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s now off of the "well maybe if we're friends and I treat him well we could come to some kind of agreement that people could live with." He's completely off of that. Trump is now in revenge mode because Putin stabbed him in the back while smiling at him. What do you think Trump does when somebody stabs him in the back in front of the entire world? Does he A, let it go? No. Does he B, look for cre…

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ans, but I would look for that announcement today. It's going to be good.

Now I'm going to make a prediction about the Ukraine-Russia war. You ready for this? This will be a prediction that I don't believe anybody else has made and probably won't make.

All right, here's my opinion. Every day, Russia and mostly Ukraine are running out of human beings to fight in the front line. So far, we all agree, right, that the number of humans will probably keep edging down and that they'll replace them with drones and robots. So the number of drones will increase, the number of humans will decrease.

And would you agree so far that there's nothing that would stop that trend? So the US will be sending them our best drones at this point, probably making them as fast as we can. And there'll be more land robots because they're already having success with the ones on wheels.

So given that there is apparently nothing that will stop this war, I give it three years. In three years it's going to be almost purely a robot-on-robot front line because the people will be dead and they won't need people to operate the drones because AI will be the operator.

So instead of having a person shooting with a gun on the front line, which we know just doesn't work because the drones kill those people, and instead of having one person for every drone where you can never get enough drones in the air at the same time to really convincingly win, that model has to go away too.

So within three years, and it might be way sooner, you're going to see there's no point in having a human being anywhere near the front line. The only thing that makes sense is that you have autonomous robots and drones who have been taught to fight who are fighting the other autonomous drones and robots on the other side. It's going to be a robot-on-robot war.

And by the way, I also don't think there's any real chance that the war will be settled within three years because Putin will just keep chewing away. I don't think he's going to quit. And Ukraine really can't quit. As long as they're getting weapons and new drones and stuff, they're not going to quit.

So if nobody's got a reason to quit, three years is going to be our first robot-on-robot war at the front lines. So that's my prediction. Robot on robot in three years.

Well, Trump says that maybe something will happen with Gaza in the next week or so. That maybe there'll be some progress there on the ceasefire. Fareed Zakaria over at CNN said that if President Trump made that happen that he would not hesitate to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now there's some bait. How much does Trump want to win a Nobel Peace Prize and have one of the hosts of CNN nominate him? A lot. I would guess he would like that a lot. That's my guess.

So I kind of like what Fareed did there too. So Fareed is doing that good persuasion thing where if you do something bad, he's going to say he did bad. If you do something good, he's going to do more than say it was good. He's going to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. So I love that. Fareed got that totally right.

Now I don't know if it's going to happen. And I think that what Fareed wanted was a Palestinian state. So I believe that Fareed's statement that he would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize would be dependent on the peace also involving the creation of a Palestinian state, which is not going to happen by the way. There isn't the slightest chance that Israel is going to agree to a Palestinia

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n state. There isn't the slightest. All right. So you may have seen that Trump was at the FIFA World Cup and I don't know how much he likes soccer, but he was part of the people handing the trophy to Chelsea for winning. And not all of the players were happy that he joined the celebration, I guess, but he was the happiest I've ever seen him just dancing around with the soccer players. He seemed r…

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