Erik Prince

But the one thing that China can't necessarily account for, and I've...

I really hope they do this.

The Taiwanese leadership deludes themselves in thinking Big Uncle Sam has all the solutions and the US Navy is going to come to the rescue.

Is that their plan?

I think so.

I think you should ask any Taiwanese official, what is their plan?

Because in the American Revolution, where you had 13 colonies, farmers with no standing army took on what was then the most powerful military in the world.

And they did it not really by conventional, but they started with a guerrilla war.

30% of America in 1776 was in favor of the crown, loyalists.

40% were in the middle, didn't really care, just trying to survive.

30% were pro-liberty.

10% of that 30%, or 3%, are the ones that took up arms against the British Empire.

3%.

So if we took, and I'm confident we can find, 3% of Taiwanese society that is willing to defend the status quo,

meaning Taiwan continues as it is, not an independent country, but they're not gonna be ruled by the CCP.

And you can find those by either a few motivated policemen, firemen, reservists,

The CrossFitters, the Marathoners, the Boy Scout leaders, it doesn't take that many, 3% of that society.

So that's, I think that the standing Taiwanese army is like 150,000, largely worthless, very soft, very woke, and any significant weapon system they have has already been targeted by probably a dozen or preregistered by a dozen Chinese precision weapons.

Because it's only, what, 70, 80 miles from the mainland to Taiwan.

But what they can account for is 720,000, right, 3% of 24 million that show up, that step outside their house and say, get off my yard.