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Greenland Grabs, Globalist Grifts, Grand-Jury Games: Grilling Greenland-Guile, Guyana Gossip, Gulf Gangs, Great-Power Globalization, Government Gaslighting, Geopolitics Gone Ghastly · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  there also for your perusal. Should you choose to do so? I'm
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  gonna do a little bit because I want to play this video for
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  you. There's a guy. I don't know if you watch him and he you
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  know, I, I don't know who he is. You know, I've watched him a
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  few times, but I don't know. I mean, he's not famous or
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  nothing. He's just guy with a YouTube channel appears to be a
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  normal Joe Blow, just like me, but he says stuff that I tend
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  to agree with. And I have been trying to put into words, some
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  of the things that he has said. And, you know, I was watching
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  him last night late. And I was like, you know what, he's, he's
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  done such a good job. I think I'm going to share his 13
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  minutes. Am I screaming in the microphone again, like an idiot?
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  I don't mean to, but it seems to be a bit loud in my ear so that
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  I can control I believe, and I shall. So at any rate, I think
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  I'm going to play this video for you. But before I do, I want to
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  tell you a little bit about because I've had similar thought
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  processes. And I just think this guy puts together for me plus
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  he pulled a senator who listened to or a state rep. I don't know
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  which one he is. I didn't recognize him either. And he
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  didn't put his name on on the bottom. And I think he mentions
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  it in the show. So I'll let you I'll let you listen to that.
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  It's only 13 minutes. And one of the most important parts of
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  this in my view is he put up a slide and a backdrop of US
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  interventions since World War Two. And he was comparing this
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  this Cyrus Jansen, I believe his name is got a YouTube channel
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  900 and something thousand subscribers. So more power to
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  him. I think that's good stuff. And he he put up a screen. And
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  so and I don't want to say this is my research because it's not
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  and he put up this slide that says US interventions since World
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  War Two, bomb attacks, sabotage, and attempted regime change.
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  And he was comparing us to China, because, like me, he
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  believes as to several other people that the mistakes that
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  are being made internationally these days, by the Trump team
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  are going to come back and bite us in the ass, and they already
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  are. And, but he and he believes similarly to me, but he put it
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  he put it very well. And he listed this and he came up with
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  some 6667, you know, places, and I want to I'm going to list them
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  I'm going to go through them all. And from 1945 to 1965 is
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  quite a list to 20 years, China, Syria, Korea, China, again,
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  Iran, Guatemala, Tibet, Indonesia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of
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  Congo, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Brazil, British Guyana, Republic
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  of Congo, Guatemala, Laos, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Peru.
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  Okay, if you get all the way to 70, you can add Greece, Guatemala,
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  Cambodia, after 1970, until 1991, you know, follow the Soviet Union,
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  let's let's let's go that list, because it's, again, pretty large.
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  Cambodia, Chile, Argentina, Angola, Turkey, Poland, El Salvador,
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  Nicaragua, Cambodia, again, Lebanon, Grenada, Libya, Iran, Libya,
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  again, Philippines, Panama, Haiti, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq,
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  that those are 92 to 96, Somalia and Iraq, and then Bosnia, 95.
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  Iraq, 98, Sudan, 98, Afghanistan, 98, Yugoslavia, 99, Afghanistan,
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  2001, Iraq, 2002, 2003, Yemen, 2002 to 2020, Haiti, 2004,
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  Somalia, 2006 and 7, Iran, 2005 to the present, Honduras, 2009,
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  Libya, 2011, Syria, 2011 to the present, Brazil, 2016, Bolivia,
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  2019, Venezuela, 2019, Guyana, 2020, Iraq, 2020, Somalia, 2020,
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  Afghanistan, 2020.
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  And it doesn't even list Ukraine in there, or the current Venezuela,
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  you know, those two aren't listed in there.
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  So it's nearly 70 times 68, 69, something like that, from that list
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  that I put together.
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  And again, that's not my list.
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  That's his list.
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  But that sounds about right.
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  You know, I've done some some looks myself too.
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  And, you know, depending on how you how you count them, there could be
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  three or four more, three or four less, depending on what you count.
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  And we are continually engaging in international force of other people
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  to force our democracy.
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  And his point is that when you get through all of this, and you look
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  at what China is doing in the danger of what's going on right now, and
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  I think he puts it very well.
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  So I really, I'm just gonna share it.
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  I'm stealing his content, and I'm gonna share it with you.
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  But at least I'm giving him credit for it, because it's his work.
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  And he put it together, and it's a decent channel on his.
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  And I've seen him once or twice before.
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  But it's not somebody I watch all the time.
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  And I'm not sure he puts out things all that often.
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  I really haven't done any research on his channel.
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  And I just like the way he put it.
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  He seems like a calm and reasonable and an interesting assessment.
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  And those of you who think that what we are doing across the world is a good thing,
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  I think you're mistaken.
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  And my take is a little more brutal than this guy's take.
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  He seems, if anything, he's nicer than I am.
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  And I want to play for you one other thing before I get to him, because
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  this is the crap that we are living in right now.
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  And if you think that Marco Rubio is the answer, and again, now I kind of feel like,
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  all right, a year is gone.
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  Now we're seeing the true colors.
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  We are right back to neocon, and we're not leaving.
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  And Trump is part of the neocon movement now.
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  He's fully involved.
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  And all you got to do is listen to this.
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  All you got to do is listen to Marco Rubio.
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  Now, I don't believe any of this.
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  I believe he is misstating and stretching the truth here.
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  You're free to believe what you want, but I don't believe a drop of what he says here.
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  And let me see.
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  It's only a minute or two long.
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  So I'll play this Rubio track for you.
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  And let's get going with him, because, I mean, the nuts have escaped the nut house.
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  OK, and listen to this guy.
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  The single most serious threat to the United States from the Western hemisphere is from
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  transnational terrorist.
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  Hold on, I don't know if I got that in the very beginning or not, or if I can somehow
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  get to the to the start of it, because that doesn't seem to be the primarily focused on
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  narco trafficking, but there are all sides businesses as well.
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  So the good news is we have a lot of countries in the region that openly cooperate and work
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  with us to confront these challenges.
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  Mexico, their level of cooperation with us is the highest it's ever been in their
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  history. It's throughout Central America for the most part, except for maybe Nicaragua
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  and to some extent Honduras.
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  We've had great cooperation from Ecuador, from El Salvador, from Ecuador being in South
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  America, but across the Pacific Coast where we're also undertaking efforts.
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  Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, these are all nations that cooperate with us openly in
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  search of stability in the region.
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  You move to the Caribbean basin, in Trinidad, in Guyana, in Jamaica, in the Dominican
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  Republic, countries that openly cooperate with us.
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  Even Colombia, despite its unusual president, has institutions in that country that work
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  very closely with us. And those ties remain unimpeded and unaffected.
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  So all of this is very positive.
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  There's one place that doesn't cooperate, and it's the illegitimate regime in
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  Venezuela. Not only do they not cooperate with us, they openly cooperate with terrorists
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  and criminal elements.
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  For example, they invite Hezbollah in Iran to operate from their territory.
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  But they also allow the ELN and the FARC dissidents not just to operate from inside of
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  Venezuelan territory, to control Venezuelan territory unencumbered, unimpeded.
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  On top of that, we know that they are in cahoots with drug trafficking organizations.
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  It's not that they don't. It's not just that they don't work with us against these
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  organizations. It's that they openly cooperate with these guys and allow them to
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  operate. So these guys are marching in and out, doing whatever they want from Venezuelan
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  territory. And it's a challenge.
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  And so that's why that's received so much attention.
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  Now, do we consider Maduro legitimate?
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  No. And by the way, guys, when I say these things about Maduro and his role in
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  narcotrafficking, it's not I hear, as you report, Marco Rubio says, it's not me, a
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  grand jury. And who gives a crap about any grand jury?
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  You can indict a ham sandwich.
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  Every lawyer knows this.
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  This is crap. New York, a grand jury in the Southern District of New York was presented
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  evidence and came back with an indictment, not just against Maduro, by the way.
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  So this is a lie. A bunch of people.
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  This is how you lie as a lawyer.
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  In fact, this is the easiest lie as a lawyer.
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  The nephews of the of his wife indicted, convicted in the United States for
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  narcotrafficking. Like this was until President Trump started doing something about
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  these narcotrafficking links.
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  Nobody disputed that Maduro and his regime was in cahoots with narcotraffickers, not
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  to mention the fact that they unleashed train that Agua gangs on the United States.
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  They've unleashed a mass migration event, perhaps the largest in history.
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  Eight million people have left Venezuela since 2014.
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  When it comes to the. OK, this is is what I'm talking about.
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  This is a gifted lawyer selling you something right now, and that is what he is doing.
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  This is a salesman talking to a jury.
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  This is what lawyers do.
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  OK, and he takes half truths, mistruths, straight up untruths and converts them into a
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  narrative for the jury.
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  That's you to listen to and then tries to make it sound good and sound reasonable because
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  he's a pretty boy and people will tend to believe him more than they will.
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  Donald Trump, who just gets out there, it's like this, you know, and you know, he says
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  the same thing all the time is is unfortunate for Donald Trump and he doesn't put it
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  together like like Rubio, the salesman can.
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  And so this is the start of how you take over a regime.
