Gad Saad

100%.

And we can come up, right?

But that makes them a country made up of these things called human beings.

In other words, no society has ever been created that is made up of these utopian machines that as they navigate the world, they look to the other unless they are suicidally empathetic.

So the U.S.

is made up of real human beings endowed with real brains whereby they might say, hey, maybe if we take their oil and concoct a strategy, now is that good or bad?

We can debate it.

But in the grand buffet of societies that have ever held power,

And never mind the power asymmetry that the U.S.

has vis-a-vis everybody else.

Is it the most restrained society ever?

If the United States today said, we need more beaches, all the Caribbeans are becoming the 51st state.

Could anybody do anything about that?

No.

Yet they don't.

So I think it would be good...

certainly for Americans and me as a honorary American, to say, does America do sometimes things that are less than perfect in a utopian world?

100%, yes, you're right.

I can see that.

Does it wield its power in the most gentle ways compared to what it could do and compared to what other societies, if they had that power, would do?