A lot of the conversation around NATO, for example, is interesting where people who should know better think that, you know, if a country in Europe doesn't pay their 3% GDP or whatever into NATO, into defense, that we pick up the tab, that the American taxpayer picks up the tab.

And it's like, no, the reality is that america pays something like

two hundred two hundred and fifty million dollars a year into nato depending on what

exercises are run that year it's a very low cost investment for us and it's the most

successful military alliance maybe the most successful alliance america has had historically

full stop um so i mean if you want to cut costs, I get it, but like,

we'd be a little bit smarter about it. And if we are cutting costs, um, my question is,

where's my tax break? And, and I don't just mean that like ironically. I mean, if you're, like, slashing the size of

the government in half, then it stands the reason that the budget is slashed in half and that the

average American worker should be taking home more money, right? But I haven't seen that in the

conversation anywhere.

I'm trying to see. that in the conversation anywhere.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of Eyes on Geopolitics.

We got a full crew today, Jason Lyons, Andy Milburn, Mick Mulroy, Jack Murphy, and myself. A lot going on. Been chatting a lot. I wish I could have played. I wish I could have recorded what we were talking about before. I feel like people would probably get a kick out of it. A lot happening as usual. The world's falling apart at the seams. It seems like a thing that

just popped off recently, like literally an hour before we kicked off. Pentagon informs European

diplomats that the U.S. will partially halt military assistance to Baltic nations and NATO

states bordering Russia. All this happening when, this is from Reuters, all this happening when we, you know, for

the third time in about a week, Russia's breached NATO airspace, Poland, Romania, and just

recently Estonia, I think that was yesterday.

Estonia invoking Article 4, even though Article 4 was invoked by Poland.

I think this makes history because the last time Article 4 was invoked, I think, was Turkey.

And that happened within a couple months of each, like a few months of each other.

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