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I live in the United States. I get from the battalions all the time. Of course, I live in the United States. I'm an individual. Why should I care about what's going on in Israel? Why should I care about Israel? Why Israel? Why should I care about what's going on in Ukraine? And hey, by the way, you know, my government, we've got a government. It's evil enough to take my taxes. Shouldn't I want them to, you know, if they're going to use my taxes anyway, should I want them to use those taxes to, I don't know, help homeless people in my neighborhood or fix the potholes on my street rather than send them off and and and to Ukraine or to or to Israel. It's not my battle. It's not my war. It doesn't affect my life. I would rather the money be spent home. I don't really care about the issue. I've got enough problems in my head and I don't care about the issue and my government shouldn't care about the issue. They should just leave those places be not put any money, not arms. And by the way, if we give arms to Israel, it just pisses off the Arabs and they'll just come and and, you know, and do away with do away with me. Yes, what a female. I know potholes are not a federal issue. Yeah, be start picking, picking nitpicking what I say, right, as I come up with this stuff on the fly. So why should you care? Why is it? And I'm an egoist. Why is it in your rational, long term self interest to care about what's going on in these places? Why should you invest any effort time? And why should you not only not object to your government supporting them up to a limit? We'll talk about that limit is, but you should encourage them to do so. We should encourage your government to, to actually do so. So before we, so, so that's the topic, right? I mean, one of the things we have to understand, I think today is that Western civilization, the civilization that our lives depend on, the civilizations that our liberty and freedom depends on. The civilization that, you know, without which life would be very difficult. Life would be to a large extent unbearable in the world in which we live. That civilization is under threat. And it's under threat in ways that I don't think it's ever been under threat. It's under threat. And I'd say the main culprit of it being under threat, and this is a reality, the main culprit of it being under threat is that we can't defend it. That while we want it, while we have a sense of what we want about it, when we speak over here, when a little bit of political freedom over there and we want a little bit of this and a little bit of that. But we don't have a comprehensive idea of what it is. We can't really defend it. And again, as a civilization, I can defend it. Maybe you can defend it, but as a civilization. And that has left it vulnerable, left the remnants of this great civilization, the beauty of it, the freedom that it empowers, the individualism, the respect for the human mind, the entrepreneurship, the economic progress, the economic growth, the technology. All of the things that Western civilization, that the enlightenment has bequeathed us is all at risk. We have massive, massive enemies at home. Western civilization is under devastating attack from internal enemies. Those internal enemies on the left, the woke, the CRT, the Marxists, you know, the whole array of the left is really anti-Western civilizations, anti-enlightenment. It has been since Marx, and it certainly is in its postmodern variation, all the different iterations of postmodernism. They hate the enlightenment, they hate Western civilization, they hate liberty, they hate reason, they hate science, that everything opposed to, they hate capitalism, they opposed to everything that the West really stands for. And it is a real enemy trying to destroy the enlightenment from within, within Western countries. And then we have the enemies on the right, who not only are they clues about defending Western civilization, but many of them in their attempt in quotations to defend Western civilization often land up, land up undermining Western civilization, misidentifying its source, and undermining its very essence. But many factors on the right today, many people on the right, many intellectuals on the right, many leaders on the right today have given up on Western civilization, given up on the enlightenment, explicitly so. They now argue against the enlightenment. Indeed, they blame most of America's problems today on the enlightenment, and they view Western civilization as somehow pre-enlightenment. Knowles, 1220, 1220, wanting to go back to 1220. Even Iron Hercie Ali, wanting to go to a pre-enlightenment Christianity. So the enlightenment Western civ is under attack from both left and right inside the country. And that will play itself out. That battle is playing itself out, will play itself out. It is a battle that is ongoing. It is a battle that will is going to take a long time to resolve itself. But it is definitely a battle that we need to participate in. We need to be a part of. There are very, very few voices, very, very few voices, very, very few people standing up for the enlightenment, standing up for the West in what it really means. Not in its superficialities, but what it really means, which means the enlightenment. There are very few people standing up for the enlightenment, and we need to be a part of that battle. And those, by the way, are people we should align with. So that's the internal threat. But there is also an external threat. And that external threat feeds off of the internal. It views the West as weak. It views the West as vulnerable. It views the West as defeatable. Is defeatable or would? I don't know. Whether that external enemy is Russia and everything the Russia represents, authoritarianism in every aspect of our lives, imperialism and mysticism combined together, and not surprising, there are people in the West, part of our internal enemies in the West, who love Putin and Russia, exactly because they are standing up for ideas of nationalism, mysticism, authoritarianism, which our enemies on the right from within believe that that is Western civilization. That is the defenders. Putin is a defender of the West. And so here you have one, you know, the right. And of course, the really way out there left, but also supportive of Putin. They also view him as, well, he's anti-West, therefore he must be good. He's anti-Lightman, therefore he must be good. So the far left and the far right unify over admiration for Russia and Putin. And then you've got another existential threat to the West, and that is Islam. Now Islam is militarily weak. Russia is not. It has nukes, and