Sarah Paine

And I don't think they'll like that.

The Russians fancy themselves being Europeans and have a whole, I believe, racist package that goes with the Chinese so that they won't like that whole situation.

I don't know how long it takes them to do whatever they're going to do.

So a lot of things in foreign policy, you're not going to solve it.

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.