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From Venezuela to Greenland: Fortress America in a zero-sum world · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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Hello, this is Todd Royal, host of geopower energy in real politics.
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And today we are going to get into all of this.
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We hear so much right now about Trump with Venezuela.
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The United States is great power that's trampling over people.
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Oh my gosh, the United States led by Donald Trump is going to take over Greenland.
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Let's put some of this into perspective.
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First off, do you realize what the Russians and the Chinese want to do?
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They want to take over the world.
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We went over last week that Venezuela is about the United States being in charge of the Western hemisphere, about the Monroe Doctrine.
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It was also solidified by Teddy Roosevelt over a hundred years ago, and again now by Donald Trump.
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So you have something that's gone close to 200 years of the United States saying the Western hemisphere is under our sphere of influence.
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Not the Chinese, not the Russians, not the Iranians, not the Iranian offshoots of Hezbollah, Hamas, not drug cartels that I think will eventually be dealt with in Mexico, Colombia.
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You're not going to send your drugs to the United States anymore.
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You're not going to kill Americans.
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You're not going to take oil and natural gas that should be under the purview of America and American companies.
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It's not going to happen anymore.
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Please do not benignly think that the Russians and the Chinese want to be your allies, your friends.
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This is not Europeans.
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These are not Japanese, South Koreans, none of it.
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These aren't Canadians.
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This isn't the even the failing state of Mexico, which somewhat benignly will get along with the United States.
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No.
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These are great powers who want to destroy and kill every single person in the United States.
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If the Chinese communist party could come here right now and obliterate every single illegal alien and American, they would.
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Make no mistake about that.
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Make no mistake that if Russia could take over every part of Ukraine, if they could take over all of Europe, if they could take over that entire part of the world down to Turkey, they would.
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And they would use their nuclear weapons to do it if they thought they could.
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Let me set this up for you a little bit.
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When you think about well, how does this line of thinking come from?
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Well, it really comes from what's called like a zero sum game, game theory, where it really started, it was a philosopher named Thomas Hobbes who described the state of nature as a war of all against all with limited resources.
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Modern authors, uh, you've got Lester Thoreau and the Zero Sum Society, Heather McGee.
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She really kind of debunks the zero sum hypothesis.
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But what she did is he conceptualized the world as inherently competitive, zero sum, where one person's gain must be another's loss, focusing on finite resources and power struggles.
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Uh, this came from Thomas Hobbes and the Leviathan.
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Uh, that he are he argues that life is a constant struggle for survival, for power.
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It is a quintessential zero sum situation where security and resources are limited, and it leads to perpetual conflict.
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You could also go to the Bible in the book of Ecclesiastes says there's a time for everything.
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There's a time for war and a time for peace.
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The issue is this kind of marxism that we are under now with the likes of uh the mayor, you know, Mam Dami, uh, the incompetent boob who's the mayor of Seattle, uh, the fool who got herself killed in Minnesota.
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You have this line of thinking which creates this activist, but it's really laziness mentality.
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These are people with no aspirations.
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These are people who only want to cause trouble for the sake of trouble, and they have zero idea.
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It's like the it's like the Jewish fools in the 30s who thought the Nazis would not cut off their heads.
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Those are fools.
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The Nazis looked at the world in a zero sum territory.
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The Japanese looked at the world as a zero sum territory.
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They enslaved, raped, pillaged, tortured, and burned down large chunks of China and most of most of Asia at that time, or what they termed the Japanese uh, you know, co-prosperity's uh economic sphere of influence.
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Yeah, co-prosperity.
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That's a there's a there's a funny term.
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But that's really what you're looking at.
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That's when you think about all this and why is Donald Trump doing this.
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Machiavelli's the prince.
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Um really completely and explicitly look at life as zero sum, but he focused on acquiring and maintaining power.
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Often it was it was competitive, comparative, it was a zero-sum view of statecraft.
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Where a ruler, their gain and influence comes at the expense of their rivals.
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When you think about this, this zero-sum way of looking at the world.
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When you think about um why are these people doing this?
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Why does the Chinese communist party do what they do?
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Uh why does Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine?
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Many people smarter than me will tell you they're doing it because uh the United States has not held up agreements, neither is NATO.
