Will Thibeau

Yeah, we shouldn't forget that one of the more recent purveyors of the notion of the Thucydides trap is none other than Mark Milley. And we should make sure that that's a lesson for many of our friends, Charlie, who want to pick up the mantle of this supposedly inevitable war. I think it helps to kind of read the neoconservative line of thinking and their research behind this, though.

Yeah, we shouldn't forget that one of the more recent purveyors of the notion of the Thucydides trap is none other than Mark Milley. And we should make sure that that's a lesson for many of our friends, Charlie, who want to pick up the mantle of this supposedly inevitable war. I think it helps to kind of read the neoconservative line of thinking and their research behind this, though.

The Center for Strategic International Studies produced a really, frankly, excellent war game about what a war over Taiwan would look like. Their conservative estimate of a war in Taiwan where the U.S. is militarily involved is the loss of over 5,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors in the span of less than 96 hours.

The Center for Strategic International Studies produced a really, frankly, excellent war game about what a war over Taiwan would look like. Their conservative estimate of a war in Taiwan where the U.S. is militarily involved is the loss of over 5,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors in the span of less than 96 hours.

Half of our losses in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in just a few days, a long weekend. The CSIS, frankly, they pass off those war game results like it's some mere academic exercise. But that's what we're talking about when we discuss the possibility of war and of defeating the Chinese Communist Party often.

Half of our losses in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in just a few days, a long weekend. The CSIS, frankly, they pass off those war game results like it's some mere academic exercise. But that's what we're talking about when we discuss the possibility of war and of defeating the Chinese Communist Party often.

We should, again, tie our aims in the Pacific to those results that benefit the American people. This doesn't mean we let China eat our lunch economically or militarily. It means we punish them in many ways, and it means we preserve our economic interests. But it's not a license to act with reckless abandon.

We should, again, tie our aims in the Pacific to those results that benefit the American people. This doesn't mean we let China eat our lunch economically or militarily. It means we punish them in many ways, and it means we preserve our economic interests. But it's not a license to act with reckless abandon.

Well, that's precisely right. It's a problem of creativity. A big problem with the foreign policy establishment is not necessarily that they're neoconservative or dovish. It's the fact that you think there are only two choices, to be a neocon or a dove. Let's think about ways that we can enable allies to have a credible military deterrent themselves.

Well, that's precisely right. It's a problem of creativity. A big problem with the foreign policy establishment is not necessarily that they're neoconservative or dovish. It's the fact that you think there are only two choices, to be a neocon or a dove. Let's think about ways that we can enable allies to have a credible military deterrent themselves.

Let's think about how we can punish China economically and lay those punishments in place now and So they know military incursions would be too costly for them to bear because they are susceptible and they are wary of those risks. That's why the people who lead in the Trump administration need to be ready to never take the first answer, the first policy proposal at face value.

Let's think about how we can punish China economically and lay those punishments in place now and So they know military incursions would be too costly for them to bear because they are susceptible and they are wary of those risks. That's why the people who lead in the Trump administration need to be ready to never take the first answer, the first policy proposal at face value.

It's a big question. But, you know, I think we we still live in the Cold War. Right. The enemy versus friend is absolute. And there are enemies and there are friends. You fight the enemies whenever you can and you protect your friends no matter what's going on. And again, foreign policy. America is not in a game of risk. And. We should understand that. Russia and Ukraine is another example.

It's a big question. But, you know, I think we we still live in the Cold War. Right. The enemy versus friend is absolute. And there are enemies and there are friends. You fight the enemies whenever you can and you protect your friends no matter what's going on. And again, foreign policy. America is not in a game of risk. And. We should understand that. Russia and Ukraine is another example.

The choice is we fight them or we let them march all across Europe. And so we send a lot of money to Ukraine. We send a lot of weapons to Ukraine. But why isn't the government and our military studying how warfare is changing in Ukraine? Because frankly, I think it's changing in ways we don't appreciate. And understanding that is going to be what keeps us out of war in the future.

The choice is we fight them or we let them march all across Europe. And so we send a lot of money to Ukraine. We send a lot of weapons to Ukraine. But why isn't the government and our military studying how warfare is changing in Ukraine? Because frankly, I think it's changing in ways we don't appreciate. And understanding that is going to be what keeps us out of war in the future.

And so we can be articulate and reasonable about this in a way that burnishes our military power without falling into this false choice that is really, again, a lack of creativity and a sign of how sclerotic our bureaucracy has become.

And so we can be articulate and reasonable about this in a way that burnishes our military power without falling into this false choice that is really, again, a lack of creativity and a sign of how sclerotic our bureaucracy has become.

The first thing is to end race quotas at the Pentagon. Why does every institution from West Point to an army rifle squad have to be a racially proportional representation of America? The military should be something different. The second thing, let's enable...

The first thing is to end race quotas at the Pentagon. Why does every institution from West Point to an army rifle squad have to be a racially proportional representation of America? The military should be something different. The second thing, let's enable...