Ambassador Robert Blackwill

I think most likely he'll be an American nationalist.

And then that raises the question, well, who is the Democrat candidate that

will, in an equally resolute way, give the American people beginning in the campaign a different view of America's role in the world and the role in which they and their children are going to live.

And what is the Democrat approach to world order and U.S.

grand strategy today or more pertinently during the campaign?

And I don't have a clue.

And to go back to the most primary point, do the American people really want to live in Mr. Miller's world?

Perhaps you do, but I don't have a clue where they'll come out.

Do they really want to live in a world without rules in which the strong dictate to the weak without any framework of right and wrong?

Do they want to live in a world in which the American president says, I operate in no moral context?

What I decide is right or wrong.

Is that the world they want their kids to live in?

It's not the world I want my kids and grandkids to live in.

Well, that is related to what I said earlier.

At Davos, a friend of mine asked a foreign minister, well, what about after Trump?

And he said, well, if the next president looks more like ones we've seen before, OK, but then we can get another Trump.

And my argument, which my friend didn't use, but my argument is, no, you're not going to get another Trump.

Not yet, but the trends are bad.

He is such a singular figure in American history that, as I said, I think many of his policies will go with him.

The military trends are bad, and that's the reason I believe we need to increase our defense budget and reform our defense processes and acquisition and all the rest.