Tucker Carlson: “The United States is probably not going to come to our…”

“It hurts you. But it also sends a very clear message to all those other countries in Asia you would like in your sphere of influence that, hey, The United States is probably not going to come to our rescue if we have some kind of conflict with China. Maybe we better come to terms with China. So this is not obvious to a lot of the geniuses who run our country because they think in terms purely of military force.” (28:10–28:16)

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