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  1. “So, thank you. I know, thank you. I've enjoyed the hell out of this conversation. I really, really have. And it's gone by very quickly. And I apologize for marking up your map. It's all good. Thank you, Mike.”

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  2. “That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Yeah. You have to know when to bend your spear, right? And I think Yeah, I think that's if you can pass that sense of whatever it is, of loyalty, of appreciation, of duty, of hard work, of honesty. If you can pass that along to your kids, you've done your job. That's why I say, and that's what I mean by I'm not here to raise average kids, I don't mean like I've got a multi-millionaire. So I've got to, you know, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about their character and how they deal with the world.”

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  3. “Thanks. I don't know what else you would say. Just thank you. I did write a little note he was in his uniform when we buried him and I wrote a little note and tucked it in his uniform pocket but that's between me and him. But I appreciate you bringing this up. It's nice. I mean, it is nice to talk. I love talking about the family. But yeah, that's it. It's probably not the most dynamic answer you get from that question. I suppose people have more interesting answers, but I don't know, you know, one that would be more meaningful. Anyway.”

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  4. “Officer, or that, you know, my sure built a really nice business. It's just not going to matter. All I care about is family and friends.”

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  5. “Just, you know, it's, I think it's. That's humanity. It's just how you feel, right? And your experiences. Know all my experiences with my dad were just solid, you know, just going out, just doing things, just getting together, just meeting up as, you know, when I was older and I'd come back to the States for a few days and we get together. And just like there was a bond there that was just really solid. And I feel the same way with brothers and they're all older than I am. And that's a tight relationship, right? So yeah, I think it's good. I don't get emotional about much, but family I do. Because at the end of the day, nobody, nobody's going to write on my tombstone that I worked my ass off or that I was a real solid, you know.”

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  6. “Yeah, yeah, I feel good about. I remember thinking about that when he died. I remember thinking that I remember thinking that I was very happy that I had told him, sorry, that I had told him what I thought of him. We were very good with each other in terms of talking about what we felt and how we appreciated each other. And that's a really good thing because I don't think you want someone to go. Then you think, well, I should have said that. I should have said something different. I was lucky. We had a really good dialogue.”

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  7. “Part of it was the work ethic my dad worked hard, and he never complained, right? He didn't and he loved my mother just they were married for fifty years, and that was part of it too, is I was fortunate, I was blessed, and I realized it's, you know, a lot of people come from very different circumstances, but I came from one of those families where it was never in question. My father was fiercely loyal to my mother and she was fiercely loyal to him. and loyalty, I think, plays an important role in what you're doing. I think people see that as something that they can count on. And that sets you up for success, too, I think. So I would say that was... That was probably, again, the first half of my life, I would say that's what paved the way. And then meeting Emily, I completely outkicked my coverage, as they say.”

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  8. “They, I think, more than anything, right? If I have to go all the way back, look, meeting my wife Emily, I mean, she's the smartest person I know, the funniest person I know. But, you know, I met her, you know, going on 20 years ago now. So what happened before the 20 years and what happened leading through if I said that, then the first half of my life, I think it was my parents, right? And no doubt about it. My dad was just such a role model and just laid a foundation. But I would say then the next half would definitely be my wife. I think that's what does it is the people.”

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  9. “Wow, you obviously have some smart guests on here. I'm already jumped to the next point where I'm like what's your favorite color You know the thing I would have to say This is going to sound. What's it going to sound like? I don't know. I think I think I had probably the best parents. that you could ask for. I had my dad was an amazing individual, amazing individual. And”

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  10. “There's got to be some. So, what do you do? How do you tell if somebody's like, you know what? Just unasked the sofa, work a little bit harder. And you're right. It's not a popular thing to say.”

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  11. “Then the next guy, you think about it. I've been in situations before where I thought I cannot take one more step. And then you think, well, yeah, I can take one more step. I know, again, this is not an epiphany, but people forget that, right? People sometimes lose sight in part because they're not pushed or they're not challenged or the circumstances mean that they don't have to be pushed or challenged. And so people get away from understanding exactly what they're capable of accomplishing if they really think about it. That's all I ask from my folks is, you know, be honest, work hard, keep the clients happy, and Bob's your uncle, but people right now are going, like, that's it, that's your advice, Bob's your uncle.”

