Eyck Freymann
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And the argument I make in the book is we need a plan for this.
When we war game this scenario, we just, we assume that...
Day one is when China starts shooting.
But that's not how history works.
The crisis comes from somewhere.
And if we reveal ourselves in this moment to be completely unprepared for the economic shock, then we're not going to have a war at all.
We're just going to give up.
And China will get Taiwan and its fabs intact.
That means overnight they seize leadership in AI.
And then they learn, hey, we can use this toolkit effectively.
to blackmail the Americans for everything they've got.
Why not do South Korea next?
So it's a very frightening prospect.
Iran is a country where the leader's in hiding.
We don't even know if he's alive.
They don't have a navy.
They don't have an air force.
They supposedly don't have missiles anymore.
But they can take 20% of global oil supply offline just by saying so.
China can do the same.