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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine Aug 29, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15:20 Jason Calacanis Wall Street Journal reporting Ratcliffe was there to warn Russia should not attack a NATO country. 4 times in the scene

The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This' Mar 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker To your point about the Strait and, uh, America looking for assistance to support the activities, uh, the commercial oil activities through the Strait, NATO allies have largely said no. 3 times in the scene

ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping Jan 31, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:09 David Sacks I mean, they're desperate to keep NATO together and to keep the U S interested. 3 times in the scene

Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos Jan 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:48 Dr. Mehmet Oz And metaphorically, when you think about NATO and the president saying to NATO countries, we're all in it together to protect ourselves against external threats. 2 times in the scene

Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:55 Sarah B. Rogers When we interact with our NATO allies in the NATO context, we hear a lot about our shared history and shared values, and it's time to ask, you know, what values do we still share? 2 times in the scene

Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:58 Dr. Marty Makary And when it comes to this president, whether it be NATO membership fees or whatever, he wants to see other countries paying their fair share, and so we're getting that delivered.

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 6 mentions

Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis Oct 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:28 David Sacks And so if you think about, you know, what the U S has, the U S has NATO, obviously, and the G seven and the world bank and the IMF and all that kind of stuff. 2 times in the scene

The Brutal Truth About Ending The Ukraine War - David Sacks Aug 28, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:24 David Sacks Point number two is that President Trump acknowledged that Ukraine would not be joining NATO, which was the key source of the friction, and it's the thing that ultimately led to this war. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:12 Jason Calacanis Even if it has a five or 10% chance of working and then making the NATO alliance pay their fair share and selling them more weapons, I think also brilliant.
  • ▶ 11:20 David Sacks So for example, would you tell Zelensky in no uncertain terms, listen, stop demanding to be part of NATO because it's not happening. 4 times in the scene

AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame Aug 22, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 54:47 Jason Calacanis NATO Secretary General, Chancellor of Germany, Italy, and UK showed up as well. 7 times in the scene

Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History Aug 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy Aug 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:32 David Sacks To raise their contribution to NATO to five percent of GDP up from, I guess it was sort of like two percent before.

Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan Jul 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:12 Donald J. Trump We had a tremendous, uh, NATO meeting a few weeks ago, and it was, uh, pretty amazing, actually, what happened.
  • ▶ 44:07 Donald J. Trump And when I went to NATO two weeks ago, where we made the deal where they pay five percent instead of two percent, they, uh, said the same exact thing.

Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance Jul 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner Jun 28, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 David Sacks The backstory to that is that Mark Rutte is the secretary general of NATO called Trump daddy at the summit. 3 times in the scene

Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran? Jun 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:57 Tucker Carlson The idea that you're going to depoliticize it by making its leadership immune from the control of elected officials strikes me as the kind of, like, mid-century dumbness that got us NATO and a lot of other bad institutions.

Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery Apr 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:09 David Sacks The revisionist power actually in Europe over the past 25 years was the United States because we pushed NATO right up to Russia's borders despite the promises that were made to Gorbachev in the nineties. 3 times in the scene

Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon Apr 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO Mar 8, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 6:33 Jason Calacanis We might be leaving NATO. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15:25 Jason Calacanis And finally, in terms of our participation in NATO, is it time for us to leave NATO? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:00 Jason Calacanis Should we be out on NATO? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:12 David Friedberg So I think that this idea that maybe the U.S. exits NATO and the U.S. dials down its level of conflict and opposition to Russia and or China is a pretty reasonable, and I would argue maybe even a techno-optimistic point of view. 2 times in the scene

2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics! Jan 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:56 Jason Calacanis Nobody from the West, you know, in, in, in the NATO or America, no, no soldiers have lost their lives from our side. 2 times in the scene

DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory Nov 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:30 David Sacks A direct involvement by the NATO allies, United States, and Britain in the war, and that is a big escalation. 2 times in the scene

Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris Oct 3, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08:20 Mark Cuban Um, Ukraine, I don't want to see American blood spilled, and as long as there's a NATO, and I agree there should be a NATO, I'd rather see us spend money than put soldiers in harm's way. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:26:33 David Sacks You understand that we try to convert Ukraine into a giant NATO base. 5 times in the scene

OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war Sep 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28:38 David Sacks It's just that Ukraine would have to agree not to be part of NATO, would have to agree 2 times in the scene

Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit Sep 16, 2024 · 6 mentions

Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem Jul 19, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:37 David Sacks I said the Biden administration provoked the war with talk of NATO expansion.
  • ▶ 1:13:13 David Sacks He did that press conference, that NATO press conference, where he did make that one mistake, that senior moment, where he actually- That Trump was his VP?

Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship Jul 4, 2024 · 1 mention

500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast Jun 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:44 David Sacks So I think the other piece of news, and I think it really should have been far bigger news, was when I asked him about Ukraine, and he said that NATO expansion had played a major role in provoking the war.

In conversation with President Trump Jun 20, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 20:39 David Sacks But I've seen that Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is talking about actually putting NATO troops or French troops in Ukraine as potentially a next step, and that could be a tripwire for more NATO troops coming in. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Ukraine not entering NATO. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:23 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the third was, I think the clarity on NATO was also very definitive, and I think that that's important.

Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction? May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:19 David Sacks Victoria Nuland in the State Department, passionately committed to basically bringing Ukraine into NATO and using that to essentially provoke a regime change operation in Russia.

GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity? May 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:19 David Sacks It's talked about prevention through diplomacy, opposition to NATO expansion, humanitarian concerns, skepticism, military intervention, peace deal proposal.

E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO Apr 5, 2024 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:29 David Sacks Well, there's a NATO meeting going on right now, and Blinken did a press conference where he says that Ukraine will be joining NATO. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:46 Jason Calacanis Should the free country of Ukraine be able to join NATO on some timeline, or should they be banned from ever joining NATO? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:20 Chamath Palihapitiya Of the three presidential candidates, to be very clear, one is supportive, then, of some kind of confrontation, because by proxy they're supportive of admitting Ukraine into NATO, which would create a war, and two are pretty clearly… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:25:20 Jason Calacanis Yeah, because they, I think, don't want Russia to determine who gets to be in NATO, and they want free countries to decide. 7 times in the scene

E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more Feb 17, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 1:34:37 Chamath Palihapitiya The second is much more tactical, and I thought super salacious, and I wish Tucker would have dug into it, which is that in 1999, when he was meeting Bill Clinton, he asked Bill Clinton, can we join NATO? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:38:39 David Sacks Well, Jason, the fact that Putin sought to join NATO, or at least made that offer is a well known, well documented historical fact. 8 times in the scene

E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more Jan 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:02 David Sacks And he said that, you know, Trump was largely right on NATO, on immigration, on tax reform.

E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more Jan 6, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:02 David Friedberg I think Ukraine's shot at being in NATO is going to fade away.
  • ▶ 47:01 David Friedberg Um, and then the other one that I kind of said was tactical is I think there's a risk that Turkey gets challenged to leave NATO. 4 times in the scene

Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more Dec 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:16 David Sacks And of course the Biden administration told them not to this war is and has always been about NATO expansion.

In conversation with Dean Phillips Nov 17, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:54 David Sacks There was a deal on the table between Russia and Ukraine where Putin was willing to pull back and leave and leave the territorial integrity of Ukraine intact if Ukraine would agree not to become part of NATO, and this is something that's… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:17 David Sacks But if it's true that we could have avoided the war by taking NATO expansion off the table, then it would only be common sense to do that.

Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI Nov 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:28:54 Jared Kushner We armed Ukraine, but we also told Ukraine, you know, don't even think about raising NATO, um, as a membership, as, as a way to go. 2 times in the scene

E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps Oct 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:24 David Sacks I think it's really clear that we could have avoided that war if we had taken NATO expansion off the table.

In conversation with Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 25:41 Jason Calacanis Yeah, so maybe, just in terms of governor, do you think the United States is responsible for the invasion of Ukraine because we didn't do enough in terms of taking NATO off the table, like some people think? 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:24 Chris Christie We have, I think, work to do with the rest of our allies in NATO in terms of their providing more, more of the artillery and other armaments that are needed by the Ukrainians.

E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more Sep 1, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Don't get me wrong, because I do think that if they could, oh, the other thing that I'll say about the bricks, which is kind of odd is that unlike the G seven and unlike NATO, where you have democratic ideals that underpin the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:41 David Sacks The US runs NATO because we pay for it.

