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And the first move you can't always judge by, you know.

But that's kind of what they're going to put on Trump's gravestone, right?

Can he do that?

Question mark?

It's a really important question.

I don't.

And, you know, this is a historical pattern.

You know, I don't know anything about politics, but everything I do know

I learned from Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, you know, which somewhere in my education, somebody forced me to read it.

And the gag there is Athens decides it's the hegemonic power.

And I don't even know if I'm saying that word correctly, by the way, hegemonic power in the Mediterranean.

And it's like they literally say, we're the strongest.

And, you know, this is where the famous phrase, the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must, comes from.

That's attributed by Thucydides to the Athenians.

And the whole gag of that book, The Peloponnesian War, is you start thinking that way and you get in trouble.

Yes.

Right?

Eventually you overstep.

And I think, you know, again, as a non-politics expert, I think that makes sense.

You know, you do something, it works.