RLL 76.The Democrats' War on the American People

You're listening to Radio Looks Illicit, I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 76. The title of this episode is The Democrats' War on the American People. Well, before I dive into talking about that, I wanted to ask a question of you.

Have you ever had one of these cases where you start a project that you think is going to be pretty easy but ends up being kind of hard? Probably most of us have been in that boat at one point or another, and I had mine just the past couple of days.

What I did is I started this course on filmmaking, on photography and video editing, this kind.

Of thing.

It's actually a really good course. I bought it about a year ago, but I haven't had a chance to do anything with it. But I had some time here recently, so I started working through some of this, and I found it very helpful.

I've already learned a lot. But one of the things as I was going through it, it talked a bit about gear. It had a whole chapter segment dealing with gear, camera gear, computers, this kind of.

Thing.

And the good news is that most of the stuff I need, I actually already have. The one thing I didn't have is I didn't have enough RAM in my computer system. My system had 16 gigabytes of RAM, and I noticed when I did some video editing a few months back that it seemed kind of slow, that there was a lot of delays and whatnot in it.

And watching this video today, or the video a couple days ago, one of the things that the person who did this recommended is that you should have at minimum 32 gigabytes of RAM to be able to do video editing and have the system run properly.

So anyway, I decided, okay, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to get some RAM because I checked my system. I found out, okay, I've got 16 gigs. And so I went about, I thought, well, adding RAM, well, that's pretty easy, right?

I mean, you don't have to be a total tech nerd to be able to do that. All you have to do is pop the side off your computer, take the additional RAM chips, pop them into the slots that are in there, close it back up, and you're done.

Right?

I mean, that's the way it's supposed to work, at least I think it is. So anyway, I go in, I go over the other night to buy some RAM chips, I buy the things and I bring them back, and I go to put it in my system and I find that they don't fit, or at least one doesn't fit.

I've got this kind of big oversized fan and it overhangs one of the slots that I needed to put the chips in. So I was frustrated with that. So I took them back and I brought the, I made an exchange. I was actually going to buy some larger chips and not use all four slots, but the guy over there that I talked to the second time, this is today, he told me, oh, we can get you a low profile chip that'll fit under the fan.

So anyway, so anyway, I made this exchange and I bought the low profile chips and I brought them back and I was able to get those things in and I thought I had it all set up and I brought it upstairs and the system's malfunctioning, I'm getting the computers flashing at me and doing all these terrible things.

I got so frustrated. I have a very low frustration tolerance for things when they don't work. And I know that that's a fault that I have and I've struggled with it my whole life and I get angry and this is one of the reasons why I'm not a do-it-yourselfer.

My dad is great at this kind of stuff. He has the patience to work through it. I just get frustrated when stuff doesn't work. And honestly, it's kind of immature and kind of childish and I need to work on that.

I'm not trying to defend how I feel inside. I'm just telling you what I do feel and I get so frustrated. So I threw the system back in my car, drove the thing over and in any way, I was able to go to the computer store and I was able to actually get them to put the things in.

But it ended up costing me an extra 40 bucks to do that.

So I don't know.

I felt kind of silly about the whole thing. But at least I got it done. But it sucked up all this time last night, Friday night. It sucked up all this time today for me to get this stuff done and as a result, I didn't get to doing some of the things that I wanted to get done today including getting my podcast.

Done.

So I apologize. This is being done a little bit later than I wanted to and I probably am not as prepared as I would like to be. So if I'm a little bit rough today, cut me a little bit of slack on that because I was having trouble with my computer and that's not a whole lot of fun.

So anyway, I'm glad you joined me here today. Welcome to everybody that's on the live stream and also to those who are listening on the podcast as well. Another thing that I had here this week or today when I was putting this together and I was trying to figure out what to call it.

I was trying to come up with some kind of clever title or something. I struggled for a while to come up with this thing. When I was writing out my outline, I just called it Episode 76, Title to Be Determined because I didn't know what to put for this.

There was so much going on this week and that was really the thing and I couldn't really come up with a good, maybe necessarily unifying theme for everything and a lot of these stories are actually, they're all pretty important stories.

So it's kind of hard even to find maybe one that was a lead story but I finally decided to settle on the Democrats' war on the American people and we'll talk about that in a little bit more detail in a minute but just thinking about some of the stuff that was going on this week.