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We we moved eastward, we did all of these things.
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I would actually tell you that's not the root of the cause.
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If you look at the world today, our world is still dealing with World War II.
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You cannot kill a hundred million people, mainly civilians, and think it's not gonna leave a traumatic effect on society.
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I would argue the problems of the United States stem from World War II.
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You go, well, why have we let in millions of immigrants who hate America?
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Why have we, why do our universities hate America?
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Why can't we have children anymore?
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Why don't people get married?
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Why aren't things affordable anymore?
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Well, there's a reason why.
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In World War II, you brought back three sets of of emotionally damaged, traumatic, dramatically um involved and lived in people groups.
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The Russians lost about 25 million people to the Nazis burning and pillaging their cities.
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Three out of four Nazis that were killed, the troops were at the hands of the Russians.
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The Chinese were taken over.
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Um at what the Japanese did.
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They truly set up, they made comfort women, they made brothels, they enslaved them, they slaughtered them.
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The Japanese, and many can be argued, slaughtered more innocents than the Nazis did.
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Okay, you go, you fight these wars, and you have to slaughter.
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It's really the first time you saw total war.
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Really kind of you could make the argument there had been other wars, the Persians and the Romans had fought that way, but that was also with swords.
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That was in a much more uh swords and spears on horseback.
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Those are limited wars.
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This is the first time you could take a modern society fueled by oil and gas, diesel and propane, and slaughter each other.
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Slaughter one another.
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Go read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to feel the effect of what that has on a human being.
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Um talk to people who've killed human beings before, whether in self-defense or in wartime.
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It it's not how you're supposed to live as a human being.
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But war is a natural state.
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This is a zero-sum game.
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Um the founders of America said uh if men were angels, laws would not be needed.
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When you think about World War II and the effects it had, then you bring back about 20 million American men who've been traumatized.
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I had family members that were traumatized.
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They've either died, known someone that's died, or they're dead on the inside.
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They're probably addicted to lucky strike cigarettes.
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These people come and have tens of millions of babies, the baby boom.
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They don't parent their children.
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They, and now you have the radicals in charge.
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You have un you have a two to three generations of unparented children.
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People medicate themselves with alcohol, with drugs, with pornography, with gambling, with food.
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Walk into an American airport and look at how overweight people and how unhealthy people are.
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We have surging rates of cancer, of heart disease.
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We're not having children, people are not getting married.
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That is the zero sum game of World War II that is still playing out.
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If you don't believe me, go read Russian and Chinese propaganda.
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Go look at the South China Morning Post, go look at Russia today.
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Go read.
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They they will talk about World War II all the time.
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They will have um ceremonies.
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The Chinese president was with the Russian president when they were commemorating a World War II.
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Um victory last year.
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You will see they will talk about Mother Russia.
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You will, you'll have two slaughterers of their own people that are still lionized, Mao and Stalin, because they were traumatized, because they were in a great power sum game.
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The United States has never been in that game, except now it's approaching this.
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Because now the United States is the great edge the United States has always had has been two things.
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A society based on uh religious freedom, which brings order and stability and the growth of families and morality.
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And second, we have always had an incredible economy.
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We are blessed with massive resources, whether timber, whether oceans, whether a river that runs down the truly the middle of the country.
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We have more oil and natural gas than we know what to do with coal.
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We have plenty of rare earth metals and minerals, and it's only not these things are not taken out of the ground because environmentalists were so rich and happy and fat that we we literally can stop our own economic growth, and still we're growing at 4.9%.
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I would argue that's the blessing of God in some way, but it's also just the material blessings of living in this country.
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Um now let's talk about what's going on.
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There's the setup for you.
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And feel free to write in, call, challenge this, but I would say everything that we're we're dealing with today is still the remnants of World War II.
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The Russians, the Chinese, most of Asia.
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These are people really, my God, Europe.
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You go, why is Europe so traumatized and want to go to war with the Russians?
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Because they're still traumatized from World War II when the Russians under Stalin lied, duped the Allies, in particular duped FDR and kept moving from the East to the West, and everything they took from the Nazis when they said, oh, we'll give all these country countries back.
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They kept Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and on and on Ukraine.
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These are people who lived under communist Russian domination, East Germany.
