Steven Glinert

And the thing he says quite a bit is like, the only way for the United States to feasibly balance against China, because there's not going to be some, you know, wonderful, like industrial renaissance that's going to come around, you know, even in 10 years, like we'll claw our way back, maybe if we do everything right.

But like,

the only way to really do it is have allied weight.

You need to build relationships.

The United States needs to maintain relationships with Japan, with Korea, with France, with Germany.

And this admin has done a really, really bad job.

So like, I think that this is the, the core problem is like, if you want to maintain a, if you want to maintain balance against China, you need to be

creating an anti-hegemonic coalition where you can use the industrial capacity of the rest of the world.

Because frankly, like there's no world, maybe in a decade we get a lot of it back if we play our cards right.

But there's no world in which we're able to actually have parity against them in 2036.

Right?

Like, that's not a thing you can get.

Right, but the idea that we're going to, on our own, get the industrial capacity back to be a counterweight to China on our own is just dumb.

And it's just not true.

And it has no factual basis.

If you want to build an anti-hegemonic coalition to counter China, you need to build a coalition.

And given that that doesn't seem to be going very well right now, we either have to rely on Xi Jinping just breaks China or...

Or plan C, which I'm going to get to.

That's right.

We should be blackpilling pretty hard right now, especially because the chance that the United States had and has, and maybe there's an opportunity here still, and I remain optimistic, and I'm a fundamentally patriotic optimist for the United States.