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st Mexico is beefing up the one that they like and maybe they need to do that to stay alive. But separately, apparently the US Customs and Border Protection flew a military drone over 600 miles into Mexico and they were looking at one of the cartel strongholds and then coming back. So I don't think they bombed anything. I think it was just looking. But isn't that what you always assumed was happe…
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Do you think that Trump can allow that to happen this time? So I think because this is now completely personal, it's political but it's also very personal. I think that Trump is going to tell Putin, here's the deal. I need to leave here with something real, you know, like a ceasefire, for example, or I'm going to just destroy your economy. Oh no you won't, Mr. President. You would never do that. Yeah I would. It's personal now. And when it becomes personal, Putin is, I'm sure, smart enough to know that his options got real limited real fast. If he keeps it personal, I think Trump is going to take down the Russian economy. Just take it down.
Now can he do that? Well the general view for months, this is from Axios, and this is coming from the government people who were in the know. So their general view is that they could bring down the Russian economy tomorrow that they would do it, I guess, with banking mostly. Yeah, I think mostly through banking and financial stuff. They would basically turn off the spigot and there are only a few steps toward ruining them and most of them come from the treasury. All right, so financial operations, some come from the Department of Justice. So I don't know what Trump is going to say to Putin, but I guarantee it's going to be a threat. And I can almost guarantee it's going to be a direct threat against what's left of Russia's economy. And we'll see if Putin wants to tap Trump along because I think Trump's going to say, look, you got a
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week and at the end of the week, all the banking connections to anybody doing business with Russia. It won't even be just banking restrictions on Russia. It'll probably be restrictions on anybody who does any business with them. So suddenly India just to pick an example won't be able to get bank financing from any American bank. Now maybe they don't need it. I don't know but yeah this could get pr…
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