Hello and welcome back to Making the Argument.

We have a episode today, which is going to be dedicated to a couple of our members from the community chat, Chris and Joshua.

They asked an interesting question, and that is we've talked a lot about the internal turmoil within the United States, but how does the rest of the world react?

Like what happens on a global level if the United States is so inundated

with infighting, with, you know, questions about national divorce or with just open civil war?

Like what would happen to the entire global situation if the United States was not able to

intervene financially or militarily the way we have for the

past, what, 100 years? So we decided to open that up. And that's what we're going to do today.

We're going to go through and we're going to ask questions like, what would China do? What would

Russia do? What would Iran or the Middle East do? What would the European Union do? Or here's a question, what would our neighbors, Mexico and Canada, do if the

United States was so immersed in an internal conflict that we couldn't project the power we

normally do? All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument. And I want to

encourage everyone to go ahead and look in the show notes,

go into our community chat. Like I said, this whole episode today was inspired by two different

people from our community asking us to tackle this question. So that's what we're going to do.

So go over there, give that a look and see if you might be interested in joining. Also,

if you enjoy the program that we provide, maybe like, maybe subscribe. We certainly appreciate people watching, but it also helps if you choose to do those two things as well. As always, I am your host,

Nick Fratus, with me in the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the Bees.

Hello, everyone. And we also have our resident, historian, and political prognosticator,

Christian Heinz. How are you doing, man? I'm doing well. All right. So we're going to go ahead and jump right into this. Let me go ahead and lay the

groundwork because there's a thousand different scenarios that you could use. We've talked a lot about

this whole concept of national divorce or internal struggle within the United States, right?

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