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Jaishankar, Seagal, and a Stolen Tanker: India’s Rise, Western Panic, and America’s Sloppy Empire in Real Time · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome.
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  I happen to be Samuel Trapp.
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  You may not feel it's appropriate, I suppose,
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  the planet or in your life that is
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  important to you and discuss.
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  The things that are important to me, I
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  get to get on here and babble about
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  a.m. to 9 a.m., and you
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  And I like it that you do listen.
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  I think it's wonderful.
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  And I like to think that some of
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  the things I provide are useful to people
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  to go about their day.
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  The world's changing.
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  I might come up and bite you in
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  the rear end if you're not paying attention,
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  so better to pay attention.
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  I got to thinking about this overnight.
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  I don't sleep, right?
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  And so I got to thinking about this,
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  and I'm feeling a little bit better.
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe I'm drugged up or, what do you
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  call it, teed up, teed, get it?
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  Teed up?
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  Isn't that like a play on words?
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  You could talk about that in the golf
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  sense, but I'm not teed up in the
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  golf sense.
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  I am teed up, like people would say,
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  he's liquored up.
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  You know, you're teed up because I had
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  some morning tea, and so tea perhaps had
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  a little too much caffeine and got me
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  a little bit wound up as well.
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  We don't know.
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  God knows what the truth really is, but
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  we all have our own perceptions of the
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  truth, and the truth may be that I
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  was teed up.
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  It might be that I'm always teed up,
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  and the tea just got me going a
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  little further.
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  So I got to thinking about this overnight,
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  every year for the past five years, okay?
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  Been married to a wonderful Russian girl, well,
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  Tatarka.
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  She's from Tatarstan, and her name is Svitlana,
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  and we have traveled.
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  She's a demanding traveler.
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  She likes to travel.
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  She's currently in Egypt, and she's been to
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  87, I think is the number of countries
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  for her.
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  She speaks five languages.
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  I mean, she's pretty cool, right?
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  And then there's me.
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  Not so cool.
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  I only speak two languages.
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  I've only been to 57 countries, and all
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  50 states, though.
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  I win on that.
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  I think she's only been to 36 states
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  or something like that, but I've been to
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  all 50, and I've been to 57 countries.
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  My goal is 104.
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  I kicked the old bucket, I'd like.
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  So for every year for the last five
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  years, I have gone over New Year's to
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  another country.
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  This year, my plan was to go to
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  St. Petersburg and Russia, Mother Russia.
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  I'm going to go to St. Petersburg.
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  There's a legal conference that comes up every
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  year.
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  There's an AI conference I wanted to go
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  to.
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  There's some stuff in St. Petersburg that I
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  have been contemplating and hoping to get to.
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  It doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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  It's just I got too much going on.
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  I'm going to go see my son and
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  his family in Wyoming over Kriskimisk and do
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  something a little bit different.
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  I've been remiss in building my familial relationships,
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  and I need to get up to Wyoming.
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  Easier for me to travel than for a
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  family, right?
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  So I'm trying to get up there and
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  take another son and a couple others with
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  me when I do go.
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  But at any rate, this is a total
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  babble and has nothing to do with my
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  show content that I'm going to get to
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  today, but it doesn't look like I'm going
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  to get it there.
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  But my point is that the world could
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  reach out and bite you anyway.
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  If you have any goals to do any
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  travel and to do anything and go around
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  the world, you don't want to be the
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  ugly American.
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  Too many ugly Americans don't know crap about
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  international stuff anyway.
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  All they know is Mexico, and then they
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  go to Mexico and they treat the place
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  like it's sub-Saharan Africa, and that those
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  people are less, that Mexico, the people of
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  Mexico are less than what we are.
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  They treat them like servants.
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  They treat them like they would the cleaning
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  lady here at the hotel in Osage Beach,
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  Lake Ozark, anywhere on the lake.
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  You go to a ...
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  Well, years ago it was Russians too.
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  I represented that dude, and they had all
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  the Russian girls, was hired at all the
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  hotels.
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  He had a pretty cool business going on.
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  Anyway, I don't know, I'm completely babbling this
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  morning, but you need to respect other countries,
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  and I think it goes all the way
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  down to the normal citizen going and traveling
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  abroad and thinking that somehow we are looked
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  up to by the rest of the world.
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  Now, in some respects, we are.
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  Our freedom, our ability to be a-holes,
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  if we wish, is our God-given right
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  to be a-holes if we want to
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  be a-holes.
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  Rest of the world doesn't necessarily appreciate it,
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  and you kind of get sometimes a little
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  bit of ...
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  What would be a good word?
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  Certainly suspicion, not ...
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  Suspicion's too much.
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  Maybe trepidation.
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  Maybe we say, oh, jeez, wonder about this
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  guy.
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  He's an American.
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  You know how many times I've had people
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  say, well, you're not the typical American.
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  Maybe because I'm open.
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  Maybe because I like to learn other things.
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  Maybe because I don't have a preconceived notion
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  that America is better as a country.
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  We're different.
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  We're certainly different, and some things are better.
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  I'm a patriot.
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  I'm a lover.
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  I love what we have.
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  I love the ability to blab, to speak
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  my mind, to throw out stuff that certain
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  people in other countries truly do not have.
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  There are places that other countries do not
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  have.
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  That doesn't make them less.
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  It makes them different, and so that's what
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  I like to think that I bring to
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  the old mix, to the old radio program,
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  is that sort of point of view, and
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  so sometimes I tend to discuss things, but
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  I have very solid thought, very solid beliefs,
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  maybe is a better word, upon who I
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  am, who we are, and what we really
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  stand for as a country, and I don't
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  like it being shoved down my throat by
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  anybody.
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  I don't like being misjudged in other countries
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  because a lot of Americans are a-holes
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  or don't know how to behave when they
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  go out of the country.
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  And I hate it when our government does
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  the exact same thing on the top levels.
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  You know, these globalists that go around and
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  lecture the world, the Hillary Clintons of the
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  world, the Mitch McConnells, and all of these
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  globalist pricks that wander around and talk about
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  how we need to make the world America.
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  We need to give the world American democracy.
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  I love American democracy, the theory anyway, the
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  practice not so much because we aren't getting
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  what we claim to get, right?
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  And we should be getting what we claim
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  to get, and I think we're a lot
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  closer to it under the old Trumpster than
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  we have been under Biden for sure.
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  What in the hell we got there is
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  a bunch of lecturers.
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  Everybody was doing it, and everybody that likes
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  to tell you what to do on a
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  government level likes to control you on a
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  government level.
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  Boy, I tell you what, they were living
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  large then, and they were living large under
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  Obama, and they, you know, the government is
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  not your friend.
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  You know, what was that on, I can't
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  remember what show it was, or who's first
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  said it.
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  I don't remember the quote, but I remember
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  the approximate how it went.
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  You know, what are the scariest words in
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  the English language, and it went like, I'm
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  with the government, and I'm here to help.
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  Oh, yeah, my ass, you're not here to
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  help, you're here to control, and that's the
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  trouble is we go around the world trying
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  to control everything and everyone.
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  And so for three days, I've been telling
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  you today is already, already Thursday.
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  You know, as I get older, time just
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  cruises, goes a hell of a lot faster,
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  and here I am on this Thursday, and
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  I've been promising to get to Mr. Jaishankar,
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  and what his discussion over the weekend, he
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  was interviewed, and I watched that interview, and
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  I like listening to guys like him.
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  A lot of it is like me thinking
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  that this guy represents beliefs that we as
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  Americans ultimately have too, that we're so similar,
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  those of us who believe as I do,
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  those of us who believe as many of
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  us who listen to damn radio do, that
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  by God, you can disagree, and you can
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  disagree respectfully, you can disagree vocally, you can
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  even be a bit of a prick if
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  you wish to disagree, and you can absolutely
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  do that with me, and I won't judge
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  you for it.
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  In fact, I love the sport.
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  It's like jousting without the long pole, you
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  know, sitting on a horse and falling off
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  and hurting your ass.
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  You know, you get to do it and
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  joust with people mentally.
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  I think it's a good thing, and so,
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  heck, today's show ought to be called Jousting
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  101, Lessons in How to Disagree Somewhat Tactfully,
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  maybe not tactfully, maybe not even artfully.
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  You know, you got some guy up here,
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  you know, just, there's no script, at least
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  not for this part.
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  There's no script that I'm following to get
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  here.
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  This is just me, what do you call
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  it, ad-libbing here in the beginning about
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  why I think this is important, and why
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  you should listen, and why we as Americans
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  need to be a little bit better behaved
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  internationally, and I'm telling you, the changes are
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  coming.
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  The changes are upon us, and I believe
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  that the Trumpsters of the world actually understand
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  that.
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  They may not be as artful as I
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  would like either, but I think they're beginning
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  to acknowledge these changes on the planet that
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  are inevitable, and we need to come to
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  grips with that as Americans.
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  And it's not, it shouldn't be as scary
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  as we like to think.
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  The globalists of the world are out there
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  going, geez, we gotta stay in charge, we
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  gotta stay in charge.
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  Yeah, but the question is, why?
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  What if we did focus somewhat, a little
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  bit more inward here upon us?
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  What if we took care of ourselves first?
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  You know, what are you gonna do if
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  it's, let's say that you believe that everyone
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  that doesn't have a home should be cared
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  for.
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  Well, if you truly believe that, open up
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  your doors and bring in people who are
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  homeless into your home, right?
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  People generally practice something a little more reasonable.
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  They take care of themselves first, and then
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  those that are really good people, they then
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  spread the wealth, right?
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  The people that have billions of dollars, do
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  you think they need that money?
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  All of it?
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  I mean, how much does it take?
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  Is there a limit that should be?
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  I would never dictate to anyone what they
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  have to do with their money, even if
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  they've worked for it, it's freaking theirs.
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  You don't get a steal.
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  You know that song, Thou Shalt Not Steal,
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  wasn't it one of the original things etched
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  in the stone on the Ten Commandments, at
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  least it was in the Cecil B.
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  DeMille classic, wasn't it?
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  You know, when Moses went up to the
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  mountain and came back with a gray beard,
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  you know, it's one of those things.
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  You don't get to steal the stuff from
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  the others, it's up to them.
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  But maybe the moral ones do that and
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  then spread it afterward.
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  What if we as a country took that
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  approach?
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  You know, take care of ourselves first.
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  I feel like the Trumpster is doing that,
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  you know, in a lot of respects.
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  Not artfully, sometimes, you know, somewhat foolishly, and
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  sometimes in ways that I completely disagree with,
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  like I hope to get to today, the
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  Venezuela crap, you know, at the end.
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  This is nonsense.
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  The season and oil tanker, that happened again
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  yesterday and I wish to get to that.
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  But I've been promising for three days to
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  get to Jai Shankar and his commentary.
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  So with that in mind, and because I
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  do have a lot of content, I have
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  four little sections, if you will, that I
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  wish to get to today.
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  And it might only be three because I've
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  been babbling for a good beginning here.
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  So we're going to get to Mr. Jai
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  Shankar, who acknowledged, I mean, sometimes there are
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  moments in global affairs, you know, like there's
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  a shift when you realize that there's an
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  adult in the room, you know, they don't
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  they don't come in with slogans.
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  They haven't arrived with a moral lecture for
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  everybody else or human rights yardsticks that they
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  get apply only to their enemies like us
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  and never to their friends or certainly not
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  to themselves.
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  They certainly don't show up with hysterical, shaky
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  tone of, you know, in our history anyway,
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  these Western globalists who sound like guidance counselors,
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  you know, for the rest of the world.
