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ne actually has they're turning the corner on having an advantage in the war. The advantage is that now that it seems to be purely a robot war, you know, drones mostly, that whoever does the best on drones will win the war so long as they can stay in business long enough to do that. Now, it does look like the human deaths on the front line may be lessened because they're just doing drone on drone…

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these into the Kremlin and take out the leadership." That I believe would be a big big problem for the United States because we're not ready for that. So I assume that what he's going to do is say if you could limit these to taking out energy resources, you might be able to wrap this up quickly because if you took out probably, I'm just going to guess if you took out another 20% of Russia's domestic gas production, they'd want to talk. And probably these Tomahawk missiles could make that happen. No, obviously Russia would increase their own attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, but maybe they're already maxed out there. There's no reason they wouldn't be maxed out already, so maybe they don't have much to go.

Zero Hedge is reporting that the mainstream media was trying to hide the Nazi tattoos on some of the Ukrainian Azov regiment people. So I guess there's a movement to try to normalize or accept the overtly racist Nazi parts of Ukraine because I guess they figure it's better to keep the country together than to deal with that.

Trump has suggested that Spain be expelled from NATO because they're not willing to step up to that 5% of GDP annual spending. And he said we had one laggard. It was Spain. He said they have no excuses not to do this, but that's all right. Maybe we should throw them out of NATO. Frankly, now that shouldn't be news because the entire point of NATO membership is if you don't pay, you're not in. So they don't pay. So Trump says, "Well, maybe you're not in." So nobody else would say that directly, but you should say that. That's why you pay to be in. If you don't pay, not in. It's really simple.

And apparently there's, according to Remix, over in Belgium, the authorities stopped a jihadist plot that looked like they were going to try to build an assassination drone to take down some leaders of the country, but they stopped it. My question is, how do we ever go outside again? Aren't we maybe one year away from any individual being able to send an unjammable drone into any location they want and make it explode? How could you ever have an outdoor political event one year from now? There would always be a terrorist who's within two miles who can just open a door or open a window, throw a drone out the window and tell it to go to the exact location and then of course it'd be jammed. You know, if it's some important president or something, it'd be jammed, but then it would just switch over to GPS and visual and just finish the job. How would we stop that? Now, if it were only one, we would have other mechanisms to shotgun it out of the sky and stuff like that. But what if 20 came at the same time? Is there really any chance we would stop all 20? If we couldn't jam them, maybe. If they came in low, though, you wouldn't even have time to laser them. So I guess it depends how low they are when they do the final mile.

Anyway, over in Germany, CEO of a big company I never heard of, but I guess it's a big company, Evonik, the CEO, is calling for the end of the what he calls the CO2 cult. And it's a wakeup call for Europe's economy. Zero Hedge is writing about that. So Germany, of course, is the big woke. Everything's got to be green. And apparently they have decided that climate change and CO2 not necessarily a hoax, but maybe you ought to back off a little bit if you want to survive.

All right. And meanwhile, let's talk about reparations. So Governor Newsom has decided to sign something that would create some kind of entity in California to look into reparations. What do you call it? Create a state agency for reparations. Now, I've told you before that Newsom has been smart about reparations. He can't say no, but he can say we should study it. So he keeps saying, "Well, how about we study it?" So this state agency seems like more of that. It's like just the next thing he's doing that would funnel some money to the reparations people because who do you think's going to be in the state agency for repa

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rations? Do you think it'll be people who are on the committee that were doing reparations? Of course it is. Some of them. So this seems to be just another way to funnel tax money to reparations advocates without ever getting any reparations. So I don't believe this will lead to reparations because even Gavin doesn't think that's a good idea. But it will lead to people who want reparations getting…

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