Dr. Sarah Paine: Why The World Is Turning Away From America

We're potentially barreling our way into a world war. And it looks like World War Three. And once wars start, it's really hard to stop them. But we have reckless people running some very large and important countries around the world, and they're all lying about it. And here's the problem with normalizing lies. The Soviet Union collapsed in large part because it was built on lies. And you might be one of the most knowledgeable people that I think I've ever spoken to on the subject of World War Three for I don't know What going on. So history's moving really fast. It's like the log jam's busted and we don't know which way it's gonna go and it's tremendously frightening. Putin decide to kick over the chessboard by invading Ukraine. Donald Trump decided to get into a recreational war in Iran and this war is trashed the US economy. It has blown the US alliance system, but it also has the collateral damage of taking down the world's economy.

And this is the problem with having these dark personalities running countries. Like Putin, he doesn't care how many people he kills. These people are historically unqualified for. Oh, this is disinformation. Russia has no capacity to export diesel in sufficient quantity to make any difference whatsoever. As usual, he's lying. Trump's not gonna back out of Iran. It doesn't sound like Putin's gonna back out of Ukraine. They're gonna go forever. If we continue in the direction of travel we're on now, what does the future look like? Well you've got to prevent these things from breaking out because once they break out, then things are really over. So I can give you concepts. Here we go. Guys, I've got a favor to ask before this episode begins. It's the algorithm, if you follow a show, will deliver you the best episodes from that show very prominently in your feed. So when we have our best episodes on this show, The most shared episodes, the most rated episodes. I would love you to know. And the simple way for you to know that is to hit that follow button. But also it's the simple

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