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  12. “Keeps clients coming back, right? So it's horses for courses. I think people are made up differently and you can't ask everyone to do the same thing. The only things you can control, I keep going back to the same thing because I keep thinking about my kids now that we talked about them is they can't, like the middle boy, you know, he plays basketball. That's all he wants to do. He plays basketball. He goes to an academy down in Florida, IMG, which is an amazing place. And it's a sports academy for the most part. He can't control how tall he is, right? I mean, he can work on how fast he is, I suppose, but, you know, those sort of things. But he can control how hard he works. And he can always work harder.”

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  13. “You can't a psychotic could, but you can't fake empathy. You can't fake real interest, right? You can't fake... enjoyment of people. And I do think, folks, even if they're not trained, they're pretty good at spotting that, right? They're pretty good at spotting if people are being disingenuous. It's really that. I mean, you have to. With, I mean, I don't want to dwell too much on business, but in that world, when I'm talking to my folks, I just know some of them aren't going to enjoy the process of sales if we're talking about sales. They're not going to enjoy going out and doing business development. But they do an amazing job on the other aspects of the work, right? And all that work.”

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  14. “It's this idea. You just, you have to put in the effort. And if you do, you can, I don't want to say you can do anything. You probably don't have the genetic build of LeBron James, right? So you're probably not doing what he's doing. That's it. And I always felt it's a simple thing. But if I've learned one thing in whether it was in the agency or out, all you got to do is work a little bit harder”

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  15. “Well, I'll tell you what, I do say to them, which is My job as a parent is not to raise average kids. There's enough mediocrity out there, right? My job is to raise exceptional children, and that means they have to not give it 150%. I don't know what that is. People talk about that. You've got to give it 110%, but you have to work a little bit harder than everyone else. And your gain, your result is that much more. It's really shocking. You just have to work a little bit harder. And you can always do a little bit more than you think you can do, right? It's hard to explain that to kids because they think they're bulletproof. They think they've got 2,000 years ahead of them. They don't understand how time passes. But if it's one thing I tell them, I mean, aside from the basics, you know, just be honest, be loyal. Be calm.”

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  16. “Ukraine and Russia, sorry, exactly. And, you know, again, I'm more cynical about this region just because I think nobody really wants to deal with the Iranian regime and so fine. Yes, we get ceasefires. Does it mean anything in the long term? No, we'll be dealing with this conflict. Our kids will be dealing with this conflict. So I'm a little bit more reluctant to say happy things about that anyway.”

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  17. “Convictions and is here illegally is deported. I guess maybe there's some issue there. So I think We tend to get so over the top on whether we're talking about left or right that the reality is usually There's not the big sea change that people anticipate. So I think we're going to be okay. That's why I still, I'm optimistic that this next administration will hold the line realizing that holding the line is the best way to get folks to the table to come up with a settlement.”

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  18. “narrative, but it's gotten so hyperbolic. It's just like this you have to take it to the far extreme no matter what you're saying, right? And so now people have a hard time absorbing that. Well, what you told me to go out in the street and rent my clothing and cry and gnash my teeth. And now you're telling me it's going to be okay. What? So I think we're going to be just fine. And we would have been just fine if we had the other result. It's a very resilient nation. Despite these things that we've been talking about, it's a pretty resilient world. So I think, you know, it's not going to be, we're not going to see 10 million people deported, for instance, right? I don't think that's going to happen. Will we have a tougher border policy? Will there be some deportations? Yes. Will they start with folks who are in the country illegally who have committed crimes? Well, yes. Is that a problem? I don't know. Is anyone upset if someone who's got a criminal?”

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  19. “But I don't think it's still the government, right? It's still the US government. And we have to remember people are, you know, they're very upset about the idea that, oh my God, maybe the Republicans have all three. They have the White House. They have the Congress. They have the Senate. But that's been the case for many, going back. I don't know how many administrations, but several, at least five or six, where the president started out with control of both houses. And so, you know, the lesson from that usually is that not a lot really gets done. It's still a very large machine. And so I know people are, you know, look, they spent, people spent a long time saying if Trump wins, it's the end of life as we know it. It's the end of democracy. Oh my God. And then a day and a half later, President Biden comes out and goes, you know, we're going to be just fine. And then people are like, well, what the fuck was all that talk about the end of the world then, right? It's politics.”

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  20. “One of the best results that came out of this election was the size of the result That was important. Regardless of who won, and you know, I don't know how many conversations with a variety of people on both sides of the spectrum of the politics. And they all kind of felt the same way, which was, well, okay, well, whoever wins, I just hope it's convincing so that we don't then struggle with this over the next four years. But you're right.”

