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Shaun Maguire

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“I think that's a very different thing. I think that that proves the failure of European policy and of the left's policy. So I think that, sure, with Russia, he was not effective at convincing Europe to actually do the right thing. With Iran and China, Trump had more unilateral abilities. And Trump just did the right things, like with Iran, he sanctioned the shit out of them and he froze their funds. And, you know, he got Abraham Accords for Israel, which weakened which weakened Iran's hand in the region meaningfully. And so at least Trump knew what needed to be done. I think that the Obama foreign policy carried on by Biden Harris, they don't even know what to be done. And if I were to try to put it in simple words like the way that Western diplomacy works, like when England and America are doing diplomacy in the 1960s, if Harry”
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“Goes off on them for a few minutes and says, You guys are making every mistake possible. You're owned by Russia. He says, you know, your energy supply is owned by Russia. I believe it's 2% that basically that you're supposed to spend 2% of your GDP on defense. That is what's laid out in the NATO guidelines and you're only spending 1.2%. America subsidizing you guys by spending 4% on defense. If you don't fix this like Russia's going to invade, then you won't be able to do anything about it. He lays all this out. And the German diplomats are laughing at him. They're literally laughing to his face. They're smirking these arrogant smirks and just laughing at him. And that, I think, is just symbolic for how the liberal elites treated Trump on everything of like this guy was out there saying the actual truth and predicting the future. But because the media was so anti-Trump and these liberal elites were so close.”
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“And from my perspective, given what I've done in the past and working in intelligence and stuff like this, when your enemy or when Russia wants Trump to get elected so badly and concurrent to that, there was the steel dossier and stuff like this. I believe the law. I believe the media narrative that Trump was corrupted, that he was owned by Russia. If he wasn't, that it would be easy for them to own him, and that he had no experience in foreign policy and would just make all the wrong decisions. If you look at what actually happened, I think that Trump was the best president in the modern era at dealing with Russia, the best at dealing with Iran, the best at dealing with China. I'll give you a couple examples, one for each. With Russia, there's this famous NATO breakfast video where Trump, this is a few years ago, five years ago, or so, Trump sitting down at a NATO breakfast. He's meeting with the kind of top German diplomats.”
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“And I want to be clear when I say 100%, I mean compared to Biden Harris administration, I don't mean compared to all possible options. You know, I wrote this long ex post eight years ago. I was incredibly afraid of Trump and voted for Hillary and donated to Hillary. And four years ago, I didn't vote because I didn't like either option. The things that have really changed my mind are one, I mean, look, if you go back to 2016, The number one reason why I was afraid of Trump was because in 2016, he was supported by Russia. Like Russia wanted Trump to win and they wanted Hillary to lose. And that manifested as like there were all these fake news bot farms putting out content on Facebook, Hillary Clinton's emails got hacked and then released in kind of two-step process at the worst possible times, like the bulk in October right before the election.”
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“Find it crazy that when Biden came in, one of his first statements was condemning MBS saying he won't meet with MBS. These things are gifts to Iran. They show Iran that they can just keep pushing and pushing. I'll take this one step further. Since October 7th, Iran has carried out Iranian proxies have carried out over 300 attacks against U.S. soldiers on US bases or ships in the region. Directly attacked U.S. interests over 300 times. And despite that, the US is still releasing funds that had been frozen back to Iran. These things are insane. It's honestly, the policy has been insane.”
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“And Iran. Iran is the ancient seat of Shia Islam and Saudi as the kind of origin of Islam. But the modern hub of Sunni Islam, there's this ancient ancient rivalry. We have somehow when Biden came in, he was very tough on Saudi Arabia and very loose on Iran. From my perspective, Saudi Arabia, despite what the media says, Saudi Arabia has been modernizing at an unbelievable rate. I'm personally a big fan of MBS. I think he's been a fantastic reformer. Sure, Jamal Khashoggi was a horrible, horrible thing. But just if you look at the rate of progress, Saudi has been unbelievable 25 years ago, Saudi was the number one funder of Muslim Brotherhood and like the Wahhabist madrasas. Today there's very little of that in Saudi and Iran is at the root of almost all chaos in the region.”
