Erik Bethel

Well, if they started it, then there's an appropriate response.

But I don't think we want to start anything.

And I don't think we want to put ourselves in the position of having sailors and soldiers die.

I mean, look, let's face it.

Many Americans can't tell the difference between Taiwan and Thailand.

And...

Like, why should we care?

The narrative, the high-level narrative is, why should we care?

U.S.

I agree with that.

Look, I'm probably talking my own book here, but we have a fund.

It's called Mare Liberum, which means freedom of the sea in Latin.

And what we do is we invest in technologies in the maritime space that can help move the needle.

So you might say, gosh, is an aircraft carrier going to be really effective against a Chinese hypersonic missile?

Maybe, maybe not.

But can you put drones...

Let's call them, you know Raceboat drones in the water that are autonomous that can carry kinetic payloads.

Could that move the needle?

So, you know, we have to think creatively as Eric mentioned and sort of holistically But what we certainly need to do is we need to prepare as if this is happening yesterday, right?

but what I see is a lot of threat de-escalation like