Niall Ferguson

They have a crying need for it.

Since the days of selling automobiles to the Chinese are over, they did that.

That would be a game changer, unlike Tomahawk missiles.

Because if the Russians saw German rearmament really happening...

that would be the clearest sign, A, that Putin had made a huge strategic blunder, B, that Ukraine had a future.

So I think there are ways to solve this problem.

They just require far more energy on the European side, far more commitment, and above all, something of what we still see in the United States, an ability when the chips are down to cut through the bureaucracy and do things really fast.

So I just wish we could have sort of Elon Musk-ian rearmament, you know, the SpaceX approach.

You could scale what the Ukrainians do.

You know what's really tragic is they have fantastic technology.

They cannot scale it.

They don't, of course, have the space or the security.

They're trying to build drones in a war zone under daily bombardment.

If you did all that stuff at scale in Germany, A, you would create meaningful deterrence.

B...

this is the beauty of the thing, you'd actually see German economic recovery.

And that's like a win-win if ever there was one.

So I'm getting a bit of a red light here.

So I just really crisply, you said something that really resonated.

My sense is there's this historic opportunity to defenestrate, replace, whatever the term, defeat the Islamic Republic.