re the odds that Russia is going to pay reparations to Ukraine? Is this just the EU being stupid because they don't want to say we're just giving away our money. So they're going to act like well there's one possibility some of it might come back. Who believes that? Nobody.

All right. Also in Ukraine, according to Visegrad 24, there's a major UK not Ukraine, but in Russia, there's a major oil refinery. It's one of the five largest refineries in Russia. There's no indication it was attacked, but it's on fire. They're saying it wasn't caused by a drone attack, but I don't know if they would necessarily have noticed it. I don't know.

So, as I've said before, the reason that I always talk about the refinery attacks and the refinery fires is that my estimate is that if you take down Russia's energy economy by 20% that they'll end up at the negotiating table pretty fast. You don't have to take 80%. 20% and growing means they're going to start talking to you real fast. So, I don't know how close we are to 20% or Ukraine is to getting 20% of their energy stuff offline, but I'll bet they're somewhere in the 10% range and growing.

Meanwhile, in Germany, Oktoberfest in Munich got closed down because of bomb threats and an actual bomb went off. And I guess they found a backpack with additional bombs has also been found. You know, I do worry that mass gatherings will just have to be stopped. You know, I'm still impressed that we can put on major sporting events without an attack. I don't know how long that will last, but it probably only would take one attack on a sporting event before we say, "All right, we're done with these. We're not going to do this anymore." I feel like that could happen in my lifetime and that would be super tragic.

Well, President Trump says he's open to meeting with Kim Jong-un without preconditions, which is exactly the right approach. Just act like he's our friend. And I would go further. I would invite him to America to a basketball game. I would invite him to an NBA game. Sit in the good box, you know, have tons of security. Have Trump sitting next to him. Just watch the game and just say, "We don't even need to talk any politics if you don't want to. I'm just inviting you over to watch the basketball game." Would he come? I don't think so. I don't think he would feel safe. But what would you do if you knew that he had been friendly to you the whole time, Trump, and you knew that he could protect you if he wanted to, would you feel comfortable coming to America and being, you know, essentially at the mercy of American security? I don't know.

So, but it might be worth something just to invite him and let him say no. Because imagine if it's your favorite thing and you genuinely don't really feel a risk. Maybe I mean just the invitation would be I think valuable because it would just change the way you thought about everything. Stop thinking about nuclear weapons and start thinking about three-point shots. Just change the conversation.

Well, according to the New York Times, I guess Marco Rubio is in charge of working with the opposition groups in Venezuela, trying to get them to overthrow their dictator, Maduro, without the US moving its military in. What would the US do to help the opposition take over the country? Well, it's called a color revolution. And they would do the exact same thing that the Democrats did to the Republicans. They would fund a bunch of fake organizations. So, it looked like there was a major movement on the streets. They would try to bribe the media, but probably the media is firmly under the control of the dictator, so that might not work. They would probably make promises to people like if you get this done, something good will be coming