Mike Davis

But what he's really doing is sort of he's amassing leverage is what he's doing.

And I think that's the way you sort of have to look at what he does.

Always think of like what...

What leverage is he deriving from this latest action, even if you don't understand it in the moment?

So today he goes there and he says, look, I'm taking...

It's not about strategic minerals.

And I'm taking military force off the table.

And the market booms.

The market's up about 500 points, I think, right now.

And everyone has this sigh of relief.

And all of a sudden, we seem to be in what now is the new normal, which is it seems OK that what we're negotiating for is to take over a piece of territory that belongs to another country.

But everyone kind of sighs, you know,

sighs with relief at that um so he's moved uh i don't want to call it you know four-dimensional chess or any of that but he certainly has moved the conversation in the direction he wanted it to go and that's where we are very true to your broader point about europe i think

I think the message there is, and I think Tom alluded to it, it's not just that we don't want you to be the freeloader anymore.

You would be better if you got your act together.

That's like saying to a friend, look, you really should stop drinking.

You ought to wake up in the morning to do some exercise because that's what's good for you.

It's good for me that I no longer have to pay for the popcorn, but it would be better for you if you actually got up on your two feet and manned up and took care of your economy, closed your borders,

Provide your own people with your own energy and control your destiny.

That's what he wants America to do.