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Welcome World Blazed listeners to episode seventy four, and I apologize.
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I missed a week. I missed a week, but something
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happened today. Just as I was about to press record,
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hot off the presses, Ukraine signs the mineral deal, the
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one that they said would never happen, the one they
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said that Trump was literally just being a big bad bully,
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big bad Trump, big bad America. Why should a mineral
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deal ever be signed? And yet here we are today.
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Then I'm going to bet I may possibly be the
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first podcaster. This may be the first episode you hear
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where I am able to talk about this because this
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is still developing, and I am recording this today, April thirtieth,
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twenty twenty five, at six pm specific time in the USA. Yeah,
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but before I get there, let's talk about Well, let
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me touch on the first one hundred days of Trump. Now,
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it's been going around that the first hundred days of
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Trump has been a disaster. People are saying he's not
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getting it done, he's not living up to his promises.
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And look, I'm going to say something that needs to
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be said. Sure, possibly maybe Well I'll just say that
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he hasn't held up to all of his promises. And
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is it all on Trump or is it really on
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cashtel Pambondi, et cetera. Now, Trump did declassify the RFK files,
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and well it is declassified. We really didn't learn anything new.
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And then there's the Epstein files, the Epstein list, where's
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that at? Apparently there are boxes in boxes of information
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and evidence that, well, we still don't have an answer for,
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nor do we see any arrests. Now the Trump administration
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has gone and arrested what may be considered to be
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radical judges, leftist judges, judges that are fighting against the
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Trump administration and even against the constitution to get their
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team ahead over the finish line with midterms coming up.
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But lo and.
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Behold, justice prevails. Justice has been done because, just as
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it has been said in previous administrations, and more to
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the point, the Biden administration, nobody is above the law,
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even President Donald Trump, who was at that time former
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President Donald Trump. But with the roles reversed, all we
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hear is the screaming, the crying, the gnashing of teeth,
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the dictator, the dictator, They say, Trump the fascist. Yet
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there's really not much that is fascist about what he's doing.
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He is putting America first. Now, can we say that
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we are all giant fanboys of President Trump. I'm not.
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I'm not. I look. I voted for him because of
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his America First policy, just as many did. And the
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other thing that we voted for was well closing the
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damn border that the previous administration said couldn't happen. And
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anytime it tried to come to the table and be
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presented as something that could be done, they tried to
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tie other financial obligations to the bill, such as unchecked
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funding to Ukraine and other nations to get things done
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as a way to like, you know, dangle the carrot
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so that we can just say, okay, fine, we'll vote
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for it because we really want this border clothes we
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really need to get under control, not considering the damage
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being done to the United States, but just letting all
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these people through un checked people, people that ended up
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actually being criminals. And while everybody said that Trump was
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a racist when he previously stated that many of these
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illegals are rapists, murderers, and just downright nasty people, much
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of what he said actually came out well, came out
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to be true. Now again, I don't necessarily agree with
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everything that is being done in terms of taming the
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illegal immigration issue. We still have to discuss whether or not.
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Look people who have been here a long time, who
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were born here, people who made a life. Now listen,
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they may have been here twenty years, twenty nine years,
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thirty years, and all of a sudden, the long arm
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of the law just catches up with them. And we
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can make an argument that if they were contributing person,
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a contributing individual to our society, contributing, paying the taxes,
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making a living, making better not a criminal, not being
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a criminal person, not even trying to push a criminal
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element or enterprise whatsoever, just being a normal human being,
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a human being looking to live a better life, then
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I can see the argument. I can see the argument where, well, look,
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maybe maybe we give this guy another shot, another chance,
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this woman another another chance to live out the life
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the dream that they wanted. But then where do we stop.
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Where does that slippery slope stop. Do we just turn
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a blind eye to this person who breaks the law
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and then apply it to the other person that we
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deem to be more of a threat. That is the question,
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a question that I honestly don't know if I haven't
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answer to you yet. I'm still thinking on this one.
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And if you have a solution, if you have any
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kind of opinion or idea on that particular issue, please
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let me know. Go to the website, feel the form
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contact me, let me know what's going on. You can
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leave a comment on whichever podcast aggregator used, whether it's Apple, Spotify,
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Good Pods, et cetera. But getting back to the border,
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the first one hundred days within Trump's office, with Trump
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being the president of this United States, he somehow did
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the impossible. He actually closed the border, the one thing
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that the Democrat Party, the previous administration said could never happen.
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It was too risky, too hard, too expensive, would never work.
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I have a video to play of Victor Davis Hansen
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who literally breaks this down perfectly. Give this listen.
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He has completely reversed ten thousand people coming in a day,
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over three hundred thousand a month, twelve million in four years,
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to essentially ninety seven ninety eight percent of the border
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is secure. In fact, there is no open border now.
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Now he has pivoted to try to address the twelve
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million people that Joe Biden not only let in but
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scattered all over the United States on often state federal,
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local subsidy. That's going to be a task. But he
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has shut the border. No comprehensive immigration reform, none of
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the things they said was necessary, none of the things
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that said that it was impossible, that hampered by. He
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just did it. We've never seen anything like it, and
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they have it.
