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Shaun Maguire

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“Doug is the man. I absolutely love Doug. Let's see. I'd say there's three things. One, to have a sense of humor with everything you're doing. Two, be maximally direct, you know, go for it. And when you combine those two, like being extremely direct, but doing it with love and humor, it's game changer. Next is do not waste anyone's time. Your own time or their time. And related to that, as few of words as possible to get the point across.”
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“I should have had the chance to. I should have had the chance to. I was right around those guys. And yeah, I'm a moron for not finding a way.”
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“I have many, many, many misses. It's Andrew for sure. Trace Stevens and Peter Teal led the seed round in my company. You know, I've known Palmer since before started the company. And I don't know how I didn't invest in that company. It's insane.”
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“I really think it depends on the topic. Like, if it's a SaaS company, Pat Grady, if you have to read someone, you only get like 10 minutes to read the person that it's Doug Leone. If it's like a biotech company, it's definitely Ruloff. If it's an operationally heavy company, it's Alfred. If it's a fintech company, it's probably Andrew Reid, if it's an AI company, it's David Kahn, Sonia, and Constantine. It really depends on the type of company.”
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“Topic. I love the Ukrainian people. I believe in them. And there's a lot of nuance around him saying, but I don't think a forever war is in their interest.”
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“So that was a formative experience for me, and I've studied Ukraine very deeply since. I have a lot of love for Ukraine. But I think the war in Ukraine, I think that America could not have botched the initial response more. But I think that now we're in a situation where I don't think a Forever War is in the interest of the Ukrainian people over time, like in a war of production, the East will win. I think that China will just wildly outproduce munitions compared to the West. The thing that's in Ukraine's interest is to have a ceasefire and unfortunately cede some of the eastern territory. There needs to be some security guarantee with teeth that is not NATO, but is something else to have a deterrence against Russia just kind of doing the same thing again and just eating away more and more territory. Another landmine.”
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“First, I visited Ukraine in 1992. My great grandfather, Arthur Cohen, was a geologist who worked in the Black Sea, and he took my family to go visit the region after the Soviet Union collapsed so we could go see it. Ukraine in 1992 was like, it was the saddest place I've ever been because after the Soviet Union fell, there was a couple-year period where there was still enough inertia from the Soviet Union of the economy of output of oil and commodities and stockpiles of goods, et cetera, that were being sold, that there was still some money coming in called in 1991, but by like end of 1992, early 1993, it was the absolute low point in terms of the economy there and five-year-old kids were just begging in the street, swarming you when they could tell that you were from America and might have some money or whatever. Like you'd go in a grocery store and there'd be 10 items in the entire grocery store. It was very, very poor.”
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“One of the stupidest decisions of all time. It's just such an obvious hedge for America. And selling $2 billion of Bitcoin today just doesn't matter for America. But in the world where China and others basically weaken the dollar, deliberately kind of reduce dollar dominance, which they're doing right now. People don't understand how much this is happening right now, especially after the war in Ukraine, where US sanctioned Russia basically moved off SWIFT. Like a lot of oil trade is now happening in Yuan, not in dollars the petrodollar is breaking, blah, blah, blah. Like you look at the cross-border trade in China and like the percent of it that's happening yuan now, it's now like 60% is happening UN, which is insane compared to a decade ago. And so I just think it's a very obvious hedge for America is to hold Bitcoin.”
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“I think for him, many things. One, I think he is one of the greatest first principal thinkers of all time. Two, I think that he has some of the best instincts of anyone out there. I think that people don't quite appreciate just how good his instincts are. And sometimes back in 2013 or so, he was saying that eventually SpaceX will launch Starlink and that it would be a huge deal. Like the technologies of how you would make Starlink were science fiction in 2013.”
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“I wish we paid a lower price, obviously. The price was what it was at that point in the public markets. When you do take private, you have to pay a premium to the public price. And so I wish it was half the price. But I think that X is one of the most strategic assets in the world. And I think Elon is the best operator in the world. And I think that usage is at all time high on the platform. I think the relevancy of the platform is at all time high. I think X is still weeding the garden or just removing all of the dead weight and clearing through the brush before kind of the whole next gen of product ideas and like enhanced monetization of X will happen.”
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“Yeah. I have an insane amount of energy. I have my whole life. If I don't exercise, like if I don't just burn my energy into the ground, I lose my mind. I'm like a wild animal, feral animal if I don't exercise. And so this is something I do like a lot, like all the time. I timed it out and napped it out and it was 15 miles and scheduled a bunch of phone calls. And I literally ran to SpaceX in my jeans from West Hollywood. I did phone calls most of the way while running in my jeans. And part of it was through the deep, deep ghetto. Probably really stupid to do it. I won't do it again. It was middle of the day. And so I felt a little bit more comfortable. But yeah, I'm stupid like that.”
