Krystal

Our best course of action is to say, okay, we won't do it then because we need to have good relations with you so that you do not cut us off from not only what we need in terms of semiconductors in Taiwan, but other various rare earth minerals and other supply lines that we are completely dependent on China for.

for.

So that is just an acknowledgement of the reality of the world that we live in now.

It is a different day, regardless of how the Iran war concludes and what the contours of a deal are, blah, blah, blah.

And when that comes, whether it's this week or two months from now or a year from now, the world has changed and everybody's opened their eyes to the fact that we are no longer in any position to throw our weight around in the world in the same way.

Trump is uniting the globe in ways we never could have imagined.

How many Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff properties, though, exist if the Gulf region is, I guess, the more important question to ask here in terms of the type of decision making that is being made.

And look, also, you know, the same logic that we apply for the U.S.

bases in the Middle East.

where now many of them have been destroyed, countries are realizing, hey, we thought having these bases on our soil would help protect us, instead it made us a target.

That logic applies to a certain extent in places like South Korea too, in places like Japan as well.

where they're saying, you know, this whole idea that this was really going to protect us as you're pulling weapon systems from our soil and sending them to the Middle East, not sure that this fully adds up for us anymore.

So I'm not saying that that change will happen overnight, but again, the logic and the calculus has completely, completely changed.

You know, Trump threatened to pull our, you know, our military out of Germany.

And there was a significant part, number of Germans on sort of like the far right and the far left.

But we're like, OK, good.

Please go ahead and do it.

I mean, that sentiment exists in South Korea, especially among young South Koreans as well.

That sentiment exists around the world.

And the logic of it has also changed since the demonstration of our weakness in the Middle East and in the Iran war.