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  21. “that the hard edges are equally problematic, right? And the problem we have is much like the conflict in Ukraine on the front lines in the trenches people are sitting in their trenches throwing hand grenades at each other and there's nobody living in the middle anymore, right? And it's almost become a nasty word to say compromise. But I don't know how you get meaningful things done without the ability to listen to both sides and say, okay, well, that idea actually kind of makes sense or that idea doesn't make sense, but at least to work together. But nobody is in the center for the most part. Or if they are, they don't make any noise, right?”

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  22. “and say, where does this come from? If everyone would just do that, because there is no other defense at the end of the day, you don't want the government telling you what you can see and what you can't see, I don't think anyway. But there's no other defense in the front. Looking at something and saying, and then stopping for at least a moment to say, where's this information coming from? Is it credible? Let me check elsewhere before I send this on to my family, right? And create more conflict. Just take the time to be quizzical.”

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  23. “But I would say also they still want data, right? They thrive on collecting mass amounts of information. And so, you know, again, I don't know that tech world well enough to get into a conversation about that. But it is clear based on their economic espionage and efforts over the past that they love nothing better than to collect as much information as possible. And it doesn't even have to be on a target that you think, oh, no wonder they're targeting Raytheon or they're targeting a company that makes sense. They'll go after anybody, really. And it is, yeah. But I think for the most part, when you talk about social media, what I worry about the most is this tendency for people not to question, not to be cynical or not to be at least curious.”

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  24. “I don't I would say yes, that's a good point. And you see that based on what you're saying, I don't have anywhere near the level of understanding of the app world, but you see that when you just say, okay, oh, I'm interested in that. Look at that. There's a protest over here, right? Next thing you know, you're getting 40 protest videos or whatever.”

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  25. “Other forces we do. You're looking for ways to, I mean, you wouldn't necessarily want to say, okay, I'm going to go into China. I'm going to go into Russia and start a business, right? Because now that's problematic from an operational perspective, right? But you're going to use the technology for sure to get to as many eyeballs as possible. And so, yes, I mean, TikTok's a great example of that. There's a reason why Chinese citizens can't access TikTok inside China, right? I mean, if you think about that, is TikTok, is it beneficial to our kids? Well, if it was, TikTok would probably be available inside China, but it's not. It's a tough one. We'd deal with that on a personal level all the time trying to figure out how much screen time and what the kids can access. Now they're getting older, so it's, you know, you kind of...”

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  26. “Oh, sure. Yeah. I think social media is, look, in the old days, if you wanted to influence hearts and minds, if you wanted to change, say you were interested in turning the population in where Kenya, Nigeria, Niger, then... It was kind of old school stuff, right? How am I going to get information out there? I'm going to recruit a bunch of journalists and local journalists and I'm going to get them to publish stories. Maybe there's a radio station. I'll recruit somebody who can put stories on the radio. Technology has given the ability to do covert action campaigns, propaganda, disinformation, whatever you want to call it, a real jumpstart, right? The concept is the same. I'm trying to influence opinion. I'm trying to get viewers, whatever it is, trying to change hearts and minds. You can do it much faster, right?”

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  27. “Yeah. I mean, I think Putin also is smart enough to realize, to remember that it was the Trump administration that authorized lethal aid to Ukraine, to begin with. Back during Obama-Biden years, they did not authorize lethal aid into Ukraine. And despite apparently Crimea annexation was going to be a red line and it wasn't.”

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  28. “I see what you're talking about. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you're right. That was my mistake. I think you're right in the sense that if the war is still ongoing, yeah, the Dems have, the Democrats. You lied. You said you'd shut it down in day one. Yeah, no, I see what you're saying. And from an electoral perspective down the road four years from now, wow, 2028”

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  29. “argue that until Putin feels some pain or Ukraine is in a better offensive position of some sort that you can't get people to the negotiating table. And again, if you want to end the conflict, you're probably going to want to do that unless you just want Putin to overrun Ukraine. If you want to, if you want that to happen, then stop support, and that's what's going to happen. But I think the narrative, I think, is a little bit off. I'm not sure the Democrats have as much to play off of, but I think if the war is ended, then I think what they'll say is, oh, you gave it away, acting as if somehow Ukraine could have won and gained all their territory back, which is unrealistic.”

