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?”
I think that he’s experimenting to see how much nonsense he can spew and still obtain an election victory. The “democracy” in Imperial America is already a joke, so why not have some fun with it?