➡ In a recent meeting, President Biden seemed to struggle with his memory, raising questions about his mental capacity. At the same time, there were two significant political events: an interview with Vladimir Putin and a special council report about Biden. The interview with Putin revealed some surprising information, while the report about Biden could have major implications for the 2024 election. Sean, a guest on the call, discussed these events and their potential impact.
➡ Germany might not exist as a country in ten years due to rapid deindustrialization and high energy costs. The U.S. needs to maintain communication with Russia, especially in light of recent conflicts. There are concerns about President Biden’s mental health and ability to serve, with some suggesting he may not be the Democratic candidate in the 2024 election. Despite political chaos, the stock market continues to perform well.
➡ The discussion revolves around potential candidates for the 2024 election, with Vivek being a popular choice for Vice President due to his impressive memory and articulation. However, some believe he would be better suited for a role like Secretary of Commerce or Interior. Nikki Haley is also mentioned, but is seen as someone who needs to step away from the party. The conversation also touches on a Putin interview and a special counsel report, and encourages viewers to subscribe to the Paradigm Press YouTube channel for more content.

In the meeting, Biden didn’t remember when his son Bo died, couldn’t remember the years he was vice president of the United States. And lights were on, but maybe only like a five watt bulb. And definitely nobody was home. Anyway, it is not often that you get bombshell damning reports politically in a week. It is very rare to have two of them. And it just happened. We had a big time interview with Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin.

Bombshells coming out of it, right? In the same time, we had a special council report about President Biden essentially questioning his mental capacity. These are gigantic happenings. They’re going to play out and have major implications in the 2024 election. That’s why we’ve got Sean ring on the call today. Sean is going to break down some of the things that he saw in the Putin interview that he likes and some of the ways that we can think about it.

And also we want to dive deep into the Biden special counsel report. Sean, thanks for joining us. Give us your take. Let’s start with Putin. What do we need to know? Good morning. How are you, Matt? Good afternoon to you. You’re over in Italy, so good afternoon. But Sean did say something in the green room. As we wait a few minutes here to get everybody on the call, Sean said something in the green room.

He’s like, well, everything that was said in the Putin interview and kind of in the Biden story, everyone at paradigm or in the Rickards camp should already know because a lot of these topics, we’re talking about them openly. It’s just now that these bombshells are starting to come out and there’s a lot of stuff to talk. I, it was interesting because I didn’t watch it live. I was like, midnight, no way.

I can’t do this anymore. So I got up early this morning and watched it on tuckercarson. com. There’s nothing about it that surprised me other than I thought Vladimir Putin pulled his punches a bit. I thought that he could have gone in a lot harder on, especially the 90s betrayal of Russia, when America was trying to stamp Russia into the ground and break it up and get all its resources.

He didn’t get too hard. He’s like, hey, that happened. Everyone thinks Yeltsin was a drunk and didn’t know what was going on, but he did. And when I became president in 2000, I said about fixing it, it’s kind of like we let those bygones be bygones. He emphasized a couple of things. One was that, listen, if NATO just stayed where it was none of this would have know.

He’s basically know. There were five waves of NATO enlargement and five provocations that we just let know. Russia just said, okay, you want the Baltics, okay, you want a lot of eastern Europe? Okay, fine, we’ll take it. We’ll take it on the chin because we don’t feel that threatened. But Ukraine. And again, I’ve written about this many times in the route and many newsletter writers have covered this.

You could walk from Lisbon. Actually, not Lisbon. You got to go over to Pyrenees. But you basically walk from Paris to know. And it’s flat as a know. There are no mountains know here and there. And one of the ways to do that is through the flat underbelly of Russia, which runs directly from Ukraine. That’s why Russia has always been so dependent on that not one inch to the east promise that America basically broke.

Putin actually also touched on when he asked Bill Clinton if Russia could join NATO, which I had forgotten about. That was probably the one thing went, oh, yeah, yeah, I remember that. God, that was ages know. What if Russia joined NATO? And Clinton said, wow, that’s an interesting idea. Let me go talk to my team. And the team came back and said no. And he know, that’s all know.

