Erik Prince
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Now, diplomatically, China is moving into these islands, tiny islands with maybe 50,000 people as citizens, but they have millions of square miles of ocean space.
And the U.S.
is asleep at the switch, and so we're getting displaced.
So elections have consequences, man, and there's just not a lot of good things happening on the Asia front.
And at the same time, the Taiwanese still believe Uncle Sugar is going to bail them out, and they're not very focused on building and preparing and readiness for
And U.S.
military leadership keeps defaulting towards the same big, very expensive weapon systems.
And I think the Ukraine war is showing that big and exotic weapon systems are subject to being destroyed and certainly being targeted.
There is so much, the P for plenty volume that China can throw at Taiwan or at U.S.
Navy ships is
is very, very dangerous.
And I thought, it's still possible they can go this fall and take it militarily, but now seeing what they're doing diplomatically, they're able to choke off much of this, not just the South China Sea, but even islands between there and Australia diplomatically and get their bases established the same way.
they're quite concerned, but they've had runaway immigration for a long time.
They have a huge Chinese population, which is probably not as averse to China as Australian citizens are.
And again, they're also misled.
They're now buying very expensive nuclear submarines from the United States when they could buy eight times as many right now that are diesel electric that would be more potent, more capable, and harder for the
the CCP to track and locate and defeat.
So again, there, what you're seeing in Ukraine, a massive step change in warfare.
An FPV drone carrying a charge this size that you can 3D print next to the battlefield, fill it with explosives, with a...
$700 FPV racing drone with a different software on it.