The speaker argues that a dramatic power imbalance alone does not determine what will happen.

“okay but okay that's also probably true in our world like in our world if the um i know the u.s wanted to invade central island then probably they could do it i don't think anyone could stop them but like what does that actually mean i mean there is this dramatic power imbalance but that doesn't mean like that doesn't tell you what's going to happen right like why doesn't the u.s just like invade guatemala or something like why don't they do that”