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So Victor, we had first the Canadian elections.

So I wanted to just give you a chance to reflect on those first, and then we'll go to the polls.

There's a lot of complexities to that, Mr.

Polyev.

Polyev?

Polyev?

I've been corrected so many times.

So he lost, he not only lost his party, the Conservative, not only lost the election, he lost the seat.

So he will not be in the Canadian Parliament.

And the traditional exegesis exegesis is that Donald Trump so offended the Canadians by suggesting that Trudeau was ripping us off for $60 to $100 billion a year and that they might as well become a 51st state since they're not spending enough to defend themselves in the real world and they rely on us for trade surpluses and

defense.

And that offended Canadian nationality.

So it put Polyev in a terrible position because he either had to say that Donald Trump was a fellow conservative and he supported him, and if he did that, then he was anti-Canadian, or he had to oppose Donald Trump.

And if he opposed Donald Trump, he was doing exactly what Carney did.

So there was no distinction.

So he struggled with making that distinction.

He had a huge lead.

The fallout is, though,

that

I don't see that they have

a lot of cards to play because they're doubling down on Trudeauism.

If you look at the Wall Street Journal pointed out, I think today

in an editorial that had some problems with it, I think, but nevertheless, they pointed out during the Trudeau years, their total GDP over all those years grew at about one quarter of the United States.

So that statism and huge, and they're going to huge

bureaucracy, deficits, state health care, all of that, when you add in open borders, which they're to welcome you.

They're in bad shape.

And if people hate, everybody says, well, the Canadians hate us now, well, we're having record immigration from Canada.

Thousands, and they're not just anybody, they're the most gifted, educated, and skilled people are leaving.

It's a big drain because this system doesn't work.

So that was what was tragic about it, that they had a candidate that knew that, and he was similar in attitude.

I think Trump's idea was: Canada's got so many existential differences with us, it'll be hard for me to work with a person who's Canadian, whom I like, and agrees with me, because I want to disagree with him.

And he's in Carney's an easy target.

I don't approve of that, but I think that was a lot logic.

The other irony is this is really ironic.

So,

everybody knows this, and I think all of our listeners are bewildered by it.

The subtext, or maybe even the dominant theme of the whole election was Canadian, oh, Canada, Canadian nationalism, right?

We're not going to bend the knee before America.

So, who do they get?

A native Canadian?

Well, they're both native Canadians, but Mr.

Carney,

I think as I'm speaking, he's trying to backpedal and renounce.

He is a citizen of Ireland.

He's a citizen of Great Britain.

And he's a citizen of Canada, where he was born.

He was the head of the Bank of Canada, but he was also the first foreigner to be the head of the Bank of England.

He resided in England for a long, long time.

He is a globalist.

He was a Goldman Sachs executive.

He was on a UN directorship of climate change.

He spent

What I'm saying is he's a citizen of nowhere and everywhere.

He has no sense of identity.

He just came back to Canada not too long ago.

And he's still a citizen of three different countries.

And he is supposed to be the iconic nationalist and die-hard Canadian true blood.

And it doesn't.

Mr.

Pouleev

had far better Canadian credentials.

And that's kind of an irony.

You know.

And the other final thing is this trade war that's heating up and all of that.

We talk about, as I said, 70 nations.

We're just talking about, I don't know, five to seven.

We don't need 70 nations and Canada is one of them.

What do I mean by that is if you add up the $300

billion

Communist Chinese trade surplus, the 230 EU,

the 200, maybe it's a little higher, maybe 220 from the ASEAN nations, that's Vietnam, you know,

Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore.

And then you add up in addition to that,

so you have the EU, the ACN, then you add up Canada, 170, I mean, excuse me, 63 billion in goods, and

Mexico, 171,

and then you just have two or three others, Taiwan,

South Korea, and Japan, and that gets you about 150, 100.

That's it.

So all we have to do is get those nations.

That's why Trump is so exasperated.

The Wall Street Journal said this is very dangerous because

with our Canada, because we depend on them for so much.

I don't think that's true.

You know what they mentioned?

Fertilizer, timber,

car parts, and oil.

Well, California's got, I think, the fourth largest forestry, and we're not even using it.

We've driven out all but two timber.

If you told the timber industry, we're not importing Canadian logs.

Can you supply us?

They would be so happy.

They would go crazy doing it.

If you told the nitrogen industry, do you Americans know how to make nitrogen fertilizer?

Yes, we do.

We invented it almost along with the Swedes and the people.

So they could do that very easily.

If you say, do you Americans know how to produce cars?

Down there in Tennessee, can you build a car?

Yes, we can.

Can you pump another, but we're going to be short

4 million barrels a day.

Can you get some more oil, maybe open animal again?

More offshore?

Yes, we can.

So that's what's tragic.

I like Canadians, but this idea that the Wall Street Journal that we're going to get in a trade war, then everything's going to be terrible.

We can't find these key.

Trump was right about that.

He said it in a crude fashion, but when he said they don't have anything that we can't do.

And so I wish they knew that.

And all they had to do was get a little thicker skin and say, Trump is a wheeler-dealer, art of the deal, and go to Trump and say the following.

We will spend 2%.

Carney said, yes, we'll make our deal.

We'll spend 2%, but it's going to take until 2030.

And I'm thinking, well, you promised in 2014.

So you broke your promise for, you've already broke your promise for 11 years, and now you're saying, give us five more years.

And he was pursuing climate change, and then it's going to cost $41 billion.

So you say, well, it's going to cost $41 billion.

Just cut your deficit down.

And maybe we'll give you a break.

But why do you have to do this?

And And so I don't know.

I got reprimanded in email by a number of people and they said, Victor, Victor, Victor, you're not an economist.

I heard that so much.

You know, I went, I did some debates lately.

I gave a talk and people talked on the ancient world and I grimaced.

Because I spent my whole life, I wrote 15 books on it.

I think I could say that I read Latin and Greek almost as well as English.

Not Greek, I'm not Latin, but Greek.

But my point is this, I'm not trying to brag, but when I hear people weigh in on the ancient world, I don't say, just a minute, you're not a classicist.

I want them to weigh in.

It gives interest to the ancient world, but my point is that all these people said you were at fault because you were talking about trade deficits and it says in goods.

Yes, and you go to any online table from any economic data, organization, or institution, it says trade deficit.

