Jon Stewart

And I don't disagree with that, but I also think it's not necessarily that it's NATO and Putin.

It's that the United States and Trump right now favor right-wing populist government.

If the old world order was communism versus democracy or capitalism versus communism,

the new world order in their minds is woke versus unwoke.

It's that sense of a conservative, you know, let's face it, Christian governing body where those things are melded together.

And so it,

they are more ideologically aligned with Putin than Macron.

They are more ideologically aligned with Orban than they are with Starmer.

That the idea that we can lead liberal democracies

in any kind of capacity, kind of goes out the window when the operating system that they would like to run is more authoritarian and more nativist.

And so we're no longer natural allies within that regard.

Vance went to Germany and suggested... And backed the AFD.

And backed the AFD and said, how dare you censor?

Meanwhile, they don't say a word about Putin.

They don't say a word about, you know, whatever censorious or authoritative or any of those kinds of things occur in those countries.

You're calling for something that is in, it may be in shorter supply right now than oil.

Maybe.

There may be a choke point.

So he's an interesting cat because now he goes out and he sort of nationalizes, I guess, 500,000.

uh, refugees or, or immigrants or something, which you would think goes counter to what the general movement in Europe is in certainly on the, the populist, right.