Lori Siegel
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They need us to go all in to finish the job for them.
They don't have the capacity.
So that's a big problem.
Now you have Israel and you have the Gulf, who, again, we put them in danger, but the Gulf, at this point, they're stuck with us.
It's like a marriage.
And they're like, well, no, you have to go.
And so that escalates the logic.
just Trump, right?
We've got our entire VC class, the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem.
You know how much Saudi money is sitting in Uber or even in Twitter?
I mean, on Twitter, you want to talk about all these massive Fortune 500 companies.
Do you have any idea how much
The Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the Emiratis, how much money they have flowing in U.S.
banks and all that.
And of course, for them, they're like, hey, all right, well, maybe we'll pull it out if you don't finish the job and secure our interest for us.
Not even to mention here, the backbone of the Northern Virginia economy is what?
Defense contractors.
Who do you think keeps these people afloat?
Not just the US, UAE and everybody, they've already put in purchase orders in the last month for more THAADs, for more missiles, all granted under emergency authority, which is a huge boon to the defense contracting industry.
So put all that together, so you have the region itself