Erik Prince

In a lot of cases, they're dumping it for pennies on the dollar.

Their banks are dumping their aircraft holdings for their leasing companies.

They are taking all kinds of steps

to make them not exposed to dollar sanctions and to having any of those assets seized in the United States.

So those are the things that a country does if they're preparing not for economic war, but for actual kinetic war.

Finish up.

What should we do?

Don't give them the playbook they're expecting.

The one – the terrible thing about the Pentagon is they are very predictable.

They're predictable in their acquisitions, in their exercises, and all the rest.

And so the whole PACOM strategy about carrier air wings and long-range bombers out of, what, two or three locations in the Pacific, all of which, if it's one lesson people should learn from Ukraine, is –

Anything that's located can be targeted by not a few, but by hundreds of precision weapons almost instantly.

Yeah.

Okinawa and Guam get smoked.

Yes.

And what are those?

The key bases.

I mean, Okinawa is Japanese territory.

Does that automatically trigger Japan to raise that battle flag?

I don't know.