Captain Jim Fennell

And I'm not sure that we are.

And so I don't want us to learn just lessons for benign environments.

We need to learn lessons for highly contested environments against an adversary who's playing in their backyard as opposed to us playing in our backyard.

I think President Trump is well aware of that comparison.

And that's why he said in his press conference on Sunday, and I think he reiterated on Air Force One, that he's not going to stop oil flowing to China.

But what he now has is a chip in the game, so to speak, which is to say, we need rare earth elements, China, and you need oil.

So if you're going to play with us and try to withhold rare earth elements from us, guess what we can do?

So we just gained another chip in the great game, and President Trump seems to be very adept at playing this.

And so I think he's going to be sensitive to that.

And there's a way that we can do this to where we can buy time to regain our resources, regain our military strength, and to demonstrate to China that they don't want to go there.

And I think that's the real challenge right now is, do we have enough time to restore

our military power, the naval power that we've gutted for 35 years.

And I think the president's well on his way to do that.

This thing about Switzerland seizing the assets of Maduro and his cronies, that's phenomenal because it shows the power of what the tariffs did.

A year ago, when the president imposed those tariffs last year, the Swiss government at the time, they kind of played games and didn't want to believe that that was happening.

And Trump didn't lift them.

And they were shocked.

So now you have a new president.

They put a new president on January 1st.

They rotate among seven.