Is America Living in a 1980s Military Fantasy?

Well, you know, the, the, the leader of the Guomindang in Taiwan, a woman, uh just met with Xi in China and had a very, you know, very public meeting talking about unification, uh peaceful unification as being the only path. And, you know, at this point, you really can't blame Taiwan because the, the US isn't going to give them any protection like you said. The US isn't going to provide any energy that they need. The US is only going to basically extort Taiwan and try to force Taiwan semiconductor to open, you know, chip factories in America that will be money losers from day one for a number of reasons. But it's like you said, Taiwan is going to shift. Japan has to be recalibrating its understanding right now and also why, why are we hosting all these US military bases here? Uh South Korea like you said is not going to be protected by, by the West. But my next question to you, Scott, is why hasn't reality set in in the minds of people like Hegseth and Marco Rubio and and Trump? Because they're all talking like it's still the 1980s and we still have ...