JD Vance

I mean, I think it's an abstract question that's interesting.

But fundamentally, in some ways, the world is going to be multipolar in the sense that there are different.

We want regional allies to step up.

I mean, you've heard the president say this before.

You know, we'd love a Middle East where we have to spend a little bit less time and a little bit less money, and our regional allies, both Israeli and Arab, step up in a bigger way.

We'd like to see that, of course, in Europe.

And I think one of the big accomplishments of the president in the first term, something that the media still doesn't give enough credit for, is he actually got NATO to step up and make major security commitments about their own sector of the world.

Now, that's sometimes interpreted as, well, America doesn't like Europe anymore.

No, we like Europe so much,

that we want Europe to step up and take a little bit more self-control of its own continent.

Of course, we're gonna be their friends, and of course, we're gonna work with them, but we definitely see a world where some of our regional allies step up a little bit more.

I think that's a good thing.

Of course, they're gonna be allied with the United States, aligned with the United States in important ways, but other countries taking a bigger,

a bigger role in their own self-defense and in their own region, that's fundamentally a good thing for America.

Well, a couple of thoughts on this.

So first of all, I am a little bit more optimistic about automation.

And if you look at some of the doom narratives about automation, you know, the robots are coming to take all of our jobs.

If the robots were coming to take all of our jobs, you would see labor productivity skyrocketing in this country.

But you actually see labor productivity flatlining.

And what that means actually is that our country is under-indexed in technology and not over-indexed in technology.