Eyck Freymann

That involves signing a piece of paper that allows him to declare victory and then kicking the reintegration or whatever to his successor.

So on that upbeat note, we're going to sneak in a break here.

This is the thing about national rejuvenation, right?

It's a wonderful goal to set because the deadline is 2049 when he'll be 96 years old.

So he can claim credit for it all, but if there's anything that's not quite, any loose ends that aren't quite wrapped up, he can pass it to his successor with no loss of face.

And I think that's important.

He hasn't tied his hands here.

If you go into his National Museum, it's not like he's saving a wall or a trophy case in the exhibit for Taiwan.

There's just not a mention of Taiwan.

And ask yourself right now what he would do if Estonia was invaded by Russia, a NATO ally.

So he has blown up NATO.

He is risking America's essentially leadership.

Well, we just talked about we have no intelligence.

We have no intelligence.

This is open source, right?

But based on the open source, we have no idea.

And I think anyone who has confidence that it's one way or the other on Taiwan is just pitching an op-ed.

Because you can spin the story either way.

So we don't know why he did it, but we can say something about the situation now that he has done it.

Now that he has done it, he's in full control of the PLA.