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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Welcome to our weekly Saturday podcast,

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Speaker 1: a bonus podcast that does not air during the week.

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Speaker 1: This week, it's a speech from Eric Prince. You'll probably

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Speaker 1: remember him, American businessman, former Navy Seal officer, and founder

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Speaker 1: of the private security firm did you say it before

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Speaker 1: I did? Blackwater? He is known for his deep experience

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Speaker 1: in global security. Controversial figure, he explores how artificial intelligence

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Speaker 1: is reshaping the future of warfare, from the battlefield to

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Speaker 1: national defense strategies. This is a speech he gave at

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Speaker 1: Hillsdale College on AI and what lies ahead for the

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Speaker 1: future of war. Surely you've thought about how AI is

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Speaker 1: affecting our lives, whether your job will be redundant, whether

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Speaker 1: you'll be laid off because of it, whether someone you

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Speaker 1: love will lose their job because AI will replace them.

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Speaker 1: But how about in war. Wow, Now it starts to

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Speaker 1: get real. Now it starts to get real, disturbing, interesting, frightening,

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Speaker 1: even could alter the very world we live in as

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Speaker 1: growing dramatically because of that. It's an update on what

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Speaker 1: it all right, Eric Prince.

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Speaker 2: They wanted me to talk about AI in the future

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Speaker 2: of warfare. I think it's important to look back to

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Speaker 2: enable us to look forward, and like, let's start where

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Speaker 2: we are right now and what's happened in the Ukraine

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Speaker 2: Russia war has massively accelerated warfare in a way that

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Speaker 2: I think it's the greatest advancement or it's the greatest

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Speaker 2: swing in the pendulum really since Jingis Khan puts stirrups

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Speaker 2: on horses. Now, if you go back that far, I

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Speaker 2: think there was twelve twelve eighteen or so. He set

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Speaker 2: off literally the Mongol Empire when he was done, went

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Speaker 2: from the Pacific to Hungary, and he mauled and terrorized

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Speaker 2: his way through millions of millions of people and millions

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Speaker 3: What stirrups on.

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Speaker 2: Horses did is it allowed instead of walking into battle

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Speaker 2: or riding and having to get off and fight dismounted,

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Speaker 2: it allowed people to stand up in the saddle, engage

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Speaker 2: at a high rate of fire with a bone and

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Speaker 2: arrow while riding forward and also riding backwards. And so

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Speaker 2: now you could war so accelerated. Instead of moving at

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Speaker 2: at twenty and thirty miles an hour. And the Mongol armies,

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Speaker 2: of course, when he moved to one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: And so he was moving one hundred plus miles a day,

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Speaker 2: and he just out maneuvered and wrecked his way through societies.

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Speaker 2: That's what's happened.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: You haven't seen the full effects yet, but I'm telling

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Speaker 2: you that level of change and black Swan event is

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Speaker 2: possible because what's happened in Ukraine when.

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Speaker 3: The Russian Army.

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Speaker 2: Rolled in in February of twenty twenty two. I say,

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Speaker 2: the only smart thing that Zelensky did the entire war

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Speaker 2: and the citizens took up arms and defended their country,

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Speaker 2: whether it's a rocket propelled grenade, an anti tank missile,

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Speaker 2: a sniper rifle, whatever that was. But the citizen innovation

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Speaker 2: stop them, and then it started. Then the innovation really started.

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Speaker 2: If you think about Ukraine was probably responsible for forty

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Speaker 2: And so now you had desperate people trying to defend

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Speaker 2: politics of the Ukraine War. I'll get to that at

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Speaker 2: the end with questions. So I'm going to talk for

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Speaker 2: A at the end. But these smart innovative people said,

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Speaker 2: this massive onslaught. So they started taking hobbyist drones. And

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Speaker 2: a canister about this size with a copper cone on

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Speaker 2: the explosive, the explosive wave goes through it turns that

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Speaker 3: We can boost the range out.

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Speaker 2: To fifteen kilometers so that each one of you in

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Speaker 2: this room can carry six of them on your back.

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Speaker 2: So imagine the democratization of precision strike that that enables

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Speaker 2: and it's cheap.

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Speaker 2: You take a five to eight hundred dollars drone, you

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Speaker 2: With steel shot, and now you have a very potent

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Speaker 2: probably three grand versus one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: for a javelin missile from raytheon with a two hundred

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Speaker 2: thing that the Russians are very good at is electronic warfare.

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Speaker 2: A lot of American stuff javelin missile, high mars copperhead missiles,

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Speaker 2: innovate as compared to the hyper bloated Pentagon, which has

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Speaker 2: you've heard maybe of a of a tow missile. It's

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Speaker 2: an old American missile from the eighties, tube launched, optically tracked,

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Speaker 3: It's a little fiber optic that pays.

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Speaker 2: Out of the back of it as the missile's on

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Speaker 3: Literally, if you had an open.

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Speaker 2: Window, you could fly it deep inside this building.

