Steven Bartlett

And so really since then, and that was in January, since then, this is when you've seen the stuff you were talking about, you know, the visits to China, the visits to Canada, the back and forth with India.

And you see everybody hedging and rearranging the way they think about the world.

It's very bad news.

Because a lot of America's prosperity in the post-war period has been based on the fact that America was dominant in global trade.

And we make money out of our European relationships.

We produce things that we sell all over the world.

And actually, you know, we import things from all over the world, and that's good, too.

You know, the root of American post-war prosperity are these relationships, especially with Europe.

And also the root of America's security dominance.

I mean, why are there NATO bases in Europe?

It's not just to protect Europe.

It's also because from there, the U.S.

can project power into the Middle East.

It can, you know, into Africa.

It has a sort of window on the world relationship.

And once those bases are gone, then the U.S.

is suddenly cut off and far away in a way that it wasn't before.

And there are all kinds of other risks.

You know, will the U.S.

dollar go on being so dominant?