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Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update. Message of the day. Davos is so much fun to watch. It's Trump's Olympics going to the World Economic Forum to the people who thought they ran the world and telling them that they are now subordinate to the American people. It's amazing. But listen, it is tough to be Europe right now. They're failing and they know it. Remember when Trump was at the UN a couple years ago and he told Germany that you better stop tearing down your nuclear power plants and stop relying on Russia for your energy? That's a really dumb thing to do and you're going to regret it. And the German delegation laughed at him. Well, the German chancellor just admitted that getting rid of nuclear power for their country was a big mistake. And now they're too dependent on Russia for energy. So Trump is right and they hate this, of course. But I get it. I'd hate it too. Wouldn't you imagine? You're a young child in Spain and you have to read in school about the great Spanish empire. You read about the 300 years of Spanish power around the globe, one of the most powerful empires in the world. And now Spain isn't even a G20 country. They didn't make the cut for the top 20. That'd be rough. Think of England, the most powerful empire, probably in world history. The British pound was the world's currency. Naval supremacy, massive industrial power, the greatest artists, writers, musicians coming out of this little island. And now England is a Muslim country with a per capita GDP lower than Mississippi's, our poorest state. Mississippi, per capita GDP is 53,000. England is 50. And that empire just ended 70 years ago. That's not ancient history. Imagine being a Greek kid learning about ancient Greece and thinking, well, were the people of Alexander the Great? What do we know? How can you be Italian and learn about the Roman Empire and not be really sad for your country? And you have these progressive leaders ruling over these dying nations, thinking that they still matter and they're going to stand up to the United States of America, led by Donald Trump. No. Now they gather together and they call themselves NATO. We run NATO. We drive the NATO train. NATO was dying until Trump told everyone to pay up. But we still run the show in NATO. So part of me feels bad for these countries, but it's their own doing. They decided to embark on a journey of managed decline, as it is called. They might prefer the term elegant decay. Sounds a little more European. But as America is expanding, which is in our history and tradition to expand, England is giving away the island of Diego Garcia. We have a military base on that island, and they're giving it away to Mauritius, which is a tiny island controlled by China. You're going to give control of this island to our enemy. Why would you do that? Well, it's the same reason that Jimmy Carter gave the canal to Panama and why England gave Hong Kong to China. It's because after the Cold War, we decided that empires are bad and we were the world's empire, therefore we're bad. And we're going to strengthen the rest of the world at our expense. We've been doing that for a good 50, 60 years or so. We're not doing it anymore. That's the whole Trump doctrine. Europe, you can't be trusted to control anything, certainly not Greenland. And they know this is true. They know that everything Trump is saying is true. They don't want it to be true. They don't want to admit that their empires are gone. They don't want to admit that their prestige and power and influence in the world is gone. They don't want to admit they have no power. But they know the truth. Trump's strategic goal this week is to give Europe a way to support giving us Greenland and saving face. And Europe is so elegantly decayed now, they'll be begging us to take Greenland by the end of the week. Mike Slater, something you might not know next. Mike Slater, filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know, a fun geography fact. Imagine the United States, Canada, just above us. Draw a line from the bottom of Washington State, so way up in the upper left hand corner of America, the bottom of Washington State. Draw a line straight across America, you actually cut off part, the southernmost part of Canada. 50% of the population of Canada lives below that latitude. 50% of the population of Canada lives below Washington State. Now draw another line. You know, the straight part of the border between America and Canada. Just draw that line. Just keep going straight all the way across. 72% of Canadians live below that latitude. Latitude 49 and 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of our border. Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, they're all just along the border of New York, Vermont and Maine. It's all right there. And 50% of Canadians live just right there. Now, why is this relevant? The prime minister of Canada went to Beijing a couple days ago and he said, mine's the first visit from a Canadian prime minister to China in nearly 10 years. The world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made. He said this to President Xi, the progress we have made. This partnership sets us up well for the New World Order. Mark Carney knew exactly what he was doing. He knows his country is losing. He knows he's a tier three country and that Donald Trump is the one who decides what the New World Order looks like. He just went to China before he went to Davos to gain some leverage to try and get the best deal possible. There's three tiers of countries. Your tier one countries are China, America and sort of Russia. Your tier two countries, they get to decide who they're friends with. Saudi Arabia, for instance, they get to decide who they want to be friends with. Tier 3 countries, those are your blank hole countries. They don't get to decide. Venezuela, tier three, they were choosing China. You don't get to do that anymore. Now you're part of America. Canada would normally be a tier two country and they would get to decide who they want to be friends with. But they're too close to us. As we now know, most of Canada is to the south of Maine. So, no, you don't get to decide to be friends with China. That's, that's out of your ability. You don't get to do that. Maybe if Canada was anywhere else in the world, they could be a tier 2 country. But not when you're our hat and not when most of your people live below the state of Washington. You don't get to decide to be close to China. You're in the same category as Venezuela. Canada. Play your cards right. I don't want you to end up the same way as them. I'm Mike Slater. More coming up. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. You can listen that anywhere you listen to your podcast. Have a wonderful day. We'll see you tomorrow.