And it doesn't say trade deficit in goods and not services.

And the other thing is, they're a little bit different.

Just because the trade deficit in services enriches one part of the economy in a way that's not quite true of a trade deficit, a surplus or deficit, it doesn't affect it in the same way as goods.

If you tell the average worker, would you rather have a surplus in financial services

or would you rather have it in assembly line products?

I think you know what the answer is.

And so stay in your lane.

I don't, I'm not going to stay in my lane.

I like that.

Victor rebel.

Rebel against the people.

I don't get in my lane all the time.

I never say a word.

I have colleagues, I have friends that weigh in on the ancient world.

And I just, as I said, I grimace.

They're so crazy.

One of my close friends said that we're in the end of, this is like the end of the Roman Republic, that Octavian is, Augustus is Trump.

And I thought, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

The Roman Republic was starting to fall apart a hundred years almost earlier under Marius and Sulla.

It started to fall apart because unlike us, they had imperial possessions all over the European and Asian subcontinent and North African subcontinent, and these provinces were the source of massive amounts of slaves, but also great wealth.

And

territorial governors found themselves with more money and more people and greater army recruitment.

And they marched on Rome.

Because to be, you know, that was the whole story of Crassus, and that was the story of Caesar, and that was the story later of Antony, and it was the story of Pompey.

They all had made their fortunes and names outside of Rome in military campaigns, going back to Sulla and Marius.

And when you bring in battle-hardened veterans with a lot of money from the provinces, and the Senate says, Cicero and Cato say,

no, no, no, put those away.

They don't.

It's just, Augustus was the tail end.

He was the reification of something that had been going on for years.

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So, Victor, let's turn then to the polls.

And

the

Real Clear Politics had an article by Kudlow.

I forget Kudlow's first name, the Fox News guy, Larry Kudlow.

I like Larry Kudlow.

I've been on the show a lot, and he's very, I like him.

Especially since Greg Gutfield makes so much fun of him.

He makes him more endurable.

Are they good friends?

Is that just

as a friend?

Yeah, I understood that.

You know, he had a slight heart attack in the first administration, but

he's

I like the word he uses all the time, king dollar.

Let's get back to king dollar.

Well, what I liked about his word in this article was he kept saying phony polls, and he did look at some polls by ABC, Washington Post and Ipso, and he said that their polled group of people was only

37% Republican voters.

So it was low on that side.

But there were two other things in the polls broadly.

So if you would like to address seven.

Oh, okay.

Well, I mean, the Washington Post wasn't too bad.

It was off, I don't know, three or four points.

But what they basically did was they wanted to show that Trump's 100 days are creating a massive backlash.

And so what they did was they looked at the 2024 results in which Trump won by a million and a half and one and a half points roughly, and rather than poll people who turned out to vote and give a little edge to the Trump,

slightly in some, but largely in others,

polled people more that voted for Harris.

What did you expect?

And then they polled people that didn't even show up to vote.

And of course,

there's an argument, but most traditional exegesis said that people who don't show up for go, that's what the left says, that they're mostly to the left side of the ledger.

And then, so he did quote Mark Penn.

Mark Penn's a Democratic pollster, conservative democratic pollster, and he has Trump dead even.

The other thing is, there's two things I think that are saving Trump.

And one is, what is the alternative?

Is the alternative open borders and 12 more illegal aliens?

Is it more Obrego Garcias?

Is it a Democratic Party that is reduced to potty, smutty-mouthed videos?

Is it ad Hitler, ad Hitlerium, reducto, ad Hitlerium argumentation?

Oh, he's a fascist.

I don't like to mention he's a Nazi algorithm, that kind of stuff.

And the F word, the S-H-I word.

You know, we try not to use that on this.

podcast.

I think it's very important.

Another op-ed, it's a good one.

I think Matthew Hennessy wrote it today.

Everybody has to,

we're getting a greater crudity in the culture.

And so you don't want to use that pornographic or

type of speech, similes, metaphors, if you can help it.

And that's what the Democrats think there's going to appeal to people.

Or they have the phony filibusters, or they kick back

videos, or they're almost threatening violence.

Did you see Governor Pritzer and Eleanor?

Yeah.

I was going to ask you about that.

He said that he doesn't really believe in disruption.

and we had a judge try to civil disobedience.

We'll get to that about David.

But Pritzker then started saying this was about defending against tyrants and traitors, and he did call for we've got to get out there and disrupt things.

With all due respect, I'm not fat-shaming him, but when he calls for near-violence and disruption, I don't think I can see him on the street battling successfully against anybody.

He's worth about $4 billion that he inherited, and he thinks he's a man of the people.

And he spent, I think he was one of the, I don't know, six or seven largest Democratic donors.

When they talk about the oligarchs, they being Sanders and AOC, and when you start to look at what the Sorrels people gave, and

Michael Bloomberg gave, and Pritzer gave, and Reed Hastings, and Reed Hoffman,

the money was overwhelmingly left-wing.

Overwhelming.

And for this idea that

oligarchs, they've always been in the pocket of oligarchs.

That's what's so, that's what's so strange about it.

And this call for near violence and take Elon out, it's just, that's the alternative.

And then if you look at what you say, well, Victor, that was just their mechanics, that's their methodology, that's their theatrics.

Look at the issues.

Okay, do you want another Afghanistan pull out?

Do you want the why are the Houthis suddenly not attacking Red Sea shipping?

Why would we have 500,000 criminals?

You want to go back to that again?

Get Biden to say, you know, I want a retake on that.

I'm AOC.

I'm going to run.

I'm going to get a million criminals.

Let's get 20 million illegal aid.

Is that the idea?

Let's shut down not just ANWAR and new leases.

Let's shut down all of them.

So there is no alternative.

And the success or failure of the first 100 days of the Trump counter-revolution will basically hinge on the status of the economy right before the midterms, about 16 or 17 months from now.

And if it doesn't, it's not in recession, he's going to do pretty well.

And he might even retain the House.

I think he will.

But it's very important to be on the.

I don't know how to say this without sounding like Dudley Dewight.

Remember that cartoon?

Yes, I do.

Who is the most self-righteous person in Markham politics today?

Pete Budigi?

Al Gore always takes the cake on.

Al Gore, he's like, you know,

it's not my tendency to compare people to Hitler, but I'm going to do it.