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  And all they're doing is justifying their own bad acts and the thievery of oil from
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  Venezuela of look over here while I present this story to you over here.
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  But the real story is inside of Venezuela and the theft that is going on openly by the
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  U.S. government. OK, and now I want to share with you the the history.
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  Remember that what I showed you about.
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  About the number of times that we have have engaged in regime change for all the same
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  things that we contrast a second, we've got to get a zero him out a second.
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  Sorry, I'm not I'm not as gifted in the in the studio as some.
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  And I want to play for you his his discussion on and in the name of his of his show or
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  well, it's Cyrus Jansen J.
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  A. N. S. S. E. N.
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  Is how you spell his name.
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  He's had on two hundred eighty eight thousand views of this video put up three years
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  ago. I played for you some Jeffrey Sachs last week and a little bit talked about it
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  yesterday. And but I want to share with you this video of his, which is called Why
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  Trump's Venezuela War is a gift to China.
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  And I want you to pay attention to this because it absolutely makes sense.
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  Every stitch of it.
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  What he says, because trust me, the rest of the world is paying attention to this and
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  the rest of the world is watching us creating war wars and rumors of wars and weeping and
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  wailing and gnashing of teeth that's going on all over the West because of what Donald
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  Trump and company are doing.
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  And, you know, it's one thing to be a nationalist of what I feel is the greatest nation
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  in the world, the United States.
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  It's quite another to be a colonial leader of the next kingdom that is going to just force
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  everyone into submission and dominate them.
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  This is how regimes and kingdoms and monarchs get toppled is the base doesn't agree.
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  And I'm a member of the base.
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  And but I think more importantly, the rest of the world is a member of the base that
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  doesn't agree, didn't agree with with.
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  The US under the previous regimes of presidents over the last 15 to 20 years, stretching NATO
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  into the the southeast of Asia, which is BS and and trying to dominate the world with
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  NATO. And they don't like it any better now that the US is somewhat divorcing itself from
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  the EU part of NATO and going, well, screw them all.
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  Then we're nationalists.
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  We'll do it all ourselves.
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  We don't need any of them.
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  And if they disagree with us, you know, I feel like we're in the stages of Tiakhtoni
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  Tsunami Protivnas, which is a famous Russian statement by the by the Tsar and by many in
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  Russian history, actually.
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  And what it means is basically those who aren't with us are against us, meaning if
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  you're not our friend, that makes you my enemy.
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  You know, if you're not my you can't have there's nothing in between, basically.
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  Those who aren't with us are against us.
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  And I feel like that's that's where we are going.
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  Well, you don't like the fact that we want Greenland.
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  Tough shit. We're taking it anyway.
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  You don't like the fact that Cuba chooses to disagree with our way of life.
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  Tough shit. We're going to take Cuba, too.
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  You don't like the fact that Iran, we get to declare that the people of Iran are against
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  their own leadership and we get to come in and dictate how that leadership is going to
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  be pro-American.
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  Fine. You know, we'll do that on our own, too.
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  That's not going to happen, by the way.
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  And not not there are people who aren't going to support that move.
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  And I hate to think that we're going to wake up the the China end of this.
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  And so I'm going to, without further ado, give you Cyrus Janssen's full video.
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  No, it is 11 minutes.
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  Oh, no, it's not. 13 minutes.
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  Long, 13 minutes and three seconds, it appears, and I shall share it with you even now.
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  Pay attention. What if I told you that China, not the United States, is actually the
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  biggest winner of Trump's invasion of Venezuela?
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  I know that sounds counterintuitive.
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  On the surface, the media is telling us that this is a power move from the United States.
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  Proof that Trump is willing to use force to reassert American dominance and restore U.S.
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  leverage around the world.
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  But beneath that narrative, something far more dangerous is unfolding.
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  Just listen to the words of former U.S.
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  ambassador Michael McFaul, who recently warned, if Trump keeps acting like the leader of an
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  imperial rogue state, more and more countries will begin to lean towards China, which will
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  be perceived as the more rational, peaceful rules abiding great power.
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  What could be worse for long term American national interests?
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  That's a devastating question because the answer is nothing.
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  And this isn't hypothetical.
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  Across much of the world today, especially outside the West, China is increasingly viewed
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  as the more rational, peaceful and certainly rules abiding power.
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  When was the last time China was involved in a major war?
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  1979 in Vietnam.
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  And when was the last time China carried out a regime change operation?
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  The answer is simple.
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  It hasn't.
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  Now contrast that with the United States.
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  Since World War Two, Washington has launched more than 50 regime change operations across
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  nearly every region of the globe.
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  But this moment is different.
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  According to Senator Chris Murphy, who spoke candidly after a classified briefing on Venezuela,
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  the United States is embarking on a path that could fundamentally reshape the global order.
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  This is an insane plan.
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  They are talking about stealing the Venezuelan oil at gunpoint for a period of time undefined
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  as leverage to micromanage the country.
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  The scope and insanity of that plan is absolutely stunning.
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  So we learned a lot.
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  I'm glad we had the briefing.
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  But this is going to be a very, very rough ride for the United States.
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  The danger here is that most Americans can't see what's happening because the propaganda
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  coming from the White House and much of legacy media is extremely effective.
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  Just look at a recent New York Times article titled,
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  How the Don Roe Doctrine Reinforces Xi's Vision of Power in Asia.
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  It's a remarkable distortion.
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  The United States invades a sovereign country, detains its leader,
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  threatens to seize its natural resources,
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  openly discusses new regime change operations in Cuba, Colombia, Iran,
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  and even floats the possibility of using military force against Greenland,
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  which don't forget is a NATO ally.
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  And yet somehow this story becomes about China.
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  This is why the United States so fundamentally misunderstands its rival.
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  And the ancient Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu,
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  explained this centuries ago in his classic book, The Art of War.
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  If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat.
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  If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
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  That quote perfectly captures the current moment.
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  The U.S. government neither understands itself nor the nature of China's strategy.
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  And when that happens, what looks like strength in the short term
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  becomes defeat in the long term.
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  China understands this dynamic,
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  and that's precisely why it's positioned to benefit most from America's overreach.
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  Next week, Canada's prime minister will fly to China for a meeting with Beijing
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  to specifically reduce Canada's economic reliance on the United States.
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  This meeting 100% would not happen without the actions of Donald Trump.
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  But even Canada, the United States' longest and most trusted ally,
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  has had enough and will now seek a stronger partnership with Beijing.
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  But most Americans still can't see the reality of what's going on.
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  Just watch this clip from Glenn Beck, the owner of Blaze,
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  a conservative media company who shares his theory
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  on why Trump's moves are so good for the United States.
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  China needs the oil.
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  Well, 60 to 90% of all of the exports from Venezuela now not going to China.
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  How is China going to be able to power all of their electricity needs?
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  How are they going to do that if they don't get oil from Venezuela?
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  So how exactly is China supposed to power its growing electricity needs?
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  Well, if you actually look at the data, China doesn't have a power problem at all.
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  In fact, China has been steadily increasing
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  its electricity output for the past 25 consecutive years,
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  becoming the largest producer of renewable energy in the world,
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  while US electricity growth has largely stagnated.
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  With the explosion of AI and the massive increase in electricity demand that comes with it,
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  I'm honestly far more concerned about whether the United States can keep up, not China.
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  Just consider this.
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  In the first half of 2025 alone,
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  China added more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined.
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  That's not a country struggling to meet future energy demand.
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  That's a country racing ahead of everyone else.
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  Which brings us back to Venezuela.
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  The idea that Venezuela could somehow deal a serious blow to China's energy supply
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  is completely false.
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  China is roughly 80% energy independent,
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  making it one of the most energy self-sufficient major economies on earth.
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  And of the roughly 20% of energy China does import,
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  only about 2% comes from Venezuela.
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  China has spent decades deliberately diversifying its energy imports
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  so it is never overly dependent on any single country.
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  And this graph makes that crystal clear.
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  Even in a scenario like Venezuela,
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  China's energy system is built to absorb shocks without disruption.
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  And here's the real irony.
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  If the United States takes control of Venezuelan oil and sells it to global markets,
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  that increases global supply and pushes prices down,
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  which actually benefits Chinese refiners and energy consumers,
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  rather than hurting them.
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  But here is why America's conquest in Venezuela
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  is different from other regime change operations.
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  Just listen to Vice President J.D. Vance
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  and meet his intentions on national television.
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  Taking out a dictator in Venezuela,
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  how does that help the average American?
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  Well, a few things, Jesse.
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  First of all, what it means is we're going to be able to control
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  the incredible natural resources of Venezuela.
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  So U.S. citizens are going to benefit
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  because our government is literally going to invade a sovereign country
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  and steal their natural resources.
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  You see, normally when the United States intervenes in another country,
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  whether true or not,
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  the U.S. government usually comes up with a moral justification,
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  like liberating the people, spreading democracy.
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  But the Trump administration isn't even trying to hide their true intentions.
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  We're going to have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.
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  We're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be.
• 24:23
  Just remember, this isn't about drugs.
• 24:26
  This isn't about American safety.
• 24:27
  It most certainly isn't about democracy
• 24:29
  or actually doing anything that would benefit the people of Venezuela.
