They'll say, sure, we'll take five years, because it's going to take them five years anyway to rebuild it anyway. And we will claim a victory, and they will claim a victory. But at the end of the day, We could claim it, but I think we're going to end up being unfortunately weaker as a country in terms of our national security and weaker in terms of our presence in the Gulf Coast. I think people of our allies are going to start recognizing that we may not be a really good stabilizer, and they may start tilting themselves more towards China to kind of equalize what they believe was a potential fault in their alliance with us. (15:26–15:38)
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Asserts that the U.S. may become weaker in national security and Gulf Coast presence.
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