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saying we can't do this.
We can't be the world police.
We have to share power.
Bill Maher is going to align with Donald Trump.
Now, what I will say is I believe, though I disagree with Tucker on many things, what he's describing, whether you want it to or not, is inevitable.
The theory is and I agree with this.
We've discussed this theory on this show years ago.
Thucydides trap.
is a reference to when a dominant power is on the decline and a rival power is ascendant, right before that switch happens, the dominant power will go to war with the weaker power as it is their last opportunity to stop their growth.
12 out of 16 historical times in the past, we have seen this trend happen.
The theory is the powers that be in the United States recognizing that Thucydides' trap is an inevitability as the United States cannot maintain itself.
After a few generations, you get merit decline.
You get social degradation.
You have to have a jumping of the ship to a new culture.
The theory is that in the 90s, take a look at what H.W.
Bush said with the new world order.
The theory is they go to China, cut these trade deals, start sending all of our manufacturing over there so that the decline and the ascension are so fast, war is impossible.
The powerful elites transfer as much of their wealth to China as possible.
The US falters, no longer a global dominant power.
China is ascendant, becomes the unipolar power.