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.
Probably not the win he thinks it is.
He realises this means that they've defeated China right? Which decidely...no. Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.
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.
Gotta love how they're spelling out that war with China is coming up on the agenda.
Consider the last time Biden played chess. Now consider the last time Biden played chess against someone whose continued employment didn't depend on letting Biden win.
Literally anybody, I'm pretty confident that Sweden and Finland would have joined even under Trump. It runs itself.