Putin or irrational President Xi, what would they actually be thinking in which this would be smart? Because I can't think of it.

Now if they were really dumb people then you could explain it. You'd say oh they're so dumb they think they're gonna put the United States out of business with their clever tricks and then once we're out of business they'll have all our, they'll take over and they'll have all our resources and then they'll be richer or something. Do you think they're thinking that? I mean it doesn't pass any kind of a sniff test.

We are clearly in a world of abundance meaning that we don't really have shortages of stuff. We just have systems that are not optimized to get that stuff to the right people in some cases. But we don't really have a shortage of anything. And so when you move from the world in which you have shortages of stuff and maybe you need a war because if you don't have food you don't have resources maybe you need a war. But if everybody can get everything they want which is our current world if they play their systems right and they work their economy right what reason do we have to be anything like an enemy to China or anything like an enemy to Russia and vice versa? There simply is no reason there isn't.

And it seems to me that somebody like a President Trump could change the frame on this. And let me suggest a frame. I believe that the United States, Russia and China have a common enemy, maybe more than one. And the common enemy is anything that disrupts the system. In other words anything that could put any one of the three of us out of business is something that all three of us probably ought to fight against.

For example how about a major pandemic? Wouldn't we be on the same side? I think so. Don't you think Russia and the United States are gonna fight as hard as we can to help China stop this latest coronavirus thing? I think we will. We got a common enemy there. There's no such thing as one side wins in this thing.

What about climate change? Now some of you say it's a hoax blah blah but you can at least agree that you want cleaner environment and cheaper energy. So don't we have a common interest there to make sure the planet doesn't get destroyed? Don't we have a common interest in making sure that a terrorist state doesn't attack any one of us? Don't we have a common interest in it? What if aliens attack? We definitely have a common interest there.

So my point is that we should reframe what Russia, China and us care about and we should be on the same team instead of spending all our money and wasting it being enemies of each other. Why don't we find some common enemies? You know something we can fight on the same team for. Because there's just no strategic advantage to being enemies and picking at each other like this. If it's happening some of it may be fake news.

I would also like to know what is it the United States is doing to Russia and doing to China that we the public don't know about? Are we poking them just as hard as they're poking us? And what's our reason? Has anybody ever told us our reason? Is it revenge? Is it to make sure they don't poke us so hard? You will poke back if you poke us. So that's how we keep you in check. What's the reason? Maybe there's a good one. I'm not even saying there's no reason. I just I feel like I should know it as a citizen of this country. Can somebody explain to me why the countries that absolutely should be on our team fighting with us as hard as they can against common challenges, why are we at each other? It just doesn't make any sense. I think maybe that'll change. Maybe we'll rethink that.

Let's talk about Schiff a little more. He's talking about future crimes of the imagination. So Schiff wan