Carlos Gimenez actually said...

The Soviet Union, and now Russia, they have had like a first-class military, but it was a third-class economic power.

China will have a much greater capacity to wage a much more effective conventional war against the United States than, say, Russia.

We have the capacity to be energy-independent, obviously, but we also have the capacity to be energy-dominant.

I believe that resilience/readiness is really a key here, not pronouns and DEI.