David Sacks

So the more successful the United States is in dismantling the Iranian regime, and as was advised by Condoleezza Rice, who apparently was just in the White House today and advising the president and publicly stated, it's time to finish them off, it's time to go all the way, etc.,

does that not then leave a country with no infrastructure, no leadership, 100 million people in tatters.

And that's the classic breeding ground for some of these extremist groups to seize control and seize power.

And we don't have the resources to go in and have another multi decade Afghanistan, Iraq problem.

Is it too late to have a Venezuelan outcome where we've taken out the head of the snake and we've simply replaced it?

The snake can continue operating and living without too much destructive damage and effect.

But it seems like we may be a little too far gone now in Iran and that to take this all the way might be very difficult to manage.

Can we move to China?

Because I think that, again, this is going to be the big story over the next month.

You've said publicly that ousting Maduro from Venezuela could embolden China to accelerate a Taiwan takeover.

The CIA, it has been reported in media, warned Tim Cook of Apple and other tech companies about a possible invasion as soon as next year.

You've separately met publicly with Chinese officials.

What's your view on the likelihood and the timeline of a China attempted takeover of Taiwan?

And what are these kind of motivating factors that might make that happen sooner?

Are we taking the right course of action, do you think?

I guess the big question for you is, what's the strategic imperative to keep Taiwan from falling under direct Chinese control for the United States?

And are we taking the right actions to hedge our bets, if you will, against that happening?

Meaning on-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing, but also maybe from a defense perspective and positioning perspective, you can share a little bit about whether we're...

If you think about China projecting influence around the world, how important is it for them to continue to do that?

There was recently an objective, I think, of a GDP growth in the 5% range, 4% to 5%.