Robert Pape
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2,835 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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Only 20% of its energy needs now, 20% are met with oil, and only 38% of that come from the Persian Gulf.
So last summer when I was visiting the
those electric, those advanced industries, the business people were telling me in the dinners that, yeah, they may suffer a percent or two here or there loss of GDP.
But the fact of the matter is their whole business plan is built around Asia.
It's built around, this will create opportunities for them to buy things and get deals on the cheap.
They're more likely to jettison ahead as a result of this while America is
get sunk here.
And what you are seeing is we just keep getting spun by Trump's rhetoric here, and we're missing big pictures.
Some of it's because we just don't go to China.
We try to get everything from behind our computers.
And I know it's ironic that here I am, a professor, spend most of my life behind a computer, and I'm telling journalists and I'm telling politicians, you've got to get out and meet people and see the real world
That's what's happening.
Otherwise, we're just stuck listening to President Trump's vision of the real world.
They would be foolish to do a full-on military invasion, even if they could succeed, because what that would do is it would take the focus off of blame of the United States.
It would push Europe away, push some of the other Asian partners away they want.
So they could help us out.
I say this only half jokingly here to my classes.
The best way to bail out Trump from the Iran war would be if Xi would attack Taiwan, because this would fundamentally help Trump.
And maybe he's going to try to tickle Xi and say, don't you want to do this?
Well, I'm sorry.
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