But all these clues were know laid before Russia that they just weren’t welcome in the nations of the know. The west didn’t want them, I think. And this is, again, just personal. This is nothing to do with the interview. I think it’s know, if you don’t have Russia as an enemy anymore, who are you building all those weapons to fight? Because China at the time, remember, wasn’t nearly considered as much of an enemy.

It only had had probably about ten years of super growth by then, still not anywhere near a threat to the United States. So, hey, we got to keep someone around to be the boogeyman. And that happened to be Russia. The Nordstream thing was really interesting, not because of what Putin, you read the rude this morning. Go back, Tucker Carlson. Actually know, it’s amazing to me that Germany knows one of its NATO partners blew up Nordstream and did nothing about it.

And what was hilarious about it was Putin picked it up for right there. Just said, yeah, I mean, he goes, listen, it was funny. Tucker goes, who blew up Nordstream? He goes, you did? And Tucker goes, oh, wasn’t me. I was busy that day. It was kind of a funny exchange between, no, no. He goes, you have an said, basically, you know, who has the motive and who has the capability to blow up Nordstream.

And basically there’s really one or maybe two countries, if you consider the UK, that could actually have pulled that off, of course, with polish help, since it was basically polish waters. But Tucker Carlson was the one who, you know, it was clearly one of Germany’s NATO partners. And Putin just kind of rode along with it, which I thought was funny. And then he just kind of bashed the european elites.

He goes, these people are incompetent. He’s like, the problem with Europe is that it doesn’t take into account its national interests anymore. So Germany is sitting there trying to fight for all the west, Europe, whatever that means, Atlantis’s point of view and doesn’t care about itself, and that’s why it’s deindustrializing. So to the russian mind, they just don’t get this. They’re just like, you are behaving irrationally. We’re just going to back goes, you know, basically there are two pipelines.

One of the Nordstream pipelines is unharmed or slightly harmed. We could fix it really quickly. And then there’s the Yamal Europe pipeline that runs through Poland that could easily feed Germany russian gas. We’re happy for them to turn it back on. They don’t want to turn it back on. So he’s presenting himself as magnanimous in all this. Again, nothing shocking to me about anything that Putin said. It was all stuff that, quite frankly, I’d written about years ago.

But the thing that kind of, I think, makes people feel really badly is when you juxtapose a president who could recite 800 years of russian history over the first half hour, the interview, which I found fascinating, to the point. Get to the point. Should have been interrupted. I heard that. It’s like, dude, I can listen to that all day with a president who thinks he just had a conversation with Francois Miturand and can’t figure out who, he gets ergonom and Orban confused.

It’s just a dearth of leadership in the west right now. And you got to feel kind of poor leadership wise after watching that. I was going to say, before we get into that, because that’s a great segue. I wanted to make sure that we cover some of the big picture stuff because some people, if you’re watching this or you see this on YouTube or whatever it may be, you might think me, I’m here at paradigm.

I’m the publisher, and Sean Ring writes the rude. He’s one of our best big thinkers here. You might think like, oh, these guys are. These are russian. They’re sympathists. They like Russia and all this stuff, and I want to make sure we keep that in. It’s. We love America. We also love the truth. And this is just one of those times where ever since Nordstream and a lot of the stuff that’s going on in the Ukraine, that’s the great part of us working, and we publish and work beside Jim Rickards.

Jim’s been on top of a lot of these topics and the truth of what’s happening. And it just so happens that. I’ll say it this way. We said this in the green room, Sean. Putin has this interview, and he seems kind of like he’s laughing and doing all these things. We also remember he’s got his foot on the throat of. So, like, this isn’t like he’s like, oh, let’s hang.

Like he’s basically killing a country and having this interview at the same time. So it’s not like he’s a good guy, but as you see it, Sean. Right. A lot of the stuff he’s saying is probably fairly. He’s a. He’s a nationalists. Again, to an American who has not been watching the mainstream media, he still sounds like a criminal. They probably watched it in horror. But being over here, a little bit closer, nowhere near the battlefield, thank heavens.

Germany is in an inordinate amount of trouble right now as a country. And again, this is something. Martin Armstrong’s talked about this. I’ve talked about this. Other people in my circle think the same thing. But Germany is probably not going to be country in ten years. It’s going to have to break up. It’s deindustrializing at such a pace right now, and you’re wasting all this genius, because what genius needs is cheap energy.

