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ant to cut off the land bridge to Crimea. But does that really mean that they plan to take Crimea back? Here's my prediction for the day. Prediction for the day. That Ukraine's objective is to cut off Crimea and then negotiate. Because I don't think they want to take Crimea. That would probably wipe out the whole army in the process. But they want to make it look like they could. They want to make…

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e anything to do with forest fires because the number of forest fires is down. It's not up, it's down. So but don't you wonder if the people who wrote this story actually believed what they wrote? Because usually, well anyway. Yeah I just, I'm just usually I think people believe what they write but this one doesn't look like, yeah this doesn't look like they believed it. Or are they that clueless? I mean it could go either way.

Rand Paul says there's a bunch of Republicans that are beating the drums of war with China. What? I'd like to know their names. Who exactly thinks a war with China would be a good idea? We actually have some members of Congress, they have an R next to their name, who are beating the drums for war. Are you kidding me? Who? So RFK Jr. was tweeting the Rand Paul thing and RFK Jr. says you know basically we should find a way to work with China because a war with China would just be insane. I mean I don't know what else you could say about it. It would be literally insane. And China knows that, right? You don't start a war unless you have some chance of winning. Isn't that like the first rule of war? You don't start a war unless you think you might win it. Who thinks they could win a war with China in the U.S.? How could that be anything but a huge gut punch to civilization for the next 30 years? How could it be anything but that? There's no winning scenario that anybody can even imagine in their greatest imagination. You can't imagine winning either side. There's no way either had to make wins. So why are they even talking about it? Now if you're talking about it as a threat or something like that as part of the negotiation, okay that would be the Trump method to just give them an idea it might happen. But Rand Paul is suggesting that they're serious about it. I don't even know what to say about that. How did those people get reelected? I don't know.

But RFK says in a tweet about this he says ultimately our free market system is superior to China's centrally controlled one. We can outcompete t

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hem in peaceful competition as long as we stop squandering our resources in endless foreign wars. Most of that, the trouble is that how do you compete against low labor costs? I mean I get that robots can help us a lot but ultimately you can't compete against that. I mean you can move your business to another low labor cost place but you can't, you know we're not going to lower the labor cost of A…

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