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The Strait of Hormuz just exposed the Great Western energy lie · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:10
  Hello, this is Todd Royal.
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  Welcome on your host, and welcome to another episode of Geopower, Energy, and Real Politics.
• 0:17
  I don't think we have anything to talk about today.
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  So it's been a great show.
• 0:20
  Thank you, everybody.
• 0:24
  Yeah, I think we got one or two things to talk about, which is interesting because no one talks right now that Pakistan and Afghanistan are at war with one another.
• 0:32
  My God, that land is constantly at war.
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  Maybe somebody ever wants to ask, why are you guys always at war with one another?
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  Could it be a religion?
• 0:41
  Hmm.
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  Call me, call me crazy.
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  The war again, which brings in China, and of course it brings in India and Bangladesh and on and on and on.
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  These people are constantly at war.
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  Uh God, if you're the Chinese and the Indians, I would imagine you just look around and go, can we not be at war for once?
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  But that's that's a little aside.
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  We do have a few things to chat about, one of them being, of course, they're in war still going on.
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  But I think what we really have to realize is you know, I've talked about previous episodes that renewables are done and fossil fuels are here to stay.
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  Uh, Mark P.
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  Mills just gave a wonderful talk about fossil fuels and the fallacy of renewables and EVs, and he still says he's a fan of it.
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  And I respect uh Mr.
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  Mills for saying that.
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  I'm not because they don't work.
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  But I get it, you got to say those things.
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  And how EVs are never going to overtake, at least under its current technological progress, uh, internal combustion engine.
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  It's interesting about an EB.
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  Uh dear friends who have them has a Tesla cyber truck.
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  And I said, what's the range on this?
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  And he goes, um, 330 miles.
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  And I go, what if it's windy or hilly?
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  And he's like, a lot less.
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  So I'm gonna buy some 40, 50, 80, whatever monstrosity, and I'm gonna have range anxiety.
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  Why do I say all this?
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  Are we here to bash renewables again?
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  No, even though every single component is made with fossil fuels and how they're mined and transported and put together, all the diesel and all the fossil fuels and all the giant machines with all of their steel and all of that is made with a fossil fuel.
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  I hope one day they're made with nuclear reactors.
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  But for now, they're made with fossil fuels.
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  So what's the point?
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  The great, the wonderful David Blackman who I've had on the show, special shout out to David.
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  He does a I've told you you should you should really subscribe to his substacks called David Blackman's Energy Editions.
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  He's also got a podcast that he does, a couple of different ones that I David is just such a pragmatic guy.
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  And he talked about obviously the Strait of Hormous.
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  And David did this piece earlier in the week about the global commodity supply shock.
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  And it was in the Daily Call, the Daily Caller.
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  And an excerpt, just I want you to realize again, when people like Mark Jacobson, Bill McKibben, um, Tom Steyr, who's running for governor of California, every environmental organization.
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  Uh, the Hollywood actor, Mark Ruffalo, which um, you know, comedians, you'll obviously, you know, uh uh the Stephen Colbert.
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  You know, people have YouTube shows, I mean, on and on and on.
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  And these people will talk about these complex issues because they hate Republicans, which I would counter Republicans tend to be more religious.
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  So what you're really saying is I hate Jesus.
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  And I get it, people go, well, that's a stretch.
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  That's just the truth.
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  Um George W.
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  Bush was a was was an all that we know about him.
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  Born again Christian, stop drinking, uh, attended church services regularly.
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  You'd have them at Camp David, uh, a pious man, a good, a good man.
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  You didn't see that with a Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
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  Those those are kind of examples to use, but David really breaks it down here where he talks about okay, the Strait of Hormuz is close.
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  I've talked about how radically stupid that is that half the world's fertilizer and 30% or more of fossil fuels traverse through an unstable region with a militaristic at war, hates everybody religion.
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  Islam.
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  That's what it is.
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  Read the Quran.
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  It's not saying, of course, that every Muslim is that way, but typically the ones in the Middle East can be that way, and we're rapidly seeing more of it in America and Europe as we brought these folks over.
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  Uh unwisely, in my view.
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  But here's where David talks about.
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  So he goes, let's just break down things that are needed to run the economy.
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  Now remember, these are all things that are done with fossil fuel.
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  So, first off, and David talks about liquefied natural gas.
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  So Qatar or Cutter supplied an estimated 17 to 20% of global LNG needs to importing countries, whether the Philippines, China, most of Southeast Asia, certainly Europe.
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  They say may he talk about mainly in Asian and European markets.
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  So a shortage of liquefied natural gas means higher utility prices for consumers and higher emissions.
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  As utilities are switching to coal.
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  Now, here's where we're going to talk about food.
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  Again, please remember that all of this stuff.
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  So about half of the global supply, what's called urea, UREA, meaning that is high nitrogen solid fertilizer comes from the Persian Gulf region.
