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our country has never been in more
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danger of World War III than it is right
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now in many ways the world has been at
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relative peace for quite a while now Lo
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many people in the west into the thought
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that bad things just can't happen or
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certainly they can't happen here and yet
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the world is also in a total state of
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chaos things in the world are changing
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in a big way today we're going to talk
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about how to protect yourself from
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changes in the world whether it's a
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world war or some other threat to your
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peace
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and the first thing to examine is the
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idea that people say there's nowhere to
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go today we're going to examine facts
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and look at actual data of where you
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could go we're going to apply a couple
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different ways of looking at this that
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if a World War were to break out not
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only how would you protect yourself
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physically but how would you protect
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yourself geopolitically and we look at
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the war between Russia and Ukraine one
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day people in a big country found
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themselves without access to financial
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services without access to get many
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different dual citizenships or residence
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permits or many options at all in the
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countries that a lot of them would have
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historically gone to to seek more
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freedom it was all just cut off
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overnight and so beyond just physical
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safety we want to look at what's the
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reputation of your country going to be
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if there's a war where will you be able
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to go to seek freedom and to seek safety
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one commenter said if World War III
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takes place in the near future that
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could change everything but there be no
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safe place to go and I went back and
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looked at data from World War too there
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is certainly a lot of deaths that
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happened obviously in Europe and other
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places around the world but you look at
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a country like Brazil 2,000 deaths and
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that was pretty much the only country in
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South America that was even involved
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there were a lot of countries that
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basically just sat that one out now it's
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true that a number of countries are
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becoming more geopolitically involved
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and M militarily involved in what's
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happening in the world but if we look at
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any past War there are always places
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where you can go people get residence
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permits in countries like Paraguay or
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Uruguay or even islands like morius in
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the Indian Ocean because they just want
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to have an option to be away from it all
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and if you were ever to become a citizen
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of that country you'd make sure that no
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matter what happened you had access to
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go and live there to me that's a sane
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strategy but let's talk about facts
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since 2008 the level of global
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peacefulness has deteriorated by about
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2% with 75 countries recording a
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deterioration while 86 improved if you
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look at some of the Western countries
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that people say we often pick on well we
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pick on them because they are in many
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cases part of that 75 not part of the 86
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that are improving there are some
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exceptions to that and I'll tell you
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about them the average level of global
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peacefulness has deteriorated for nine
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of the past 13 years just the world as a
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whole Europe Remains the most peaceful
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region in the world although it has
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recorded its slight deterioration in
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peacefulness obviously Europe as a whole
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is not so peaceful now and yet Portugal
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is a different situation in Ukraine I
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think I think some people like this
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comment or have this kind of like
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soothing mechanism where they don't know
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how to move or don't want to move or
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think they can't afford to move which I
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push back on and their soothing
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mechanism is well nowhere be safe so I
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might as well just I'll just do nothing
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and and so like you're no better than I
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am and it really makes them feel better
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about themselves and yet is life in
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Switzerland any worse than it was a
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couple years ago probably not in a
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noticeable way so where should you go
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let's consult some different metrics the
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first thing we looked at is What's
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called the Global Peace Index this
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studies countries by their overall level
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of peacefulness this speaks to safety it
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speaks to some geopolitical issues isand
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has been number one for 13 years in a
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row now it's very hard to get
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citizenship in Iceland I guess there's
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ways to get residents but not really
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through investment be more of a thing
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where you marry an Icelandic person or
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perhaps get a job there however if you
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have a passport from an EU member State
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Iceland is not in the EU and so you have
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some of the benefits of that but you are
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able to actually go and move there so
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for examp example I have a Norwegian
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friend who moved to live in Portugal
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Norway is also not the EU and Portugal
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is but because of what's called European
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economic area uh he's able to do that
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and so if you have an EU passport that
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can be obtained through citizenship by
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descent let's say you have an Irish
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grandparent or an Italian
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great-grandparent and they never gave up
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their Italian citizenship that could be
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a way to claim getting Malta citizenship
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by giving close to a million dollar that
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can be done at about 18 months getting a
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residence permit getting a golden Visa
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there's a number of ways to do it
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depending on what you're timeline is
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depending on what your lineage is having
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an EU passport gives you access to
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Iceland we want to think strategically
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here where would we go if World War I
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happens well having access to a country
