good and cheaper and open source, how do our big companies that we think are the jewels in our crown, how do they even survive? How would ChatGPT survive if it's competing against just as good and almost free? I don't know how. And I don't think that China is going to suddenly start charging for AI or at least charge you more.

Suppose there's a war. The smart people, I think Naval said this recently. Whoever has the most drones that are least good enough to be in military. Whoever has the most drones is going to win every war because they're going to be all drone wars and whoever has the most is going to win. How in the world are we going to have more drones than China? China will instantly go to complete military dominance because they can manufacture. They can just make drones all day long and they would have rare earth minerals and they would have everything they needed. They wouldn't need anything from anybody. So that's crazy.

So here's what I can't tell. Is China in trouble? Do they have debt problems and population problems and bureaucracy and they can't get anything done? Or have they become this competitive monster that we'll never be able to match militarily, technologically, or manufacturing wise? And if we can't match them as an economy, then eventually they will dominate us. And it seems like there's nothing we could do about it.

I saw a post by Hotep Jesus on X and Hotep Jesus is funny because he says things that you're not supposed to say in public, very provocative things. And I don't have exact quote, but I think he said something like if you're not expanding your empire, somebody's going to basically expand onto you. So you don't have a choice of just staying the same. In this world, that's just not an option. You can be growing and growing your empire or somebody else is going to grow their empire and take yours. Those really are the only two choices. Because if you look at any civilization that was thriving, they were usually conquering at the same time. Whether it was Rome when it was growing. China right now is looking to conquer, it's already conquered Tibet, and now it's going to conquer Taiwan. It's already conquered Hong Kong. So China is growing and it's looking to dominate the oceans around China. It's expanding. Russia is expanding. It got bigger in a pretty important way and we don't know. I mean it doesn't look like he's done. He just added more people. He just increased the size of his army substantially, Putin did. And then the United States, we're looking to pick up Greenland and maybe something about Panama and maybe even Canada.

So when you see Trump overtly trying to expand, don't feel like that's a risk to the United States. Think about it in terms of there are only two ways that big countries can go. They can keep expanding or they die. Somebody else expands onto them. So you know, maybe Europe is the only place that's operating the opposite and it looks like they're doomed, right? So I don't see anybody in Europe who's trying to expand their country. Instead, they're looking to give it away through mass migration. So you should be able to predict that Europe is doomed and that the US, Russia and China are still expansionist countries and we might come to blows with each other. I think we'd be smart enough to avoid world wars, but those are three healthy competitive situations if we don't go broke from debt.

Anyway, Russia says it won't accept a US ceasefire proposal because it doesn't give them what they want, which is no NATO in Ukraine and something else. Some kind of security guarantee. No, what is it? What are the same ones? They want to consolidate the land that they've already gotten and make sure that there's no NATO and blah blah. So but I'm going to go further. I don't think that Putin's going to say yes to any deal. So I hate to predict this because I would have, well I did. I predicted that Trump could wrap up the Ukraine war fairly quickly because I thought to myself, well, he's just going to say there's an obvious deal to be made. Russia keeps what it already got. Ukr