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Speaker 2: And so that's the kind of change in warfare that's

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Speaker 2: accelerated and democratized precision strike. What you see awe in

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Speaker 2: Turkish intelligence and Turkish special operations equipped with small, simple drones,

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Speaker 2: can put the processing of imagery teach the device to think,

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Speaker 2: and that's also been done and I've had teams operating

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Speaker 2: the jet skis that had significant damage in the in

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Speaker 2: send three against a Russian vessel. One of them is

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Speaker 2: And now literally that AI is put onto onto effectively

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Speaker 2: meaning you can give it an opt an image capture

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Speaker 2: It's thinking for itself, guiding itself in for the kill.

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Speaker 2: So what does this mean to modern warfare? It means

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Speaker 2: of devices. And you know, quantity has what did silent say?

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Speaker 2: Quantity has a quality all its own. You throw enough

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Speaker 2: As you've seen in the Red Sea. You have the Hutis,

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Speaker 2: and they've been shooting suicide drones, cruise missiles, even ballistic

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Speaker 2: It's more like four or five billion, because the Navy

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Speaker 3: So you have a huge asymmetry.

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Speaker 2: Iranians, through the Hooties, are shooting a twenty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: shooting that twenty thousand dollars drone down with not one,

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Speaker 2: It really speaks to the value of some new leadership

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Speaker 3: A tragedy happened even a couple of.

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Speaker 2: Weeks ago where the Navy shot down one of its

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Speaker 2: Well, now only did they shoot one down, they having

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Speaker 2: shot the first one down, they fired missiles at the

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Speaker 2: second guy. He saw the missiles launch, I saw the

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Speaker 3: The hit the water underneath him again.

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Speaker 2: And those aircraft were not far off flying some patrol.

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Speaker 2: the misalignment of the Pentagon and the the the adriftness

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Speaker 2: of discipline, recruiting, the diversity, equity inclusion stuff is really

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Speaker 3: And I'm optimist.

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Speaker 2: Think that Secretary of Hegseth is gonna push hard to

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Speaker 2: Rule of the elites, where you give up pretty much

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Speaker 2: any of your rights to do anything in exchange for

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Speaker 2: some hopeful promise of some kind of economic growth.

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Speaker 3: And I certainly know which one of those I would choose.

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Speaker 2: But just because our forefathers we stand on the shoulders

447
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Speaker 2: of giants, have been successful for the last I don't know,

448
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: we're coming up on two hundred fifty years. It's an

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Speaker 2: amazing time for a kind of a not a reset,

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Speaker 2: but a refocus. And I think Trump is off to

451
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Speaker 2: a good start for the first couple of weeks, and

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Speaker 2: I hope that momentum bills as we go towards a

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Speaker 2: year from this July.

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Speaker 3: Think of that two hundred and fifty years. And if we.

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Speaker 2: Can get back to actually what made America great, which

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Speaker 2: is our private sector, not government, we will continue to

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Speaker 2: uh to advance. So again, I'm not so worried about

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Speaker 2: China militarily. I am worried if we blunder into a dumb,

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Speaker 2: unnecessary war in Taiwan. The US Navy is not ready

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Speaker 2: to fight tonight.

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Speaker 3: They are they are.

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Speaker 2: Plagued by bad leadership, a lot of misguided training policies,

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Speaker 2: and we spent a lot of money and there's not

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Speaker 2: nearly the readiness that there should be. You know, a

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Speaker 2: year and a half ago, we lost the ship the

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Speaker 2: Bonholm Richard. It started, fire started while it was in

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Speaker 2: dry dock or peer side in repair in San Diego.

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Speaker 2: It took the Navy and took the crew an hour

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Speaker 2: and a half to get first water on that fire

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Speaker 2: on a ship, okay, an active warship. The ship burned

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Speaker 2: up at the dock because of incompetence of the crew

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Speaker 2: and the responding fire services.

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Speaker 3: That's the kind of nonsense.

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Speaker 2: That's a billion, billion and a half dollar rite off,

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Speaker 2: and that's a big aircraft carrier that's bigger than any

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Speaker 2: aircraft carrier.

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Speaker 3: We used in World War Two, for example.

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Speaker 2: So if the Navy runs a traditional playbook, if the

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Speaker 2: Chinese the Chinese Communist Party, and why do they hate

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Speaker 2: Taiwan so much because Taiwan is Han China culture, but

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Speaker 2: on freedom there's only twenty four million people there versus

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Speaker 2: one point three one point four billion, But it is

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Speaker 2: a super irritant because they can't take that comparison. They're

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Speaker 2: free over there in Taiwan, not on the mainland. So

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Speaker 2: the way that the PLA would do it is they

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Speaker 2: would do a big blockade.

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Speaker 3: They'd surround it.

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Speaker 2: They've been exercising that consistently with no pushback from the

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Speaker 2: US at all, not even any unconventional means to deter them.

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Speaker 2: And if they do that, so what is the Navy

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Speaker 2: going to do. They're going to respond with aircraft carriers.

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Speaker 2: And like I said, you run a twelve billion dollar

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Speaker 2: aircraft carrier within a range of thousands of precision missiles

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Speaker 2: that the Chinese can fire, that's going to result in

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Speaker 2: a very bad image of a US Navy aircraft carrier

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Speaker 2: with five thousand of our citizens on board smoking or worse,

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Speaker 2: and that ties directly into the geopolitical consequences that we

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Speaker 2: would face them, because remember the British Empire, after they

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Speaker 2: defeated Napoleon at Trafalgar eighteen oh four, ruled the waves

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Speaker 2: for the next century, and then they got spanked at

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Speaker 2: the Battle of Jutland during World War One, just off

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Speaker 2: the coast of Denmark, and that was the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the end of the British Empire.

