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would be the other way to explain that? I can't think of any way. It's just obvious. And Elon Musk said that, he said on Joe Rogan that the NGOs are among the biggest scams ever. Now the fact that it's only among the biggest scams, it's only among them. What the hell else does he know about that we haven't heard yet? I think it has to do with the Department of Defense but maybe also fake Social S…

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ne and then the deal would be signed and at least during his term probably Putin would pull back. Now I don't know that that would last forever but Trump would be able to claim victory if he got a good deal and then he said look four years and Putin, well I guess it'd be three years and Putin has pulled his military back. Everything's looking good.

But if that didn't happen and the deal blew up then he can say all right we're getting out of NATO because you guys are basically worthless and it's not good for America. If the Zelensky meeting had not gone the way it did could he have sold getting out of NATO? Now I don't know if he can or will try but he can now. Like that opened the door to all right maybe we should rethink this whole situation. So he's got two ways to win. Either he gets the deal and three years of no Putin invading. You'll look like a hero at least for three years. And the other way is that he gets to pull out of NATO, save a bunch of money and let Europe defend itself. Maybe he even gets rid of the UN at the same time.

So I don't know if that might be one of the announcements or the hard truths he's planning to give when he gives his speech. But am I wrong that he found a way to have two ways to win? There really wasn't a way to lose. He could either win pretty good or he could win huge. And it looks like he's leaning toward winning huge. But I think Zelensky said well we could still make a deal.

Now the people who are really bad at understanding the world probably thought Zelensky is never going to agree to the deal to which I said if it was ever a good deal or ever the best deal he could get he'll agree to it. If it wasn't a good deal then he won't agree to it. But it has nothing to do with the words they said in the office. If it's a good deal everybody does it. That's just how deals work. It's just transactional.

Well apparently European leaders according to Fox News' Michael Lee, they're a little bit on edge because Trump is thinking about, they think Trump might pull 20,000 troops out of Europe. The current number, well the number of US troops in Europe according to Fox News fluctuated between 75,000 and 105,000. Now I think Biden increased it so losing 20,000 out of 100,000 I feel like that wouldn't leave Europe unprotected but it would save some money perhaps. So yeah I think that'll probably happen.

I think it's funny that the UK is calling their idea for having France and the UK and Europe putting actually military forces, boots on the ground in Ukraine to prevent further Russian attacks, that they're calling it the Coalition of the Willing. The Coalition of the Willing. So I think that would make America the Coalition of the Unwilling. Like maybe not. Maybe you could go do it yourself. How about that Coalition of the Unwilling?

Meanwhile Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee, Republican, he's pursuing legislation to amend the Constitution to give Trump a third term. Now I would say the odds of that, a constitutional amendment passing to give Trump a third term, is basically zero. So I don't think it's going to happen. But it makes you wonder. This is reported by Just the News. Makes you wonder does he really think that could happen? Like that's what he's going to spend his time on? Something that has no

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chance whatsoever of passing unless something outside of the legal process happened which I hope not. So let me say unreservedly I am not in favor of a third Trump term. Not in favor. Now I might be if we didn't have JD Vance and others who are pretty strong. But I feel like Trump has now set the stage. He created the frame and the Republicans have a pretty good bench. They've got some strong pla…

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