Let me just come back to the topic that we started things off on to kind of wrap that back up.

So here is a scenario for the world. A, the U.S. military is weaker than we think.

And the reason is it was defeated during COVID, it was defeated in Afghanistan,

it has had cost overruns for things, many things like the, as I mentioned, the Zimwald, the

littoral combat ship, the LCS, the Ford Carrier, Ford Class Aircraft Carrier, and, you carrier and the F-35 and a bunch of other things.

There's a book called The Kill Chain by Christian Brose that talks about how China has won most of the military war games the U.S. has done.

And conversely on the Chinese side, if you compare how

their military is operating, they have a single goal of getting Taiwan versus the U.S.,

which has to be able to fight anywhere in the world. They have studied everything the U.S.

has done, and they have optimized area denial weapons just for neutralizing the carrier advantage.

And they essentially have a single mission that they really care about.

And the U.S. is spread all around the world.

And the U.S. doesn't care about Taiwan and so on and so forth.

So you had all these variables.

There's probably more I could put it into an essay.

But, you know, China may not need to reunify by force.

They might be able to get Taiwan to hold like some kind of referendum that votes for unification.

They might, you know, because there's a party on the island, the Pan Blue KMT party that wants to actually reunify with China, or at least has people

who do. And they have minority support right now, but, you know, Hong Kong didn't have much

support for the Chinese state mainland taking over, but, you know, they basically

managed force to matter. So it's possible that with a gun to their head, the Taiwanese proposed

some kind of referendum or a referendum is proposed. And then we see what happens. and that's one possible method.

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