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Speaker 3: They lost territory, they.

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Speaker 2: Lost the pound as a dominant currency, and you would

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Speaker 2: see an unwind in that competition of governance. Is it

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Speaker 2: our system of Western capitalism?

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Speaker 3: Freedom?

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Speaker 2: Look, democracy and a republic is a mess. It's messy,

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Speaker 2: it's imperfect. It does not have the crispness of a dictatorship,

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Speaker 2: of course. But I would take messy and innovation and

512
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Speaker 2: bottoms up approach to problem solving versus top down dictatorship

513
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Speaker 2: any day. But we cannot let ourselves blunder into the

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Speaker 2: stupid things like that, because history shows that can be

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the end. So you know what, with that,

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Speaker 2: let me take questions and I can also give you

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Speaker 2: a tour of the world on problem areas that I

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Speaker 2: think will flare up. If anybody wants.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Prince.

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Speaker 3: We now have time for a Q and A. If

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Speaker 3: you have a question, please make your way to a microphone.

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Speaker 3: Student questions will be given preference. Who's up send it?

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, doctor Princes for your talk. My

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Speaker 5: question I'm also in Austrian economics.

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Speaker 3: Well it close to your mouth. Thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for your talk this evening.

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Speaker 5: Doctor, I'm also an Austrian economics major here, so we

528
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Speaker 5: can always use more of those. My question is about

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Speaker 5: can you elaborate a little more on the economics of

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Speaker 5: the privatization of the military industry. You mentioned Elon Musk's

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Speaker 5: ability to bring down costs of space exploration. How do

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Speaker 5: we do that in the military industry. Is it more

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Speaker 5: of a policy change that we need to see or

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Speaker 5: is it more of entrepreneurs responsibility to make adjustments and

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Speaker 5: what would those be?

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Speaker 2: Sure the simple word for that is actual competition and

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Speaker 2: really opening up the floodgase. When it comes to producing

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Speaker 2: missiles or whatever, you have such a narrow field of

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Speaker 2: that you basically get a duopoly or a monopoly a provider.

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Speaker 3: And so they just say, well, this is so much

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Speaker 3: it costs.

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Speaker 2: I remember the first state Department job for security that

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Speaker 2: we did. They wanted us to train the protective detail

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Speaker 2: of Columbia. They have issues and Greece right before the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It was like two thousand and four or six, and

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Speaker 2: we trained tens of thousands of people.

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Speaker 3: We knew what we were doing.

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Speaker 2: We put the bid together and the State Department said,

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Speaker 2: we cannot accept your bid. They said why, They said,

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Speaker 2: because it's so low, it's not deemed credible.

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Speaker 3: Like, well, we had thirty five percent margin on.

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Speaker 2: It, so we doubled it and they accepted it. That's

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Speaker 2: the level of insanity and competition solves.

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Speaker 5: That contract to exclusivity. That's the problem. Like once once

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Speaker 5: a private company chose it over, they can't.

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Speaker 2: So under the Clintons, we went from about one hundred

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Speaker 2: major contractors and really consolidated down to five super majors, Lockeyed, Northrop, Boeing,

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Speaker 2: raytheon General Dynamics. They need to be broken up and

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Speaker 2: to restore a lot of competition and actually or even

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Speaker 2: just blow by them and look to the next generation

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Speaker 2: of private innovative ones and get them the manufacturing.

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Speaker 3: Capability to do it.

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Speaker 2: That's how you actually bring down significant costs.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Very much for speaking now, the United States military is

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Speaker 6: currently suffering from an ongoing recruitment crisis, not because America

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Speaker 6: has any shortage of brave young men willing to fight,

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Speaker 6: but because we know that the military, under the current

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Speaker 6: guidance of desk jockeys, has been reduced to a little

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Speaker 6: more than a benefits program and adult daycare, but.

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Speaker 3: With camouflage on top.

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Speaker 6: Now, which has also been you know, losing wars consistently

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Speaker 6: for quite some time.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 6: I've been told recently from a reliable source that the

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Speaker 6: United States is quite behind in a significant drone race.

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Speaker 6: And while we all have great faith in President Trump

578
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Speaker 6: and heg Seth in bringing honor and efficiency back to

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Speaker 6: our armed forces, we especially at Hillsdale College, fear that

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Speaker 6: the government, even a well intentioned and well led government,

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Speaker 6: may not be up to the task of adjusting to

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Speaker 6: twenty first century warfare without the help of the private sector.

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Speaker 6: Would you consider founding a private military academy for those

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Speaker 6: of us who believe that the safety of our nation

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Speaker 6: would be better achieved by teaching young men Klauswitz and

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Speaker 6: drone tactics rather than white Fordrill, white fragility, and the

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Speaker 6: poetry of Maya Angelou.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that long question slash statement.