In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy Jul 21, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 33:50 Jason Calacanis I mean, the obvious, the obvious is maybe put NATO, take NATO off the table and avoid the whole thing, but now we're playing alternative. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:36:05 Vivek Ramaswamy A fixation, not because these candidates, I think, have arrived at this viewpoint independently through reasoning their way to it, but just understanding that that's what they are supposed to say in the tradition of a party that was…

E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth Jul 14, 2023 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 19:31 David Friedberg But there are in place, as the comments have been made, increased spending to NATO because of global security concerns.
  • ▶ 1:05:03 Jason Calacanis NATO has, uh, brought Sweden and obviously Finland came in right before them because of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:14:54 Jason Calacanis Who should get to decide, Friedberg, who joins NATO? 17 times in the scene

E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more Jun 24, 2023 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 16:40 David Sacks NATO or American equipment, and they're gonna push Russia out of their country.
  • ▶ 20:20 David Sacks Where Blinken said that we cannot compromise on NATO's open door policy, that, that sort of diplomacy fell apart. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:35 Jason Calacanis Rather than take NATO expansion off the table. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:18 Jason Calacanis Basically NATO equipment plus Ukrainian lives are being traded for Russian equipment and Russian lives, which leaves NATO coming out ahead. 4 times in the scene

E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more Jun 2, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Because it's like, if NATO was purely an economic organization, that's probably what BRICS evolves into over time, and it makes a ton of sense for them to do it.
  • ▶ 1:32:37 David Sacks And he says very clearly that he and Trump understood that bringing Ukraine into NATO was a red line for the Russians and they never went there. 2 times in the scene

In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May 5, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 10:16 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Let's develop an accord, an agreement, which would make Donbass a, an autonomous region within the Ukraine, which would agree to not put missile systems in Ukraine, NATO missile systems, which would agree that Ukraine would not join NATO. 6 times in the scene

E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner Mar 3, 2023 · 3 mentions

E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move Feb 24, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07:43 David Sacks But Biden has really painted himself into a corner here because before the war, he refused to take NATO expansion off the table. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:36 Chamath Palihapitiya So I think he would have shut the door so ferociously on Ukraine and NATO, and anybody that crossed that line, he would have tarred and feathered publicly.

E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union Feb 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:53 David Sacks They deny that, um, NATO expansion had anything to do with the, you know, breakout of this war. 2 times in the scene

E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more Jan 27, 2023 · 1 mention

E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions! Jan 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:38 David Friedberg I, I think as a result, the IMF will get a lot of heat and you'll end up seeing a lot of pressure and political, you know, just like we blame NATO, just like we blame,

E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 11:54 David Sacks Occurred on January, 27th of this year, when Blinken said that NATO's door is open and must remain open. 4 times in the scene

E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more Oct 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:46 David Sacks Of trying to bring NATO right up to Russia's border would eventually blow up in our faces.

E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more Oct 14, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:30 David Sacks You had Henry Kissinger, you had John Mearsheimer, all warned that bringing NATO right up to Russia's front porch was extremely provocative to them, that they would see that as a provocation. 2 times in the scene

E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more Oct 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:04 David Sacks So in the last like just few days, you've had Zelensky saying that they want to be admitted to NATO. 2 times in the scene

E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more Sep 23, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:35 David Sacks The, um, you know, NATO and the Western Alliance, the so-called free world, and then you'd have the- Perceived check and balance.

E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more Sep 17, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:55 Jason Calacanis So Saks, um, a court premise of the discussions we've had here is that the United States screwed up the negotiation, uh, with Putin by not taking NATO off the table. 3 times in the scene

E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more Sep 10, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 27:27 David Sacks Macron, you know, from France said that NATO will stand together and prevent Russia from winning the war.
  • ▶ 39:46 David Sacks He almost resigned in protest over NATO expansion eastward. 5 times in the scene

E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security Sep 1, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18:48 David Sacks It is because we brought NATO, which he views as a hostile military alliance, right up to his border. 5 times in the scene

E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more Aug 5, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 27:50 David Friedberg This NATO situation may or may not help. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:46 Jason Calacanis Uh, and you know, the West now becoming unified, say what you will about the NATO membership and the timing of it. 4 times in the scene

E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more Jul 14, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:25 David Friedberg Um, you know, we're busy kind of protecting our energy interests and our interest with NATO as, as the United States.

E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more Jun 30, 2022 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:50 David Sacks Number one was that, that Ukraine had to remain a neutral state as opposed to being brought into NATO and having American troops, weapons, and bases on Russia's border. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:23:30 Jason Calacanis Wait, we don't believe more people should be able to join NATO? 9 times in the scene

E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast Jun 24, 2022 · 3 mentions

#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias Jun 7, 2022 · 1 mention

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