And I'm saying, you pathological liar, you call George Bush the head of a bunch of digital brown shirts.

You know, you called Bush Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.

But anyway,

I don't want to be too sanctimonious, but as long as there's a moral ledger, and Trump is on the right side of the moral ledger, he will be fine.

So is it moral or amoral to have a

sovereign border?

Is it moral or amoral to have legal-only immigration?

Is it moral or amoral to enforce the law equitably among everybody and not twist it and wage lawfare?

Is it moral or amoral to have a deterrent foreign policy to protect the interests of American allies and ourselves?

In other words, you don't want two theater wars on your watch, like the Middle East and Ukraine.

Is it moral or amoral to

look at the world's trading system and say, can't we just have a little parity?

Can't we have a little reciprocity?

We're not stupid.

You people think that the United States either is naive and thinks that trade deficits don't matter or they're good.

Well, maybe some people do it, but most Americans don't.

We just want to be treated the way you are.

So, on all these questions, and the universities,

if the universities are taking an aggregate $60 billion from the likes of China the last 30 years and Qatar, and they're illiberal, and they're partnering with their illiberal institutions abroad, which they are, and they're hiding it, if they're trying to go around the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action and still use race-based segregation and preferences and graduations, dorms, hiring, admissions, retention, changing, yes.

Are they using the student loan 1.7 guaranteed trillion dollars of student portfolios to raise the cost of tuition enrollment board higher than the rate of annual inflation?

Yes.

Yes, they are.

Or do they enforce the

do they provide guest lecturers and students the protections under the First Amendment?

No, they don't.

Do they apply the law equitably?

So if a white male is accused of hate speech or sexual harassment, is he getting the same due process as somebody that goes into Columbia and trashes a whole building and violence?

No,

no, he's not.

So, my point is that as long as he's on that fight, he's on the right side.

The only thing that he's got to be careful about, I keep beating this dead horse.

Tariffs, the American people have weighed in.

They want them reciprocal.

They would like no tariffs because they think we can compete fine.

But if you're going to have tariffs for their tit, we want a tat.

And we want our surplus to go down from 1.2 trillion to some mere billions.

Okay, but they do not believe, they don't think we should tariff Israel or Australia or the UK that are running deficits with us.

They don't want a 15% tariff on everybody just to raise money.

We only raise somewhere between 75 and 180 billion per year out of $5.5 trillion in revenue.

And Trump says that, and I understand what he's saying,

but he wants to lessen the burden on income taxpayers.

But right now, 40% of the American people don't pay any income tax whatsoever.

Most of them get a credit.

So it's not

if he wants to, he doesn't want to, I mean, people in the party, the MAGA movement, want to put taxes on millionaires, million-dollar income.

But my point is this: as long as he stays there and says reciprocity,

symmetry, fairness, let's let's reduce it all and all just treat each other the same.

But if he thinks, ah, I'm going to keep, I'm going to tariff all these countries and I'm going to get, I don't know, he said a trillion dollars, two trillion over the decade.

If you do the math, we're still only getting $100 to $200 billion.

That's still not enough.

The data doesn't support it, but the moral argument is not there to tariff everybody to get a bunch of money.

It'll come off to the American people like we're gouging and we're trying to profit out of trade.

We all profit, but we do it equitably and symmetrically.

We will lose the moral high ground if we tariff countries in a way that

they do to us.

We don't want to go down to their level.

We only reply to their level and say, we don't like what we're doing, but we have to do it because you don't play by the rules.

But if we don't play by the rules, or we're trying to gouge people, it's not going to work.

I wish he would just, he doesn't have to say we're not going to get any revenue.

He just

tone it down.

Just say, you know, there'll be some revenue, but we're not going to depend on it.

Well, since you mentioned that,

I think that your point is that they can create the image that Trump is trying to gouge if he puts out the rhetoric that way.

And to go back to our polls,

the Fox News poll showed that 92%, not poll, sorry, but 92%

of the news about Trump

was negative.

That was network news.

And I want to get one of the poll statistics in here, too.

72%, according to Ras Mutin, of

Americans think that they're in a fascist dictatorship.

Oh, sorry, of Democrats think they're in a fascist dictatorship.

So my point there is that the media is still at the same game, and Trump risks them winning with these negative

issues on what I'm trying to say I think what you're saying and what I would like to say is that given all the negative media and given the history of presidential polling in the 2016 2020 and 2024 footnote four days before the 2024 election the NPR

poll had Harris winning by four points right before the election the day before excuse me not four days the day before by four points

and she lost by a point and a half so they were five and a half points off don't I don't even want to get into the Des Moines registered fiasco but my point is that these polls are not reliable the Republican conservative polls have Trump either equal or down two or three, not eight and nine.

But what they do is they try to get some outrageous poll by asking known non-Trump voters in the majority.

majority, and then they think that when you aggregate all the polls, it'll bring the whole average down one or two points, and it does.

And yet, so I don't think the polls are an accurate assessment, and then the media is completely negative.

And

it's not just the network news.

I read the

Wall Street Journal, I read a lot of the National Review,

it's coming from the right as well, and they can't say a good thing, anything.

They'll say, well, the border was closed, but,

or deportations were necessary, but

or

he's spending,

he's increasing the defense budget is where we need, but.

They're cutting, but.

It's always, they can't just give an open-handed,

and that's because they have a personal dislike of Donald Trump, and they don't understand him.

They still don't understand him.

I'm not defending everything he does, but when he says they rip us off, the country's a rip-off artist, or it's fantastic, we're going to get billions and beautiful tariffs, you know what I mean?

They can't handle that.

It's not sober and judicious.

But what is sober and judicious?

Is it lying

for four years about Joe Biden's mental dementia?

Is it trying to put a waxen effigy up as president and then manipulate him like the Obama crowd did?

So

I don't know.

I don't quite, I have a lot of friends in these types of conservative media, but

I think they would like to see him fail and discredit the MAGA movement and then return the party back to the McCain-Romney Bush wing.

I like George W.

Bush.

I'm not attacking him.

And I think the subtext is, well, we're going to play by the Marcus of Queensbury rules and lose nobly, and we do not want to win ugly.

We tried that with Lee Otwater and George H.W.

Bush and it worked, but we had to pay penance by losing to Clinton in 1992.

That's their attitude.

No more Willie Horton ads, no more Boston Harbor ads, no more Dukakis tank ads.

