Aiden

They have not been able to supply the support that they used to provide.

Right.

Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, like what actually hurts Russia is if the Venezuela oil is pumped and sold to anybody.

It doesn't matter.

It's like the whole point is like if the oil price is low, countries like Russia are screwed because they make all their money on a high oil price.

Right.

Yeah, the ability to just flood the market with oil, which again, this is like, this is a unique thing in history because until the shale boom and possibly this Venezuela thing, America was always a massive net importer.

They were always like at the mercy of essentially OPEC.

And so only in recent years has it been like they can kind of stand on their own.

100%.

So you can see, again, I think the big picture, I can see the argument, and that's why this is made.

I always have a problem with the chaos and the details and the...

Let's go to where it almost certainly will backfire.

And that's Greenland.

Because again, like every day he's saying more and more concretely, we will take Greenland no matter what, whether it's paying them, which I think is what they're hoping to do, which is do a big, uh, 10, a hundred thousand per person, get the Greenlanders to vote on it.

Patriot dividend.

And then they all just go into America.

But whether he's like really concrete about it and Europe is more and more getting forceful about what the fuck are you saying?

Like France came out and said something.

Germany said something.