Jacob Helberg
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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A record high was reached this year with $2.7 trillion in global spending on defense.
Um, 60% of that came from you know countries that very large countries like the the US, China, Russia, India, uh, and Germany.
And uh and the big trillion dollar question is: what will they?
spend that money on?
And the answer might actually really define uh the shape of hard power in the 21st century.
Um as you guys know, I mean a government is a little bit like a company.
If you don't allocate capital efficiently and you actually end up wasting it.
You could have a situation where some of these governments have militaries that are paper tigers.
And and that's where you know, you know, and you're kind of seeing a little bit of a window into this in Ukraine, um, where AI is really AI and autonomy is really changing uh outcomes on the battlefield.
So those different trends are are incredibly fascinating to watch.
Yeah, so that that's such an important question.
And the answer is that um China is obviously a systemic um rival.
You know, some people say it's an adversary.
Um, regardless of of the flavor that one wants to characterize it with, they're definitely a rival.
They have fundamentally a different view of how the world should be run than we do.
And um and a lot
Of what they have been doing internationally to compete with us really flows from it is an outflow of the fact that they are the world's factory floor.
So their presence in Africa, I'm sure you guys have read articles that lament how China's taken over Africa.
They're all over Latin America.
They have the Belt and Road Initiative.
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