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that you may not be a citizen of isn't
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the worst thing and one of the benefits
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of Europe but I think a lot of Americans
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or Australians or Canadians don't
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entirely understand is that if you can
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live in one European country you can
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basically live in all of them and so you
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have that optionality that Iceland is
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more detached from the rest of the
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continent obviously is an island than
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living somewhere on the continent itself
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Iceland are the global piece index
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number one now other things I looked at
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were neutrality so Sweden and
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Switzerland for example are Fain for
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their armed neutralities uh they have
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not been in state of War internationally
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since 1815 and 1814 respectively now of
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course Sweden has cozied up with NATO
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now Switzerland was obviously a bit more
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on board with joining in and saying hey
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let's sanction Russians whereas they've
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been more neutral historic Al so that
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neutrality is eroding a little bit you
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look at a country like Ireland for
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example also in Island uh which scores
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relatively highly in some of the safety
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and Global Peace Index studies they have
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historically been neutral and so if we
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look again at not only where do you want
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to go to be physically safe in a world
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war but where do you want to go to be
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geopolitically safe I'd rather be Irish
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than American because you're going to
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have a lot more options as an Irish
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citizen than you are as an America if
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certain places say Hey listen you guys
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are on the other side of the coin let's
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say a country like Indonesia you want to
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move to Bali they're on one side of this
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World War III and it's against the you
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know us maybe Bali is a perfectly
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peaceful and wonderful place to go and
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be in Indonesia just said hey like
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listen we don't want people who are
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instigating a World War to come here
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like you're not eligible for this
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residence permit or we're canceling your
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Visa free travel that's happened before
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so neutrality is one of the thing you
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can consider the third thing to look at
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is simply let's just count the wars
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sources say that Europe has had no wars
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fought since World War II obviously that
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has changed and the Balkans would like a
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word to those who've said no war since
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World War II one of the things I look at
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in a World War III scenario is we know
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that the United States and probably the
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UK and all this kind of so-called
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International Community that they talk
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about which is just this tiny percentage
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of the world like 10% of the world's
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population if even that that agrees the
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Western countries like the rest of the
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world's not part of the International
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Community those countries are going to
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be of course on one side countries like
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the us are going to be leading the
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charge you know and and other their
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biggest allies are they going to follow
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them the US has been at as many wars as
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years that I've been alive and so you
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can expect that if there's a war like
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you're going to be in it now you can say
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hey no one's going to come to the US or
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Canada and like physically do anything
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and obviously in the modern era it's a
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little bit different than World War II
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now there's all kinds of different
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things you know terrorism for example
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who knows what could happen I would much
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rather be in Iceland I'd much rather be
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in Argentina I'd much rather be in maius
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I'd much rather be in a lot of places
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than the United States obviously living
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in Ardmore Oklahoma or living in the
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bush in Australia is going to be safer
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than living in New York City or Sydney
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and I'm not hoping for anything bad to
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happen of course but if the question is
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where am I going to go if World War III
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breaks out well I'm going to look at a
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new nonwestern system in this world of
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multipolarity and I'm going to figure
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out number one where a country is
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neutral but where am I going to be far
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away from somewhere where countries
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start wars and so if you look at places
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in South America there's been a certain
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amount of instability in that region and
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yet you hear guys like Doug Casey say
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yeah you can live in Argentina you're
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just the rich Gringo and let that guy do
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what he wants to do you can go to places
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like you know Paraguay Uruguay places in
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Asia could be advantageous most the
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countries in the world aren't starting
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Wars aren't getting involved in Wars if
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you live in a western country you're
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seeing the news that is catering and
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speaking to that idea of the
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International Community and that's all
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you really think about the news is not
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talking about maias they're talking
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about their own little bubble and you
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think that that's the entire world and
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the reality is just be away from where
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they're having the war there may not be
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a war where you're living right now or
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it may not be affecting you but it's
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always good to have a plan B and one of
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the things that we do here at Nomad
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calist is help people who don't actually
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want to move somewhere figure out how
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they can create that backup plan for
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themselves and their families it starts
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with having assets somewhere else
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because when War happens who knows what
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happens to the financial system have
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assets in stable places you've seen
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centuries of history people will keep
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their gold in asset Havens for example
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and whatever happens where they live the
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Gold's always there the crypto on a
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hardware wallet the money in the bank