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“Together for almost 30 years, and I think there were many disagreements, but like when those two guys would disagree on something and have a long debate, whatever they led to as the compromise or whatever, that process is polishing a diamond. Like you start with a lump of coal and through this extreme combative process, like you can polish it into like a diamond of an idea. Why am I not fired? One, I try to only say things that I have researched to an unbelievable extent and can back up to any level of detail. Second, I try to have a lot of empathy. And so like even if it doesn't come across this way, I have pretty nuanced views and I try to have empathy for people. And three, I really care about my partners and try to support my partners. And so even if it doesn't come across that way, like.”
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“Look, I can get fired at any moment. It's possible. I think Sequoia is a really special place. I think it's a more special place than people realize part of the secret of how Sequoia has stayed so successful for so long is by having a culture where you can have people with opposite personalities, opposite points of view that still work together really well. You know, like Mike Moritz and Doug Leone could not have more opposite political perspectives or more opposite personalities.”
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“Because it is against the narrative. If you go report that a Jewish dentist in San Diego is stabbed to death by a patient named Muhammad, this actually happened. A Persian Jewish dentist who my family knows in San Diego was literally stabbed to death by a former patient named Mohammed just randomly. It was not reported. And it was not reported as a hate crime, et cetera, because it's just against the narrative and there's media capture on one side. And there's actually been quite a few incidents like that since October 7th and they are not reported. And on the opposite side, the things have been reported out of proportion. But anyways”
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“I do, especially because of how outspoken I've been. I get recognized pretty regularly now. It's kind of insane. dozens of death threats, some of which were pretty credible after October 7th, fewer now than like at the peak when I was really, really active. And simple things like whenever I'm in an Uber, I don't ever want to mention Judaism or Israel. And these are very simple things. I mean, first of all, there has been a lot more Jewish hate crimes in the West since October 7th than people realize. It is not reported on. There are murders of Jews that are not reported on. Like I know of two people that were murdered that is barely reported on by the mainstream media. It's insane.”
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“Is This is going to sound crazy. I want my kids to grow up a lot of resiliency and grit. And when you're under attack and misunderstood and stuff, it is a shield from all of the insanity that is happening in the rest of the world. And so even though they're physically under attack, you know, and there's you have to go into the bomb shelter regularly when rockets are fired and Iron Dome has intercepted them. Growing up in Israel gives you a shield against information warfare because when you're on the receiving end of information warfare all the time every day, it shows you what the tactics are and makes you immune to it. Growing up in that environment gives you immunity against complacency and laziness, puts a chip on your shoulder. It shows you what the world actually is. It gives you a sense of camaraderie to be amongst a community where kind of everyone is going.”
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“So, I have two sons, and I hope to have more kids. For me, I think that if I felt like I lost a child or had a damaged relationship with the child because of what schools or the state did, I would be beyond furious and beyond pain. That's like the crux of what it comes down to is if other people are able to groom your child, that is not okay to me. But on the other hand, if you do genuinely have a child that is transgender, I think they should be supported.”
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“I have no issues at all with people living their lives however they want, but I have strongly allergic reaction to imposing your views on other people with the transgender stuff, the things that the issue that I think is really wrong is basically how we're handling transgender issues in schools. And the idea that schools don't need to report to parents, if a 12-year-old child says they're transgender in the most extreme that like affirming children's gender is taken into like custody battles in Canada and other places and it can even be seen in the most extreme case as child abuse to not affirm your child's gender and like just things like that are really insane to me especially For 12 year old kids, I think that that is a batshit crazy philosophy.”
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“I think that that's a fair question to ask. It's helpful to have reminders you should go hunt for new opportunities outside of your base network. And it's helpful to have reminders of like, oh, wow, you only work with white men. Like that's a good, it's helpful to see that statistics. It's kind of a reminder that, hey, maybe I'm doing something wrong. But I will say there is a venture fund that I know very well. It is not Sequoia that for a period of time had a policy that every investor was to boast to back at least one female founder per year. Even if you did zero investments, so like if you did zero investments in that year, you were not meeting that policy. And so I just, for me, my issues are more with poorly implemented policies.”
