ing. So I don't judge anybody who does exactly what I would have done in the same situation. How can I? So I'm 100% in favor of everything they've done so far. And I take myself out of the conversation for everything that happened before October 7th, right? So I'm not endorsing Israel. I'm not condemning them. I'm not interested. I'm just not interested. That's their business. They can work it out. But if you're asking me about October 7th yeah if that happens to your country you're going to respond exactly the way Israel is if you're smart and you have the ability to do it.

But that said there is some impact on free speech that's happening right now and I'm glad that Glenn Greenwald is calling it out. So I'm going to give him a little bit of support on this while saying that I hate seeing the pictures of the Palestinians who seem to be horrifying the Jewish students. I don't see the benefit to it. I don't like it. I hate everything about it. But you know what? When Black Lives Matter was protesting I was a little uncomfortable with that but except for the violent parts I still support it. When the racists, the Nazis are getting their little group together of 12 people that's all they can ever muster these days and the 12 people say terrible things I still favor their free speech. Don't agree with their message. So I'm on the Greenwald side. I think that we're chipping away at free speech because we are too invested in protecting one side. Now that's not a bad impulse. I kind of like the fact that we're invested in protecting parts of our public. So it's a tough one. You almost can't have free speech and also protect the public the way it should be protected. So it's going to be a tough one.

So I guess Israel is using seawater to flood those tunnels over there in Gaza now. And we saw some videos that show a bunch of prisoners that came out of the tunnels rather than drowned. And some people are calling it a success way too early. It looked like I don't know maybe 40 people they captured in one video. That's not anywhere near the number that are down there. So we don't know if it's working and we don't know if it's going to destroy the big risk if you didn't know this is that because it's underground stuff if you pump a bunch of seawater in there it's going to pollute the aquifer which is freshwater. So Gaza depends on drilling into the freshwater that will be polluted by maybe the salt water. So it's possible that the freshwater supply for Gaza is gone forever. Gone forever right? Because if you get the seawater in there you can't really get it out. It becomes unusable. Now maybe there's some desalinization way to get around that but that's a pretty big secondary effect.

And I would add this to my watch list of signals that suggest that Israel doesn't want it ever to be resettled. Now I'm not going to make that as an accusation. I'm going to say I speculate that at least one possibility that would work for Israel is that nobody ever lives there again. And removing the freshwater would certainly go a long way toward making that happen. So it could be they're getting a twofer out of this but I don't want to accuse them of having that intention. It might just be what ends up happening. But if you're looking for the intention this would be one thing that would be consistent with it but not proof of it. And I have to say if it were me I might want to leave it uninhabited. Otherwise you just recreate the problem.

Let's see. Secretary Blinken says that the Ukraine situation was more of a win-win than we realize because 90% of the money that we quote sent to Ukraine was actually spent on American military contractors and manufacturers. Do you first of all do you believe that? Because I thought we were paying the pensions of politicians and we're feeding people and paying salaries of stuff. Do you believe that 90% of it went right back to American producers? And if it's true does that make you feel good or bad? If it's true then I would say it's a really high signal that it's an unnecessary war and that we're doing it for the benefit of the people who got the money. Have you ever heard of follow the money? As in follow the money explains everything you see all the time every time right? If you follow the money in this one a bunch of money came out of your pocket you know indirectly because we borrowed I suppose. It went right back into the pockets of these military contractors who have huge lobbying impact on Congress. Do