maybe there's no way to do that if they're outside of NATO but I would not want to be a Russian ground troop entering Ukraine. That seems like a pretty risky thing.

But some people are giving Joe Biden trouble for saying that we would never, he ruled out sending U.S. ground troops to Ukraine. He ruled it out. What do you think of that? Should we ever rule out military options? Some of you say we should not rule it out. I disagree because we rule out all kinds of options. We rule out a chemical attack haven't we? Haven't we ruled out a chemical attack? We have right? Have we ruled out a nuclear strike on the civilian populations in Russia? Well yes I mean unless something happened after this. Yeah the military is all about ruling stuff out. It's the most ordinary thing in the world. But you want to rule out the things that are definitely not going to happen. You don't want to rule out nuclear strikes because they might happen. A nuclear strike might happen. It's rare. We don't want it but it might happen.

But ground troops, what do you think of the odds of ground troops, American ground troops in Ukraine? It's actually zero. I mean nothing's really zero but that's as close as to zero as you can get I think because the public just wouldn't be in favor of it. Just isn't going to happen. So I don't fault Biden for taking that off the table. I think even Trump might have because if we wanted to punish Russia we wouldn't do it that way right? If you have better ways to punish them you would use those. You wouldn't use the bad way. The way that's going to ruin the United States too. So if we had a choice of ruining, of losing Ukraine which would be bad because they're an ally that would be very bad but it's not as bad as losing Ukraine and the United States because that's sort of what would happen if we sent ground troops. I mean the country itself would be so torn apart by that that it would be hard to put us back together. So I don't see ground troops happening but I also don't see Russian ground troops making much of an entry into Ukraine.

I will not be surprised if they enter Ukraine so let me be clear. If they enter Ukraine that won't surprise me at all because he might be just ratcheting up you know see how far you can get. But a full ground invasion where they go and hold territory I doubt it. I doubt it.

All right this is when we should just try to convert Russia to an ally against China and if we're not doing that we're idiots.

Let's see Biden has moved to squeeze Iran more, to tighten the sanctions on Iran. Who does that sound like? Who would tighten sanctions on Iran? Oh yeah Trump. So yet again, yet again you see Biden having to retreat to a Trump position right? Just like most of the important stuff. So there's that.

Tucker Carlson is very worried that the burning Fox News Christmas tree is an attack not just on Christmas but on Christianity itself. To which I say that's sort of a feature of Christianity isn't it? Modern Christianity you know not the old style but modern Christianity has a lot in common with democracy and the way the country is organized. Here's the analogy that I don't think I saw any Christians get upset about a tree that was lit on fire by a homeless person did you? Like I haven't talked to anybody who was actually upset about it. Now if this had been a symbol of a different religion I don't have to name names do you think people would have been militant and upset about it? Well I think so. I think so.

So I would say one of the great things about Christianity is you can burn up our Christmas tree, I'll say ours because I'm sort of on the team even though I'm not a believer, but you can burn up that Christmas tree and next year Christmas tree. It's like the flag. I've never understood people who are being mad at flag burning. I mean you could not like it like viscerally like it doesn't feel good viscerally but do you want a flag that can't be burned? You want to live in that country? You want to live in the country where you can't burn a flag?

Here's the magic thing about the flag. Do you know the national anthem one of the lines is and the flag was still there. That's like the coolest line in the national anthem. And the flag was still there. You can burn the flag and then wake up on July 4th still there right? It's the only thing you can burn. You can just burn it all day long. You can take millions of them you can collect them all up you can collect every flag in the country and burn it and in a month it's right back. It's still there right? It's unburnable. That's its feature. So every time I see one getting burned I go yeah that's my flag. That's my flag. Indestructible. Christianity indestructible. You can burn the Christmas tree. Next Christmas Christmas tree. In fact Fox News is already putting up a replacement presumably with better security. So you can burn it all you want as far as I care.

China has experimented, apparently there's some information that said they experimented with making it rain which you do by flying planes around and spraying some kind of material that will seed the clouds and make it rain. Now they did that allegedly to reduce the pollution before some international games I guess happened there in 2008 and apparently they've been experimenting with this technology. Now this is a known technology right cloud seeding that's been around but also there's talk separately about hacking the ocean. Apparently there are several ways you could modify the ocean to get it to suck more carbon out of the air.

Now that one scares me. The one about making it rain by putting microscopic stuff in the air that is a little less scary to me than anything with the ocean and here's why. I don't believe we'd try it unless we knew that whatever it is we were putting in the air didn't last there forever and we would certainly try it in one location first right? So I don't think you would seed the atmosphere of the planet just to see if it worked. I do think you might seed a city and see what happens you know five years from now. So I do, maybe not a city, maybe you pick something that's less populated but it does seem like something you could test and I would be interested if we can have some certainty about how long stuff stays in the air and what the health impacts if you breathe it and all that stuff are. I think that might be in the realm of testable but you know what's not testable? Messing with the ocean. I don't know if you could test that. Could you? I don't know that there's any reasonable way you'd be happy that you didn't start some chain reaction that ended life on earth. But I do imagine that some of those problems are solvable. A lot of stuff that seemed impossible at one point are possible now. So I wouldn't say that we can't do this and it's certainly on the table but yes we're all scared to death of geoengineering and should be.

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