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“This really polarized views where I am very supportive of diversity and have been a champion of diversity my entire life. But DEI means something different than people think it does. Like DEI means you can have quotas against hiring white men”
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“Oh man, good question. First of all, I think that the modern paradigm of DEI is toxic, woke ideology that is literally cancer for society. I'm not going to mince words with that, but I think that DEI means something different than what Mark Cuban thinks. I think that DEI is not diversity. I deeply believe in diversity. Diversity matters a lot to me. DEI, like one piece of is equity. And the definition of equity is not creating equal opportunities. It's to have equal outcomes. That is insane. The idea that no matter what someone's work ethic is or no matter what their talent is, that everyone should have equal outcomes, like that is communism. That will literally destroy the West from inside. And so I have this kind of”
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“Obviously, it's not going to work. It's Doug Leone. But I just find it crazy that it's like one partner in a firm that has made great climate investments. It's this cancel culture ideology. And it's this belief that someone disagrees with you. And so you can just send an email and maybe someone will take action on it. I think that's very sloppy. And I hope we can get back to a point where we can have civil discourse, civil debate, not assume that every side is stupid or wrong or villainous.”
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“I can't look. I'm not going to go into all the details. Many different people tried to get me fired in many different ways. Look, after October 7th, I was one of the most outspoken people in the world and one of the first people don't like that. Or I'll give you a more recent experience, not about myself. But in my inbox, the last, you know, I feel happy that I got spared from this, but in my Sequoi inbox the last 12 hours 20 climate people have emailed most Sequoia partners saying that like Doug Lioni is problematic for supporting Trump and that Trump has anti-climate positions and they don't know how they can support how they can believe that support Sequoia supports climate anymore. But just really quick, like 20 people, obviously there's some climate mailing list or some climate group and they basically all sent the same language, but they're trying to cancel Doug for supporting Trump because of Trump's climate policies.”
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“Just go look at what they're doing and their policies, like they're doing better than anywhere. And so, yes, I think Europe is on the way down. I think the whole West is in decline relative to the East, but I think you can still have a great life and there's still a lot of opportunity.”
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“I love Europe. I try to see the best in everywhere. I think you can still have a great life in Europe going forward. I think there'll still be great companies created in Europe. I just think that the rate, like the probability of those things happening will be lower than in many other places and lower in Europe on a proportionate basis than it was 20 years ago. I think the place that's doing the best right now of anywhere is probably Dubai. Like UAE is”
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“Seven to over 100 countries. My biggest trip was in 2008, 2009. On that trip, I went to all over the world, but I had a pretty form of experience in Sweden where I was on the train from Stockholm to Malmo and half of the train were migrants. And it was just clear they were not being assimilated at all. And at the time, like I don't remember the exact statistics, but Sweden's obviously a very small population, you know, 9 million people or something like that at the time. And at the time, the country of Sweden had taken more refugees from the Middle East than America. And I don't remember exactly which country I'm drawing the lines from Iraq or from Afghanistan or from the combination, but like even though America had started the wars there, Sweden had taken more refugees, not on a per capita basis, on an absolute basis than America.”
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“Think that this is an offshoot of cancel culture, like cancel culture primed people to become so afraid to say what they think that people just became silent as it's evolved. We've gotten to a point where like the people that made it to the top in many situations made it by not only not saying anything, but by like saying like one position is acceptable, the other side is not. And so like there's a lot of leaders in Europe that have been maximally on the train of pro-migration or, you know, like never, ever condemn a migrant. Migrants can do no wrong. And like that was part of how they got elected to senior positions. And now that kind of the data has reversed, their positions can't reverse because they have too much vested in this.”
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“A bunch of whom had DNA and video evidence. That is the world that Europe is in. That state of Europe is pretty insane. And so people don't even know these things are happening because you can't talk about it. The media is not talking about it. It's insane.”
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“Going another group of two men found her, and they raped her. So she was raped by 11 men in the park in one night. I think that seven out of 11, there was video evidence of them, or at least photographic evidence of them. I think nine out of 11 had DNA evidence, like where there was semen in the woman. So the most evidence you can possibly have after that happened, like after sentencing, I think only one of them got jail time and it wasn't it was like two years. I think only one got jail time, but some hackers released the contact information of the rapist, like to try to get revenge because of this. And there was some woman, she sent a bunch of nasty text messages to one of the rapists, and she ended up getting two days in prison for hate speech and two years of community service for it. So she got more of a sentence than like 10 of 11.”
