Ambassador Robert Blackwill

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.

Not yet, but the trends are bad.

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.

So militarily, the gap is dramatically closed.

China's diplomacy is still outmatched by American diplomacy.

Look who's negotiating the Gaza, the Gaza ceasefire and Ukraine and so forth.

Yeah, but they are gaining ground.

And then, of course, economically, they are forging business deals and trade agreements with India, with Europe, with so forth, while we will coerce you into an agreement

in principle, which is condemned by your domestic audiences, and we'll see if they really come to pass.

And just a word, the president said in the last week that we'd produced a miraculous new trade agreement with India.

where I spent some years ambassador.

And Modi now is in across the board attacks that that agreement in general does not protect Indian vital national interests.

So we are losing ground and contempt for the third world quite apart from the moral vacuum that is.

is over the long run detrimental to American national interests.

If you look at the population trends, if you look at where the minerals are and so forth, and to just talk about the third world as if it was only a swamp

that can never be rescued the way the president does is just bad strategy.

Well, that is what he did.