• 24:33
  Moving forward, the U.S. government's official policy is one of colonialism,
• 24:37
  where the United States will exert its power on whomever it chooses
• 24:41
  and take whatever it wants in return.
• 24:43
  This is actually the words of Stephen Miller,
• 24:45
  the White House chief of staff for policy,
• 24:48
  who is the mastermind behind all of Trump's aggressive military action.
• 24:53
  The idiot behind all of Trump's...
• 24:57
  Not the mastermind, the idiot.
• 24:59
  Listen to this moron.
• 25:00
  Hang on, Stephen Miller.
• 25:03
  The United States of America is running Venezuela.
• 25:06
  By definition, that's true.
• 25:07
  Jake, we live in a law...
• 25:09
  So according to Miller, might makes right,
• 25:12
  and whoever is the most powerful country now has the authority to be in charge,
• 25:16
  which is actually kind of interesting,
• 25:17
  because it essentially means the U.S. administration
• 25:20
  is now supporting the idea of Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
• 25:24
  Because honestly speaking,
• 25:25
  how could any U.S. government official lecture Putin
• 25:27
  and say he is not allowed to attack Ukraine?
• 25:30
  In Putin's eyes, Ukraine joining NATO is a legitimate security threat to his country,
• 25:35
  and according to the U.S. government's new position in foreign policy,
• 25:38
  might makes right.
• 25:39
  Do you see where I'm going with this
• 25:41
  and why I said at the start of the video
• 25:42
  Trump's actions in Venezuela are going to backfire on the United States?
• 25:47
  But now I want to reveal to you the real reason Trump is doing all of this.
• 25:50
  We've already established this has nothing to do with freedom
• 25:53
  and democracy for the Venezuelan people.
• 25:55
  The U.S. government could care less about these people
• 25:58
  and have been crystal clear their primary interest is in fact the oil.
• 26:02
  But there is another layer to this complex situation,
• 26:05
  and let's explore this together.
• 26:06
  Senator Elizabeth Warren shared this tweet,
• 26:08
  which gives us some insights.
• 26:10
  I just left the Venezuela briefing.
• 26:12
  It's worse than you thought.
• 26:13
  Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan
• 26:17
  to run Venezuela than the American people.
• 26:20
  And this is another major problem for the Trump administration,
• 26:23
  because if the oil companies were informed about an act of war
• 26:27
  before it happened and Congress was not,
• 26:29
  this is what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.
• 26:34
  Venezuela was a gift to the U.S. stock market
• 26:36
  and a coordinated stimulus operation.
• 26:39
  Just look at how every major U.S. oil stock immediately surged in trading.
• 26:43
  Chevron gained 11% in a single day of trading,
• 26:46
  adding $35 billion in market cap alone.
• 26:49
  And now look at the message President Trump sent over the weekend.
• 26:52
  I am pleased to announce the interim authorities in Venezuela
• 26:55
  will be turning over 30 to 50 million barrels
• 26:58
  of high quality sanctioned oil to the United States.
• 27:02
  This oil will be sold at its market price
• 27:04
  and that money will be controlled by me
• 27:07
  as President of the United States.
• 27:09
  This direct power move by Trump
• 27:10
  to personally control the money from this sale
• 27:13
  was confirmed in this article from Defense One, who reports,
• 27:17
  the White House says it will put the proceeds
• 27:18
  from selling seized Venezuelan oil into offshore accounts
• 27:22
  so that the money would not be held by the U.S. Treasury,
• 27:24
  but be controlled by President Trump,
• 27:27
  as he declared on social media Tuesday evening.
• 27:29
  Offshore bank accounts?
• 27:31
  Controlled only by the President of the United States?
• 27:33
  Are you kidding me?
• 27:34
  This is corruption and manipulation on an entirely new level,
• 27:38
  but it gets even worse.
• 27:40
  The White House sent out this message to the American public.
• 27:43
  I have determined that for the good of our country,
• 27:46
  especially in these very troubled and dangerous times,
• 27:49
  our military budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 trillion,
• 27:53
  but rather $1.5 trillion.
• 27:56
  And just like that,
• 27:57
  Donald Trump has increased the U.S. military spending
• 28:00
  by $500 billion.
• 28:02
  Are you kidding me?
• 28:03
  This is not what the American public voted for.
• 28:05
  U.S. citizens want affordable housing,
• 28:08
  healthcare,
• 28:08
  childcare,
• 28:09
  and better opportunities,
• 28:10
  but once again,
• 28:11
  Trump has proven to the world
• 28:13
  and most importantly to U.S. citizens
• 28:15
  who voted him into power
• 28:16
  that he has no interest in serving the people,
• 28:19
  but instead enriching himself
• 28:20
  and the military industrial complex.
• 28:23
  The U.S. government wants you to believe Trump's actions
• 28:25
  are for the best long-term interest of the United States,
• 28:28
  but honestly,
• 28:29
  I see the complete opposite.
• 28:31
  These actions are of a desperate leader
• 28:33
  who realizes he is losing power
• 28:35
  and there are massive red flags
• 28:36
  waving at all of us in the face.
• 28:39
  This past week,
• 28:40
  Trump has announced a massive military expansion,
• 28:43
  threatened to annex new territories,
• 28:45
  demonstrated a willingness to use force unilaterally,
• 28:48
  launched a new imperial doctrine
• 28:49
  and withdrawn from international organizations
• 28:52
  and international treaties,
• 28:54
  but what's most revealing
• 28:55
  is what Trump said in a press conference earlier this week.
• 28:58
  Not many people caught this,
• 29:00
  but I honestly think this is the main reason
• 29:02
  Trump is leading the United States
• 29:03
  down this dangerous path.
• 29:05
  I don't win the midterms
• 29:06
  because if we don't win the midterms,
• 29:09
  it's just going to be,
• 29:11
  I mean,
• 29:12
  they'll find a reason to impeach me.
• 29:15
  I'll get impeached.
• 29:16
  And there it is,
• 29:17
  straight from the mouth of the president of the United States,
• 29:20
  Trump knows his time is limited
• 29:22
  and his only hope to win the midterm elections
• 29:24
  is to draw the United States into more conflict,
• 29:27
  prop up the stock market
• 29:28
  with these illegal moves in Venezuela
• 29:30
  and hope it's enough
• 29:31
  to keep the Republicans in charge of Congress
• 29:33
  after the midterm elections.
• 29:35
  If he fails to do that,
• 29:37
  there's a very high chance that he gets impeached
• 29:39
  and loses all of his power.
• 29:41
  But I'm gonna leave you with one final tweet
• 29:42
  from former ambassador Michael McFaul,
• 29:45
  which once again proves China
• 29:46
  is going to benefit the most
• 29:47
  from this internal chaos in the United States.
• 29:50
  This past week,
• 29:51
  the US government withdrew itself
• 29:52
  from no less than 66 different
• 29:54
  international organizations and treaties
• 29:57
  and the ambassador states the obvious,
• 29:59
  this is a giant gift to China.
• 30:01
  The CCP won't be withdrawing
• 30:03
  from any of these multilateral organizations
• 30:05
  or agreements.
• 30:06
  We are retiring as a global superpower.
• 30:08
  This won't end well for our security or prosperity.
• 30:11
  The simple reality is that
• 30:13
  if the United States does not want
• 30:14
  to be the world leader anymore,
• 30:16
  then another country will have to step in
• 30:18
  and fill this void.
• 30:19
  China is already the top trading partner
• 30:21
  to over 120 countries around the globe.
• 30:24
  Instead of launching regime changes
• 30:26
  and military operations,
• 30:28
  China chooses to invest in infrastructure
• 30:29
  and trade deals.
• 30:31
  And this is why 53 of 54 African nations
• 30:34
  pledged their allegiance to China last year
• 30:36
  in a tariff-free trade agreement.
• 30:38
  Let's just answer that question
• 30:40
  that ambassador Michael McFaul asked
• 30:41
  at the beginning of today's video.
• 30:43
  Which superpower right now
• 30:44
  is the more rational, peaceful,
• 30:46
  and rules abiding great power?
• 30:48
  And the answer becomes quite obvious.
• 30:50
  China is going to step in and fill America's void.
• 30:53
  And this is why I believe
• 30:53
  they are gonna be the long-term winner
• 30:55
  of America's illegal invasion into Venezuela.
• 30:58
  Everyone, I wanna thank you for making...
• 31:00
  That I wanted to share with you in its entirety.
• 31:04
  And that is Cyrus Janssen.
• 31:08
  He made some highly effective
• 31:14
  and logical statements of everything.
• 31:18
  And I'm happy to listen to other parts of it.
• 31:21
  Some of the things I've said.
• 31:23
  I reported to you last week
• 31:24
  about the withdrawing of the US
• 31:27
  from these 66 organizations.
• 31:30
  Just unilaterally we're out.
• 31:32
  Now, most of them, or a good number of them,
• 31:35
  I agree with.
• 31:36
  If you're gonna have the society
• 31:39
  for the organization for transgender athletics,
• 31:44
  fine, those sort of things.
• 31:46
  I don't believe we should be involved in anyway.
• 31:49
  But the fact is 66 organizations,
• 31:54
  some of which they've been around for a long time,
• 31:59
  and the US is out of them.
• 32:00
  I'm more concerned about
• 32:03
  the other unilateral activities.
