Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "“It’s Not Clear Who’s Actually Running Things In Washington” | Sir Niall Ferguson" video.

  1. "Sometimes I think the Pentagon cares more about DEI than war readiness" Do you follow James O'Keefe at all? One of his honeypot interviews was with the Pentagon staffer in charge of determining overall US military force levels -- a guy who talked about having had bottom surgery, during that interview. I don't pretend to know what's going on in the corridors of the Chinese foreign office, but I'd bet a good deal of money there are people there jockeying to take credit for getting an actual eunuch in such a high level position of the US military, whether they deserve that credit or not.
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  2. "In the case of an attempted invasion of Taiwan, it would be his job to turn the Straits of Taiwan into a h*llscape" Why not a radioactive h*llscape? On the seas, risk to civilians is limited. People have been predicting almost since WW2 ended that the first half-hour or so of WW3 would be a "surface fleet apocalypse" where the seas would be swept clean in repeated re-enactments of the Castle Bravo tests. Those tests crushed the most heavily armored ships ever built, like they were tin cans. New generation munitions would ensure that any battle in the Strait would be remembered as "Operation Fish Food", in honor of the life ambitions of any Chinese soldier attempting to make the crossing.
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  3. "ARC should not be just a Conservative project ... Liberals and Conservatives have a lot of common interests" -- yes, but the whole point of being a Liberal, is rejecting Conservative solutions.
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  4. "We can't let the Chinese win the AI race" Allowing AI to control your military is dicing with the devil. There is no way to make AI reliable enough to ensure it's not as much of a danger to you, as to your opponent.
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