Fareed Zakaria
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You know, this is the new form of capitalism that we're embracing.
You know, for the United States, for America, it's always been very hard to understand other people's nationalism.
In other words, we are very proud nationalist patriots, right?
But then when you go to Vietnam and they're like, we want our country.
We just don't understand that.
We're like, no, no, no.
We are going to give you a better system.
We go to Iraq and they're like, get out of here.
And we say, no, no, no, you don't understand.
We're going to set up a wonderful democracy where the Shias and the Sunnis will live together.
And I actually, as an immigrant, I think we do mean well in many of these cases, but we seem to have no understanding that
Other people have nationalism too.
There's this famous moment, it may have been apocryphal, when Mountbatten, the last British viceroy, is talking to Gandhi and saying- You know I love a good Mountbatten anecdote.
Throw it my way.
Yeah.
And he says, Mr. Gandhi, if the British just leave India, it's going to be chaos.
And Gandhi looks at him and says, yes, but it'll be our chaos.
And that's what I think most people don't understand sometimes.
People prefer their own chaos to a foreign-imposed peace, a foreign-imposed order.
And what Trump is doing is actually igniting nationalism and anti-American nationalism in places that have really never had it, like Canada.