Professor Jiang

So if a drone, and these drones cost $50,000, if they wiped out a desalination plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and it's a city of 10 million people, right?

They'd be out of water in two weeks.

in two weeks.

And right now, the Iranians have de facto closed off the Shafiq Hormuz, and the GCC gets 90% of its food from the Shafiq Hormuz.

So I know a lot of you are talking about the disruptions to the global economy, but right now, the Iranians are actually threatening the very existence of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain,

And why this is important is that the Gulf states are really the linchpin of the American economy.

So what they do is they sell petrodollars and then they recycle the petrodollars back into the American economy through the investments in the stock market.

And right now, we know that the entire American economy is propped up by AI investments and data centers.

And a lot of that comes from the Gulf states.

So if the Gulf states are no longer able to sell oil,

And they're no longer able to finance AI, this AI bubble in the United States.

Then this AI bubble will burst, and with it will burst as well as the entire American economy, which is really a financial Ponzi scheme.

So that's a dire situation that the Americans are facing right now.

Right, so my first point is that the United States military is not designed to fight a 21st century war.

Remember the military industrial complex came to being after World War II and was designed to fight the Cold War.

And the Cold War was really about muscle flexing, about who was able to send people up into space, who was able to first get the person on the moon, who had the more complex missile systems.

And so the entire American military strategy revolves around very sophisticated technology that costs a lot of money to build.

And that's what the American air defense system is, is basically.

And that's why we're seeing this asymmetry, as you point out,

in this war where you have these million-dollar missiles trying to take out these $50,000 drones, and it's not sustainable in the long term.