In this episode, we talk about China's new supersonnel drone, the Raytheon/Boeing partnership, and the future of drones in modern warfare. We also talk about the impact of the military-industrial complex and the potential for a future invasion by the Chinese.
00:02:09.540So that war in the future will be crafts like this, unmanned and controlled from afar, getting to an area and launching off, and then completely disrupting everything.
00:02:34.980And so think of this as a tool of the modern warfare where it's not soldiers killing each other.
00:02:39.600It is countries trying to incapacitate each other to get them to surrender and to take their land.
00:02:45.020I wonder what it does, though, because, you know, when we talk about military-industrial complex, right, there's two sides of the argument.
00:03:08.540So what is the balance between military-industrial complex companies making money and actually preparing for a future invasion?
00:03:16.480How do you balance those two messages out?
00:03:18.800Well, I think what you do is if I'm Raytheon, I look at this video and I'm like, Mr. President, see, we need to make things like this as well.
00:03:27.720So it's basically, you know, opportunity meets scenario in military spending.
00:03:38.260That is the opportunity for me to sell into the scenario for what you'll need.
00:03:42.960So when Raytheon sees this, they say, hey, dude, you're going to need a mass deployment device or they'll come up with some military name for it.
00:03:52.520An MDD, you better have a mass deployment device that flies low under radar, gets in and then releases all these drones and then attack all their power grid, right?
00:04:03.580You have to create the fear and the opportunity.
00:04:05.080Remember, the Cold War was incredibly profitable because we went from tanks to very expensive missiles and very expensive warheads and even more expensive silos and bases and submarines to launch them.
00:04:21.140I guess the question for me would be the following.
00:04:24.500How do you present that argument, not as in if you're Raytheon or if you're Boeing or any of those guys?
00:04:30.360How do you sell that as the president, as a person that's in office?
00:04:34.940Here's why we need to make these investments.
00:05:09.180And thank goodness we have two oceans and one previously docile neighbor in Mexico and one talkative but completely harmless neighbor in Canada.
00:05:23.780Is that verified that that is something that they were working on?
00:09:04.220And when you look at what we're spending on our defense, I think in line items, our defense budget is almost a trillion dollars, right behind interest that we're paying on the debt, which is also a trillion dollars, which goes behind our Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and everything like that.
00:09:19.440But if you add up all the other countries, I think the next 10 to 15 countries, after what we're spending on the budget, Rob, there you go right there.
00:09:27.560United States, almost 968 billion, almost a trillion dollars.
00:09:30.860So if you add up China, Russia, Germany, the U.K., India, Saudi, France, what other countries are that, Rob?
00:09:39.320Japan, South Korea, Australia, Italy, Israel, Ukraine, which we're funding, and Poland, it doesn't even equal what the United States is spending on budget.
00:09:47.980So if we don't have the best, dopest, most high-tech weaponry out there, then what the hell are we spending our money on?