we re not safe. if this is something that is that the white house is just kind of brushing off saying, oh, there s no threat. we re watching it. even the president was asking. can we take it down? he said. no there s the concern. obviously there s concern for american lives everywhere in any situation, but if this were to happen in china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s spa
china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s sparsely populated because we re concerned about the missile silos there. they don t keep missile silos in areas
another oligarch. another ukrainian oligarch. he s close to putin. he s one putin allowed to control the aluminum market. he is also the person who reportedly, according to the ap signed paul manafort to a $10 million a year contract for manafort to promote the interest of vladimir putin and the government in countries around the world, including the united states. they re also known to have gone in together on several big investments, including a ukrainian tv concern that they called black sea cable. it s funny even when you re talking about big corrupt deals and people who are trying to fix the system and rig the system. even when you re talking worst case scenario in international corruption, things do still sometimes fall apart.
district attorney. that guy who s a proputin, pro russian member of parliament that manafort used to work for. so he owed him, apparently millions of dollars, like $10 million and the other guy he appeared to owe money to is another oligarch. another ukrainian oligarch. he s close to putin. he s one putin allowed to control the aluminum market. he is also the person who reportedly, according to the ap signed paul manafort to a $10 million a year contract for manafort to promote the interest of vladimir putin and the government in countries around the world, including the united states. they re also known to have gone in together on several big investments, including a ukrainian tv concern that they called black sea cable.