Ukraine in NATO??

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Ukraine in NATO. Oh God, I hope not. I'm sorry,
this is nonsensical. Zelensky has now signaled that he is
open to negotiating a peace deal. He said that said that, well,

(00:38):
you know, the land that is under Moscow's control, they
could keep it. He's suggests that this cease fire would
leave the occupied territory in Moscow's hands if the rest
of the Ukraine were given protection by NATO. NATO, I

(01:03):
don't know, We don't even know if Vladimir Putin wants
to negotiate. They have been advancing more quickly, even though
they are taking casualties. They've moved their economy into war footing.
They've approved the largest defense budget in Russia's history. Zelenski

(01:23):
said he would enter negotiations from a position of strength.
Would require further steps toward NATO and new provisions of
Western long distance and other weapons, meaning what meaning we're
going to have to pay you know, blinking yesterday, another
one hundred and seventy six million dollars out the door.

(01:48):
Head that way again. I'd like to remind everybody, if
you don't believe me, do your homework yourself, because the
media is not going to do it. The conditions on
the ground in North Carolina still are. It's a disaster.
Disaster government screw ups. You actually had Amish people go
there and build homes, build small homes for people. You

(02:10):
know what the government did. You didn't get the proper
approval and they knocked them down. Watched it's a great examples.
Fantastic movie movie Witness with the Harrison Ford when they're
doing a barn raising. Well, the Amish went there, were
putting up houses people to live in, and they were
kicked out by the government. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is

(02:31):
the world we live in here in the United States.
But that's okay. We gotta send a hunred another hundred
seventy six million dollars to Ukraink. NATO. NATO needs money,
needs money. And let me let me give you a

(02:52):
bit of a wake up call to all you pro NATO.
Oh nanster lliance, the greatest thing ever. Do you have
any idea what the economy is like in Europe right now?
Do you have any idea at all? You know what
the fastest growing economy in Europe is right now? Malta.

(03:15):
Malta is the fastest growing economy in Europe. I think
who is second? I think Serbia was second, Cyprus is third.
Who else was on? Oh? Russia? Russia is like fourth?
And again I mean no France, no UK, even though

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they're not well, they're in Europe, but they're not in
the EU. No, No Italy. I think Spain is down
right around eighteen or twenty on that list right now,
Louis France is right now. Their economy is so bad,
their situation is so bad that they could trigger another

(04:02):
Remember the the crisis, Eurozone crisis with uh, you know, Ireland, Italy, Spain,
Portugal and Greece. Remember that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, again,
you take a look at this and you actually people

(04:23):
even calling on you got Germans right now saying that
they want to leave the common currency and do their own.
You know what this means, right? They can't afford, they
can't afford to go paying the bills of NATO. You
they're I mean, another story today talking about the European

(04:46):
auto industry, which is in the toilet right now. They
did this. It was their ideas. They did this to
themselves with their stupid net zero policy energy nonsense. I
mean again, the place is a bloody open air museum,
fun to go to, but basically, you know, what exactly

(05:08):
do you say you do here? Besides weight on Americans
and Chinese and wealthy Russians and people that come there
on vacation, you don't do much anymore. Again, I get it,
you get the few luxury brands here and there, but
here's a news flash. They're making a lot of Louis
Vuitton in Texas right now. How in the world, How

(05:32):
in the world are we going to continue to be
Team America world police for Europe. I don't know if
you heard this, And again it's kind of a sidebar,
but it's the same idea. So Trudeau comes down to
mar A Lago, it's hilarious, comes down to mar A
Lago and basically begs Trump, saying, you put these tariffs,

(05:56):
you put these tariffs on our country. You're going to
destroy our economy. And Trump's like, well, you're ripping off
our country. To the tune, I know, he said, one
hundred billion dollars. He's like, listen, you know, if you
guys can't afford to, you know, run your country without
ripping us off. He actually said this to Trudeau, He said,

(06:19):
why don't you guys become the fifty first state and
you be governor? Now again, I'm sure you know that
Canadians are flipping out right now. Oh Derry's whatever, okay,
but take a look, take a look at what what

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is your future as far as growth is concerned. Have
you taken a look at the performance of the European
stock market going back, I don't know twenty thirty years.
Want to compare it to the United States. And this
is not me spiking the football by any stretch. We
make it much better if you were competing, if you

(07:03):
were growing, if you were contributing for crime out loud,
getting back to Ukraine and NATO. You know what that's
gonna be. That's gonna be one big United States taxpayer
bill like it isn't already. Watchdog on Wall Street dot

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