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  It will take longer to develop, but a severe supply shortage of fertilizer will inevitably create severe food shortages.
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  A long-term loss of half the world's supply of fertilizer will result in skyrocketing costs that will force many farming operations into bankruptcy.
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  Now, let me put on my little conspiracy theory hat and say don't ever be surprised if it comes out one day that global environmental organizations, the U.S.
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  Democratic Party, and European Greens want this war to happen because they believe less people is better for the environment.
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  He wrote, you know, the population bomb and silent spring by Rachel Carson.
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  Um, you know, extinction rebellion, just stop oil, green peace, all of them want less human beings.
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  Go read the go read Friends of the Earth.
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  Go read Sierra Club.
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  Uh, go read the National Resource Defense Council.
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  Go read um Gina McCarthy, who is the EPA administrator under President Barack Obama.
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  Go read what these people say.
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  They want less people.
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  How do you get less people?
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  Starve them.
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  Kill them.
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  Um, how do you do that?
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  Make sure they don't have fertilizer.
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  It's not come out yet, but they'll be surprised if you start to see that these global environmental organizations, um, all of these people want nothing more than to see people die because of this.
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  So fertilizer, you need this thing called urea.
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  Next, helium.
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  Roughly 30 to 35% of global helium supplies also come from the Persian Gulf.
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  Helium is a crucial feedstock for the manufacturing of all sorts of products, perhaps most importantly, computer chips.
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  Who knew?
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  Even more problematic, all the Middle East helium has derived from the same Qatari LNG plants that were knocked out by Iranian missiles in the conflict's early days, in which Qatar says we'll be offline for three to five years.
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  I don't believe that, by the way, but I think they can put them back up in a year if they want to.
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  Next, ammonia, a major feed stock for the production of fertilizers.
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  Almost one-third of global supplies come from the Middle East.
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  Gulf products account for about 30% of worldwide ammonia exports.
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  Again, ammonia, you have to have ammonia to make fertilizer.
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  Roughly you'll see half to even 70% of the world's food has fertilizers.
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  They're made from fertilizer.
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  Another thing, sulfur.
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  Sulfur is a byproduct of oil and gas processing, which again is used in fertilizers.
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  Now, somebody could say, wait a minute, Todd.
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  So we have ammonia, we have sulfur, we have heal, you know, you need this helium.
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  Um you need nitrogen.
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  Isn't that bad for food?
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  Sure, you can probably make that case.
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  But tell me how you're gonna feed all these people that have that have used this.
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  And fertilizer.
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  Fertilizers have been thoroughly studied.
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  Many, many, many legal cases, certainly in the West.
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  So tell me how you're going to feed the billions of people that rely on fertilizer.
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  Again, uh, I pretty much can't stand the U.S.
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  Democratic Party and every single environmental organization and anyone who's an environmentalist because they're anti-human people and they hate fertilizers and they talk about going back to the natural part of Earth.
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  The thing you always have to ask people like this, the Tom Steers and Michael Bloombergs, okay, how do you want people to be fed?
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  Do you want to do a true organic farm?
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  Okay.
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  How high are you willing for prices to go?
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  Because when there's shortages of food, people tend to riot.
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  Um just go look at the French Revolution.
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  When when people riot, they come after everybody when they're when they're hungry.
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  So yes, nitrogen, ammonia, sulfur.
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  Wow, that's not that doesn't sound really good, Todd.
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  Well, you're right.
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  But tell me, tell me a better solution.
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  It's like people who say, no more fossil fuels, no more oil.
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  Great.
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  How are you going to make that wind turbine, that electric vehicle?
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  Are you going to make uh that solar panel?
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  How are you going to be quote unquote green?
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  It's the dumbest argument on the planet.
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  Um, but sulfur, this byproduct of oil and gas processing.
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  It's using fertilizers, rubber, metals processing, a lot of metal in um in uh solar panels, wind turbines, and chemical manufacturing, nearly half of the world's traded seaborne sulfur originates from the Persian Gulf region.
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  Next thing called broader fertilizers.
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  Roughly 20% to 30% of the global non-Urea, which means that's heavy in nitrogen.
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  Fertilizer trade transits the strait each day with phosphate fertilizers making up most of that percentage.
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  Aluminum, the Middle East accounts for about 8% to 10% of global aluminum supplies.
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  A significant majority of Gulf of Gulf exports must transit the strait.
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  These are all precursors, napta, polyethylene, and polypropylene are precursors for plastic packaging and manufacturing.
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  The Middle East supplies about 30% of global seaborne exports.
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  Roughly 40% of polyethylene and more than 30% of NAFTA flows to Asia.
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  So do we think Asia is going to get rid of plastics packaging and manufacturing?
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  Um these, as David has said, these are the big categories of commodities and good, but he goes, trust me, that list is not comprehensive.