Okay? It’s kind of know you think about these spark kids at go Germany. Cheap natural gas. American pipeline gas is up to four times as expensive as russian pipeline gas. I’m sorry, American LNG. Sorry, American LNG is four times as expensive as russian pipeline gas. So from a german perspective, it makes no sense to ignore russian supplies. Now, of course, it is very inconvenient that Russia invaded Ukraine and Europe is so into this.

Hey, we haven’t had any problems since 1945, which is not true, obviously. I mean, we remember what happened to Yugoslavia, but that was supposed to be the last time we had any trouble in Europe. Anybody who kind of breaks that rhythm is a pariah. And they allowed the United States to. I’m going to call it straight out, use this infantile form of test of relations where you don’t talk to your enemies anymore.

It’s diplomatic kindergarten in the United States. I think the State Department’s utterly embarrassed itself. You need to keep channels open with your enemies. It’s actually more important to do that with your enemies than your friends. Your friends are predictable. You know, they’re not going to do anything to hurt you usually. But with Russia, you need to keep the lines open. And they have not kept the lines open at all.

Putin keeps saying, hey, listen, come on, we’re ready to talk. We’re ready to come to the table. Come to the table. And quite frankly, we should have been at the table. So I’d like to see the US kind of grow up a little bit on that score. Yeah. And the other, like, now we’ll segue over because I think he also said Tucker asked him. He’s like, when’s the last time you talked to Biden? He’s like, I don’t remember.

It’s been a while. So let’s get into Biden. Charlie doesn’t remember. At the same time, we get this two hour interview, which some of our readership and viewership, like, hopefully you guys got through it. I mean, it was a long interview, the Tucker and Putin interview. And Sean, I appreciate your take on what you saw there, but at the same time, we get another bombshell. Just timing wise, it’s weird.

And the things that they’re saying are scathing. And you go on to my favorite news source, CNN. Just kidding. But you go on to CNN. Even CNN is saying things about Biden, like this special counsel report that came out basically makes it seem like everything Jim Rickards and we’ve been saying here at paradigm is correct. Like this dude, the lights are on, but no one’s like, he does not have any memory.

He can’t talk appropriately. So give us a rundown of what you’re seeing and what you’ve seen at least, because this is just kind of breaking now what you’ve seen from this report and where things go, because there’s an election, Biden is still in all the primary ballots. He’s supposed to be on the main ballot. What’s going to happen? It’s a pretty shocking thing. Our colleague Dave Gunnigam, if you don’t read the five, read the five.

Dave puts a great digest out every day about what’s going on in the markets. But this morning when he got on, he got in the chat room and mentioned that the special counsel, that Merrick Garland, who’s the worst attorney general in the history of the United States got to investigate. Biden was a Republican named Robert her, who’s a Korean American. And the report is staggering. Okay, so they basically said in this report, he said that in the report, there is absolutely no doubt that Joe Biden had documents he shouldn’t have had on him at his private residence.

But because he is so fried mentally, and that’s not the exact words he used, we should get up the report sooner or later, but basically said he’s so fried that we never get a conviction out of this, there’s no way that we could try him and that he would look like anything other than a sympathetic elderly. It’s. It’s absolutely unbelievable. Apparently, in the meeting, Biden didn’t remember when his son Bo died, couldn’t remember the years he was vice president of the United States, was just Madison.

The lights were on, but maybe only like a five watt bulb. And definitely nobody was home anyway. And the left wing press has been absolutely infuriated. They’re like, this is the biggest hatchet job since Comey got Hillary. But it’s undoubtedly true. And it’s now daily that Joe Biden is making these gasps. I’m sure you saw, he thought he talked to Midaran instead of Macron. He was talking to Helmut Cole instead of Olaf Schultz, who’s the current german chancellor.

I think another one was, he got the border of Mexico and Egypt mixed. You know, he was talking about Gaza and, oh, thank God, the Mexicans are going to open up the border. No, the Egyptians are going to open up the border. He already left the border open in the United States. All these issues are creeping up. I think that it would have been smarter to wait until later to release this report.

