going to sell you the best robots because they are also afraid of you. You know, you are another superpower. They are not going to give you the A-plus robots, but we might give Ukraine the A-plus robots, and we might use Ukraine as a way to test the new form of warfare, which would be really, really useful. I hate to say it because I am obviously opposed to war and I would like this one to end as soon as possible. But the fact is, if we could drag this out another three to five years, and I do not want to, I am just saying if we did, we would know more about using robots for war than any other country. Nobody would even be close. And would that be valuable? Probably. Probably. It might be the thing that keeps you out of the next war.

So Trump has mentioned what he thinks a deal would look like. He is just sort of hinting at it and he is talking about things like definitely not going to talk about giving Crimea back. So Trump seems to be indicating that is off the table. You know, Russia has Crimea. They have had it for 12 years. They have not fired a shot to get it. You are not getting that back. But Trump is talking about the security guarantees. Crimea not being on the table. But he is kind of quiet about the occupied areas. So it is not clear to me if he thinks that Ukraine will give away all that or not. But I do not see any chance there is going to be an agreement. Do you? I am going to double down on my prediction that there is no way to come up with an agreement that would make both sides want to stop and that the only way you will get there is when it is a complete robot war. And that might be one to three years away. Could be one year away.

All right. Trump says there are zero illegals who have crossed the border in three months. You have heard that, right? Zero illegals have crossed the border in three months. How much did you think about that when you heard it? You probably heard it in the news that zero people are coming across the border. How would they know that? How would the government know how many people are coming across the border successfully? If someone came through a tunnel and just popped up on the other side, how would we know that? If somebody came across the border in some wherever it is not observed, there is no cameras or anything. How would we know that? If somebody climbed over the wall in a place where it is not being watched every day, how would we know that? How in the world would we know that? If somebody came in on a boat, small boat, and you know, just did not cross the border directly, but just came in a different way on a boat. How would we know that if they came into Canada, let us say by boat or plane or whatever, and then came across the Canadian border into the US, how would we know that? So I do give the Trump administration an A-plus on border security. They really are killing it. So I do not want to take away from that. The only point would be if you believe any statistics that come from your government, even if it comes from the team you like, well, you should ask yourself, can they really measure that? And is it really zero? It might be so low that it does not matter. So I give them A-plus no matter what. But I feel like I was being a little bit gullible because I immediately accepted the estimate of zero people coming over. I was like, whoa, wow. That is pretty good. Zero. And then I thought about it a little bit. It is like, how would they know? They do not know.

Anyway, so I saw a post on X about how billionaires are supporting this socialism stuff and Democrats. So if you did not know it, there is an article on Zero Hedge by Jason Curtis Anderson that gets into it pretty well. You have got somebody like Soros, not like him, but Soros, who can put billions of dollars into his charity, and then that charity gives its billions of dollars to this wide range of other entities, and then it flows to these entities until eventually those entities, since it is just their money, you know, it becomes their money, they can donate to political action committees and Democrat stuff. So basically, it is Soros money going to Democrats, but because it changes hands, it does not look like it is an illegal donation of too much money from George Soros because it goes to these different boxes of different entities of different, you know, and sometimes those entities are the same entities, meaning that the controlling person giving the money may be giving it to another entity that they also control either directly or indirectly, but it kind of turns it legal. It is sort of a legal form of money laundering. So it seems to me that the answer to why the Democrats could win is that they have this illegal cash machine that starts with Soros, maybe some other sources as well, and it just gets laundered through to candidates. Now allegedly the ActBlue people have been accused of doing something similar except their model is that foreign entities would give them money and then they would pretend that it came from individuals with some illegal magic. So is it possible that the primary way the Democrats get funding, they are both illegal? You know, illegal or let us just say weaselly. And is that also true for the Republicans? Do the Republicans have any equivalent process or entity that is hiding their contributions? They might have. I mean, I would not be surprised, but I am not aware of it. Are you? Yeah. It just feels like the Democrats are a criminal organization. It just feels like a crime situation. And the beauty of their process is that even if they were caught red-handed, you know, a lot of it is not technically illegal, although the ActBlue stuff would be if the accusations are right. But if it is not technically illegal, it is just complicated. And if it is complicated, then it is never going to change because the public will never understand it. Like you should see the chart of where the money goes and all the boxes it goes to and it goes to this box before it goes to that box. And you would never be able to explain to Democrats that they do not even have their own opinions. It is just money flowing through changing everything. It is all about the money anyway.

There is a new form of desalination. They put these buoys that bob up and down in the ocean and then they use the bobbing up and down power to drive the water through filters I guess to take the salt out. So that is a pretty big deal. Now, they do not have this completely optimized, but they think it might be a thing. So that would be one more way to desalinate with pods that bob up and down. At the same time, China allegedly, according to Interesting Engineering, they have a new lithium battery that could double energy density. So you get two to four times as much distance from your electric car. Now, I only mention all these battery breakthroughs because it seems like there is one every single week. Some of them are more likely to be commercialized. I think this one is one of those because it is not a big change. It is a sort of a tweak and it is still lithium battery and it is still what people want to put in cars. Though your range anxiety might be just a few years away from going away. You will be able to go as far as you want. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one hour of Monday goodness.

So we will keep paying attention to what Trump and Ukraine has. I am going to predict that no agreements will come out of any of these meetings. I feel like until it becomes, like I said, until it becomes a robot war, I do not think anybody is agreeing to anything, but it is worth trying. So I do compliment the Trump administration for all the effort. I mean the effort is real is what Putin said that Trump is energetic and sincere and it does seem like that and I appreciate that in the service of trying anything you can try. It does make me wonder if there is a secret plan to assassinate Zelensky because it might be the only way to get anything done. Maybe. Would not be surprised, although they would have to be very careful about that. All right. They could probably blackmail him, though, because they must know something about his presumed corrupt actions. He has probably stolen a little bit of money, do not you think? So maybe they could blackmail him out of office if they need to to get a deal done. I do not know.

All right, I am going to say some private things to my beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. I will see you tomorrow. I hope. Same time, same place. Gets better every time. Once again, my option of going private is not working. But the button is just not responding. So I cannot go private with you on Locals, but those of you who are not on Locals, you do not get the intense enjoyment of the pre-show. The pre-show features my cats getting fed and me trying to make 15-foot putts and my morning drumming. In case you like drumming in the morning, it is the worst time for it. So all that is happening and you are missing it. All right, that is about all I got. I guess I will go eat some breakfast since the technology is trying to suggest that we are done here. And say see you later. Stop luring them here. You do not want to have too many people. All right, see you later. It does not end either. All right, let us go.