Those were too mean.

Yeah.

Well, we're going to go to a break, but since we're there, I have

reader, I mean,

people who have been watching our podcasts on YouTube.

And since Victor already went there, I have other ones for the end of the show.

But this one was from Vivian Watt Rosen, 8378.

And she said about that issue: I don't see the Republicans losing any time soon.

Their sweeping changes cover the whole of America.

The Democrats can only win by cheating and lying.

The public are more aware of that than ever.

The Republicans will be in for at least 30 years.

Thank you, Vivian.

I liked your opinion on that.

That's like that scene in what movie was it when

the recruit is slapped by the sergeant?

Thanks, Serge.

I needed that.

Thank you for the slap of reminder.

Yes,

I don't know why anybody would vote for a party that is so foul-mouthed and so duplicitous and gave us everything from collusion to laptop disinformation to axios ping

to the COVID virus was birthed by a pangolin and a bat

to

one vaccination good, two better, seven boosters gives you complete protection from being infectious or infected, all that stuff.

No, I don't think so.

Yeah,

I hope Vivian is right and I agree with her on everything.

I think that's a great show with Damon, the woman.

Homie, don't do that.

That was a great show.

All right, Victor, let's go to a break, and then we'll come back and talk a little bit.

I have one more.

Oh, no, and we'll come back and talk about Bill Belichick.

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Yeah, it's been crazy.

Nice.

It's been very crazy.

And my email shows it.

As I said, I'm kind of remorseful because I can't reply to anybody like I used to.

Yeah.

Well,

too many.

Well, Victor and and Bill Belichick,

who has six

Super Bowls winning under his

seven or eight

as part of the coaching staff.

He recently

appearances, too.

He was the most successful modern football coach.

Might not have been the best, but he was the most successful.

And now he has a new girlfriend, and they were interviewing her.

What is that her name?

Jordan.

Jordan Hudson.

Hudson.

Yes.

And

Bill was in an interview with CBS Sunday morning, and he was asked how they met, and

he didn't want to answer it, but she didn't want him to answer it either.

And so there's been a lot of news on that.

The poor guy is, she's

24, and he is 72.

It's a common phenomenon, but it's got so many ramifications.

When we males turn 60,

and if I'm not in that category but if I've watched these males who become they're celebrities or they have money or they have influence

and maybe they're divorced or single by then and then a young attractive woman and the age difference is usually 20 30 how how many years is this 40

some 40 years just short of 40 years 40 years

and then a younger woman not not all some of them really like the people and they want to help them in their health crises and but many

many of them then absorb their whole person's life and they control them, like that interview where she was telling

Sunday morning interviewer, don't do this and we're not going to talk about it.

What is she doing?

I think she used to run a sex toy shop.

And she has these weird

pictures where she's dressed up as a mermaid and he's a fisherman that caught her.

And

they've done all these little internet stunts.

But

you want want to tell him,

I mean, I've had people I know really well in their 70s and 80s.

I had one of the most wonderful fathers

in the world.

I think I was blessed.

But when my mother died far too early,

he never really, as solace, he would go down to a local restaurant by himself, and there would be a bar.

And one time, the bartender called me, who was a family friend, and said,

Victor, can you come down here?

There's some younger woman talking to my your father and he's had a few

he wasn't at all intoxicated.

So I drove down there about midnight.

I said, hey, dad, what's going on?

And he was about 73 and she was about 25 and she was sitting there.

And I'm just talking to this young woman.

And then she got up.

I said, could I talk to my dad?

I said, well, why do you think she's talking to him?

Because she wants my little pathetic pension and she wants my pathetic condo and she wants to,

our little money-losing ranch she wants that because she's talked all about I'm not dumb Victor what do you think I'm doing here I'm just trying to calm down and he was really good about it but he understood that and he looked a lot better than I did at 71 so my point is that that happens to I don't know what it is about the male ego that the older you get if for some reason youthful attractive women would show an interest in you you don't think it is because you might have money or you know you could it was a quid pro quo good deal where a young woman thinks I can just

I can just sidestep the whole, marry somebody roughly within my generation, work together, buy a house, get in debt, all that.

I can just, boom,

I've got everything.

And then it usually ends ugly because then the family thinks that they're trying to appropriate the it doesn't, it's not a good look, it's not good.

Do you remember Casey Kasim?

He had he but he was married to the second wife for a long time, but she still tried to steal him from his children.

And when he died,

or when he was getting close to death,

she hid him up in Washington State, and then they had to send out investigators to kind of.

I don't know what the name of that show was.

It was the

top 40 something or the top 100 hits.

I can't remember.

But he got it from 1989 to 1999.

I liked him, too.

They still play his show on

Sundays on some of the.

But I can't remember the attitude of his,

you know, his family.

That's what I was looking at.

The courts ruled in their favor.

And that's what I found interesting.

That when

they ruled that they had visiting rights with their father when he was in the hospital.

And they had another ruling that was in favor of his children, and that was a very strange case, nonetheless.

Yeah, I was just looking.

He was that American McBan, all that kind of thing.

But you know who else that happened to?

I was thinking of it.

The X-1, the great pilot Chuck Yeager.

He had kind of a foundation, he was in great shape, and his wife died.

He was very close.

He'd been married to her, and then his family kind of had the foundation, and he married a much younger woman, and that turned really ugly.

It really did.

So

it happens.

I don't

I mean

if hey you guys out there, I'm 71.

If you're 71 and somebody 30 years old wants to talk to you and go out on a date,

it's for reasons other than the way we look or talk.

There you go.

Although there are there are cases where I know people.

I met a lot of of the donor class where I work where I've met, you know, 30-year differences, and they're very happy.

But

I have a good friend that

probably 30 years, and they're happy.

They've had kids and everything.

So I don't want to prejudge it.

Some people out there are listening.

But in this case, it's kind of manipulative.

Yeah, it sure seems like it after that interview.

So wasn't Chuck Yeager's as well.

Well, let's turn then, make a big turn to international things going on.

And recently in Spain and southern France and Portugal, they had

recently this

Monday, they had a massive power outage that shut down transportation and communication.

And I was wondering your thoughts on the

Spain outage.

They had just boasted,

given on their sunny days of spring, that they had reached a iconic moment where they had 97% of all their power was wind and solar solar that day, that day.