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“There was this, like, this one was crazy, and most Europeans don't even know this stuff is happening because you can't talk about it. So maybe like two months ago or so, there was like the final legal proceedings of this, just like one of the most horrific rape incidents I've ever heard of. It was a young woman, I'm almost certain Germany, basically like a young white girl was in a park at night, basically a group of four men who were migrants all raped her, all four raped her. Then they let her go, but they had been sending, WhatsApp message to their friends saying that there's like a white girl in the park come raper. And so she started running away. She made it to another group of men. I think this one was three. Those three men all raped her. Then she got away. She started running away. Another group of two men found her. They raped her. Then she got away.”
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“Great question. I think there's a huge difference between having freedom of speech, being willing to use it, and having lots of information warfare. And so just to unpack this quickly, I don't think we had freedom of speech before Elon bought Twitter, things like Trump getting banned from X and many, many right-wing voices getting banned from Twitter at the time. I think we're moving away from free speech very quickly in Europe. And let me be clear, I think we have free speech in America right now. I don't think you have it in Europe. It's pretty crazy. I mean, first of all, do you agree with that or not?”
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“Not saying there will be. I personally think that there is more risk of civil unrest from the far left than from the far right.”
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“Look, I think it's way more likely the other way around. I think almost everything that we've been told about the world has been like the opposite has been true. Like the BLM riots and anything that Antifa does is way more extreme than what the far right has done. I don't believe it.”
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“No, he's doing what he thinks would be best for America, which is having a very, very smart VP that if they get in office, like knows exactly what needs to be done and can help them do it. And can we like, we need a lot of reform in the U.S. government. And I think JD would be much more effective at helping with some of this reform than many of the other candidates.”
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“Made the comment that they're very fine people at the Charlottesville rally. Like, you know, I was offended by that. And I thought that was crazy. I try to really pay attention to what's happening, like to what people actually say from first principles and all this.”
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“I think it's a complicated thing to answer because I think if Trump gets elected, then I think it was a phenomenal pick because I think that JD is really, really smart, really capable, would be one of the best VPs you could possibly have on the job. But in terms of getting elected, I don't think that it was the easy path choice for getting elected. I think the easy path would be someone like Nikki Haley or someone that appeals to a kind of broader and different demographic. But unfortunately, we live in a time where everything is so politicized that people don't even care who you actually are, what your views are. Everything is clipped out of context. Everything is like weaponized against you on both sides. I don't want this to be a partisan take. But so take with Trump, like one of the very formative clip for me was the Charlottesville clip. I'm Jewish a few years ago when he...”
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“Said to them when they got there, Buenos Noce, to the kids. Literally, like their parents were so deep undercover that the kids didn't know they're Russian. Like this happened 10 days ago. And that is like something that was discovered. Like people have no idea the level of sophistication of some of these things. And that is a tiny, tiny, tiny little thing that's happened in the world.”
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“No comment right now. The civilian population really misunderstands and underestimates how much spy activity and cheating there is in the world. And just there was a really crazy anecdote that came out about 10 days ago or so. I don't know if you saw this, but basically in the prisoner swap with Russia for Evan Gersowich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, two of the spies that got returned to Russia had been like literally out of the Americans TV show. They had been deep, deep undercover, pretending that they're an Argentinian couple, and they had two children. And their children flew back to Russia with them as part of the prisoner swap. The children did not know their Russian. They had no idea of the Russian heritage. And there's like videos and photos of them getting off the airplane and Putin meeting them on the tarmac. But allegedly, Putin's”
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“Of course it is. And that's why I'm saying it's like I can't predict it. And I don't even think the polymarket odds or any of the odds are that reflective because I don't think that they price in nation-state activity or cheating effectively.”
