Jim, can you hear us?

Yes, I hear you fine.

Thank you.

All right.

Let me introduce Jim to our audience.

You've been on geopolitics and empire a couple of times.

You're a former U.S. diplomat.

I think you were the GOP Senate foreign policy

advisor, and I would say an all-around analyst extraordinaire. I thought we could start with

a recent interview you gave to Faultline's radio on Sputnik, where you said that you're voting

Trump essentially because you're afraid of what the other

side will do. I didn't vote this year, but I feel you. What's the worst a Biden-Harris deep

state victory could portend? Oh, well, where do we start? I mean, look, Trump did not carry

through with a lot of his promises from 2016, but at least he didn't

start any new wars. He said he wanted to get out of the existing wars. He hasn't really done that.

Hey, it's a pretty small bar to clear when you can say, thank goodness he didn't start any new wars,

but at least we have that. I would not be so sure about that with Biden. If you look at

the people he's likely to appoint to his administration, he makes Trump's team look like a bunch of

Mahatma Gandhi's. I mean, Biden has been a drumbeater for everyone. He's like a Democratic

John McCain, if you look at his record as a senator and his vice president. So I'm worried

about that. But I think the bigger issues we have right now in our country are more what you might call

fundamental definition of who we are as a country. On the one hand, you have people,

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