But what they didn't tell you was, how about that night?

So the problem with wind and solar is it was always

designed as an auxiliary source because it cannot store power.

It cannot surge the grid.

It's not always it's kind of like a pressure tank on your pump.

You always need that pressure there.

But it would be as if you're going to use your hose in your yard while the windmill is pumping, you know.

We used to have a windmill here.

My grandparents would tell me that when the people took too many showers and they had a big tank on the waterhouse and it wasn't windy,

there was no water.

And so when there's no sun or there's not sufficient sun or wind, then there's no backup.

So it's fine if you have nuclear gas powered natural gas or oil or coal.

And they don't.

They only have like 11 or 15 percent of 11 of one, three of the other, four of another.

So it shuts down.

The other thing is that

I get terrified of the EU paradigm because to me it's brave new, Ottilus Huxley's brave new world or it's Orwellian,

dystopian, and it's all heaven on earth thinking.

And if they had their, look what they did to Germany.

They destroyed their power grid.

They destroyed their electricity.

They destroyed their competitiveness.

They destroyed their borders.

Remember Merkel, every time they said, we've got all this crime coming in from Middle East countries and we

yes we can.

Yes we can.

That was just a nonsensical nihilist answer.

But when you looked at this shutdown in Portugal

and Spain, I don't think they were going to get out of it unless they imported

nuclear power.

from France.

And they did.

And then France had a touch of it as well.

But the point is, look at their paradigm that they were.

All their electric trains stopped, their high-speed rail, because they had no power.

And all the people in their beautiful, ecologically sound, what the left wants to do here, high-rises, they couldn't get, the elevators stopped.

And a lot of the electric buses stopped.

And so my point is that everybody ridicules the American dispersal program.

It's not efficient.

It's too much of a carbon.

But the idea of a ranch home where you have at least one or two cars that are gas-powered with different sources,

and

especially out here in the country where you can, you know, if the grid goes down, you have ways of, you know, you have firewood

for heat or

you can always, you know, I have a hand pump.

I don't know if it's, you know, on a well.

an old well, it's probably dry by now.

Never know, every spring it kind of fills up a little bit.

But my point point I'm making is you want your citizenry to be autonomous and self-reliant.

And you don't want them to be bees in a honeyhive.

And then somebody can destroy the source of fuel.

And they're all gone.

And they're all dependent.

And it also creates a psychological idea of dependency.

Every time I go to New York,

I think to myself,

Where does all the food come today?

Where does all the water come?

Where's all the power come?

Where's all the sewage go?

You you know what I mean?

Where's the gasoline come?

Because you feel so vulnerable that you're dependent on thousands of people that have to do a perfect job.

But it's much better to have a large portion of the citizenry at least able to cope, self-reliant.

And it makes a different type of citizen profile.

That was what the founders thought.

That was why they were agrarian, because they thought it was the one type of occupation

that was noble because it produced food, but more importantly, it had so many skill sets that would allow the citizen to be independent.

He had to know how to heat himself, he made his own clothes, he ate his own food, and you couldn't really intimidate him or scare him by

cutting off his service or something.

That was the whole idea

in Greece.

They had a word for it, autarchaia, means self-sufficiency.

And that's right.

used often in association with autonomia.

That means political independence because you're economically self self-sufficient.

Didn't they have to reboot the Spanish electrical system with the French nuclear electricity?

That's it.

I think they had to help it give a little start.

They had all the things they thought were not so important.

I think they have 11% of their power as nuclear or I think they had to take the nuclear plants offline because they didn't have power.

They were worried about the cooling and stuff.

And because if they turned them on, the power would go right into the grid and they would be endlessly lost.

Grids are like plumbing systems, you know, they have to have pressure and surge, I think they call it.

So if you don't have the surge, and that requires

an ability of more than 100%.

You have to have 120%, 130, because if you start having outages, you surge in to keep that grid voltage at a workable level.

But when you're relying on just these two backup sources, that's what they are, solar and wind, and they collapse, then how do you get the stuff in there to reboot it?

Because it's just going to go filter all.

It's like your artery and vein system.

If you lose all this blood, you just can't put a pint in and think you're going to wake up.

It goes all through your body.

You've got to maintain, get the blood pressure up to, I don't know, 60 over 40 or something to get it into the brain to start rebooting again.

And that's what this was.

They had no brain because there was no way to get that surge up to a sufficient level to start the system to reboot.

And they knew it.

They knew it.

They had been told that again and again and again.

And again, I think everybody realizes

that is one of the greatest dangers to modern society is what I would call the commissariat.

And that is an ideological belief system that defies reality and rationalism and is imposed on people for supposedly superior moral reasons.

And my gosh, it's dangerous.

We saw that in Soviet Russia, where military decisions in 1941 and the Red Army were based on ideological purity and not strategy and tactics.

And the same thing is true with DEI.

That's the scariest thing about DEI, that you're using criteria that are not merit-based in some cases, and you

don't know what you're going to get.

And the other thing about it is it creates

an evangelical commissariat, an ideological purity when they're imposed.

They're kind of evangelical.

I don't mean that in a religious sense.

I mean it in the Greek sense, u angelos, that's the word for

trying to sway or to announce or to pronounce a belief system, any belief system.

It can be secular in the ancient world.

But anyway, my point is that when you have those belief systems, then the people are not accountable because they think that if I'm pure on ideology, if I'm pure on DEI, if I'm in the office working pool and I've missed my deadlines, but I'm on the right side of the DI, I'll get a pass.

And it creates in the person themselves that are a beneficiary of DI

a less urgent appeal, a less urgent catalyst, a less urgent you know, desire to compete with people merucratically because you always fall back and say

you don't like me because you're racist you don't like me because you're sexist you're homophobic and otherwise when you don't have that you just go out and compete yeah maybe I don't know for sure but that helicopter that ran in the airport we know for sure yeah we're we were it's inexplicable that they told her to make a turn away from the running runway corridor she didn't do it and then they had repeatedly

told her to alter her altitude that was in the radio transmitter, and she didn't do it.

And either she froze and she panicked, or she felt that maybe in her training she hadn't had enough hours.

I don't know.

I'm just speculating.

But it could also be, as you suggest, that she was used to

maybe

men telling me what to do, and I don't have to do it.

You know what I mean?

There were other elements in that calculus where there shouldn't be.

