Erik Prince

the ability to control American society would be quite difficult.

Um, that's just cybercriminality run amok.

I mean, when you have 1.4 billion people and you have a criminal class, look, the fentanyl deaths last year, the headline number is 109,000 bad.

I think the real number is three to four times that.

So if you think about...

We lost 400,000 KIA in World War II.

So we're losing that much every year to fentanyl organized, propagated, facilitated by the Chinese Communist Party.

In the last Mexican election, there was 27 candidates that were assassinated by the cartels funded by fentanyl.

organized by the CCP to promote the most left-wing side of politics in Mexico.

So China is definitely running multiple covert action programs against the United States to destroy the society from the inside.

They allow lots of cyber scams, all the rest.

That's a

a great example of, you know, buyer must beware.

And it's also a good example, if you think about how the American West was settled, and I hate to sound like the constant spokesman for the private sector, but it's just fact.

The American West in the, you know, the post-Civil War Wild West was

It was not settled by the U.S.

Army or even by the U.S.

Marshals.

Most of the law enforcement was done by private organizations, by the Pinkertons and those kind of things.

Because you had the Pony Express, which was the way people communicated, sent mail or packages.