Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Renaissance man, Gonzalo Lira.

Gonzalo is a Chilean, American, author, filmmaker, journalist, financial blogger, YouTuber, Coach Redpill, and many have been following his commentary on his Gonzalo Lira YouTube channel over the past months regarding the Ukraine situation.

Good to have you on Geopolitics and Empire, Gonzalo.

It's a pleasure being on.

Thank you for having me. There are a few themes I wanted to get your thoughts on. And again,

feel free to freestyle. But, you know, one of the themes is the U.S. NATO, EU, Ukraine, Russia,

World War III situation, this sort of great reset situation where governments seem to be both

collapsing and clamping down on their citizens, especially in the West.

And something you talked about in the video, I think you did almost a year ago.

I want to talk about that where you were telling Westerners to, quote, leave now while you can, end quote.

And so maybe we could start with the Ukraine situation and how you would

summarize what exactly has been and is going on. And your sort of big picture of you on

what Ukraine is all about, you know, this confrontation between the east and the west.

Yeah. My thinking is that it's not about Ukraine.

Okay?

What's really going on is that the United States power has eroded to such an extent

that the people in a position of leadership realize what's going on,

realize that their perch is slipping very quickly.

The American domestic economic situation is catastrophic. The over-indebtedness

is the problem. Also, the years of excess deficit spending. It's just the American power is collapsing.

Therefore, the American political position globally is collapsing.

And so instead of trying to have a graceful come down and become just one more of a series of great powers around the world,

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