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So while I may disagree with what they're doing in Ukraine right now, you can also empathize when the president of Estonia, who's she couldn't do anything to the fingernail of a Russian troop right now, is still talking about we will defend ourselves, we will come after you.
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Finland is a fortress.
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They make the Swiss of World War II look like children because they were invaded by the Russians.
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They fought a war with Russia, kind of to a standstill, but they kind of had to end up giving into it.
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That is why these people joined NATO because they go, We're so scared of the Russians, and the Russians are still so scared of the Germans.
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All of these people need to go through trauma therapy is what they actually do, collective trauma therapy, but what it creates is great power, great power games, zero sum.
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Um this battle for resources, this battle for land for influence, for you're never going to invade me again and kill me and rape me and torture me and set my homes on fire and behead me and crucify me, which was done during World War II.
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You're not going to enslave my mother, my wife, my grandmother, my daughter to serve Japanese troops.
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That's never going to happen again.
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Which takes us to the United States.
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When you think about the United States right now, um, and you think about all of this happening.
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Ernest Hemingway had a famous response when his finances had fell into bankruptcy.
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And he said, How did this happen?
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So he goes, gradually, then suddenly.
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What I would tell you is that events, energy trends, but really geo power backed by energy.
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That's why we invaded we've we've now taken over Venezuela.
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And let me tell you why I think we'll eventually what we're going to really do in Greenland.
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So when you think about Greenland, uh Andrew Koroboko, who I highly recommend, uh has written an article about Greenland.
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He says, is Greenland the crown jewel of Fortress America?
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Uh he talks about why is it important?
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He says, well, it holds valuable resources, uranium, oil, gas.
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Um, it also in the rare and the mineral resources are really what we would term rare earth metals and minerals.
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It's got zinc, it's got rare earths, nickels, graphite, copper.
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But more importantly, when you look at a map, Greenland is next to Canada, it's next to Iceland, it's right near Norway, and it certainly can look at uh Poland.
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The United States has the Potuffic space base, it's also got other other bases there.
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We want to have a missile defense plan where we would have a strategic edge over Russia.
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We would get critical minerals, which would reduce our dependence on uh the Chinese supply chains.
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And yes, Donald Trump has said he wants Greenland.
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Why does he want Greenland?
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Well, it has, according to the Daily Mail, um and others.
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Greenland's got the second largest reserve of critical minerals.
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That is great power.
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That is the zero-sum game of resources.
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Uh, when you think about a Thomas Hobbes all the way back, one of the great books and philosophers, the Leviathan.
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Have a read of Leviathan.
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Look at uh Augustine's city of God, where he talks about order.
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And frankly, he almost uh talks about men need authoritarian governments.
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I don't think they need authoritarianism, but what they need is they need resources, minerals.
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Um this gives this gives the United States then complete Western hemisphere dominance.
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Some would say they become they want to make a unipolar world in the Western hemisphere.
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I would agree with that.
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Some would say it means that they have hedge hegemonic dominance over their allies.
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I would also agree with that.
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Um when you think about this too, that the United States wants to do the golden dome missile defense for um for Greenland, but what it really does is, and I I want to read this statement from uh from Mr.
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Korbaco, where he says annexing Greenland would help build Fortress America, which is the Trump doctrines plan as enshrined in the national security strategy for restoring U.S.
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hegemony over the hemisphere.
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Uh, this also would certainly help the president.
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He wants to have a 1.5 trillion dollar defense budget so he can more muscularly contain the Chinese in Asia.
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Um that's a 50%, he wants a 50% increase in the defense budget.
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Uh you can also see that if it ever came that they have to be expelled from the Western Hemisphere, that you have Greenland, you have Fortress America, you have Venezuela.
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You've now taken the Trump doctrine, or really the national security doctrine, which we'll get into, and you're you're then saying we have the resources, we have the oil, we have the natural gas.
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I would actually argue, though, what you're really doing is having soft power.
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Um, nowhere has President Trump said what McCron has said, Merz has said, uh Starmer has said, or others in the EU about troops in Ukraine, uh building up their militaries.
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We we we may be invading Russia.
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Never talked about I'm gonna go invade China, never said I'm gonna go invade Russia.
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What you see now with this new Trump doctrine, who knows if it's gonna if it's gonna stick, if let's say Gavin Newsom were president, and we that is with the United States, every four years, we're gonna change leaders.
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Who knows if this would stick?
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Um, my guess would be if Gavin Newsom stayed president, a lot of this would probably stay.
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Um he's likely not to bring in people who really understand this, and he's probably likely going to focus on domestic issues that bolster the left part of the Democratic Party, kind of the radical environmentalists, the social issues, you know, more homosexuality, more destroying of the family, more transgenderism, more abortion, more anti-growth policies that go to that billionaire wing of the Democratic Party.
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So, my my I don't think a guy like Gavin Newsom would ever really get into foreign policy and everything he did would be for ceremony and show, not a deep thinker at all.
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So whether you think Donald Trump is a deep thinker or not, these are deep deep policies that have been put forward for this fortress America, Trump doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, uh kicking out uh of the Western hemisphere, uh, your top geopolitical rivals, China won, uh, Russia two.
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Um, it's also looking at the BRICS nations.
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It's saying to Brazil, we're going to Venezuela because we're tired of you being the leader of BRICS.
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What it really
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Means is we're tired of you trying to get rid of the petrodollar, the system that was put in place after World War II, that all energy sales typically have been put in the dollar, though in the last couple of years.
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The BRICS are trying to do things in Russian currency, Chinese currency, Brazilian currency, even South African currency that your settlement of trades, well, that doesn't work for the United States.
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And that certainly doesn't work for the business interest and the banking interest of the United States.
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When you think about Greenland, Greenland and Venezuela are both together.
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Um whether the United States annexes Greenland, invades Greenland, or frankly just starts to build bases and golden domes and really pushes Denmark aside.
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What it's saying is these these days of this kind of ossified weak Democratic Party or these Rhino Republicans, which just want to go fight a war for the sake of fighting war, is going, no, we're going to build real influence.
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You really could make the argument.
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This is the days of going back to the Truman and Kennedy Democrats, particularly the Truman Democrats, the ones who understood the way the world works.
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It's why Truman stopped where he stopped during World War II.
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He had already achieved uh deterrence after Matthew Ridgway had killed two million Chinese within a matter of a few months, three, four months, uh, which the Chinese still remember, by the way.
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So when you think about all of this, what all these messages are, I would argue is you are going back and trying to settle the accounts of World War II.
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Crazy to think about, scary to think about, but that's exactly what you're trying to do.
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Um when you think about what's going on with Greenland.
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Yes, it is Fortress America, but it is also saying we are no longer going to listen to environmentalists who believe in the ridiculous notion of climate change and global warming.
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And the way to control whether the world is uncontrollably warming is to have no more fossil fuels, rely on solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and battery storage systems.
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And we're going to completely destroy the grid, destroy growth.
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And we actually believe that people, there's there's too many people.
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So we're going to push, we're going to push abortion, destroy the family, not want to have children, tell women to be feminist and don't get married, and you don't need a man, and we actually think you should probably be a lesbian, because then you for sure don't need men and there won't be children, and on and on and on and on.
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That it's it's a nonsensical thing that if I believe in climate change, I can take you down that rabbit hole I just took you down.
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Go look at the people who vote for this stuff.
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Go look at the people who believe in this stuff.
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Gosh, I would tell whether they're a lesbian or a born-again Christian somewhere.
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If you think you can control the climate, whether via cloud seeding or using a solar panel on your house, that is a nonsensical, it doesn't even make sense.
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The level of complexity of the climate and the atmosphere.
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I've written about it.
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Many others have written about it.
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The new really the energy and climate doctor that have come out of the climate working group of DOE, people like Judith Curry, Steven Coonan, Ross McKittrick, um, many, many others would people are going, this is ridiculous.
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The craziest part of the climate issue, it doesn't even pull that well.
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It only pulls in ridiculous places like San Francisco, Seattle, and the fools who just voted for Mamdami.
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That's where this crap works.
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But what it does is it weakens the United States.
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And I would tell any of those people, go look at who ISIS gets rid of first.
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Go look at who radical Muslims kill first.
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Um, the Christian and the gay will be the ones getting their heads chopped off first.
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Make no mistake about any of this.
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This is great power politics.
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This is geopower.