I mean you had Joe Biden and the Democrats really up the ante on the war on the American people and speaking of war, I mean you've got this situation going on with Russia and Ukraine and some of the stuff over there.

We're in a position, we're probably closer to war with Russia than we have been in a very long time. And I don't think that the American people either understand, probably understand how serious things are because it's largely being kept from them by the media and what they do here is, in my opinion, a gross misrepresentation of what's actually going on.

There's the third thing you've got going on, you've got that whole COVID vax mandate ruling from the Supreme Court which was in some ways good and in some ways not so good and again we'll talk about that.

I've got a piece in here, I talk about the Bergoglio administration, I think I've talked about the Bergoglio administration in the past. Well there's just a number of things where the Pope is coming out and making statements that could easily be something that was released by the White House because there's really not, you know they used to say there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.

Well I would say this, there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Vatican and the Biden administration. So maybe we should just call it the Bergoglio administration and be done with it. Of course, Bergoglio, that's the last name of the current Pope, Jorge Bergoglio.

And so you've got the Bergoglio-Biden administration. Then finally there's something about Hillary, I guess good old Hillary Clinton, she's back from the dead, at least politically speaking, or at least that was one of the big stories this last week and I want to touch on that a bit as well.

The Democrats' Hostility Toward the American People

So in getting into our topics here today, I guess I wanted to start here with maybe the title story from this past week and that is the Democrats' war on the American people and specifically I wanted to talk here about Joe Biden and how he lectured the American people about his voting rights bill.

Now you know the American elite class has been openly hostile to the historic American nation and when I say that I mean specifically the legacy Anglo-American core population of the United States and in particular of that group I'm talking about working class white people, Christians, Republicans, political conservatives, generally anybody from flyover country maybe that voted for Donald Trump or the kind of person who would vote for Donald Trump.

I think back when Barack Obama was president he famously talked about the small town people and he was talking particularly about white Americans and he called them, he said that they were bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.

They weren't prepared to face the future and they were bitterly clinging to this past, their guns, their sort of Bible-thumping Christian religion and of course he had complete contempt for them and I thought at the time that that was, I thought I was offended by what he said but on the other hand I was partially glad that he did say it because it got out in the open and made very clear exactly what, not just what Barack Obama thought of the American people but really what the entire sort of coastal elite class thinks of the average American person.

They hold them in contempt. They really do. Then of course a few years later, this was in the 2016 presidential campaign, you had Hillary Clinton. She kind of upped the ante a little bit and she called the American people, she made her famous statement there about the deplorables and that actually kind of became a rallying cry for a lot of Trump supporters in that election, in the last few months of that election.

She made that statement fairly late, I think it may have been in September or October or sometime in the fall of 2016. Yeah, in fact here's an article I found, this is from the Washington Post, she made it on September 6, 2016.

So it was less than two months or just right about two months prior to the actual election. She called them, I guess, a basket of deplorables. Talk about them being irredeemable. She says, I'm all that stands between you and the apocalypse, which of course would have been the election of Donald Trump.

Clinton told the cheering crowd, she launched into all things she found deplorable about Trump. He threatened marriage equality. That is, he didn't think much of same-sex marriage. Cozied up to white supremacists.

Well, you know, a white supremacist is, that's pretty much just an ordinary white person who goes about his business. I mean, it sounds like a really terrible thing to say about someone, but the context in which the Democrats use the term white supremacist just means just a regular old person.

Somebody like maybe you and me. You don't have to be some crazy Klansman or some overt racist or skinhead or something like this or a neo-Nazi. No, you don't have to be any of those. You just have to be a regular person and you can be denounced as a white supremacist.

And that's just the world we're living in right now. So let's see. I guess Trump, I guess he cozied up to white supremacists, made racist and sexist remarks, all things she found so personally offensive.

And again, this is from the Washington Post. She says, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters in what I call the basket of deplorables, right? And there was laughter and applause.

And interesting too, this was actually a speech that she gave for Barbara Streisand at a glitzy fundraiser in New York City, a group of LGBTQ supporters, and if you don't know what that stands for, LGBTQ, that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer is what that means.

So a group of LGBTQ supporters who were gathered at a Cipriani restaurant in the Democratic candidate had one job, to fire up her donors. Well, she did fire up her donors, but she also fired up her opponents as well.

