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Robert Pape

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2646 total appearances

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

And they won't put it, the robotic assembly lines, you can't find them on Google.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

Right.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

That's why I had to go.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

So they are not bragging, talking smack like we do.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

What they're doing is staying under the radar and just eating our lunch.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

Right.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

Let me just make two points here, three.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

So first, on your show a couple weeks ago, I said this is going to be scary for America because he's about to go in this position of strategic defeat.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

She's got all the cards.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

He's going to want concessions on Taiwan.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

So this was number one.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

absolutely predictable.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

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

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/13/26: GOP Midterm Bloodbath, Trump's Oligarch Trip To China, Prof Pape On China Advancing Rapidly

And Iran can take advantage of it here.