One or two things. Either the Democrats released it because they thought, well, hey, let’s get it out here early so when we pull them off the ballot, no one’s shocked. Or let’s get this out while Tucker is doing this interview, because then we can make the Republicans look like they’re trying know kill the Biden presidency. Either way, it’s gotten out quite early. And it just gives more credence to what Jim Rickards has said on this very channel and also on our paradigm press YouTube channel, that it’s probably going to be someone like a Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama that is going to be on the democratic ticket day by day.

It is looking highly now probable, not possible that Joe Biden will not be the democratic frontrunner for the presidency in 2024. What does Donald Trump look like against Gavin Newsom? I imagine he wipes the floor with him. All he has to say is, if you elect Gavin Newsom, the rest of the United States is going to look like California. And if Michelle Obama comes in, I imagine that would be a really nasty couple debate sessions between the two of them, and it’d be really interesting to see how they run against each other.

I imagine the metropolitan elites would all vote for Michelle Obama, and literally everybody else in the country would vote for Donald Trump. Dude, I just had a crazy thought. Could you imagine they’re debating like, Trump and Michelle Obama are debating, and Trump starts saying something like, then Barack Obama just gets up on the stage and smacks like, this could be. God knows Michelle’s got a bigger. Michelle escaped like a linebacker.

I’m not sure if he needs Tariq. One thing I will share again, this is, as it’s all coming out, this is kind of what I was hinting at. And again, I don’t check CNN for my news, but I check it every now and then just to see what they’re saying. It’s one of those, like, keep an eye on stuff here. Let me share my screen. This is just, you know, this is trashing Biden here in the main.

It’s like it spins kind of control. And in this headline down here, this was actually one of the main headlines earlier today. Trump was just given a political gift to exploit. So it’s like, this almost seems like you’re on Fox News. It’s like Biden’s an idiot. Trump’s doing the. I can’t tell if there’s two different things that happened. This was orchestrated by the Democrats as a piece of information so that it’s like, all right, we’re going to usher him out at some point, like Jim Rickards has predicted, or is this something that came out and they didn’t know it and they are just dealing with it? They’re like, oh, we got to just start throwing this stuff out.

And they’re scurrying and trying to figure out what to do next. Either way, like you said, I do believe the drumbeat is getting louder, that light. It would be shocking if Biden was actually on the 2024 election, main election ballot. It’s just inconceivable. I think Jim says it best. Jim has tons of times I’ve interviewed Jim Rickards. He calls him a husk. It’s like a shell of a person.

He’s just, like, just shuffled around places. He can’t think of anything, and he just says things that make no sense. It would be a sad day in America if he’s on the presidential ballot for either party or whatever. But the Democrats, that would be a sad day. Anything else there to wrap up the conversation on what you’re seeing from there? No. The only thing, and I think we’re going to segue into this is that despite all this ridiculousness politically, we just hit 5000 Es and P.

Yeah. All right. Well, that’s the other thing. So we’ll wrap it up there. I appreciate all the conversation and the updates on Putin interview and then what we’re seeing here out of Biden because it’s interesting. Are there any other, not with Putin, but I guess anything else you’re seeing for Trump VP or any other pieces of the 2024 election now, I’d love to see Vivek not as vice president.

I think that’s everyone’s like, Vivek should be the VP. And interestingly funny that you bring that up. Vivek demonstrates that Putin like memory. Like, he just could just recite stuff straight off the top of his. Know, when they tried to get him on the slavery question with the civil war, he was just incredibly articulate, incredibly cogent. Just straight out there, boom, confident. Thank you very much. Well prepped, but I think he’d be wasted as a vp.

I mean, to me, get him as secretary of commerce, get him secretary of interior, someplace where he could do real damage. In fact, he’d probably be the person I’d want in every ministry or department that I want to eliminate. Just cut half the staff here. Get rid of them. Go ahead. Nikki Haley losing to none of the above, which is just another thing. She is to me the person who does not know how to leave the party.

A party or the party. Capital T, capital P. She’s got to go. It’s over for. She just doesn’t know it yet. All right, everyone, there you have it. That’s right from Sean. Sean, we appreciate your take. I know you’re over in Italy. You give us a nice outsider’s perspective on what’s happening. But the Putin interview, Tucker Carlson, and then the special counsel report, big, big happenings for everyone at home.

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