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  The events of the last five plus weeks will echo through the global supply chains and economy for many months to come.
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  These are all things that come from fossil fuels.
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  Alex X, Alex Epstein probably does the best work on what you can call the morality of fossil fuels, why you should use them, how they give life, how they're pro-human.
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  Um Alex's work.
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  Alex has done this kind of work.
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  Um, he's got a book called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, you got another call, I believe it's called Fossil Futures.
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  In other words, what this is a war.
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  Appreciate David, appreciate you, David.
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  Love love this conflict, but I'd call it a war.
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  When you're bombing and killing people, those are wars.
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  Um you're going after an ideology, which is radical Islam, that's a war.
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  And also we need to realize if someone's really following, if you're if you're really, if you read the Quran and follow the Quran, that's gonna make for a hard person to get along with.
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  The bigger question is why has the world allowed all of this to take place?
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  Why have we allowed, why have we allowed environmentalists, Democrats, European Greens, uh, really all of Germany to not make their own fossil fuels.
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  When you think about the evil of climate change and global warming and environmentalists, read them this.
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  So you're gonna you're you are going to allow Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, frankly, just the Middle East, this this place that has not been stable, has it ever?
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  Maybe during the time of Solomon during the Bible when they had peace.
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  Tell me when these people have been peaceful.
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  Tell me.
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  Um, this isn't the Jews.
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  These guys have been mad for since the beginning of time.
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  If you really want to look at this Iranian war, what you really should look at is why things that make modern life, food, petroleum, gas, gasoline, packaging, manufacturing, chemicals, fertilizer.
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  All of it.
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  What do you want to say?
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  Half the world that that makes things run come through the Middle East, come through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Tell me why Iran has not been invaded.
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  Uh I'm there's a little part of me that's speechless.
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  I want you to think about the Europeans, and and there's a there's a piece.
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  Um by the great and the wonderful, wonderful Andrew uh Korbkov.
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  I quote Andrew often.
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  He's probably in every one of my shows.
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  He's in my show notes.
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  Did a piece, and again, I would recommend his newsletter.
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  It's probably just about the best geopolitical writings you're gonna find.
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  He's so prolific.
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  It's something that can be read in five to seven minutes.
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  He puts out, gosh, three, four, five or more pieces per day.
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  I mean, it it to me, it's like having your own intelligence agency.
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  But here's what's so maddening about the Europeans.
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  So the Europeans do not produce any energy.
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  The Europeans don't have any oil, don't have any natural gas because they believe in global warming.
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  They they allow people like Keir Starmer, Ed Miliban, McCrone, Frederick Mertz, uh, Angela Merkel, those are both German leaders.
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  She's the former, he's the current to run Europe.
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  Europe uses approximately 38 exajoules of energy.
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  They produce six.
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  But here's what I love.
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  The Finnish president, Alexander Stubb.
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  Now, the Finns are heavy, heavily militarized.
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  They have fought the Russians before, they would fight them again.
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  You'd be in for a nasty fight if you take on the Finns.
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  But the Finns have decided they're going to be part of the EU.
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  They even want to be, they're going to be part of the EU and NATO, right?
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  So he likes uh President Stubb likes to write often in um foreign affairs.
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  Foreign affairs is really the premier geopolitical, national security, foreign quote unquote, you know, uh no pun intended, foreign affairs publication in the United States.
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  It's put out by the council on foreign relations.
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  If you want to think about your deep state, your Washington, D.C.
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  connected, your kind of global elite connected publication, foreign affairs is it.
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  If you really want to see what are elites really there, or public officials or billionaires or the head of influential think tanks or the United Nations uh top uh lawyers in the world, just you know, professors, top U.S.
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  universities, global universities, what are they thinking when it comes to national security and geopolitics, how nations interact with one another.
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  You'll be really shocked at some of the things that they think.
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  So President Stubbs said he believes now the U.S.
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  leads what he calls the global West, which is more transactional, while the EU leads the global north that wants to restore the liberal world order.
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  I'm gonna stop you there because it's a little bit like last week when someone said we cannot open up the Strait of Hormuz.
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  And my response was yes, you can.
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  Not saying this sounds good, something you want to do, but there's been influential energy writers and pundits who say, you know, don't do it, Mr.
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  President.
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  Don't take out their power grid.
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  This is a war crime.
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  This is against international law.
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  My response to all of them would be okay.
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  Do you believe that World War II was just or unjust?
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  Do you believe what Iran has done to its own citizens?
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  Do you believe what they've done for 47 years?
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  Do you believe how they kind of terrorized the Middle East and now they've shut down the Strait of Ormuz because us and Israelis are bombing them because we believe they have a nuclear weapon?
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  They're very close to having a nuclear weapon.
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  Do you believe they should have a nuclear weapon or not?
