Ryan Grim

And here we are.

It's like you're in a situation where you're almost held hostage because if you think of something happening in Taiwan, which I don't know, I mean, experts say it's still years out, but that would truly be like as close to a hot war on American soil.

It's not on American soil, obviously, but it would affect all of us immediately.

in a way that what's happening in the Middle East, short of nuclear escalation, is not.

If we think gas prices now are bad, what would happen if there was an invasion of Taiwan and suddenly all of our chips manufacturing was cut off?

That has not been reshored or nearshored.

That is still...

primarily coming out of Taiwan, our ability to just like function and the complete basic tasks as a society would be severely hampered.

And so now you're like, well, guess we spent all of that in Ukraine and Israel.

We're going to need to spend even more money asking these defense contractors getting rich off of everything to protect us.

They put you in a hostage situation, essentially, if that were to happen.

And I'm not agitating for conflict in Taiwan.

It's just the way the system is set up right now that we would actually suffer enormously if there was action in Taiwan.

So it's like, again, being held hostage by defense contractors.

Well, he's got a three-day weekend.

He loves to

You know, he loves to go to war.

Yeah, I think he's got a little extra time.

All of the reports in Axios suggesting that a deal is close are kind of a leading indicator that a deal is not close and we're getting closer to war.

The Iranians, for their part, seem to be assuming an attack is coming and bracing for it.