Tucker Carlson

And in China's case, you have Taiwan, you also have Japan, you have South Korea, and you have Philippines.

So you've got four big countries that are not directly controlled by China, but they're in Asia.

And they were all to one extent or another closely allied with the United States and benefit from some kind of defense guarantee, mostly implied.

And so if you weaken those countries, all of whom are totally dependent on Middle Eastern energy, and you weaken the United States,

By refusing to come to its aid, the Gulf stays closed.

Energy prices in the United States spike.

Food prices spike.

Political unrest deepens.

The U.S.

gets weaker, more chaotic.

It hurts you.

But it also sends a very clear message to all those other countries in Asia you would like in your sphere of influence that, hey, the United States is probably not going to come to our rescue if we have some kind of conflict with China.

Maybe we better come to terms with China.

So this is not obvious to a lot of the geniuses who run our country because they think in terms purely of military force.

How big is your army?

How many nukes do you have?

What's your navy look like?

But from a Chinese perspective, which is longitudinal, tend to think in terms of like years, not just quarterly reporting periods, this is greatly to your advantage.

greatly to your advantage.

Why would you want to stage a military invasion of, say, Taiwan, the one every think tank in Washington is always telling us is coming any minute, when you could just send a really clear message to the Taiwanese government that reunification with China is inevitable and let's do this the easy way, the non-messy way.