• 32:06
  The putting money in an offshore account
• 32:10
  that the president controls,
• 32:13
  that's shocking.
• 32:15
  Upping the budget to 1.5 trillion,
• 32:18
  just unilaterally,
• 32:20
  that's not how spending works.
• 32:24
  And that is supposed to be...
• 32:27
  The budget comes from the legislative branch.
• 32:31
  But oh no, not if you're Donald Trump.
• 32:34
  You just, ah, here's another 500 billion,
• 32:39
  half a trillion dollars.
• 32:42
  Jansen is not alone in his statements.
• 32:48
  I tell you what,
• 32:49
  most of the things that he reported to you,
• 32:52
  I have reported to you as well,
• 32:56
  and made the same sorts of commentary.
• 32:59
  But I really liked how he put it all together,
• 33:02
  and it flowed pretty well.
• 33:04
  And his name is, again, Cyrus Jansen,
• 33:07
  J-A-N-S-S-E-N.
• 33:10
  And he's got a,
• 33:14
  what do you call it,
• 33:16
  channel on YouTube.
• 33:18
  It's pretty good.
• 33:20
  Never interrupt your opponent
• 33:23
  while he is in the middle of making a mistake.
• 33:26
  And some of the commentary that is read under here,
• 33:30
  this isn't new.
• 33:31
  The United States has been a lawless empire for decades.
• 33:34
  The only difference now
• 33:35
  is they aren't even hiding behind democracy,
• 33:38
  human rights, or freedom BS.
• 33:42
  You know that people are putting,
• 33:43
  I guess now Netanyahu and Trump are in the same boat.
• 33:47
  Keep wars going to save their power and avoid jail time.
• 33:51
  Now I disagree with jail time,
• 33:53
  but here's one.
• 33:55
  I'm Danish and cheer on anyone giving the USA a hard time.
• 33:59
  Total arrogant mafia state and traitors.
• 34:02
  They need to learn humility.
• 34:05
  A civilization that's been here for 5,000 years
• 34:08
  isn't going to easily be outsmarted
• 34:11
  by a gang of capital mobsters
• 34:13
  who've only been in existence for 250 years.
• 34:16
  Freedom and democracy are the last thing Trump cares about.
• 34:21
  Cyrus, this is what everyone is missing.
• 34:23
  China has an agreement with Venezuela
• 34:26
  over the Chinese-built Alula oil platform,
• 34:29
  which is worth billions and functions as an energy hub.
• 34:33
  It serves a strategic foothold in the Western Hemisphere,
• 34:36
  delivers 60,000 barrels of crude daily.
• 34:40
  Over $60 billion in Chinese loans
• 34:42
  are tied to Venezuelan oil exports,
• 34:45
  making China the nation's backer and strategic protector.
• 34:51
  China's defense of its investment isn't through tanks,
• 34:55
  but through contracts and courts.
• 34:57
  Legally binding oil repayment agreements
• 35:02
  give Beijing leverage over any future Venezuelan government.
• 35:07
  If needed, China can bring these disputes into international court,
• 35:12
  locking up Venezuelan oil assets for years.
• 35:15
  The energy contracts that China has with Venezuela
• 35:18
  include arbitration clauses under institutions
• 35:21
  like the World Bank or ISDS,
• 35:25
  giving investors a neutral ground to challenge.
• 35:28
  When nations default, companies or sovereign leaders can seize assets.
• 35:32
  This legal power gives creditor nations enormous military.
• 35:36
  So this guy's trying to justify the takeover.
• 35:42
  The Chinese are sending ships to continue receiving payment
• 35:45
  of the oil per the loan for oil agreement.
• 35:47
  The U.S. allows China to do this
• 35:49
  because they know China can crank up the pain
• 35:52
  on the American economy in an election year that will sink Trump.
• 35:56
  Those Chinese flagged oil tankers get a big pass,
• 35:59
  and the U.S. is not embarrassed.
• 36:00
  China controls the majority of Venezuelan oil,
• 36:03
  60 million barrels a day,
• 36:05
  and the U.S. cannot dislodge China from the Alula oil platform.
• 36:09
  The rest of Venezuela oil is extremely difficult and costly to extract.
• 36:14
  It all is for show in the U.S.
• 36:17
  The kidnapping of Maduro is a big nothing burger.
• 36:24
  And so here's one.
• 36:27
  To be an enemy of America is dangerous,
• 36:30
  but to be an ally is fatal.
• 36:33
  Some of these comments, you know, are just...
• 36:38
  It's, tell you what, it's an interesting world we're living in right now.
• 36:43
  And I, you know, I, for one,
• 36:46
  am not all that impressed with where we are so far.
• 36:53
  Um, I wanted to read to you, there was a,
• 36:57
  where is my Greenland, uh, bill?
• 37:02
  So somebody pushed, somebody put a, uh, a Greenland bill.
• 37:08
  Here we go.
• 37:09
  This came out, um, this morning.
• 37:12
  Um, Denmark's ambassador to Washington,
• 37:17
  Jesper Møller Sorensen,
• 37:20
  has said he made it abundantly clear to U.S. Congressman Randy Fine
• 37:28
  that Greenland is part of Denmark after the lawmaker introduced a bill
• 37:34
  calling for annexation of the Arctic Island.
• 37:38
  On Monday, the Republican congressman introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.
• 37:46
  The bill is aimed to authorize the U.S. president to take
• 37:50
  whatever steps are necessary to annex or acquire Greenland,
• 37:55
  and mandates a report to Congress outlining the measures required for its eventual admission
• 38:02
  as a state.
• 38:04
  Can you believe this?
• 38:05
  In a post on X, the Danish ambassador said he and Greenland's representative in Washington
• 38:11
  met with Fine the same day,
• 38:13
  reiterated that the autonomous Arctic territory is part of Denmark.
• 38:18
  Sorensen added that Copenhagen and Greenland are ready to deepen security cooperation with the U.S.
• 38:25
  to strengthen NATO's collective defense.
• 38:28
  But Donald Trump said last week that the U.S. would acquire Greenland one way or the other.
• 38:35
  This is nuts!
• 38:36
  He also argued that Denmark is unable to provide security for the world's largest island
• 38:43
  and claimed it's covered with Russian and Chinese ships.
• 38:46
  Total horse crap, by the way.
• 38:49
  The allegations have been rejected by a number of officials and by me.
• 38:54
  Trump has sought to acquire Greenland since his first term.
• 38:58
  He renewed the push shortly after assuming office in 2025,
• 39:01
  stressed that the island is vital to Arctic security.
• 39:06
  Which it isn't.
• 39:07
  The claims coming on the heels, excuse me, of a U.S. military raid in Venezuela
• 39:13
  and the unprecedented kidnapping of its president
• 39:17
  have further heightened tension between Washington and Europe,
• 39:21
  who have uniformly rejected the U.S.'s attempt to take control over Greenland.
• 39:27
  Denmark insists that the future of the island,
• 39:31
  which already hosts a U.S. military base, must be decided by its people,
• 39:36
  the vast majority of whom voted in 2008 to maintain self-governing status with Denmark.
• 39:44
  Beijing has condemned Trump's use of China and Russia as pretexts
• 39:48
  for expanding U.S. influence in the region.
• 39:53
  While Moscow has yet to officially respond to Trump's latest remarks,
• 39:59
  Russia warns against Arctic militarization
• 40:03
  and said Greenland's future should be decided by its people.
• 40:10
  And isn't that crazy?
• 40:13
  I hate to laugh over this stuff, I really do.
• 40:19
  But it's, I can't decide if the world is, you know, where am I living?
• 40:26
  You know, people, you know, it's been real popular all over the place
• 40:30
  and I've actually started kind of liking them.
• 40:32
  It took me a while to get, oh, how long did it take me to even watch a Walking Dead episode?
• 40:43
  I wouldn't do it.
• 40:44
  I don't like gross.
• 40:47
  I don't like scary movies.
• 40:49
  I cover my eyes in bloody parts of movies, you know, real gore and stuff like that.
• 40:56
  I just don't like it.
• 40:59
  But I do like the theme of post-apocalyptic, you know, I've always found that interesting.
• 41:11
  I don't know why, you know, starting with books like The Stand, you know, Stephen King
• 41:19
  and, you know, the world ending or a big plague killing people off or whatever.
• 41:24
  People turning into zombies.
• 41:27
  Remember the Brad Pitt movie, State of Z, I think it was called?
• 41:35
  And I liked that show, although I had to, you know, turn my head away
• 41:42
  numerous times in that show because of the gore.
• 41:45
  I don't really like that.
• 41:47
  And but, you know, I'm always wondering how we're going to create the end of the world.
• 41:56
  And part of it is, excuse me, these activities that create war and rumor of war and horror
• 42:03
  stories everywhere.
• 42:04
  I told you before, last week, I said, you know, that I don't have any weapons.
• 42:12
  I don't, I can handle weapons.
• 42:15
  I served in the military.
• 42:16
  I'm not afraid of them.
• 42:17
  I was pretty good with them.
• 42:20
  But I never truly saw the necessity.
• 42:27
  You know, I intend to get prepared, you know, for something on the horizon, because God
• 42:37
  knows where we're going to go.
• 42:39
  You know, we're just pushing buttons we shouldn't be pushing.
