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were down there, I'd be getting ready to retire right now because if Delta Force is hunting me bro I would be so terrified. Now is that hyperbole? Because it seemed to me the cartels are quite aware of what violence looks like but mostly they're doing it against a competing cartel which of course they have some violence from. I don't know. Do how many of you think that the cartel would try to bri…

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kes of these long-range missiles that we provided to Ukraine and that authorized the use of them within Russia itself, which Russia says, the Kremlin says that means the United States or well NATO, that means that NATO is at war with Russia and they will act accordingly. Uh oh. Now you're worried about nuclear war and you're worried about this getting out of hand.

Some have suggested that the reason that Biden authorized this so soon before you know or so close to the switch over of power that his real intention is to handcuff Trump and make sure Trump can't come in and solve a war on day one that Biden couldn't solve. So do you believe that? Do you believe that any part of Biden's intention is to make Trump fail at making peace? I don't think so because I think this works in Trump's favor. The closer you get to complete destruction of both countries or all countries involved the closer you are to peace. Unfortunately that's just the way it works. There's no other. If you don't have the threat of you know you're definitely going to be dead if you keep on this path like not any question about it, one hundred percent you're going to be dead, that's when people get flexible. If they think they're not going to be dead they might act that way. But yeah we need to be at the point where serious people are afraid of nuclear war. That's how you get peace.

But would you like me to make sure that there's no nuclear war? Is there anybody who would like to ask me to guarantee that there's no nuclear war between Russia and NATO and the US? I'm willing to do it. I can do it right now if you like. All right. And all we really need is a blanket. Some of you will understand this some of you will not. Those who understand will have to explain it to those who don't. But here's how we avoid nuclear war. Russia you know you don't want nuclear war with the United States. It's literally the last thing you want. Ukraine you know you don't want nuclear war. It's the last thing you want. NATO, us, you don't want nuclear war. It's the last thing you want. Do you know what all of you do want? You want the big dog to get off the porch. You want January 20th to come and you want to look as fierce and dangerous as you can be so that when you walk into those negotiations you have maximum leverage and then the big dog's going to make a peace and you're going to accept it. You're going to c

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omplain like crazy but you're going to accept it. So Russia and NATO your two choices are this: nuclear destruction of all of civilization or wait a few weeks and everything will be fine. Which of those two choices sounds better to you? Complete nuclear destruction of civilization before we even get to Mars or how about we just work it out around January 20th, 21st something like that. Now given…

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