have all gone away but maybe we can help you be a little safer from China. And here's how you could do it.

You could say we will protect you. Maybe not directly militarily because we wouldn't want to. I don't know that we'd want to have a military agreement that we protect the territory of North Korea with our military against China. That might be too much. But we could say there we'll protect you economically. We'll protect you politically. And if you can maybe work with India to have India make sure that your weapons are either safe or pointing in the right direction that would make us feel a lot more comfortable. Because you know North Korea, United States, maybe you don't feel too comfortable with us yet but maybe India could come over. And if India tells us that they've looked into it, your nukes are secure and they're not pointed at us, we've got something to work with.

We'll help your economy. You know just don't counterfeit our money and stuff like that. So that would be a reframe in which we would reframe North Korea all the way from being a military enemy that just doesn't even make sense to a hybrid kind of a special military ally without being full military ally. In other words just somebody that we commit to protecting the way they are and just say look we'd rather protect you. It's cheaper. Fighting you is expensive. Protecting you from any potential future Chinese impropriety is kind of cheap. Let's do the cheap one. And indeed if we can invest over there well maybe we make money also.

In 2020 I think that you're going to see more people using the word decoupling and strategic decoupling in particular. I believe that there is a small but growing voice of which I'm part to encourage American companies not to do business with China because in the long run it's just to our detriment and even in the short run now. I don't think that there will be a massive sudden unwinding of existing business and we'll probably need some tariff agreements on the little stuff over time, agricultural especially. But I think that in 2020 it will be a common opinion in the United States. Right now it's a sort of a niche opinion but it'll be common opinion that we should be decoupling with China at the same time we're being nice to them and pushing hard on the things we have to push hard on.

But as long as they're selling them for body parts which they are, killing them for body parts, as long as they've got concentration camps, they're suppressing Hong Kong and sending fentanyl to us by the boatload, we can't further our relationship with them. We can only decrease it. And I think that'll be happening.

And I think I'm expecting some kind of more aggressive action against the Mexican cartels now. The other thing I'd like to see, I'd really like to see, let's push for this in 2020. I'd like to see a test of someplace in the United States where it makes sense fully legalizing drugs for maybe a year or a few years, whatever it takes to test it. How many of you would agree on a test? Not the entire country but just some county or municipality saying look we have two tests and things that we wouldn't normally be able to test. We have to temporarily just give us a full suspension of all drug crime laws for this municipality and let's just run it for a year. Might be worse, might be better. Maybe we learn something.

But here's the thing. I'm starting to lose patience with talking about it. Are you all having the same impression? Talking about the big drug problem and all this stuff coming from China, just from Mexico that comes here that kills all our people by tens of thousands. I'm kind of tired of talking about it if we're not testing it. Our government is broken. Now maybe those tests need to be primarily private enterprise things but you still need the government to suspend the laws.

And so maybe what we need is not just a drug czar but a drug czar whose specific job is to temporarily suspend the laws in places where you can test some stuff. Now another place you might need to temporarily suspend the laws is about what I was talking about. The Dr. Drew approach which is as in the worst cases people need to be involuntarily let's say taken care of. And that would require changes in the laws.

So perhaps we need some kind of a federal czar who can at the request of the local governments because they'd have to be in on it, can suspend all the laws just for the purpose of testing and just temporarily. So that's what I'd like to see in 2020. It could make a gigantic difference. Somebody says the entire country would be Skid Row. Well we have examples in Portugal for example. In the comments you see a lot of people mentioning so Portugal tried making drugs legal and all the reporting is that it helped a lot. Not even just a little. Apparently helped a lot.

So if you want things to look like Skid Row keep doing it the way you're going. If you want it not to look like Skid Row t