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  You know, here you go.
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  Here's your antidepressant.
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  Follow us.
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  Right.
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  We don't like that.
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  No.
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  Adults in the room, they walk in calmly
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  and they speak reasonably and they say the
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  same thing.
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  They sit down quietly.
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  And when they speak, people pay attention.
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  Suddenly, people realize what diplomacy used to sound
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  like before it was set on fire by
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  Western globalists and replaced with hashtags about LGBTQ
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  plus plus whatever rights sanctions against those who
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  don't comply with things that we say and
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  the revolving door of special envoys who can't
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  find half of the countries they lecture on
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  the map.
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  Right.
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  And in twenty twenty five, the adult in
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  the room, one of them, a big one
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  is a guy named Subramanian Jaishankar.
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  And if you aren't listening to this guy,
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  you probably should be.
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  You know, I bet for me, Sergei Lavrov
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  is one of the best and well-spoken
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  and most relevant people of the 21st century
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  so far.
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  He's been the foreign minister of Russia for
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  twenty five years, Jaishankar.
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  I don't know how long, but it's been
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  quite a few years now.
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  And Jaishankar is India's external affairs minister.
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  He's a reserved, he's a precise, he's an
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  unshakably composed person and he's become the voice
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  of the world.
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  That is no you don't want to listen
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  to a Russian guy named Sergei Lavrov.
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  Listen to a well-spoken English speaker named
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  Subramanian Jaishankar.
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  Right.
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  And I hope I'm pronouncing it completely correctly.
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  I believe I am.
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  But he's part of a world and the
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  voice of a world that is no longer
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  willing to be managed, manipulated, intimidated or guilt
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  tripped by the West, by the Western elites,
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  by Washington, by Brussels.
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  And he says the same thing that Lavrov
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  says, only in English.
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  So he'd be a good person to listen
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  to.
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  Not the same thing.
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  A little bit of different focus because they
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  are the largest country on the planet.
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  One point four eight billion at last count.
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  Right.
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  And growing quickly.
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  The age of unipolarity is over, is what
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  he says.
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  And but rather than accept this, the U
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  .S., the Western elites, the European appendages of
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  that group continue behaving like they're the owner
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  of a foreclosed property who doesn't want to
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  admit that the bank has already changed the
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  locks on the door of the world.
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  India is doing what a civilization that is
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  looking out for its people does.
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  Maybe they're not doing it correctly.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't try to judge that.
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  But I'm telling you, on the global stage,
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  they are definitely rising.
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  They're reorganizing, expanding their own influence and choosing,
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  more importantly, their own alliances.
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  They don't apologize it.
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  They don't ask for permission.
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  And the globalist elites in the West who
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  have controlled India for at least the last
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  hundred years from England, from from Washington, from
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  London and those people, the globalists of the
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  world cannot stand it.
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  Let's look at the difference between Indian diplomacy
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  and Western diplomacy.
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  The difference, I say, is mature thought process,
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  mature belief structure, people that aren't trying to
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  lecture but trying to work together.
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  When Jaishankar sits across from the Western interviewer,
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  whether it's in Delhi, Washington or Brussels, it's
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  something great to see.
• 19:11
  The West still tries, everybody that interviews him,
• 19:14
  if it's a Western journalist, they still try
• 19:16
  to pull out the old Hillary Clinton script.
• 19:20
  Are you drifting away from us?
• 19:23
  Why won't India condemn Russia?
• 19:26
  How come you don't support our sanctions against
• 19:29
  other countries?
• 19:31
  Why do you still engage with Putin, that
• 19:33
  evil Putin?
• 19:34
  Why do you do it?
• 19:35
  Why?
• 19:36
  Why don't you take a harder line against
• 19:38
  China?
• 19:41
  It's a script of the world that doesn't
• 19:43
  exist anymore.
• 19:44
  That's part of the reason.
• 19:45
  A world where the U.S. believed it
• 19:47
  could scold other nations into compliance, where Europe
• 19:50
  believes its moral lectures actually meant something to
• 19:53
  the rest of us, and a world where
• 19:55
  alliances mean obedience to the West, to Washington,
• 20:01
  to these Hillary Clintons and Mitch McConnells of
• 20:08
  the world, right?
• 20:09
  Doesn't mean negotiation, doesn't mean working together for
• 20:12
  a common result.
• 20:13
  Means obedience.
• 20:15
  But the era of Western elitist entitlement ended
• 20:20
  the moment Washington discovered that sanctions do not
• 20:25
  work on countries who have their own energy,
• 20:28
  can build their own markets, and their own
• 20:32
  population doesn't need validation from an American, I
• 20:39
  don't know, late night comic or super Xer
• 20:42
  tweeter, somebody like that.
• 20:45
  And Jai Shankar, who is a diplomat, reminds
• 20:49
  everyone of the obvious.
• 20:51
  He says things like, and he's consistent about
• 20:56
  this, just like Sergey Lavrov, he says, we
• 20:58
  have relationships with all major countries.
• 21:02
  No one can veto how we conduct those
• 21:06
  relationships.
• 21:07
  So translated into international relations English, he says,
• 21:12
  little less brutally, we are not your client
• 21:15
  state.
• 21:16
  You know, we're not somebody that is subordinate
• 21:19
  to you.
• 21:20
  And this shocks those in the West every
• 21:23
  time they hear it.
• 21:24
  They act like, oh, look at these guys,
• 21:26
  they're supporting Russia.
• 21:27
  He doesn't say we support Russia.
• 21:29
  He says we don't condemn Russia because you
• 21:32
  need us to.
• 21:33
  We do it if we wish to.
• 21:34
  But Russia is a partner of ours for
• 21:36
  a long time.
• 21:37
  In the West, though, some of the elitists,
• 21:41
  at least, have forgotten that sovereignty exists in
• 21:45
  places that aren't named France, Germany, or California,
• 21:50
  that sovereignty exists in other places, in India,
• 21:54
  China, Russia.
• 21:56
  Other places are reminding us of that.
• 22:00
  And unless you want a constant war, like
• 22:03
  we've been want to do over the last
• 22:05
  50 years, you better start getting that through
• 22:08
  your head.
• 22:09
  I say the same about Venezuela, and we'll
• 22:12
  get to that after I'm done with Jaikar
• 22:14
  and his discussion here.
• 22:17
  India's definition of diplomacy is pretty clear, and
• 22:21
  in my view, how it ought to be
• 22:22
  with us.
• 22:23
  If we thought more like this, on a
• 22:28
  federal level, on a national level, I would
• 22:30
  be much more comfortable than us telling the
• 22:33
  world what to do like we've been trying
• 22:34
  to do forever.
• 22:37
  Stable long-term partnerships are important.
• 22:41
  These long-term partnerships.
• 22:43
  Not ones change every three years, not BS.
• 22:46
  Non-ideological cooperation.
• 22:49
  Why do you have to have the same
• 22:50
  ideology?
• 22:51
  We force LGBTQ crap on people all over
• 22:54
  the world.
• 22:55
  Why?
• 22:56
  So they have to take our money.
• 22:57
  We control the script by our money, our
• 23:02
  assistance through the World Bank, through International Monetary
• 23:06
  Fund, through all that crap.
• 23:08
  Why?
• 23:08
  Why do we have to have the same
• 23:10
  ideological concerns and beliefs forced upon the rest
• 23:15
  of the world?
• 23:16
  Strategic autonomy.
• 23:18
  You don't have to agree with what Russia's
• 23:23
  doing in Ukraine, with what Russia has done
• 23:26
  in Ukraine, but they have their own strategic
• 23:29
  autonomy, and you have to either understand it
• 23:32
  or don't understand it.
• 23:33
  You don't get to force it.
• 23:34
  You don't get to.
• 23:36
  I don't believe you have the authority or
• 23:38
  ability to force it anyway, and that's been
• 23:41
  the trouble in the last at least 10
• 23:44
  years.
• 23:45
  Think about national interests.
• 23:47
  We should think of our own, too, not
• 23:49
  moral theater.
• 23:51
  I believe that's what India's definition of those
• 23:53
  four things.
• 23:54
  Western definition of diplomacy, at least the globalist
• 23:57
  elite part, is still the same.
• 23:59
  Maybe it's changing, but ours has deteriorated over
• 24:02
  years to emotional outrage disguised as policy.
• 24:06
  Oh, jeez, they don't like women.
• 24:07
  They hate LGBTQ folks.
• 24:12
  Sanctions as a weapon and as a first
• 24:15
  resort, we'll sanction you.
• 24:17
  We'll tariff you.
• 24:18
  That's what we're doing now.
• 24:19
  Public shaming, public shaming, oh, jeez, you're a
• 24:23
  Putin puppet.
• 24:24
  That's what you get instead of negotiation, instead
• 24:27
  of a rational discussion on your disagreements.
• 24:31
  Demands masquerading as alliances.
• 24:34
  Well, you need to support Ukraine because you're
• 24:37
  our ally.
• 24:39
  You have to support Ukraine.
• 24:40
  Where's your blue and yellow flag?
• 24:41
  How come you don't have that?
• 24:43
  Treating the rest of the world like a
• 24:45
  bunch of subcontractors.
• 24:46
  That's what we've done.
• 24:48
  And Jaishankar, he calmly responds, you know, he's
• 24:55
  a contrast to these frantic slogan-driven foreign
• 25:00
  policy people in the collective globalist elite West
• 25:06
  that is controlled for so long.
• 25:08
  He doesn't raise his voice.
• 25:10
  He actually is raising standards.
• 25:13
  And people in the world like me, like
• 25:16
  you if you're smart, are noticing that this
• 25:19
  is where the world is going.
• 25:22
  And we as America need to continue.
• 25:25
  We need to be our, what would you
• 25:32
  call it, example to the rest of the
• 25:34
  world, ought to be like Sergei Lavrov, ought
• 25:38
  to be like Jaishankar, not Hillary Clinton.
• 25:42
  Rubio is a little better.
• 25:43
  He's stepped off, you know, but he's still
• 25:46
  a globalist deep down, at least what I
• 25:49
  believe, you know.
• 25:51
  Let's talk about India and Russia relationship anyway.
• 25:55
  This is something stable that the West has
• 25:59
  never understood in the first place.
• 26:02
  Western analysis keeps asking the same question.
• 26:07
  Why doesn't India condemn or break away from
• 26:10
  Russia?
• 26:11
  Why?
• 26:12
  And the answer is fairly simple.
• 26:13
  It's the same answer India has given for
• 26:16
  decades, since Soviet times, but the West has
• 26:20
  refused to process this information.
• 26:24
  But it's true.
• 26:25
  Russia has been India's most consistent great power
• 26:30
  partner since the 50s, even under the Soviet
• 26:34
  Union.
• 26:35
  They've been consistent, predictable, reliable, non-judgmental, non
• 26:42
  -intrusive, and not constantly trying to sell India
• 26:45
  a lecture disguised as a contract.
• 26:49
  India remembers who stood with it when the
• 26:51
  United States was busy arming Pakistan years ago
• 26:57
  and threatening sanctions every time New Delhi dared
• 27:01
  to act in its own self-interest.
• 27:04
  Yep, they remember that.
• 27:05
  India remembers that when the West described its
• 27:08
  nuclear tests, India's, as reckless, Russia responded by
• 27:13
  expanding cooperation and sending engineers, trying to help
• 27:17
  them build a nuclear power state.
• 27:23
  The Western world treats its alliances like a
• 27:26
  romantic relationship, emotional, conditional, hysterical sometimes.
