Susan Rice

And what Trump has done methodically

is to undermine and deconstruct the strength of those alliances.

What holds those alliances together are shared values and trust.

And trust has been broken, and Trump has evinced no commitment to our traditional values, to international law, to the rule of law, domestically, to any of these things.

And at the same time, his national security strategy is essentially about...

retreating from the competition and indeed the pushback that is essential against China and Russia as the two leading threats to our national security, and basically said our priority, our focus,

Our sphere of influence is going to be the Western Hemisphere.

And we really don't care that much what China does in the rest of Asia, what Russia does in Eastern Europe and beyond.

He wants to take us back to the 19th century.

where great powers had their spheres of influence, where they could act with impunity and exercise their will and extract resources without any consequence.

And as long as we have ours here in the Western Hemisphere, which he likes to define as including Greenland and Canada, as well as all of Latin America,

Then let China do its thing.

Let Russia do its thing.

So we have shrunk from a global power and a global superpower influencing and exerting events around the world and acting in a way that advances our interests vis-a-vis our traditional adversaries, China and Russia.

to basically saying, let them have their space and we're going to just take our space.

And we don't care if China wins the AI race.

We don't care if Russia threatens its neighbors.

That's not our concern.

And surely, except for the oil and the money that comes out of the Middle East, that's not our concern.

And, you know, that's his view.