it supposedly had a big military, big powerful military, not so big, not so powerful. The Muslims are weak with the exception of Pakistan. They have no nukes. They have no mighty military. They have numbers. There are two billion Muslims in the world today. And they have managed to emigrate into many countries in the West where they are not met with demands for assimilation. They are met with demands for exclusion, separation, and where again they experience and sense, because they're not met with demands for assimilation, the weakness of the West. And here they have a real opportunity, a real opportunity to take out the Enlightenment, to take out the West without even engaging in military actions or that much military action. And then finally, you have China. China has huge ambitions to be the mightiest country in the world, to be the most respected country in the world, to be the most influential country in the world. I don't know that China has territorial ambitions outside of Taiwan, but it certainly has ambitions in terms of respect and power. And it too knows the West is weak. It too senses the decline of the West. And it too is getting ready. And you've got here an axis, an axis of Russia, Iran, and China. I think Russia and Iran are the more immediate threat. China might be a threat further in the future, depends on how things go for China. But Iran and Russia are an imminent threat, imminent threats to the West. Now, a threat the West could easily deal with if it knew what it was fighting for. A threat the West wouldn't even trouble itself with if the West was on the rise confident and free. But indeed, the West is not. So this is the global situation. And the manifestation of kind of the Islamic threat, at least a big chunk of it for the United States, manifested itself in 9-11. And then in Europe and all the terrorist attacks that have happened on European soil since then. On the subjugation of so many European cultures to Islamic will, think Danish cartoons, think Charlie Hebdo, think of the silencing of so many Europeans as a consequence of the growing political power of Islam and the weakening power of Enlightenment principles, principle of free speech, for example. And of course, I think the threat that Russia poses the West manifested itself in its invasion a year and a half ago of Ukraine. So Russia has ambitions. It has imperial ambitions. It has ambitions regarding its stature in the world. It has ambitions with regard to its role in Europe. It has ambitions to be the leader, the dominant power in Europe. It has not and will not cede that to the United States or to any European entity. It is the be all and all. And as part of those ambitions, it has now attacked Ukraine twice. This last time in a for-fledged war to basically take control over the entire Ukraine as a first step. Without any doubt as a first step to challenging NATO and challenging Europe and challenging America's dominance in Europe. And indeed to challenge the very idea of Western civilization, the very idea of an Enlightenment civilization, of an Enlightened civilization. And you can see that in Putin's rhetoric, he makes no end of fun, ridicules the West and any kind of semblance of Enlightenment ideas. So here you have a war, a war that is a battleground in many respects to the future of Europe. Of whether Europe will continue to be, first of all, an American ally, secondly, a bastion of Enlightenment and Western civilization. It's not a bastion anymore, but a remnant, a fragment of Enlightenment and Western civilization. Whether it will succumb to mysticism or authoritarianism, primitivism, imperialism, whether it will become a puppet of Russia. Now why should you as an individual care? Because you should care about your life. You should want a world in which Enlightenment values are thriving. You should want a world in which the West, even the West of the European Union, is still alive and kicking. Because in spite of all the problems of the European Union, that West far exceeds anything the rest of the world has to offer us. There's nothing good in Russia. There's nothing good in Islam. There's nothing good about those ideologies, those philosophies and those regimes who would replace a dying Enlightenment. The only way to save the Enlightenment is from within. The only way to save the Enlightenment is to save the West. By abandoning it, we lose. So should you care? Absolutely. Do you think you would live in a better world? If Russia took over Europe, you would live in a much worse world. And you would embolden the worst elements in the United States primarily on the right, who would love to bring Putin like authoritarianism, Putin like mysticism, Putin like oppression to America. They would love to align with Putin to expand the revolution to the United States of America and to the extent that they're successful. They would and they will. Yes, we've got one here. Richard wants more Putin. Siko that he is. So you should care. You should want Putin dead. You should want Russia to fail. You should want Russia to collapse. You should want Ukrainian victory. And what does it mean for America to support Ukraine? It means very little in terms of the cost to you. It means it does not. Well, let's see what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean sending American kids to die in Ukraine. Indeed, if Russia wins in Ukraine and sets its eyes on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, then American kids will be involved. Then your kids will be involved. Then American personnel, military equipment. Then America is in a war. Then you're very close to nuclear war. That should be avoided at all costs. So America supporting Ukraine does not mean American troops in Ukraine. Indeed, most of America supporting Ukraine means America morally supporting Ukraine using the bully pulpit to express its support, condemning Putin for the monster, the immoral monster that he actually is, and then supplying weapons to Ukraine. And supplying weapons to Ukraine for America today is super cheap. America sends very little cash to Ukraine. Most of what America sends to Ukraine today is equipment that is obsolete from the perspective of the American military. It is equipment that is unlikely to need or use in the future. It is equipment that if not used in the next few years, they'll have to dump anyway. Artillery shells, medium-range missiles. These are not things that America needs. One Patriot battery. These are not things that cost us much money out of pocket. Very little. It's equipment sitting in warehouses. Now some of them needs to be replaced over time, and that will cost something. But it would have been needed to be replaced anyway because it was going to be expired. We're not, for example, even supplying them with F-16s. Other countries are doing that. We just gave permission for these countries to provide the F-16s to Russia, to Ukraine. Sorry, almost to Russia. Why it took a year and a half to do that? God and only Biden know. But that is a betrayal, to betrayal of us as Americans. Because all that's done is emboldened our enemy. It's emboldened Putin. The American policy should have been when Russia invaded Ukraine to supply Ukraine with whatever weapons it needed to defeat Russia as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. And defeating Russia means kicking them out of Ukraine, making it clear to them they will never be able to take Ukraine. That's enough to put Putin in his place, to defeat the fantasy of Russian Empire, to prove to them that whatever God is guiding Russia, that God is a loser. So don't send American troops there. Don't fight, but send weapons. Cost us very little. Yes, every time they approve a budget, that's the book value of the weapons, weapons systems that are sitting in warehouses. Weapons systems that if we actually got into a conflict, let's say with China, we would never use because we're not going to storm China with tanks. We don't need artillery for China. For China needs, we need to build a fleet. We need to build a navy. Defeating Russia will make America safer. Defeating Russia would be one less, one less challenger who might take the West, who might take, who might defeat the Enlightenment, the values that our lives depend on. It's curious to me how many people, you know, support Israel because they hate Islam, they hate Muslims. They see Muslims as a real threat. But Russia, Russia, they're the same color skin. Russia, they're Christians, just like all of us. Russia, oh Putin, he looks good without a shirt, riding a horse. It's masculine. Russia, they're our allies, they're our friends. The fact that he's a thug, an authoritarian, a central planner, a mystic, doesn't matter. He looks like us, so he must be one of us. The war aim in Ukraine is easy. The war aim in Ukraine is to throw Russia out of Ukraine and make it clear to them they will never win. That's the war aim. It's pretty simple, pretty straightforward. And with a weight amount of weapons, Ukraine could do it, could have done it already. It's we, the US, that's held the Ukrainians back, not just the US, but our allies in Europe as well. Russia's already lost the war strategically. But it needs to be fully cognizant, fully realize that it will never succeed. It needs to be pushed out of Ukraine back to Russia's 2014 borders. And there is no negotiating with Putin. There's defeating the Russian army in the field and pushing him out of there. There is no negotiation because there is no compromise. Anymore that there's compromise with Hamas. There's no difference between Putin and Hamas. Not the threat they pose to us and our world. Indeed, Putin is a bigger threat. He has nukes. Hamas does not. Israel also sits on a border on the front line of the battle between civilization, between civilization and barbarism, between civilization and its enemies. The Islamic world would love to take down the West. The Islamists would love to take down the West. Now it's true that the leaders maybe of some of the Gulf states and the leaders, maybe even of Egypt and Saudi Arabia and a few other countries don't really want that. They don't even want to take down Israel. They see a value in Israel and so on. But the reality is that the majority of their own populations still believe in an Islamic caliphate, still believe in taking down Israel and the West. If there was election tomorrow, real election tomorrow in Egypt, would the Muslim Brotherhood not win again? Muslim Brotherhood, the fountainhead of Hamas. So the Islamic world still believes that they are capable of, that they have the means, they have the ability to take down the West. They've entered the West on the inside through migration and they pose a physical threat to the West just by their commitment to God and their commitment to Allah and the fact that Allah is on their side. They have no question in their mind that they will win this battle, this battle, this war. And they're willing to kill whomever and however many in order to make it real. The logic is that a significant percentage of that population celebrates death, not life. Life sucks. They're poor. They live under authoritarian regimes. The values of the Middle Ages, dark ages, when they go to heaven they get 72 virgins and Allah opens all these possibilities for them. So why should you care? Because Islam, in its militant political form, is a threat to the lives of every one of us. They are willing to kill us. They are interested in subjugating us. And they can't do it because we're super strong. But that only holds as long as we're willing to defend ourselves. They're very weak militarily. But they can hurt us through terrorist attacks. They can weaken us by entering into our countries and aligning themselves with American political left and right sadly. So Israel is the same reason as Ukraine. We don't need to send troops. We don't need to send an army. We don't need to fight it ourselves. Although here I would argue we should, given that we are a target, have been, will be a target of the broader Islamist movement. We should intervene militarily. We should put troops on the ground. Not so much in Israel, but in Iran. Israel should get our support. Should we send Israel money? No. Israel doesn't need our money. We shouldn't ask for our money. We shouldn't give it. It's a relatively wealthy country. It should be able to support itself. Should we send them military equipment? Absolutely. Same reason as for Ukraine. It's relatively cheap. They're fighting a war for us. They're minimizing the need for Americans to be involved. Send them all the weapons they want. And Israel, for the most part, buys these weapons. So if we really value the long-term safety of the West, of civilization, of enlightenment, then these two countries need to be helped, need to be supported, both morally and militarily. Another aspect of this, which I find interesting, is that the conflict in Ukraine and the conflict in Israel help us to reveal who our friends and who our enemies really are. I mean, it's good to know that Candace Owens stands with Hamas. I'm not surprised BLM stands with Hamas, but I didn't really realize that Candace Owens does. Good to know. Check the mark of an enemy. It's good to know Jordan Peterson thinks so highly of Putin and stands with Putin. Another check mark. Identified an enemy. I didn't think he would