• 27:33
  One disagreement and suddenly half the think tanks
• 27:36
  in Washington are screaming about betrayal.
• 27:39
  He cheated on me.
• 27:41
  He likes Russia.
• 27:43
  He's cheated on me.
• 27:45
  Russia treats their partnerships like infrastructure.
• 27:48
  They build it for endurance, for time, for
• 27:51
  long periods of time, not for short-term
• 27:55
  applause.
• 27:56
  That is why India trusts Moscow more than
• 28:00
  they trust Washington.
• 28:03
  That's all there is to it.
• 28:05
  And Jaishankar puts it quite plainly.
• 28:07
  India and Russia have one of the steadiest
• 28:11
  major power relationships in the world.
• 28:15
  Steadier, he said, than Russia's ties with China,
• 28:19
  Russia's ties with Europe, or the United States.
• 28:23
  It's not nostalgia he's talking about.
• 28:25
  It's not ideology.
• 28:26
  It's a structure of a geopolitical long-term
• 28:31
  alignment.
• 28:32
  What does Russia give India?
• 28:34
  Energy security.
• 28:36
  That's a big deal.
• 28:38
  Energy comes at a premium in India.
• 28:42
  It just does.
• 28:43
  You know, they have so many people, so
• 28:46
  huge demand for energy.
• 28:49
  The U.S., who's going to supply it?
• 28:50
  Us?
• 28:51
  We aren't even steady.
• 28:53
  We can't keep the, what do you call
• 28:56
  the pipeline, the pipeline that was going to
• 29:00
  run from Canada to Mexico.
• 29:03
  Billions spent, destroyed as soon as Joe Biden
• 29:07
  took office.
• 29:07
  Just a stroke of a pen, billions evaporated,
• 29:11
  right?
• 29:12
  Russia gives India military hardware with no political
• 29:15
  strings.
• 29:16
  The S-400, they're buying a bunch of
• 29:17
  them, air defense.
• 29:19
  They're buying their SU-57s.
• 29:21
  They're buying their airplanes.
• 29:23
  Technology transfer, they support each other.
• 29:26
  Support in multilateral forums, you know, BRICS, Russia,
• 29:30
  India, China, RIC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
• 29:35
  They give them a dependable veto because the
• 29:37
  largest country on the planet isn't part, doesn't
• 29:41
  have a veto structure in the U.N.
• 29:44
  And Russia works with them to sometimes support
• 29:47
  that, when America won't.
• 29:50
  A consistent counterbalance to China and the West.
• 29:54
  You know, Russia has to manage their relationship
• 29:57
  with both China and India, and does so
• 30:00
  very well.
• 30:01
  China manages its relationships with Russia and India,
• 30:04
  and all of them are quite strong and
• 30:06
  becoming stronger under Modi, under Xi Jinping, and
• 30:12
  under Putin.
• 30:13
  And I wonder what'll happen when that, you
• 30:15
  know, when those personalities change.
• 30:19
  I really do.
• 30:20
  The U.S., by contrast, what do we
• 30:22
  do?
• 30:23
  We threaten them with sanctions.
• 30:25
  We demand their alignment.
• 30:27
  You know, you gotta hate Russia.
• 30:29
  We twist their arms and disguise that as
• 30:32
  diplomacy.
• 30:33
  Do this or we're gonna sanction you too.
• 30:36
  Do this or we're gonna give you tariffs
• 30:40
  higher.
• 30:41
  We lecture them about human rights in their
• 30:44
  own country.
• 30:46
  You know, you have to do this.
• 30:48
  Why?
• 30:48
  Because we say so.
• 30:50
  And most horrifying to a lot of people
• 30:53
  in the rest of the world, and I'm
• 30:55
  not advocating that we change our system, by
• 30:58
  the way, this is a reality, though, that
• 31:01
  we get, they get a different foreign policy
• 31:03
  every four years from the U.S. There's
• 31:06
  no stability.
• 31:08
  We don't know.
• 31:09
  You don't build a 50-year or a
• 31:11
  100-year partnership around a country whose entire
• 31:14
  strategic posture resets every presidential election and every
• 31:20
  emotional breakdown between the president, the judicial branch,
• 31:24
  and Congress.
• 31:25
  India isn't choosing sides.
• 31:28
  It's choosing stability.
• 31:31
  That's what it's doing.
• 31:32
  And Jaishankar puts it out all the time.
• 31:36
  And people don't understand why they get this.
• 31:39
  I get it.
• 31:39
  And I hope I'm explaining it in a
• 31:41
  way that you understand it because this is
• 31:44
  how the rest of the world leaders think.
• 31:47
  This is where they go.
• 31:49
  Rubio, he's thinking three years from now.
• 31:51
  What can I do to make my mark
• 31:53
  in the next three years so that I
• 31:55
  can be president four years from now, then
• 31:57
  I can do what I want?
• 31:58
  How can I resist it right now?
• 31:59
  Hillary Clinton, same thing.
• 32:01
  When she was wandering the world collecting money
• 32:03
  for herself and her family, she was saying,
• 32:05
  wonder what I can do so that when
• 32:07
  I'm president, people understand.
• 32:09
  And they got to continue to kiss the
• 32:11
  ring of my power for more than just
• 32:14
  the four years that I'm Barack Obama's secretary
• 32:17
  of state.
• 32:18
  Pretty soon, they're going to have to kiss
• 32:20
  my ring.
• 32:21
  They're going to have to genuflect in the
• 32:23
  Oval Office for me, not for Obama.
• 32:26
  And that is the way our politicians think.
• 32:31
  They're thinking about themselves.
• 32:33
  You can argue that Jaishankar, that Modi, that
• 32:37
  Xi Jinping and Putin are also thinking about
• 32:39
  themselves, but they have a different standard.
• 32:42
  They're not going anywhere.
• 32:44
  Agree with their politics or disagree with their
• 32:46
  politics, they're not going anywhere.
• 32:49
  And our globalist elites do not understand reality.
• 32:53
  You can disagree with it all you want.
• 32:55
  I'm not saying I agree with it completely.
• 32:57
  I'm saying it's a reality.
• 33:00
  And you have to deal with that reality.
• 33:01
  And the reality is our diplomats do not
• 33:04
  think that way.
• 33:05
  They don't think like Jaishankar.
• 33:07
  They want to go and lecture.
• 33:10
  So on the economic access, why Russia-India
• 33:13
  is the West's nightmare, the Western nightmare is
• 33:18
  as follows, because at first glance, you know,
• 33:20
  the recent Putin-Modi summit over the last
• 33:23
  weekend that Jaishankar was talking about looks like
• 33:26
  a standard diplomatic visit.
• 33:28
  But it's two days.
• 33:30
  It's handshakes, flags, formal dinners, usual ceremonial choreography
• 33:35
  that takes place.
• 33:36
  But you don't see Xi Jinping or Narendra
• 33:39
  Modi coming to Washington for a two-day
• 33:42
  visit.
• 33:43
  You know, that doesn't happen.
• 33:46
  The details of these visits tell a much
• 33:48
  larger story.
• 33:49
  Narendra Modi, and they don't do this hardly
• 33:52
  ever, greeted Vladimir Putin with a red carpet
• 33:56
  on the tarmac at the airport.
• 33:58
  That doesn't happen.
• 34:00
  That's extremely rare.
• 34:02
  And so the details are there.
• 34:03
  India and Russia are not merely, not just
• 34:08
  maintaining a relationship.
• 34:10
  They are expanding it into long-term strategic
• 34:14
  economic alignments.
• 34:17
  The outcomes.
• 34:18
  Here's what they actually did, and Jaishankar discussed
• 34:21
  in his deal.
• 34:23
  They have a worker mobility agreement.
• 34:26
  What did we do?
• 34:27
  We're charging $100,000 for Indian engineers to
• 34:31
  come to the U.S., $100,000 for
• 34:33
  their H-1B visa, right?
• 34:35
  Not so between Russia and India.
• 34:38
  They have the two, those two and China,
• 34:41
  and they all fluctuate between the top three.
• 34:43
  30, 40 years ago, the U.S. had
• 34:45
  the most engineers, absolutely hands down, like 150
• 34:50
  ,000 in the entire United States on engineering.
• 34:53
  We've stayed static.
• 34:55
  We still have about 150,000.
• 34:57
  Go look at this.
• 34:58
  You can find the rates out there.
• 35:00
  Meanwhile, China, India, and Russia have tripled their
• 35:06
  number of engineers and the engineering schools.
• 35:10
  That's what they are focusing on.
• 35:12
  I heard, you know what, I apologize if
• 35:14
  it's not the day, but I was listening
• 35:16
  to JR yesterday or something like that.
• 35:19
  He was talking about trade schools and people
• 35:21
  coming into trade schools, and, you know, we're
• 35:27
  lacking in that area.
• 35:28
  Our education is crap, you know, these days,
• 35:31
  and we haven't focused on enough.
• 35:33
  Meanwhile, Russia, India, China have tripled or quadrupled
• 35:36
  in some cases the amount of engineering schools
• 35:39
  that they have, and now the outcome is
• 35:42
  a worker mobility agreement.
• 35:44
  It's a demographic of engineering and economic integration
• 35:48
  on the same continent, by the way, that
• 35:52
  is just happening.
• 35:53
  What this means is Indian professionals and workers
• 35:56
  can move freely into Russian industries and back.
• 36:00
  Russia gets a boost to its labor force
• 36:02
  from all the Indian engineers who are no
• 36:03
  longer allowed in the United States because they
• 36:06
  don't have $100,000 to apply for an
• 36:08
  H-1B.
• 36:09
  India gains new employment channels in high-tech
• 36:12
  and industrial sectors, which are growing and booming.
• 36:16
  The West is losing again in influence and
• 36:19
  in shaping the global labor pattern, and that's
• 36:23
  just the truth.
• 36:25
  They came up with a new fertilizer joint
• 36:28
  venture.
• 36:29
  One of the largest exports from Russia is
• 36:31
  fertilizer.
• 36:32
  India is the world's second largest fertilizer importer,
• 36:36
  and Russia is one of the biggest producers
• 36:38
  in their joint venture that they came up
• 36:41
  with with Putin and Modi last week.
• 36:44
  India secures agricultural stability.
• 36:48
  Russia secures a massive guaranteed market because it
• 36:51
  was blocked coming out of the Black Sea
• 36:54
  ports, can't come out of there.
• 36:56
  It's not going up in the north through
• 36:57
  the Baltics or up in the Arctic channels.
• 36:59
  They're focusing southeast, India, China, and quite successfully,
• 37:04
  by the way.
• 37:05
  The West's ability to pressure nations through food
• 37:08
  and fertilizer disruption is declining even further than
• 37:12
  it has been.
• 37:13
  Food security is national security, and India has
• 37:17
  locked it in with a generational deal with
• 37:21
  Russia.
• 37:21
  Generational, not three years and, by the way,
• 37:24
  you're out.
• 37:25
  There's been a massive Russian business delegation that
• 37:29
  arrived with Putin.
• 37:31
  He arrived not with a political entourage, but
• 37:33
  with hundreds of business leaders that came along
• 37:37
  with him.
• 37:37
  Why?
• 37:38
  Because Russia is moving its economic gravity eastward.
• 37:43
  They're hated incorrectly, in my opinion, in Europe
• 37:48
  and further west, so they're moving and gravitating
• 37:51
  eastward toward India, Asia, and India is welcoming
• 37:55
  this investment.
• 37:56
  They got technology, defense, energy, space, and nuclear
• 38:01
  cooperation.
• 38:02
  Those were discussions between Modi and Putin as
• 38:05
  well.