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account start by having an asset
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protection structure and then add
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residence permits places where you can
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go citizenships places where you are a
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welcome citizen they can't keep you out
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by the way we saw during the pandemic if
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you're a permanent resident or citizen
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of many countries the requirements for
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tourists didn't apply to you so you got
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that leg up on everybody else when there
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is something something chaotic happening
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in the world countries often locked down
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not internally necessarily but hey we
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don't want the foreigners to come in
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while we figure out what's going on if
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you have access where they can't keep
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you out and especially if you have a
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passport let's say in the Caribbean
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you've got six different countries you
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can go to as of right you have a
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European Union passport you may say hey
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well this country itself isn't going to
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be great well you know hey maybe you
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qualify for Polish citizenship by
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descent H that kind of concerns me but
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as a Polish citizen you could live in
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Iceland for example you could live in a
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lot of other places places you want to
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have a plan B for your assets and you
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want to have a plan B for your family
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it's what we help people put together
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you don't just want to get one thing in
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a vacuum you want to have a holistic
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plan that addresses your specific needs
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because there are a lot of unknown
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unknowns that come in with this stuff
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you certainly don't want to get the
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wrong passport or the wrong residence or
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make the wrong investment and now you
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have some tax issue you've got to deal
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with we help people clear up a lot of
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make sure no matter what happens war or
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otherwise you and your family and your
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wealth are protected where is there no
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war what are some of the places that
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when you look geographically are the
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safest I'm just going to give you the
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list where are there no Wars right now
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Botswana and South Africa probably not a
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place a lot of people are going to go
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not an easy place to get citizenship
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very well-run one of the least corrupt
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countries in Africa one of the most
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successful countries in Africa I think
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one of the safest countries in Africa
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probably not at the top of your list but
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it is there no no war Chile you're down
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there in southern South America for me
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not the most interesting place to live
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they have taken a turn to the left and
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yet you can get residents in Chile you
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do not always have to be living in Chile
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to keep that it's more expensive than
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the Latin American countries but it is
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down there and I can tell you it is more
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developed than many other Latin American
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countries in many ways that's a place
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where there's no war Costa Rica no war
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in fact there's a bit of a misconception
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about the military but basically you've
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got a police force that handles the
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country so Costa Rica country you can
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get a residence permit we thought that
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country was going to be less tax
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friendly they're actually keeping it tax
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friendly and so they've made the Right
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Moves fiscally but they've also been a
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country that relies on peace not that
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far from North America if you live in
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the US or Canada morish has been
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mentioned easy enough to get a residence
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permit you're out there in the middle of
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the ocean been there pretty interesting
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place has a bit of Malaysia Vibes for my
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taste kind of Malaysia meets East Africa
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meets India kind of obviously just a
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western you know more Western kind of
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move over to the West version of
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Malaysia you can buy property there you
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can use it as a place to park some money
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it's a tax friendly place it is a World
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War III friendly place now any of these
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countries of course could take certain
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sides in a war but these are countries
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where there is nothing happening now
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Switzerland of course residence is uh
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something that is available it's a much
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more expensive proposition in terms of
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tax the cost of living Etc that's for
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folks who really want to commit Panama
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obviously historically more tied to the
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US but what's interesting is watching
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Latin America detach itself from the US
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and try and be more neutral and make
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more deals in this area of multipolarity
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I'm seeing Latin America and we're
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seeing Africa saying we're not just
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going to side with one country they're
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saying why do we just go to the when the
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US diplomats come they just say don't
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work with China don't work with them
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don't work with them we're going to do
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our country first right Americans say
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America first that's the thing well
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we're going to be Panama first we're
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going to be Rwanda first we're going to
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be whatever first we're not just going
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to only deal with the US and they said
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that's the US's only pitch there's
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diplomats on the record saying like the
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US comes they just try and say don't
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work with anybody else except us and the
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other countries are like when China
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comes like okay do what you want not a
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ringing endorsement of China but these
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countries are starting to put themselves
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first and I think that a greater
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neutrality is probably not the worst
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thing Japan no war very cheap real
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estate hard to get residents impossible
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to get citizenship Qatar in the Gulf
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some people have some reticence around
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the gulf but quite frankly no war
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Uruguay is on the list possible to get a
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residence permit what's great about
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Latin America is even if you just have
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an income hey here's my salary here's my