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  Do you believe that World War II was just or unjust?
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  You hear these revisions of World War II, Tucker Carlson, and other folks that he's had on his uh podcast.
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  Okay.
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  Tell me what you'd have done about Nazi Germany if you don't do what's referred to as total war.
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  We bombed babies.
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  We knew where factories were in neighborhoods next to bakeries and school, and we bombed them.
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  We killed them.
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  Tried our best not to not to do what the Russians did when the Russians took over Germany.
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  They raped over two million women as uh wartime retributions.
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  But do we have a Nazi Germany anymore?
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  Do we have an Imperial Japan anymore?
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  Okay.
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  So, President President Stubb, what is the liberal world order to you?
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  If you are part of Europe, what part do you plan on defending?
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  What do you as Finland produce?
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  What energy are you mining?
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  You're gonna help the Norwegians?
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  You're gonna help them uh that they're about the only ones who do fossil fuels.
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  Are you ready to share your electrical grid?
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  Um and hand it over to make your prices higher to be part of the EU because the EU believes environmentalism.
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  The EU believes in emissions and scope, even scope one, two, and three emissions and carbon trading systems.
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  Are you willing to do that?
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  He published a piece, and uh Andrew talks about it in foreign affairs called the West Last Chance.
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  How to build a new global order before it's too late.
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  His takeaway is that he divides the world into the U.S.
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  led global West, the Chinese-led global east, which I would agree, and the global south.
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  Um, but now he believes that with under Donald Trump, since the U.S.
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  captured Maduro and the decision to spark the third Gulf War that we're probably seeing, he says, not a rupture, but a rift in the transatlantic partnership.
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  What is he what is he even talking about?
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  One of the reasons I've named this show geopower energy and real politics is because the three feed on each other, but I made energy the linchpin.
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  Energy is not uh geopower and real politics are connected to energy.
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  Energy is in the middle.
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  Again, he says the global north takes the role of defending the liberal world order, whereas the global west becomes the U.S.
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  that is more transactional.
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  The British said they cannot even send a destroyer or even a frigate recently to the Middle East because they couldn't support it.
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  What is he talking about?
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  Who does he think is going to defend the liberal world order?
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  Is it the Finns?
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  Are you going to put together a blue water navy that can defend the Arctic from the Russians and the Chinese?
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  Are the Europeans going to put together um entire divisions of a standing an army?
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  Two million, five million?
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  Are you going to put together uh entire uh aircraft carrier fleets and everything that's involved?
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  Are you going to put together a missile defense system?
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  Are you going to host or do your own uh nuclear weapons?
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  The British have roughly 75,000 people in an army.
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  They can't even send they don't have a working aircraft carrier.
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  They can't even support a destroyer.
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  The British have allowed themselves to be invaded by radical military age Muslims because they believe in the great reset and they want to get rid of white people because they're billionaire liberal globalists.
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  And so they believe, oh, if we get rid of everybody and bring in these radical people, uh, it will lead to chaos, which will lead to collapse, which will lead to control by the labor party.
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  Because we believe in global warming, and we think by importing uh military age men from North Africa and the Middle East that that's the best way to fight global warming and to have a stable society.
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  The the British are done.
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  There's parts of France you can't even go into anymore.
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  Go travel around Europe and see this mass immigration, and we don't believe in marriage and we believe in transgenderism and homosexuality, and we just want to be left alone, and we're here to have a good time and have a good day.
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  Leave us alone.
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  Well, I I've got I've got a president saying we defend the liberal world order.
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  Of course, he didn't elaborate any further.
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  Um he may try to it talks about separating the EU from the US with respect to how the global South perceives the West as a whole.
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  Um, uh a Singapore diplomat had talked about recently, he said the jerk in foreign affairs, he goes, the dream palace of the West, why the old world order is gone for good.
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  It I I have a hard time even getting words out right now because you go, tell me what you mean by this, President Stubb.
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  What you have with Europeans, they talk such a big game.
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  You don't have manufacturing, your chemical industry is leaving, your automobile industry is crashing.
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  You believed in EVs because again, you believe in global warming.
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  You guys are a vapid nothing.
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  The Europeans are nothing.
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  You have nothing, you are nothing, you can't defend yourself.
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  There's a reason that uh one of your top leaders called Trump daddy a year ago.
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  There's a reason you are the United States' vassal, and quite honestly, you're probably the Chinese is one as well.
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  Does anybody think these feckless women that they put into place are gonna go up against a bunch of men?
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  You may think that's sexist.
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  And we were talking about what the EU does when you have an Ursula Vanderlei or the woman who's in charge of their foreign affairs, and you go talk to somebody, you know, you sneer at Vladimir Putin, and we're going to take you on.
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  No, you're not.
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  You're not.
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  The best thing the Europeans have going for them is that the Ukrainians are pretty hardened fighters now.
