 A nation does not say, well, what do you know? The Taiwan Straits in front of China. We've got to sail ships because we have to dominate the Taiwan Straits. A nation doesn't say, ooh, the Black Sea in front of Russia. We got to dominate the Black Sea. A nation doesn't say, you know what? We have the Monroe Doctrine. No countries in the Western Hemisphere can do anything that we say they can't do. That's not a nation. An empire does that.