Steve Baxter
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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Oh, right.
There's a background macro here, which is the geopolitical issues around the world, and demographic, to be honest, exemplified by what's happened in Ukraine, the Middle East, and what China is threatening to do with Taiwan, to be quite blunt.
So that's all the background.
And so the U.S.
is re-arming like crazy.
And I started this back in 2023.
The Allied cumulative defense expenditures was $1.2 trillion U.S.
dollars.
This year, it's $1.7 trillion.
Next year, it's $1.9 trillion.
Whoa.
And none of that's gone to an extra soldier.
It's all gone to- So it's not staffing.
It's not staffing on a basis.
It's technology changing out as well.
So in the popular press now, you see a lot about the expensive missile versus the cheap drone.
Yeah.
It's a lot more nuanced than that, but that's essentially it.
So they're changing out arsenals and what I call the articles for conflict.
They're changing those out into the more commodity stuff, the people we invest in, essentially.
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