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There's no part of that that's like you need to really at a deep level understand that, like, nuclear annihilation is bad and could happen.

Like, the, you don't need to be able to forecast out, like, well, what happens if China and geopolitics and Iran gets the bomb and then these people and then Pakistan? Like, you don't have to understand that to just know, like, don't let it blow up.

That's your job.

Here's how you don't let that happen.

So we have about 10 countries that use FMF for direct commercial contracts.

You have Israel, you have Egypt, J- Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Portugal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Greece, right? That did dif- that did change somewhat recently because we expanded the direct commercial eligibility for our f- uh, uh, finan- uh, foreign military financial aid to, uh, or services to 30 other, 32 NATO countries and then, uh, I think it's 18 or 19 non- uh, NATO, major non-NATO allies, and that was done under a statutory change that was completed in 2023.

So, and it went, and it, it was, it went into effect this last spring.

So Romania also has a $920 million FMF direct loan agreement, and, uh, Egypt has a 1.3 FMF agreement annually.

Turkey will not come to his assistance.

Pakistan will not come to his assistance.

Egypt will not come to his assistance.

Uh, MBS is a drowning man, desperately flagging, looking for some support, but he's gonna go under, and it's all his own fault.

And he no long- he can't project himself as the man that can guarantee the security of Saudi Arabia because it's now turned out that his military and their allies can't fight.

They don't know how to fight, and nobody's coming to his assistance.

United States won't, Turkey won't, um, Pakistan won't.

And so this is a man now, if you're a member of a tribe, saying, "What do you bring to us? What do you give us?" And the answer today is nothing.

They're going to keep escalating.

So on the Mecca Defense Agreement Fund, Turkish foreign minister, sorry, Erdogan, Turkish president said, Saudi, Pakistan and Turkey came together and took a step.

With this step, God willing, we want to send the signal to the Islamic world from here.

There are positive developments and we will succeed.

Yeah, and look, if there is a clause in the agreement that says pre-existing wars are not included, we've got to take that into consideration.

Because if we say, oh, this agreement is worthless, but there's a clause there that's very clear that pre-existing wars, and that's also understandable.

Everyone said, we don't expect Pakistan and the Turks to go into war with Iran just because they just signed that agreement and there's hostilities ongoing.

That doesn't make sense.

Trump has said no.

The Saudis, now his attitude towards Saudi Arabia has already driven them into the hands of the Turks and the Pakistanis.

Now, They have a defense agreement with the Turks and Pakistanis.

They went to the Turks and Pakistanis and asked for help.

They told them no as well.

The only people supposedly helping the Saudis with intelligence, not with live fire, are the Israelis, who they don't have any relationship with, any political relationship with.

Well, actually, no, let me correct myself.

We covered on this podcast that they made a pact with Pakistan and Turkey.

Remember that? Sure.

So they turned to their two allies and said, hey, guys, we need you to bomb the Houthis.

They attacked Saudi Arabia.

We signed the contract.

And Turkey and Pakistan said, we are going to make a day of

prayer for

Russia, as well, seems determined to flush its future down the pan with its illegal and unprovoked war against Ukraine.

Other populous countries aren't so much in conflict in the same way, but Pakistan and the US are probably the other two of major concern.

Now, Pakistan has had some bad luck with natural disasters that has caused some of its problems, but it also has chronic development challenges and political instability.

so it's hard to see how Pakistan's going to turn around soon.

For the US, the headline story is politics.

Populism is taking a toll not just on rights, but really across the piece of US social progress.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, needs a safe outlet for its crude as well as military support.

Despite a new Saudi defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan, officials with both countries say they've received no Saudi request for military support in response to the Houthis' recent escalation.

Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close most of the Performing Arts Center for repairs.

That vote came after a federal judge blocked the institution from returning President Trump's name to the building.

So I'm a nationalist, but I'm also a man who has preached the gospel in 58 nations of the world.

I've brought millions of people to the foot of the cross in Pakistan, in India, in Armenia, in Georgia, in Egypt, throughout the Middle East, in Uganda, in Kenya.

In South America, in Iraq, all over the place, I have preached the gospel to see people come to know our Lord and our Savior.

But I want people who are viewing this to really understand the structure of nationalism.