Andrew Egger
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first heard Jan 2025
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That's kind of in the background of all this, too, because because you're in this asymmetrical environment where all of our NATO partners, their top priority is continuing to contain China and Russia.
But then you have Donald Trump, who, while he is sort of ostensibly committed to those aims as well, is much more focused at any given moment on making sure, you know, our NATO powerhouses,
Partners aren't taking advantage of us in small ways, you know, economically or reasserting our status as as the again, the alpha dog in that partnership.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's just it's a striking thing.
I mean, he is he has this personal ability, right, that we've talked about.
And he has now been given access to an enormous amount of political and military and economic power where where, you know, even even beyond the people who were kind of in his personal sphere of influence.
So everybody, you know, has to pay attention to to what what the United States is doing with him at the helm.
So it's a it's a I think he I think what we are seeing really more than anything else right now is just how much he is sort of luxuriating and having his hands back on his weapons in that way, where where where, you know, his megaphone is greatly enhanced by being the president elect of the United States.
So that – well, let's do the last one first because that is the cotton candy-est of all of them.
I mean, I guess in some way, essentially what you would be able to do is you would be able to potentially get the United States to start referring to the Gulf as the Gulf of America in official government documents.
And you could turn it into kind of a MAGA cultural signaling thing where they, you know, it's like wearing the hat or something like that, that we call it the Gulf of America.
I mean, it's not like you can compel the map companies to change it by force or anything like that.
That's not how these things work.
Hello, all the tech billionaires.
I guess you could see Google change it as a sort of a sop to him.
Who knows?
But so that's, I mean, that's sort of the silly one.
The Panama Canal is less silly because it is more fraught, right?
I mean, the geopolitics there are actually...
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