Sebastian Junger

And the motivation to defend your home is always far greater than the motivation to invade someone else's home.

Just for the 19-year-old male, like the – and motivation is – as you know, I'm sure from MMA, is like super important in outcome, right?

And –

But had the Russians done it, had they just blitzkrieged all the way through Ukraine, seized it, then what they would have had is the huge, huge and costly problem of maintaining order in a nation of 40 million people.

40 million resentful people who did not want to be governed by outsiders.

Like, don't try this at home, right?

And so I think, yeah, so you can take out – say you had a magic electromagnetic pulse that took out everything in the – I mean I'm just bullshitting here.

It took out everything that the U.S.

military relies on to communicate and to function.

You just zapped it out of existence.

and invade it, right?

The Russians took east of the Mississippi, the Chinese took west of the Mississippi, or whatever it might be.

Then you've got to run this place.

And that's when you really have a tactical problem, township by township, mountain by mountain.

And then your electromagnetic pulse actually doesn't serve you that well.

And the Afghans, I mean, the Taliban didn't defeat us.

They just outlasted us until we got tired of being there and didn't want to pay the bill.

Yeah.

I mean, the medical description is I had an undiagnosed aneurysm, which is a ballooning of an artery at a weak spot.

So, I mean, arteries can dilate to get more blood flow, but an aneurysm is like one specific spot that for one reason or another