The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - December 10, 2025


PREVIEW： Realpolitik #24 ｜ US New National Security Strategy


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24 minutes

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Summary

The United States has a new national security strategy, and it's a game changer. In this episode of RealPolitik Live, I talk about why this strategy is so important, and why we should all be paying attention to it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to another episode of RealPolitik. I am your host, Firas Madad.
00:00:05.760 We are doing a live episode today on the United States National Security Strategy,
00:00:12.460 which came out last month in November and which is really a bit of a game changer, shall we say.
00:00:20.920 This is a live episode, so as usual, please leave your questions and comments in the chat.
00:00:26.480 I will be glancing at them as we go, and I will try to explain what is going on with this strategy
00:00:34.260 and why it is very much of a big deal.
00:00:39.420 So let me start by reading a couple of segments from this, because I think that they're really relevant.
00:00:46.500 The piece starts with a diagnosis of what's been wrong with American strategy so far,
00:00:52.420 and I think it's really good.
00:00:54.320 It says,
00:00:56.100 American strategies since the end of the Cold War have fallen short.
00:01:00.180 They have been laundry lists of wishes or desired end states,
00:01:04.240 have not clearly defined what we want, but instead stated vague platitudes,
00:01:10.020 like exporting democracy, making the world safe for democracy, blah, blah, blah,
00:01:14.700 and have often misjudged what we should want.
00:01:18.120 So right at the outset, this is a resetting of what the United States should be doing.
00:01:46.220 It's essentially an admission of the death of two things.
00:01:50.900 It's the death of globalization, and it's the death of foreign policy idealism.
00:01:58.920 That's what's being stated here, that really the concern of the United States should only be about its own interests.
00:02:08.060 And these interests are no longer defined in abstract terms, like democratization or liberalism or women's rights or anything of that nature.
00:02:18.440 Rather, they are defined in concrete, hard-nosed ways that focus just on the bottom line and of American interests.
00:02:30.320 That itself is really welcoming.
00:02:34.320 That itself is really a welcome development.
00:02:37.300 It's a big change from how the Americans have been accustomed to think,
00:02:41.380 from how the Americans present the world,
00:02:44.060 presented the world as a war between good and evil.
00:02:47.540 It's really a lot more focused, and it's focused primarily on national interest,
00:02:53.500 rather than focusing on big, abstract ideas.
00:03:00.740 So, again, this is quite good.
00:03:04.960 Another thing that's remarkable about the strategy, I find, which I'm going to talk about a little bit,
00:03:10.060 is the way that it's highly personal.
00:03:13.000 It's all about President Trump and what he wants and what he expects.
00:03:19.280 And this is another welcome change.
00:03:21.480 It's no longer the assumption that we're the good guys, everybody else is bad,
00:03:28.240 we are in consensus over what good is, and we're going to impose it on the rest of the world.
00:03:34.020 Rather, it's a highly personalized strategy that says that Trump has a vision,
00:03:40.840 and this vision is defined as America first, and that's a phrase that's actually used in the document,
00:03:48.500 and that what is going to be pursued is what is necessary for America now
00:03:54.540 because of the condition that America is in.
00:03:57.840 So we see this big change in thinking,
00:04:00.880 and we see a massive condemnation of the previous order.
00:04:05.540 The document says our elites badly miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens
00:04:13.980 to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest.
00:04:18.960 They overestimated America's ability to fund simultaneously a welfare regulatory administrative state
00:04:27.100 alongside a massive military diplomatic intelligence and foreign aid complex.
00:04:32.920 That's exactly right, and that gets to the heart of the problem.
00:04:37.360 The Americans were trying to govern the whole world while maintaining a social democracy at home,
00:04:43.620 and that social democracy was getting increasingly intrusive
00:04:48.100 with an endlessly expansive administrative regulatory state,
00:04:53.420 and this has been seen correctly as a big problem.
00:04:56.620 And the challenge that's in the document is that the Americans need to prioritize one or the other,
00:05:03.620 and they can't be doing all of these things at the same time.
