Erik Bethel

And we can double click on that because there's a lot to unpack.

Here's the Chinese embassy in the U.S.

right around the time when we were starting to talk about tariffs.

Quote from the Chinese embassy in the US, if war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end.

It's pretty self-explanatory.

So there are many vectors that we need to deal with.

When you've stored 70% of the world's corn, as they have, why do you do that?

When you've built enormous hospitals in Fujian province across from Taiwan, why do you do that?

When you have increasing, you know, you're tightening the noose in these military exercises.

What began in 2021 with one brigade has now reached 42 brigades.

in these military exercises over time.

Exercising logistics.

Like a rehearsal for D-Day.

That's exactly right.

These are rehearsals.

These are not military exercises.

And what's happening is a communist Goliath, right, is taking over like a small little David who is democratic.

And we're sort of in a quandary because if we step in, whether it's a blockade, a cyber attack, internal strife, a full-on invasion, whatever it is, and I don't pretend to know, I can see different sides of this equation.

If we don't step in and we allow China to take over,

There are consequences to, as I mentioned earlier, for our economy, for semiconductors, and frankly, for our standing in the world.