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  30. “You and Putin like each other. And you gave away some Ukrainian territory. Well, the reality is, look, Putin, he annexed Crimea during Obama's administration. He invaded during Biden's administration. He knew what he had. He knew what the response was going to be. Now, look, people say, well, Biden, you know, to his credit, he kind of rallied and he pushed for more support. And yes, that's absolutely true. But Putin engaged in this during his time, right? Because I think he knew or he felt he knew. Maybe that's more important. He felt he knew what he was going to get. Now, he wasn't anticipating that NATO response was going to be as hardline, and that's a good thing. I'm glad that Biden has done that. Biden has also withheld authorization to use long-range munitions to target Russian military sites that are being used to target Ukraine, right?”

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  31. “Out there fighting, you said you're going to end this. But think about it if he does end the war, then they're going to say, well, yeah, that's because, you know,”

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  32. “And this has already been reported that he had a call with Putin already. Now, the Kremlin's saying, oh, that call never happened. But according to Western reporting, he had a call and he said, you are not to intensify this war. And then basically setting down a marker. Now, again, we won't know until we know until he gets out there and he starts putting more people in place. I'm very curious to see who he puts in at the Pentagon and at the Defense Department”

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  33. “That's a good question. I don't know if they did. I think they've made a mistake or they've calculated wrong here because I know there's sort of a trope out there that says, well, he's Putin's puppet. Well, we also have to remember that was a very large disinformation campaign or misinformation campaign, and I don't want to make it sound more nefarious, but people swallowed that hook line and sinker and then ran with it, right? Over this idea that, oh my God, look at the dossier. I think... There's sort of this narrative that says, okay, well, yeah, Putin definitely wanted Trump to win because Trump's going to completely get out of Ukraine. I don't think that's going to happen.”

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  34. “You know what? All they need to do is a little fact-based research, spend a little time. They don't have to look at one side or another, look across the board at a variety of think tanks, research institutes that focus on this sort of thing. No, look, there is no doubt. There is a concerted effort to influence whether it's an election. And they're not trying necessarily to get anybody to win. They're just trying to undermine the concept of democracy. They want to create some chaos. That's, from their perspective, that's a win.”

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  35. “It just keeps builds. So those campaigns have a real significant impact on the West because we're not inclined for whatever reason. We're not curious enough or we don't have enough time or whatever to look at a piece of information and go, is this even credible?”

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  36. “And also, that's being fueled. You never want to underestimate the impact of the disinformation campaigns run by, I mean, again, I keep going, I sound like I'm just constantly throwing out the same bogeyman, but look, that's the way the world is. China, Russia in particular, Iran has proven itself to be very adept at this, at disinformation campaigns that prey on, whether it's in the EU or whether it's in the US or elsewhere, that prey on what they view as vulnerabilities. So it goes back to what we were talking about before about recruiting an asset, right? Or identifying weaknesses and leverage. Well, they look at the US and they go, you know what? If we kind of just keep poking at that racist issue, we keep poking at woke issues, right? I mean, that's very divisive, and it does, right? It works. So the next thing you know, they're putting together a bot. They're throwing out some misinformation or disinformation on X. Someone looks at that and goes, yeah, that's right. And they just forward it onto their friends and their family.”

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  37. “They wanted it better for their kids. Now, their parents, my grandparents, wanted it better for them, and so on and so forth. That's human nature. You want to be doing the best for your kids. You want it to be better for that generation. I think eventually you reach diminishing returns. And I do worry that that's kind of where we're at. I look at my own kids and look, nobody's out there in here or over here or wherever. There's certainly places in the world where that's not true. But these areas here that we're talking about, we're not out worrying about whether we can collect enough food and clean water necessarily. You know, we're worried about, as my Wi-Fi signal strong enough.”

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  38. “There's a level of, we've all gotten. We've all got, I don't want to say soft necessarily, but look, every generation wants it to be easier, right? My parents were older when they had me. They were born in 1919 and 1920, right? And they went through the tough times, economic times. They went through a couple of wars.”

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  39. “Well before there was any declaration of a problem. And the Wuhan Lab was mentioned repeatedly. So I think just being informed is one of the best things that people can do. And then, you know, I'm not a prepper, but it's always good just to be prepared for a natural crisis, right? Power goes out because there's a blackout. Fine. Whatever the reason may be, just be a little aware of and have a plan of some sort that says if there is a natural disaster, not saying a shooting match, then what do I do? What's my como plan? I got kids at school. How do I reach them?”

