Erik Bethel

But what if everything were an artifact of war?

In other words- Everything is weaponized.

Smuggling fentanyl in the United States, where 90% of the precursors of fentanyl obviously come from China.

By the way, happy Memorial Day.

I did some math and-

In the Pacific theater alone, 110,000 soldiers died in World War II, plus add another 60 for Vietnam, another 40 for the Korean War.

and another roughly seven to 10 from random things that happened in the Pacific, the Philippines and so forth.

It's about, let's call it 200 plus thousand deaths.

In fentanyl, over the last four years, we've had something like 70,000 people die of fentanyl every single year.

Many of them are veterans.

Much bigger numbers than that.

I think it's over 100,000 a year.

Let's assume it's 100,000 a year.

That's 400,000 over the last four years.

And a lot of them are veterans.

And guess what?

That's coming from China.

That's a weapon.

And it's a weapon to hurt Americans.

I think at a macro level, one of the things that we still have is the ability to attract and retain the best people in the world.