Talkers/Open Line - Halal Food Backlash

I was a little bit concerned about the lack of consistency between Kagame and Putin in the way that Oscar explained their similarities or lack thereof.

Because I can tell you, had I not said Rwanda and had replaced everything he had said about Rwanda in another person's ears, would have been quite comparable, in fact, quite similar.

Which leads me to the question that I'm interested in asking to say.

It appears that in the world of geopolitics, it is not so much a principled argument that wins the day.

It is the most cogent argument that wins the day.

True.

for that moment.

The things that constantly baffle my brain in the way that we analyze international politics, let me say geopolitics generally, is the fact that we have the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

a war that was supposed to take place very quickly.

In fact, it started out being called something else, not a war.

Similar to the war that is now, what, eight months old in Western Asia that was called something else.

I think it was called a preemptive blah, blah, blah strike or something.

Now, eight months old, it's wreaking havoc in the global economy.

Those two invasions... not treated the same they've got similar global economic risk results what happened with invasion of of Ukraine cause untold havoc in terms of global economic issues with regards to fertilizers and diesel.

By the way, United States of America and Russia are having conversations right now about selling each other diesel, ignoring all of the so-called sanctions that have been imposed against Russia for the invasion of Russia.

Germany is starting to talk about, you know, we really need to think hard about the fears that Russia has for their own domestic safety.

We haven't been doing that.

And so they've suspended financing of Ukraine in the fight against Russia.

The United States has been offered, I believe, a chance to stop the war by...

Iran by offering to say, listen, we'll open up the Strait of Hormuz and we will not charge any tolls for anybody.

It'll be as it was before the 27th of February this year.

All you have to do as Americans is just make sure that Donald Trump is no longer the president of the country.

I suppose it's probably a big conversation in the United States to the extent that that

is possible.

And then, of course, there's the reality of the war against Gaza, right? Yeah.