It says, Clinton apologized the next day in a very Clinton-esque manner. I regret saying half. That was wrong, she said in the statement. What was the magic number? She didn't say. She did, however, double down on calling out Trump's bigotry and racism.

So I don't know, maybe it was a third, maybe it was a quarter. I don't know, maybe it was 10%.

I don't know. I don't know.

But according to her original speech, it was half. And the truth of the matter is, I think it's probably, I think half is probably an understatement. I think probably she means like 99%. And that's certainly the sense that you get from the Democrats, and not just, you know, in particularly the Democratic elite.

You know, and I'm talking about, you know, when I talk about the elite, I mean people like Barack Obama, I mean people like Hillary Clinton, you know, the sort of the professoriate, if you will, and these kinds of things, you know, the big shot corporate donors, the people in Hollywood, the entertainment industry, I mean, you know, Hollywood's just horrible.

I mean, not only are their movies immoral, and they have been for a very, very long time, but just the absolute just hatred of just the ordinary American people that comes out of their mouths is really astounding.

You know, I mean, there are these people that will get up and sanctimoniously lecture you about how tolerant they are, and they're tolerant of everybody except for you and me. And as far as I'm concerned, I don't want to give these people a dime.

I mean, I say not only are their movies very often pornographic, but just their attitude and the contempt and the hatred that comes through not only in their movies, but also in their words and in their actions outside of the productions is just appalling.

So yeah, you have Barack Obama, you have Hillary Clinton, but now you got Joe Biden, and Joe Biden and the people that surround him have really upped the ante. He gave a speech this past week on voting rights.

You know, the Democrats have this big voting rights bill that they want to push through, which basically federalizes elections and allows the Democrats to rig and to cheat and to scam even more than they did in 2020.

And, you know, they want to make it permanent. And if you don't think that's the most awesome thing in the whole world, well, in Joe Biden's words, and I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but basically he called, implied, very strongly.

Implied.

And if you don't agree with him on this whole voting rights thing, that you're some kind of a racist and you're probably a domestic terrorist on top of all of that. So, you know, you're an all around, you know, you're right back in that basket of deplorables as it were, right back at Hillary's basket of deplorables and you're bitterly clinging to your guns and religion.

Well, I do cling to my guns and religion, but it's not bitterly. I actually do it joyfully. I'm thankful to the Lord God Almighty. He called me in Jesus Christ and saved me and washed me from my sins.

And by faith in Christ alone, I'm justified, I'm saved, I'm adopted. And that's a joyful thing to cling to. And, you know, in terms of my guns, I have a right as do all other Americans and all other people.

We have a God-given right to defend ourselves, to keep and to bear arms. It's guaranteed to us in the constitution. That right is. And I do exercise it. And I thank God that I still live in a country for all of the problems we have here in the United States of America, and they are legion.

We still have that. And I'm very grateful to God for that. So, yes, I do cling to those. But again, it's not out of bitterness. I'm thankful for it. I'm thankful that I live in a country where I can still say that.

Now, let's see, going on here, you know, the Biden regime, I mean, they've just been openly hostile, again, to really the the legacy core population of the United States of America. And they've just taken it.

They've taken the whole thing up an octave. I mean, you know, as bad as Hillary was, as bad as Barack Obama was in that regard. Well, you know, this guy, this Biden regime is even worse. And here's an example of what I'm talking about.

This is from USA Today. And this is a story. It's titled Kamala Harris. January 6 will echo in U .S. history like Pearl Harbor. In fact, let me do this.

I'm going to go ahead. Yeah, there we go.

OK, so this is from January the 6th, Insurrection Day, right?

Supposedly.

That's a bunch of hooey.

But that's, of course, what the Dems want you to believe. I don't want to drive too far into that right now, but maybe we can. So let's see, what did Kamala say? Marking one year since the insurrection at the U .S. Capitol.

Yeah, the USA just reports the insurrection. And nobody up there was armed. And a lot of these people were simply just basically, some people call them boomer cons, you know, boomer conservatives, you know, people in their 50s and 60s are up there without any arms.

But, you know, in things like this, actually, many of them were apparently let into the Capitol. But the USA reports this as an insurrection, which would have been the lamest insurrection that I've ever seen.

But they they call it that. They push the propaganda, the regime propaganda. Let's see, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, likened the attack to two other seminal moments in American history, Pearl Harbor and 9 -11.

