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I think that that is an incentive.
I think the all-volunteer force actually enables people to do these ridiculous foreign adventures like Iraq and Afghanistan and basically bribe working-class Americans who may or may not know better or who get tricked or whatever into doing it.
And then they go over and they have no idea even
You don't have to have so much beef with that one.
I agree with that totally.
Non-nuclear Germany and Japan has turned them into US vassals.
Like Germany, especially Japan.
Japan is way better off with nuclear weapons.
And we don't need to have all these bases over there.
They can defend themselves against North Korea.
Then we can just purely have a trading relationship.
Obvious, I trust them.
I think everybody else, I would give them a nuclear weapon.
You know what's funny?
that got no attention, but which I disagreed with the most, is the atomic age is ending.
I could not disagree more.
Like he said, one age of deterrence, the atomic age is ending, and the new era of deterrence is built on AI.
No, it's not.
Iran doesn't have AI, and they don't need it.
They have literally oil, and they have the Straits of Hormuz.