Saagar Enjeti
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It's literally an urgent and a critical situation.
And let's say if we ever got into a conflict over something that really matters.
You know, one of the reasons why I think this is so bad, too, is now this poisons the well.
People are going to be like, well, hold on a sec.
I'm not going to give you more stuff so you can go do more stupid shit like this.
Totally.
Right?
I mean, rational, right?
They're not going to sit there and give the same soft case that I
Yes, of course.
See, that's what I'm most worried about.
I don't think we need an increase in the defense budget.
Literally, we could probably spend less if we just took on the actual industrial base, reformed our companies, had an intelligent DARPA, Manhattan-level, Manhattan Project-style investment, and just be like, okay, this is a crisis.
And by the way, everyone was saying this is agitating for war with China.
Listen, even at this point, with the whole Taiwan situation, I mean, come on.
I don't know how you can look at this and say,
there's any chance of the U.S.
having the ability right now.
I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about Japan.