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This is the evil, disgusting, selfish part of mankind that if you don't understand, you will end up alone or shot by an ice agent in Minnesota.
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And that is so tragic.
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What happened to that woman?
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So tragic.
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That you're gonna go for an organization called Ice Watch, which is likely controlled by the scum George Soros, who can't die soon enough, or the scum Neville Singman who's sitting in Beijing, directed by the Chinese Communist Party, or the Tides Foundation, or the Source Foundation, or the Ford Foundation, any of these, these are the Rockefeller Foundation people.
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If they died today, the world is a better place.
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They literally have billions at their disposal because their grandfathers uh made all their money off oil and frankly exploited the hell out of people.
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And now they say they're gonna believe in global warming, or see even someone like Alice Walton of the Walton Family Fortune who gives money to the No Kings protest.
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These are people who are so protected by their money and their security, can believe nonsense like climate change and no kings without understanding any of what I'm just talking about.
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You want to know why we're having to do what we're doing, it's fools like that.
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And it still comes back to World War II.
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You want to solve America's problems, solve the problems that still around from World War II, the trauma, and then go solve the problems of saying we're not gonna have a legal aliens on the census anymore, which will do away with today's Democratic Party, which will bring back the party of Truman.
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You'll get rid of billionaires, you'll get rid of these protesters, you'll get rid of illegal aliens, and you will strengthen even more Fortress America, the Trump doctrine and the national security strategy.
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Those things will all be strengthened, but make no mistake.
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That is exactly where we are headed.
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When you think about Venezuela, um Talek Dosis has an amazing article called Trump's Venezuelan Gambit and the Reordering of Global Oil Geopolitics.
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He has uh it is now been quoted by numerous people, Robert Bryce, I think it's also Domberg, who's been on the show.
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But I want to read you what because he captures better than anybody exactly what we're talking about.
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He calls it Trump's Monroe Doctrine for Oil.
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Trump's new national security strategy explicitly revives the Monroe Doctrine as an energy dominant strategy, pledging to reassert and enforce U.S.
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pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere and to deny extra regional powers the ability to own or control strategically vital assets in the Americas.
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The seizure of Madero, legally framed through earlier U.S.
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narco-terrorism indictments, and the State Department's designation of the Cartel de Soloas Network is a terrorist organization, provided the trigger to apply this doctrine in its most muscular form.
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When you think about who's going to control Venezuela's 300 billion barrels of proven reserves, largest in the world, valued valued at 17 trillion at current crude oil prices, which is comical to me that Darren Wood of Exxon Mobile says he's not going to go in there.
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You want to make a bet.
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Uh, okay, uh okay, Mr.
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Wood, you'll you'll be there.
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You you're just trying to be a good negotiator.
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You think, okay, what's about to happen here?
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Okay, if you have those 300 billion barrels.
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Well, first, uh, Mr.
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Doshi says it widens the slate of secure politically aligned supplies available to Atlantic Basin refiners, diluting OPEC's leverage over marginal barrels and price spikes.
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Second, creates a de facto pricing axis running from the Permian Basin through Alberto and the Orinco belt.
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That's Venezuela, with the United States at the regulatory and logistical center, able to influence quality specific benchmarks for heavy sour crudes that were once the preserve of OPEC exporters.
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Don't be surprised if in the next one to two years, OPEC dissolves.
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Third, by aligning Venezuela output with UX export infrastructure and Gulf Cults refiners, it undercuts the room for Moscow, Riada, and eventually, I would even say Beijing to use coordinated cuts under the OPEC plus umbrella to discipline markets without confront without confronting a discipline counterblock of flexible non-OPEC supply.
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Okay, got to take a break here, but we're gonna come back.
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And we're gonna, I've got just a little bit to land this plane here, make some final comments.
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We're looking at some big issues today.
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My name is Todd Royal.
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This is geopower, energy in real politics, or we refer to as real politics, the politics of reality.
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My name is Todd Royal.
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I'm the host of our program, GeoPower Energy, Real Politics, Real Politics.
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Let's get back to Mr.
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Dashi's what he talks about here.
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Because it's so good.
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And you go, okay, let's let's buy let's what does this do for um the Chinese, our number one competitor.