be. I think he'd realize how horrific Putin was. But I guess he doesn't. I guess he's not a friend of liberty after all. This brings out for us who are real enemies all, who are supporting the thugs in the world, who doesn't want to see the success of the enlightenment. If there are people, if there are enemies within, if there are supporters of Putin or Hamas in the objectives movement, please point them out. Check them off as enemies as well. Just because somebody calls himself an objectivist does not mean they're not my enemy. So it's great to kind of tease out, bring out to the surface the ideas that animate, the ideas that animate the people around us. I mean, we now see just how viciously anti-Semitic the left is. It's good to know. It's good to know. And it's good to know that the libertarians are as insane and wacky as maybe we assumed the war and maybe forgot it a little bit, maybe thought they maybe had gotten better. And it turns out, nope, they're still as crazy and wacky as they always have been. And it's good to know. You know, here in the chat, who is with us and who's against us. These are the kind of issues that bring it out. These are the kind of issues. These are the kind of issues that reveal what people are really about. So yes, you as an individual to support Israel and Ukraine, the American government should arm them to the teeth. They're at the forefront of a civilizational struggle. China is watching. China will feed off of our weakness to the extent that our commitment to Ukraine or to Israel weakens. China will view that as our weakening and view that as an opportunity. As long as we support these countries strongly, they will not attack Taiwan. They await for further signs of the West's demise. And China probably is the biggest long-term threat. And they're watching. And hey, I'm watching you guys. So, you know, internally, we're also watching. All right. The cost of the Ukraine-Israel conflict in the big picture of the American government spending and government deficits is miniscule, miniscule, miniscule. And if we can spend a little money to delay the end a little bit, then we should spend it. I mean, absolutely true. The West is in decline. The West is disappearing. The enlightenment is fading. But the more of it we have, the longer we have it for, the better off our individual lives are going to be. The end of the enlightenment is not going to be pretty. The end of the enlightenment is going to be a disaster for all of you, all of us. All of humanity, really, the end of enlightenment values is impacting. The end of Western civilization is not something to be celebrated. And that's where we're heading. And if we can delay it a little bit by spending a little bit of money, by sending a few arms, it doesn't cost us a lot. I mean, let's move to Argentina. I mean, even Argentina today, Millet has already started to compromise, and to appease, and to moderate. His radicalism is slowly, and we will see. But at least today's news was not good on the Millet front. I'm curious what my Argentinian friends are saying, but it was not good what I read today. He's already lost the people that are most important. All right, happy to take your questions. I know a lot of people are commenting. We've got a goal for the evening shows, which is significantly higher than where we are right now. So please consider supporting the show with the sticker. Yair just did his first super chat. Thank you. You really appreciate that. You can do a sticker. You can do a super chat question. You can ask questions, but you can ask about any topic. It would be about what we've just talked about or about anything else. You can challenge me. You can tell me I'm full of it. Use the super chat to do it. Let me just say this. Nobody represents today purely the enlightenment values and the values of Western civilization. But Europe represents it more than Russia. America represents it more than Europe. South Korea, Japan represented more than pretty much anybody else in Asia. This is what needs to be supported. And does Ukraine represent Western values? No. But is Ukraine leaning in that direction? Absolutely. Why did Russia invade to a large extent? Because Ukraine was moving towards Europe, moving towards the West, moving towards becoming a Western country. Russia wants to undermine everything that is the West, wants to undermine everything that is the Enlightenment. It stands on principle as the anti-Lightman, anti-West superpower. That's how Putin has defined himself. And therefore, to support Ukraine is to support Europe. To support Ukraine is to support a movement towards Europe and away from Russia, away from the Dark Ages, away from authoritarianism, mysticism and imperialism, which is what Russia stands for. So while Ukraine at no given point represents Western civilization any more than any other particular country in Europe, you know, worse than any other particular country in Europe, it was moving in the right direction. That needs to be celebrated and supported against the horror that is Russia. Again, a threat, no smaller and in many respects much larger than the threat of Islam to the West. All right, let's take a look here. No, I didn't mean to do that. All right, that doodle bunny, you noticed that Milet and Inran became successful by being firebrands, rather than focusing on being prim and proper mild-mannered academics like too many at AOI. Inran was not a firebrand, certainly not like Milet. To put them in the same paragraph is bizarre. Inran was never swore. Milet swears all the time. She never called people names. Milet calls everybody names. She was indeed very proper but radical. She was incredibly polite, incredibly respectful, even to opposition. Read Inran letters and see how she answered people's questions. Milet is a firebrand, right? He's, you know, in many respects nuts. People at AOI are not mild-mannered academics. I don't know any of them who are mild-mannered academics. They're radical. They're firebrands in their own way. None of us are like Milet yelling and screaming and cursing. I yell and scream. I don't curse though. And I don't flip out. I don't do crazy stunts. True. But neither did Inran. So to assume that Inran was successful because she was a firebrand like Milet is just not. I mean, have you ever seen Inran on stage? She did some assaults and whip around and yell and curse and no. Lots of things wrong with cursing. But Inran dressed nicely when she spoke in public or when she went out in public. So, you know, I don't understand. I don't think the comparison has anything to do with it. If you want somebody who yells and shouts and makes a big deal, that's me. Well, how many