Rich Diaz

And that's why I wanted to know where you think Europe fits in to this Cold War, too.

Are they irrelevant?

Will they be abused, etc.

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So Michael, when you say that, which, and I frankly have a hard time coming up with any counter-argument, when you hear the Prime Minister of Canada

say repeatedly that he wants to get closer links to a continent that, as you've eloquently described, is going down a bad and potentially dark path.

What do you... Do you think that's just posturing to gain leverage with negotiations with America, which is one element?

Do you think it's just completely nuts and this guy is...

just belongs in Brussels and why bother us here?

Or like, what do you hear as like an outsider?

And you see Europe driving off a cliff and then you see this amazing country, Canada, with every single thing it needs to be successful saying its leadership and all of the lemmings that follow him saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to associate ourselves with that car driving off the cliff.

What do you think to yourself as an outsider?

I just think it's, so the cool things that I thought was like, he reiterated and articulated in a much better and deeper way, something, a theme that we introduced, oh boy, three years ago, it's all kind of melding into one giant blob.

But we talked about US versus China, Cold War 2.0 and how,

Virtually everything, maybe not everything, but nearly everything should be viewed through that lens, whether it's AI, whether it's the attack on Venezuela or Iran, whether it's a stable coin, whether it's Germany, et cetera, et cetera.

I think that's something that

We don't talk enough about and I think maybe we should try to force ourselves to like do that every once in a while.

But he does that in extremely eloquent, eloquent way.

And the other thing quickly was, yeah, his discussion on sort of the next stages for AI.

And that was that was for me really interesting.