• 42:42
  And I don't like it.
• 42:46
  And used to think that we were the good guys.
• 42:49
  And I haven't believed that for quite a long period of time, which may come through on
• 42:55
  my show fairly frequently.
• 42:58
  But we're not the good guys.
• 42:59
  And we haven't been the good guys for a long time.
• 43:02
  And that's unfortunate because I think that most Americans really are of the opinion
• 43:09
  that we should be the good guys.
• 43:12
  And we're not being the good guys.
• 43:16
  I want to change topics a little bit because I found this interesting and maybe a little
• 43:21
  bit on the lighter side.
• 43:23
  There's an app.
• 43:26
  Okay, here's an app that requires people living alone.
• 43:33
  The app is called, and it's gone viral in China.
• 43:37
  I'm going to share the article with you.
• 43:39
  And I may download it just to play with it, but I haven't yet.
• 43:43
  And the article is titled like this, and it's pretty short.
• 43:49
  You know, it's a short article, so it doesn't go very far.
• 43:53
  And maybe I should finish about Trump and Greenland first, but I'm not going to.
• 43:58
  I'm going to interrupt here with this app.
• 44:00
  And it's called Are You Dead?
• 44:04
  The app is called Are You Dead?
• 44:06
  And it's gone viral in China.
• 44:08
  And it's an app that requires people that live alone to regularly confirm that they
• 44:15
  are alive, is the top paid download in Apple's app store in China, which underscores the
• 44:23
  rising social concern driven by the country's rapid demographic shift.
• 44:29
  The app, known as Si Le Ma in Chinese, translated as Are You Dead?
• 44:36
  functions as a digital check-in system.
• 44:41
  The app costs 8 yuan, or about $1.15 to download.
• 44:47
  It was launched in mid-2025.
• 44:52
  Downloads surge only in early January, according to Chinese media.
• 44:58
  Users have to press a button to signal they are safe.
• 45:02
  And if they fail to do so for two days, two consecutive days, the app automatically sends
• 45:09
  an alert to a pre-selected emergency contact.
• 45:14
  So its rise in popularity coincides with two overlapping trends.
• 45:21
  A growing number of young Chinese that choose to live alone rather than marry and have
• 45:28
  children.
• 45:29
  And an expanding elderly population increasingly left isolated without nearby family support.
• 45:39
  And this is pretty interesting stuff.
• 45:43
  One of the app's three young co-creators, who identified himself only as Li Yu, told
• 45:52
  local media it was aimed at young people living alone in major cities, particularly women
• 45:58
  around the age of 25.
• 46:00
  Such users are likely to, here's the quote, experience a strong sense of loneliness due
• 46:07
  to the lack of people to communicate with, accompanied by worries about unforeseen events
• 46:13
  occurring without anyone knowing.
• 46:16
  So China recorded its third consecutive year of population decline in 2024.
• 46:24
  And in 2023, it lost its status as the world's most populous country to India.
• 46:32
  As fertility dropped, life expectancy lengthened, marriages declined, and divorce rates continued
• 46:40
  to climb.
• 46:42
  These factors create a trend of one-person households, said Wei-Jun Yang, a social demography
• 46:51
  expert at the National University of Singapore.
• 46:55
  And she was quoted by the Financial Times and added that the concern is real.
• 47:01
  China could have as many as 200 million one-person households by 2030, with more than 30 percent
• 47:11
  of the population living alone, according to projections published in 2021 by property
• 47:18
  research firm Baker Research Institute.
• 47:22
  And a separate government survey conducted in 2021 found that nearly 60 percent of Chinese
• 47:29
  aged 60 and above live alone or only with a spouse up about 10 percent from 2010.
• 47:39
  So I found that rather interesting and wanted to share that, excuse me, and wanted to, excuse
• 47:55
  me, add that crazy app.
• 48:00
  Well, it's not crazy.
• 48:01
  I mean, perhaps, you know, I've thought about that quite a bit over here because, you know,
• 48:07
  especially if you live alone, you know, what could you do?
• 48:09
  Maybe it's something that should be used over here.
• 48:12
  And it's, what was it called?
• 48:13
  Si Le Ma?
• 48:14
  Si, here, what's the name of it so I can share it with you?
• 48:18
  Si Le Ma.
• 48:19
  S-I-L-E-M-A.
• 48:22
  Three separate words.
• 48:23
  Si Le Ma.
• 48:24
  And I don't even know if I'm pronouncing that right.
• 48:25
  Obviously, it's Chinese.
• 48:27
  But that is an app for you to download so you can report every couple of days that you're
• 48:38
  alive.
• 48:38
  You know, you have to press that, press that button every day.
• 48:44
  I wanted to, this is going back to Greenland for a second just because this is nuts.
• 48:54
  When U.S. President Trump returned to the topic of Greenland, one that was basically
• 49:00
  forgotten even a month ago, part of me wonders if it's just a distraction to focus people
• 49:09
  away from the idiocy of Venezuela.
• 49:13
  But unfortunately, I believe that he's dead serious about all these things, that he is
• 49:20
  a militaristic president, that he is absolutely serious about all these things.
• 49:27
  All of those things I shared with you from the Jansen video and commentary are true.
• 49:34
  You can choose to believe different conclusions from those truths, but each one of those are
• 49:42
  actual events that did occur, and they're from the mouth of the person who said them.
• 49:48
  That senator who said this is lunacy, basically, what we're doing.
• 49:53
  I'm glad they had the briefing, but they're making no bones about the fact that we're
• 49:58
  now just going to steal another country's resources.
• 50:02
  That's absolutely true.
• 50:04
  I'm going to steal it.
• 50:06
  I'm going to park the money in an offshore account, and I'm in charge.
• 50:10
  That's it.
• 50:11
  I'm in charge.
• 50:13
  Who needs the Congress to do a budget?
• 50:15
  Trump has installed himself as the king.
• 50:18
  Now he gets to have his own budget, just like the king does.
• 50:22
  Well, this is oil that I stole.
• 50:24
  Why should I let the country that owns it control it?
• 50:28
  Why should I let Congress screw it all up?
• 50:31
  I'm going to take that money, and I'm going to dictate where that money goes.
• 50:35
  Why?
• 50:36
  Because I'm Donald Trump.
• 50:38
  We're going to stick on the topic of his family getting rich off of this, because it's the
• 50:44
  exact same thing as we bitched about with Burisma and—what's his name?
• 50:53
  Biden Jr.
• 50:55
  Well, he wasn't Jr., but Hunter Biden.
• 50:58
  But let's talk about Greenland for a second.
• 51:02
  The idea hasn't been considered mere theatrics in Europe, and it's not just about the Maduro
• 51:09
  effect.
• 51:09
  Beneath Trump's provocative statements, a clear geopolitical strategy with Rubio and
• 51:16
  company and, you know, your Lindsey Graham's of the world in the neocon strategy is alive
• 51:24
  and well, and everybody's in on it.
• 51:27
  I mean, J.D. Vance, you heard his quote in that cut that I played for you, that, yeah,
• 51:33
  well, you know, well, we've stolen these—and they don't claim it to be stolen, but you
• 51:39
  control the oil, and you think that oil is going to change.
• 51:43
  China, it's not.
• 51:45
  You know, the graph of what they're—and the pipelines coming straight from Russia to
• 51:50
  China that are enhanced, and the second one that's going to go through—which one?
• 51:56
  Mongolia is underway even now, and they have these huge pipelines that are going through,
• 52:03
  and the crude coming from Russia is far more important to them than the 2 percent of their
• 52:09
  input that they were getting from Venezuela.
• 52:12
  And in that commentary that you heard that said that they still control one of the platforms,
• 52:17
  there's money things that do have to be discussed about all that.
• 52:22
  So beneath Trump's provocative statements, this geopolitical strategy is now called the
• 52:28
  new globalism.
• 52:29
  It's far more economically grounded than the concept of globalization, even U.S.
• 52:35
  globalization.
• 52:36
  Trump's new globalism consists of three interconnected components.
• 52:41
  He wants to reinterpret the Monroe Doctrine.
• 52:44
  One can wonder if Trump considers the Philippines part of this great America, transform the
• 52:51
  U.S. into an energy superpower that monopolizes the rules of the game in hydrocarbons, particularly
• 52:57
  in the region, enhance America's status as an Arctic superpower, a position that the
• 53:04
  U.S. currently holds only nominally.
• 53:07
  Trump's actions are logical.
• 53:10
  Dismantling Nicolas Maduro's regime is crucial for turning Latin America's resources into
• 53:16
  a source of short-term economic stability in the U.S.
• 53:21
  This is his entrance ticket into the world of new globalism.
• 53:25
  America cannot become an energy superpower unless it controls Venezuela and Brazil and
• 53:34
  Iran's oil resources and eliminates shadow fleets as soon as possible.
• 53:41
  Similarly, achieving full legal control over Greenland is essential for establishing the
• 53:48
  U.S. as a superpower in the Arctic.
• 53:51
  Otherwise, it'll be difficult for the U.S. to maintain competitiveness as an energy superpower
• 53:57
  after 2030.
• 53:59
  Now, Trump knows this.
• 54:00
  He sees all this.
• 54:01
  He plays the risk board as well.