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  The best thing you have going for you is that you can get US LNG.
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  Don't be surprised if the Europeans freeze to death.
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  And to Mr.
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  Corybak uh Korbaco, he writes this.
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  He goes, the problem is that the EU isn't powerful, influential, nor wealthy enough to convince the global South to abandon multipolarity and restore the liberal war world order instead of opting for China, China's model of multipolarity or whatever one describes the U.S.'s model as under Trump 2.0.
• 30:22
  There's no European army to coerce reluctant states.
• 30:26
  The EU's soft power pales behind the U.S.'s, Russia's, China's, and even middle powers like Turkey's, and I'd even add India.
• 30:36
  And managing the global energy crisis will remain the EU's fiscal priority for a while.
• 30:44
  Sure.
• 30:45
  Stubb, President Stubb is correct in different differentiating how the US and the EU look at global affairs right now.
• 30:56
  Maybe it leads to friction.
• 31:00
  But what does Frederick Mertz think he's going to do in Germany if we decide to not sell them LNG?
• 31:11
  What's interesting recently, German Chancellor Frederick Mertz, he said about this third Gulf War that the third Gulf War and quotes is not our war.
• 31:22
  Trump, President Trump said, well, Ukraine's not our war.
• 31:26
  We helped, but Ukraine's not our war, which ominously hints at hanging Ukraine out to dry at the expense of the EU's perceived interest.
• 31:38
  Sure, President Stubb, you accurately reflected how the how the U.S.
• 31:43
  and EU are different in geopolitics.
• 31:48
  But please do not think that you are the U.S.'s equal.
• 31:54
  You've been a junior partner since the Nazis took you over.
• 32:00
  What Trump should do is teach you a lesson.
• 32:03
  Frankly, he should do it with the Chinese and the Russians to make you guys begin to drill for oil, natural gas, burn coal, and begin to get rid of and deport the millions of radical nothingness that you have imported into your countries because all in the name of being liberal globalists who believe in this crap of chaos, collapse, and then we have control.
• 32:36
  For the Finnish president to talk about this kind of nonsense.
• 32:42
  What the Strait of Hormuz being closed down shows.
• 32:47
  Let's talk about how the now how the world really works.
• 32:52
  A bunch of liberal feminist women who have their rights because it was talked about by probably the Apostle Paul back in the New Testament.
• 33:04
  And then it came about by the Magna Carta.
• 33:07
  And then came about by the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
• 33:10
  Well, that came from Christianity, and then it came from the end of a gun from the allies.
• 33:20
  The West, and there we're going to put these feminist women up there, the global South, Middle East, the Russians, the Chinese, look at us like you are feckless and you're nothing.
• 33:35
  You're nothing.
• 33:37
  We're not going to listen to a bunch of snooty feminist women.
• 33:41
  Doesn't mean they're not intelligent people.
• 33:43
  We're just not going to listen to them.
• 33:45
  That's not how our world works.
• 33:47
  I would even say to many of the energy analysts out there who I do deeply respect.
• 33:54
  You talk about not bombing Iran's electrical grid again, right there with you.
• 34:01
  Don't take out their power plants, their dams, their roads, their bridges, because they can do the same thing to us.
• 34:12
  Tell me what you think happens when Iran gets a nuclear bomb.
• 34:16
  Tell me what happens, what you think when they fire that at Israel, and Israel lets off 80 to 200 to them.
• 34:26
  Israel, I've said this before, I'll say it again.
• 34:39
  Never again.
• 34:44
  So stop thinking and stop doing geopolitics is how the world really works.
• 34:53
  Nobody really wants to talk to Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton, or Condoleezza Rice.
• 35:02
  These are men.
• 35:03
  These are savage, brutal men who will kill anything or anyone that gets in their way.
• 35:10
  Most of the world works that way.
• 35:32
  We believe in, well, women should be in positions of power, women should work.
• 35:37
  The world does not think that way.
• 35:39
  Not at all.
• 35:40
  And the world also thinks if you're not using fossil fuels, you're a fool.
• 35:46
  They don't believe that the Chinese don't believe in wind turbines and solar panel.
• 35:52
  And any fool he says, well, they're getting a big percentage of their electricity from it.
• 35:58
  They did it because they could gain a geopolitical advantage and sell it to stupid, stupid Westerners who are too rich and fat to understand better.
• 36:07
  And then you get these vapid, vapid people for no kings and these ingrates, like the you know, the Walton children who the Walmart heirs, the Rockefellers, and the rest of you know Steve Jobs' widow, these bunch of feminist ingrates who know nothing, and their money actually insulates them from the idiocy of electing someone like a Zoran Mamdami, a radical Muslim whose wife-liked post, talking about his Jewish uh women, children, and babies being raped, cooked, mutilated, and murdered.