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And the reason there wasn't any comprehensive reforms because we
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didn't need one. What happened, what literally happened, is the
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law was literally applied. That's it. Our laws were applied,
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Our laws were enforced. Tom Holman took his position serious
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and did his job. And even though that's a win
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for the United States, we still have the opposing party,
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because look, it's all about the team, it's not about
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what's good for the American people, right, they still find
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a way to make it a loss, to make it
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something negative. All right, regardless, I'm calling this a win.
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And so within the first one hundred days, Trump has
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achieved many things, many things that, to be honest, the
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way he went about them were very questionable made us
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scratch our heads like is this really going to work?
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But yet here we Are we are a better nation
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right now? Are we the most respected? Now that's up
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for debate. I can't say that we necessarily are when
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it comes to our position on the world stage. But
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fast forward to now today, everybody is looking to the
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United States for help. Everybody is now back to looking
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to the United States to try to make a deal,
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to become a better partner. And let's just be honest,
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the United States, we ourselves for those who live in
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the United States, we also need to be better partners
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to our allies. Enough for this tit for tat bullshit.
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Enough with this, you know, cute little jabs about you know,
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buying Greenland and making Canada to fifty first state and
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you know, look, that was all fun at the time.
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But let's let's be grown ups now, let's move on
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from that. Yes they were jokes. Yes they were jabs.
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I don't believe they were serious. Some people try to
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say they were serious remarks by President Trump and his administration,
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but I don't know. I don't think so. I think
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that it's time to just look let that be, move on,
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take your wins, hold your head up high, and continue
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to develop this nation back into the leader of the
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world that it should be and was, and show our
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allies that we once again can be trusted and respected.
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So hats off to President Trump for his first one
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hundred days. But we still have work to do. We
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still have to fix our relationships, and we still have
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to fix exactly how we are looked at and perceived
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by the rest of the world. And with that being said,
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the chatter, the breaking news, the hot stuff that happened
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today as I'm recording, the talks of the Mineral deal,
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the mineral deal that they said would never happen, that
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did nothing but benefit the US and the only reason
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we were trying to do this is because Trump's just
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a big, bad bully. But yet Ukraine agreed, Ukraine signed
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this deal and it wasn't really called the the Mineral Deal.
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I think it was the Economic Reform Deal or whatnot.
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But here's a clip before the deal was signed, and
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you'll hear Trump speaking and referring to US Treasury Secretary
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of Scott Besson because this was something that he put together.
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But this was before the deal was signed. There's a
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lot of controversy, a lot of mod if maybe possibly,
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I don't know, it's more talk. This is never going
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to happen. Trump hasn't come through. Well, listen to this
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in twenty four hours or so. Is it true that
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the Ukraine minerals deal is about to be signed in
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the next twenty four hours or so?
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There's some reports saying that. And if it's true, has
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the deal changed it all from the last time we've
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heard that?
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Well, I let us got to answer to the question
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because he's responsible for me. Yeah, our fund was ready
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to sign.
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The Ukrainians decided last night and make some last minute changes. Well,
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we're sure that they will reconsider that and we are
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ready to sign this acternoon.
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Here if they are, can you talk about this last
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minute changes?
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What was removed or clients?
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And nothing's been removed.
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It's the same agreement that would agree.
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To on the weekend, all right, So there you go,
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no changes, no amendments whatsoever, sticking to the deal. Now. Now,
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this was stated before the deal was signed, and right
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away many people were like, yeah, this is bullshit, we
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heard this before, same old story, blah blah blah. But
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it happened. It happened because literally about an hour maybe
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two hours before I actually press the record button for
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this episode, here is US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant making
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a formal announcement.
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Thanks to President Trump's tireless efforts to secure a lasting piece,
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I am glad to announce the signing of today's historic
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economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing
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the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. This partnership allows
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the United States to invest alongside Ukraine to unlock Ukraine's
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growth assets, mobilize American talent, capital, and governance standards that
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will improve Ukraine's investment climate, and accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery.
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The Development Finance Corporation will participate and help to establish
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this fund in collaboration with the Government of Ukraine. Today's
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agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration
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is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign,
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and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. It's time for
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this cruel and senseless war to end. The killing must
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stop in Both the United States and the Government of
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Ukraine look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership
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for both the Ukrainian and American people.
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Now, why is this very important? You also may be
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asking how does this contribute in any way towards a
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peace deal? Well, this break this down a little bit.
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I'm going to try to unpack this. And again this
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is still developing, so by the time you hear this,
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there may be other things that have been revealed, other
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news ss come out. But as of now, as I'm speaking,
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as I'm recording, this is very significant because what people
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need to understand is this now puts the United States
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of America directly in the conflict. While it's not boots
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on the ground, an actual military presence, at least not
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as of yet, it signifies that the United States is
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now committed to Ukraine, it to them in a way
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that protects their investment and the well being and economic
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growth of Ukraine. Because now we're tied at the hip,
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as as they say, we're now in it. We have
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to put our best foot forward and making sure that
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Ukraine is taken care of because if Ukraine falls, this
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whole thing is for not it doesn't matter. And what's
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interesting is well, as of now, anyway, Putin hasn't responded,
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and I'm wondering what his response will be to this,
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because Putin very well knows that this now brings the
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US directly into the conflict. And while people were talking
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about how frustrated Trump was that Putin wouldn't come to terms,
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wouldn't sign the peace agreement, how he was playing around
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by going, oh, you know, we'll give you three days
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a piece here on Easter, and then we'll do a