like Trump's political opinions and America first is more of a philosophical position, I guess, which would have impact on policies.

So you may have noticed that I've never embraced for myself the MAGA label. Has anybody noticed that? That I talk about MAGA all the time, but I don't call myself that. I don't have a MAGA hat. I won't be getting one. And I've never really embraced it because I'm not a joiner in that way. I'm just not a joiner.

What are you saying about—anyway, so you don't have to take sides. I'm not talking about taking sides. I'm just saying that as a reframe, America first versus MAGA. It's kind of an interesting frame. Yeah. I like to think of myself as an independent.

All right. Tucker Carlson continues to be interesting. So you might know that people have been accusing Tucker of taking money from Qatar for I guess they would assume that he's taking their point of view or maybe he's being anti-Israel. And his claim is that he has never taken a dime from Qatar, but he's now decided to buy a home in Qatar. And apparently he's doing it as just an F you to all the people who are accusing him of taking money. And his point would be you can't affect my freedom. So if you're going to be mad at me for being friendly with Qatar, I'm going to be even friendlier with Qatar. I'm going to buy a house there.

Now, none of us know what he's thinking. So we'd be on sort of sketchy ground if we assume we know what he's thinking. We're not mind readers. But I'll tell you what I think might be going on here. Part of it might be that spite thing where it was just to make a point. If you tell me I can't do it, I'm going to do it.

But here's another reason. Have you noticed that the people who can afford it are all buying an escape country, you know, or state? So you've got a bunch of billionaires who have property in Hawaii, which has the advantage of being far away from the mainland in case the mainland turns into some kind of disaster or gets into a war. And if I were going to pick an escape country and I had unlimited money, seems like Qatar would be a good escape country, doesn't it?

So every time I see somebody who can afford it get their escape country, I get a little bit more worried about what they know that I don't know. Could it be they're just—it's just risk management and they're completely aware that every country has a risk even if you're a strong country. I don't know.

If I had to guess and I cannot know what he's thinking, my guess is that it's as much about finding a safe place for his family and him because remember it's getting very dangerous to be a conservative in the United States. Tim Pool says there somebody shot into his facility the other day like a bullet and you know I don't have to go through the other examples from Charlie Kirk to Trump getting his ear shot to all the swatting. So if I were Tucker and just imagine the number of death threats he gets just imagine it. I'm guessing it's almost every day. And some of them are serious.

So if I got that many threats and I had, especially if I had a family or a spouse I'm protecting, I feel like I would be doing my job as head of the household if I had an escape plan. You know, if it gets too bad, we're going to walk directly over to this private jet and we're going to go directly to Qatar and we're just going to stay there until it's safe. Now, that's what I'd want to see from my head of household if they can afford it and looks like he can afford it. So that's what I think is going on, but some of it might be the spite thing. But I think if you looked at the spite versus the personal safety, probably the personal safety is the bigger variable, but I don't think you'd want to necessarily say that out loud. Necessarily.

All right. I guess the New York Times has an article, I haven't read it, but the article is about Ukraine corruption and how all the cronies of Zelensky contributed to the corruption allegations. And now they're asking the question, where'd all the money go? Where did all the money go?

Now, here's a mental experiment. What we know is that when the war broke out that the United States funded Ukraine to help them attack Russia, would we have been better off bombing Ukraine? Now, I'm not suggesting we do that. I'm just putting it out there as a mental experiment. If we had bombed Ukraine, the whole thing would have been over in a week because they wouldn't have anybody on their side, and we would have killed very few Ukrainians, but we could have taken out all their corrupt leadership.

Now, Russia would of course be the beneficiary, but aren't they going to be the beneficiary anyway? So let me be very clear. I am not suggesting that would have been a good idea. I'm only doing a mental thing where you can imagine it. And it's actually a little bit hard to explain why we would have been better off getting to the place we are now. Won't Russia still have its way in the long run? Did we not spend tremendous amount of money? And did not that tremendous amount of money go into corrupt Ukrainian hands?

I mean, I think we should probably—oh, can I say this? I might not be able to say this in public. I'll say it in the least dangerous way. We should, we meaning the United States, should be putting a lot of effort into tracking down and bringing a legal process to the people that we think stole all our money, the Ukrainians. And if we're not doing that, somebody needs to tell me why. Because we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars, are we not? Yeah.

So I don't know where any of that's going, but Trump says that Russia likes the current version of the proposed peace deal, and Zelensky hasn't read it. And Trump's a little bit miffed that it's only 28 points or maybe fewer at this point. We don't really know. And Zelensky is acting like he's not even interested enough to stop what he's doing and read it. What exactly was Zelensky doing that was more important than catching up with the current version of the peace proposal? What?

Anyway, according to Wall Street Journal, Russia has a big problem with AI. Now what I mean is that Russia like all the major countries when AI became a thing wanted to have AI supremacy. How is Russia doing in their AI supremacy? I don't know if you saw their humanoid robot that they unleashed and it just fell on its face. And they don't have a better one than that than the one that fell on its face in the public demonstration.

So you've got, first of all, the top Russian scientists, if they can get out of the country, are going to do it as soon as possible because if you're a top Russian AI scientist, the worst place you could be would be Russia or maybe China. But if you could get out of there and go to some other freer country, you'll be the richest, smartest, most valuable person in that country. So they're going to lose their best brains. And apparently they don't have much else going for them.

Let's say Russian AI companies, this is the Wall Street Journal, the Russian AI companies attracted about $30 million in venture funding last year. $30 million. How much do you think OpenAI alone? Just one American company. How much funding do you think OpenAI got last year? The answer is $6 billion dollars. So the entire Russian AI enterprise raised $30 million. One company in the US raised six billion.

And do you think our AI scientists are better than theirs? If they're not, they will be there's no d