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I would tell you the world right now, you're either going to follow Western values, which means freedom, freedom of religion, sexuality, increasingly your gender, uh, where do you want to live, who do you want to marry or not marry, what work do you want to do or not do?
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Versus the Chinese Communist Party.
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Okay, here's what happened in Venezuela.
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Chinese policy banks extended tens of billions of dollars to Venezuela in oil-backed loans, and Chinese companies entered joint ventures precisely to secure this long-term access to heavy crude outside U.S.
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influence.
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Oil runs the world.
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The Chinese said we're going to be in the Western Hemisphere and take your crude.
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With the United States now setting the legal and security framework in Caracas, those secure flows are subject to the constraints of a doctrine.
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Let's call it the Donald Trump doctrine that explicitly seeks to deny non-hemispheric competitors control over strategic assets.
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Whether it's Greenland or Venezuela, forcing China into a defensive posture where it must renegotiate, accept less favorable terms, or watch sunk capital stranded.
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What about Moscow?
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What about Russia?
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They have a similar issue.
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Rossnef, which is one of the leading energy firms in um in Russia, gave financial lifelines to Madura.
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It took a collateral stake in Sitco, their national uh essentially their gas station, uh designed to lock in leverage precisely where U.S.
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refineries and markets were most exposed.
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That's what kills me when people on the right talk about the benign friendship that we're going to have with Russia.
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No, we're not.
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Don't be a fool.
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I don't think you should do what you're doing in Ukraine, but make no mistake.
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Um, if the Russians could see the United States fill, they would do it in a heartbeat.
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And they use energy.
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It's the term is called the weaponization of energy.
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I've written about it extensively, and that's what the Russians want to do.
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They can't deploy troops or a navy this far away, but they can do is they can use the
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Soft power leading to hard power of oil.
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And that's exactly what they were doing in Venezuela.
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Now, let's get back to Mr.
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Dashi.
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The very collateral that secured Russian prepayments became vulnerable to U.S.
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courts and regulators while future Venezuelan barrels are increasingly likely to flow under contracts that support the petrodollar system rather than Russians ruble or the Chinese one dominated experiments.
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In one stroke, Washington has turned a potential Eurasian energy outposts in the Americas into a platform for pushing back against the BRICS energy realignment centered on Russian pipelines and Chinese credit.
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Yeah.
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And what is he else say?
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He goes, he calls this the devil's excrement for a positive sum game for the Venezuelans.
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So what does all this really mean?
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What?
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Um I want you to think about this.
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Yeah, the critics are going to say this is Trump's neo-imperialism.
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You don't see what was going on there.
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You don't see the absolutely devastation the Venezuelans had.
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And it's also millions of them left, and a lot of them have come to the United States, and they have not integrated into the United States also.
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To me, are not understanding this, that they're not realizing what we're really, what we're really talking about.
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That we are talking about a world that when you look at Trump's wider security doctrine.
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This is not isolationism, adventurism, or we took it for the reasons of taking it.
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What you're talking about, and and Marco Rubio talked about this in the beginnings of the Trump presidency.
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He said it is a multipolar world.
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There are people, the Chinese do have their sphere of influence, the Russians do have their sphere of influence, the South Africans, the Brazilian, you all have your spheres of influence, but what we're going to become the United States, we're no longer going to be a global policeman, but we are going to be a hemispheric energy powerhouse.
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Here's what Mr.
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Dachi says.
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By aligning the Western hemispheres of vast fossil fuel resources, Domberg has also written about this, and I would highly recommend that you subscribe to his Substack.
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US, US shale, places like Texas, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Canadian oil sands, Alberta, Brazilian Pre-Salt, Guyana's Newfound Reserves, and now Venezuelan heavy crude that can be refined in American refineries.
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Under pre uh this is under a framework that privileges reliable low-cost supply over net zero symbolism.
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Um think about that.
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No more global warming nonsense, no more decarbonization, no more climate change, whole of government approach.
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That nonsense is gone.
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What it is, the United States now reduces its exposure, as Mr.
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Dashi says here to Eurasian pipeline politics and Middle Eastern stability.
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What's the upshot?
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The upshot's a world, the petrol power is he says less about OPEC quotas and common equals and more about which block can combine geological abundance, the United States can, technological prowess, the United States can via Silicon Valley and other areas, political coherence.
