Tucker Carlson

It's...

Definitely not true now, and no one will be able to deny it.

So that's going to be hard for some people to accept.

It could be dispiriting to us as a nation, but it reflects reality, and it's not the end of American power or prosperity.

It might, in fact, be the beginning of actual power and more durable prosperity, the kind rooted in resources and production and

the kind that's not necessarily dependent on finance.

So it doesn't need to be a disaster, but it's definitely going to be a global reshuffling.

And it revolves around the question of resources.

It revolves around what President Trump, to his credit, understands, which is ultimately power derived from prosperity.

Rich countries are powerful.

Rich countries get to build powerful militaries to express and in rare occasions exert their power.

But wealth comes from resources.

And what are resources?

Resources are food, water, and energy.

the three things necessary for life, for growth, for civilization, food, water, energy.

Food by and large comes from energy, by the way.

Huge percentage of fertilizer comes from natural gas, but it takes energy to make food, of course.

But a country's resources, its physical resources, the things it finds in the ground,

are essential to that country's prosperity.

So physical reality matters.