And that's what

people are really after Pete Heckseth, but that's what he's trying to do.

He's trying to say that when you hit the battlefield, you don't want any other considerations, that the person next to you or there is there for a particular reason, and that is excellence.

And in certain aspects, maybe not pilotry, you know, we don't know.

Or if you were an artillery person behind the lines and you had to calibrate mathematically the best target, women can do that perfectly.

But when you're carrying a person that weighs 180 pounds, or you have to fight a jihadist hand to hand, you would want a male person in most cases.

And then, of course,

you ever see that movie with Spencer Tracy and Catherine Headward, Adam's Rib?

And she wants, she's the feminist lawyer to show that he's wrong.

She gets this huge

woman weightlifter and then a puny little guy, and she lifts it, you know, he lifts him.

But there's exceptions, but on the norm, you don't want to change standards for ideological commissariat reasons.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break, and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about the Ukraine and the Houthi.

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So, Victor, I was just looking for an update, it seems like, on the Ukrainian negotiations that Russia is making into

starting a ceasefire today for three days.

Of course, we'd like that longer.

And Putin has said he would like to negotiate directly with Zelensky.

And so, I was wondering your thoughts on that.

Zelensky would have to have a pretty big bodyguard.

Or he'd get a plutonium pellet in this calf or something.

Or he might, he'd have to do it on a ground floor because he might fall out of the window but

Trump understands that he came across whether he

as harder on Zelensky because of that

shouting match Putin then took advantage of that

and so now he's rebooting recalibrating he's truth socialing or he's texting or posting that

I think I've been had by Vladimir.

Maybe he's playing me, and therefore I might have to do, and this is something that Biden would never consider as secondary boycott, because that would bankrupt Russia in a second.

And they mean nuclear power.

If you told India or China,

you're not going to have one U.S.

dollar in trade.

We're not going to buy one thing if you continue to buy Russian oil.

We have to say it to our own allies, unfortunately, the Europeans, because they're sneaky and they're illegally buying third-party supplied natural gas.

But that is something that has had an effect, and I think that's kind of behind the ceasefire.

He's just probing.

Putin is like a little, I shouldn't say that, he's like some kind of bobcat or mountain lion.

He just paws around and sees

how much blood he draws, and then when he sees something, he goes at it.

So he's just probing.

He's looking for a weakness.

He's looking for a weak spot, and if he doesn't find one, and public opinion, such as it is in an autocratic society, it is there.

And they've got bloggers and everything, and he's got a problem.

And that thing is when the music ends and he gets a piece, he's got to go back and tell 145 million Russians that he probably got killed or maimed or wounded or lost 100, I mean, 1 million Russians.

And he's going to have to say, for what?

And he's going to say, well, I had to do it to stop Ukraine from being in NATO, okay?

I had to do it so we could finally get

formal legal title to what I stole in 2014, Donbass in Crimea.

I had to do it because we made a little progress.

That's still a hard sell for a million people.

And

so that's what he's looking for: just something he can grab onto and sell to his own people.

So I think they're going to get a piece, but it's so mind-boggling that

the right,

the anti-Trump right or the never-Trumper right and the left are so critical, and then you want to say to them, well, wait a minute, we followed you for three years.

What was your policy?

It was the nihilistic, whatever it takes.

They asked Biden, how long are you going to keep doing this?

Whatever it takes, as long as it takes.

That's all he said.

And you'd ask anybody in that administration, what is the...

I asked some very, we had a military history conference that I hosted at my institution and I asked people two years ago what do you think about the spring offensive and so many people said it's gonna this was in the glory euphoria days of stopping the uh the armed assault on Kiev

really formidable thinkers really did believe that if you had this stupid little I mean stupid huge Russian it was one of the stupidest things you've ever seen militarily they put all of these armored vehicles on that thin road to Kiev, and then it was open.

It was kind of like the Market Garden Arnheim

campaign of September 1944, where that elevated road was bridge after bridge.

All they had to do was stay in the woods and pick them off and just knock out one, and then, and they did.

And everybody said, well, see what they did?

Now they can do that on the front.

So the spring, the following spring offensive, that was the stupidest thing in the world.

And it was advised by a lot of American analysts and military people.

The idea that you were going to give a country that had been depleted by 12 million refugees had left, and you were going to tell them you've got about 28 million people, and we're going to give you armor, and you're going to attack this country of 144

million people that's 30 times your size.

That's insane.

All they had to do was hunker down and use their drones and pick off the Russians when they attacked.

And so, but that was the strategy, such as it was, and all it was was Stalingrad 2.0 or Verdun or Somme.

And

it was just all that wastage for nothing.

All those lives gone?

All those lives, and nobody in the left or nobody in the libertarian or anti-Trump right said,

well, I don't like Trump, but he's the first person that talks about it in human terms.

He is.

He says,

He tweets things like, why did you hit that rocket and kill those people?

This is just an utter waste of manpower.

This is an utter waste of human life.

I never heard Biden say that once.

Did you?

This Ukraine war, I never heard people on the left say it.

I would walk around the Stanford neighborhood and I saw that they're George Floyd, you know, this house supports George.

It had been first year, those little things were gone.

You know what was there?

Ukrainian flags.

But I never heard any of them, when I was walking by, I'd say hello to them, they'd say, oh my gosh, this is a horrific cauldron of human wastage and death.

So Trump is talking about that.

It affects him.

And you know what would happen if he got a deal?

That would be the most spectacular diplomatic move in the last half century.

Far more impressive than Henry Kissinger's 1973 peace, 74 peace accord with the Vietnamese, which was broken and ended up in the trash heap.

He got a Nobel Prize for that.

Far more impressive than the Obama Nobel Prize.

Victor Trump is not going to get a Nobel Prize no matter what he does.

He could walk on water and he's not going to get it.

He's not going to get it at all.

John Kerry wanted it, remember?

He thought if he sold out to the Russians on the Arab Spring and brought in the Russians, he was going to get some.

Or then he thought he was going to get one on the Iran deal, remember?

He kept Logan acting around in Paris where he would meet secretly

when he was out of power and Trump's first term and meet with the Iranians and basically tell them, hey, just hold out against him.

Don't give him any wins because

we both don't like him.

And when I come back in, we come back in, we'll cut a deal with you.

That was the kind of the message.

That's a terrible message.

