Putin's puppet, how could you believe what Putin said? No, nothing like that's going to happen. I'm going to tell you what Putin said. I'm going to tell you what effect I think it had. But I'm not going to tell you that Putin's the smartest person in the world and everything he says is true and we should do what he says, right? So NPCs, calm down. Calm down. You can handle this, right?

So here are some of the things Putin said. I guess he was at some event, made some news. He said that Trump is intelligent and he will find a solution to the Ukraine war. So interesting. Trump gets criticized for calling Putin smart and capable and his critics say, what? How can you compliment that monster? Don't you know he's your enemy? Stop saying good things about him. But there's the enemy, allegedly Putin, and he's doing the same thing. He's returning the compliment. That's a pretty big compliment, you know, if Putin says that you're intelligent and you're going to find a solution to the war, like almost matter-of-factly, whereas the current president did not find a solution to the war and it doesn't look like there was any chance that was ever going to happen. You can see that Putin's trying to get on the good side of Trump.

Now do you think Putin has intel that if he praises Trump and makes his ego feel good that he might get a better deal? Of course he does, because literally every person in America says Trump just listens to the last person in the room and whoever kisses his ass the most. Now do you think anybody really knows that? No. Do you know why Trump listens to the last person in the room? Does anybody know why? Because at some point you have to be done. You have to be done, make a decision at some point. It's sort of like you find the lost thing in the last place you look because the last place you look is where you found it, so there's no place to look after you've found it. So when the last person leaves the room, that's when he realizes that he's made a decision because now he's heard both sides. But now he's heard the side he likes. He wants to hear that one more time. That's the one you want to hear before you make your decision, the one that you were leaning toward, just to make sure it still sounds good. So yes, it should be completely normal that in general you're going to agree with the last person out of the room. It's probably pretty normal. Doesn't mean every time, but a lot of times it's just the most normal way that anything works.

However, Putin said he was ready for peace talks with Ukraine without preconditions but on the same terms he laid out over the summer, which are preconditions. So Putin says he wants to have a talk without preconditions as long as we're taking all the preconditions into consideration. The preconditions would be Ukraine decides not to be part of NATO and that basically Putin keeps the four areas that he already conquered and he already owns basically. So that sounds like exactly the deal we all know is going to happen. So that's interesting.

Putin also said that he thinks Trump's life is in danger, was in danger and is now, and even the cabinet members at risk. You know that Tom Homan and at least someone else who was a cabinet pick got some death threats over the weekend. So things are looking dangerous and Putin is warning that there's a genuine threat to Trump.

So here's what I want to know. Do you think that Putin's intelligence, in other words his intel departments, do you think that they know enough about the American government that they know that the Democrats are planning or somebody is planning to try to kill Trump? Because there's no way we would know whether he is just saying that for a fact or if he actually has information, because he wouldn't want to give away that he has information because that would give away his sources and methods, right? So the thing I wonder is does Putin know more than we do about the threat?

Now here again I compliment Putin for his psychology game without being a supporter of him because he's a terrible, terrible murderer of people. It's really smart for him to talk about the risk to Trump because if nothing happens to Trump then he's sort of a good guy who showed some empathy for Trump and warned him. And if something does happen to Trump, he's the guy who warned him. So warning Trump about the danger is just a smart play. It's good no matter what happens. It's good for Putin. It's not good for us.

And Putin went and he legalized crypto in Russia and he slashed taxes on mining from crypto, I guess. I think that's what that means. And trading income will be taxed at 13% and blah blah blah, more if it's more. So basically he's big on crypto. What do you think of that? Well you know Trump is pro-crypto compared to any prior president. And I've heard some people say that crypto is the only way the US ends up financially okay. And what I mean by that is that if you own some crypto, let's say Bitcoin specifically, its odds of going up in value, the smart people say it's almost guaranteed. Now the counterargument would be there's something that we find out that we didn't know about and that's a pretty big risk. For example, finding out that there's some way to hack or steal your crypto wallet that nobody could have seen coming and no way to fix it. Now I haven't seen that, but you could sort of imagine that something that's a technology where there might be some vulnerability that you haven't seen yet. But if that