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g so well. Well, so their current president declared martial law. But I guess the parliament tried to get in the building to vote it down or vote out the military, tried to stop them from getting in, but they climbed over the fence and got in and quickly voted on it. And now the president is obligated to remove it because they voted on it. And the military has decided to say, all right, we're out.…

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ut the superdelegates decided they just give it to Hillary Clinton instead. That's the actual real thing that happened while we were all watching. Now the rules allow that because they have these things called superdelegates that can just overrule the regular people. But if you have superdelegates, then the actual primary is just for show because the superdelegates will decide who the candidate is. So I wouldn't call the Democrat Party a democratic party. The Democrats are more like a, I don't know, some kind of a face for some large entities that need the government to do what they want them to do. Certainly not democratic in nature.

Well, if you haven't seen the entire Mike Benz appearance on Joe Rogan, I can't even recommend it high enough because a lot of the bad things that are happening that you don't understand is because they're hidden in complexity. The complexity of all the different funded organizations and how they're related and who's on what and who told who to do what and what they want out of it and all that. It's amazingly complicated. But Benz has that exact kind of brain where he can dig into it and explain it to you. And when he does, your head will just explode. And by the way, I don't think there's anything that Mike Benz presents that isn't documented. In other words, he'll show you the official government document. He'll show you their budget. He'll show you their mission statement. He'll show you a video of them talking. It's all none of it is made up.

But the basic idea is that the US always has been — well, at least in modern history we have apparently learned that since we have the most money, we don't have to conquer other countries with our military because that's the expensive way to do it. If you have enough money, you can just buy enough support to control any country if it's smaller than you. So it doesn't work with Russia, so that's why you end up with big Ukraine war. But with anybody smaller, we can just bribe them, blackmail them, just do all the CIA stuff that they do, murder somebody, that sort of thing. We can fund the rebels, make sure they have better weapons.

So I didn't realize that there's a group called USAID, which is cleverly named so you think it's something about helping other countries, but the aid has nothing to do with other countries. It's literally an enormous $50 billion budget situation for influencing other countries. And when I say influencing, I mean controlling, right? Not I'm not talking about nudging. We're talking about just outright controlling them. And the entire intelligence community only has 72 billion, and some people say the 50 billion is understated because there might be other things that contribute to what they're doing. So we have this enormous, enormous expense, this sort of this black box of bad behavior, this basically a CIA asset to control other countries. And I think a lot of these tools got turned back internally because they had to stop anything that was a populist movement.

And when you hear Benz describe how the idea of democracy changed from being what you would expect — a populist would be, you think Trump is the ultimate democracy person because he's backed by the most people and it's what the people want as opposed to the big moneyed interests and the elites. That's about as democratic as you can get. People vote for you and you do stuff for people. The Democrats apparently have redefined democracy as supporting democratic institutions. Meaning if you complain about the COVID shot, you're complaining against the healthcare institutions and that's anti-democratic. So anything you complain about that's a function or a department or any part of our democratic process makes you anti-democratic. So when Trump wants to come in and DOGE the government and get rid of stuff, he's getting rid of departments. But to Democrats, that's the same as getting rid of democracy because to the Democrats, the democracy is the big organizations. That's what's keeping things together.

So I'd never heard that framing of it, but it's pretty interesting. And once you learn that the entire Ukraine situation is nothing at all like the news has told you, but rather it was the entire operation was a way to steal energy. Essentially the economy of Russia depends on energy, and a lot of it runs through Ukraine. So the idea was this — according to Benz — the idea was that Ukraine also has its own large stores of energy. It's like third biggest or something, but it's unexploited. So if we could, the West and the US could control Ukraine. They already have the pipelines. But if you could get them also to produce the energy, then you don't need Russia. So Russia needed the access and the pipelines in Ukraine, and the US thought, wouldn't it be good if we had the access in the pipelines so Europe could get all of its supplies? But wouldn't it be great if the country that we control like Ukraine was the one with all the energy? So you can see why Putin's not going to give up. And you can see why we didn't give up because it's a trillion dollar thing, and a lot of the people involved have their beak in it. So people are getting a taste. So anytime you can move a trillion dollars around, you can have all these people who are figuring out how to carve out their billion from the trillion, and they're not going to want to stop it.

So you should see Ukraine as nothing but an energy deal for a bunch of rich people that might get you killed and got 600,000 Uk

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rainians killed, maybe the same number of Russians killed. And that the people involved are pretending that this is about something else, National Defense and NATO and all that. But really it's about who gets to produce the oil and the gas and collect the checks. And Burisma apparently was key, central to the whole plan of the US controlling Ukraine. And they would boost Burisma to be the main ene…

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