Andrew Bustamante

He has a reputation of saying and doing things that at one point we would have all gone, oh, my God.

But we've almost become so used to these things that there's almost a desensitization to some degree.

Shattering of norms, they call it, right?

I think the slippery slope is so gradual that sometimes you don't see where you're heading towards.

And in terms of sort of military action and the use of AI and all these things and autonomous weapons, it would feel like we're going down a slippery slope here in a way that I haven't felt for the other 33 years of my life as it relates to geopolitics and war.

And also generally, when you think about some of the actions and speeches at Davos where

The US leaders were saying to the Europeans, listen, you guys are weak now.

And it sounded to me saying, like, you guys are weak.

Get your shit together.

Figure out your energy situation.

We don't need you anymore.

Listen, we're going to run this now.

And this whole idea of special relationship, blah, blah, blah, it seems to have gone out the window.

So you've got an emboldened United States military and leadership who seem to be able to do what the fuck they want.

If you don't let us use your air how we wish, we'll smash your company.

We'll take away that 200 million contract and we'll cut you off from the rest of the supply chain.

And we get used to it.

You know, we hear the headline and go, oh, that's crazy.

And then we kind of get desensitized again as humans do.

But the direction of travel is sometimes what you want to look at versus just this sort of static state of where we are.