Tucker Carlson

which 25 years ago was considered kind of marginally significant.

Now it's understood to be a critical resource from which all kinds of different products that you use every day and pharmaceuticals and, as noted, fertilizer and electricity all come.

The United States has huge reserves of natural gas.

But our region, North America, South America, the Caribbean, the Western Hemisphere, has massive reserves of energy, has huge amounts of water, fresh water, which matters, and has the world's best farmland.

So we are in a very rich hemisphere today.

And we haven't really internalized that.

So actually, if the world cleaves in two, if China fully controls the East, mostly controls the East, and we mostly control the West, probably something we could live with.

Probably not a terrible thing for the United States, but it would require...

totally different way of thinking.

It would require the US government, the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, all the academics that feeded information and deep thoughts about what the empire should be.

It would require all of them to change the way they think about the United States and its place in the world.

So all of a sudden, what happens in Brazil, which has massive reserves of freshwater farmland and energy,

would be way more important than what happens in Saudi Arabia.

And that's not a bad thing because we have a lot in common with Brazil.

It's a Christian country with a Romance language in our hemisphere right there directly beneath us.

It's a country almost the size of the continental United States.

It's a huge country.

It's a beautiful country, by the way.

And Saudi Arabia is on the other side of the world.

So why wouldn't you spend a lot more time thinking about what happens in Brazil, trying to improve Brazil, make it more stable, make it more pro-American, not roll in and steal its oil, its resources, but bring it into your sphere of influence?