00:05:07.940 And so you see in this document reflected a lot of ideas around the need for the American economy to be unleashed,
00:05:15.900 which I'm going to get to,
00:05:17.480 and that obviously requires less welfare, less administration, less regulation,
00:05:21.840 but also a very deep-seated necessity,
00:05:25.480 which is to focus America's foreign actions on America's own interests.
00:05:31.860 So in a way, this is what I've described in past pieces on my website, Moda Geopolitics.
00:05:39.700 This is imperial consolidation.
00:05:41.980 They need to get rid of some of the responsibilities that they have already.
00:05:46.560 They need to get rid of some of the internal hindrances that they've been facing
00:05:52.440 that have prevented them from growing at anything more than a sclerotic rate of 2%, 3%.
00:06:00.180 Obviously, if you're in Europe, you're begging for 2% growth,
00:06:04.280 but for the Americans, this is too low,
00:06:06.920 and 4% makes a huge difference versus 3%
00:06:10.200 because of the additional spending that it allows on military and on intelligence and so on
00:06:16.560 that keeps the Americans ahead of China.
00:06:18.860 So these small changes in percentage growth
00:06:22.540 actually make a big difference when you have a multi-trillion dollar economy.
00:06:28.200 And you see this need to rationalize the empire,
00:06:35.780 to trim down the commitments,
00:06:38.740 and to trim down the obstacles to growth domestically.
00:06:42.980 So this is quite important.
00:06:45.620 The document continues,
00:06:47.300 they placed hugely misguided and destructive bets on globalism
00:06:51.460 and on so-called free trade
00:06:53.800 that hollowed out the very middle class and industrial base
00:06:57.700 on which American economic and military preeminence depend.
00:07:02.380 Pretty strong language.
00:07:05.060 Huge condemnation of free trade.
00:07:07.880 And obviously with big implications for China, for Europe, for the rest of the world,
00:07:12.940 given that they have benefited from trading with the United States
00:07:17.600 arguably far more than the Americans themselves have benefited.
00:07:21.040 They allowed allies and partners to offload the cost of their defense
00:07:26.960 onto the American people
00:07:28.840 and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and controversies
00:07:33.420 central to their interests,
00:07:36.180 but peripheral or irrelevant to ours.
00:07:39.760 Now I can think of the Russia-Ukraine war as fitting that description,
00:07:43.120 but I also can think of the various Middle Eastern wars
00:07:46.440 over the last two decades
00:07:48.680 that also very closely fit that description.
00:07:52.460 And they lashed American policy to a network of international institutions,
00:07:56.240 some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism
00:07:58.860 and many by a transnationalism
00:08:02.120 that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty.
00:08:08.160 Pretty strong.
00:08:09.220 Pretty strong stuff.
00:08:10.500 Let's see if it actually carries through
00:08:12.180 and does what it's supposed to.
00:08:13.780 The document then goes on to explain
00:08:16.740 what do the Americans want from the world.
00:08:21.560 This is a pretty lengthy segment
00:08:23.560 and I'll try to go over it.
00:08:28.760 What we want is continued survival and safety of the United States
00:08:33.280 as an independent sovereign republic
00:08:35.240 whose government secures the God-given natural rights of its citizens
00:08:39.680 and prioritizes their well-being and interests.
00:08:44.640 So this is a very American understanding of the world.
00:08:49.440 God gives us natural rights, which is true.
00:08:52.100 Obviously, God does give us these rights.
00:08:54.640 And the role of the government is to safeguard these rights.
00:08:59.200 But the word survival is interesting
00:09:02.560 because the word survival betrays a lack of confidence.
00:09:08.020 If you were an American in the 80s,
00:09:11.140 you know, outside of nuclear war,
00:09:13.340 you wouldn't be thinking about survival.
00:09:15.920 You certainly wouldn't be thinking about survival
00:09:18.200 in the 90s or the 2000s.
00:09:20.640 So there is a change in thinking
00:09:22.760 that's reflected in that small word here.
00:09:25.220 We want to protect this country,
00:09:27.700 its people, its territory, etc., etc.
00:09:29.400 We want full control of our borders,
00:09:31.520 over our immigration system,
00:09:33.640 resilient national infrastructure
00:09:35.280 that can withstand disasters,
00:09:37.900 world's most lethal military, etc.
00:09:40.420 So it sort of shows
00:09:42.460 that the priority here is a little bit reactive.
00:09:46.960 And that is a welcome change
00:09:49.060 because the idealism had led
00:09:52.220 to such a disastrous situation
00:09:54.860 in the United States and in the world
00:09:57.580 when it comes to questions of trade
00:09:59.780 and when it comes to questions of migration
00:10:02.480 that now a reactive approach is necessary.
00:10:07.240 Now, when it comes to what do they want to do,
00:10:10.920 they explain,
00:10:11.880 the authors of this document explain,
00:10:13.640 we want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere
00:10:16.240 remains reasonably stable
00:10:17.760 and well-governed enough
00:10:19.380 to prevent and discourage mass migration
00:10:22.100 to the United States.
00:10:23.060 Top priority, mass migration.
00:10:27.080 And what is required here?
00:10:30.420 Reasonably stable and well-governed.
00:10:33.120 So no idealism,
00:10:35.140 no specific formula
00:10:37.060 as to how Argentina should be run
00:10:40.160 or Mexico should be run,
00:10:41.840 but priorities about immigration
00:10:44.780 and therefore the flow of people
00:10:47.200 and the consequences of that.
00:10:48.800 We want a hemisphere
00:10:50.460 whose governments cooperate with us
00:10:52.200 against narco-terrorists, cartels
00:10:54.020 and other transnational criminal organizations.
00:10:57.640 And we want a hemisphere
00:10:59.240 that remains free of hostile foreign incursion
00:11:02.420 or ownership of key assets
00:11:05.060 and that supports critical supply chains.
00:11:08.760 So the first thing that you see in this
00:11:11.740 is what the Americans call
00:11:13.180 or is what the authors of this document call
00:11:15.340 the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
00:11:19.260 So I think we were talking about this last week
00:11:21.660 and we covered what the Americans are doing in the world
00:11:24.360 and how this is changing
00:11:25.300 on a daily podcast,
00:11:27.640 me and Dan and Nate.
00:11:29.740 And one of the things that we said
00:11:32.120 was that the Americans
00:11:33.520 really desperately need to control the Western Hemisphere.
00:11:35.820 And now they are approaching this
00:11:39.300 from a defensive position,
00:11:41.340 from a position where they need to have enough influence
00:11:44.720 to stop Latin America
00:11:47.380 from actively harming the United States
00:11:50.640 by focusing on immigration, drugs
00:11:54.600 and geopolitical rivals.
00:11:58.440 That is China,
00:11:59.860 obviously the only country
00:12:03.540 with a decent presence in the Western Hemisphere
00:12:05.940 that is potentially a threat to the United States
00:12:07.900 is China.
00:12:09.700 And they view this as an update
00:12:12.140 and revitalization
00:12:13.600 of the Monroe Doctrine
00:12:15.680 with what they are labeling
00:12:17.640 the Trump corollary.
00:12:19.860 And typically these kinds of strategies
00:12:21.500 don't focus that much on the president
00:12:24.600 and on emphasizing the role of the president.
00:12:28.380 They try to present themselves
00:12:29.880 as working for the general will
00:12:34.500 of the American people.
00:12:36.300 So what's sort of reflected here
00:12:37.800 in the emphasis on Trump
00:12:39.280 is something of the personalization of politics,
00:12:42.340 which extends into the way
00:12:45.120 he uses friends and family
00:12:47.460 to execute foreign policy.
00:12:49.800 So the negotiations with Russia
00:12:51.360 are being done by his real estate buddy,
00:12:54.600 Steve Witkoff.
00:12:55.860 The negotiations over the Middle East
00:12:57.780 are being done by Tom Barak,
00:12:59.760 another real estate buddy.
00:13:01.520 Jared Kushner is involved in everything.
00:13:04.260 So this emphasis on the person of Trump
00:13:08.300 is also a little bit strange.
00:13:11.180 The second thing that they mention,
00:13:13.380 we want to hold and reverse
00:13:14.860 the ongoing damage
00:13:19.400 that foreign actors inflict
00:13:20.700 on the American economy,
00:13:22.600 that's China,
00:13:23.620 while keeping the Indo-Pacific free and open,
00:13:26.800 preserving freedom of navigation
00:13:29.160 in all crucial sea lanes.
00:13:30.980 That's Taiwan.
00:13:32.900 And maintaining secure
00:13:34.380 and reliable supply chains
00:13:35.900 and access to critical materials.
00:13:37.980 This is about developing
00:13:39.860 alternative supply chains to China
00:13:42.600 so that China cannot impose sanctions
00:13:45.560 on the United States,
00:13:47.360 which, as the Americans found out
00:13:49.440 in the trade war this year,
00:13:51.140 they're not really in a great position to fight.
00:13:53.060 So the first priority
00:13:56.320 is the Western Hemisphere.
00:14:00.080 The second priority is China.
00:14:03.320 Then it says,
00:14:04.500 we want to support our allies
00:14:06.140 in preserving the freedom
00:14:07.420 and security of Europe
00:14:08.660 while restoring Europe's
00:14:10.780 civilizational self-confidence
00:14:12.420 and Western identity.
00:14:14.360 Now, Europe gets quite a beating
00:14:15.900 in this document,
00:14:17.640 and I'm going to go through that.
00:14:18.840 But this is a really important point here.
00:14:25.200 The American view of Europe
00:14:27.120 is that either it has fallen
00:14:29.360 or it is at risk of falling.
00:14:32.380 And when that happens,
00:14:33.760 it will damage the Americans
00:14:35.720 because one of their biggest trading partners
00:14:38.780 and their most natural ally
00:14:40.940 would have fallen into chaos
00:14:42.940 or under Islamic influence
00:14:44.480 or worse, you know?
00:14:48.740 And then they say,
00:14:49.760 we want to prevent an adversarial power
00:14:51.820 from dominating the Middle East.
00:14:53.800 It's oil and gas supplies
00:14:55.020 and the choke points
00:14:55.840 through which they pass
00:14:56.720 while avoiding the forever wars
00:14:58.380 that bogged us down in the region.
00:15:02.340 So for the Middle East,
00:15:04.120 it's not about doing
00:15:07.620 whatever it takes for Israel anymore.
00:15:09.240 It is about maintaining
00:15:12.720 a balance of power
00:15:14.020 between Iran and Turkey and Israel
00:15:17.520 and the Arab states
00:15:19.600 to further the interests
00:15:21.780 of the United States.
00:15:23.520 So this is a big change in thinking here.
00:15:28.700 Under, say, pre-1992
00:15:32.980 American administrations,
00:15:35.280 there was emphasis on maintaining
00:15:37.200 some kind of balance
00:15:38.400 in the Middle East
00:15:39.120 between Israel
00:15:40.400 and its neighbors slash enemies.
00:15:42.780 This pretty much went
00:15:44.320 starting with Clinton,
00:15:47.040 escalating with Bush
00:15:48.060 through Obama and Biden and Trump.
00:15:51.340 Now there's a change in language here.
00:15:53.860 The change in language says
00:15:55.380 that in the Middle East,
00:15:56.880 all we want is a balance of power
00:15:58.740 and the ability to continue pumping oil
00:16:01.220 and implicitly,
00:16:03.560 anything that threatens
00:16:04.880 that balance of power
00:16:06.260 and the ability to supply
00:16:07.820 energy markets,
00:16:08.620 we don't approve of it.
00:16:10.660 And implicitly,
00:16:11.560 that includes Israel.
00:16:13.080 They've written this.
00:16:14.700 We'll see if they follow through with it.
00:16:18.480 Then they talk about
00:16:19.620 what assets do they have
00:16:20.760 to actually achieve this strategy.
00:16:23.000 And the first one is
00:16:24.220 a nimble political system
00:16:25.480 that can correct course.
00:16:27.880 That one is questionable.
00:16:30.360 The American system
00:16:31.480 lends itself to paralysis.
00:16:32.860 And the fact that there is
00:16:34.940 an electoral cycle
00:16:36.180 every two years
00:16:37.240 endlessly traps
00:16:39.040 the United States
00:16:39.760 in campaigning mode.
00:16:41.460 And if you're constantly
00:16:42.640 in campaigning mode,
00:16:43.940 you are not in execution mode.
00:16:46.120 You're promising things
00:16:47.460 instead of doing things.
00:16:49.120 And that comes with a price.
00:16:51.540 So it's not clear to me
00:16:54.100 that the Americans
00:16:54.800 have this kind of
00:16:55.780 nimble political system.
00:16:57.300 More importantly,
00:16:58.420 what we've seen in the past
00:16:59.460 is Congress trying
00:17:00.720 to paralyze
00:17:01.620 American presidents
00:17:02.440 that wanted to do things
00:17:04.340 that they didn't approve of.
00:17:06.020 So when Obama's policy
00:17:07.420 was to try to get out
00:17:08.560 of the Middle East
00:17:09.060 by making a deal with Iran
00:17:10.460 to make sure
00:17:11.540 that it didn't develop
00:17:12.320 nuclear weapons,
00:17:13.940 faulty as the deal was,
00:17:15.680 Congress paralyzed him
00:17:17.040 and imposed new sanctions
00:17:19.700 on the Iranians
00:17:20.820 that meant that the 2015
00:17:23.300 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
00:17:25.500 could never actually
00:17:26.820 be implemented.
00:17:29.460 With Russia,
00:17:31.100 we'll probably see Congress
00:17:32.780 trying to impose sanctions
00:17:34.060 on the Russians
00:17:34.840 that are intended
00:17:36.480 to tie Trump's hands
00:17:38.020 and to prevent him
00:17:39.240 from executing
00:17:40.700 what he says he wants
00:17:42.040 in this document,
00:17:43.060 which is to end
00:17:44.120 the Ukraine war,
00:17:46.060 et cetera, et cetera.
00:17:46.940 So I'm not convinced here.
00:17:48.820 Then they argue
00:17:49.500 that they have
00:17:50.100 the single largest
00:17:51.100 and most innovative economy.
00:17:54.680 They don't have
00:17:55.680 the largest economy.
00:17:56.520 On a purchasing power
00:17:58.100 parity basis,
00:17:59.460 and to translate that,
00:18:01.580 you can count GDP
00:18:03.700 or gross domestic product,
00:18:05.580 that is the sum total
00:18:06.940 of what your economy
00:18:08.480 has produced in a year,
00:18:09.960 in two ways.
00:18:11.940 One way is that you count
00:18:14.600 the dollar value
00:18:16.580 of everything that is produced.
00:18:18.740 Another way is to count
00:18:21.400 how much that which has been produced
00:18:24.880 actually purchases.
00:18:25.880 So for instance,
00:18:27.920 if you want to stay
00:18:28.880 in a hotel
00:18:30.120 in New York,
00:18:32.000 you'll probably pay
00:18:32.920 $400 a night,
00:18:33.960 $500 a night.
00:18:35.360 If you want to stay
00:18:36.820 somewhere,
00:18:37.760 you know,
00:18:38.220 in rural New Jersey,
00:18:40.280 you might pay
00:18:41.400 $200.
00:18:42.800 So what's counted here
00:18:44.440 is number of hotel rooms,
00:18:46.920 not the value.
00:18:48.900 And if you measure
00:18:50.000 the economy this way,
00:18:51.320 the Chinese economy
00:18:52.980 is 25% bigger
00:18:54.920 than the American economy,
00:18:57.440 according to the World Bank
00:18:58.980 and to the IMF,
00:19:01.180 who,
00:19:02.380 there's a lot of criticism
00:19:03.260 towards them,
00:19:04.140 they know how to count
00:19:05.540 this kind of stuff,
00:19:06.760 and they know how to measure it.
00:19:08.560 So this gets a little bit delusional.
00:19:10.200 The third strength
00:19:12.480 that they identify
00:19:13.260 is the dollar's
00:19:14.640 global reserve currency status.
00:19:17.800 That's a half-truth.
00:19:20.280 What the sanctions regimes
00:19:22.780 against Iran
00:19:23.720 and Russia
00:19:25.880 and China
00:19:26.620 have shown
00:19:27.280 is that actually
00:19:28.940 the dollar's importance
00:19:30.140 has really declined
00:19:31.200 because everybody
00:19:32.660 can now bypass
00:19:33.800 the American dollar
00:19:34.860 and find ways
00:19:36.320 of transacting
00:19:37.040 that don't involve it.
00:19:38.960 the world's most powerful
00:19:43.380 and capable military.
00:19:44.900 I'm going to get to that
00:19:45.680 in a second.
00:19:46.940 Broad network of alliances
00:19:48.660 with treaty allies
00:19:50.080 and so on.
00:19:51.440 Well, the alliances
00:19:52.160 are the problem.
00:19:53.800 So the Americans
00:19:54.480 are looking at their assets
00:19:55.680 and they're counting,
00:19:56.940 you know,
00:19:58.020 political system,
00:19:59.580 not true.
00:20:01.120 Largest economy,
00:20:02.400 not true.
00:20:03.340 Global reserve currency status,
00:20:05.500 half-truth.
00:20:06.120 best technology sector,
00:20:09.840 I have some question mark
00:20:11.860 around that
00:20:12.420 because American technology
00:20:13.580 tends to get you
00:20:14.480 to doom scroll
00:20:15.980 on Facebook
00:20:17.100 or YouTube
00:20:17.680 or whatever
00:20:18.300 rather than getting you
00:20:19.860 to sort of
00:20:20.440 do productive things
00:20:21.560 and Chinese AI
00:20:23.220 is just as good
00:20:24.100 as American AI.
00:20:25.540 Most capable military,
00:20:27.060 big question mark.
00:20:28.580 Broad network of alliances,
00:20:30.100 they're the burden
00:20:30.940 and then they say
00:20:34.480 the geography
00:20:35.560 of the United States
00:20:36.460 because they have an ocean
00:20:37.360 on each side
00:20:38.080 and friendly neighbors,
00:20:39.180 okay,
00:20:39.740 another half-truth,
00:20:40.920 etc.
00:20:41.760 So there's a little bit
00:20:43.020 of a problem
00:20:45.820 on the asset sides
00:20:47.420 of things
00:20:47.860 that this document
00:20:48.720 presents.
00:20:50.640 But we can get past that
00:20:52.180 and get to the
00:20:52.960 properly meaty stuff
00:20:54.060 about what they're going
00:20:55.580 to be doing
00:20:56.140 in different regions
00:20:56.980 in a couple of minutes.
00:20:59.280 Now,
00:21:01.740 when it comes
00:21:03.040 to the principles
00:21:03.680 that they have
00:21:04.360 in this strategy,
00:21:06.660 the first one is
00:21:07.900 focused definition
00:21:09.460 of national interest,
00:21:10.520 what we already said.
00:21:11.960 They're only going
00:21:12.700 to think about
00:21:13.320 whether or not
00:21:14.060 this is good
00:21:14.740 for America
00:21:15.300 in their assessment.
00:21:16.760 They're not going
00:21:17.320 to think about
00:21:17.760 anything else.
00:21:18.980 That's positive.
00:21:20.820 Peace through strength,
00:21:22.160 deterrence,
00:21:23.200 pretty good.
00:21:24.840 Predisposition
00:21:25.400 to non-interventionism.
00:21:27.240 Now,
00:21:27.540 that's a particularly
00:21:28.120 important point here.
00:21:29.740 Because what the
00:21:30.600 Americans are saying
00:21:31.500 is unless it's
00:21:33.060 definitely in our
00:21:33.980 national interest,
00:21:35.260 we are going
00:21:36.180 to let wars
00:21:36.980 get fought out
00:21:37.700 wherever they happen
00:21:38.540 and we are going
00:21:40.680 to ignore
00:21:41.880 what is happening
00:21:43.320 in the rest of the world.
00:21:44.980 At least,
00:21:46.240 to be fair
00:21:47.000 to the document,
00:21:48.300 at least they will
00:21:49.180 not be intervening
00:21:50.160 directly.
00:21:51.420 Rather,
00:21:52.020 what they say
00:21:52.880 is that
00:21:54.120 they will achieve
00:21:55.120 peace through strength
00:21:56.780 by using
00:21:59.600 their diplomatic
00:22:00.260 influence
00:22:00.940 to end wars,
00:22:02.180 which is something
00:22:02.780 that Donald Trump
00:22:03.500 is very proud
00:22:04.440 of doing.
00:22:05.560 And then the rest
00:22:06.340 of it is
00:22:06.660 primacy of nations,
00:22:07.840 so that's a big
00:22:08.860 no-no to the EU.
00:22:10.600 Sovereignty and respect,
00:22:12.040 another no-no
00:22:12.720 to the EU.
00:22:14.100 Balance of power,
00:22:15.480 meaning that
00:22:15.960 they won't allow
00:22:16.840 any single
00:22:17.520 regional power
00:22:19.340 to become
00:22:20.180 too dominant
00:22:20.720 in its region.
00:22:21.420 It's a bit too late
00:22:22.540 when it comes to China.
00:22:24.840 Pro-American worker,
00:22:26.240 pro-fairness,
00:22:27.180 and competence and merit.
00:22:28.760 And there's a rant
00:22:29.740 against DEI
00:22:30.800 and how DEI
00:22:32.140 has been
00:22:32.800 paralyzing
00:22:33.760 the American economy
00:22:35.660 because it's
00:22:36.240 anti-competitive
00:22:37.120 and bad for
00:22:38.200 American institutions
00:22:39.560 and is holding them back.
00:22:41.200 And that's absolutely true.
00:22:42.720 One of the big issues
00:22:43.720 with the attempts
00:22:44.440 to build up
00:22:45.780 new chip plants
00:22:48.300 in Arizona
00:22:49.500 has been
00:22:50.320 the DEI regulations
00:22:51.420 that were imposed
00:22:52.180 by the Biden administration
00:22:53.260 which pretty much
00:22:54.860 paralyzed
00:22:56.180 the project.
00:23:00.160 Now when it comes
00:23:01.000 to their priorities,
00:23:02.220 the first priority
00:23:03.560 is
00:23:04.300 mass migration.
00:23:07.060 That's it.
00:23:08.180 We don't want to have
00:23:09.240 any more mass immigration
00:23:10.760 into the United States.
00:23:12.440 That's pretty good.
00:23:14.320 And they go into that
00:23:15.960 at some length
00:23:16.840 and explaining
00:23:17.720 that it is
00:23:18.460 you know
00:23:18.880 demographic change
00:23:20.240 is destiny.
00:23:21.560 Like demographics
00:23:22.560 is destiny.
00:23:23.260 This is not
00:23:23.660 a controversial idea.
00:23:25.360 They've been talking
00:23:26.060 about this for a while
00:23:27.260 and slowly
00:23:28.340 the right
00:23:29.680 has been
00:23:30.840 winning
00:23:32.280 the argument
00:23:33.580 on these kinds
00:23:35.240 of questions.
00:23:36.480 So I think
00:23:37.320 that that really matters.
00:23:38.960 And they go on
00:23:39.780 a long rant here
00:23:40.720 who a country
00:23:42.520 admits into it.
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