Peter Zeihan

Fair enough.

If you want a presidency that was preparing for a world where China loses, that would be the Biden administration.

The Biden administration had plenty of flaws, but they actually did build some of the infrastructure that was necessary and built the alliance structure that was necessary to prepare for a post-China world.

A lot of that, of course, is now gone.

But I have a big problem with any strategy that doesn't plan for success, and we're not seeing that today.

Well, just if the goal is to defeat slash remove slash cow China, whatever you want to do, there's certain things you're going to need the next day.

And there's been no effort that I have seen in that direction.

Until there is, it's really hard for me to scribe anything to a strategy.

Doesn't exactly fit on a bumper sticker, but yeah, that broadly works.

You got two big things that are going on.

Number one, in the globalized world, it's all about who you can access safely.

And in the Western hemisphere, we really don't have to worry about any security threats from a trade point of view.

So people always talk about, oh, if the U.S.

and China get into a war, won't that be bad for X, Y, or Z?

I don't mean to suggest it would be a piece of cake, but the Chinese are dependent on trade and we're not.

It's really that simple.

And if we can nail down Canada and Mexico in a productive relationship, you know, we used to call that NAFTA or NAFTA II.

We're now having second thoughts.

That's half the hard work right there.

In addition, we export food, we export energy, the Chinese import both biggest in the world, in fact.