followers? You know, I haven't done as well as Milet. Maybe if I said the F word a few more times during the show, I would get a bigger following. Is that what we want? Is that the thing that's missing? And anyway, there are a lot of different people at AOI. They serve different functions. Not everybody is public facing. Not everybody needs to be a quote firebrand. Behind Milet, there are a lot of prim academics doing the hard work for him. Behind Milet and behind anybody successful. There are a lot of quiet people. Educating, teaching, speaking, writing, writing, writing, writing. I mean, this idea that everybody should be a firebrand, that everybody should go out there and be passionate and yelling and screaming is nuts. You've got to have lots of different people doing different kinds of work. And you've got to have some of those really smart philosophers who are mild in terms of the way they speak. But who are smarter than anybody else on the planet can articulate an argument and teach those of us who are firebrands what we should be firebranding about. So, I mean, the attempt to insult people at AOI is just dumb and it's ineffective. And it's, you know, what is the point exactly? You don't like them? But some people need to be, people need to be what they are. Personalities that they have, judging them by the quality of the arguments they make. And there you'll find that the mild manners ones are the ones that make the most powerful arguments and the ones the rest of us need to learn from so that we can be firebrands. And of course, who changes the world? We'll see how much Milet actually achieves. But it's the philosophers, the intellectuals, the academics who ultimately change the world. Don't put them down. Don't dismiss them. All right. Remind, like the show before you leave, a bunch of people here and it helps with the algorithms. It really helps promote the show. So please press the like button. And if you like what you get, value for value, please consider supporting the show. $100, $200, $5, $2, whatever the value is to you and you can afford. You can use the sticker. You can use the super chat. We've got quite a way to go to reach our goal. We're doing great this month, so I'm not complaining, but it would be great if we hit those goals on as many shows as possible. Particularly given that we've got 118 people watching right now live. All right. Like the show. Also, if you're not a subscriber, please subscribe. Please subscribe. Yeah. I mean, the people at ARI, Robin, are amazing. They're super smart. They're super able. They are articulate. The people who are offended by them or the people who think they are the losers out there, like Richard, who's got to overunder on how much money I raised tonight as if he cares and as if he contributed a dime. God, it's all he can do is sneer at the success of other people. That's the characteristic of a loser. Steven, should the US Navy clear Russia out of the Black Sea and for the US Air Force to control the skies over Ukraine? No, I don't think so. I don't think that's necessary. I don't think that the United States should get directly involved. I think the United States getting directly involved increases the level of risk to a degree that is just not warranted. I do think that supplying the Ukrainian Air Force with F-16s, I do think that supplying the Ukrainians with the latest and base and best weapon systems possible. Anybody who makes Richard's skin crawl is a hero. I'm all four people who make Richard's skin crawl. I mean, we're talking about somebody in the chat who I shouldn't be talking about because he doesn't deserve the attention, but anyway. So, I think Ukraine can do it. It's going to be costly for them. For the United States, it would be easy and quick. Ukraine is inflicting heavy damages on the Russian fleet and on its forces in the Black Sea. I just saw statistics today of the amount of grain Ukraine has managed to ship out in spite of Russian threats. They have managed to protect the grain routes pretty well without the need for the United States to enter. I took you might be involved there, but in spite of Russia's attempts to block them from exporting, they have managed to do it. So, yes, I think all we need to do is be willing to supply Ukraine with the military equipment that they need in order to defend themselves and ultimately to kick the Russians out of Ukraine. And I think they can do it, but they do need that equipment. We keep denying them the equipment, delaying the equipment, giving them partial equipment. We're giving them F-16s, but without the best smart bombs that the F-16 can use. We give them long-range missiles, but we don't give them enough missiles to use on a consistent basis. It's just unbelievable how crippling the United States has been. And to a large extent, that's the fault of Republicans who have been so adamant about not approving support for Ukraine, which is a massive betrayal. All right. Robbs, he says, did you see James Lindsay tweet where he claimed liberty requires reason plus faith? I thought he was smarter than that. Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, James Lindsay is being disappointing after disappointment, after disappointment. I think he's in many respects, you know, he has a prism by which he sees everything. And again, he's in the same position as so many of not being able to contemplate or imagine that you could be an atheist and have values and have morality. So he's in the same boat as so many people. But, but yeah, it's, it's sad to see it doesn't surprise me. It's the way these people on the right are going. They're embracing religion one by one in that sense. This is dim hypothesis by Leonard Peacock just playing itself out right in front of us. And many people on the chat supporting it, you know, supporting the ultimate outcome of it because it's against the left. But yes, scary stuff. All right, let's see. Let me just thank a few people for the stickers. Jonathan Honing. Thank you. Let's see. Thank you. Catherine. Thank you. And WCZN. Thank you. And then I just saw Donna. Thank you. So thanks. The stickers, but you can still ask questions. There's plenty of time still. I'm moving on to the five to $10 questions. But let's get a bunch of, let's get a bunch of $20 questions to cover the spread. Right. He's not a. Oh, Troy. They go, Richard, you lost the bet. Troy says, I missed the live. Thanks. Even show you on. I'm thankful for Iron Rand and her philosophy that is continuing throughout your efforts through your efforts. Keep the positive show coming. I will. I will. I'm going to try for one a week. I'm going to try for one a week. Thank you, Troy. Really appreciate the support. That is fabulous. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That made my Thanksgiving. Thanks. All right. Hop a Campbell. In April, when you traveled to Argentina, would you make it an objective to meet with Millet and make sure he's on the right track? I can't make sure Millet is on the right track. I can't make sure, right? But, and I don't know if I'll try to meet Millet. I find it not useful to meet politicians. I never have met a politician that was useful. It's just a meeting him or I had a positive influence in, well, I probably did, but reason enough to go out of my way. But I know a lot of people who know Millet. I know a lot of people who are in that universe and I'm sure we'll be interacting with them. I'm much more important to me is to be able to influence the people who influence the people behind the scenes of Millet who can influence him. But also let's see what happens by April. We will see what happens by April. As I've said on a previous show, I'm happy to advise Millet, be a formal advisor, informal advisor, any way I can. If he's interested on being on the right track and actually liberating the Argentinian economy and doing it right, I'm worried. I'm worried. He's bringing a lot of people from the old Macri administration who were not good. And he's bringing them into this administration and that means he's compromising and he's moving. He's moving to the center. And that is disappointing. That is disappointing. All right, James says, Jordan Peterson has been great on Israel, but terrible on Ukraine. Why is this? Because he thinks Russia is part of Western civilization. Russia is Christian. That's a huge plus. Anti-Slam pro-Christian. So Jordan Peterson is going to be for anything that is part of kind of a Judeo-Christian tradition. Jordan Peterson admires the kind of mystical philosophy that undermines Russia, the kind of dug in post-modern mystical nationalist philosophy. Jordan Peterson seems sympathetic and favorably inclined towards it. I think they share a certain metaphysics and epistemology. Jordan Peterson is motivated by fear around Russia's capability for nuclear bomb or not capability, but the existence that they have nuclear bombs. Whereas Islam is clear. They're the other. They're a threat. They're not Christian. They're not European. They're anti-civilization. They're clearly barbarians. It's much clearer. It's much clearer. They don't have any philosophers who pretend to be Christian theologians, slash platonic, whatever, post-modernist, something. They're different, completely, utterly different. And it's easy to be against them because of their barbarism. So Jordan Peterson is going to be against them. But Russia's harder because they look like Europeans. And they share a certain philosophical background. They share religion. And for Jordan, as for a lot of people, what shapes Western civilization is religion. And the Russians are Christian. The Europeans are Christian. How big of a difference could they be between them? They must all be the same, basically. Sadly, that is part of Jordan Peterson's way of thinking about the world. Stephen, do you think Thanksgiving is an important day to really think about the people? You spend the time with, or is it a day to shut off your mind? It's never a day to shut off your mind. It's a day to think about and appreciate and be thankful for the productive people in your life, the people who make the quality and type of life that you have possible, yourself and the people around you, and also people more distant that make the goods and the things that you like and enjoy and want. And a day to appreciate the political system that makes it all possible. So I definitely think it's a day of appreciation and certainly not a day to shut your mind off. It's a day to contemplate what makes your life so good. To the extent that it is good. Michael says, I've been watching the young Turks commentary in Israel. Pretty disgusting, yeah. Why would they name their podcast after the group which committed the Armenian genocide? Well, because it was the group that, the young Turks, and I assume they named after this, the young Turks were, they came after the Ottoman Empire, was defeated by the British. They fought in order to establish a modern socialist, but secular republic. And Ataturk is a great hero of theirs, very anti-religious, prosecuted the Imams, the religious characters, banned religion for public life, not just separated religion for public life, banned it. And, you know, so they were, the young Turks were the bringers of modernity to Turkey. And I think were celebrated as such. So, and I guess Seneca is a Turk, is Turkish in his origins. And yeah, this was a revolutionary movement to bring modernity to a primitive Islamic world and to secularize it. And I think they associate themselves with that. I don't think, I don't think they associate with it the Armenian genocide. Stephen says, I might move to a new city soon. I live in South Bay of Los Angeles County now. So I want good weather and I can't afford that much. When the U.S. would you recommend? Well, I mean, you can't beat the weather in Southern California. So it depends what you will need to tolerate. But look, let's see, Austin, Texas is fantastic. The weather is not as good, but it certainly has a lot of other advantages, including low taxes and lower costs. Generally, Texas, Dallas is cheaper than California. And you can get a lot more for the money and you don't have the state tax. Jennifer mentions Tennessee, Tennessee, Nashville, but even other parts of Tennessee anyway from Memphis all the way to Gainesville. I think it's Gainesville. There's some beautiful places there. It's relatively cheap to live. And the weather is not bad. Denver, Denver is really nice. It's a beautiful place. A lot of objectivist activities going on there. It's really pretty. The mountains in the background, the weather is decent. It gets very cold, but it doesn't get as cold as you'd expect. And it doesn't snow much. And the snow usually melts pretty quickly. I, for one, don't like Florida, so I'm not recommending Florida. You can, you can, Florida is another one. Arizona, Phoenix, if you could tolerate the heat in the summer. So there's plenty of places. I mean, Seattle is, though Seattle is quite expensive these days. So a lot of different places around the country. David, several weeks ago you said you largely disagreed with the Sympter Lab. I've been working with the idea financial markets, a chaos at their core. Is that incorrect? How would you replace that idea? Yeah, I definitely think it's incorrect. Right? I don't think chaos is the right way to view it because there