• 38:06
  The West cannot compete with those in these
• 38:09
  domains without trying to impose political conditions upon
• 38:13
  them, and Russia doesn't do that.
• 38:15
  They don't need to do that.
• 38:17
  By the way, I forgot to mention that
• 38:19
  on the same tarmac, this is important too.
• 38:22
  Why is it only Putin that gets these
• 38:24
  respects?
• 38:25
  He even got it from Trumpster in Alaska.
• 38:29
  They ride in the same car.
• 38:31
  He jumps in the same car.
• 38:33
  You get in your caravan of black SUVs,
• 38:40
  and I'll get in mine.
• 38:42
  He got in the presidential limo with President,
• 38:46
  you know, with Modi.
• 38:47
  He did that.
• 38:48
  He did the same thing with Trumpster when
• 38:50
  they got up there, and this is why
• 38:52
  U.S. diplomats keep making the same confused
• 38:55
  statement, taking the same confused approach.
• 38:59
  We're disappointed that India won't join in Western
• 39:03
  sanctions against Russia.
• 39:06
  Of course, India won't.
• 39:08
  Why?
• 39:09
  Because sanctions regime is not strategy.
• 39:13
  It's another emotional tantrum of the girlfriend who
• 39:17
  no longer cares for you, or wants to
• 39:22
  tell you what to do, wants to dictate
• 39:25
  to you.
• 39:26
  India is playing a long game.
• 39:28
  So is Russia, by the way.
• 39:29
  The West, by nature, we have to play,
• 39:32
  at least in America, we have to play
• 39:34
  the short game.
• 39:35
  Russia is playing a patience game, and China
• 39:38
  is playing the infrastructure game, also long term.
• 39:43
  And which one do you think is going
• 39:44
  to win?
• 39:45
  India's message to the West is, we're not
• 39:49
  your latest project.
• 39:51
  We just aren't.
• 39:53
  But the clearest moment in Jaishankar's remarks, at
• 39:56
  least for me, came when he responded to
• 39:58
  a question about India and whether it feels
• 40:01
  pressured by Washington.
• 40:03
  He didn't hesitate, stutter, wobble, nothing.
• 40:08
  No backpedaling.
• 40:11
  Here's what he said.
• 40:12
  We have freedom of choice.
• 40:15
  We do not accept any country having a
• 40:19
  say in how we develop our relationships.
• 40:23
  Now, how powerful is that?
• 40:25
  You don't get to tell us what to
• 40:27
  do.
• 40:27
  This is the geopolitical equivalent of telling somebody,
• 40:29
  you don't own me.
• 40:31
  And you never did.
• 40:32
  You just thought you did.
• 40:33
  For decades, the West misunderstands and misunderstood India,
• 40:39
  thought it was some kind of a swing
• 40:41
  state, something that had to be lured, pushed,
• 40:44
  ideologically aligned.
• 40:46
  The misunderstanding came from Western elitists' deep misconceptions,
• 40:52
  the belief that sovereignty is somehow negotiable because
• 40:57
  you control the purse strings.
• 41:00
  When you start not controlling the purse strings,
• 41:03
  you can no longer control the ideology nor
• 41:09
  the sovereignty.
• 41:11
  And India doesn't negotiate its sovereignty.
• 41:14
  Modi has said it.
• 41:15
  Jaishankar says it.
• 41:16
  It doesn't dilute it.
• 41:18
  It doesn't trade for applause and go, geez,
• 41:21
  we support the pink flags or multicolored rainbow
• 41:27
  flags.
• 41:27
  The U.S., by the way, in foreign
• 41:30
  policy anyway, Rubio's had to come to grips
• 41:32
  with this because the U.S. still assumes
• 41:35
  that nations want to be subordinates to Washington,
• 41:40
  not partners because they never were, in exchange
• 41:43
  for some sort of validation by the globalist
• 41:46
  elitists in the West.
• 41:48
  Europe assumes that every country still wants to
• 41:51
  emulate the religion of regulation by the same
• 41:56
  people who've controlled that sort of regulation and
• 42:00
  involvement forever.
• 42:01
  India doesn't want either one of those things.
• 42:04
  India wants respect, wants to be treated like
• 42:07
  an adult, like their voice really does matter
• 42:11
  and you wouldn't have to dictate to you
• 42:13
  what your voice is, right?
• 42:17
  What's India's approach with China?
• 42:20
  What does grown-up border management look like?
• 42:26
  And there has been some trouble between India
• 42:29
  and China on this border.
• 42:30
  Remember me telling you from the BRICS conference
• 42:32
  when I went to Russia last year to
• 42:35
  Kazan, telling you about that on the sidelines
• 42:38
  of that, China and India came to an
• 42:40
  agreement on the disputed lands.
• 42:43
  They said, well, we'll agree to disagree, but
• 42:46
  we will no longer consider it a war
• 42:49
  zone.
• 42:49
  We'll resolve that part.
• 42:51
  And they did.
• 42:52
  So while Western analysts obsess over every headline
• 42:55
  that contains the word China, India is doing
• 42:59
  something different.
• 43:01
  India behaves rationally.
• 43:04
  Jaishankar outlined this situation in his interview.
• 43:07
  He said that these tensions have been eased,
• 43:10
  agreements have been made, patrol patterns have resumed
• 43:15
  in many areas, even though the disagreement is
• 43:17
  still there.
• 43:18
  Most importantly, communication channels are still functioning and
• 43:23
  stability, non-escalation is the priority.
• 43:29
  So this is on both sides, by the
• 43:31
  way.
• 43:33
  It isn't softness.
• 43:35
  It isn't weakness.
• 43:36
  It's strategy.
• 43:38
  And India understands something that Europe never understood.
• 43:41
  Diplomacy isn't therapy or telling somebody what they
• 43:44
  got to do.
• 43:45
  It's not where you're going to express your
• 43:47
  feelings and, you know, have some therapist tell
• 43:51
  you, you know, what you have to do.
• 43:53
  You know, a therapist should give you options,
• 43:56
  ways to deal with your problems.
• 43:59
  Diplomacy is something where you go to prevent
• 44:03
  disaster, escalation.
• 44:06
  India does not need a war with China.
• 44:09
  China does not need war with India.
• 44:12
  And both of them understand that.
• 44:15
  They both understand the cost and what happens
• 44:19
  if you do.
• 44:20
  The West, on the other hand, imagines conflict
• 44:24
  as some sort of self-expression, right?
• 44:30
  And why can't the West adapt to India's
• 44:32
  new role?
• 44:33
  Why?
• 44:35
  Because India exposes Western contradiction.
• 44:38
  Contradiction one, we believe in democracy and in
• 44:42
  sovereignty unless you vote the wrong way.
• 44:46
  India votes independently and the West hates that.
• 44:48
  Here's contradiction number two.
• 44:51
  We globally lead us, we want global partnerships,
• 44:55
  but only if we lead in the partnership.
• 44:58
  India refuses to be subordinate and the West
• 45:00
  isn't prepared for that.
• 45:02
  Contradiction number three, we want a multipolar world,
• 45:06
  but only if we remain the center of
• 45:09
  it.
• 45:10
  That's the U.S. approach.
• 45:12
  India treats the U.S. as one poll
• 45:16
  among many, and the West is offended by
• 45:19
  that.
• 45:19
  The Hillary Clintons of the world, the globalist
• 45:22
  elites, are offended.
• 45:23
  Europe elites offended.
• 45:26
  Contradiction number four, we support sovereignty unless it
• 45:30
  interferes with our agenda.
• 45:33
  But India says our sovereignty is non-negotiable,
• 45:36
  and so the West calls India uncooperative.
• 45:40
  Contradiction.
• 45:41
  Contradiction number five, we value stability unless instability,
• 45:47
  Ukraine, benefits us somehow.
• 45:50
  India values genuine stability.
• 45:53
  They value long-term relationships.
• 45:57
  The West values disorder that they control or
• 46:02
  somehow manage.
• 46:03
  I say that they can't.
• 46:05
  But India breaks Western paradigms not because it
• 46:08
  is anti-Western, but because it's other than
• 46:14
  Western.
• 46:15
  They're independent, that's why.
• 46:18
  India is not the West's alternative.
• 46:21
  India is kind of a correction of this,
• 46:24
  right?
• 46:25
  The West has tried to export ideology, not
• 46:28
  a system.
• 46:30
  India is exporting their own stability.
• 46:34
  The West is offering political volatility, you know,
• 46:37
  you've got to join us, but we change
• 46:39
  every three years.
• 46:40
  India is offering and grabbing continuity.
• 46:44
  The West is offering moral absolutism, follow us
• 46:48
  or you're immoral.
• 46:49
  India offers realistic, you know, realism, reality, we're
• 46:55
  reality.
• 46:56
  You don't have to agree with it, but
• 46:57
  reality is reality.
• 46:59
  You know, we don't control it, neither do
• 47:00
  you, by the way.
• 47:01
  It's basically what Jaishankar is saying.
• 47:04
  I don't know.
• 47:05
  It's not anti-Western, it's post-colonial.
• 47:08
  It remembers being colonized.
• 47:11
  And in the Western world, which built its
• 47:13
  influence on control of such states, fear and
• 47:18
  dependency, they're now confronting, you know, the Western
• 47:22
  elites are confronting a world in which none
• 47:25
  of these tools work any longer.
• 47:28
  In a multipolar century, according to Jaishankar, India's
• 47:32
  place is pretty secure.
• 47:34
  We, the world, is living through the end
• 47:36
  of a Western strategic monopoly.
• 47:39
  Western strategic monopoly does not exist any longer,
• 47:44
  and people need to come to grips with
• 47:45
  that.
• 47:46
  But our globalist elites are dying, trying to
• 47:49
  reinstate globalism as the way the world is
• 47:55
  won.
• 47:56
  The world has multiple decision-making centers and
• 48:00
  growing.
• 48:01
  Not every nation wants to be China, wants
• 48:04
  to be Russia, wants to be Washington.
• 48:07
  No nations want to be Europe, and they
• 48:09
  certainly don't want to be a client state
• 48:11
  of Washington.
• 48:13
  And Jaishankar tells us that India's foreign policy
• 48:16
  is showing what comes next.
• 48:18
  This is a, I'm spending so much time
• 48:21
  on this because it's important.
• 48:23
  India believes in multiple partnerships, no permanent enemies,
• 48:26
  no permanent alliances, no issue-based cooperation, respect
• 48:33
  for its own sovereignty.
• 48:34
  You know, you respect our sovereignty, we'll respect
• 48:37
  yours.
• 48:37
  And strategic self-definition.
• 48:41
  Our strategy means that we have to work
• 48:43
  with China, who's right next door, and with
• 48:45
  Russia, who's the largest supplier of natural resources
• 48:48
  on the planet.
• 48:50
  This is not the model of a developing
• 48:54
  country that has to make austerity controls for
• 49:00
  the IMF or the World Bank.
• 49:02
  It's the model of a new global power.
• 49:05
  India isn't rising.
• 49:07
  India has risen.
• 49:09
  And if we're not careful, we're going to
• 49:10
  have trouble catching up with them.
• 49:13
  We need to start working together, not creating
• 49:16
  further enemies.
• 49:17
  So, you know, when Jaishankar speaks, I say
• 49:22
  the 21st century is answering.
• 49:27
  The most important thing about Jaishankar isn't his
• 49:30
  rhetorical skill, although he has it.
• 49:33
  It's not his knowledge of history or his
• 49:35
  diplomatic professionalism, although all three are quite exceptional.
