 Okay, just wanted to say something quick about a US-China war, you know, first of all, there's more and more talk about this It's almost like the more people talk about it. The more it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy This seems to be both among Democrats and among Republicans a real desire As I've said this before and I'll say this again and maybe do a whole show about this real desire for a new Cold War and And and but what is starting to really sink in is the possibility of a hot war a possible real possibility of a war over Taiwan and The United States is trying to shift resources to Pacific we've talked about that we've talked about the Navy We've talked about submarines and aircraft carriers But I did see a story in foreign affairs yesterday or today that basically documents the war games that the United States has played You know assuming a war in Taiwan and assuming the United States gets involved and assuming even that South Korea and Japan and Maybe Australia Get involved the reality is that The United States and this is a problem that has become evident with the war in Ukraine The United States no longer has the manufacturing capacity weapons manufacturing capacity To meet the demand of a war In the war games the United States runs out of Smart ballistic missiles Anti-ship missiles which are going to be crucial because one of the key aims of the United States is to knock out the ships that are moving troops and and Supplies and ammunition and tanks and whatever from mainland China to Taiwan and and the goal of the US Navy will be To knock out as many of those ships before they reach Taiwan as possible. Well, the United States runs out of ammunition for anti-ship smart ballistic missiles within a week and given that the the Arena of war is 5,000 miles away from California So maybe 7,000 miles away from California. Anyway, some ridiculous amount of miles away from California Not only with these new bombs have to be built Very very fast They then would have to be shipped to I guess Hawaii or move to Hawaii very very quickly loaded up again on submarines on on Destroyers aircraft carriers or the kind of ships that carry these kind of missiles and then and then move closer to the arena and deployed Just saying that takes a long time I mean imagine what actually doing it and of course the bottleneck right now beyond the distance is manufacturing capabilities so And this is what hooks me and again. This is where I'll go after Congress instead of talking about industrial policy and micro managing and Why doesn't the United States focus on it national truly national defense and and and build industrial capacity build the kind of capacity to Build the weapon systems that we actually need to defend ourselves The Chinese have and and are doing so even they're the defense budget even though the defense budget is something like 20% of what ours is of the United States is They have the capacity to build large numbers of missiles they have the capacity to build weapons very very fast It seems that we don't now. I suspect that in actual war It'll turn out that we have a massive technological advantage. Then maybe we don't have the numbers, but we have the effectiveness There's a lot of talk about the fact that you know, China Has a lot of a defense systems and I'll prevent American airplanes from from being it but from you being useful in the in the Taiwan Straits, I think I don't believe that I think the United States probably has the capabilities To dismantle and to make it effective the Chinese defense systems and I think very quickly the United States could command The air above the Taiwanese Straits I think it's the Chinese technology is overrated But I do worry just about sheer quality quantity of weaponry sheer quality quantity of of missiles and and and other weapons and I do worry about Chinese hypersonic missiles I do worry about the fact that this is very close to China and very far from the US a Delivery of weapons supply chain management all of that is very very going to be very very difficult And I worry about the fact that I'm primary worry my number one worry Is the fact that I don't get a sense that there is real strategic thinking going on and that there is a commitment To acting on that strategic thinking. I mean, I mean the defense budget is bloated We spend way too much money on nonsense among other things. We spend a lot of money on all kind of political correct BS Of bringing woke into the military We need to get rid of all of that. We need to focus our efforts on what is actually Absolutely unequivocally necessary for national defense We need to get troops home from the hundreds of from the dozens and dozens and dozens of countries We have troops in we need to refocus our efforts to what a war over Taiwan would look like I think that a war over Taiwan is for now, you know, you know strategic international interests to defend Taiwan not to go to war for Taiwan, but to defend Taiwan Because of chip technology So we need to be able to do that if that's our strategic national interest We need to be able to do that to do that. We need to orient all of our efforts around that We need to be able to contain Russia In Europe and I think we do that by shifting the burden to our European allies and demanding that they bear most of the burden of the Ukraine war and by shifting our resources of thinking our efforts on Navy and and and our weapons production to the Pacific to the to the Pacific area and and boosting our productive capabilities for weapons that we believe would be necessary not for the last war But for the next war for for war in the Pacific and that would require a robust Navy and it's going to require long-distance ballistic missiles and it's going to require Both hypersonic weapons, but even more important than hypersonic weapons. It's going to require Weapons that they could defend against hypersonic Missiles that both the Russians and the and the Chinese have Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to your on book show dot com slash support by going to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution On any one of those any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow Please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe Press that little bell button right down there on youtube so that you get announcement when we go live and for those of you Who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show? Thank you. I very much appreciate it