And here's a quote, quote from Kamala Harris. Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.

End quote. Harris said at the Capitol, kicking off a day of events commemorating the January 6th attack. They had a whole day to commemorate this thing. Yeah, in fact, I think they were standing on, they had that candlelight service day on the Capitol steps singing.

What were they saying? Is it God bless America? I think it was. It's just terrible stuff. Harris, she continued, she said some dates in U .S. history, quote, occupy not only a place in our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.

December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021. Now, here's the thing, and think about what's being implied in these statements here. Now, on Pearl Harbor and on 9 -11, the United States of America was attacked by hostile forces.

In the case of Pearl Harbor, it was Imperial Japan. In the case of 9 -11, you were talking about Islamists, Muslim extremists. Now, I don't want to go into all the stuff regarding 9 -11. I think that a lot of what is reported about 9 -11 in the mainstream press is not accurate.

But let's just go with what Harris talks about here. I mean, 9 -11, you got the whole Osama bin Laden narrative, etc. And let's just go with that for a moment, for argument's sake. So the United States was attacked by foreign powers.

On both of these occasions. And she's likening both of those occasions to what occurred on January the 6th. So, I mean, she seems to be suggesting here that the Capitol was attacked by a group of foreigners.

By, you know, foreign terrorists or foreign insurrectionists or almost like a foreign army. And of course, that actually is in keeping with the way the Biden people and others, you know, I've talked about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton just as examples.

And they're not the only ones, but those are two prominent examples. That is how they think of the historic American nation. You know, the legacy, you know, Anglo-American core population of the United States.

Of which I am one. Now, I've talked about that maybe a little bit before. I mean, my ancestry here in the United States goes back before there was a United States. You know, as there are as many other millions of Americans are.

And I can tell you that those Americans are not domestic terrorists. They are not, they do not hate America. In fact, I would say those Americans are some of the most loyal Americans there are. But the Biden regime has decided to make war on them.

And it's not only is it a sad situation, but it's actually deeply concerning. Because what they have done is they have turned disagreement into claims of being an enemy of the state. You know, they have created a list of political enemies.

Domestic Terrorism, Federal Power, and Weaponized Dissent

And there's a story just this past week. Again, this is from the New York Times here. This is on January, date of January 11th. Headline, Justice Department forms domestic terrorism unit. The move is in keeping with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland's vow to make combating domestic terrorism a priority.

And if you go through here, you can tell who they're targeting. And I can tell you, you know, you might think, oh, they must be going after BLM. Nope, nope, they have shown zero interest in Black Lives Matter, even though they spent all last year burning down cities from coast to coast.

We might say maybe Antifa, you know, Antifa. I don't know how you pronounce it, but it's Antifa or Antifa. I guess I've been saying Antifa more recently, so I'll stick with that. But you think, well, maybe they're targeting Antifa, right?

I mean, they spent all of last year literally assaulting the city of Portland. And they've been doing the same here this year. But no, that is also not the people that they're going after. So just who are they going after?

Well, we can read through here.

All right.

So this is a person, this is a statement by Jill Sanborn, the executive director of the FBI's National Security Branch. And she said this to a Senate panel. OK, so this is a person highly placed within the FBI, giving official testimony here before the Senate.

And this is what she said, or at least a summary of what she said. The two most dangerous types of domestic extremists, Ms. Sanborn said, are driven either by racial or ethnic belief, oftentimes, quote, advocating for the superiority of the white race, end quote, or by anti-government sentiment from members of militia or anarchist groups.

Racially motivated extremists were the primary source of lethal domestic extremist attacks in 2018 and 2019, according to the FBI data. Oh, but in 2020, militia and anarchist groups are responsible for three of the four lethal domestic extremist attacks.

But it's interesting here, again, they don't say anything about Antifa. They don't say anything about Black Lives Matter. But they do, actually, I think in another place here. OK, so here's somebody else.

I guess there's another spokesman, somebody, the last name is Blumenthal, singled out a handful of groups, including the Atomwaffen Division, a small paramilitary neo-Nazi group that has disseminated violent messaging on social media.

Atomwaffen, that's the German word for atom bomb. So it's some neo-Nazi group that's out there running around doing really stupid stuff,.

Apparently.

But yeah, they're really serious. That is a huge threat to the American Republic. Of course, that's complete nonsense. I mean, are there people out there who are white supremacists? Are there people out there who are militants and things like this?