And

that's what Jimmy Askin said.

He just said the other day, the representative.

He just said, I wanted to tell all you countries, don't make a deal with Trump, because when we come back, we're going to punish you.

Wow.

Iran, under, and now that Trump is in, Iran is really struggling, I think.

And

it's got a a threat not just from the Israelis or us or anybody outside, but its internal population, I think.

It was kind of like

Potemkin village.

Not that the Potemkin village was always a Potemkin village, but I mean, metaphorically, they were just this all they had was this rhetoric about death to America, and they seemed crazy.

And then they would have videos of the Hezbollah six-footers and the camouflage and the Hamas people saying death.

And then the Israeli IDF destroyed Hamas.

And the American and the Israeli militaries have pretty much destroyed the Houthis.

I mean, they spent a billion dollars now, but we have

taken out their command and control.

Iran is broke.

It can't supply them.

They don't have ports.

We're taking out their air depositories where they flew in by air and put the missiles there.

So Hezbollah is gone.

Hamas is gone,

maybe Hezbollah is dormant, and the Houthis are getting neutered, and there is no more Assad.

So Syria was a big depot, it's gone.

And then Iran has had its

air defenses shredded not too long ago by Israel, but more importantly, it's shown to the world they were, even if they weren't shredded, they were no good.

And so here they have the United States is now going back to maximum pressure, and it's embargoing all of its oil, and it's putting secondary boycotts on our ally so they can't buy it.

And we're in the Straits of Hormuz, and they're not doing anything.

I thought they would get their little motorboats out.

Remember, Under Biden?

We'd have a big carrier or a frigate, and they'd get their little motorboats and cut in front of it, and then Biden would go, oh my gosh, this will not stand.

And they'd just let them do whatever they wanted.

And they don't do that now.

So the point is:

what is Trump's plan?

And his plan is: I think it is, we're going to give them one last chance to negotiate.

They have power disruptions.

They have no electricity grid that works.

They've got 30% of the population or minorities that are rested.

The people want change.

They got the internet.

They see things.

And

as I said, all the terrorist tentacles are gone.

It's just the ugly head of the octopus.

And he's giving them, I think, about three or four months.

And you know what they're doing?

They are rushing to enrich from, I don't know, 65 to 90 percent to get 10 or 12 bombs as quick as they can.

And they're lying.

And Trump, he surely knows that.

But I think there's some question whether

his sense that I solve the problem diplomatically outweighs his realism.

Because they lie.

I mean,

the theocracy is incapable of telling the truth.

So I think what the strategy is, is to give them three or four more months and ratchet up the pressure and have them come to us and say, okay,

I'm not going to support all these terrorist groups and I will open everything up and just restore the oil and everything.

And that's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

So in three or four months, one of two things are going to happen.

They're going to tell the Israelis, what do you need to get rid of your existential enemy?

Do you need intelligence?

Do you need a particular type of bomb?

Maybe even a particular type of American plane you want to rent, and we could train them

to carry such a device.

I don't know.

Or we're going to do it.

And everybody, whoever does it, the world's going to go crazy and say, this is horrific.

And the world then is going to take a big pause and say, ah, thank you.

The Europeans will say, we would never do that.

This is imperialism.

This is cowboyism.

Okay, we just said that because

we're no longer in range of a

potential missile.

And then the Arab world goes, this is attacking a fellow Muslim country.

Thank Thank you.

The Persian Shia are neuter.

They're not going to hit Riyadh or they're not going to hit Dubai.

So everybody will be happy.

And the Chinese will say, How dare you do that?

We might go into Taiwan.

But

actually, we didn't like them either.

And the Russians are going to say, I got enough problems with nuclear India and nuclear North Korea and nuclear Pakistan.

I didn't need a nuclear Iran near my borders, you know.

Well, Victor, I have one more topic here today, and then we'll finish up on Saturday, as we always do.

But David Brooks was on PBS talking.

I know, I'm sorry, but I know you and Jack talked about Justice Dugan and how she skirted a criminal out her back door to help him escape ICE, I believe, that was coming in there.

Well, he praised her as

he, what did he call it?

He called her a hero despite, and he didn't say it this way, this is my paraphrase, despite the criminality that she was supporting.

Sometimes civil disobedience is necessary in a judge.

It's not in a judge, David.

If a judge disagrees with a particular law and they say they're not going to show up for the courtroom, then they do a disservice to the country, as in the three victims that were sitting in her room who came there for justice, because he admitted that he beat the crap out of three people.

I think one of them was a woman.

And so when she walked out of that courtroom or tried to

show up,

she escorted him out to defy a federal officer.

That was not civil discipline.

That was a criminal act.

And judges do not commit crime.

If judges commit crime publicly, then they have no moral fides, no moral authority.

And when you said, I don't really know the details, if you don't know the details, then be quiet.

If you really think that she didn't try to obstruct and help the defendant, then don't say anything.

But where is your moral compass when you are siding with

a felon,

assailant who's here illegally and has been deported in the past and broke the law to come back, and a judge tries to facilitate that criminality against her own federal government?

It's, you know what I mean?

It's

to the chagrin of the three victims that were sitting there.

I know that

I didn't discuss the law much with my mother, who was a Superior Court judge, Pauline Davis-Hanson, and an appellate court judge.

But I had talked to her a lot, especially when I was a graduate student.

And every once in a while,

when

they drove up to, she was on the Stanford Law Board of Overseers, and she stopped by my apartment.

And I talked to her.

And she'd show me she didn't tell me the case, she just would show me what she was working on.

And it was something like this

I don't agree

she said, I think that this person is guilty

but it's so flagrant what the Superior Court judge did to this guilty person that I'm going to have to overrule him.

Or she would say,

I think

this person was deprived of, you know, that this person was guilty and was a very, and this person let him off because they didn't follow the rules particularly.

And there was an appeal,

especially in civil cases.

But the point is that a good judge then follows the law, whatever their particular.

I don't remember my mother ever saying, well, I disagree with this, and I'm just going to not show up, and I'm going to defy the law.

If she did that, she would be fired.

And I hope they fire this judge, or they hold her, I mean, I hope they prosecute her for this.

Because if you don't,

and he, David Brooks was almost acting as if she's going to set an example of moral courage.

No, she will be, she will set an example, David, but it's going to be of deterrence.