• 54:04
  Certainly, an evolutionary path would invoke investing in a costly and prolonged program
• 54:10
  to revive Alaska.
• 54:12
  But that would take years, if not decades.
• 54:15
  Instead, Greenland presents an opportunity to quickly solidify new political and geographic
• 54:21
  status.
• 54:22
  So Trump is acting systematically, choosing his next step based on perceived weaknesses
• 54:28
  of his geopolitical competitors.
• 54:31
  He believes, apparently, that Europe is sufficiently weak and they're too weak to engage in
• 54:38
  discussions about Greenland's status.
• 54:40
  And so he's doing it at a completely different level than he was in the spring of 2025 when
• 54:46
  he had to back down.
• 54:47
  He talked about this in a recent conversation with reporters.
• 54:51
  Do you know what their defense is?
• 54:52
  Two dogsleds, he said, responding to a question about whether the U.S. has made a political
• 54:58
  proposal to Greenland or Denmark.
• 55:01
  He added that, meanwhile, Russian and Chinese destroyers and submarines are all over the
• 55:07
  place.
• 55:07
  That's a lie, but he throws it out there anyway.
• 55:11
  We should also note that when discussing Greenland, Trump directly highlights NATO's inability
• 55:17
  to protect the island from external threats, even fabricated ones like Russia and China
• 55:24
  seizing Greenland.
• 55:25
  Trump's message is clear.
• 55:27
  He intends to reclaim poorly defended assets or steal poorly defended assets is my take
• 55:36
  on it.
• 55:37
  His obsession with the idea of acquiring Greenland also stems from the failure of European leaders
• 55:44
  to form an even modest coalition of the willing, despite their claims of being ready to take
• 55:51
  responsibility for Europe's security.
• 55:53
  A proposed force of 200,000 troops dwindled to just 40,000 in six months, and it's unlikely
• 56:00
  that the Europeans would be able to gather even that military force.
• 56:04
  Consequently, any joint initiative by the U.K., Germany, and France are unlikely to
• 56:10
  impress Trump.
• 56:11
  They aren't going to do anything anyway, though they're too weak and spread out.
• 56:15
  The realization of their own military weakness deeply unsettles the Europeans.
• 56:21
  Major countries in Europe might be willing to sacrifice Greenland, but if Trump succeeds,
• 56:27
  these nations will essentially become his resource, and they'll lose their political
• 56:34
  voice even within NATO, which was once regarded as a union of equal democracies.
• 56:40
  Well, they're not anymore.
• 56:41
  Now it's the subjugated.
• 56:44
  Furthermore, should the operation regarding Greenland go through, nothing will stand between
• 56:50
  Trump and Canada.
• 56:52
  And you heard in that Cyrus Jansen video about the Canadian foreign minister headed to China.
• 57:00
  They're going to replace the U.S. as the major trade partner, and they're going to go to
• 57:07
  China as well.
• 57:09
  So how can Europe counter America's new globalism?
• 57:14
  As mentioned above, military options exist only in the rhetoric of European politicians,
• 57:21
  but that is aimed only at shaping domestic public opinion.
• 57:24
  But the criticism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and British media indicate that their
• 57:31
  strategy is faltering.
• 57:33
  Political methods remain Europe's only recourse.
• 57:36
  They can't do anything.
• 57:37
  But even here, their options are limited.
• 57:41
  High hopes were pinned on a Euro-Atlantic solidarity and the ability to outnumber Trump,
• 57:47
  as we have seen with the situation.
• 57:50
  Ukraine wants to use NATO's consulting mechanisms, but Trump has made it clear that he is going
• 57:57
  to make any decisions unilaterally and outside of any legal framework.
• 58:03
  He's just my way or the highway, basically.
• 58:08
  Still, European leaders might invoke NATO's Article 5 to protect Greenland.
• 58:14
  If they do take such a step, it would signal the beginning of the end for the NATO bloc.
• 58:20
  Discussion around Greenland, essentially about the territorial integrity of one of
• 58:25
  NATO's member states, particularly one of its founding states, will fundamentally undermine
• 58:34
  the core principle of NATO, which is maintaining the internal geopolitical integrity of the
• 58:41
  bloc while addressing external threats and removing internal risk.
• 58:46
  So basically, what's happening is the U.S. is going to unilaterally bust up NATO and
• 58:57
  its Article 5 won't mean a damn thing because the U.S. just chooses it.
• 59:03
  So how are we a good partner in NATO?
• 59:09
  We're not.
• 59:11
  We're a good dictator, you know, telling people what we will do going forward.
• 59:17
  We're, well, what you think doesn't matter.
• 59:20
  There is no alliance.
• 59:23
  There's only dictatorship.
• 59:27
  A more productive approach might involve pressuring Trump towards some sort of middle ground when
• 59:34
  it comes to Greenland, such as establishing an American military and economic protectorate
• 59:39
  over the island.
• 59:41
  Despite Trump's statement that he is only interested in outright annexation, this alternative
• 59:47
  might be feasible under certain conditions.
• 59:50
  So a lot of people say that Trump is positioning.
• 59:56
  All he's doing is the art of the deal here.
• 59:59
  He talks big in an effort to make them take him more seriously.
• 1:00:08
  And I don't know how I feel about that.
• 1:00:11
  I mean, well, I do know.
• 1:00:13
  I feel about that.
• 1:00:14
  I feel that it's just nonsensical what we are, what Trump is doing up there.
• 1:00:21
  This is not a we.
• 1:00:22
  This certainly is not me.
• 1:00:24
  So consider how Trump handled the situation with Venezuela, for example.
• 1:00:31
  After expressing readiness for a second phase of conflict, he backtracked and began negotiating
• 1:00:37
  with acting Venezuelan President, Delsi Rodriguez, once he realized that U.S. economic interests
• 1:00:43
  could be maintained and the regime will align itself with pro-American and anti-Chinese
• 1:00:50
  policies.
• 1:00:51
  A similar scenario could unfold with Greenland.
• 1:00:55
  And this could happen if European leaders find influential allies within the United
• 1:01:00
  States and the resources of the U.S. administration are diverted to other crises.
• 1:01:05
  But one should not underestimate Trump's ability to step back temporarily only to revisit
• 1:01:12
  the issue when circumstances are more favorable.
• 1:01:14
  He's done that before.
• 1:01:16
  This, in fact, it's what he did a year ago.
• 1:01:18
  Here we are a year later.
• 1:01:20
  I first heard about the Greenland annexation right after he took office on the 20th.
• 1:01:26
  We're not even a year in yet.
• 1:01:28
  We still got a week to go until he's been a year in office.
• 1:01:31
  And what a difference a year makes, huh?
• 1:01:37
  It's a lunacy is where we are.
• 1:01:40
  And I don't know.
• 1:01:45
  I hate to laugh about it because it's not funny at all.
• 1:01:50
  But here we go.
• 1:01:54
  Excuse me a little bit.
• 1:01:56
  A little bit.
• 1:01:59
  I want to hit back in the go to some where's this other article I was going to going to
• 1:02:05
  talk about.
• 1:02:06
  Oh, here's what I wanted to tell you about how Trump linked investors.
• 1:02:12
  You know, one of the things you heard about the in that video I played for you from Jansen,
• 1:02:20
  you heard about how oil companies knew about Venezuela before Congress did.
• 1:02:30
  To me, that is an unforgivable breach that, hey, you know, we're going to take care of
• 1:02:39
  this because if you report it to them, we've been bitching and complaining about the Nancy
• 1:02:45
  Pelosi's of the world having notice of stuff before it happens and making millions in the
• 1:02:53
  stock market because they get to buy, you know.
• 1:03:01
  What do you call it now?
• 1:03:03
  I forget what they call them, puts and calls your your option contracts, and they make
• 1:03:09
  millions on these option contracts because they know in advance and they knew what was
• 1:03:14
  going to happen with oil stocks when the US invaded Venezuela and people made a shit
• 1:03:23
  pot of money off of that and but not the regular American and but they informed the oil companies
• 1:03:31
  first and so they knew this was coming and they knew they'd see a spike in their values
• 1:03:36
  and this is what happened.
• 1:03:37
  So don't go thinking that this isn't about money because this is all about money and
• 1:03:43
  let's talk about this one that just came out.
• 1:03:48
  One of Ukraine's largest lithium reserves are going to serve as a test project under
• 1:03:54
  a minerals deal with the US, said Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.
• 1:04:03
  So Ukraine has awarded a major state-owned lithium project to American investors linked
• 1:04:10
  to US President Donald Trump.
• 1:04:14
  Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko pitched it as the pilot project under last year's minerals
• 1:04:20
  deal between the US and Ukraine.
• 1:04:24
  The agreement, which was signed in April, grants the US access to developing Ukraine's
• 1:04:30
  natural resources in exchange for splitting output under a production sharing contract.
• 1:04:36
  Half the revenue will go into the joint US-Ukraine reconstruction investment fund with profits
• 1:04:43
  reinvested in new projects and national reconstruction.
• 1:04:46
  Trump pitched the deal as a mechanism for Kyiv to repay the billions in US aid provided
• 1:04:52
  under his predecessor Joe Biden.
• 1:04:55
  The New York Times reported that developmental rights for the Dobra deposit in Kirovgrad
• 1:05:01
  region, one of Ukraine's largest lithium reserves, were awarded to US-linked consortium last
• 1:05:08
  week.