Yes, there are. But these people hardly even exist at all in any kind of organized form. And it's ridiculous for Merrick Garland and for the FBI to continue to target them and continue to drum this up as if somehow it's some great, huge, tremendous threat to the American Republic, which it is not.

And of course, the Biden administration, the Biden regime, has been doing this since the very beginning. They have a thing, they call it the War on Domestic Terror. And there were a number of, there were some bills that were drafted, at least a bill that was drafted right about the time that Joe Biden was inaugurated.

And the bill just continually just pounded home this idea of white supremacists, of neo-Nazis, of a whole basket of people that you and I would say, yeah, these are not good people. But again, the people, these groups hardly even exist.

There's almost nothing there. But they try to make something out of nothing. They're making a mountain out of a molehill. And this idea somehow that they are the greatest threat to our republic is just laughable.

But this is a political agenda. And of course, what they want to do is they want to say, well, if you happen to be a conservative or a Christian, or maybe you question the, say, the narrative about the vaccine or something, well, I mean, you might fall in one of these categories.

Yeah, I mean, they're weaponizing dissent. That is what they are doing. And it's extremely dangerous. It is un-American. It is unconstitutional. It is un-Christian. And it needs to stop. So let's see.

I want to move on to something else here.

What do we got?

Oh, here's a story that you may not have heard a lot about. And that is some of the potential conflict going on with Russia over the situation in Ukraine. It's not been widely reported in the US. There's been reports out there, but it hasn't been the lead story.

But I mean, the hostilities between the United States and Russia right now are at the highest they've been, I'd say, probably since the Cold War. I mean, at least that's kind of the sense that I get. And yet, I don't think that people really understand the gravity of the situation.

And what reporting is done, in my opinion, is also highly inaccurate. You know, I go back and I think about, it's kind of interesting going back. Of course, I grew up during the Cold War. And I remember when the Soviet Union, this is in the late 80s, early 90s, when the Soviet Union was getting ready to go belly up.

I still remember George H .W. Bush and James Baker running around, desperately trying to find a way to prop up the Soviet Union. And that struck me as really bizarre because I thought to myself, well, you know, I've been growing up since I was a kid, up until at that time, I was in my early 20s.

And all I'd ever heard is, you know, Cold War. Oh, we have to win the Cold War or else we have to spend billions of dollars and hundreds and trillions of dollars or whatever in order to defeat the Soviet Union.

Well, the Soviet Union is here is about ready to go belly up. And these guys are running around trying to bail out the people that we were told that we had to defeat. And something didn't seem quite right to me about that.

That just didn't seem, I don't know, there was something wrong there. And I couldn't quite put my finger on it at the time. But I remember it definitely left me puzzled. Now, I think what happened, and this was a distinct impression I got at the time, I really do think the national security complex and the Pentagon and some of these other agencies that were so deeply involved with the Cold War, I think they were deeply disappointed that the Soviet Union fell apart.

It's almost like they lost their playmate. They lost the reason for existence. And they were, I think, a bit desperate trying to find a, try to sort of cast about to find a new reason to justify their huge budgets.

I mean, when you have a gigantic budget, you have to have a gigantic enemy to justify it. And all of a sudden, the Soviet Union wasn't around anymore. And they really literally didn't know what to do with themselves.

And I really do think that that's a lot of what was behind the desperation of Bush and Baker and a lot of other people in the sort of the national security complex to try to prop up the Soviet Union. They didn't want them to go away.

They wanted the game to continue. It gave them power, it gave them purpose, it gave them money. And even today, I mean, the United States, the military budget of the United States is over a trillion dollars.

And I understand that the amount that the United States of America spends on the military every year is greater than the next 10 countries combined. So, I mean, that's how completely out of line American military spending is compared to the rest of the world.

We have this gigantic, I guess it was Eisenhower, he called it the military industrial complex. And it has far from making our country safer, it's actually been an enormous burden on the taxpayers. And it has put us in, I think it's actually endangered this country.

It hasn't made us safer, it's made us less safe, in my opinion. And what's been going on here, it seems to me, over the last number of years is they tried the whole thing with the global war on terror, but that seems right now to kind of have run its course.

I guess now they've got the domestic war on terror. So that's a big thing. I guess they want to make war on the American people. But they've also switched their attention back to Russia. And of course, during the Trump administration, it was Russia, Russia, Russia all the time.