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People aren't riding, we can get food.
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We may not like each other much in the United States, but it we get along, the Japanese get along with each other, the South Koreans, the Canadians, uh, the Europeans, people are typically getting along with each other.
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Political coherence, order, stability, this zero-sum world.
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So on that score, a U.S.
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anchored Americas enhanced by revitalized Venezuela looks considerably more robust than an ideological net zero constrained Europe, which is dying over the belief of global warming and climate change and shutting down their nuclear power plants and not doing fracking and deindustrializing and thinking they're saving the world, or a Sino-Russian Eurasian Axis, entangled in over-leveraged, underperforming bets in failing in failing petrostates.
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In other words, we say bye-bye Russia, bye-bye China.
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Okay, Russia, go supply everybody with oil and natural gas.
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And the Russians can.
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And that's your sphere of influence.
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Now, make no mistakes of the Russians.
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This is a technologically advanced people.
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Um, these are folks, I get it, people who've traveled in Russia will go, it's it's many where many places a fourth world country.
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Moscow's a thriving city.
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The Russians know how to drill and deliver oil and natural gas.
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They're they are the best in the world at building, financing, owning, operating, delivering the fuel and taking it away for nuclear power plants.
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Nobody does it better than the Russians.
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Um, we, the United States, have a lot of catching up to do to the Russians.
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Even the Chinese are becoming just about as good at building at the United States as the Russians, even they cannot do what the Russians are doing when it comes to nuclear power.
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But when you exert this influence now in Venezuela, when you say you're out of here, when you look at Denmark, and we go, we appreciate you're a NATO ally, but NATO is a feather duster.
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You're nothing.
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The Ukraine war would end in a second if the United States stopped providing intelligence to them.
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Go tell the Poles, the British, the French, and the Germans to take it over and watch how quick uh that little conflict will end.
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Watch how quick the Russians would destroy the Ukrainians and watch how quick the Russians would absolutely destroy NATO troops without full and firm American backing.
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The British are nothing.
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The French would likely lay down.
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Uh, probably someone like Estonia would be the best fighters out there.
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The Germans would have some some of their capable troops, their their mountain, their special forces mountain division, but it's not even a division.
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That the Germans have no industry, they have nothing.
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How the Germans think they would ever fight the Ukrainians.
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This is a zero sum.
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And the Leviathan of environmentalism, net zero ideology, um throwing off the constraints of biblical or even uh Western-based morality backed by Plato's The Republic or Heracles, Socrates, um, even Roman philosophy, Greek philosophy, all of it.
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Um you would be overrun by the Russians.
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Uh we're even seeing the zero-sum game when the the prime minute, the the current prime minister of Japan said we would come to the aid of Taiwan.
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We'll not allow that to take place in our backyard.
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Look at what the Chinese have done lately.
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It's this remnant of world war, it's this remnant of World War II.
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It's this saying, we're gonna do Greenland because we're tired of, we have a loud environmentalist and weak Republicans and people that have been traumatized from World War II.
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And so you bring in this Marxism and this activist mentality that says I'm a gay woman with children and I'm gonna go run over a man with a gun.
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God, I would say to every one of these people eventually, all these men with guns and increasingly women and law enforcement, they're gonna turn those guns on you and blow your heads off.
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We live in a world that I would I would I would beg every one of these people that listen to these scum billionaires like Alice Walton and George Soros and Tom Steyr and Michael Bloomberg and Neville Singham, all of them, if they died today, the world would be a better place.
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And the people who run the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Tides Foundation, Bloomberg Foundation, Stanford, Harvard, and all of them.
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If they died today, the world would be a better place.
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You are living in a zero-sum world.
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And do you you can either be governed by Donald Trump or you can be governed by the Chinese Communist Party?
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And I can assure you, um, people who go, we're gay for Gaza, go over to Gaza and try that and see what happens.
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Go to China and try to run over one of their security uh officials and watch what happens to you.
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You'd be you'd be dead.
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You would actually be the most fortunate thing that would happen to you would be to go to a slave labor camp and make solar panels for the Chinese Communist Party to send a stupid Westerners who believe solar panels work.
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You would be killed, and your entire family would be jailed.
