Tom Bilyeu

That's a bad move.

As much as America annoys me, they really are powerful.

So instead of confronting them head on, I'm going to continue to be the voice of reason.

I'm going to do things, wield power diplomatically.

And so I'm just retaining ships.

What's the problem?

Not blowing them up.

just retaining them.

This is a very gentle reminder that we have leverage.

And there's a concept that I think is very smart that applies from parenting to politics.

And it goes like this, minimum force necessary.

The U.S.

currently is using a maximum force approach.

It's already having massive consequences.

It will continue to have massive consequences.

Now, this is not me saying that

We might not have benefits on the other side of this from using maximum force.

There might be benefits that come out of it, and consequentialism matters to me a lot in terms of evaluating whether a move was wise or not.

But it is way, way, way, way, way higher risk.

So again, there are no credible analysts that agree with what I'm saying, but if that's part of what China's doing, I would not be the least surprised.