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The president announced that he is hiking the Pentagon budget from 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion. Just announced that why? Well, it's hard to know without asking him. He'll explain, but big picture, obviously, that's the kind of budget that a country that anticipates a global or regional war has for its military. There's no other reason to do that. That's not a peacekeeping budget. That's a war budget, a big war budget.
So, I think it's fair to expect and all the signs suggest that we're going to have a big war soon. A big war soon. I think everyone expects that to happen. Hope it doesn't happen. But obviously, we're moving in that direction toward a world war. Sorry.
So, how do you position yourself for that? Well, you look at a map and you ask the most basic questions. What areas do I want to control? Where are the trade routes? Who's got the resources? Who do I share a language with? Who do I share a common history with? Who do I share a civilization with? And you proceed on that basis and you try and shore up your team, the allies, against the other team, the Axis or whatever. But you think soberly about how the world is going to cleave once this begins. And if you were to do that for about, I don't know, 25 or 30 seconds, you would arrive at the most obvious conclusion of all, which is the United States has to have a relationship with Russia in order to survive anything like that. And the reason is really simple. Scale and resources. Russia is the largest country in the world. It has the most resources in the world. That means energy, oil, and gas. It means all kinds of minerals. It means gold. And in a world where the US dollar is probably not going to be as powerful as it once was, it already declining uh in value. Massive incentive for other countries to get off the dollar to trade in energy in other currencies. You need to think about gold and people are thinking about gold. And by the way, if you are wondering whether volatility is coming up, look at silver prices. Look at gold prices over the last year. Investors understand this is a new time. You need to be aligned with Russia. And the number one thing you can't do, Donald Trump has said this many times over the years, is allow Russia and China to become a block because if you do, then you are facing off against the majority of the world's population, the biggest population block in the world, the biggest land mass in the world, and the biggest economy in the world if you combine those two. So you can't do that. And it's pretty clear that the last administration intentionally drove Russia into an alliance with China, which they now have. Just to be really clear, just to bottom line it, if Donald Trump wants to commit one act as president that will secure him a place in history forever as a hero, it would be to bring Russia back into alliance with the United States.
OH, RUSSIA'S BAD, RIGHT? Kind of hard to say that after Venezuela and it's tiresome anyway. No, Russia is not bad or good. Russia is essential to the United States. We cannot survive a global conflict if Russia and China are aligned against us. Period. And it couldn't be more simple and it shouldn't be very hard at this point to make that deal. There is no reason to pay any attention to the unelected leader of Ukraine. Now, the obstacle in the way is not geostrategic. There is no argument for continuing a proxy war, which is what it is. United States versus Russia. We've been at war for four years. All of us are pretending we're not. We are. There's no reason to continue that on the basis of America's national interest. That is not in our interest and it never has been in our interest. And by the way, Russia is a Christian country, a remarkable country, very serious country that we have a lot in common with whether you like it or not. Oh, he's bad. Okay, stop. We need Russia. And the only reason we are not in alliance with Russia is because the foreign policy establishment in the United States, the weapons manufacturers, and particularly the neocons believe that they somehow own Russia or want to retake Russia or something. And Putin is in the way. He kicked out the oligarchs. That was gravely offensive to the American finance establishment and to the American foreign policy establishment and acted on his own country's behalf. Whatever. None of that even matters at this point. Ignore these people. He has to be our enemy. No, if Putin is our enemy, if Russia is our enemy, we cannot survive a global conflict. Sorry. And if you think we can, tell us how. With the help of NATO, which by the way is now done, NATO is done. Once the United States takes Greenland, which is owned by a fellow NATO member, what will be the rationale for keeping NATO? The whole illusion has shattered in the past 4 days. None of this is real. And now everyone admits it's not real. So, it's time to start thinking about the next step.
The third thing to remember is that a functioning empire benefits from the empire. Rome at its height was a gleaming, clean, prosperous city. Rome benefited in the end of course it was destroyed by its empire. It was invaded by the people it had subdued and that is ultimately the fate of all empires, all of them. London is filled with former colonial subjects. That's what that is. And that will happen to every empire. But in the meantime, the point is to help the seat of empire. And so if you can't fix Baltimore, you don't really have a shot of making Caracus functional. And so as you administer this empire, you need to remember the point of this is your own country. Making your own country more prosperous, but also stable and cleaner and better for its own citizens. It can't just be, oh, Paul Singer gets rich, therefore it's a good thing. No, no, no. All Americans, not just Paul Singer, have to benefit from this. And they can, and they absolutely can. And the president, to his great credit, has made a huge effort to clean up American cities. Washington DC, for example. People mocked him for sending the National Guard in. Washington is safer. It's just a fact. He did that. The last guy didn't do that. Trump did that. Keep doing that. Remember, an empire should be impressive. Not just its satellites or its colonies, but the but the mother country should be impressive. And ours can be. It is inherently, but the point of this is to help us. And the last thing to remember about being an empire is that it can corrupt you. And this is the fate ultimately of all empires. They are corrupted by the imperial project. And they become coarser. As Rome grew, as its territory grew, so did the number of people dying in Circus Maximus. So that does happen over time, but fight back against it. You want to retain the fundamental decency of your country even as you expand, as you take Greenland, take Venezuela, wherever else we're going, you need to remember we are decent people and we're going to continue to live as though we are with dignity. You are not going to become hardened by the violence that you sometimes commit on other populations. And that is really difficult to maintain. And you see this even in Washington. You saw this in fact 5 years ago yesterday when Ashley Babbot was shot in the chest for doing nothing. An unarmed woman, an Air Force veteran, murdered by James Bird in the Capitol building. And nothing happened. And the reason nothing happened, the reason the guy who shot Ashley Babbot, who'd already been disciplined for leading a loaded handgun in the men's room, so he had a documented record of recklessness, there was no reason to kill her. She posed no conceivable threat to him. But the reason that nothing ever happened is because there were almost no members of Congress who thought it was a big deal. Now, why is that? Why would members of Congress, 535 members of Congress, why would are they uniquely hard-hearted? Well, they are actually. And why is that? Because they spend a huge portion of their day every single day talking and thinking about killing people in other countries. And if you watch enough snuff videos of the US military taking out this or that bad guy, after a while it ins you. After a while, it's not such a big deal to kill somebody. And you can make a case for that. If there are foreigners who threaten you, you can never make a case for the US government casually killing Americans. All of us should be offended by that every single time. And we should push back against it. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not a Houthy. Don't treat me like one. I'm not a Venezuelan. Stop. Americans have to remember that the point of this exercise is to secure the homeland and everything good about it. And one of the very best things about the United States is the regard that Americans have for human life and for dogs. There's a sweetness and a sentimentality to Americans that would be sad as hell if we lost. Don't allow the killing that takes place overseas to make you think it's okay for the US government to treat you that way.
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