Simon Sinek

So we can put our differences aside because that's worse.

And so the mistake that America made when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed is we falsely believed that we had won the war.

There's no such thing as winning global politics.

It's like the Roman Empire doesn't exist, but the physical land still exists, and the people who were Romans are now Italians.

It's like nobody went away.

They just changed forms.

It's like the law of conservation of matter, the law of conservation of energy, and there's a law of conservation of people.

Right.

Right?

People don't just disappear because the empire is gone.

The empire is a political construction.

And so we didn't win anything.

The Soviet Union collapsed, but the people are still there, and the culture is still there, and the land is still there.

And America acted like victors.

And what always happens in an infinite game, what always happens in a game that has no end, is new players will emerge.

It's like when one company goes bankrupt, it doesn't mean the game of business is over, which means new companies will fill the space.

Well, new nations fill the space.

And so the threats that challenged America showed up in the form of North Korea, in the form of global terrorism, you know, Al Qaeda and ISIS and all other spinoffs.

And I think that global competition is actually a very good thing.

It's scary.