Andrew Stotz: 36:57

yeah, so that. That is one thing that I found that was really kind of shocking is that, you know, growing up in America, I thought that America really was out there in the world, to promote democracy. And, you know, it didn't take long and a bit of reading of history and understanding the people behind the scenes realizing, I'm not convinced America has any interest in democracy around the world. I just don't think that that's, that is not the goal. But I want to I have a, I want to wrap up in just a few minutes. But I want to I have a theory that I presented to my clients, about a year or so ago, my clients, let's say, are fund managers and investors in Thailand, professional institutional investors, and I, I write research that I tried to look ahead to say, what's going to happen and what should you own. And about a year and a half ago, I produced a report, and I said that we are in the middle of World War 2.5. And, and this, they, they knew that the Russian invasion or the annexation that's happening in Ukraine, that that was going on, so they could see that there's a war. So I asked them, Who It's America against who? And this is my question. And for the listeners and the viewers think, World War 2.5 Is America against who? Well, the first question is, well, is it America against Russia? And I said, No, I don't think America doesn't really all America wants ultimately from Russia is access to oil and gas and minerals, and uranium and all of that. But from an economic perspective, Russia is not a threat. Maybe from a nuclear perspective, yes. But still, I think Americans don't see that. So then that next next one, they said, Well, is it America against China? And I said, No. So I said, The World War 2.5 is actually finished. It's over an America one. Who did they fight Europe. And America just dominated Europe. Not one European leader is able to stand up to America net, America now absolutely controls NATO, and has now gotten as many European countries into NATO as it possibly can. America has, basically, economically has dominated Europe and crushed Germany, because if you look at the flow of oil and gas into Europe, it's all come from the heart of the Russian oil and gas fields. And when they blew up the pipeline, the Nord Stream pipelines, basically, that was the end, and they disconnected Europe from their cheap energy source and its main energy source. And so America on many sides, politically, militarily, economically, has now dominated Europe. So now the question is, why did they need to do that? And again, this is all my theory, right? Why do they need to do that? Because America's going to war with China and They're, they're marching down that path already. And the problem is that Africa doesn't want a world war between America and China. India doesn't want a war between, you know, US and China, nobody really wants that. But if they can get a hold of the Europeans and get them to also now disengage from China, and see China's enemy, now they have all the economic and political power that exists in this world, let's say 90% of it is concentrated in US and Europe. And they can then force this war world war three, on the rest of the world. That was my theory. But there's a last part of the theory. And I asked them, I asked my clients, where do you think World War Three is going to happen? And my clients said, well, Taiwan. I said, No. Africa. You see, America has neglected Africa for many, many years, they didn't have much to pay attention to with Africa, I would say Europe paid more attention to Africa than America did over the last 20 or 30 years. But it's a little bit like, I had a lady that I once was considering dating. And she said to me that she said, I said, Are you separated or divorced or what she said, Yeah, I'm separated. But you know, my husband's got another family and you don't have to worry about it, we can date I said, I said, the minute your husband sees you with another guy, he gonna care. And I think that's what's going to happen with America, they're going to see and they are seeing that China has dominated, all of the resources are now going to China for refining and all of that. And China has made relationships in Africa way beyond where America is. And that's where I think the sticking point, maybe it's not going to be a physical war in Africa. But the confrontation over resources is probably going to happen there. So anyways, that's a long winded description of my, my thing that I told my clients, but what do you think makes sense of that? And what do you think that doesn't make sense of that I'd love to hear.