Brandon
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It's like, what do we care about more?
No, I think it's a good threat, but now we have Venezuelan oil that we could put on the table.
or a state?
Began December 2025.
Yeah, no, I do agree with what you're saying with the demise of the dollar, but the renminbi, I've never thought of that as something the rest of the world would rely on.
They're not relying on it.
Yeah.
So you're not saying that China's a threat to be the next reserve currency at all, right?
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, when it comes to what's more strategically important between Venezuela for us or Taiwan for China, I mean, it's probably Taiwan that's more strategically important.
It'd be a bigger blow to the U.S.
if China successfully took Taiwan than the fact that we took Venezuela.
Right.
I wasn't 75 percent of our semiconductor conductors come from there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So I think that's a bigger asset if they were able to take it.
I don't think they would be able to take it even if they use the full force of their military.
Like they're not capable of doing what we did just because of the way that Taiwan is set up.