Robert Pape

And it's because once everybody knows America can be beat, there's a power vacuum now in the Gulf.

It's literally a power vacuum.

And the states are going to respond on their own, for their own survival.

They may make mistakes.

They may do something good for their survival, but they're not going to simply listen to

President Trump, Jared Kushner, and just simply say, oh, sure, we're just going to keep doing everything and following your lead.

And with OPEC now, this is a real sign of disunity.

And you see this in NATO here.

And you saw with Japan, President Trump browbeat the leader of Japan, and she would not budge.

Well, they're only 4% of the world's GDP now.

They're not 10% like they were.

And why exactly are they throwing their bodies in front of this thing?

And their oil, where is this idea that somehow we're going to – Japan is an island state.

I studied this in World War II.

They are an island state.

They depend so much on that incoming oil.

That's really one of the things that crushed Japan in World War II is we had a naval blockade that really worked to crush their military.

Their civilian, they didn't crush their morale, but it did weaken their military.

Well, this is still true today with Japan.

And so where are we bailing out Japan?