Ambassador Robert Blackwill

I think Putin will keep working on that and be patient.

We talk, and I'm guilty of this more than you, but when I

When I'm hopeful, Chuck, about what America's future might be with respect to its foreign policies, when I'm hopeful, I have to say that I have to compartmentalize that hope

and ignore that the president is in office for three more years.

So what will he do to further rupture, to use the Canadian prime minister's words, to rupture the alliances?

For now, and Greenland is a good example,

Europe is traumatized by what President Trump says

Well, you at the end highlighted the major issue, which is not really discussed in public, even in the elite, which is the question that Britain asked itself in 1939.

not what he does.

So Davos was a flitterer, not because President Trump did anything about Greenland.

It was he said he would consider the use of force.

What we need, I think, to be acutely aware of in the next three years is what does he start not just saying but doing?

Are we willing to go to war with Germany over Poland?

And the question not asked around Washington in all of the palaver is, are we willing to go to war with China over Taiwan?

For example,

Does he make the decision to withdraw US forces from South Korea or substantial numbers from Japan, from Europe?

Yes or no?

And an American president should know that.

He doesn't have to announce it, although Joe Biden did four times.

Does he succumb to the one China interpretation of the Chinese interpretation of one China, which says Taiwan is part of China and so forth?