effectively been the currency of the world for our entire lifetimes. there was virtually no place in the entire globe you could go that would turn down a 20. andrew jackson s face beside the famous seal of the u.s.as treasury was probably america s best known expor best. from dar es to sri lankapost in to the smallest gold mining outpost, the amazon basin. every shopkeeper on earthco recognizgnizede a twenty dollar bill . the dollar wa.s universal and not just universal.ct inio commerce, though,ns tha the majority of international wered iny held ae conducte dollars, but universally held as a long term store of value. globally, the world s central bank stockpiled us dollars far more than any other currency. now,e ot most americans may not have known that or they did,wary but it doesn t matter what goo they knew. it it wasd very good fore arr everyone who lives here because there were so many us dollars cu in circulation outside ofborrow the country. the cost of borrowi
it knows. it saythe s unmanned drone was harassed and damaged by two russian fighter jets ove over w international waters.. it s all we have. we s all we have. we re going have to take re e their word for it. everybody else seems to be. lierybody else seems to be. lindsey graham didn t ask many penetrating questions. no, he moved immediately, seized the opportunity to demanthat thed the pentagon k the russian air force.here he here he is . what we should hold them accountable and say that if you t nearever get near another upsa flying in international watersl. your airplane would be shot down.ld what would ronald reagan do right now? ronalhe would he would startn e shooting russian planes down if they were threateninreg our assets. what would ronald reagan do? good quewould ronald reagan do? oh, good. senator graham. ronald r. senator graham. question. senator graham, ronald reagan s two term presidency was notablen for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian
is not at war with russia. with ruthis is ukraine s war to figh. uk the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that wa thar. rave ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil. and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. ir victo in the end, their victory i is inevitable. now, you re very familiar with these points because you heary day since ever last february. you ve heard them repeated by every power centem repeated , the united states , the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both partie s in congress, ceos and celebrities, and most insistently of all, m from you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet lyy along the entire spectrum ol our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine and both of them are lies. k we know that they re lies because late last week, leakedea intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media briefing slides prepare
of where the republican candidates running for president stand in ukrainening a little bit shocking.t republ it s all we expected, and it sin cas at all what republican on capitol hill are saying.disc more evidence that there son a disconnectnect between republicans in washington and everyone else. we ll get that in just everyon a minute. but first tonight, it hass sinc been 15 years since the global 2018financial crisis of 2008, a. a long time, but it hasn t gonee away. it s consequences st is , in fa. still define our world. sy is the u.s. government so deeply in debt?how di how did wall street get so muchm money? what did they do exactlyuc? why are housing prices so high? hi why do our leaders stoke racial conflict? why have so many mano americans concluded that their system is rigged? in every caserigged. the anss to those questions is the same . it all bega n inin two thousand eight now 2008. u and its aftermath is a complex story, but it s justncia some up in
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