• 1:33:51
  talk about all of it. So, uh
• 1:33:59
  thank you guys. I'm going to see you
• 1:34:00
  guys in the next one. Peace out and
• 1:34:02
  cheers.