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Speaker 2: Look, I loved Blackwater in the team, and I had

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Speaker 2: the great honor of employing tens of thousands of the

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Speaker 2: best of Americans. And this day I run into an

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Speaker 2: airports and some garden spots around the world, and I

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Speaker 2: missed that. And yes, I will tell you I'm working

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Speaker 2: on a couple of significant projects overseas which will provide

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Speaker 2: interesting employment for young men and women sometimes. But yes,

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Speaker 2: I think, and that's one of the reasons I did

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Speaker 2: not apply actively for a government job is because I

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Speaker 2: think there's a lot of ways the private sector, Because

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Speaker 2: I look, I think the business of America should be business.

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Speaker 2: And when we lead with the military into all these

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Speaker 2: countries that have melted down and need stability operations.

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Speaker 3: We clearly fail at that.

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Speaker 2: And when you think back, how is America founded, it

604
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Speaker 2: was founded by three companies, Massachusetts, Bay, Plymouth and Jamestown colonies.

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Speaker 2: Those companies were actually listed on the City of London Exchange, okay,

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Speaker 2: effectively a stock exchange. They hired people like Miles Standish

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Speaker 2: and John Smith, former professional military officers that came and

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Speaker 2: protected the colony and built it up so and I've said,

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Speaker 2: with some controversy about bringing back colonialism, to be clear

610
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Speaker 2: on that there are millions of people that invade America

611
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Speaker 2: every year. Why they're coming for the American dream. They're

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Speaker 2: coming for American governance. And I think there's lots of

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Speaker 2: ways we can use market forces to literally do private cities,

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Speaker 2: private governance of on leased land in melted or desolate

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Speaker 2: lands around the world to provide security, good governance, the

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Speaker 2: basic utilities, and the local people will flourish. And that's

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Speaker 2: the way we can replicate because you know what, I

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Speaker 2: would take ten thousand mayors from around American cities will

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Speaker 2: run ten thousand cities.

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Speaker 3: In Africa better than there.

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Speaker 2: And so replicating the things we take for granted here,

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Speaker 2: property rights, getting a bank account, title for land, all

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Speaker 2: the things that you've not read The Mystery of Capital

624
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Speaker 2: and the Other Path by hernandoz Soto please do so

625
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 2: really lays out how the basics of why the American

626
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Speaker 2: capitalism works, why you have capital formation that works here,

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Speaker 2: and how to replicate that in other countries.

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Speaker 3: So yes, I'm working on that. Hey, thank you for

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Speaker 3: being here.

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Speaker 7: In enjoyed your speech.

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Speaker 8: How do we fight communism abroad when so many Americans

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Speaker 8: here are in love with the idea.

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Speaker 2: That's a really good question, because it's it's such a

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Speaker 2: it's such an insidious, attractive lie, and it kind of

635
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Speaker 2: based on it's it's to me. It kind of comes

636
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Speaker 2: down to people thinking versus feeling, and and the emotion

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Speaker 2: of socialism that everything will be great if only a

638
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Speaker 2: few people are endowed with all this authority and power

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Speaker 2: over us.

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Speaker 3: It's this rule of the elites.

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Speaker 2: Which appeals to some elites, and it also appeals to

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Speaker 2: a lot of people that don't want to take responsibility

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Speaker 2: for themselves.

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Speaker 3: So an insidious lie. I was, I guess.

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Speaker 2: Inoculated from that in nineteen seventy six when my dad

646
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Speaker 2: was invited to come to the Soviet Union in East

647
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Speaker 2: Germany because they wanted to buy his machine tools, and

648
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Speaker 2: he didn't like it.

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Speaker 3: They didn't like the surveillance, he didn't like the whole field.

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Speaker 2: So he dragged the rest of the family in a

651
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Speaker 2: Chevy Van across Eastern Europe. I spent my seventh birthday

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Speaker 2: in East Berlin nineteen seventy six, and for a seven

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Speaker 2: year old to see the guns and the dogs, and

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Speaker 2: the minefields and the tank traps, all facing in keeping

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Speaker 2: people in East Germany. Pretty obvious to say something's not

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Speaker 2: great about socialism if you need that level of force

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Speaker 2: to keep people here.

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Speaker 3: So look, that's on you.

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Speaker 2: It's on you to be assault in light amongst your

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Speaker 2: peers to say, let the data show where does socialism

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Speaker 2: work versus where does good governance work? And compare obviously

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Speaker 2: Singapore versus I don't know you name the socialist hell

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Speaker 2: holder's a lot of them.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your talk.

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Speaker 8: I was wondering if you could comment on the use

666
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Speaker 8: of AI in hacking and attacking computer networks, in cybersecurity

667
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 8: or in cyber warfare.

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Speaker 2: That would be a bit more out of my lane

669
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Speaker 2: of expertise. I remember when I took my first polygraph.

670
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: At the end, the polygraph guy said this thing about

671
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Speaker 2: you hacking government computer systems.

672
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Speaker 3: We don't think you're telling the truth.

673
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Speaker 2: And I ripped off the stuff and I said, listen,

674
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Speaker 2: if your polygraph is telling you I'm hacking government computer systems,

675
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Speaker 2: I can barely get my own email, so I'm gonna

676
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Speaker 2: punt on that one.

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Speaker 9: Thank you for being here, mister Prince. I have two

678
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 9: quick questions for you. One, I was listening to podcast

679
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 9: Caribbean Rhythms, which you appeared on on the Way up

680
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 9: Here and Caribbean Rhythms you appeared on that podcast several

681
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Speaker 9: months ago prior to the election.

