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I think we've heard a little.

Yeah, I mean, the oil prices dropped today as well.

So, I mean, there are some incurring signs, but the gas prices are just through the roof now.

We're talking $4 around here.

It was $2.90 a month ago.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah, I won't say, like, which ones, but along my route.

Yeah.

And it's like this idea that like, and I might lose some people here, but bear with me.

The idea that they need to sell us the war is also like a false pretense.

It's like, no, if you're going to do it, do it.

But then.

Explain what's in it for us after the fact in the sense of this is what Trump's primary concern always was with the Iraq war with Afghanistan is Yes, he had some geopolitical qualms, you know, he was saying it was a nightmare took forever, etc But his number one issue and you can see this consistently through every single time he talked about these words before he was a politician as he said Where's the oil like we'd conducted this massive operation, you know, we moved heaven and earth and make these invasions happen and

But what was in it for the Americans as far as like tangible, like real reward?

Because you look in the past how empires conducted their affairs, the British, the Portuguese, the Spanish, all of these empires, when they would conduct operations overseas, they would return with goodies.

They'd say, look, we have tea now and all these exciting new resources for the people back in the home countries.

The American empire, so to speak, doesn't really operate that way.

It's like the rewards are geopolitical.

It's hard to quantify.