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But some other things we're learning. This from Brian Dean Wright. I believe he used to be in the intelligence services but now is not. And he's talking about how the war is lost basically the Ukraine war. He says there are two problems. One is massive corruption that we know about. So it's going to be hard to keep shoveling the money when we know Zelensky is stealing it and his lieutenants are and apparently that's documented now. So we don't wonder if Zelensky is stealing the money. Yeah he is. And I guess everybody knows it.

But the other thing is that there are no human beings left in Ukraine to fight. That the urban men disappeared because they could and the rural men are all dead. So they just ran out of people. So according to Brian Dean Wright the weapons aren't going to help as much as you want because they don't have anybody to fire them. Now that wouldn't be so bad. I mean it's terrible but it wouldn't be so bad if they look like they could win right? You'd say to yourself well that's the most horrible thing they lost all their men for a generation but if they won you can imagine that eventually they'd spin it into a great sacrifice in the victory. But they're not winning.

And indeed the whole goal that the Biden administration has set down loud that it's just a cheap way to degrade the Russian military which I don't think most people care about but maybe some do. But how's that working out? The Politico reports that the Russian army is larger by 15% than it was when it invaded Ukraine and their industrial production is growing. Their military is getting stronger and apparently there's no risk to the economy. So basically we made Russia stronger. Although I don't know that you can really tell that. I'm not sure we know exactly what's happening in Russia. You know that's probably propaganda too. So I don't know how much Russia is winning but it doesn't look like they're losing. You know you can't believe anything from a war zone or from Russia or Ukraine but anyway.

David Sacks is on this case making it clear and I think he's correct. He's making it clear that there is no win to be had and that we lost the only thing we said we were trying to do which is degrade Russia etc. And I think I have been won over to the side that the whole point of making Ukraine NATO is so Ukraine would have to buy weapons from American manufacturers and that Americans would pay with our taxes to give to Ukraine so they could buy our weapons. So basically it's just our own military-industrial complex looting our pockets and their energy people trying to take Russia's energy and that sort of thing. So I see America as more of a criminal enterprise than a military keeping the world safe for democracy. That's my take. Ukraine looks entirely like a criminal enterprise backed by an army. Because these stated claims are somewhat ludicrous whereas the more obvious explanation of what's going on you know CIA wants to protect their labs and we want to have closer assets to threaten Russia and maybe we did want to degrade their military a little or get Putin out of office all that stuff but it mostly it looks like it's just a money grab corrupt criminal enterprise and we're just knee deep in it. So I'm rejecting any notion that America is the good guy in this situation. I think we're the criminals in this situation. That would be my take.

Now what is the solution for all of it? Well Trump has to avoid the obvious plot to assassinate him. I think we could say that out loud right? I mean if they're trying to remove his Secret Service protection while painting him as a risk to democracy and a Hitler character that's a murder attempt. Now the fact that they figured out a legal way to murder somebody or attempt to murder that doesn't change the fact that what it is. It might be illegal but still murder. So I would say our system is mostly blackmail bribery corruption and murder and that the thin veneer of a republic and a democracy and all that stuff is largely silly and absurd and clearly hasn't been with us for decades. We're complicit unless we overthrow the corruption. Well unless it's working. See that's the problem. It always comes down to what are the alternatives. And I've said it before but I'm going to double down on it. If it's true that we're not a democratic republic that doesn't mean we're worse off. It just means we're not what we thought we were. It definitely means some people are being screwed. Definitely means that. Definitely means the elites are getting richer. But here's the problem. That's every system. If you show me a system where the elites don't not only stay elite but they don't gain compared to the population and rob them I've never seen that system. What system is that? So if every system robs the public for the benefit of the elite and if it doesn't it doesn't have the resources to field an army and protect itself it won't last. So my take is the bigger and badder we are as a criminal enterprise the longer we're going to last. Why do you think Russia is still in business and going to survive this war? Is it because they're a democratic republic? No it's because they're a massive criminal enterprise with the military just like us. Look at China. Do you think the elites are doing better than the people? I think so. I think so yeah. Think they're doing great. And does that mean that in a way conceptually they're robbing the people to keep themselves in power? And yeah of course that's what it means. That's exactly what it means. So every system that is successful, successful to the point where we think they should be in NATO let's say that's the minimum level of a successful country is that we want them in NATO. You don't get there without your elites being totally in charge and being able to control the government and the military. So I think that all of the countries that are successful are criminal enterprises because in the long run that's the model that works. And like the Mafia the Mafia might not want a lot of crime on its own street because it doesn't want to interfere with the bigger crimes it's doing. So it could be that our criminal government would do quite a good job of reducing crime if the right members of it were in charge. NATO is a cartel yeah in a sense yeah. I mean that doesn't that word fit perfectly because cartels don't have to be illegal do they? Well I don't know maybe they do. I'm not sure if that's baked into the definition of a cartel. Doesn't a cartel just mean a bunch of people with power who are operating together some way?

All right we're going to do a closing sip because I think you need it. Here's to you.

Now do you think Trump could fix all of these problems I just mentioned? How many of this criminal enterprise stuff could Trump fix? Almost none. If he could fix any of this stuff he would have done some of it in the first term. So it looks like whatever it is is stronger than all the presidents. I don't think there's any president that can fix it.

So here's what might happen. I think the people, the elites as we say, the people in charge, I think if Trump gets elected by a big enough margin they can't cheat him out of office and they can't put him in jail because there are too many people who would go nuts. I think they'll just try to wait him out. You know they'll do everything they can to destroy him while he's in office but ultimately they don't want to reveal too much about themselves if they can just wait four years and go back to running everything. So I feel like they'll just wait him out. So there's one possibility that it won't be riots in the streets. They might just say let's just keep this on a slow boil. Get through the four years. Get back in power. Start another war that sort of thing. Probably the biggest problem would be if Trump doesn't fund another war. I think if the first thing Trump did is fund a new war he'd b