682
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Speaker 3: Okay, and I've done a lot of them, so I'm

683
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Speaker 3: sorry if I forget the name.

684
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Speaker 1: No, it's all right on there.

685
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Speaker 9: You described a moment when you met with President Trump

686
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Speaker 9: prior to twenty sixteen and you advised him to be,

687
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Speaker 9: you know, on the lookout for who you appoint as

688
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Speaker 9: an advisor. Five recall correctly, and I believe in you said.

689
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Speaker 9: In twenty nineteen at a veterans event, he came up

690
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 9: to you and he said that you were right, Yeah,

691
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Speaker 9: to be on the lookout for you know who you

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Speaker 9: are appointing. And I guess my question the first question

693
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Speaker 9: is if he were here in this room today, who

694
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Speaker 9: what kind of advice would you give him? Given his

695
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,959
Speaker 9: resounding success so far in his first you know, weak

696
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Speaker 9: or self as president, to have him be on the

697
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Speaker 9: watch out for, as we know after his first term,

698
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Speaker 9: who your advisor is matters. And my second question is

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Speaker 9: do you have like a show or podcast of your

700
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Speaker 9: own that people can tune into and listen to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so short answer is my podcast is called Off

702
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 2: Leash with Eric Prince, So that's on It's on x

703
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: and it's on YouTube whatever. Google suppresses it of course

704
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 2: on YouTube, but you can still find it.

705
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Speaker 3: Look.

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Speaker 2: I think President Trump has really taken seriously because he

707
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 2: never really secured us he never really controlled the security

708
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 2: apparatus in the first administration. But he definitely has made

709
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: much better choices now.

710
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Speaker 3: And you know, they've got a lot.

711
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Speaker 2: Of work to do, uh, because there's there's just been

712
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: a such a lack of seriousness if you think about

713
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 2: the reform. I mean, when George Marshall took over the

714
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: US Army in September one, nineteen thirty nine, like the

715
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: same time that the Nazis invaded Poland, he started firing

716
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: colonels in generals preparing to fight the next war. And

717
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: we never did any of that for twenty five years,

718
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Speaker 2: and all these generals, all these failed generals and colonels

719
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 2: kept floating to the top, and they're now populating all

720
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Speaker 2: these ranks. And you now have we had in World

721
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Speaker 2: War Two, we had fourteen million people under arms. You

722
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Speaker 2: now have one point three million, Okay, so less than

723
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Speaker 2: ten times, and we have the same amount of flag

724
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Speaker 2: officers in an era of you know, instant video communication

725
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: and should be a flatter fashion organization. We have a

726
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: very bloated top top end and hopefully that gets a

727
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Speaker 2: lot lighter very soon.

728
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Speaker 10: Hi, mister Prince, I was curious if he could go

729
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 10: into more detail and what I would call the AI

730
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 10: hunter killer drone and how it can be programmed to

731
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Speaker 10: look for and kill a single individual in a crowd.

732
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Speaker 2: Yes, very true, very very real threat. There's a company

733
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Speaker 2: called Clearview, for example, which scrapes billions of images off

734
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Speaker 2: the web. So if you've ever posted any any picture

735
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,280
Speaker 2: in any social media, have you better tagged in a picture,

736
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Speaker 2: any kind of online driver's license roles anything like that?

737
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Speaker 3: Your image?

738
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Speaker 2: And so now with a very small drone could launch

739
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 2: it and it can fly around this world, this room

740
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: looking for the face it's after and drive itself into

741
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Speaker 2: your forehead with even a you know, a few milligrams

742
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 2: of powder, clack itself off on your head. That's the

743
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 2: level of threat that we're coming to. So again, I

744
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: don't care. You know, a great military sniper can take

745
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 2: a cold bar shot a you know, the first shot

746
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Speaker 2: at one thousand meters and probably hit his target. But

747
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: now any one of you, I can take out and

748
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: give you thirty minutes of FPV drone instruction, and now

749
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: you can fly a drone out to fifteen kilometers and

750
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Speaker 2: hit a target. So that's the nature of and that's

751
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Speaker 2: with a human in the loop. Put a you put

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Speaker 2: an AI drone pilot on there, of which there's many

753
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Speaker 2: different variants right now in.

754
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Speaker 3: Early phases that it's a real problem.

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Speaker 2: There's even been a company called Shield Ai makes an

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Speaker 2: AI for a fighter pilot which has fought manned aircraft

757
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Speaker 2: versus unmanned aircraft. And the unmanned aircraft can you know,

758
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Speaker 2: vastly exceed normal G limits because it doesn't have a

759
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Speaker 2: pilot that has to keep blood in their head.

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Speaker 3: Well, because you're right, because you get a G limit.

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Speaker 2: At you know, nine g's a pilot is really having

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Speaker 2: a hard time staying awake. A robot doesn't have the problem.

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Speaker 2: So those are also very real issues to contend with.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming and speaking with us tonight.

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Speaker 4: One hundred years ago, the future of the modern battle

766
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Speaker 4: space was tanks and truck mounted infantry, and every major

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Speaker 4: power in the world had a man who could see

768
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Speaker 4: what the future of the battlespace was like patent in

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Speaker 4: the United States, and Charles Zagaul and France, and Heinz

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Speaker 4: Guderian in Germany, and Gregory Zukov and the Soviet Union.