• 49:39
  And in my view, he's number two to
• 49:42
  Sergei Lavrov, who is, you know, hands down
• 49:44
  the best on the planet.
• 49:45
  And what matters is this.
• 49:47
  He speaks for a world, in English, tired
• 49:51
  of Western improvisation, you know, the comedy club
• 49:57
  masquerading as some sort of leadership.
• 50:00
  He speaks for nations that build their own
• 50:02
  future.
• 50:03
  He speaks for civilizations like Africa, like the
• 50:07
  Middle East, who have survived colonization, exploitation, and
• 50:12
  ideological coercion from the West.
• 50:16
  He speaks for the people who want respect,
• 50:19
  not some kind of oversight.
• 50:20
  And he speaks for the future, not the
• 50:23
  past.
• 50:24
  In a room full of Western diplomats still
• 50:27
  living in 1998, Subramanian Jaishankar walks in calmly,
• 50:34
  sits down, speaks from 2075, you know, the
• 50:37
  walk softly and carry a big stick.
• 50:40
  I say it applies to him.
• 50:43
  And the contrast between approach and diplomacy is
• 50:47
  devastating for globalist elites, because the truth is
• 50:50
  simple.
• 50:52
  India is the adult in the room.
• 50:55
  Jaishankar is the adult in the room.
• 50:58
  The people of the West and the globalist
• 51:00
  elites are not.
• 51:02
  And the world prefers to listen to adults.
• 51:07
  That is absolutely true.
• 51:10
  And I think it's important.
• 51:13
  Another thing that's coming up, a big shocker.
• 51:16
  This is coming up.
• 51:17
  And I hope I can get through this
• 51:18
  pretty quickly, because I still want to get
• 51:20
  to all three segments.
• 51:23
  And this one, this segment is about Steven
• 51:25
  Seagal.
• 51:27
  Now, Steven Seagal, you know, I tell you
• 51:30
  what, there are moments in history when the
• 51:32
  great empires of the world are brought low,
• 51:34
  not by armies, revolutions or economic collapse, but
• 51:37
  by something simple and humiliating.
• 51:41
  Reality.
• 51:43
  Sometimes reality arrives in the forms of a
• 51:46
  six foot four Aikido master with a ponytail,
• 51:51
  a Russian passport and zero patience for Western
• 51:55
  hypocrisy.
• 51:56
  Enter, and I'm no huge fan, but this
• 51:58
  is true.
• 52:00
  Every word of it.
• 52:01
  Steven Seagal, the actor, producer, martial artist, unlikely
• 52:05
  geopolitical truth teller, is finishing his special military
• 52:10
  operation documentary.
• 52:13
  It's called Vahimya Spravedlivosti, In the Name of
• 52:17
  Justice.
• 52:18
  And the reaction from Western media isn't just
• 52:23
  irritation.
• 52:24
  It's panic.
• 52:25
  It's real panic, because everybody's going to watch
• 52:28
  this.
• 52:28
  Seagal isn't just making a film.
• 52:31
  He's detonating the Western narrative, and the West
• 52:35
  knows it.
• 52:36
  Now, way back when, who's the Oliver Stone,
• 52:40
  I think it was, who created that Ukraine,
• 52:44
  Ukraine on Fire, I think it's called.
• 52:46
  And you can buy it on, you should
• 52:48
  watch this.
• 52:49
  And I bought it three, four years ago,
• 52:52
  maybe four or five years ago, before the
• 52:55
  war started.
• 52:56
  But it tells you everything about Ukraine.
• 52:59
  And you go through it.
• 52:59
  People hated him.
• 53:00
  They bad mouthed him.
• 53:01
  They went through it.
• 53:02
  And everything, 90% of what he said
• 53:07
  in there is absolutely true.
• 53:09
  And people, and it was true then, too.
• 53:12
  But nobody paid attention to it.
• 53:13
  And they downplayed it.
• 53:15
  They canceled it.
• 53:16
  And they're trying to do the same thing
• 53:18
  before Seagal's SVO, special military operation, documentary comes
• 53:25
  out.
• 53:26
  Why does Seagal terrify the West more than
• 53:29
  Russian tanks do?
• 53:32
  Well, let's start with the basics on here.
• 53:34
  The Western media can easily dismiss Russian reporters,
• 53:37
  Russian soldiers, Russian diplomats, Russian filmmakers, Russian politicians,
• 53:43
  and anybody else as a Kremlin propagandist, a
• 53:48
  puppet of Putin, right?
• 53:49
  They just hit, you know, control copy, control
• 53:53
  V on their computer and, oh, Russian mouthpiece,
• 53:57
  disinformation, blah, blah, blah.
• 54:00
  And it's a script they've been using for
• 54:02
  a long time, especially since 2014.
• 54:04
  And it shows, you know, that's all we've
• 54:08
  done.
• 54:08
  That's it.
• 54:09
  All you can do is cancel culture, people
• 54:11
  that say anything positive about Russia, about Vladimir
• 54:14
  Putin.
• 54:15
  Steven Seagal breaks that template.
• 54:17
  Why?
• 54:18
  Because he's an American, number one.
• 54:20
  He isn't an obscure American, but he's one
• 54:23
  that has celebrity status.
• 54:24
  You can censor RT.
• 54:26
  You can sue, what's her name, Margarita Semenyan.
• 54:31
  You can mark her with Western sanctions.
• 54:34
  You can put her on the Miratorets list
• 54:36
  in Ukraine.
• 54:37
  You can censor, you can ban Russian film.
• 54:40
  You can ban 1.8 million followers from
• 54:44
  being able to watch Panchenko on Ukrainian news
• 54:51
  and delete her from YouTube.
• 54:54
  That's BS.
• 54:56
  But then you can silence other Russian and
• 54:59
  Ukrainian journalists who disagree with the narrative.
• 55:01
  But you can't cancel an American actor for
• 55:04
  telling the truth about Ukraine without reminding people
• 55:07
  that free speech is supposed to be our
• 55:09
  thing.
• 55:10
  You know, free speech is supposed to be
• 55:12
  us.
• 55:13
  He's a cultural icon and Hollywood doesn't, cannot,
• 55:16
  never has been able to control him.
• 55:19
  This is a guy who built his film
• 55:20
  career disobeying studio systems, did his own fights,
• 55:24
  refused to follow the celebrity playbook.
• 55:27
  Good luck telling Seagal he's not allowed to
• 55:29
  film in Donbass.
• 55:30
  He'll film there twice just because you told
• 55:32
  him not to.
• 55:32
  He has nothing to lose and that makes
• 55:35
  him globally dangerous.
• 55:36
  You can support him or dissupport him.
• 55:39
  I'm not saying I even like Steven Seagal.
• 55:41
  You know, I thought his movies were a
• 55:42
  little bit cheesy, you know, from that point
• 55:44
  of view.
• 55:45
  And, you know, standard, typical.
• 55:47
  And I never really cared for them.
• 55:49
  You know, I was much more of a,
• 55:50
  I don't know, I suppose, a man who
• 55:55
  I can't remember, Arnold Schwarzenegger dude.
• 55:58
  You know, the Terminators were far better than
• 56:01
  the, you know, the guy on the ship,
• 56:02
  you know, doing military stuff, in my opinion.
• 56:05
  I think he was a number three, at
• 56:08
  least, you know.
• 56:09
  It was Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rambo, what the hell's
• 56:16
  his name?
• 56:17
  Can't remember.
• 56:18
  And then came Steven Seagal, you know.
• 56:20
  That's the way I look at it anyway.
• 56:22
  You can't threaten him with career ruin.
• 56:25
  He's already moved on.
• 56:26
  He isn't doing it.
• 56:26
  Hollywood already tried that.
• 56:28
  He survived it.
• 56:29
  He moved to Russia.
• 56:29
  He's got a new audience.
• 56:30
  He built a new life.
• 56:32
  He's a man with nothing to lose and
• 56:33
  you can't control him.
• 56:34
  A man who can't be controlled cannot be
• 56:37
  silenced.
• 56:37
  He's a bridge between cultures the West wants
• 56:40
  to keep separate.
• 56:41
  He speaks English.
• 56:43
  More importantly, he speaks American.
• 56:45
  And he understands Russian and the Russian spot.
• 56:48
  He's fluent in martial arts world.
• 56:49
  He's in entertainment world and in geopolitics.
• 56:52
  He's a cross-cultural figure that's like, you
• 56:55
  know, the latest nightmare for Western disinformation.
• 56:59
  Managers who rely on rigid categories to maintain
• 57:02
  psychological control of the public.
• 57:04
  He's been there.
• 57:05
  This is one of the biggest things that
• 57:08
  he's going to be doing.
• 57:09
  This is probably more important than all of
• 57:11
  his other movies.
• 57:12
  He's been physically present on the front lines
• 57:14
  in Donbass, in Mariupol, talking to soldiers, commanders,
• 57:18
  civilians.
• 57:18
  I wish I was part of this, truthfully.
• 57:20
  The people Western journalists claim to cover but
• 57:22
  never actually meet.
• 57:24
  That's what makes him particularly mentally lethal in
• 57:29
  this respect.
• 57:29
  He isn't speculation.
• 57:31
  He is speculating.
• 57:32
  He is witnessing what's going on.
• 57:35
  And Western media can't defend against witnesses that
• 57:38
  actually saw it.
• 57:40
  Hollywood versus Seagal, you know.
• 57:42
  Hollywood has spent years manufacturing wartime narratives.
• 57:47
  Zelensky is the new Churchill.
• 57:50
  Kiev is a beacon of freedom.
• 57:52
  Ukrainian army is undefeatable.
• 57:56
  Russia is inches from collapse.
• 57:58
  Remember all these narratives?
• 57:59
  Every film studio, every media platform, every streaming
• 58:04
  platform, every late night comic, every awards show
• 58:10
  collapsed into this script.
• 58:12
  A script straight out of the Biden-era
• 58:18
  State Department, even before the Putin-era, you
• 58:23
  know, State Department.
• 58:25
  I mean Putin.
• 58:26
  Obama-era State Department.
• 58:28
  Western media produces more propaganda fiction about Ukraine
• 58:32
  than all the Marvel movies combined.
• 58:35
  And, you know, frankly, most of the Marvel
• 58:37
  movies were more believable.
• 58:39
  The problem is simple.
• 58:40
  None of it was true.
• 58:43
  And Seagal knows how movie illusions work.
• 58:46
  He had a 40-year career in action
• 58:48
  choreography that looked real but wasn't.
• 58:50
  So when he sees fake narratives masquerading as
• 58:53
  war reporting, he recognizes it the way magicians
• 58:57
  recognize other magicians' tricks.
• 59:00
  Hollywood can't afford a guy like Seagal telling
• 59:02
  how this really went and how the sausage
• 59:05
  is made.
• 59:05
  So the documentary, Why in the Name of
• 59:08
  Justice, is a direct threat to PSYOPs in
• 59:11
  the West.
• 59:12
  Seagal announced that the film would be ready
• 59:14
  for global release within six to eight weeks.
• 59:17
  I'm watching for it.
• 59:18
  The West has responded like a toddler whose
• 59:21
  iPad battery has died.
• 59:23
  Why?
• 59:23
  They're talking about, oh my God, this is
• 59:25
  dangerous.
• 59:26
  We can't have this.
• 59:27
  He's nobody.
• 59:28
  You know, that's what we're getting.
• 59:29
  What makes this documentary dangerous?
• 59:31
  It shows the Russians' perspective.
• 59:33
  That's what.
• 59:34
  It destroys the myth that Russia is somehow
• 59:37
  isolated.
