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fossil fuel exports being... part of security packs with um with obviously the european union one example but also with um with states sort of in around the sort of chinese sphere influence such as indonesia so you know indonesia's like recently um reduced its dependence on qatari gas and instead is agreed to to import vast amounts of us lm2 and in exchange for that there's some security guarantees And part of that process, in particular with the European Union, has been the US administration mandating that the Europeans roll back some sort of climate and sustainability policies in order to allow for these vast amounts of LNG imports.

So you see US sort of petrostate being leveraged geopolitically to pursue its ends.

I mean domestically I think it's a really interesting question about saying like is the US a petro state I think It kind of shows the sort of flimsiness of the concept.

So you have, you know, under Joe Biden, you had the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a kind of like state capitalist way of trying to incentivize the investment into renewable energy technologies, in particular in Republican voting states.

That obviously has been repealed in large parts by the Trump administration, but the rollout of wind and solar in the U.S. is significant.

So you have this sort of domestic electrification and sort of electrostate characteristic twinned with huge

Okay, to move, I guess, outwards from the analysis of individual states then, could you talk a bit about how the rise of electrostates, in your words, rewires geopolitics as well?