Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. Today we have the newest member of the Clay and Buck

podcast network with us, Ryan Gurdesky, and he hosts a weekly podcast called A Numbers Game.

He is a political commentator who authored the book. They're not listening how the elites

created the National Populist Revolution. And they're not listening, Ryan. I mean,

we're watching this just this week. How insane it was to see what they did at the congressional

address that the president had. I want to call it the state of the union. It's not a state of the

union. He came and he addressed Congress and they were ridiculous.

That was like the most raucous thing I've ever seen. But also the fact is like look at the

conversation about Europe and Ukraine in the last couple of weeks. There are serious commentators,

serious people who spend their whole entire lives hating Trump,

who are foreign policy analysts who are sitting there and saying Germany and Italy and France and Japan,

they could be the new leaders of Western liberalism.

And you want to be like, how delusional are you?

Like, where is your brain going?

Because none of these countries, one, have enough young men, have a military the size of America.

None of them have enough young men to create a military this size of America.

And the whole world is propped up.

The whole neoliberal global project is propped up on American welfare state, American USAD, American

trade policy, American Navy, keeping the, keeping the seaways clear and empty or safe or

other. All this is dependent on America. The whole world is an American welfare state.

And so the idea that Germany is going

to sit there in and do it. Germany, I mean, with who all their Turkish migrants? That's who's

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