Bob Amsterdam

It's a vacation spot.

And the king is flying to China.

because Sanchez is all in with China, of course, and Venezuela.

So it's astounding.

And the rule of law is under such attack there that the EU is quietly sending a commission

to investigate in January because everybody in Europe knows rule of law is dead in Spain.

So it's frightening what's going on there.

And this is what I mean about the sort of calcification of the ruling elite.

you know um the cost of being a politician are so high the reputational costs um are so high and the uh materialistic nature

of of all of us now uh the loss of ideology the loss of principles the loss of faith um this leads to a a loss in terms of the quality of people entering politics that's right and and you have a chaotic world situation which uh you know there's a lot of fear

And it leads to a completely transactional foreign policy.

And more and more states are engaging in this transactional policies as opposed to following any form of ideological policy.

Right, and yet fascinating what I'm seeing in watching the Orthodox community, the Christian Orthodox community, and the Jewish community, the Jewish community as a result of this horrible growth of anti-Semitism,

the Orthodox community, as a result of the woke nature of many Christian churches, is that those who are fundamental in their faith are growing.

Orthodox Christianity is growing at a massive rate.

Yeah, because people are clinging to real values.

That's right.

And in Europe, you know, quite frankly, it's very, very hard to find inspiration.

In the United States, we have a president.

By the way, I think probably the most effective president in foreign affairs that we may have had since Nixon.