Peter Zeihan

For the European Union, they've aged out.

They have to export.

And if they can't, you're looking at them having to invent that new economic model in like five to 10 years instead of the, say, 30 to 50 years that the United States has.

So we're looking at, we're at the dawn of it at a best technological stagnation as we have to generalize versus specialize.

And that's before you consider some of the financial outcomes that come from a rapidly aging demographic on a global basis.

Yeah, very much a hypothetical.

Yeah, I'm going to say let's start by saying that when Trump was out of power, he gutted the Republican Party of all its policy experts so that it is just a vehicle for his personality.

So the Republican Party today, it's lost its national security arm, its business arm, its fiscal conservative arm, its law and order arm.

They're all gone.

It's just him.

So when he came in, he came in with the smallest team of any American president in history.

And the first thing he did was got the federal government of the top 6,000 positions so that policy cannot be implemented.

So my advice to Trump would be to, you know, shoot Vance and leave.

And let's try this over with someone else because clearly he has designed the system so it cannot function on purpose.

If I was talking to any other generic president, you need to look at what we can't do.

Mexico is too skilled to do assembly, so we need a relatively large-ish population somewhere that is further down the value-added scale that can fill that gap.

The two best options are Colombia and Cuba.

Colombia, we already have a free trade agreement with.

There, it's an infrastructure problem.

Cuba...