Tom Bilyeu

You just think their offensive moves won't yield the right play.

If we were being defensive, we would just think, okay, how do I optimize for what we're doing?

How do I make things a little bit better here at home?

Now, I...

What I'm about to say is not me saying, hey, the Trump admin, because everybody thinks this is Trump, this is his administration, his advisors, the think tanks, all of that.

I'm not saying that all of their moves are well advised, but I'm going to give you a frame of reference on them that I think is far closer to accurate, which is you have extraordinarily smart people that have built a path forward that

That is predicated on a base assumption that America is still the strongest military, that we are still the best poised to win in a fractured isolationist world, but that we have to press our advantage while we have it.

And the way that we're pressing our advantage is by going, okay, who's our biggest rival?

China.

How do we weaken China?

Energy.

Because the one thing, they're transitioning off of oil as rapidly as they can.

We're not keeping up with them, not even close.

So one thing that we can do is just try to hurt them now while we can by going in, getting rid of their cheap access to oil in Venezuela, going in, getting rid of their cheap access to oil in Iran.

Cool.

That's going to slow down China a little bit.

They're going to just keep transitioning away.

But right now it matters to them.

So we're going to try to trip them up there.

Also, we've got this issue where we understand, again, please, I'm not asking you to believe Trump understands this, although I think he understands it better than most people think.