Robert Pape

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2,835 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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absolutely predictable.

Number two, if you look at that Intel assessment, so what has happened with America's bases, it's not that we didn't refurbish anything.

Those are bases basically 30 years old, 20 years old.

We're still living in the 90s a lot of the way like we're living in the Rust Belt in the 90s.

Point number three, imagine what's going to happen now with this emerging alliance.

Remember, I'm talking about Iran emerging as the fourth center of world power in concert with Russia and with China.

Start to imagine even a trickle of China's AIs.

that we're now seeing diffusing here in the electric vehicles and robotic assemblies, any of that going to Iran.

And Iran can take advantage of it here.

So this is the future here that we're going to contend with.

We're still basically stuck in equipment, in basing structures that are 20 years out of date.

With COVID, there was a hinge.

And China used COVID to jettison ahead in AI, not inventing a single product, but in diffusing this and integrating this across whole sectors.

This could be Iran in the coming years.

Yeah, so a couple of points.

First, notice that Trump is the master of sleight of hand like a magician.

That stat that you just said is not false.

but it's out of the larger context.

He doesn't want you to focus on like a magician.

The bigger context is China has been weaning itself off of oil over the last decade.

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