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ews and he would say, "And Spain's Francisco Franco is still dead." Which was hilarious back in those days. The point is that what we consider funny really changes over time. However, I think of that every time I see that Ukraine has not been attacked by Russia.

And what is your current thinking in the comments? Will Russia do a major attack? Now we all think they're going to keep the pressure on and try to annex things or whatever, but will they attack attack? He mostly knows. Mostly knows. Interesting.

Now here's what's the most interesting about this. The news is telling you mostly yes, aren't they? Our intelligence agencies, our government are saying any day now, any day now. And yet most of you, almost all of you, really well over 90 percent are saying no, you don't think it's going to happen. Have we reached a point where the lies of the government are now so transparent that they won't have an effect on us?

I'm going to talk a little bit about things that came from the pandemic that are insanely positive. You know the pandemic is a tragedy of course, major tragedy. A million Americans dead, six million globally. I'm not taking away anything from that. But with wars of any kind, whether it's war against people or a war against the virus, you end up with all these unintentional benefits. And wow, do we get a few. Not enough maybe to pay for the pandemic, but we'll talk about that a little bit.

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raine I have this to add. You know how important it is that the frame, or the way you look at a problem, will really constrain your options. In other words, if you look at a problem as we often do for these international things, as they only respond to power. Or the other side, whoever the other side is, in this case let's say it's Russia, they only respond to strength. Now on one level that's tru…

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