• 36:44
  Go to hell, lady.
• 36:49
  Folks, what we are witnessing right now in the Strait of Hormuz, and if this thing continues to stay closed, make no mistake.
• 36:57
  The Iranians have been closing this for years.
• 37:00
  You could make the case, I don't like Joe Biden as far as I can throw them, but you can make the case under his presidency that a lot of that inflation came because the Houthis, who were supported by the Iranians, were making life very difficult for shipping in the Red Sea.
• 37:18
  Um, that is one time I will actually defend Joe Biden.
• 37:22
  And you can make that case.
• 37:24
  Now, he was feckless because he didn't do anything about it.
• 37:30
  But understand if you shut down the Red Sea, you can collapse the global economy.
• 37:38
  Or what you'll really do is look up and go, no one's driving anywhere, flying anywhere, eating out anywhere, using hotels, you know, it's almost a little bit like COVID.
• 37:49
  Business and commerce comes to a standstill because we just can't, we can't afford it.
• 37:55
  Um, those business dinners, the new factory, the investments, those things will dry up.
• 38:07
  If you want to solve the Iranian problem, it can be solved.
• 38:13
  The Europeans need to get involved.
• 38:16
  Uh, the South Koreans, the Japanese, even the Chinese.
• 38:24
  All of you better get involved.
• 38:27
  And yeah, you're probably gonna need to go kill a couple million Iranians, unfortunately.
• 38:32
  The ones here in the leadership, the one here, you know, the Irani, you know, revolutionary guard corps, their police force, their standing army, their leaders.
• 38:43
  World War II proves this can be done.
• 38:46
  Doesn't mean you like it, doesn't mean you want to do it, but it proves that it can be done.
• 38:54
  Again, for the EU or the Finnish president to say anything right now, it's maddening.
• 39:04
  The world runs on fossil fuels, not renewables.
• 39:08
  There's no such thing really as climate change and global warming as it's as it's been said.
• 39:15
  If the Iranians continue to keep this closed and we continue to go, it's Donald Trump's fault.
• 39:22
  You will have significantly higher electric bills, you'll have uh filling up your tank, going out to eat, food, travel, everything will be higher.
• 39:39
  Please make no mistake.
• 39:41
  We are really finding out what geopolitics is.
• 39:44
  And to the end here to the energy analysts out there who you know hate Donald Trump and this is so stupid, and why do we do this?
• 39:53
  Those are all valid points.
• 39:55
  And I hear what you're saying.
• 40:00
  But then would you have done World War II?
• 40:02
  And someone go, well, the Iranians were not invading the way the Germans were, etc., etc.
• 40:08
  They don't have to invade anymore.
• 40:10
  They just have to get a nuclear weapon.
• 40:14
  Read what they've said.
• 40:19
  Look up the 12th amon.
• 40:21
  Look up their ideology.
• 40:24
  Look up their, let's call them end times belief system.
• 40:34
  I want to kind of unfortunately continue to bash the Europeans right now because I love Europe and I wish they'd wake up.
• 40:44
  Oh my God.
• 40:45
  It just so maddening.
• 40:47
  And the great Tylach Dashi, T.
• 40:50
  Ligdashi, I've got to have this guy on the show one day.
• 40:53
  Um he had a piece out recently called Europe's Hormuz Armageddon.
• 41:03
  Wow.
• 41:04
  Europe's Hormuz Armageddon.
• 41:08
  I wish I could get more mad or more sad, but I love Europe.
• 41:12
  Been there twice, traveled a decent amount around the, and every part of it's fantastic.
• 41:20
  The history, the people, the train system, the how it's open at night in many ways, reminds you of New York City, the food, the pastry shops, the coffee, the wine, how they love life, how they celebrate life, how they eat out.
• 41:45
  I mean, it's you it's all it's it's all absolutely fantastic.
• 41:51
  Um you really couldn't ask for you you couldn't ask for anything better.
• 42:01
  So it's why it's so deeply bothers me that what the Europeans are doing right now.
• 42:09
  And he really does, he really does say it best.
• 42:13
  Um does, he goes, European political and intellectual elites have spent the past few decades pushing the risk of imminent climate Armageddon.
• 42:24
  Folks, I've said this before, and I will say it again.
• 42:27
  Anyone who's preaching this crap, whether it's hockey stick theories or you can get all your electricity from renewables, they're ideologues.
• 42:37
  They're just like the Iranian mullahs, but they their ideology of choice is anti-humanism in the form of energy.
• 42:46
  There is not a climate Armageddon.
• 42:50
  And he writes this.
• 42:51
  He goes, some of us can still picture the young Joshka Fisher, a leftist of the Greens party.
• 42:59
  Surprising, who took the oath of office as environment minister in the German state of Hesse wearing sneakers and jeans in 1985.