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Speaker 4: They could see how this new technology could be applied

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Speaker 4: to the modern battle space to win victories in that

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Speaker 4: battle space. Does the United States have such a man

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Speaker 4: at this time who understands how drones and AI are

775
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Speaker 4: being utilized in Ukraine and Russia, who can develop a

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Speaker 4: doctrine for our military to be successful in such conflict.

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Speaker 2: I'd say there's probably a colonel or two in the

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Speaker 2: Army Special Forces because they're now they're doing a drone

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Speaker 2: course as part of every Special Forces qualification as part

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00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 2: of their curriculum, so they get it.

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Speaker 3: And now they're doing a.

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Speaker 2: Field deployable kit where you have the rotors, the circuit boards,

783
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 2: all the pieces in parts, so you can actually make

784
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 2: these guys put Frankenstein drones together in the fields and

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Speaker 2: go to work with them. So that level of iteration

786
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Speaker 2: is coming. I don't know where that is in the Navy.

787
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Speaker 2: I don't think it exists yet, and definitely not in

788
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Speaker 2: the Air Force, because look, the Air Force, the Air

789
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Speaker 2: Force hated the whole reason we have predator drones.

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Speaker 3: Think of it this way.

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Speaker 2: Company called General Atomics licensed the original Predator A from

792
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Speaker 2: a guy. It was a gasoline engine, an abgas engine.

793
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Speaker 2: They licensed it first to the CIA. They used it

794
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Speaker 2: in Bosnia.

795
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Speaker 3: It worked.

796
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Speaker 2: CIA more of an early adopter, easier procurement. Air Force

797
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 2: wanted nothing to do with it. The Agency decided to

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Speaker 2: make it armed. That's why you had some armed predator drones.

799
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Speaker 2: When nine to eleven happened. General Atomics private ownership, super

800
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Speaker 2: free market guys, Larry, you should probably hit them up.

801
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 2: This Linden and Neil Blue. They they took all the

802
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Speaker 2: money they made from pred A and built pred B

803
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 2: their own specs. They just say bigger, heavier, stronger, capable.

804
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 2: And they made pred sea again until the Agency started

805
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Speaker 2: taking all the glory in space. The Air Force wanted

806
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with it because the Air Force is.

807
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 3: An armed airline union. That's that.

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Speaker 2: Look they've they've they've become that, and and the and

809
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 2: the pilot mafia does not want to give up seats.

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Speaker 3: And that's the problem.

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Speaker 2: You have to be willing to reinvent yourself or or

812
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 2: obsoleste yourself to stay relevant.

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Speaker 3: Hello, mister prince over here. Yep, gotcha.

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Speaker 11: My name is Michael Rupe. I'm a history sophomore here.

815
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Speaker 11: My dad's big fan of yours. I know you kind

816
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 11: of cover this a little earlier, but what strategies would

817
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Speaker 11: you recommend the US military adopt to combat those new

818
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 11: low cost drones. If our old equipment is obsolete.

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Speaker 2: We have to have a better hard kill scenario, a solution,

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00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 2: whether that's air bursting, high rate of fire, cannons, lasers, EMPs.

821
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Speaker 2: The reason I like hard kill air bursting munitions is

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Speaker 2: because battlefields have.

823
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Speaker 3: A lot of fog. We're in Michigan, for Eaven's sakes.

824
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Speaker 2: We know there's fog, rain clouds, all that stuff is

825
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 2: not great for lasers. But an air bursting munition will

826
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Speaker 2: fire and burst, and you have to find a way. Look,

827
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Speaker 2: there's two things a military officer does. Coordinates information releases energy.

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Speaker 2: Our information flow has become so voluminous that it's overwhelming

829
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Speaker 2: and they need to do a better job of shifting it.

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Speaker 2: But energy wise, right, releasing energy, drive the ship from

831
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Speaker 2: here to there, fly that airplane, fire that weapon.

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Speaker 3: The cost of us delivering.

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00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: Energy right, putting a warhead on a forehead is so outrageously.

834
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Speaker 3: Expensive, or shooting down a drone.

835
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Speaker 2: Like the Navy trying to shoot down those Uti missiles

836
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 2: has gone bonkers, like a thousandfold higher than it should be.

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Speaker 2: So finding simple, low cost solutions, I mean, look, the

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Speaker 2: Ukrainians have to have had to adopt out of necessity.

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Speaker 2: What are they using twelve gage with bird shot? Use

840
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Speaker 2: it taking down small drones And that's actually not.

841
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Speaker 3: A terrible option. So again Hillsdale with a great shooting program.

842
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 3: It works.

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00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 12: Hello, thank you for coming to speak. I just wanted

844
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Speaker 12: to ask you mentioned both that innovation comes from individual

845
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 12: Americans in their garage with a dream, and then you

846
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 12: also talked about how there are like five companies within

847
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Speaker 12: the defense industry who have kind of monopolized the industry.

848
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Speaker 12: How would you say that you should break up these

849
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Speaker 12: these companies and how do you think it would affect

850
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Speaker 12: the military industrial complex itself.