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“In 2016, I don't think that Trump did much more to incite the January 6th insurrection than what Hillary did of denying the election results. And so I just, I think that drawing the conclusion from what Trump said to January 6th, I think it's not as bulletproof of an argument. I think people make it out to be”
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“When the philosophy is like, we can't even investigate if there was real fraud or malfeasance, then you're never going to know the answer. For me as an American, I think that if that's our philosophy, we're never going to get to the truth and we might have vulnerable elections going forward. And so even having this level of view is puts me at great jeopardy. And I don't mean from a physical perspective, but just like this is such a controversial topic that people struggle to hear my words and hear that like I'm not saying directly that it was stolen. I don't know for sure, but I do know for sure that people were unwilling to look into credible paths through which it may have been stolen. And I also know that there's a double standard for when Hillary says that 2016 was stolen versus Trump in 2020. And then what January 6th, January 6th was a horrible day, absolutely horrible day. I wish it didn't happen, but I think that if you go beyond what Hillary did,”
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“I'll get there. I'll get there. I think that the two are deeply linked. Trump questioned the election a lot. In my opinion, I do think that there were extreme irregularities in the 2020 election. And as a former cyber person who did the most advanced cyber in the US government, there was an extremely large hack happening during the election called Solar Winds, which my company was deeply involved in investigating and remediating. I personally believe that solar winds could have been used to directly tamper with the election results. I have tried to flag that at least three or four different ways, and nobody will take it seriously. And some people have told me directly that they can't look into it because if they found that it indeed did happen, it would be so damaging for democracy. They just can't even look into it. When that is the philosophy,”
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“Of all of the topics I've ever tried to comment on, this is the one that has the most landmines. And I've commented on some very spicy things. But look, I'm at a point where I care about America. And so I'm just going to say what I think has to be said, even if it's unpopular. You know, when I wrote this long expost, the number one thing that people use to deposition Trump The number one thing is January 6th. Like that is by far the number one thing. All right, Harry, I'm going to give you the good.”
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“But very creative tactics used to go and register people to vote at old homes if they were going to vote one way and then either driving them in on buses, in swing states to vote or filling out mail on ballots for them.”
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“I think it's about 50 50, and that's not a cop out. Like that's what I actually think are the rough odds. Kennedy, I think a big factor in that is like just how much better the Democrats are at the mail-in ballot ballot harvesting groundwork. Like, I think that will be the dominant variable in the selection by far. That's technically legal in most places, but in the last election happened at an extremely large scale. In the last US election, there were about 30 million more votes for the top two candidates than there were in the election before. And that was at the peak of COVID in an uninspiring election. A lot of that was basically there was a new tactic invented of like, as there are more male-in ballots available, they were kind of creative again. And like for the most part, very legal.”
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“The calco is very simple from an Iranian perspective. And also, I think from an Israeli perspective, from an Iranian perspective, if they knew that Kamal Harris was going to win, then they will happily wait six months for her to be in office and then go do whatever they want to do. If they think that Trump is going to win, then they need to do whatever they want to do now. Like they're very, very afraid of Trump and his ability to retaliate strongly. And so whether or not war is inevitable, I would not say it's inevitable. The polymarket election odds as they fluctuate, like so does the odds of a larger regional war. That said, I think it's unlikely to be World War III. I think it would just be a very big regional war. Like for it to be World War III, you'd have to have China and the US.”
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“And I'm giving you just the very, very skeleton outline. Like if you want to go the path of removing nuclear weapons from Iran, then we're at the point now where there has to be war. When Biden and Harris came in, Iran did not have nuclear weapons. You did not have to do that. But now if you think that it's too destabilizing for them to have weapons, nuclear weapons going forward, then there basically has to be war. And so I think that if you were to go back in time three years, Trump had exactly the right policy to avoid all of this, which was weakening Iran, preventing them from getting nuclear weapons as the top two, and then creating more anchored stability in the region through the Abraham Accords and having peace agreements between Israel and the strong regional players.”
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“In the Middle East, it depends when he comes in. Like, if you were to come in today, the wild card that needs to be dealt with is Iranian nuclear program. And allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons. You get a different answer based on whether you want to deal with those nuclear weapons or not. Like if you don't care about the nuclear weapons, you're just going to accept a new world where Iran has nuclear weapons, then basically what you do is you, this is going to sound crazy, but basically you basically force a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in exchange for a peace agreement with Saudi, between Saudi and Israel. Saudi gets cyber weapons and technology as a result. Saudi will, on a few year time frame, take over a bunch of the policing responsibilities of Gaza.”
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“Reason with people, if they look you in the eye and say that they're going to do something that they'll actually do it. And we've been banging our head against the wall on this topic for 50 years and we need to learn from it.”
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“And Doug go and sit down in a room and argue about what the terms of some deal should be and get to the end of it and look each other in the eye and say, okay, these are the terms we have a deal right and you look each other in the eye and you shake hands like in this backdoor dealing. Like that should be it. That deal should be crystallized and should actually be uphold. In the West, your word is your bond. In the East, when you're dealing with Iran, the ayatollahs in the eye, they'll tell you, yeah, we're going to shut down our nuclear program. Like, yes, we're not going to invade Israel, et cetera. They'll tell you all this stuff, but it means nothing. It means absolutely nothing. In the East, your word means nothing and all that matters is like, what actions are you capable of and what will you actually do? And Trump is the only American leader that has understood that. All of these other ones think that you can just go.”
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