Scott Horton

He'll goes off like an angry black guy kind of character.

He goes way out, you know, above and beyond.

But I think he's probably acting on instructions to talk that way.

And it is a real risk that the MPT could just fall apart when it becomes when it's treated so callously by the United States who invented it and insisted that the rest of the world adopt the thing to such a great degree.

That's right.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, well, and I appreciate that.

Yeah, it's good.

And look, the Pakistanis could give a nuke to Iran, who are their friends, I think, not the tightest of allies.

I'm not saying I predict that, but there's a danger of that.

Now, when it comes to, you know, Eastern Asia, obviously there's a concern about a Chinese threat to Taiwan, but nobody thinks China's coming for South Korea or Japan.

The question of Taiwan is one that's very different because, as the American president agreed with Mao Zedong 50 years ago, Taiwan is part of China and eventually will be reunited, although we hope that's not by force.

Since then, they have essentially abandoned Marxism, although it's still a one party authoritarian state.

But they've essentially abandoned Marxism, adopted markets, at least to the degree that they've been able to afford to now build up a giant naval force that is capable of retaking Taiwan.

And so I think the way to prevent that is not for making a bunch of threats and setting examples in other places about how tough we are.

but to negotiate with the Chinese and the Taiwanese and figure out a way to reunite the two in a peaceful way in order to prevent that war from breaking out.

Because in fact, we don't really have the naval and air capability to defend Taiwan.

We could lose a lot of guys trying and probably kill a lot of Chinese trying, but in the end, they'd probably take Taiwan anyway.

We'd have lost a bunch of ships and planes for nothing.

So we can negotiate an end to that.