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Erik Prince

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

the amount of air incursions where they fly Chinese aircraft, PLA Air Force aircraft into Taiwanese airspace, fly around.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

It's very hard to even intercept them.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

That's my frustration with INDOPACOM or the Taiwanese leadership.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Be innovative, okay?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Clack off an IED in front of that Chinese, that squadron of aircraft, not shoot it down,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

But there's a way you could build effectively an airborne IED and put a cloud of grit up in front of those engines so that every one of those engines of those Chinese fighters has to be overhauled and replaced by the time they make it home.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

You can really up the cost of their nonsense if you're innovative.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

But if you depend on Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, you're screwed.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And you're going to pay 100 times as much and not have the effectiveness.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Power grid, telecom grid, banking, whatever.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

I mentioned salt.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

Nonsense.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And the Pentagon was spending all kinds of money on green, environmentally friendly jet fuel.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And so kudos to Secretary Hegseth for focusing on merit and lethality.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

That's all the Pentagon needs to be focused on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

And we have an extremely convoluted, ineffective defense industrial base.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

which has largely been cartelized by way over consolidation and really bad, really dumb Pentagon procurement processes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

So what they should do on the shipbuilding side, we have, there's lots of family owned small and medium enterprises that build ships for oil and gas space, for the exploration space, for servicing lots of remote islands.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict

So there's lots of companies they could go to with