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Speaker 3: So, just like.

852
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Speaker 2: The federal government, like Teddy Roosevelt did some great antitrust enforcement,

853
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 2: they broke up Standard Oil, or in the.

854
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 3: Eighties they broke up AT and T.

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Speaker 2: And the sum of the value of those component parts

856
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: was actually higher than the value of the of the

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Speaker 2: monolith so we're not talking we're not talking about trying

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Speaker 2: to destroy shareholder value, but breaking up these companies so

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Speaker 2: that you instead of having five companies bid, we have

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Speaker 2: twenty or twenty five companies that are available to bid

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Speaker 2: on certain on certain projects.

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Speaker 3: Second, from the purchasing.

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Speaker 2: Side, if you if they can spend money, the little guys.

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Speaker 3: That are.

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Speaker 2: Because the problem is the the government government procurement people

866
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Speaker 2: are bureaucrats and they just want to do the safe

867
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Speaker 2: and easy thing. And so if they keep spending money

868
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Speaker 2: and it's not their money, they don't care how much

869
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 2: over how much too how much they overspend on X,

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00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 2: Y or z the item they're buying. Uh, so they

871
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 2: just they just default to the highest cost legacy system.

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00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 2: And I guess the other thing that needs to happen

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Speaker 2: is putting the decision making of what gets purchased as

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Speaker 2: close to the end user that has to use it

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Speaker 2: as possible, because it's one thing for bureaucrats sitting in

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00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 2: an air conditioned cubicle and the pentagon to decide, but

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00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 2: it's a different thing if it's a general that is

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Speaker 2: literally deploying with his personnel in the field to live

879
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: with those decisions. It's always it's like the principle of subsidiarty,

880
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 2: make the decision as close to possible where people are

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Speaker 2: affected by it.

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Speaker 7: Hello, mister Prince, this actually kind of goes along with

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Speaker 7: what you were just talking about. Do you think that

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Speaker 7: with our current system, the US is capable of adopting

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Speaker 7: those cheaper systems that are being developed for anti drone

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Speaker 7: defense or do you think that a definitive change in

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Speaker 7: the structure of the decision making has to be made

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Speaker 7: before those will be adopted.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of foreign customers that are desperately

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Speaker 2: needing it, probably even more so than than We'll have

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Speaker 2: a more animated response, necessary response to obtain that difference

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Speaker 2: versus you know, very aggress in Washington.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, they can adopt.

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Speaker 2: When when Iraq was full on and they had the

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Speaker 2: rapid equipping force programs, which was a kind of a

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Speaker 2: way to completely end run all the bureaucracy, there was

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Speaker 2: a lot of tech that was adapted adopted into the

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Speaker 2: field very quickly without drama.

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Speaker 8: So I think you said something to the effect that

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Speaker 8: as if you know where it is, it can be

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Speaker 8: targeted and destroyed. So governments would and other apparatus would

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Speaker 8: seem to be like they tend to be pretty stationary.

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Speaker 8: Would it become harder, at least in some context to

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Speaker 8: keep a state together or is there some way to

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Speaker 8: defend against things effectively or I don't know, how is

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Speaker 8: that going to affect the future of a stability in

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Speaker 8: regions or whatever.

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Speaker 2: There's another book called the It's Either the Sword or

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Speaker 2: the Shield of Achilles, and it's about the democratization of

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Speaker 2: strike and as tech proliferates. Right if you look at

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Speaker 2: Google Maps today on your smartphone and you compare it

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Speaker 2: to what the best imagery that was available in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty five, it would have been super level, top secret.

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Speaker 2: Right now it's available on anybody on everybody's phone. That

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Speaker 2: proliferation of tech, whether it's communications, imagery, weaponry, now precision strike,

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Speaker 2: it changes the nation state. And I'd say it impedes

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Speaker 2: or impairs the nation state's ability to have absolute control.

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Speaker 2: And so then having consent of the governed matters a lot.

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Speaker 2: Having a bottoms up government like we have better.

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Speaker 3: It also speaks to.

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Speaker 2: Us our ability to make life miserable for tyrants because

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Speaker 2: of the ability for small units to punch.

924
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Speaker 3: Way above their weight. Stand by tyrannical governments.

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Speaker 13: Thank you so much for your presentation. Two part question here.

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Speaker 13: First of all, what do you think about the future

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Speaker 13: of the Bricks Alliance under a new Trump administration? And

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Speaker 13: then second of all, you did mention potential flare up

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Speaker 13: points in the next year or two.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to get your thoughts on that as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bricks is an attempt to move.

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Speaker 3: Things away from.

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Speaker 2: A dollar based trade, right and and look, the US

934
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 2: is overused sanctions and and disincentivize people from trading in dollars.

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Speaker 2: The stronger the dollar becomes, the better our economy becomes,

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Speaker 2: the less relevant the bricks become in America. That is credible,

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Speaker 2: credible in Look, the foreign policy of the United States

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Speaker 2: should be that our friends love us, our rivals respect us,

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Speaker 2: and our enemies fear us.

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Speaker 3: And currently, you know, the previous administration, our.