certainly is a logic and a rhythm to what's going on. It's not random or arbitrary, which I think was what chaos would suggest. Chaos theory might help understand certain aspects of the markets, but I don't think the markets are chaos. I would say, you know, I think, you know, markets behave like a random walk, but they're not random. The markets reflect accumulated knowledge of the people participating in the marketplace, and particularly the people who are trading at the margin. And they embed information into the markets, and the markets seem chaotic because information ebbs and flows. It comes and goes. The flow of information is constantly dynamic, and therefore prices are constantly being repriced. As there are changes in interest rates, changes in future expectations in terms of earnings, the changes on the probability of a session, everything's changing constantly. But again, I don't think the change in the financial markets is chaos. Indeed, it's quite the contrary. It's taking the chaos of the world out there. It's taking the chaos of the economy, the chaos of kind of the informational world out there, and it's putting a price on it. It's creating order out of the chaos. Stock markets are a way to bring order to chaotic amount and quantity of information. They embody, they concentrate a ton of, you know, a ton is too little, a gazillion amount of information. So they're actually creating order out of the chaos. Yes. And I'm not sure chaos is the right way to even think about it, but they're creating order out of a multitude of information that appears chaotic, and financial markets actually bring it into order by giving it a price, by concentrating that information into a price. All right, guys, 125 people watching. We're about $160 short of our goal. I'm sure we can make it. Troy is brought at home, so we're almost there. You guys can close it up and bring it home. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. Only 74 likes. I know you guys are more than 74 people out there who like the show, so please consider just pressing the like button. It doesn't cost you anything. It doesn't slow you down. It doesn't impede anything. Just press the like button. And, yeah, and get the algorithm to treat us more kindly. If you're not a subscriber yet to the show, please become a subscriber again. It helps the algorithm, and you'll be notified when I go live. And what else I want to do? Yeah, please consider those of you on here to become a monthly contributor on what do you call it, on Subscribestar, but Patreon and PayPal are the best platforms. PayPal through uranbookshow.com slash support. And, of course, you can still ask a question on the super chat or make a contribution through the sticker. Frank says, can Palestinians just live in Libya or Algeria? They can, but do they want to? Do Algeria and Libya want them? I mean, it's kind of easy to say it, but I mean, you're uprooting them from their homes and sending them to the middle of the desert and Libya and Algeria? And I'm sure the Libyans and Algerians don't necessarily want them. So, yeah, I mean, sure, they're all Arabs. You could treat them like that, but that's not how the world works. Black cat. As a future policy, now that Russia will be licking its wounds for several years, we should be pushing hard for the Europeans to rearm at the same time. Yeah, I agree. The problem with that is that Germany, which was committed to re-arming, was committed to increasing spending, has just hit an economic brick wall, is in a recession, but more than that, the Constitutional Court in Germany has ruled, German budgets is unconstitutional, which has immediately created a massive deficit between the plans that German governments had for the future and the reality. They're going to cut government spending left and right, and as a consequence, part of that cutting is going to be cuts to defense. Not only do I not expend military spending from Germany to increase, I think it's actually going to decrease or take good builders' win in the Netherlands, good builders, while Russia is not exactly supportive of Ukraine either, and is unlikely to support the Netherlands building up more of a military. The only country that's taking this really, really, really seriously, well, maybe not the only country, maybe the others, but the one that's clearly and explicitly and unequivocally is Poland, because Poland knows that it's on the target list. So Poland is building up its military. It will have the largest military in Europe when it's done. It's pretty admirable the amount of money and resources that they're putting into defending themselves. All right, clearly flawed. Gale, clearly flawed. Gale, I.A.N.s, Cook, and Meribins. Thank you all for the support. Really, really appreciate it. All right, Richard, you mentioned you would participate in the beta panel with James Lindsay. Did you ever happen? If so, where can I find it? I was supposed to, my interview with Dave Rubin was supposed to be me and James Lindsay and Dave, and then Dave decided to do the interviews one-on-one. Now my interview with Dave is on Dave's website. I've tweeted it, but it kind of, it hasn't really got a lot of attention. But if you go to Dave's website, you'll find my interview with Dave. And then there's also the interview with James Lindsay with Dave. They were done separately instead of us together. Howard. Why did Egypt not want Gaza back along with Sinai? Because they didn't want Palestinians. Because they knew it was a powder keg. Because they didn't want the hassle of that many people in, you know, to become Egyptians. You know, they knew that it was, that they were inclined towards terrorism, that they were inclined towards violence, that they were ideologically, you know, I think the Egyptian authorities figure that most Egyptians are kind of too stupid, too uneducated, too ignorant to know what's really going on in the world and they can put one over on them over and over and over again. Palestinians are more attuned to the world and they're not going to let the Egyptians get away with it. They were demanded all kinds of things the Egyptians didn't want. The Muslim Brotherhood was very strong in the Gaza Strip. They didn't want Muslim Brotherhood. They have enough of those in Egypt. It's an enemy of the Egyptian regime. They're troublemakers and they didn't want the trouble. Rob, what's Afghanistan field a good team in a cricket World Cup? Highlighted the tragic loss of human potential. Theocracies are responsible for so many young people who could have done amazing things with their lives. Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, when you saw in the Afghan, Afghans who helped the Americans, the Afghan girls who went to school, the Afghan women who worked for Western NGOs, the Afghans who managed to escape Afghanistan and came to the West, there's a massive amount of human potential there. Massive amounts of human potential there. And it's tragic and sad what theocracies, authoritarian regimes more broadly do to that human potential. Think of the human potential in Russia. Think of the human potential in Iran. Iran has some of the smartest people anyway. And it's just awful, awful. Ed, with almost all Palestinians in South Gaza, how do you think Israel will destroy Hamas with a present strategy to kill as few civilians as possible? The two seem incompatible. I think it's going to be tricky. I think they'll keep squeezing them into smaller and smaller area within Gaza. Maybe at some point they'll shift them up north. Maybe at some point they'll build a refugee camp inside Israel on the other side of the Gaza border to house some of them as they sweep through other neighborhoods. Maybe they'll convince the Egyptians to do that. It really is hard to tell, but I think they viewed the key to destroying Hamas the north for whatever reasons, they obviously have the intelligence, I don't, that if they could get the north, if they could completely clean out the north, that would be such a blow to Hamas that it would be easy to deal with them in the south. Not clear if that's going to work out the way they thought it would, but we'll see. Maybe once they clear out the north completely, they send all the people from the south to the north. It's going to be interesting to watch. But this is the kind of convoluted things that they have to do in order to not, God forbid, kill any civilians. All right, we're just $85 short. Somebody should step in and get us over the top. All right, Ian, I appreciate your show you're on and it's pronounced Judo. What is pronounced Judo? Judeo, Judeo Christian. Judeo, Judeo Christian. Judeo Christian. I'm not sure how I'm pronouncing it. Judo, Judeo, Judeo Christian. Thank you. Yes, it is pronounced Judeo. I couldn't figure out what it is that I was supposed to pronounce, but that makes it easier. Judeo Christian. Judeo Christian. Yeah, I'm glad to see people like knowing Psycho speak. That's good. Ignore him. That is the best strategy with Psycho and his ilk. All right, let's see. Miguel. You're on. Shouldn't we lay suppress this personality of a showman? He was always like that. Watch one of his talks of his and most likely that one in person to see. No, I don't think you should suppress it. I just hope that there is, and by the way, that was Miguel's first super chat on the live stream. So thank you, Miguel. It was, it was, I just hope that behind the showman, there was real substance. I hope that behind the showman, there is a real consideration and a thoughtfulness that will, you know, and a backbone that will actually help him execute on all the things that he has said and all the promises he has made. I worry, I worry, right? That it's also, and the content is not there, right? As I said this morning, he's already basically sidelined his two most important advisors. He's bringing in moderates from Mark. How do you pronounce it? Macri's government from who did nothing, who achieved nothing. I'm really, really, I was excited and now I'm getting really, really worried. The more I hear he's now backing off dollarization, dollarizing the economy, I'm worried. I mean, I'm willing to give him as much time as he takes, but just the news this morning was not good of the kind of choices he's making. The finance minister is a guy who is Macri's finance minister. That's not a good choice. You've got to get a revolutionary in there as finance minister. He's backing off his promises about the central bank. He's, you know, he's backing off his promises about the dollarizing economy, the guy who he wanted to appoint, who was going to appoint the head of the central bank, who said he would do it only under condition that he would get to unwind the central bank to end it. Basically now says he won't join the central bank because he's not convinced Millay will follow through and shutting it down. Now, I hope all this is wrong. I hope this is all fake news, but it's coming from reliable sources. So I'm worried. But it doesn't surprise me, right? Because it just doesn't surprise me. So I hope Millay is for real. Applejack815, thank you for the support. All right, guys, we got to get the likes up. They should be well over 100 likes. So please like the show. Don't cost you anything. And yet they increase the visibility of the show dramatically. They have the potential to increase subscribers. Also, please subscribe to the Iran Book Show if you're not a subscriber already. So like, subscribe, share, comment, whatever, tweet. And please support the show. You can support the show right here on the Super Chat. We're only $80 away from our target, which is not a lot. But you can also support the show with a monthly contribution on Patreon. Patreon is a great platform for that. And PayPal, you can do it in your bookshow.com. Patreon seems to be easier. Just go on there, fill in it a little bit. Bang, you're done. If you want to support other people on Patreon, the other people you can support all on one platform, very, very easy. Please consider doing that. And I will see you all tomorrow. Tomorrow we've got to ask me anything show. At 2 p.m. East Coast time, we'll have a panel of $25 or more supporters. Live, we'll also have Super Chats. You can ask any questions you want. And we'll move forward. Miguel asked another question. In Ecuador, we already experienced a president that doesn't ally himself with the opposition. Unfortunately, we can't do anything without that. So you have a radical president who can't get anything done because he can't get it through Parliament. I get that. I get that Belay has to work with the center right. But he can't, if he gives it, even if before he starts, he gives up on his most radical proposals, then it's going to be very difficult for them then to get anything from them. He has to start radical and start there and compromise from there rather than right on day one, give up a bunch of the most important, the most radical positions. But I understand, you know, this is why I've always said the solution is not politics. The solution is cultural. You need to change the culture first. And what happens when you get into power and the culture is not with you, then it's almost impossible to pass the kind of laws to do the kind of things necessary in order to achieve what you need to achieve. All right, guys. I will see you tomorrow. And bye, everybody.