Erik Bethel
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I think it's baked into the ethos of the administrations, of this administration to re-industrialize.
I think that we've opened the eyes of corporate boardrooms in America who now see that their China assets need to get moved.
You may have seen Tim Cook made an announcement that we're gonna start moving a lot more Apple production to India.
You're seeing changes in the military, focusing, as Eric mentioned, on merit and lethality and first principles.
And so little by little, you're starting to see the cruise ship, if you will, if you want to call us a cruise ship, just moving slowly, I think in the right direction in many respects.
It's not perfect, but we're starting to move.
But now we need to move faster.
Because we have an adversary that is very formidable.
And we better wake up.
A hundred percent.
What does the world look like?
A less free place.
Well, Europe has other issues.
They've got an imploding demographic.
They've got immigration issues.
Many, not all, but many of the immigrants that have gone to Europe don't share, let's just say, the European cultural values.
I'll say it stronger.
All right?
And they're suffering from very high energy prices because they had spent decades depending on Russian natural gas while focusing on climate change and listening to Greta Thunberg.
And now the Chinese electric vehicles, if they're allowed into Europe, are going to decimate the German automotive industry.