• 43:09
  He then says, since then, in the name of Gaia, the Greek goddess of Earth, they have bludgeoned their citizens and straitjacketed their once mighty corporate titans that dominated the global chemical automotive and precision engineering industries through most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• 43:29
  But Germany's and the EU, you know, Germany's Inger Wendy and the EU's Green New Deal and the UK's climate change act, unleashed punitive green mandates and carbon taxes.
• 43:43
  Add in the Obama and Biden administration, Democrats, joined Brussels in setting virtuous examples of climate leadership, a defining criterion of energy policy in Western Europe and the U.S., with the significant exception of President Trump's two administrations.
• 44:04
  China, India, and Russia, and others in the global south went along with the virtuous ride, but only so far as necessary to benefit from the promise of climate finance and reparations.
• 44:16
  He talks about he says, the Western alliance bet on the wrong God.
• 44:21
  It's not Gaia, but Neptune, the Roman god of the seas that threatens Western Europe with Armageddon right now.
• 44:29
  Europe's civil civilizational threat is not from a climate crisis.
• 44:34
  It's not from your transactional, and we believe in the global liberal-led order.
• 44:39
  No, that's the United States gave you that, by the way.
• 44:42
  But from a crisis in supplies of essential fossil fuels and collateral collateral products of David Blackman, I referenced in the first hour or the first part of the show, such as fertilizers shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, the very commodities demonized by the Gaia climate cult.
• 45:10
  He goes, to be fair, it's not Neptune causing these tempest for wind-sailed boats that is at fault.
• 45:17
  But once Mars, the god of war invokes his passions over Neptune's domain, it behooves the Europeans to pay attention and understand maritime choke points and physical geography.
• 45:34
  One of the things that I'm very happy about, grateful towards, is my degree from Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
• 45:47
  Outside of my children in my marriage, I'm probably the most grateful for that school.
• 45:53
  I'm grateful to have a master's in public policies.
• 45:56
  I have a double major in international relations and state and local government.
• 46:00
  I did my master's thesis on fracking.
• 46:03
  As I was told many moons ago, I passed peer reviewed, and I'm in the U.S.
• 46:08
  Library of Congress, though I've never checked.
• 46:12
  But what I really did was my international relations degree.
• 46:16
  And I took what was called the war track and I learned about geopolitic and war from some of the best in the business.
• 46:24
  Doctors, Robert Kaufman, Victor Davis Hanson, and James J.
• 46:31
  Coyle.
• 46:33
  And they all really taught us the reality of war and geopolitics.
• 46:38
  I call the show geopower.
• 46:41
  Because geopolitics is it was really explained to me, it's it, it's talking about self-interest rightly understood.
• 46:50
  I believe that comes from Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas.
• 46:54
  People have a self-interest.
• 46:57
  I have Maslov's hierarchy of needs as most people's self-interest.
• 47:02
  I need to be fed, clothed, housing, and I'll talk.
• 47:05
  I'd even tell you you have a spiritual need.
• 47:07
  Some people call it a God-shaped vacuum, or I want to worship something.
• 47:12
  Am I going to worship Jesus or am I going to worship demonic influences that come from other religions?
• 47:18
  If you want to believe what Paul said, I do.
• 47:21
  The Apostle Paul about other religions.
• 47:28
  But when you think about geopolitics, self-interest rightly understood.
• 47:34
  Nations have an interest.
• 47:38
  The Iranians have an interest.
• 47:41
  They have an ideology.
• 47:48
  What are those?
• 47:51
  The Americans, the Japanese, the Australians, the Chinese.
• 47:56
  You can make an argument of the best in the world right now in geopolitics outside of Donald Trump.
• 48:02
  A self-interest, a transaction, as the Finnish president so stupidly says.
• 48:10
  That the U.S.
• 48:11
  is transactional.
• 48:12
  What does he think China and Russia are?
• 48:14
  What does he think the Finns are?
• 48:17
  Everybody's transactional.
• 48:18
  We've just been agreeing to this liberal-led order for the last 80 plus years because we were blowing the hell out of each other in World War II.
• 48:26
  But even that, that's transactional.
• 48:29
  We're trying to interconnect everybody.
• 48:32
  So we, if we're all making money together, we won't butcher one another the way we did in two world wars in less than 30 years.
• 48:43
  But for the Europeans to lecture anybody, for the world to not understand what is going on right now.
• 49:02
  The argument goes is the world's most critical energy choke point.
• 49:07
  It carries one-fifth of the global oil and liquid natural gas and delivers those cargoes from the Middle East producers to mainly Asia with some smaller volumes, though they were increasing to Europe, the US, and the rest of the world.
• 49:31
  Iranian officials, they've they've made these threats about the security of shipping.
• 49:36
  But sure, the government's never actually attempted to close the straits.
• 49:41
  But it's being blockaded.
• 49:48
  So think about this.