And Donald Trump, when he tried to actually normalize relations with Russia, the security complex, the diplomatic complex, the whole foreign policy establishment, military establishment, they absolutely lost their minds.

They absolutely lost their minds. They couldn't deal with it. I remember there was a guy that John Brennan fellow, in fact, he was one of the people that worked to try to overthrow Donald Trump to have him.

Apparently, I think he may have been involved in trying to prevent him even becoming president. But once he became president, I think he was also involved in plots to remove him. And I suspect he was probably part of what went on with the rigging of the election in 2020.

Now, I don't have any proof of that. But I strongly suspect because he's the kind of guy that would be involved in something like that. You might say he's the usual suspect or one of the usual suspects.

But anyway, he absolutely just completely lost his mind on TV. And I remember reading this article where he actually called Trump's meeting when he met, when Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in the summer of 2018.

He called the president's performance nothing short of treasonous. Those are his exact words. There's a story in CNN that I found about that. He said that Donald Trump's performance at the Helsinki conference with Putin was nothing short of treasonous, which is incredibly strong language to use.

And I think it's very inaccurate as well, especially considering that he was, that John Brennan was himself engaged in what I think could be argued as treason in the way he tried to subvert the duly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, and to have him removed from office.

I think if anybody committed treason, I think it was John Brennan. But anyway, so you have this situation going on over there. There's this hostility against Russia that goes all the way back to the Cold War.

You've got this gigantic Pentagon budget. And these people have to figure out what to do with all of this military hardware. There's something else that's a component to this whole hostility with Russia as well.

And that is this belief among the American foreign policy elite in American exceptionalism, meaning that America has a right to world hegemony, a right to rule the world. America is called the exceptional nation.

It's the indispensable nation. There's all this sort of really megalomaniacal ideas that occupy the minds of our foreign policy establishment. So that's another thing that drives the hostility to Russia.

And one of the reasons they hate Russia so much is because Russia is one of the few countries, maybe along with China, maybe there's really only two or so, or maybe a few others, that actually have the determination and the capability militarily to stand up to Washington.

And Washington does not want there to be any military rivals out there. So the genesis of the most recent conflict with Russia, and again, you won't hear this in the mainstream at all, but the genesis of this current round of conflict with Russia goes back to at least 2014.

At that time, it was in 2014 that the CIA engineered the overthrow of the duly elected government of Ukraine. And the reason the CIA engineered the overthrow of the government of Ukraine is because the government of Ukraine decided, after some consideration, to seek closer ties with Russia and to not pursue closer ties with the NATO alliance.

They felt that a closer alliance with Russia would benefit them more. And this greatly angered the NATO people, the foreign policy establishment in the United States, and they overthrew the government.

They installed a government that was openly hostile to Russia, and it has essentially made Ukraine into sort of a client state of the United States. And, you know, this has been, you know, what has happened here over the last few years is that NATO, which is essentially the United States, has moved weapons into Eastern Europe, for instance, into Poland.

I know, I think maybe, I want to say Romania, perhaps, I could be wrong about that, but it was at least a couple countries over there. They have been supplying arms to Ukraine. They've been conducting military exercises in the sea, by air, and also by land, in close proximity to Russia.

In other words, doing this right on Russia's doorstep. And Russia has expressed repeatedly great concerns about this. And I think that you can understand their concerns. I think back, you know, I mean, what if you had, say, Russian armies conducting military maneuvers in Mexico, or you had the Russian fleet sailing around in the Gulf of Mexico, or off the east coast, or off the west coast, maybe off the coast of California or something.

I mean, people would be bothered by that, and rightfully so. And I think that if you think about that from Russia's perspective, when you have U .S. forces in Eastern Europe, and attempting to push even closer to Russia and into Ukraine, you can understand why they're concerned about that.

I mean, this is one of the great principles of foreign policy, is the golden rule. Treat others as you would like to be treated, for this is the law and the prophets. That's what Jesus said. And that applies not just on a personal level, but it also applies on the national level as well.

And, you know, I didn't do this. I'm going to see if I can find a quote here real quick. There was an article, and I've talked about this. I know I've written about this before. This was an article in, it was put out by a group, by Foreign Policy, which I think that's the, one of the big mainstream groups puts this out.