Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Even his family and his friends abandoned him, and all he had was God. And oftentimes people, Job was like, why are you doing this, God? And it was, he couldn't see this, but it was because an entire generation that was gonna come after Job could see that as long as you cling to God, You can weather anything. You cannot torture me. You cannot do anything to me.
You can never steal away my sense of value and worth for God. And I do this, though. I could just shut up and be quiet and go along to get along or just not be a part of the fray. But I truly believe that if the spirit of fighting for God's will is in us, God will usher in a new age. He will forgive us. Because God wants more people going to heaven.
And if we are so corrupt as a human race that the game is up, then God will come home again and it'll be over, okay? But if we can usher in a better future...
golden age and i believe it's biblical i think it's prophetic uh more people will be in heaven because more people will be born and will be uh prosperous healthy and secure and we have the creative god has given us the brains to create our future to build it we don't have to be victims of other people building it and this constitution that america has is the best hope of humanity and
With my relationships across the globe, from my time in the military and the foreign countries that I became friends with, and my cultural understanding having been raised in a different country, all the other countries of the world are just looking at America going, I hope President Trump succeeds, because if he doesn't succeed, we're all screwed.
Well, I think the first person that will operationalize that is Elon Musk. He's furthest ahead. And now it's taken a number of years, and now with President Trump and the White House, where permission will be given for the military to actually take these next steps.
um and uh you're gonna you're gonna see that get operationalized so um i would say in the next few years we will probably start with just equipment where elon musk will be able to deliver a hundred tons of equipment anywhere on the planet in less than an hour for the military to maintain the presence of peace, the power of diplomacy through the fact that we can do something.
And when you can maneuver like that with that kind of speed, agility, and affordability will come, but affordability, meaning that he's brought the cost of that kind of flight down 10x and he can reuse it, it's a game changer. How can another country compete with America being able to bring 100 tons as often as they want anywhere on the planet in less than an hour?
Well, so China is probably the fastest follower, but they aren't anywhere close. Elon Musk knows, like I know in my company, Spacebuilt, speed is the only protection. Patents, you know, that just gives you the legal right to sue somebody if they try to do something on your front yard. or with your patent, but that is so easy to bypass. All you have to do is change one ingredient.
You patent a recipe for cookies, and somebody adds an extra ounce of butter, and now you can't sue them, even though it may taste the same. So China is probably the fastest follower, but Elon Musk is the true innovator.
Just the cyber espionage alone. They don't even have to have a person. But they do it through multiple means. They'll have people on the board of advisors, board of directors. They'll buy their way into companies with a lot of money through proxies.
So they'll give a bunch of money to some American retired general that then says, hey, I'll invest in your company, which might be a startup on AI companies. And then they're on the board and they have access to the information and the money flows and the information flows back. That's one way of doing it.
Cyberestimation, where many of these companies do not have the kind of cyber hygiene and cyber techniques to be able to prevent somebody from getting in the back doors. Oftentimes the equipment they have has chips that were built in China and the back doors are built in and nobody knows that it's a sieve out. So there's a thousand ways of this industrial espionage getting back to China.
So let's talk about culture, though, because this industrial espionage and China being a fast follower has a cultural component to it. And I'll just talk to two of them. And this gets back to the fact that we have to understand the cultures. Understand your enemy, understand yourself. And in a thousand years, you will not lose a battle.
China, the people of China are as smart as anybody else on the planet. And the cavemen, you know, we're as smart as we are. I mean, the human brain and the intelligence has not changed. Building on the knowledge of the past is what's changed, and that's why this attribute of being an aggressive learner really makes you very powerful if you can absorb all this.
And AI will accentuate that, where now I can devour through 100 books to get the essence instead of spending all the hours reading them. So these tools of technology are going to increase the exponential nature of innovation. But back to fast followers in China. If China did not have a communist ideology, that picks winners and losers and does not allow the free market to operate.
Where the free market is like a garden. You plant 100 seeds and only one will blossom. The other 99 will fail, but that one that blossoms pays for all the 99 that fail. That's the mathematics of innovation. Or a VC, an investor. They'll put out 100 investments, small investments, And two will pop, but those two will pay for all the others. SpaceX in the early days, look what it's done. Google.
And I have personal knowledge. I worked in the White House in the 90s. And I won't mention the name, but one of the people in the White House had invested in Google in the early days. And just incredible wealth. But they had invested in a hundred different companies and that one popped, all the others failed, but it didn't matter.
So China's communist ideology suffocates the free market from letting the results decide who wins and who loses, and let the customer decide based on the definition of innovation. Is it novel, meaning it's different, new, and is it useful? And so China will forever be compromised at its ability to innovate in the subordination that is created by the Communist Party.
Because if you're a leader in a company and you go in a direction that's not consistent with the talking points of the Communist Party, you're done. And you won't get a loan for the good house. Your kids won't go to the good schools. You can't shop in the good markets.
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