• 50:01
  When Qatar's Ross Lafon plant, the world's largest gas liquid liquid liquefaction plant was hit.
• 50:17
  What do you think really happened?
• 50:22
  What's that to what really happened?
• 50:28
  The Europeans have nothing.
• 50:31
  Asia is now scrambling.
• 50:34
  But when you allow these problems to fester, hey, we're living the good life.
• 50:39
  We're Europe.
• 50:40
  We're living the good life.
• 50:42
  Hey, we're the Chinese and the Indians, man.
• 50:44
  We're just trying to feed a billion people or more.
• 50:47
  Okay.
• 50:50
  We're Bangladesh.
• 50:51
  We're Vietnam.
• 50:52
  We're just trying to uh keep out the sex traffickers and again feed each other water and see if we've got some clothes and somewhere to live.
• 51:01
  Philippines the same way.
• 51:02
  The global south's going, we just want electricity.
• 51:07
  But all of this is allowed to happen.
• 51:10
  All of this nonsense has been allowed through these choke points.
• 51:25
  Even the Europeans that are rich, people are going to face devastation over this.
• 51:31
  And people could say, and maybe rightfully so.
• 51:35
  President Trump.
• 51:40
  Why did you follow the Israelis into doing this?
• 51:46
  The answer I'm going to give you is energy.
• 51:51
  You could not allow the Chinese to have a foothold in the Middle East.
• 51:59
  By any measurable output, the Chinese are much more powerful than the than the Nazi, the Nazi armies and the Imperial Japanese armies, navies, and air forces combined.
• 52:15
  More people, greater economic reach.
• 52:19
  About the only thing you really have on the Chinese right now is they don't make enough of their own oil.
• 52:27
  Which is really surprising because they put out a lot of petroleum engineers every year, thousands of them.
• 52:36
  They've not been able to figure out fracking technology.
• 52:40
  Don't be shocked too because of this.
• 52:42
  If you don't start seeing Chinese spies trying to steal uh fracking trade secrets from the likes of independent oil and gas producers, Chevron, Conico Phillips, Valero, etc.
• 52:55
  ExxonMobil.
• 53:00
  That's really the only choke point the Chinese have right now.
• 53:07
  So when you when you truly, truly, truly think about this.
• 53:14
  What you have now is here's what you really have.
• 53:19
  If this continues, the impact's going to fall on the poor developing countries.
• 53:25
  They're going to go back into poverty.
• 53:27
  They're not going to have energy, food prices are going to soar.
• 53:31
  In the developed world, Western Europe, the UK, these people have these, you know, they're deindustrializing because of their global warming policies.
• 53:41
  They have high energy prices.
• 53:43
  They have deficit financing to all the Muslims they've let in and others.
• 53:49
  So they have these high social welfare states.
• 53:54
  The Europeans have burned literally their energy bridges with Russia.
• 54:00
  They're now going to have to compete with rich Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea for spot LNG cargoes.
• 54:28
  And you're going to recycle those petrol dollars into U.S.
• 54:31
  treasuries.
• 54:39
  But now what we're seeing is a complete collapse of all of this.
• 54:45
  You hear people talk about the petroleum.
• 54:56
  What I would tell you, welcome to geopolitics.
• 55:02
  So any energy analyst who goes, don't bomb Iran, don't hit their electrical grid, you do realize that the Russians have been hitting the Ukrainian electrical grid, but if the Russians really wanted to put that country into blackout, they could do it.
• 55:16
  And don't be shocked if they do it soon.
• 55:21
  When you think of geopolitics, think of geopower.
• 55:25
  And that power comes from energy, and the world we all live under was put forth from the Bretton Woods Agreement, and that thing has been backed by the petrodollar the entire time.
• 55:36
  It has been backed by oil.
• 55:39
  Oil is in everything.
• 55:42
  You're never getting rid of oil.
• 55:46
  I advocate all the time, build nuclear power plants for electricity and for all sorts of all sorts of industrial processes, steel, chemicals, petrochemicals, steam, process heat, district heat, desalinization, hydrogen production, use nuclear.
• 56:07
  But oil isn't going anywhere.
• 56:09
  So what you better begin to do, if you're the Europeans and you're the rest of the world, you better get all of those products out of the Middle East.
• 56:16
  You better put other ways for them to get to the world outside of the Red Sea and the Strait of Ormoose.
• 56:23
  You better also realize that the world is coming after everybody.
• 56:31
  And stop thinking that if we're all equal, we'll all get along with each other.
• 56:40
  Doesn't work that way.
• 56:42
  Most people understand power, and that's truly power of money.
• 56:46
  That's what they really understand.
• 56:48
  And all of that is backed by energy.
• 56:53
  I'm the host of Geopower, Energy and Real Politic.
• 56:58
  And I just want to say thank you very much and God bless you.