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“For the US specifically, I think that the Obama administration and then now reinvigorated by the Biden-Harris administration, they've had literally the worst possible Iran policy, which has been appeasement, believing that they can turn Iran through nice words and actions. froze most assets of Iran that he could had deep sanctions against them, made it hard for them to sell oil, made it hard for them to operate in the global economy, basically had them financially on the brink of collapse and the Biden-Harris administration immediately went back to the Obama doctrine of let's just sit down at the negotiation table, let's unfreeze all their funds, let's remove all the sanctions. If we treat them well, then of course they'll come into our fold. To take that even one step further, there's obviously an ancient rivalry between Saudi Arabia.”
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“So in Backeman, when you're losing, like when you're behind, the optimal strategy is to create chaos. If you're losing by a lot, you keep a lot of your pieces open. You want to create chaos. You want to make it so that someone will likely hit you. The way that the only way you have a chance of coming back when you're really far behind is to create chaos. Iran basically created backgamut, the Persian Empire a millennia ago or whatever. And that's the Iranian philosophy when you're losing is to create chaos. So they're creating as much chaos in the world as they possibly can”
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“And look, there's a lot of evil in the world. Like, there's real evil in the world. And I think a lot of people just don't, they can't process that. People today in the West Cannot fathom that there is real evil in the world. And I can tell you very certainly. There”
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“I worked at DARPA and I deployed to Afghanistan. I was never a spy. For me, because I had such a weird academic background. Enlisted in the army. In the Navy, or whatever, I would just get the worst job possible. I mean, sure, there's IQ tests and you can go try to. Become a seal or something like that You don't make it, you're going to get a really bad job. And so I had Wanted to have service didn't know the right way to do it. And then I met this woman named Regina Dugan, who was. Was running DARP at the time. Was trying basically an experimental program Just go find some really smart, crazy young people and give them basically unprecedented. I mean, genuinely insane Access regular meetings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ability to Black Hawk helicopters. Take you around It was a very formative thing”
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“Did have a lot of confidence. Like, I knew that I was smart. I was a computer hacker as a kid. And when you're a hacker, Mentality You will always find a way You will always find a trapdoor, a back door, a side door. If you have to parachute onto the roof, like whatever it is, you'll find a way in. And so I had that in the back of my mind that I'll find loopholes.”
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“I mean, look, I think that's a natural response when you're like a teenager and you don't know that much about how the world works. And I was. And my parents Their credit, they made me work from a young age. And so I had worked on construction sites for two summers carrying wood, like literally carrying wood around. And I had also worked in a surf store jack surfboards in Orange County, California in two different stores, folding t-shirts when people would go try on clothes and I'd have to fold it up right behind him. That was the worst job I've ever had. I vastly preferred carrying wood. Least I was learning Spanish and was outside and stuff. You've had those experiences, it's very, very motivating. I did not want to be stuck folding. The rest of my The other hand”
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“Doing the same called the California High School Proficiency Exam. It's basically a test you can take that lets you leave high school early and then go into community college for two years and transferred. And because of that experience, I wanted to show that teacher that I can actually do math and they were wrong. And I guess the ultimate. There is getting a math PhD”
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“With a big chip on my shoulder, yeah. I mean, look, as a kid, I wasn't stupid, but I really hated school and hated my teachers. You know, I went to public school. I got a zero on my first Algebra 2 test for not showing any work. The teacher wouldn't change their mind. I offered to show my work, et cetera. Once I got a zero on that exam, like the highest grade I could get in the class was a C at that point. I was just like, I'm done with school. I'm just going to go learn stuff on my own, be on my computer. And I did that. And then I kind of hacked my way out by”
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