Ian Bremmer

Don't fight for the Gulf states.

Don't fight for Taiwan.

Don't fight for Japan.

Stop this.

And I think that the longer this goes, yes, only 7,000 troops, but every troop matters.

Yes, only $200 billion he's asking for in the special distribution for the Pentagon, but only $181 billion was spent on Ukraine over three years.

And yet,

Americans are like, why are you doing this when you're not taking care of me at home?

And yeah, I don't think 4,000 kilometer lying about their ballistic missiles is a credible ex post argument for the average American Trump voter.

I don't.

I just don't.

You and I can have a very intelligent, pointy headed conversation about like, you know, grand strategy and realpolitik and what it means for America long term.

But I'm talking about like what got Trump elected.

This did not get Trump elected.

Absolutely not.

And I think he's going to pay.

Among Trump voters, I really think that there's a tendency among many of us to fixate on a handful of very loud, high volume statements.

self-appointed evangelists for the MAGA right and listen to the things they're saying and over-interpret what that means where the Trump electorate, where Trump's coalition is.

The reality is if you look in poll after poll after poll, CBS just came out with a new poll,

It's over 80%.