Sarah Paine

They're huge countries.

There's no way you're going to solve it.

But you need to figure out how to manage it.

So to have a blast shield so that whatever fallout comes from their toxic, whatever they're doing, it minimizes how it hits your friends and partners.

And this is why you should be focusing on maximizing the economic growth of your friends and partners.

because that is the only effective way to deal with them.

If you go it alone, I mean, who deals with a bully alone?

Always gang up on them, right?

I mean, really, why would you ever want to go alone with a bully?

You'd want to go in with lots of friends.

And this is what the World War II generation, so the Marshall Plan, you look at it, you could never get something through that like Congress now, right?

And yet it's passed overwhelmingly in Congress because people get it, that you have to spend real money and then the European economies recover.

How are they going to do it?

Buying our stuff.

It's a tremendous win-win.

So in strategy, you want to figure out win-win things instead of these zero-sum things where, oh, I invite you over, I humiliate you, I feel good, and then you're mad forever.

It just, it's pointless.

Oh, don't humiliate people.

It turns out that the possibilities for maritime and continental powers are a little different.

Basically, a small subset of countries can defend themselves primarily at sea, and that opens certain possibilities, and others can't, and that opens and closes certain possibilities.