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  40. “Well, on one level People need to read as much as they can and pay attention, right? I mean, get as many different sources of information. Don't just read one outlet that you happen to agree with. But try to be as informed as possible, which I think sometimes it's difficult to do because we're all busy, right? We're all putting food on the table and trying to take care of families and whatever. But so I think there's an element of folks just trying to be informed. And then that would be, look, I mean, the pandemic that occurred, the COVID-19 thing. If people were really, really watching what was going on October 2019, right? There was, you know, there's this weird situation going on in China, a couple of cities were quarantined, and that started to bubble up. And people were paying attention.”

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  41. “A lot of guns and ammo No, kidding. No, I'm not kidding, but that's not how I'm preparing. I just like to, you know, load up because.”

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  42. “It's happening in Ukraine. You can go, you know, the Imperial War Museum in London, which is a wonderful museum. They've got a World War I exhibit. And you go through the World War I exhibit and you look at it and you realize the same thing is taking place. You look at the aerial photographs at the front line and you see the trench lines here in Ukraine. It's stunning. And we're just making the same mistakes over again.”

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  43. “Having said that, if someone had said we're going to be engaged in a massive land war, World War I style with trenches and very little ground gain and lots of bombardment, people would have said, nah, that's never going to happen again.”

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  44. “Russia, China. Okay, they're mapping our infrastructure. Our infrastructure. We're doing the same. Yeah, sure. People always say they say, well, you're doing the same thing. Well, you better hope that whether it's the UK or whether it's Australia or whether it's the US, you hope that we're engaged in the same activities because that's where this is going to end up going.”

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  45. “No, I'm saying that whoever, again, I'm just as a UA, it could be any, you know, it could be the EU in a conflict. It could be the US and NATO in a conflict with another. But the point being is that they don't map out infrastructure for no reason at all. Who's mapping?”

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  46. “People can't move. You shut down the internet. My God, people will lose their minds, right? Can't do TikTok. And so not to make light of it because we're talking about a different type of warfare. And so that's kind of the thing that I worry about. If you said, what are people really worry about? Well, yeah, top concerns always China and Russia and Iran, but it's the infrastructure and it's a way that it's going to be brought to the homeland that's going to create, I think, a level of pain that most people aren't going to be willing to put up with for very long.”

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  47. “We are going to shut down everything we can shut down in the US. Suddenly, all power goes off. Your water treatment facilities aren't working. You can't move fuel around. You can't get fuel. Pharmaceuticals aren't being delivered. No food is being delivered. Can't get cash out, whether you want cash or not at that point. The idea being is we're going to bring the pain to the homeland, right, immediately. That's what you want to do. Will there be a kinetic element? Will you actually have a shooting match with troops on ground? Yeah, I'm not sure that ever goes away. But the next global conflict is going to be fought in a way that we have a hard time understanding. And then it'll be up in space as well. The Chinese have spent a great deal of effort on directed energy weapons. And one of the points of that is essentially to knock out satellite systems, right? You think about your takeaway satellite structures, whether it's Starlink or any of the satellite systems up there, you shut down GP.”

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  48. “When that occurs, just like another pandemic's going to happen, it's not like we're not going to get another pandemic. When the next big global conflict occurs, I think what we're going to find is that the pain is brought to the homeland a lot quicker. So what I mean by that is say you're in the US. Well, we know that nations that don't necessarily have U.S. interests at heart. China. Let's focus on China because they are close to the top of the heap and they're motivated to get to the top. Not, again, not saying it's going to be a shooting match. But the point being is every day, the critical infrastructure, critical systems in the U.S. are being tested and poked and prodded and looked at and mapped out. And there's a reason why that happens, right? So they're developing a playbook that says in the event that it should happen and we have a global conflict.”

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  49. “I don't know that that's a really interesting question, and I know I should have a pat answer right off the top of my head. I tend to. I tend to look at The next big global conflict. So I'm not so much, again, don't get me wrong, these are bad, right? These potential flare-ups, these problems, this conflict here in the Middle East, these are all bad. People are suffering. But I think about the next actual global conflict.”

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  50. “We're deliberately clicking the wrong button or whatever. I just think you get, look, there's always this concern, right? I mean, Russia has moved some of its arsenal to Belarus. Well, okay, what happens if one of those goes missing? Or what happens if a non-state actor organization gets a hold of one of Pakistan? So there's a complete fallout in the Pakistan government, and suddenly you've got a very hostile government that has control. So, yeah, it's an issue. You have to ask yourself, sometimes why would you want to be a world leader?”

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