Peter Zeihan

in addition to considering that the Chinese are consuming 14 million, 15 million barrels a day now, I think, it's not that it comes from these places.

It's that it flows through a route that can only exist if the US Navy is keeping the sea safe for everyone.

So if your goal is to break China, there are far simpler ways.

And if that is your goal,

the first thing you should do is build out the industrial plant you need at home for success.

Because when China breaks, things that we need will stop.

And you best provide an alternative supply of those things first.

On foreign affairs and foreign economic affairs, he has one.

And until September, he wouldn't even let him in the Oval Office.

Who is it?

Rubio.

He's the only one.

No one else on his team has any idea of how economics or foreign affairs works.

In the first few months of the administration, basically you had Vance guiding him on everybody is evil, so we should kill everybody, including the Ukrainians.

Vance is just a waste of genetic material.

Damn!

And then you had Tulsi Gabbard, who for all practical purposes is a Russian plant, who was shaping policies for the Russian Federation through the White House.

And as part of that process, they gutted the State Department, they gutted the National Security Council.

So all of the normal voices that funnel everything from the intelligence services and the military up to the president so he can make informed decisions, that was all deliberately dismantled.

And it wasn't until, get this, Melania, back in November, was talking with her husband after Trump came back from a phone call with Putin about how wonderful everything was.