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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So what's the Trump administration's approach? You're helping these places industrialize as well. What does, what does that mean?
A So I think it's projects that move the needle. So we think about it. Look, we're the largest energy exporter in the world, the largest producer of oil, and the largest producer of natural gas. So our RIOTH kind of lays the path of what the key sectors to invest in are. Energy, critical minerals, and technology. We have the right to invest anywhere in the world. No restriction there. To block choke points from China and Belt and Road, but also to move the needle for others. And, you know, but take energy as a continuum. You go somewhere, you want to build a port where US LNG can be exported to. We need a re-gas plant there to send it to the country. Maybe we need a critical mineral, lithium, cobalt, or something in that country, but mining is incredibly power intensive. That's where that LNG, or now, that natural gas comes in. And along the way, you can also supply consumer power to villages, to small businesses, large businesses, and you grow an economy.
AI assessment note: “key sectors to invest in are. Energy, critical minerals, and technology.”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 4 4.05
Q By magic. Do we feel guilty? It feels like there's, like, some guilt that was driving some of these things. It seems like maybe Interaction by guilt's a bad thing, but we felt guilty and just gave money away in stupid ways. Like, what happened?
A So, I don't think the United States of America felt guilty. I think, look, we have a much different history than some of our allies across the pond, and over that period of time, and, you know, we're working on a white paper that talks about this, uh, at the DFC, just over the course of, you know, economic statecraft, There was a system that got built in where, I mean, development is fantastic. It's raising everybody up. It's a rising tide that lifts all boats. This concept of human development that, you know, is, frankly, a lot of it's quite regressive. Um, you know, these are all the degrowth people today. Um, and so there's a whole separate system that came out focused on NGOs, And kind of, no restrictions, no paying attention, and we had a lot of lost agencies, because we had won the Cold War, and we looked inward, and we weren't really focused on a plan, and we thought things would happen just automatically.
AI assessment note: “I don't think the United States of America felt guilty.”