• 59:38
  It undermines the Western portrayal of the special
• 59:41
  military operation as an unprovoked act.
• 59:44
  It documents the 2014 coup, eight years of
• 59:47
  Ukrainian shelling in Donbass, the Minsk agreements betrayals,
• 59:51
  two of them, NATO expansion, you know, that's
• 59:54
  been threatening, U.S. military involvement in Ukraine,
• 59:58
  chemical weapons development in Ukraine.
• 1:00:01
  Seagal plans to show viewers that the conflict
• 1:00:04
  didn't begin in 2022.
• 1:00:06
  Same thing.
• 1:00:06
  It began in Washington boardrooms years earlier.
• 1:00:10
  You know, this is going to humanize Russian
• 1:00:13
  soldiers.
• 1:00:14
  Something the West has forbidden.
• 1:00:16
  They are killers.
• 1:00:17
  They are orcs.
• 1:00:18
  Remember?
• 1:00:19
  The audience sees real faces, real stories, real
• 1:00:22
  motivation.
• 1:00:22
  Psychological demonization is going to go away.
• 1:00:25
  Western propaganda relies on these abstract villains, you
• 1:00:29
  know, of the orcs.
• 1:00:31
  It makes the audience, you know, what Seagal
• 1:00:34
  plans to do.
• 1:00:36
  Makes the audience ask questions that the West
• 1:00:38
  fears the most.
• 1:00:39
  Things that I've been saying now for a
• 1:00:41
  year and a half.
• 1:00:42
  What else have we been lied to about?
• 1:00:46
  That's a huge question.
• 1:00:48
  And this doesn't help.
• 1:00:49
  Once that question is asked, all Western disinformation
• 1:00:53
  systems collapse like a badly built movie set,
• 1:00:57
  right?
• 1:00:58
  And it's creating panic.
• 1:00:59
  It really is.
• 1:01:00
  Western journalists know they can't refute facts from
• 1:01:03
  somebody who is physically present.
• 1:01:05
  You can argue about statistics.
• 1:01:07
  You can argue even satellite images.
• 1:01:09
  You can't argue with a man standing in
• 1:01:12
  a bomb crater interviewing the family who live
• 1:01:14
  next to it.
• 1:01:16
  They're worried about this.
• 1:01:17
  They know that Seagal's audience is not an
• 1:01:20
  ordinary audience.
• 1:01:21
  And he's going to get a lot of
• 1:01:23
  people watching.
• 1:01:23
  It's going to be American veterans, martial artists,
• 1:01:27
  people that think independently, people that are deeply
• 1:01:30
  distrustful of their own government already, and people
• 1:01:34
  who reject mainstream media narrative.
• 1:01:37
  This is the last demographic, I mean, that
• 1:01:42
  Western elitists want exposed to a coherent counter
• 1:01:47
  -narrative.
• 1:01:48
  The West's own storytellers have failed for years.
• 1:01:51
  Zelensky cannot and did not play Churchill, you
• 1:01:55
  know, even if you believed it short term.
• 1:01:57
  The audience is tired of it.
• 1:01:58
  And sees beyond, you know, don't look at
• 1:02:01
  the man behind the curtain, right?
• 1:02:03
  NATO cannot play savior anymore because the audience
• 1:02:06
  sees all the corruption.
• 1:02:08
  Mainstream media cannot play truth teller because the
• 1:02:11
  audience understands the manipulation.
• 1:02:14
  And Seagal, this is ironic because he's going
• 1:02:17
  to restore somewhat what Western journalists have destroyed,
• 1:02:21
  at least about Ukraine, credibility.
• 1:02:24
  And that is unforgivable.
• 1:02:27
  And why?
• 1:02:28
  Because he's going to be more successful, more
• 1:02:34
  effective than, you know, anybody else.
• 1:02:37
  He speaks to ordinary people, not policy elites.
• 1:02:41
  He talks in moral language the West cannot
• 1:02:43
  dismiss.
• 1:02:44
  He doesn't speak from an ideological platform.
• 1:02:48
  He's bringing authenticity to it.
• 1:02:51
  And the documentary is going to be information
• 1:02:53
  warfare without warfare.
• 1:02:57
  You know, this documentary is going to expose
• 1:03:02
  further Western globalist elite failure.
• 1:03:06
  And people are going to watch.
• 1:03:08
  I wonder how many millions he'll get.
• 1:03:10
  What's the symbolism of one man, one camera
• 1:03:13
  and one collapsing empire?
• 1:03:16
  It's almost poetic, right?
• 1:03:18
  An American, not a general, not a senator,
• 1:03:21
  not a diplomat, a man known for breaking
• 1:03:24
  arms in movies is going to break the
• 1:03:27
  backbone of Western media credibility.
• 1:03:31
  And he didn't need a Pentagon budget.
• 1:03:34
  He didn't need a NATO spokesperson.
• 1:03:36
  And he didn't need the New York Times
• 1:03:37
  to do it.
• 1:03:38
  All he needs is a camera, honesty, and
• 1:03:40
  the courage to go where Western journalists will
• 1:03:43
  not.
• 1:03:45
  Tell you what, this is going to be
• 1:03:47
  a hell of a deal.
• 1:03:48
  And it's not choreographed by the people that
• 1:03:51
  normally choreograph it, right?
• 1:03:54
  I wanted to get into the Zelensky, what's
• 1:04:01
  going to happen with Zelensky.
• 1:04:03
  But I have one further topic I want
• 1:04:06
  to get to before that.
• 1:04:10
  And this one is about this tanker that
• 1:04:15
  Trump announced yesterday that was seized.
• 1:04:18
  And I tell you what, I hope I
• 1:04:20
  have enough time to get there.
• 1:04:22
  And to the end of this little essay
• 1:04:26
  portion, empires like ours, they don't fall because
• 1:04:30
  they're weak.
• 1:04:31
  They fall because they are sloppy.
• 1:04:34
  They stop respecting their own rules, the rules
• 1:04:38
  they claim to uphold.
• 1:04:40
  They confuse improvisation for strategy.
• 1:04:43
  They mistake coercion for persuasion.
• 1:04:47
  They mistake fear for respect.
• 1:04:50
  And most of all, they mistake their own
• 1:04:52
  propaganda for the truth.
• 1:04:54
  And the US's seizure of this Venezuelan oil
• 1:04:59
  tanker, according to the old Trumpster, the largest
• 1:05:02
  ever seized, you know, this isn't just a
• 1:05:09
  maritime incident in my opinion.
• 1:05:12
  I think it's another turning point.
• 1:05:14
  And a moment when the facade of the
• 1:05:17
  so-called rules-based international order cracked further,
• 1:05:23
  now it's loud enough for the whole world
• 1:05:25
  to hear, right?
• 1:05:27
  Washington grabbed a tanker.
• 1:05:30
  It has no legal right to touch.
• 1:05:35
  Then Trump brags about it.
• 1:05:37
  The standard news people, you know, spin the
• 1:05:43
  fallout one way or the other for or
• 1:05:46
  against.
• 1:05:46
  And then you watch while the international community
• 1:05:49
  quietly added this incident to the growing list
• 1:05:54
  of our own diplomatic, American-owned diplomatic self
• 1:06:00
  -inflicted wounds.
• 1:06:02
  I am very much against what we have
• 1:06:05
  done.
• 1:06:06
  Why?
• 1:06:06
  I'll tell you why.
• 1:06:08
  Because this is not a foreign policy victory.
• 1:06:12
  This is a strategic embarrassment.
• 1:06:16
  And the world, same world that I talk
• 1:06:18
  about all the time, especially Russia, China, India,
• 1:06:22
  Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, and the entire non
• 1:06:27
  -aligned block of countries in the world are
• 1:06:29
  certainly watching.
• 1:06:32
  When the world's self-declared guardian of maritime
• 1:06:35
  freedom behaves like a pirate, the narrative is
• 1:06:40
  shifting.
• 1:06:41
  And I'm telling you, this narrative is shifted.
• 1:06:44
  How did the seizure happen?
• 1:06:46
  This is a, you know, you want to
• 1:06:47
  talk about a legal or administrative governmental overreach.
• 1:06:54
  Let's talk about it.
• 1:06:56
  Trump confirmed the operation himself.
• 1:06:58
  We just seized a tanker, very large.
• 1:07:00
  The largest ever seized.
• 1:07:03
  There it is, a confession.
• 1:07:05
  No ambiguity, no diplomatic buffer, no plausible deniability.
• 1:07:10
  Just a public televised announcement that instantly raised
• 1:07:14
  a question, at least for me.
• 1:07:16
  Under whose authority?
• 1:07:17
  Under what authority?
• 1:07:19
  Because maritime law shouldn't be a guessing game.
• 1:07:23
  If the tanker was in U.S. territorial
• 1:07:26
  waters, it wasn't, then the U.S. has
• 1:07:29
  jurisdiction.
• 1:07:30
  But no one, not a single official has
• 1:07:32
  claimed this.
• 1:07:33
  If the tanker was in Venezuelan waters, then
• 1:07:37
  the U.S. committed an act of aggression
• 1:07:39
  against Venezuela.
• 1:07:41
  And, you know, the U.S. isn't doing
• 1:07:44
  itself any favors with the global South.
• 1:07:46
  In the global South, they view it as
• 1:07:49
  piracy.
• 1:07:50
  If the tanker was in international waters, then
• 1:07:53
  the U.S. violated UNCLOS norms.
• 1:07:56
  Because sanctions are not international law.
• 1:08:00
  They are a domestic political tool to end
• 1:08:03
  at the waterline unless somehow multilateralized.
• 1:08:08
  And if the tanker was flagged under another
• 1:08:10
  nation, the U.S. has violated that nation's
• 1:08:14
  sovereignty.
• 1:08:15
  And this has enormous consequences diplomatically and certainly
• 1:08:19
  downstream.
• 1:08:20
  The fact that Washington has refused to release,
• 1:08:24
  at least initially, as of about six hours
• 1:08:28
  ago, the name of the tanker, the flag
• 1:08:30
  it sailed under, the coordinates that it was
• 1:08:32
  seized upon, or the specific legal grounds for
• 1:08:35
  seizing it tells you everything.
• 1:08:37
  This is not law enforcement.
• 1:08:39
  It's not anti-piracy.
• 1:08:41
  It is not counterterrorism.
• 1:08:42
  This is an extraterritorial sanction enforcement.
• 1:08:46
  This is dangerous, dubious, legally, this category of
• 1:08:52
  U.S. foreign operation.
• 1:08:54
  It is existing in a gray zone between
• 1:08:57
  law and force, between democracy, diplomacy, and coercion.
• 1:09:03
  It is despised by nearly every developing nation
• 1:09:07
  on Earth.
• 1:09:09
  Why is the seizure illegal?
• 1:09:11
  Or why, you know, let's be precise about
• 1:09:13
  this.
• 1:09:13
  Under the U.N. Convention on the Law
• 1:09:16
  of the Sea, right, U-N-C-L
• 1:09:18
  -O-S, which the U.S. refuses to
• 1:09:21
  ratify while demanding that others obey it.
• 1:09:24
  Under that, commercial vessels in international waters cannot
• 1:09:28
  be seized for violating unilateral sanctions, cannot be
• 1:09:33
  boarded without host nation consent, cannot be detained
• 1:09:37
  without demonstrated criminal activity, cannot be treated as
• 1:09:41
  military contraband unless they are tied to an
• 1:09:43
  armed conflict recognized by the U.N. Security
• 1:09:47
  Council.
• 1:09:49
  None of that has happened.
