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Then you'll see some tickets get pulled.
Is $50 million, is that where it gets the attention that Eric Prince even gets?
No, no.
It strikes your interest?
Eric, they went to Capitol Hill the other day to basically brief, I guess, around the War Powers Act to say we're in a state of war.
They told guys in Capitol Hill we're in a state of war with these non-state actors as cartels from northern Mexico all the way down through Mexico.
Latin America.
How important are naval assets going to be to kind of block?
You've already seen him take out a couple of these boats, but also in the Pacific, because the fentanyl ain't coming up from Venezuela.
It's still the Chinese Communist Party, a second opium war against us with their partners in the cartels in northern Mexico.
How lethal could Navy SEALs and Navy assets be in actually going kinetic?
Because they told Capitol Hill, we're going kinetic in a war against the cartels, sir.
I think they're right in saying we are at war with them.
There is hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by fentanyl last year.
That's far more than what we lost in World War II.
We lost 250,000 in the European theater and 150,000 in the Pacific theater.
During World War II, you're losing almost that number every year just from fentanyl.
So it is right to push back and it is right to go kinetic.
That's the only, I mean, a two by four between the eyes is all that they're going to understand.