Tom Bilyeu

So he'll go in and he'll grab Maduro and think, ooh, that gives us control of the oil, but does not then map out accurately what does China do?

Because China's full of very smart people that are not going to sit down.

They see this as their opportunity.

They've spent whatever, 30, 40 years clawing their way back onto the world stage after like 200 years of being backwards.

It's really...

It's a fascinating moment in history to think of China as like a civilization that is thousands of years old, that has like a very concrete identity, a very strong sense of itself as rightfully being what they call the central state, meaning not geographically central, but the most important.

And so you put that with, yeah, 40 years of dictatorial rule, of planning for the future, of forcing everybody to march in lockstep towards one thing, and it's bearing fruit.

So you are dealing with a very organized, a very disciplined, a very intelligent China that's going to play incredibly strategic moves.

They've been using seduction when the U.S.

has been using smash and grab.

And I think that that's going to really start to bear fruit.

So the more Trump smash and grabs, the more they realize, oh, we need to make our image and let it be very clear.

This is just an image, but we need to make our image that we are the friendly 22 and 23.

And so if you get in bed with America, now you're dealing with people that are

arrogant, overly aggressive, willing to use force, willing to slap people around.

We, on the other hand, are just trying to make your life better.

We're going to be touching on some ways that they're doing that today, not the least of which is what they're doing in banking.

I just can't believe that America is making some of the choices that it's making.

It's absolutely ridiculous, but is in keeping with a declining empire and how they start lashing out and that when people realize they've allowed themselves to get put in a weakened position, they don't start playing a long game.

of seduction, they start playing the short game of I'm just gonna take what I want and I'm gonna try to shore up my position as the strongest bully.