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business income okay here's your
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residence permit you don't necessarily
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have to invest a lot of money as is the
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case sometimes in Asia you can just show
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them that you earn money and if you have
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a western salary you may make enough
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even for a more upscale country like
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Uruguay you can get a residence permit
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and if you want to live there you can
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work towards citizenship people have
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gone to places like Uruguay after you
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know during and after Wars and they've
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ended up staying there know many people
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of German and Italian ancestry are
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living in Uruguay they say I'm German
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I'm Italian oh four generations ago
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Uruguay is a place where you can go and
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you can be safe it's a safe place right
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now Vietnam is also in the west some
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people would say that's too close to
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China now here's where I would go I
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wouldn't want to be surrounded by the
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conflict so B batwan would be off my
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list for the same reason as is
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Switzerland for me just the cost of
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living in Switzerland you know waiting
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for something to happen it's it's harder
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to keep Switzerland in your back pocket
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if you don't have access to live in
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Switzerland I.E an EU passport if you
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can get an EU passport and then just go
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to Switzerland whenever you want then
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you know that may work I wouldn't want
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to be in a huge population Center like
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Vietnam I probably would not want to
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live in a country during a war that was
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as homogeneous as Japan the Japanese
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people are lovely I don't know that you
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would fit in as well there I would want
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to maintain a residence permit in a gulf
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country I think when people think oh
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there's a terrible war going on yes
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World War III will'll be interesting to
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see how that plays out compared to World
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War II it's a whole different era but if
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I'm running a business I want my
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business to continue to function and if
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my business is set up in a tax favorable
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place that functions and that's neutral
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and that stays at A's business then I
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would want to have a golf residence
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permit let's say I set up a company in a
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golf country I have my company there in
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a free zone for example and I can always
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go there and if that's going to be the
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safe place uh I'll do it obviously some
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of those countries you know set up a
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number of military bases for the US and
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elsewhere I would probably prioritize a
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way from a country like Panama that has
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historically been more friendly with the
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us and it would leave me with Chile
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macius Costa Rica and Uruguay now those
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are all good passports Chile is turning
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to the left maybe that's not the answer
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Uruguay to me is furthest away there's a
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lot of resources not a big population
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it's all kind of concentrated along the
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coast maius is interesting I would look
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at Uruguay and maius for getting
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residence possibly Costa Rica because I
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think that Central America is kind of
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becoming more neutral and kind of
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getting out of that us system but to me
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Uruguay maius and Costa Rica standard as
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places where I can go and get residence
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permits in some cases I need to invest
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money I.E Marius unless I want to do a
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more complicated business setup in other
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cases I just need to show hey here's a
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couple thousand dollar a month in income
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and I can get a residence permit I'm
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generally not going to be given
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citizenship by naturalization unless I'm
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living there a good chunk of the time
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but I've got tax favorability if I'm
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living there so I can keep running my
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business most importantly I think you'll
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be physically safe and I think there's a
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certain neutrality in those countries
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where you're not going to get dragged
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into it and let me tell you if you are
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American or Australian or British and
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you want to go around the world I'd much
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rather be mishan going around the world
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I'd much rather be you know Uruguayan
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who hates the uruguayans right maybe
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some jokes are told about them by the
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neighboring countries but otherwise who
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doesn't like the uruguayans Uruguay is a
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small country that doesn't want to
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dominate your life if you live there you
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get their tax deal for a number of years
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pretty favorable is a place to live you
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live by their rules and if you become
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uine you you can you'll have a lot more
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options I'm looking at this as much as
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physical safety and being a away from
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things being at a distance is having the
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neutrality not getting sucked into stuff
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where any number of different problems
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that come from a World War could affect
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me so I think it's pretty unfortunate if
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just the passport you hold means hey
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banks no longer want your money we've
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seen that from Russians in the war to
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Americans who have fatka plenty of banks
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just say we don't want you what do you
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do with your money now and it's all fun
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and games when it's happening to someone
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else but what happens if there is a
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World War and countries start taking
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siid and fewer countries than before
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side with your country and now you've
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got fewer options listen plenty of
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people are just Patriots and I live in
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my country and I go down with the ship I
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want to keep living the life that I have
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because I don't know that after World
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War II that the reasons Western
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countries have gone to war are as Noble
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as perhaps the ones that they used to
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have do why really want to stick around
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for when the fur starts flying for less
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than noble reasons I'd rather be in one
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of those places and building my
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optionality w
