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'm running something. Let me tell you about it. You know I already have the money from a couple of billionaires. So that's what you can see with the so-called homeless problem that's not a homeless problem. You can see people stepping up and saying I will be your project manager. You know and I've got this experience. Who can fund me? And then the funding will happen. I can almost guarantee the fu…
← Previous segment →th Korea directly or indirectly, privately or not privately, you know the reasons that the United States and North Korea were ever military adversaries just doesn't exist anymore. That's the high ground. You just say to North Korea we are a military, you know let's say military flooding with each other and it used to make sense but would you agree Kim Jong-un that it doesn't anymore? The base reason for us to have any military conflict with them whatsoever completely gone.
Is there any chance that we want to attack North Korea? None. There's no chance we want to attack North Korea. Not any chance at all. Is there any chance that North Korea really wants or thinks that they're gonna take over South Korea? None. There's not a chance in the world that they think that would be a good idea to try that.
But what is a genuine risk for Kim Jong-un? Because I don't think the United States is any more. I mean we don't want to be in there. We're not China. Maybe Russia but China. Don't you think that North Korea has more long-term risk from China? More long-term risk being on the front steps of China. Doesn't China want to control everything that touches their border? Of course they do. Of course they do. Don't you think China if they had an opening would try to get more control of North Korea? Of course they would.
I think that we could make a deal with India and North Korea and the fun part would be to throw it into the same deal. So you're looking at the diversion I'm using. Notice I just threw India in there. India. What's India got to do with North Korea? Nothing except they're a nuclear power who also doesn't trust China, right? Think about this. Think about the productive combination of India, an advanced nuclear power, and North Korea, also advanced nuclear power in their own way.
Suppose you said to India and North Korea, you know India and North Korea and we basically do say this daily I would think in essence, you know in the coming years and decades wouldn't you rather be on our side North Korea if you had a chance, a choice of being our friend and actually being somewhat protected by us? And here's the offer we can make. We could say North Korea not only should we not be pointing our weapons at each other because the reasons
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have all gone away but maybe we can help you be a little safer from China. And here's how you could do it. You could say we will protect you. Maybe not directly militarily because we wouldn't want to. I don't know that we'd want to have a military agreement that we protect the territory of North Korea with our military against China. That might be too much. But we could say there we'll protect yo…
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