Alex Turnbull

The problem is this, is that if this is what one side of politics is going to be about on a sustained basis, which is

doing stuff which doesn't make a lot of sense and is very damaging and unpredictable.

And the other side is

maybe a bit of a wet noodle at times, but a bit more predictable.

You kind of need to live through the full cycle, right?

Yeah, sorry.

So, I mean, so if there's that perception that there's going to be this regular source of volatility, and also, you know, politics animated by things which,

do not really animate Asia, like evangelical Christianity or a desire for a catacomb or fighting with the Pope.

Like if this is kind of what

us is now then there is going to be a natural desire to insulate oneself from it as much as you humanly can and that there are real limits to what you can do it's a big economy it's very important but uh you know food fuel you know basic material flow security i think is going to be looked at very differently going forward and and i think there is a that will lead to a drive towards

much higher energy security, which is not going to go well with US efforts to promote fossil exports for sure.

I think what people have not appreciated well is that China responds well to strength.

the U.S.

now responds well to strength.

So who does Trump not mess with?

China, because they've restricted rare earths and basically threatened to put Detroit into cardiac arrest and shrug their shoulders.

And I think what Europe in particular is missing is that there are hands they can play that maybe are not intuitive to them, but doesn't mean they wouldn't work.

The IRGC appears to have beaten the U.S.

to the most humiliating geopolitical defeat since Suez.

And