Palmer Luckey

The United States exhausted shallow arsenal of precision munitions in a mere eight days.

Taiwan falls within weeks, and the world wakes up to a new reality, one where the world's dominant power is no longer a democracy.

This is the war US military analysts fear most, not just because of outdated technology or slow decision-making, but because our lack of capacity, our sheer shortage of tools and platforms means we can't even get into the fight.

When China invades Taiwan, the consequences will be global.

Taiwan is the undisputed epicenter of the world's chip supply, producing over 90 percent of most advanced semiconductors, the high-performance chips that power today's AI, GPOs, robotics.

These are also the chips that power your phones, computers, cars and medical devices.

If those factories are seized or destroyed, the global economy will crash overnight.

Tens of trillions of dollars in losses, supply chains in chaos, the worst economic depression in a century.

And the danger is more than economic.

It's ideological.

China is an autocracy, and a world where China dictates the terms of international order is a world where individual freedoms erode, authoritarianism spreads, and smaller nations are forced into submission.

And before anyone shrugs this off as the plot of Michael Bay's latest movie, we've seen this film before, Just Ask Ukraine.

At this point, you might be wondering why a guy in a Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops is up here talking about potential World War III.

My name is Palmer Luckey.

I'm an inventor and an entrepreneur.

When I was 19 years old, I founded Oculus VR while I was living in a camper trailer and then brought virtual reality to the masses.

Years later, I was fired from Facebook after donating $9,000 to the wrong political candidate, and that left me with a choice.

Either fade into irrelevance and islands, or build something that actually mattered.

I wanted to solve a problem that was being ignored, one that would shape the future of this country and the world.

Despite the incredible technological progress happening all around us, our defense sector was stuck in the past.