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Every protester that came out for George Floyd would either be killed or sent to camps.
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Every protester comes comes out for New Kings or ICE or Minneapolis or Seattle.
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You would go try that.
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In Russia or China or anywhere in the Middle East.
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Watch what would happen to you.
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Watch.
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You would die.
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So I would beg you, please don't do that.
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I want to see you live.
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That is great power.
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That is the sum of power.
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People may disagree with it.
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People may go, but I want the world to be a kind, nicer place.
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I do too.
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You want to make the world a kinder, nicer place, kick out the Chinese and the Russians in the Western hemisphere.
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Go get rare earth metals and minerals that can go into your iPhone or a missile defense system or increasingly high-tech goods like AI and watch your world be better.
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Go get natural gas so we can make more ammonia and make more fertilizer and feed more people.
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That's what the national security strategy of the United States is about.
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That's what why we went into Venezuela.
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Because we are saying no more.
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No more boys and girls.
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This new security doctrine, it's really a reordering of global energy geopolitics.
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Go read the national security strategy.
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It is one of the most bluntly delivered documents you will ever read.
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It's the first one too.
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Since since again, world war two, because that war is still being fought in the minds and hearts of people.
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Frankly, even recognizes our post-war transatlantic compact.
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Our this idea that we are in lockstep brotherhood with the Europeans.
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No, we're not.
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What it talks about is we are we are in an uncomfortable situation where in no way, shape, fashion, or form are we ever, ever going to rely on the Europeans anymore.
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When you think about two with what we've done in Venezuela, I'd argue even further that not only are we getting rid of net zero, we want to get rid of mass immigration.
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We want to get rid of a regulatory state.
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We want to have permitting reform so we can build, dominate, live in peace and security for the rest of uh the rest of this century.
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That's what we're that's actually what we're really doing.
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Um sure, you can see where this would shock the Europeans, but I can tell you where else it's going to shock people in Moscow and Beijing.
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Um you'll probably see Middle Eastern countries begin to react.
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It's why we're doing what we're doing with the Iranians.
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Do I think that we're gonna go invade different countries anymore?
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No.
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Do I think we're going to uh begin killing Iranians?
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No.
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I think the Israelis can do a perfectly uh good job of doing that for the United States.
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They they've proved it, they've proven it.
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This again, I'll bring it back to the Thomas Hobbes.
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People are in a struggle for resources, people are in a struggle for order and security.
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People are in a struggle for a better life.
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That's what they're in a struggle for.
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Um you think about all of this, when you think of, go read the national security strategy, but make no mistake, too.
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Yeah, this is about oil.
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Um this is about the United States continuing to be the world's largest producer of oil and gas.
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But this is also about the security of the United States and the Western hemisphere.
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And when you think about that trade war that recently took place, what did the Chinese do?
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They weaponize rare earth metals and minerals against the United States and the Europeans.
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And you know what?
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They should have, because we were the idiots who believed in climate change and listened to environmentalists and got rid of all of our heavy manufacturing and mining, refining and processing of these minerals because we didn't want to have emissions and we believed that a clean environment, that was you know, that was Vahala.
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That was utopia.
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No, it's not.
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That's a way you can get dominated.
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So in this episode, when you think about from Venezuela to Greenland, there's a lot of factors that I've put in there from climate change to social issue to great power politics to oil to money to large military budgets.
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I'd tell you, think about Thomas Hobbes, the Leviathan.
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Think about Machiavelli's The Prince.
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Go back to the great masters.
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Go back to classical literature, go back to the Greeks.
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Plato asks, what is justice?
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In the 21st century, justice is oil, money, geopolitics, have being stable in your hemisphere and getting rid of social issues which damage your society, not drilling for your own oil and natural gas, believing in net zero and climate change, destroying the family, not having children, and believing that you can have a weak military and have any influence in the world.
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Instead, the Trump national security doctrine, the new Trump doctrine, the United States approaches.
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We are going to control the Western hemisphere.
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We are going to contain you China in the East, and we're going to do everything we can to weaken you by not giving you energy resources or having you fully rely on the Russians and the Russians having to fully rely on you and let the both of you eat each other alive in doing that.
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My name is Todd Royal.
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This is geopowered energy and real politics.
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Thank you so much and God bless you.