• 1:05:10
  Sviridenko confirmed the decision in a telegram post on Monday.
• 1:05:15
  For the first time in Ukraine, a winner for lithium development under the production sharing
• 1:05:20
  mechanism has been selected, she wrote, saying it was awarded to Dobra Lithium Holdings JV,
• 1:05:28
  a US consortium whose shareholders include critical minerals company TechMet.
• 1:05:37
  Sviridenko said the consortium will invest $179 million in the project, including $12
• 1:05:43
  million for geological exploration and reserve audits, $167 million for extraction and processing
• 1:05:50
  facilities if commercial viability is confirmed.
• 1:05:54
  Ukrainian officials told the Wall Street Journal that the deal raises potential conflict of
• 1:06:00
  interest and noted that TechMet's largest shareholder is the US International Development
• 1:06:08
  Finance Corporation, the agency that oversees the Ukrainian reinvestment fund.
• 1:06:15
  The Wall Street Journal reported that Ronald Lauder, longtime Trump ally and Republican
• 1:06:22
  donor, is part of the consortium.
• 1:06:25
  Although Sviridenko did not confirm his participation, she insisted the consortium was
• 1:06:31
  selected through competitive tender of domestic and foreign bidders and described the project
• 1:06:38
  as a catalyst for further Western investment.
• 1:06:41
  Russia condemns the minerals deal.
• 1:06:44
  Former Russian President and Deputy Chair of Security Council Dmitry Medvedev mocked
• 1:06:50
  it as a forced extraction of a disappearing country's wealth.
• 1:06:55
  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it a commercial scheme to sell aid and argued
• 1:07:01
  against further support for Kiev's war effort as it only serves to prolong the conflict.
• 1:07:08
  Russian officials and experts note that much of Ukraine's mineral wealth lies in regions
• 1:07:14
  that have joined Russia following their referendum in 2022 or are near front lines.
• 1:07:22
  Russia has already taken most of the areas that have the most strategic and useful
• 1:07:38
  underground high value resources.
• 1:07:43
  Here's something very interesting and less warlike to share with you.
• 1:07:52
  An Abyssinian cat from Russia named Darlene Fleur D'Amour Black was crowned the most beautiful
• 1:08:04
  cat in the world by the World Cat Federation on Monday.
• 1:08:10
  With a score of over 19,700 points, Darlene outshone nearly 1,500 other cat competitors
• 1:08:22
  from around the globe.
• 1:08:25
  Second place went to a fluffy cat from Thailand, a Scottish longhair called Melody Charm Peshark.
• 1:08:35
  The British short-haired named Moki Tar-Len Luxury from Belarus took third place in the
• 1:08:43
  competition.
• 1:08:44
  According to media reports, the champion was born on June 15, 2024 and belongs to the Russian
• 1:08:53
  Luxury Club, Russkiy Klub Lux.
• 1:08:58
  The top 10 best cats included four more Russian cats and one from Belarus.
• 1:09:07
  And the WCF World Cat Federation was founded in 1988 in Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro.
• 1:09:17
  Today, 280 organizations around the world, cat organizations around the world, the Federation
• 1:09:26
  actively participates in the development of international cooperation between clubs and
• 1:09:34
  in shaping cat animal welfare standards.
• 1:09:39
  Very nice.
• 1:09:41
  Very nice.
• 1:09:43
  And I wonder how old this article is.
• 1:09:45
  I was going to share it with you.
• 1:09:47
  Yeah, this one's too old.
• 1:09:48
  It's about six months old, in fact, about cats.
• 1:09:53
  Because Russia's population of Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, is no longer
• 1:10:01
  under the threat of extinction as of July of this year.
• 1:10:06
  There was a foundation, the Amur Tiger Center, announced last July that while the foundation
• 1:10:16
  was launched in 2013 by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who is a longtime supporter of protecting
• 1:10:24
  the endangered Siberian tiger.
• 1:10:27
  And over the past 13 years, these conservation efforts have raised the number of big cats
• 1:10:33
  in Russia's Far East from 430 to 750, according to one of the founders, Konstantin Choychenko.
• 1:10:45
  The goal set out in the National Tiger, also a cat, by the way, conservative strategy has
• 1:10:53
  been achieved, he told reporters, at the Land of Big Cats exhibition in Moscow.
• 1:11:00
  Choychenko encouraged the public to visit the Far East to see the animals in their natural
• 1:11:05
  habitat.
• 1:11:06
  I don't want to get eaten.
• 1:11:09
  And so that's a kind of a bad deal for me.
• 1:11:11
  The Amur tiger is native to the forests of Russia's Far East and Northeast China.
• 1:11:18
  It is the world's largest cat subspecies and the only one adapted to cold and snowy
• 1:11:24
  climates.
• 1:11:25
  Despite progress in Russia, the Amur tiger remains classified as endangered by the International
• 1:11:32
  Union for Conservation of Nature, meaning it still faces a high risk of extinction globally.
• 1:11:38
  A formal status change will require further international assessment.
• 1:11:43
  Russia's 750 Amur tigers live in protected areas in remote forests, several hundred more
• 1:11:49
  kept in zoos and wildlife parks around the globe.
• 1:11:55
  So there you have it.
• 1:11:58
  I already told you about the cat.
• 1:12:00
  I was hoping for something more exciting.
• 1:12:04
  Something more exciting.
• 1:12:06
  I don't want to go back to war.
• 1:12:08
  I've been having a good time talking about cats.
• 1:12:13
  I want a cat, by the way.
• 1:12:15
  I'm looking for a kitten, even of my own.
• 1:12:20
  And I had a friend tell me about a part of cats that somebody, I forget what it was called.
• 1:12:31
  She sent me a text.
• 1:12:32
  I'll have to have a look at it and find out where I can get a cat.
• 1:12:35
  I need somebody somewhat independent.
• 1:12:39
  I need a cat.
• 1:12:41
  And, you know, that I don't have to hang out with all the trouble with the dog.
• 1:12:45
  And I like dogs, too.
• 1:12:47
  But I am beyond, you know, having to care.
• 1:12:52
  I need a more independent cat is what I need.
• 1:12:56
  So I am in the market, as it were, to find a cat.
• 1:13:03
  Do we want to go back to the war effort or do we not?
• 1:13:13
  I wanted to share with you.
• 1:13:15
  I really did want to share this article about Russian military progress.
• 1:13:28
  Russia, the article is called Russia is turning its military into a high tech arsenal.
• 1:13:36
  And here's what's next.
• 1:13:38
  And Russia really is.
• 1:13:40
  I keep track of military hardware and military arsenals, especially in the
• 1:13:48
  far east and in Russia.
• 1:13:50
  I keep track of it because I believe, especially with their hypersonics and some of their
• 1:13:57
  laser technologies that they are employing, that they are surpassing what we have been
• 1:14:05
  doing lately.
• 1:14:06
  Now, perhaps I am not as well informed about what's going on in the U.S.
• 1:14:13
  That is possible.
• 1:14:17
  Let's see.
• 1:14:18
  But I think I have time to share this article with you, although I was kind of hoping to
• 1:14:26
  keep it a little more light hearted.
• 1:14:29
  There is a story about the Antichrist that we might get used to.
• 1:14:36
  Constantinople's Antichrist and British spooks are trying to split Orthodox Christianity according
• 1:14:43
  to Russian intel.
• 1:14:46
  And this is an interesting article about the Antichrist.
• 1:14:53
  The Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople is collaborating with British spy agencies to
• 1:15:01
  increase division and establish schismatic church structures in the Baltic, said Russia's
• 1:15:08
  foreign intelligence service on Monday and described Bartholomew the first as the Antichrist.
• 1:15:17
  Bartholomew created a spiritual schism in Ukraine when he granted self-rule to the Orthodox
• 1:15:24
  Church of Ukraine, created by then Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in 2018, which
• 1:15:33
  ended centuries of continuity through the now persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
• 1:15:40
  which was historically associated with the Moscow Patriarchate.
• 1:15:45
  So now Patriarch Bartholomew has turned his evil eye toward the Baltics, where he is obsessed
• 1:15:53
  with, again, displacing the Russian Orthodox Church and substituting it with structures
• 1:16:00
  under Constantinople control.
• 1:16:04
  The SVR said in a press release, Bartholomew is supported by the British Secret Service
• 1:16:13
  and by Baltic ideological allies representing local nationalists and neo-Nazis in his goals
• 1:16:20
  of splitting off Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Orthodox churches from the Moscow
• 1:16:26
  Patriarchate, the Russian spy agency has proclaimed.
• 1:16:32
  In Eastern Europe, Bartholomew aims to undermine the especially obstinate autonomous Serbian
• 1:16:41
  Orthodox Church.
• 1:16:43
  It added, he aims to lure away priests and congregations into puppet religious structures
• 1:16:51
  that have been artificially created by Constantinople, according to the SVR.
• 1:16:59
  So there are fights going on in religion big time these days.
• 1:17:04
  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania have pushed their largest Orthodox churches to cut
• 1:17:09
  historic spiritual ties with Moscow, the Moscow Patriarchate, after the escalation
• 1:17:15
  of Ukraine in 2022.
