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e would only need to say, you think we're going to make a hundred billion dollars? No, we're going to make a trillion dollars. So if you could create a picture where the US could get to a trillion dollars of economic benefit just for investing in Ukraine. It might take a while, but you throw the trillion in there and people's eyes open. Do you think that the US would employ military might if Russ…

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certain areas such as defense. So it looks like step one is to get Greenland to vote for their own independence. Do you believe that our CIA, if it worked hard to co-opt the influential people in Greenland, we could basically bribe every politician in Greenland in about five minutes because there aren't many. So between what the CIA could do to bribe people plus what they could do to threaten people plus the fact that when I say people, I'm only talking about the most influential people who are already in Greenland. Do you think we couldn't get them to say, you know, we should be a free country? If we're asking them to join the United States, that's too far. We wouldn't get that. But if you said, "Hey, what do you think of your idea of more independence?" No, we're happy being owned by Denmark, but are you happy being owned by Denmark? Because the other option is you could vote for independence. Do you think that Denmark would deny you your independence if let's say 70% of you voted for freedom? No.

So if you could get the local leaders by bribery or incentive or I will make you rich, which wouldn't cost as much. I mean it would be the cheapest color revolution of all time because it's a small population. We absolutely 100% could co-opt their government, the influentials, into agreeing that Greenland should be independent. We would not be able to get them to say they should join America. But if you became independent and you no longer had the support of Denmark, could you survive unless you had really productive some kind of association with the United States and probably Canada too? And the answer is not really. I mean you would have to make deals with the United States. For example you can share in our development of natural resources if you provide physical security against Russia and China, which they're going to need. They're going to need it.

So it feels to me like they have a 100% functional long-term plan to get some kind of at least Monroe Doctrine control over Greenland's physical security, which would be paired with some kind of sharing of resources. And I would say that if you wait long enough, we almost 100% are going to get that done. I don't know if it could get done under the Trump administration. It might be a 10-year thing, but if you give me 10 years, I say there's a 100% chance that this plan would work. 10 years. I don't know if the government would be consistent for 10 years. So the big if is what happens if Trump leaves office or what happens if a Democrat becomes president and everything will change.

Well that story is boring.

So I saw on X that Elon Musk stated that Tim Walz is guilty of hiding vast fraud. Now who would know more than that than Elon Musk because he was doing things? And you also remember that Tim Walz was t

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he strongest voice accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one. What is it we've learned about Democrat strategy? Well we've learned that they literally, this is not a joke, they literally accuse you of whatever they're doing. So the fact that Tim Walz made such a big deal of accusing Elon Musk of being the corrupt one, that does strongly suggest that he was the corrupt, meaning Tim Walz was. And…

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