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Speaker 2: Friends were wondering why we were doing self immolation, and

942
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: our enemies were laughing at us, and they were constantly

943
00:57:55,320 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 2: carving off another piece. And you know, so foreign policy

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00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 2: see credibility into terrence matters and uh, but there's a

945
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Speaker 2: lot of mess to be cleaned up.

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Speaker 3: The it is in the interest of the United States.

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Speaker 2: So for one hundred years it was it was a

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Speaker 2: policy goal to keep German industry from combining with Russian resources.

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Speaker 2: And now all this stupid war in Ukraine has done

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00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 2: is push all those Russian resources into a submissive role

951
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 2: with the Chinese Communist Party and all that industry, and

952
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 2: that is bad. Russia does not have to be our friend,

953
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 2: maybe frenemy, but but they are far We have far

954
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 2: more in common with Russians than we do with Chinese,

955
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 2: uh Indians or Southeast Asia culturally. Long term, the real

956
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 2: opportunity was missed at the end of the Cold War

957
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 2: to really embrace Russia and and not embarrass them because

958
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 2: it was a great empire. And look, the fact is

959
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: they're the ones that did the heavy lifting and defeating

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Speaker 2: the Nazis. And so you know, when you move all

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Speaker 2: those NATO countries right up to Russia's border and they

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Speaker 2: look out and say, huh, there's more unfriendly militaries on

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00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 2: our border than at any time since May of nineteen

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Speaker 2: forty one, it's an unnecessary provocation and I would say

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Speaker 2: bad state craft.

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Speaker 3: So flare up points.

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Speaker 2: The Russians got chased out of Syria, so they pushed

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Speaker 2: hard into Libya. They're trying to put a navy base

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00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 2: in Tobruk, and so you'll see Libya largely start to

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00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 2: split because the Turks have put a number of bases

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Speaker 2: in western Libya. And then you have Italy, which is

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00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 2: the largest energy buyer for much of Europe's energy, leads

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Speaker 2: gas coming out of Libya, and so that's going to

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Speaker 2: be a problem. The Sahel continues to be a problem.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of terrorism there. They pushed all the

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Speaker 2: French out again, lack of credibility, lack of the big

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Speaker 2: French brother with Americans too, not finishing the Jihads.

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Speaker 3: That have been ravaging the place.

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Speaker 2: And so Russian significant influence in Mali and Burkina, not

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01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 2: as much Nigier. Yet we've got some things hoping to

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01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 2: Innzier to make that right. South Africa continues to unwind

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01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 2: as a society and the ANC government. The one positive

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01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 2: that development was that the Democratic Alliance, a better governance

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01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 2: party from the south from around the Western Cape area,

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01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 2: did better in the last election. But the a n

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01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 2: C is true to its Marxist Black nationalist roots and

987
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 2: wrecking the country.

988
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 3: And they just signed a land.

989
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: Land seizure bill which is going to have really bad effects.

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01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 2: Taiwan big problem. Burma, big problem.

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01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:11,479
Speaker 3: Why does Burma matter?

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01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 2: The Chinese built a port and Jopio and they're trying

993
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 2: to They built a pipeline which runs from Jopio right

994
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 2: up the old China resupply road from from the nineteen forties,

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01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 2: from the World War Two. They built a gas line

996
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 2: that way, and it helps make the China less vulnerable.

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01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 2: And so watched it on that one and of course,

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Speaker 2: very close to my heart Venezuela. I've been paying attention

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Speaker 2: to Venezuela and the nonsense that the socialists have been

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01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 2: doing there for a long time. And I tweeted, after

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01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 2: Maduro stole the election at the end of this last July,

1002
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 2: I mean the opposition won the election clearly, seventy to thirty.

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01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 2: I mean they lost the bad guys washed by forty points,

1004
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:02,919
Speaker 2: and they completely ignored the results. And I tweeted, if

1005
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 2: Biden and Harris really want to support democracy in Venezuela,

1006
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 2: they should up the bounty Amaduro because there was already

1007
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 2: a fifteen million dollar bounty on him for drug trafficking.

1008
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 2: I said, raise it to one hundred million, Sit back

1009
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 2: and watch the magic happen, and they don't even need

1010
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 2: to use.

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01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 3: US taxpayer money.

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01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 2: They can use frozen money that they have from Pedovesa,

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01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 2: the national oil company. We cannot let them get away

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01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 2: with it because Venezuelan money.

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01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 3: It is a narco state. There is thirty four full on.

1016
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 2: Meth processing facilities in the country, major transhipment spot and

1017
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 2: production spot for fentanyl, which last year headline numbers one

1018
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 2: hundred and nine thousand real numbers about four hundred thousand Americans. Okay,

1019
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 2: as much as we lost in all of World War

1020
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 2: Two every year from ventanyl, a lot of it coming

1021
01:02:55,480 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 2: out of Venezuela. And that socialist money is corrupting and

1022
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 2: tipping over a lot of other governments in Columbia.

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01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 3: Now you have Petro, who is a communist.

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01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 2: Okay, he was literally part of m nineteen communist movement,

1025
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 2: one of the students that took over their their justice

1026
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 2: ministry back in the eighties. It's a really bad guy

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01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 2: at risk in Peru and Chile. There's an election February

1028
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 2: nine and Ecuador. We cannot let this the socialist rot

1029
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 2: cascade across Latin America.

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