So they're going to go after her and

prosecute her to the fullest letter of the law.

Because if they don't, all these lawyers and judges and the whole legal system will think they can rise up and defy the federal enforcement of an existing law.

It's really revolutionary.

This is from somebody who wrote,

you know, has a contempt for little people too.

There was a class element.

He sided with an elite judge.

and a boutique left-wing cause about don't deport criminals, but he didn't give a blank-blank about the victims in that court that were beaten up by this thug, just as these people don't care about Olbrego Garcia trafficking or being in a gang or beating up his spouse.

They always, they don't, that's just for them all collateral damage.

And

I've met and

know him a little bit once in a while.

I've met him or seen him and talked to him.

But

this is a person who said that he looked at Barack Obama's crease in his pants leg, and he said, I saw it, and it was perfectly done.

And then I knew knew he would be a good president.

You mean David Brooks is the guy who said that?

It was even more egregious, I think, in some ways, of Chris Matthews' Freudian thing that said, when I hear Obama speak, I get a tingle up my leg.

Remember that?

There was something about that, in that

Brooks comment that just encapsulated the snobbish elite view of the world, that just because somebody has the type of pants that elites wear and he knows to have a crease done just right, that that has anything to do with him being a serious or good president.

It doesn't.

It has nothing,

nothing.

Unless you think, maybe you think that Donald Trump,

I've looked at Donald Trump's clothes, they're immaculate, they're perfectly creased.

David, does that mean he's in your idea of a good president?

Is that why?

So the whole thing was ridiculous, and the idea that he goes on PBS

and he's the conservative voice with that very radical K-party.

They should just, it's another article.

I don't think he understands that he's

another little tessera in the mosaic that says we don't need to fund this.

Why would we pay somebody like that to opine silly things like that

to a public station?

You can go on the internet and you get 500 Newsstat channels, right?

This isn't 1970 when there was only ABC, CBS, and NBC, and you're out in the sticks of Fresno County and you like to have PBS.

No, no, no, no.

We don't need this anymore.

And you could just go on to YouTube and read comments on Victor Davis Hansen's site.

Yeah, well, I'm serious.

Commenters are often much smarter than

these commentary, these pundits on television.

So here we have some comments to finish up the show with.

One's for me, Sammy.

It says, and this was a good comment because last Saturday we did a show with the beginning of World War II and Sammy said the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and

I did and that was a misstatement.

So here is the comment from Pin's wordman.

Sammy, Japan didn't invade Pearl Harbor.

It's an important distinction.

They attacked Pearl Harbor is what the distinction is.

Hold on a second.

It's an important distinction in light of the Japanese strategy.

It also must be pointed out in case any of the three most recent generations are listening and are hearing these facts for the first time in 17 years of education.

So I apologize.

I knew what you meant.

Yeah, I know.

So I get out of it by saying Victor knew what I meant.

Nah, it's a good reason.

That they invaded the airspace over

Pearl Harbor.

Yeah, I can't say they invaded the seaspace because they were about 175 miles off the,

but you meant that they invaded the airspace

which they did

all right they did a little bit more than invade the airspace yeah another comment from our youtube watchers was um this is kind of a com a comment on world war ii and the french and i don't i was wondering your thoughts on what this um what 65 gto trips

has to say and that's the name of the person the french didn't understand how to utilize their their early World War II tanks, which were as good or better than the German panzer.

And you made that point so far.

The Shar B tank was a 75-millimeter gun.

It was bigger than anything on the German arsenal.

Yeah.

So this is what he says.

He says they used them piecemeal for infantry support and not a strike force, number one.

And then he says that that alone, coupled with the Allies' failure of imagination in thinking it would be another static trench war vis-à-vis the Maginot Line that they would get caught in a trench war, when the German generals just did an end around through the Ardennes forest.

So a failure of imagination in addition, Victor.

Yes, but the French knew that

when they were building the Maginot Line, right, and they got to the Belgian border where the Ardennes was,

they knew that they should continue the Maginot Line through the Ardennes and Belgium.

But the Belgians told them that if you do that, then we're on the wrong side and

we'll become neutrals because we'll have to.

And the French then tried to encourage them to rearm.

They only had about 20 divisions, they didn't want to fight.

So they stopped.

And then people said

warfare has transmogrified into a war of tanks and armor.

And the Ardennes, when you go to the Ardennes, it doesn't, I mean,

everybody, it's not the Rocky Mountains, it's the foothill.

And it's passable.

That was another part.

But the biggest problem with the Sharby tank, as the writer astutely points out, they didn't use them en masse.

And people like Gwadarian and J.C.

Fuller

had been writing about that, and Liddell Hart, how you should use tanks in the in-between the wars but the most important thing is it's the same thing true of the fighter force of the France French air force if you look at some of their airplanes they were better than the BF-109 they were better but they didn't have the backup crews they didn't have the maintenance they didn't have the urgency so when you look at sorties of Germans that were flying from ad hoc grass runways on the forward lines, they were flying five and six missions a day, seven missions, and the French were flying two.

And the same thing about when the Germans

they had very few Mark IIIs with with a fifty millimeter gun, but the Mark II was bad and the Mark I was worthless.

But when they came through they had much more organized fuel tankers with them.

They had people that were mechanics and the French were not their logistical support was just laughable because they were, as he points out, they were

a static army and a static Air Force and a static everything.

That was one of the great tragedies because if you look at the French Navy, the Jean-Bart, the battleships, and especially the destroyers, they were the best destroyers in the world.

French craftsmanship, they had the biggest Mediterranean fleet.

They had some of the best tanks.

They had some of the best planes.

They had a lot of veteran people in the officer corps that were veterans of Verdun 19, 20 years earlier.

And it just they didn't

get back to Mark Bloch's famous Strange Defeat, tragic book about why they lost, and then he was executed just days before he would have been released.

He was a great medieval historian, but that's a weird essay.

Why Strange Defeat?

Why did they just collapse?

And he comes to the conclusion they lost it in the 1920s when they went socialist and pacifist and utopian.

All right, Victor, thank you and thanks to 65 GTO Trips for that comment on the last Saturday's edition.

We'll be coming back with a Saturday edition this week and Victor's going to be looking at the

first year of the war, 1939 of the World War II.

So

listen to our Saturday edition for that and thanks for joining us on this Friday news roundup.

Thank you, Victor.

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