• 1:17:17
  And Bartholomew has moved to establish an exarchate in Lithuania under his control as
• 1:17:25
  a parallel structure to the Diocese of Vilnius and Lithuania.
• 1:17:29
  The Russian Orthodox Church and the Constantinople Patriarchate have been at odds since 2018,
• 1:17:36
  and the Moscow Patriarchate regarded the decision to grant autonomy to the Orthodox Church of
• 1:17:43
  Ukraine as an encroachment on its canonical territory of formerly broke and formally broke
• 1:17:51
  communion with Constantinople.
• 1:17:54
  Isn't this crazy?
• 1:17:55
  Churches are being disrupted.
• 1:17:57
  It's because of, you know, war.
• 1:18:00
  They are terrible, terrible things are occurring all over the world.
• 1:18:08
  And I really don't have time to share this military high-tech arsenal with you because
• 1:18:14
  it's a very long story.
• 1:18:16
  And it, you know, talks about rewriting the rules of war, fifth generation aircraft, the
• 1:18:25
  Su-75, the, you know, the Su-57 was coming out, but now the Su-75 checkmate is expected
• 1:18:32
  in 2026.
• 1:18:34
  Mock-up first unveiled at the MAX air show in August 2021.
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  I can't wait to see this plane and replacing the MiG-29 in the global market.
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  And let's see, their strategic underwater deterrence, Project 09851 Khabarovsk, the new
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  project, a nuclear-powered submarine, you know, is also supposed to have sea trials
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  in 2026.
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  Next generation intercontinental missiles replacing the Topol-M that is supposed to
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  come out this year.
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  New ballistics, the Sarmat, the flagship of the Russian nuclear forces, liquid-fueled
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  Sarmat ICBMs.
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  I've talked to you about them before.
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  The hypersonic strikes at sea, the Zircon and Yasen-M fleets that are coming out in
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  2026.
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  The Admiral Nakhimov has been restored and it's almost done in its heavy surface combat
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  power.
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  2026, the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser, Admiral Nakhimov will continue sea trials
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  and will probably complete them.
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  And it'll be able to launch Zircon hypersonics.
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  And once it's fully operational, it's the world's most powerful warship.
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  That'd be crazy in, well, certainly in the Russian Navy, and one of the most heavily
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  armed surface combatants in the world.
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  Strategic air and missile defense, the S-500 Prometheus is coming out in 2026.
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  Countering drone threats, the FPV interceptors and AI systems that they're already using
• 1:20:09
  with lasers that are taking them out.
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  You ought to see some of these.
• 1:20:12
  It's unbelievable.
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  Ground robotics and the rise of unmanned formations.
• 1:20:17
  They're taking military stuff with ground robots, ground robotics.
• 1:20:22
  Modern artillery for ground forces that's coming out.
• 1:20:26
  That's the Koalitsiya SV 150, 152-millimeter self-propelled howitzers, now unmanned and
• 1:20:35
  on a wheeled chassis.
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  So the outlook, when you take all of this together, the developments that are expected
• 1:20:44
  through 2026 are far more than incremental upgrades.
• 1:20:48
  This is a total evolution of Russia's armed forces across all the domains.
• 1:20:54
  And strategic missiles, nuclear-powered submarines, advanced air defense combat, aircraft unmanned
• 1:20:59
  systems, emphasis on survivability, automation, operational versatility.
• 1:21:05
  So these systems, they're not theoretical.
• 1:21:08
  They're not experimental.
• 1:21:10
  They are ready to be integrated into units in 2026, and they will reshape Russia's strategic
• 1:21:18
  naval air and ground forces capabilities in 2026.
• 1:21:23
  And they've been modernizing, and I believe, at a much quicker rate than we have been modernizing
• 1:21:30
  in the United States.
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  And I think that's important to note that what we have been doing, or lack thereof,
• 1:21:40
  of what we have been doing, trying to keep pace.
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  I did want to share, we talked a little bit about it, but we didn't go far enough in.
• 1:21:53
  I'm going to share a final.
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  We did talk some about it, and I meant to share.
• 1:22:00
  It'd be nice to have the text of this whole text of the article itself, or of the bill
• 1:22:12
  itself, the Greenland annexation bill.
• 1:22:16
  So the bill that seeks to make Greenland the 51st U.S. state, you just, well, it doesn't
• 1:22:23
  matter, we'll take it over.
• 1:22:26
  We decide here whether or not Greenland is a state or not.
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  Greenland has no choice.
• 1:22:34
  That's the funny part.
• 1:22:35
  Greenland, eh, you don't have a choice in it.
• 1:22:38
  And we're the U.S., so here you go.
• 1:22:41
  So the bill seeking to make Greenland the 51st state has been introduced in the House
• 1:22:48
  of Representatives, and it escalates controversial push by Trump to bring the Danish territory
• 1:22:56
  under American control.
• 1:22:58
  And he claimed that week that the U.S. must annex Greenland.
• 1:23:05
  We must.
• 1:23:06
  It's an autonomous former Danish colony under Copenhagen sovereignty to contain Russia and
• 1:23:15
  China, he says, suggesting that the two countries will take over the island.
• 1:23:21
  Where did this come from?
• 1:23:24
  Why are Russia and China suddenly guilty of taking over Greenland?
• 1:23:28
  Nobody's heard anything about this, and yet now it's just taken as a given, right?
• 1:23:34
  So the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act introduced by Randy Fine of Florida Monday
• 1:23:40
  would authorize the president to take whatever steps are necessary to annex or acquire Greenland
• 1:23:46
  and mandates a report to Congress outlining the steps required for eventual admission
• 1:23:52
  as a U.S. state.
• 1:23:54
  This is nuts.
• 1:23:55
  Greenland is not a distant outpost.
• 1:23:58
  We can afford to ignore.
• 1:23:59
  It's a vital national security asset.
• 1:24:03
  It's not our asset, Fine said in a press release.
• 1:24:08
  He said whoever controls Greenland controls key Arctic shipping lanes and the security
• 1:24:14
  architecture that protects the United States.
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  If we do this, we're bums.
• 1:24:21
  That's what we are.
• 1:24:22
  If we do this, we're just a bunch of bums.
• 1:24:23
  White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt told journalists Monday that acquiring Greenland
• 1:24:29
  remains a priority for Trump, although she said there is no specific timeline for action.
• 1:24:36
  Following recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela, media reports indicate Trump has ordered military
• 1:24:42
  commanders to develop a plan for a potential invasion of Greenland.
• 1:24:48
  We're nuts.
• 1:24:49
  The legislation's fate in Congress remains uncertain as the prospect of forceful acquisition
• 1:24:55
  has drawn criticism even from within U.S. political establishment.
• 1:25:00
  The Republican Senator Rand Paul notes that the plan will likely backfire, while Democrat
• 1:25:06
  Senator Chris Murphy warns that attempting to take Greenland by force effectively would
• 1:25:13
  end NATO.
• 1:25:14
  I agree with that.
• 1:25:15
  Denmark maintains that Greenland will not be sold or ceded.
• 1:25:21
  Denmark Ambassador to the U.S. Jasper Morel Sorensen insists that the island's future
• 1:25:29
  should be decided by its own people, the vast majority of whom voted in 2008 to maintaining
• 1:25:37
  self-governing status within the kingdom.
• 1:25:40
  Beijing criticizes Trump's attempt to use China and Russia as pretexts for a deeper
• 1:25:46
  push in the region, where seven of the eight Arctic nations are NATO members.
• 1:25:52
  It's nuts.
• 1:25:54
  Russian officials also speak out against a militarization of the Arctic, framing it instead
• 1:26:00
  as a zone for peaceful cooperation, while Moscow has yet to officially respond to Trump's
• 1:26:05
  latest remarks.
• 1:26:07
  It is previously stressed that Greenland's future must be determined by its citizens.
• 1:26:12
  I say that the notable lack of escalation by Russia should be seen as a good thing.
• 1:26:25
  And part of me wonders if it's a bit of a, we'll leave you alone in Ukraine as long as
• 1:26:34
  you leave us alone in the Western Hemisphere, or if it's because Russia is just too busy
• 1:26:40
  with Ukraine right now and doesn't want to be harassed.
• 1:26:45
  But I'm not so sure that Russia would be so quiet if Iran gears up, if more things happen
• 1:26:53
  about this alleged reports of the 800 billion to go into Ukraine actually come to fruition
• 1:27:01
  in the United States, this 800 billion that's allegedly going that route.
• 1:27:07
  Those are the things that we're going to be keeping an eye on here at International Flavor
• 1:27:12
  on the international level over the next couple of weeks.
• 1:27:19
  I truly do intend to get more local for the next couple of days with some things to talk
• 1:27:27
  about regarding the latest efforts of the Missouri Bar to, I don't know, tell me what
• 1:27:37
  to do.
• 1:27:38
  That's not going to happen.
• 1:27:40
  Or, you know, influence my activities.
• 1:27:44
  That's also not going to happen.
• 1:27:47
  And we'll see where we go from there.
• 1:27:50
  We have some interesting Civic Outlaws discussions to make that I have intentionally held off
• 1:28:00
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• 1:28:01
  We're still developing our website.
• 1:28:03
  You can go out to CivicOutlaws.com and ModernLawEcosystem.com.
• 1:28:10
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• 1:28:14
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• 1:29:41
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