Balaji Srinivasan

They were totally just there to die for the emperor, right?

And there would be an enormous bloodshed, a lose-lose for both the Americans and the Japanese.

So the whole point of the war, of the nukes, was to, in a sense, punch them till they signed.

Right.

That's the point.

The Pentagon punches them and the State Department offers a document to sign.

And that's the reason that, like, you know, Bismarck said, war is politics by other means.

Right.

You have to have a document unless you're actually going to, quote, genocide them, which is not a modern era thing.

And why is that not?

I actually explained this from first principles.

But like if you go and actually truly end a civilization or whatever the hell it was that was tweeted, you know, a few weeks ago.

then you get reverse bandwagoning against you because then you're just like a murderer, right?

And every other nation, you know, cuts off trade and so on and so forth, right?

So just glass them or whatever is retarded because it means actually a trade cut off and so on and so forth, right?

But I think a lot of these magnet people don't at the core.

They just generally don't understand the limits of force.

Pro-reality, reality shill, unapologetic reality shill, a shill for observer reality, right?

Numbers, right?

And so, for example, let me, just to your point, Stephen, this is what I would start with, okay?