Victor Vescovo

And I think they'll come to the conclusion that it's a low odds shot.

So they're going to have to do other methods.

I think a blockade under certain situations might benefit them.

And that would be tough for us to combat and could lead to a wider war.

But no, I think that they are smart enough to say...

Let's build the forces to apply pressure, but the real avenue of success for China to regain Taiwan would, to your point, I believe, be through the political realm, using the dark arts there.

Do you have any...

By the way, the last assignment I had in the military, I was assigned to the intelligence staff of the 7th Fleet.

And so we were positioned against China and Korea.

So I was privy to war games and all sorts of things involving a kinetic situation with China.

I haven't looked at that closely, but we all know it's there.

Oh yeah.

Oh wow.

Or worse, after birth.

Yeah.

It certainly happened.

But I believe it was absolutely, it wasn't just one generation.

It was multiple generations, which will have a profound effect.

Which if you just look, go to Google and look up population projections for China, and it does this, and it looks like a ski jump ramp going down now.

They've crested.