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October 17, 2022 23 mins

It's incredible to look at the cycle that's taking place. But one of the things I want to get into is stuff that is a little bit off the beaten path, in terms of issues that that really should matter to you. We haven't done a deep dive into the foreign policy component of this upcoming election, foreign policy is hugely important. You have just spent whether you like it or not $80 billion arming the people of Ukraine. And that's a substantial and important point because while the American people are incredibly generous once you start getting into 8090 100 200 $300 billion in aid going out, that is a humongous problem. And so the question at this point becomes, okay, what senators? And what Congress people do you trust, when it comes to the questions of funding and financing wars? Remember, we are involved in Ukraine, Ukraine is not a NATO ally. We are in there with other NATO allies who are closer in proximity than then we are obviously, we have offered up a ton of weapons. They've been very effective against the Russians. That is, that is a huge, huge point, right? And that's a good thing. But now on Monday, October 17, which is the day this is being recorded if you're hearing this in the future, on Monday, October 17. We see in the morning, an explosion of kamikaze-style missiles being shot into Kyiv. And around Ukraine. These are Iranian manufactured missiles, Iranian-manufactured missiles. And it's a big deal because we are now basically funding both sides of the war. How do I explain that to you? Well, here's how I explained that to you. During the Obama Biden administration, they gave, you know billions of dollars in financial relief to Iran, Iran took that money and didn't upgrade their communities didn't make better opportunities for women. That's why you see them in the streets today, rejecting the boot heel of the mullahs, you saw a whole ton of stuff take place, you funded a lot of the repression and the crackdowns that were taking place inside of Iran. I know you don't want to believe that. But you sponsored with the money that we loaded onto pallets, in violation of American law. We funded torture, rape, murder, terrorism, abuses of unspeakable depths, in Syria, you name it, all that stuff. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is still very, very active in that part of the world. And we helped to fund that. And what did the Russians have to say about any of it? Well, they helped with the attack inside of Syria, targeting communities that they didn't much like because they want that warm, warm, warm water port on the Mediterranean. But it's important to understand who it is that's going to be the President of the United States, who it is that's going to be the members of Congress and the Senate, and what are their objectives going to be. What are their policies going to be? And so I just want you to understand that there are two approaches when it comes to dealing with Ukraine when it comes to dealing with Iran when it comes to dealing with Xi Jinping. And the President of the United States has never been right on a single foreign policy idea and is going to take us in exactly the wrong direction. And the Congress is going to have to be there to say no, no, we're not. We're not doing this. I'm not saying we're cutting off aid to Ukraine, but we're going to at least have a debate and a discussion about it. We're going to at least have a debate and discussion about the cartels. We're gonna have at least a debate and discussion about a wide open border, which is really there's a hilarious bid, by the way, that was put out in the last 24 hours 100 My orcas is blaming Republicans for telling people the border is open. He says Our administration is messaging at the border is closed. And the Republicans in the administration, the Republicans in the government, Ted Cruz, etc. are running around telling people to come here illegally, because they keep saying the border is open, when in fact it's closed. That's nonsense

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