The whole interview is very long and may not be your political cup of tea, but there were multiple 🤯🤯🤯 moments for me, shared by someone with many decades of hard won first hand experience and a clear love for America and American values.
Below are a few of my takeaways. I was too focused on listening to take better notes.
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Only 3% of all Americans took up arms in the Revolution. 30% of colonists were for independence, 30% were neutral, and 40% supported the crown — so more actually supported Britain. Never underestimate a small & passionate & coordinated group to change the world…
In the Wild West, the Pinkertons (a private security force) at their height were 6x larger than the US army; they effectively ran things
Largely unchecked growth in the modern American bureaucracy is a result of a 1984 Supreme Court ruling that effectively gave government agencies the “force of law”; thus bureaucrats could create regulations and enforce them as if they were laws (I want to research this more)
During WW2, Russia lost 22m people, while the US only lost 400k; in fact Russia lost more in a single battle than the US did in the whole war…for me, it just puts into perspective that when it comes to global war, and particularly war on the Eurasian landmass, America is usually the proverbial egg in a bacon-and-eggs breakfast
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Countless other moments, including on China, Ukraine-Russia, Trump…embedding part 1 below: