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It doesn't cost us anything to refrain from threatening Greenland, though.

Sure. That’s dumb.

One of the benefits was that all of the countries that have been our allies would treat us as if we were not an adversary. Because they could rely on the fact that we wouldn't treat them as adversaries.

There’s a Cold War saying, “The French are willing to defend Europe right down to the last American”. There’s another saying about friends like that…

The Europeans are about to have their own problems. All those Chinese goods that were destined to be dumped into our markets aren’t going to sit on shipping containers for long: they’ll dump that stuff in Europe.

Which means that the difference between us and other countries has narrowed. China hasn't changed, but we have changed a lot.

We’ve “changed” in that we’re asking the desdbeat 26 year old to move out of the basement and get a job.

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