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nk it's good for you. So that's my proposition. For the same price — because I would get the same salary as a congressperson as anybody else — for the same price I'll bring you more tools and I'll work on more problems and I won't see it through that one frame and you'll get a complete candidate. Am I done? Imagine listening to me as a hypothetical candidate just giving you that proposition. It w…
← Previous segment →in sucks, they need it for all these reasons. I don't feel like this could ever end. When is Ukraine going to be self-sufficient? No time soon.
Now I'm not saying I have a better idea but I think you can see the future here. We're just going to be bleeding money into Ukraine forever. Again I don't know what the alternative is. I don't have a better idea. But the Ukraine defense minister says that the new U.S. weapons will help them get back Crimea. So in other words there's no end in sight. Because as long as our military industrial complex wants us to be at permanent war with somebody we will be.
And I guess this is a pretty profitable war because you got to sell them the new stuff, the modern equipment to have a chance. So I don't know. I'd say follow the money. It looks like we're in another permanent war because it's good for the military industrial complex.
And when Ukraine says they're going to get so many great weapons that they might take Crimea back, which to the rest of us seems like uh oh no, don't try to get Crimea back, let it go. Because it's not my Crimea, you see. It's easy for me to say Crimea river. I can't be the first person who thought of that, right? Crimea river.
Okay so let me back up and be less dismissive of Crimea. So I have great empathy for the people who live there because they're just being used as a political football. I mean it must be just hell on earth to be in Crimea and just be everybody's pull toy. So for all empathy to the people of Crimea, do you really want Ukraine to try to take it back? Is that good for you? Is it good for anybody? Is it good for the Crimeans? I don't know. Who knows?
So anyway looks like that'll be permanent. I call it the dumbass region, not the Donbass but the dumbass, because I don't think they're ever going to stop fighting there. Crimea is a beautiful piece of land, I'll bet it is. It looks like its location is kind of awesome.
Somebody says Hunter Biden's making a profit off the war. How many of you think the Ukrainian war has something to do with the Bidens hiding their crimes? Is it a coincidence that Zelenskyy got the president of the United States who was at least alleged to be somehow in the blackmail pockets of Ukraine and that he's acting exactly like somebody who is being blackmailed?
Now I'm not alleging that that's the case because usually these conspiracy theories don't turn out to be true. But you could say — I think it would be fair to say that the way President Biden is acting, if you were just looking at all of his list of actions for Ukraine, he acts as though he is being blackmailed. Meaning that if he doesn't give Zelenskyy everything Zelenskyy wants, Zelenskyy might know too much.
Now it's also possible that Joe Biden is very pro-NATO, anti-Russian, and every single thing he's doing is exactly what he would have done under any situation because it's just what he believes and it's compatible with everything. But those two hypotheses both are supported by observation. He looks and acts exactly like somebody who's just a Democrat and a president. And he looks and acts exactly like somebody who's being blackmailed when we have a strong suspicion that there's a good reason he might be.
I mean I don't know how to put the odds on it. Let's look at it this way. If you were to put the odds on it with only what we know, which is almost nothing, what are the odds that President Biden feels a little blackmail pressure from Ukraine? What are the odds? 25%? I don't know. There's no way to put a percentage on that.
So I think if you're certain one way or the other you're wrong. I mean you're thinking wrong because certainty is the wrong thing to have in this case. But I would give it 25%. And so we're involved in a war that could turn into a nuclear war. And I, as I consider myself a fairly unbiased observer on this question — I think I am — I will put it at 25% chance that our president is not even acting in the best interest of the United States. That's pretty terrib
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le. Now remember that the Democrats do a lot of projection. So that's exactly what they wanted Republicans to think about Trump. That you don't know if he's in Russia's pocket but look at all this. There was that time he said something good about Putin and there was that thing with a German bank that might have had something to do with a Russian thing but no evidence. And there's the allegation a…
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