• 1:09:51
  And the U.S. justified previous seizures by
• 1:09:53
  claiming oil shipments were funding terrorism.
• 1:09:57
  Vessels are linked to sanctioned Iranian military networks.
• 1:10:01
  There are multilateral agreements in place, but none
• 1:10:04
  of these apply to Venezuela.
• 1:10:07
  They just don't.
• 1:10:08
  Venezuela is not a terrorist state, not even
• 1:10:11
  under U.S. law.
• 1:10:13
  Venezuela is not at war with the United
• 1:10:15
  States.
• 1:10:16
  The U.S. simply wants regime change.
• 1:10:19
  That's it.
• 1:10:20
  Venezuela's oil exports are legal under international law.
• 1:10:25
  They're only illegal, arguably, under U.S. unilateral
• 1:10:29
  sanctions.
• 1:10:31
  And Trump is bragging about, you know, this.
• 1:10:33
  This removes any doubt.
• 1:10:35
  This is not a legal enforcement action.
• 1:10:37
  This is a strategic theater.
• 1:10:39
  This is, you know, the late night comedy.
• 1:10:43
  The law is not ambiguous.
• 1:10:45
  The U.S. does not have universal jurisdiction
• 1:10:48
  over global commerce on the sea.
• 1:10:51
  The moment Washington acts like it does, it
• 1:10:55
  becomes the very thing it claims.
• 1:10:58
  It opposes a rogue maritime actor.
• 1:11:01
  The rest of the world sees this.
• 1:11:03
  I see this.
• 1:11:04
  Why did the U.S. do it anyway?
• 1:11:07
  Why?
• 1:11:09
  I say this is desperation masquerading as strength.
• 1:11:13
  The seizure isn't about Venezuela.
• 1:11:15
  Not really.
• 1:11:17
  Washington is afraid of something else.
• 1:11:19
  They're afraid of the collapse of the U
• 1:11:22
  .S. influence in Latin America.
• 1:11:24
  Because Brazil is already bricks.
• 1:11:27
  Argentina is shifting.
• 1:11:29
  Mexico is more and more defiant.
• 1:11:32
  Colombia is questioning U.S. dominance.
• 1:11:35
  Chile is drifting.
• 1:11:35
  Bolivia is untouchable.
• 1:11:37
  And Venezuela is surviving sanctions.
• 1:11:39
  The Monroe Doctrine is dead.
• 1:11:42
  Washington just forgot to, you know, have a
• 1:11:45
  funeral, you know, for it.
• 1:11:46
  And instead we're coming up with a new
• 1:11:48
  Trump Doctrine.
• 1:11:49
  And the rise of multipolar oil channels is
• 1:11:53
  a big stake in the heart of this
• 1:11:56
  U.S. dominance, right, in the South.
• 1:12:00
  Russia and Iran sell oil globally despite sanctions.
• 1:12:04
  China is paying in yuan.
• 1:12:06
  India is paying in rupees and dirhams.
• 1:12:08
  BRICS Plus is creating a non-Western energy
• 1:12:12
  clearing system, non-Western insurance system.
• 1:12:15
  This tanker seizure is a symbolic attempt to
• 1:12:19
  show the world that Washington still polices maritime
• 1:12:23
  commerce, and it is backfiring.
• 1:12:27
  Trump wants to show a force.
• 1:12:29
  Trump's political instinct is the theatrical dominance, let's
• 1:12:36
  call it.
• 1:12:37
  He sees foreign policy as a negotiating room
• 1:12:40
  where forceful gesture is projecting strength for the
• 1:12:45
  deal.
• 1:12:45
  It's, you know, I'm holding all the cards.
• 1:12:49
  But diplomacy isn't real estate.
• 1:12:51
  It's not a business deal.
• 1:12:53
  Seizing tankers is not the same as a
• 1:12:57
  hostile takeover of a hotel.
• 1:12:58
  The global South is interpreting this action not
• 1:13:03
  as strength but as insecurity.
• 1:13:08
  And the U.S. intelligence phenomena in Washington,
• 1:13:12
  they want more leverage.
• 1:13:13
  Washington dreams of splitting Venezuelan elites and of
• 1:13:17
  getting rid of Maduro.
• 1:13:20
  That's all over the news here on the
• 1:13:21
  TVs here right now.
• 1:13:23
  They had the yesterday, I forget her name,
• 1:13:27
  the lady who got the Nobel Prize instead
• 1:13:29
  of Trump.
• 1:13:30
  They're trying to get rid of Maduro and
• 1:13:32
  install her instead.
• 1:13:33
  So here's the problem.
• 1:13:35
  Venezuela's entire oil sector is already operating outside
• 1:13:39
  of the Western systems.
• 1:13:42
  So the seizure accomplishes nothing other than revealing
• 1:13:45
  the U.S. circus and stealing a tanker
• 1:13:49
  full of fuel.
• 1:13:50
  I also saw something that said, we're going
• 1:13:52
  to keep the oil, by the way.
• 1:13:57
  What's the Nobel Prize intervention?
• 1:14:00
  This diplomatic weapon disguised as an award, right?
• 1:14:04
  One day after the tanker seizure, the Nobel
• 1:14:06
  Committee in its, they had already announced who
• 1:14:12
  was going to win.
• 1:14:12
  But the ceremony was a day later.
• 1:14:14
  It was yesterday.
• 1:14:15
  They issued a direct political ultimatum to Nicolas
• 1:14:19
  Maduro.
• 1:14:20
  They gave the prize to the opposition leader,
• 1:14:23
  Maria Carina Mercado's daughter, and then demanded that
• 1:14:27
  Maduro accept election results and step down.
• 1:14:31
  This is some say unprecedented.
• 1:14:35
  I don't say so.
• 1:14:36
  I think we've used the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1:14:38
  as a forum for this kind of regime
• 1:14:40
  change crap forever.
• 1:14:42
  The Nobel Committee is not the U.N.
• 1:14:44
  It's not an election tribunal.
• 1:14:46
  It isn't a sovereign government.
• 1:14:47
  It's not an international court.
• 1:14:49
  It's a group of Norwegian academics with loyalties
• 1:14:53
  to NATO and to globalist Western political conditioning.
• 1:14:57
  They are attempting regime change through ceremony.
• 1:15:01
  Let's be clear that this is interference.
• 1:15:04
  It's a colonialism.
• 1:15:05
  It's theatrical colonialism.
• 1:15:08
  This is the West weaponizing soft power against
• 1:15:12
  a sovereign state.
• 1:15:13
  This is political warfare dressed up as humanitarian
• 1:15:17
  recognition.
• 1:15:19
  And everybody else saw it instantly.
• 1:15:23
  They know it for what it is because
• 1:15:24
  they've seen it before.
• 1:15:25
  We've seen it before in Myanmar and Belarus
• 1:15:28
  and Serbia, Nicaragua, Sudan, Zimbabwe.
• 1:15:31
  A dissident gets awarded a prize in the,
• 1:15:34
  you know, dissident.
• 1:15:35
  Somebody gets awarded a prize.
• 1:15:37
  The leader is delegitimized.
• 1:15:40
  The West declares the whole government illegitimate and
• 1:15:44
  pressure is applied for transition.
• 1:15:47
  This is the script.
• 1:15:49
  It's not democracy.
• 1:15:50
  This is psychological warfare.
• 1:15:53
  And you pair it with the seizure of
• 1:15:54
  a tanker and the message becomes unmistakable.
• 1:15:58
  The European allies, the US, the globalist elites
• 1:16:02
  want Maduro gone and they are escalating from
• 1:16:07
  sanctions to seizure to symbolic assassination.
• 1:16:11
  They're talking about the CIA going in there.
• 1:16:13
  The world has changed, though.
• 1:16:15
  This isn't 1983 Grenada.
• 1:16:17
  It's not 1989 Panama.
• 1:16:19
  It's not 2003 Iraq.
• 1:16:22
  The rest of the world is watching.
• 1:16:23
  They might not do anything, but they're certainly
• 1:16:25
  watching.
• 1:16:26
  Russia is present.
• 1:16:27
  China is present.
• 1:16:28
  India is present.
• 1:16:30
  BRICS is present.
• 1:16:31
  African countries, South African countries are all present
• 1:16:34
  and watching.
• 1:16:36
  And global energy markets are not controlled by
• 1:16:39
  Washington anymore.
• 1:16:41
  And this Nobel stunt, you know, reveals, in
• 1:16:44
  my opinion, desperation.
• 1:16:47
  How did Maduro react?
• 1:16:49
  Is it correct or not?
• 1:16:50
  Why does the global South mostly agree with
• 1:16:52
  him?
• 1:16:52
  Maduro said the tanker seizure is illegal.
• 1:16:57
  It's an aggression against Venezuela.
• 1:16:59
  It's imperialist and it's a violation of sovereignty.
• 1:17:04
  All of these are absolutely correct.
• 1:17:08
  Even I mean, you can dislike Maduro all
• 1:17:10
  you want, but he's right.
• 1:17:13
  Countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, many of
• 1:17:16
  whom have been bullied by unilateral U.S.
• 1:17:19
  sanctions for decades, see this event not as
• 1:17:21
  a Venezuela issue, but as a warning to
• 1:17:24
  them as well.
• 1:17:26
  And I think that's what it was intended
• 1:17:28
  to be.
• 1:17:28
  If they can seize Venezuelan oil, they can
• 1:17:32
  take our assets as well.
• 1:17:33
  This is why U.S. unilateral sanctions are
• 1:17:37
  hated worldwide and are spurring the running away
• 1:17:42
  to other more stable structures.
• 1:17:47
  These aren't laws, by the way.
• 1:17:49
  These are global threats.
• 1:17:51
  The tanker incident confirms the fear that Washington
• 1:17:54
  can and will seize your foreign property, punish
• 1:17:59
  a non-Western economy and weaponize maritime dominance.
• 1:18:04
  Because who wants to fight the sixth fleet?
• 1:18:07
  Who wants to fight any U.S. fleet?
• 1:18:10
  This pushes nations directly into the arms of
• 1:18:14
  China's Belt and Road initiatives, BRICS banking alternatives,
• 1:18:19
  non-Western shipping insurers.
• 1:18:21
  This is a growing market.
• 1:18:22
  Russian energy exchanges and alternative payment systems.
• 1:18:28
  So in trying to demonstrate global control, Washington
• 1:18:31
  is accelerating globalist or global defect.
• 1:18:38
  They're going to other places.
• 1:18:40
  China and Russian response, what were they?
• 1:18:44
  Strategic patience.
• 1:18:46
  Beijing and Moscow gave subtle, deliberate responses.
• 1:18:51
  They didn't escalate.
• 1:18:53
  They didn't retaliate.
• 1:18:54
  They don't need to.
• 1:18:56
  They know that this seizure hurts Washington more
• 1:18:59
  than it hurts Venezuela.
• 1:19:00
  And here's why.
• 1:19:02
  The U.S. exposed its own willingness to
• 1:19:05
  violate maritime norms.
• 1:19:08
  This is diplomatic gold for Moscow and Beijing.
• 1:19:13
  Every time Washington gets to speak about rules,
• 1:19:16
  Russia and China will point to the tanker.
• 1:19:20
  You know, you don't obey the rules.
• 1:19:22
  Here we go again.
• 1:19:24
  Same old crap.
• 1:19:25
  Rule for me, but not for you.
• 1:19:27
  It's typical.
• 1:19:28
  The seizure will push Venezuela further into trusting
• 1:19:32
  Russia and China more than the U.S.
• 1:19:35
  in its own hemisphere.
