John Kiriakou

Spend all your money on that stuff.

In the meantime, we're going to have 350 mile an hour trains and the best highways in the world and the best schools and the best hospitals and the nicest airports.

And then all of our extra money, we're going to essentially bribe foreign countries to do things that we want them to do.

So it's a lesson that I think we haven't learned as a country, that there are other ways of winning hearts and minds.

You know, they're very good at these kinds of behind the scenes, like quasi spy like surreptitious actions.

They actively promote crime.

Us arguing, fighting, disagreeing, they promote these societal disruptions that we're also so worried about.

And, you know, we we blame the Russians all the time and certainly the Russians do this kind of thing, too.

But it's the Chinese that have really perfected it.

And I think that most Americans don't realize how much we should be worried about that and trying to counter it.

Brad Parscale is doing it right now on behalf of the Israelis.

He recently won a $6 million contract to train chat GPT to be more pro Israel.

It was in reason magazine a couple of days ago.

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Which I think could be very helpful for us.

One of the things that we're bad at is identifying bots and controlling bots once they've been identified.

I'll give you an example.

I write columns all the time and have my own little podcast.

And I said that I was optimistic that a deal seemed to be at hand between Israel and the Gaza Palestinians.

And then immediately I started getting attacked.