Eric Weinstein

I mean, India and Pakistan.

You know, you have two countries that are... The difference between Urdu and Hindi is nil.

These people are exactly the same culturally.

One more Hindu, one more Muslim.

However, you know, that is an incredibly dangerous flashpoint because it's dependent upon skill.

You have the government versus the army versus the ISI in Pakistan.

You know, if I think about the Taiwan Strait and China and its calculation versus the US, that's incredibly dangerous.

We have a half proxy war between Russia and Ukraine.

with Ukraine representing NATO and the U.S.

And we've humiliated Putin in particular, in my opinion, by the 2004 ascension into Article 5 status of the three FSU countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Sorry.

Yes, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

Sorry.

And the 1999 provocation of Poland, which I think was entirely defensible as a Warsaw Pact,

entry into Article 5 status.

I don't know what we're doing.

I think we seem insane.

I just, let me put it on the table.

I don't think anybody's thinking rationally.

Because I think I'm thinking rationally.