• 1:19:36
  This is a big mistake.
• 1:19:38
  The U.S. effectively handed Moscow and Beijing
• 1:19:40
  exclusive influence in Caracas.
• 1:19:44
  We used to have a chance.
• 1:19:45
  The only thing we can do now is
• 1:19:47
  regime change.
• 1:19:48
  You know, that's it.
• 1:19:49
  CIA offs Maduro and we install this Nobel
• 1:19:53
  Peace Prize lady and then claim we did
• 1:19:55
  the world a favor.
• 1:19:56
  That's the next step, by the way.
• 1:19:58
  And when the West criticizes Russian actions in
• 1:20:01
  Ukraine or South China Sea, Russia and China
• 1:20:04
  can go, yeah, but you steal tankers in
• 1:20:07
  international waters.
• 1:20:08
  So, you know, don't moralize to me, buddy.
• 1:20:12
  It helps Russian narrative on U.S. hypocrisy.
• 1:20:15
  Moscow has long said that the U.S.
• 1:20:17
  makes rules it doesn't follow.
• 1:20:18
  U.S. uses the law and money as
• 1:20:21
  a weapon, not a standard.
• 1:20:23
  And Western institutions are tools of power, not
• 1:20:27
  of justice.
• 1:20:28
  Western elitists power.
• 1:20:30
  Western globalists power.
• 1:20:33
  That's what we're fighting about.
• 1:20:35
  And this incident validates every single Russian argument.
• 1:20:39
  It accelerates BRICS plus maritime alternatives.
• 1:20:43
  You can expect now new shipping registries, further
• 1:20:47
  insurance system growth outside of Western Lloyd's of
• 1:20:52
  London.
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  New arbitration mechanisms for disputes built on BRICS
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  plus, built on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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  Lots of shipping coming out of those places.
• 1:21:04
  They're just build their own.
• 1:21:05
  They're creating alternative structures already.
• 1:21:10
  Watch about joint naval protection corridors, especially in
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  the Arctic.
• 1:21:17
  Figure that out.
• 1:21:17
  That's going to be one of the busiest
• 1:21:19
  sectors on the globe controlled by Russia, China,
• 1:21:23
  and now India.
• 1:21:25
  The world is preparing for a future already
• 1:21:27
  where Western maritime dominance is no longer assumed.
• 1:21:31
  And the U.S. just gave him another
• 1:21:33
  reason to do so.
• 1:21:35
  What is the consensus by the global South?
• 1:21:37
  The U.S. is further and further acting
• 1:21:41
  as a rogue.
• 1:21:43
  You know, I want to be pretty blunt
• 1:21:44
  about this.
• 1:21:44
  The world isn't viewing this tanker Caesar as
• 1:21:47
  a demonstration of American strength.
• 1:21:49
  They're saying it is illegal, reckless, unstable, imperial,
• 1:21:54
  unpredictable, and dangerous.
• 1:21:56
  The phrase circulating in diplomatic circles is this.
• 1:22:01
  Washington is no longer a reliable steward of
• 1:22:05
  the sea.
• 1:22:06
  And once that belief takes further route, the
• 1:22:09
  consequences will multiply.
• 1:22:11
  More countries will avoid not go to U
• 1:22:14
  .S. shipping lanes.
• 1:22:16
  They don't want to risk their stuff to
• 1:22:17
  be seized.
• 1:22:18
  More oil will be traded in non-Western
• 1:22:21
  currency to avoid sanctions.
• 1:22:23
  More maritime security packs will form outside of
• 1:22:27
  NATO, especially among BRICS plus countries.
• 1:22:33
  Legitimacy of U.S. naval supremacy will erode.
• 1:22:37
  We're still the most powerful, but supremacy without
• 1:22:40
  legitimacy equals tyranny.
• 1:22:44
  The next generation of global leadership is going
• 1:22:47
  to realign.
• 1:22:48
  The children of today's foreign ministers are going
• 1:22:50
  to grow up saying we must not allow
• 1:22:52
  ourselves to be dependent on a system that
• 1:22:55
  the U.S. controls because you can't trust
• 1:22:58
  them.
• 1:22:58
  This is how empires die, not by force,
• 1:23:02
  but by a loss of trust.
• 1:23:05
  And what's Trump's role in all this?
• 1:23:06
  It's kind of the brag because he's a
• 1:23:09
  braggadocio guy that blew up the operation.
• 1:23:13
  One of the most damaging aspects of this
• 1:23:16
  incident is how he communicated it.
• 1:23:19
  Now, I've been saying this forever.
• 1:23:22
  In his first term, if Trump hadn't have
• 1:23:24
  been so, I don't know what, so mean,
• 1:23:29
  so beating up on people all the time,
• 1:23:33
  that's really about the only...
• 1:23:35
  I wish he was a little more political,
• 1:23:38
  just a little bit more.
• 1:23:39
  I like his blunt way of speaking, but
• 1:23:42
  I don't like the constant attack and calling
• 1:23:44
  people stupid.
• 1:23:45
  I don't like that.
• 1:23:47
  It's like the insult comic thing.
• 1:23:49
  I never really got into that.
• 1:23:52
  So Trump didn't issue a legal justification.
• 1:23:55
  He didn't reference a law.
• 1:23:57
  He didn't point to any criminal activity.
• 1:23:59
  He didn't cite a multilateral group of people
• 1:24:03
  who approve.
• 1:24:04
  He didn't frame it in any sort of
• 1:24:06
  diplomatic language.
• 1:24:08
  It's his latest trophy.
• 1:24:10
  Largest tanker ever seized.
• 1:24:12
  That's what he said.
• 1:24:13
  This transforms the incident from a law enforcement
• 1:24:16
  action into new political theater and, in my
• 1:24:22
  view, an international embarrassment.
• 1:24:24
  Diplomats dread these things.
• 1:24:27
  When their own leader undermine the legal framing
• 1:24:29
  with one boastful sentence, the world interprets it.
• 1:24:33
  I interpret it as we did it because
• 1:24:37
  we can, because we're the biggest dog on
• 1:24:41
  the block.
• 1:24:41
  We are the global bully.
• 1:24:44
  And when the global community hears that from
• 1:24:48
  a superpower, they start preparing for a world
• 1:24:52
  in which that superpower itself is not followed,
• 1:24:58
  becomes isolated.
• 1:25:00
  Because no nation, not even an ally, trusts
• 1:25:05
  a power that acts outside of its own
• 1:25:08
  rules.
• 1:25:09
  I think this seizure has backfired, and history
• 1:25:13
  is going to remember it.
• 1:25:15
  You can agree with me or disagree with
• 1:25:17
  me.
• 1:25:17
  That is the beauty of our system, and
• 1:25:20
  it's the beauty of words.
• 1:25:22
  And I'd be happy to listen to another
• 1:25:24
  point of view that says, oh, gee, the
• 1:25:28
  sanctions mean something.
• 1:25:29
  Nope.
• 1:25:30
  Allegedly, the law means something.
• 1:25:32
  Doesn't in Missouri.
• 1:25:33
  I've lectured on that a million times, and
• 1:25:35
  I'll continue to do so.
• 1:25:36
  You know, there is no law.
• 1:25:38
  Licensing.
• 1:25:40
  Licensing.
• 1:25:41
  We'll get to that another day.
• 1:25:42
  I am going to come back to that.
• 1:25:43
  And there's plenty of things that government overreach
• 1:25:46
  are against.
• 1:25:47
  But this U.S. tanker seizure will be
• 1:25:50
  remembered not as a bold display of strength,
• 1:25:53
  but as a warning sign of imperialist overreach.
• 1:25:58
  It demonstrates, in my opinion, legal recklessness, diplomatic
• 1:26:03
  incompetence, strategic miscalculation, political immaturity, moral
• 1:26:11
  inconsistency, and the collapse of any sort of
• 1:26:16
  narrative positive to the U.S. This is
• 1:26:20
  how the world reads the event.
• 1:26:22
  OK?
• 1:26:22
  This is how the world reads it.
• 1:26:24
  The United States no longer follows the rules
• 1:26:28
  it demands that others obey.
• 1:26:30
  It just doesn't happen.
• 1:26:32
  And once that perception becomes a global truth,
• 1:26:36
  the authority of the U.S. further collapses
• 1:26:39
  faster than its enemies could ever hope to
• 1:26:42
  achieve it through war.
• 1:26:45
  The tanker seizure didn't weaken Venezuela.
• 1:26:48
  It weakened Washington.
• 1:26:50
  Ultimately, Maduro might be offed.
• 1:26:53
  He might be killed off.
• 1:26:56
  I think that's truly the next step.
• 1:26:59
  The Nobel Prize stunt shouldn't be taken as
• 1:27:02
  any sort of thought process that this is
• 1:27:06
  correct.
• 1:27:07
  It's delegitimized the Nobel Committee.
• 1:27:09
  I haven't been paying attention to them forever.
• 1:27:12
  Trump's bragging doesn't show dominance.
• 1:27:14
  It's showing desperation.
• 1:27:16
  Do what I say.
• 1:27:17
  The world is in a new era, one
• 1:27:19
  where maritime law must be protected from politics,
• 1:27:23
  global trade has to be protected from unilateral
• 1:27:26
  interference, and sovereignty has to be protected from
• 1:27:30
  Western dominance and opportunism.
• 1:27:32
  That's what I say.
• 1:27:33
  And this incident is going to fuel that
• 1:27:36
  transformation.
• 1:27:38
  The empire touched a tanker it had no
• 1:27:40
  right to touch, and the world is going
• 1:27:43
  to realize that when the emperor has no
• 1:27:46
  robes left, when he's naked, all he has
• 1:27:50
  is rhetoric to share.
• 1:27:52
  And I think that is the sad truth
• 1:27:59
  of that story.
• 1:28:00
  So I think it's important, all three of
• 1:28:02
  these things, Jaishankar, Steven Seagal, and the seizure
• 1:28:08
  of a tanker.
• 1:28:11
  Moral decline of the empire is upon us,
• 1:28:18
  which means it's going to speed up the
• 1:28:21
  global decline of the empire.
• 1:28:23
  I think we need to focus upon us
• 1:28:27
  a little more anyway.
• 1:28:28
  I don't see this as all negative.
• 1:28:30
  Don't take anything I've said as negative.
• 1:28:32
  I think this is going to force us
• 1:28:33
  to build something better at home.
• 1:28:35
  I think Americans want something better at home.
• 1:28:39
  I think that's where ultimately we're going, but
• 1:28:41
  I believe the old Trumpster on the international
• 1:28:43
  stage is making a few mistakes that are
• 1:28:46
  furthering that alongside.
• 1:28:47
  Maybe he's doing it on purpose.
• 1:28:48
  I don't know.
• 1:28:49
  I'd like to think that he knows what
• 1:28:51
  he's doing when it comes to seizing these
• 1:28:53
  tankers, but it's more like a justification that
• 1:28:56
  I hear.
• 1:28:57
  You know, well, it's because I'm bigger than
• 1:28:59
  you.
• 1:28:59
  You're going to do what I told you
• 1:29:00
  to do, or you're getting a spanking, and
• 1:29:03
  the spanking is we're taking your ship.
• 1:29:06
  Well, we're keeping that oil.
• 1:29:07
  Did you hear that?
• 1:29:08
  We're going to keep that oil off of
• 1:29:10
  that tanker.
• 1:29:10
  We just got us free tanker oil.
• 1:29:12
  Why?
• 1:29:13
  Because we're a bigger bully.
• 1:29:14
  That's us.
• 1:29:15
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