Dr. Nicholas Wright
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first heard Oct 2025
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It now leads in many things like battery technology and drones and a variety of other really cutting edge technologies and advanced manufacturing techniques.
Now that is the challenge the United States faces in the world.
Now, how can the United States meet that challenge?
Bearing in mind it is now completely outproduced by China in terms of manufacturing and advanced manufacturing capability.
So how can it compete?
Right now, the United States still has the finest military in the world, right?
We're going to talk about Venezuela a bit later.
The Venezuela raid, I don't think any other country in the world could have done what the United States did in Venezuela.
It required incredibly advanced high-end capabilities to take out the Venezuelan air defenses, and that enabled the US Special Forces to go in and capture Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.
I don't think any other country in the world could have done that.
The British, for example, have
special forces uh people who could do that but i don't think we would have the capability to take out all the air defenses in the way the us did
Now, if the US is going to compete against China, if it is going to have the capacity to compete against China, which, as I said, outmatches the US in manufacturing capability, the US, I think, is going to, or this is one version of how it could do it, is to build its networks across the world to give it additional and extra leverage.
Now, right now, it's the only country that can really do that, as effective as it does.
But of course, China is growing in capabilities all the time.
And I think what the United States could probably usefully think of is to use this window of opportunity to use its remarkable military capabilities now to influence regimes like Iran and make them more
consistent with helping pay, as you said, pay for the US military presence in the Middle East and so on.
And that could be a way the US can meet its really big challenge in this era, which is China.
So I think what we've got to think of here, if the United States is now not going to be dominating countries with hundreds of thousands of troops, which is where we were not that long ago, it is going to have to influence people in other places.
So those people choose to do what is in the better interest of the United States and the United States allies, and indeed in their own better interests, hopefully, in the long run.
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