get them to cut their budget. Right? That's the same thing I thought when Trump said let's make Canada a state. And I said to myself, okay, that's not real. He's just playing with them. You know, maybe it's a negotiation. Maybe he would like to do it but clearly that's never going to happen. But already it looks like it's possible. Canada becoming a 51st state. I still wouldn't bet on it. If I had to bet I'd bet against it. But watching it go from a ridiculous idea to huh, how would that work? You know, I'm a little bit interested. And then it turns out, I don't know how official this is but I have it on good authority that if you're not looking at the politicians and you're talking to the public there's a lot of openness in the Canadian public because Trump says there would be benefits for you. I could lower your taxes. Tariffs would go away. You'd be well protected. And the Canadians are looking at their own government and saying okay, under normal circumstances this would just be insulting. Under normal circumstances. But they can see that their own government is so toxic that whatever it took to get rid of their own government looks like a good deal. Become a state? Yeah, if we can get rid of this government because the government is destroying us.

So Trump took the Canada 51st state from the most ridiculous idea that maybe you've heard in 10 years to already it's huh, I don't know, maybe we should flesh this out a little bit. What exactly would it look like? Maybe we should do some kind of a poll in Canada to get some real numbers. See how close we are to that. Now to me that's just mind-blowing. It's just mind-blowing that that could go from crazy ridiculous to maybe. I don't know. Wouldn't rule it out. And so that's the context in which I give you Trump saying that you could reduce the military budget of the three big powers. First impression, come on, they're not going to do that. That'd be ridiculous. Here's my second impression because I'm already up to my second impression. If you wanted to do something really big there's never been a better opportunity.

So I'm going to throw out just some ideas. These are the bad ideas. So nothing I say should be taken too seriously. It's just to get your mental process maybe working at a different level. The weird thing about Russia, China and the United States that I think makes us all unique is not one of those countries would ever want to attack the mainland of one of the other countries. China would never want to attack Russia or the United States. United States would never want to attack mainland Russia like with an invasion or something or mainland China. It would be crazy. Now has that ever been