Palmer Luckey

I'm glad the United States is not spreading resources thinly across the entire world to achieve nebulous aims.

I'm glad that the focus is on what would a war in the Pacific over Taiwan look like?

It's a strong alignment of our plan with our interests.

I think another really important factor for the US to be considering and that we are considering is that the days of US boots on the ground being the primary component of our aid, they're gone and over.

Politically, people don't want it.

Economically, people don't want it.

Globally, I think people don't really want it.

I think that the role of the United States in the future is going to be less being the world police and more like being the world gun store.

We're gonna build all the things that turn our allies into really prickly porcupines that nobody wants to screw with.

We're gonna sell them the tools that they use to defend their homes.

And if they're not willing to use their own manpower and their own resources to defend themselves, the United States probably shouldn't be going out of the way to do that.

I think we've learned a lesson.

Don't try to defend countries that aren't willing to defend themselves.

But I think that giving arms to people, I mean, that's good economically for us.

It's good strategically for us.

It maintains that level of shared interest where they still really want to make sure that they're in the good graces of the United States.

I think that that's a really big factor.

We don't need to be sending people.

We need to be sending arms that they can use to defend themselves and deter invasion.

And then if they do get into a fight, win very swiftly.