s nukes and those are not a deterrent to being invaded. Like what are they actually buying weapons to do? Are they buying weapons so that they don't have to use their nukes if Russia tries to roll over Europe and take over the UK? Has Russia ever shown, give me a history lesson, has Russia ever shown interest in conquering any country that wasn't really either Russian-speaking or had some obvious strategic value? They're not good guys so I'm not saying Russia is the good guys don't get me wrong. But do you think Russia has ever wanted to conquer France? If they ever wanted to conquer the UK or at least let's say in the last 100 years I don't think so.

So it seems like if you just said here's the deal we're going to get rid of all of our weapons but if you put one Russian boot on our territory we're going to nuke Moscow. Sorry don't aim the nuke at the exited ally. Why doesn't that work? You know if the more traditional weapons you have the more likely you're going to get into a traditional fight. But if you just said we're going to get rid of all of them because you'd be insane to attack us because we only have this one defense so we use it. We'll just take out Moscow with a nuclear weapon. Would you if you were Russia and somebody said our entire defense is written up in this document you're free to read it and the document says if Russia attacks even one inch of our territory we're going to nuke them would you attack if it was actually in writing we're going to put a nuke right up your ass? I don't think so. Now there like I said there's no such thing as a real security guarantee. There's no guarantees. But it would have to be at least as safe as spending 800 billion for the military-industrial complex some of it in our country I assume but a lot in Europe.

While Trump's giving a big speech to Congress tonight some people were speculating that he might float the idea of leaving NATO. I don't think so because I don't think he would announce that in his speech but hey he's full of surprises. Anything could happen. He might tease it. I could imagine him teasing it just to see what reaction he got but I don't think he's going to announce it.

Apparently according to Election Wizard on X the Congressional Democrats are planning to disrupt his speech and their plan allegedly involves using a variety of tactics including noise makers, hand clappers, signs, eggs and walkouts. Now how do the eggs fit into this and why are eggs suddenly such a big part of every story? Can we do any story that doesn't involve eggs? Why did eggs become the biggest thing to talk about anyway? I assume the eggs would be to throw. If somebody threw an egg at the president wouldn't they be arrested? Would that not be assault or attempted injury of some kind of a sitting president? Wouldn't it be a disruption of official business? I don't know if his speech is official business or not but we'll see. I'm kind of doubtful that eggs will be thrown. Maybe they'll just bring them to show off. It's like look I got an egg. Anybody else have an egg? Can't afford it can you? I got an egg because I did insider trading. I did enough insider trading to have an egg.

According to Laura Loomer and some others apparently the left is also going to organize or has organized some kind of a massive protest in the Black Lives Matter Plaza before Trump does his speech to Congress. Now do you remember when we were more innocent and if you heard that the left had an organized protest you'd think wow it must be a lot of people like regular people were just mad otherwise you couldn't pull together that many people. But then you learned that these are all fake. All these protests are just probably Soros funded or Hoffman or something and that some of the people might be sincere but this doesn't happen unless it's just a big fake thing driven by people at the top with money. So to me it's just funny because once you realize it's just theater and it's fake it doesn't even look the same anymore. Like I can't even get mad at it because like oh that's kind of funny. How's your fake protest going?

Well if you haven't seen economist Jeffrey Sachs talking about Russia and Ukraine you really should. Now he does have what I would consider a, I don't want to say it, it's hard to describe him. Other people would say he's pro-Russian. Other people would. So I'm not going to say that but it lets you know how he is received. So one of the things when I say pro-Russian I don't mean more than the United States. It's just that he doesn't want to be at war with Russia. Doesn't make any sense. So I guess other people think that's pro-Russian because he doesn't want to be at war with Russia. But he says the war is over because Trump doesn't want to back a loser and that's all you have to know. That Zelensky is a loser and backing him wouldn't make sense and it certainly wouldn't make sense for somebody like Trump who doesn't want to back a loser. And I thought to myself that is really cleverly summarized. You know if you could imagine that Trump thought Zelensky was actually Winston Churchill and an amazing figure maybe he would treat him that way but it's pretty clear that Trump thinks that Zelensky is a loser and he doesn't want to hitch his wagon to somebody who's unpredictable and not going along with the game. And once Zelensky predicted that the war would last a long time. Now isn't that kind of up to Zelensky? It's only going to last as long as he wants it to. So yeah I think I agree with Jeffrey Sachs on this. If the only thing you knew is that Trump isn't the kind of guy who wants to back a loser, an obvious loser, it's kind of all you need to know.

So meanwhile Russia has allegedly agreed, I think I mentioned this, to help with negotiating with Iran over their nuclear program, Iran's nuclear program, and also talked to them about Iran support of proxies in the region. Bloomberg AI was reporting this. Now what I like about this like I said is when Trump expands the negotiations which he's doing instead of saying hey which part of Ukraine do you keep and what day do you want to do the ceasefire, total losing approach, not enough variables. But if Trump goes and says, according to Unusual Whales, Ukraine's president Zelensky just said quote I am ready to work under Trump's strong leadership to bring peace. Interesting because that's exactly what Trump demanded. He said we can work with you but we need a strong statement that says you want peace because the last thing you said was I think the war is going to last a long time. We need security guarantees. We need weapons. That's the opposite of working toward peace. So it looks like Zelensky is reading the room a little bit better. Obviously he's getting a lot of advice. But you see the bigger picture right? It's a really big world. Russia has a lot of energy. They get a big military. They've got connections with countries we want to influence you know Syria and Iran. And we have things that they want such as maybe not doing cyber attacks. Maybe we're better at it than they are. So I think the conversation is going to go to, I'm just going to guess, I'll bet you we had 20 variables which would be genius because if you got 20 variables everybody's got something to get out of it. It's like okay well you're going to help us with Iran but also this will settle Ukraine but well maybe we can do a mineral deal with Russia separately from anything that we do with Ukraine. And so suddenly you've got 20 different things that just make sense. Just common sense. You help us we can help you. There's no reason that we should be enemies.

Now those of you who have been with me a long time, how long have I been saying that the arc of history is bending toward Russia and the United States being allies? We're natural allies. Now what I mean by that is that we have more interests in common if we think about it right. Yeah if we stop pecking at each other and trying to get an advantage and put the other one out of business which is what we've both been doing for decades. If we just stopped doing it and said how about instead of trying to destroy each other and putting all of our efforts into it what if we tried to make money? What if we tried to make the world safer? What if we said if you stay out of our part of the world there are parts of your world that we'll stay out of. And I just think we have the most natural possibility of being allies. Now part of it is we don't share a border. As soon as you share a border everything becomes complicated but we don't. We got that wonderful ocean between us and more we got Europe and an ocean. So I really think my optimism of getting sort of a giant 20 variable Russia deal, very high, very high. And the reason is both sides want it and it's doable. Both sides have really good negotiators. And Trump said in one of his announcements that Putin even used his own campaign phrase "common sense" which of course was very smart for Putin to do because he's good at sucking up you know when he's negotiating. So yeah I think something good could come out. I'm 100% positive on this at the moment. 100% positive. It won't be right away because 20 variables. I mean think about how long it would take to figure out 20 variables but we