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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And I don't think that America has, like, one of the things I actually did is, you know, just as an intellectual exercise, if you actually wanted a rational industrial policy, I actually did have a visual of this here, which is this.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Let me put this on screen.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
I have another point here.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Yeah, Rush Doshi, the longer telegram guy.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Yeah, like he's amazing.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
He wrote a book on some of the U.S.-China stuff, yeah.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
The thing is, the gap is growing wider because everything is becoming stupider.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
But let me just show you some graphics just to compliment what you're just saying, Steve.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Right?
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Do you see this tweet, this photo changed my understanding of war?
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Do you have this on screen, Theo?
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Yeah.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Okay.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
This is, to me, this is a very, very important photo.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Basically, World War II did not actually end with the nuclear bombs.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
World War II ended with the signing ceremony a few weeks later.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And this was actually no small thing because there was like a revolt within the Japanese military.
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Fundamentally, what the nukes were about, prior to the nukes, the question was, okay, America believes it can invade all of these islands and get to Japan, but it lost so many people on just like one of the islands or a few of the islands in the island hopping campaign that, uh,
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
They just didn't want to go against these, you know, the Japanese were kamikazes.