He asked Stephanopoulos, “who’s gonna be able to hold NATO together like me? Who’s gonna be able to be in a position where I’m able to keep the Pacific Basin in a position where we’re — we’re at least checkmating China now? Who’s gonna — who’s gonna do that? Who has that reach?”
So much to unpack in a few sentence. It is impressive the amount of wrong he manages to condense into such a tight package.
“Who is going to be able to hold NATO together like me”
Probably not the win he thinks it is.
“We’re at least checkmating China”.
He realises this means that they’ve defeated China right? Which decidely…no. Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.
Who has that reach?
This is part of the issue. The pacific basin shouldn’t be part of the US empire, nobody needs to have “reach” on the other side of the planet from their own interests.
