I'd like to give Texas back to Mexico.

Think of Russia as a giant Texas/Louisiana/ Mississippi/Arkansas/Oklahoma, Alabama/ SC/KY/TN undiluted by America's two coasts.

"de-industrializing Europe": you confuse Germany and its cheap gas addicted chemical industry with all of Europe. But Germany isn't Europe. Novo Nordisk and Roche, which I own, Astra Zeneca, LVMH and the Porto area's shoe and textile mfg industry suppliers my designer stepdaughter moved here to take advantage of aren't going anywhere.