George Friedman
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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we finally put in something called HIMARS, which was they could launch six rockets at a time, much better than artillery because the explosive force was great. And when there was Russian concentration, now this is, an American was always in one of them, just one American. It was Ukraine operated, but he had to put a card in to let the machine run. So then they pulled the trigger.
So the Americans were more deeply involved than was known, but not militarily. We were not taking casualties. And it was about time that we dealt with a problem without taking casualties. So you believe the United States can remain dominant in space over the next 50 years? We are dominant in space. When we go back to the Cold War, there was a time we were talking about missile gap.
Anybody recall that? There was no missile gap. The U-2s went over the plane place and they spotted all of it. We were way ahead of them. Our technology is way ahead of us, but we're modest, deliberately so. It's not that we, the scientists don't brag about us, but we understate our capabilities and we overstate the Chinese. That's always a good way to get budgets.
You know, we are much better at this. We've been at it a long time, far longer. And the Russians are third. The Russians are not second. Chinese are second. But command of space is now what the command of oceans was.
No, but there's a sense of passivity in the United States on military things. There's a sense, okay, let's not waste money on defense. And there's a whole psychology developed in World War II of how to get money out. But I think the president and everyone else knows who is involved in this, that space is the battleground now.
And the amount of money Elon Musk has put into his X-Force, and he's boosting a lot of the satellites, is enormous. But everybody's in on the game.
He certainly is. I mean, he's a very smart guy. Maybe not likable, but he's a very smart guy. He went into electric cars. And then he went into, along with people like the Amazon king, I forget his name, Bezos. He went into rockets. And of course, it was just a hobby. But it emerged into a major business, and they're both major foundations of the Americans' launch program.
Because right now, you have to launch a lot of satellites, because you know you're going to lose a lot of them. And if you lose a lot of them, you lose a tactical advantage on the ground and a strategic capability in nuclear war. So we're emerging into a new age, which normally has a new technology. And this new technology is partly satellites, but that's really 1950s stuff emerged.
But the way these satellites are made is, is not made from the normal metals and plastics that we had in the past. Particularly their sensors are built with material science and solar energy and extraordinary things that will be integrated into the earth as World War II technology became very present in the American economy in the 50s. That's what's going to happen.
And I see this as one of those times where what normally happens in the United States is every 50 years we have a historical crisis. We rage at each other. This is the end of an era. It's when an era exhausts itself.
And the era that began with... Ronald Reagan has the social and economic era.
Is it his end? It's pleaded out, the economic and social thing. The social crisis is terrible. And it's crisis of what I call hyper-egalitarianism, where saying that black slaves who really still weren't treated decently in the United States was a moral imperative. But genetic engineering of genitalia do not constitute a new class. Yes. So we've invented classes and demanded egalitarianism.
He did something else. we stopped asking for equal opportunity and turned to equal outcomes. Yes. And this became untenable. So we had a social crisis. At the same time, we had an institutional crisis. The federal government was really invented in its current form by Theodore Roosevelt to deal with the recession, but it was forged in World War II.
In World War II, it was the federal government, this massive entity built around the Pentagon and everything else, that it won the war. It was very efficient. It was necessary at the time. It evolved into something else. It evolved into a fundamentally inefficient entity. Its greatest weakness was experts. I've said this in writing. The experts knew a great deal. Fauci was not a criminal.
He was not a Chinese intelligence agent or anything like that. He was a doctor. And you looked at the doctor and said, okay, now what do we do? And he said, well, everybody should stay at home and not go out. And children should not go to school. Well, we have children, and if a four- or five-year-old doesn't get to play with other children, he becomes a homicidal maniac. Yes. You can't do that.
But we depended on him with his narrow expertise. What we had lost in the federal government was a class of people with common sense. When I was a kid in the Bronx, there were party bosses. Charlie Buckley ran the Bronx. One day, my father, who had finally bought a car, had an accident. The insurance company wouldn't pay. So somebody said, go see Charlie Buckley. He went to Charlie Buckley.
Charlie Buckley made a phone call. He had an email. Carrier, you know, messenger's on the way to house with a check. But you remember, you vote for me, your vite votes for me, your children will vote for me. And there was a way to petition the government. Remember, the Constitution guarantees us the right to petition the government.
The party bosses, as corrupt as they were, and they were certainly corrupt, were our channel to the government. They were our channel to corporations. Smart, yes. But they were taken out, and they were replaced by technocrats.
That's amazing. But it was a place where you could petition the government. With the rise of technocracy, there was no way to petition the government. Yes. So I didn't get the Medicaid that I'm supposed to get, whatever it is, because I had a good insurance policy. I didn't want to go to government insurance policy. Yes.
They fined me when I finally went to get Medicaid because I had not gotten it. But I had known that it wasn't necessary. No one ever said it to me. And there was nothing to petition, so I had to give in. So we have a federal government where you cannot petition the government. And that, I think, is the most important thing.
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