May 1, 2025 - Epoch Times
06:32
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| Yes, you're right. | |
| The Chinese have been developing the majority of the world's small drones. | |
| I believe that the majority of the Russians, and you guys can fact check me on that, come from China. | |
| They're cheap. | |
| They're effective. | |
| They do their job. | |
| They don't have a ton of technology on them, but they do enough to really make a difference on the battlefield. | |
| I know that... | |
| Ukrainians are also using their own specific drones, and they're creating as much chaos on the other side. | |
| So it really has changed the landscape of warfare. | |
| And now the question is, you know, what is the counter solution for that? | |
| So counter U.S. is a big, big topic of conversations probably across the world right now to identify how do you protect your assets? | |
| How do you protect your tanks? | |
| How do you protect your people? | |
| How do you protect your infrastructures? | |
| How do you protect your utilities? | |
| But also, if your potential enemy is actually making these things, it may offer them vast advantages, right? | |
| I mean, I'm talking about communist China here. | |
| Yeah, I mean, look, of course, it offers them a lot of advantages. | |
| I believe that we have a government, we have an administration right now that is taking this very seriously. | |
| I am a firm believer in our armed forces and the direction that they're going in this space for Canada UAS and the whole UAS platform, whether it's air or sea. | |
| They're experts now, the Chinese, at these small drones warfare. | |
| I'd say we're pretty good at this whole counter piece. | |
| We're going to get much better. | |
| We've made significant investments in this nation, and with our allies as well, in different types of drones, capabilities, that I don't know, some of I can't really talk about. | |
| But let's just say I'm pretty confident in where we're at. | |
| Well, because, I mean, a major, major push of this administration, obviously, is to... | |
| Build the manufacturing sector. | |
| And so it seems to me like there's a huge opportunity here for manufacturing growth. | |
| First of all, I am a 100% firm believer that we need to bring back a lot of manufacturing to the United States. | |
| We have incredible talent here. | |
| Yes, it's more expensive, but there's ways to get around it. | |
| Some people are misunderstanding the concept of what this specific administration and previous one as well, but it's really this administration trying to do in terms of bringing back American jobs in manufacturing. | |
| On a national security side, it should be an absolute requirement because you're exactly what you're talking about. | |
| There are technologies that need to be built here. | |
| In our four walls, right? | |
| So in our country, in our borders. | |
| Because of national security and the implication of that. | |
| You're right. | |
| We should not be utilizing any type of Chinese drone to protect our streets or our people. | |
| Look, there are certain laptops that I wouldn't recommend to buy. | |
| Just because of... | |
| Just do a little bit of research. | |
| Whether I'm right or wrong. | |
| I just don't feel comfortable. | |
| I'll say it. | |
| Lenovo. | |
| Yeah. | |
| There's certain laptops that I wouldn't recommend to buy. | |
| And so it's, you know, you have great products here. | |
| A plug to Microsoft. | |
| I used to work for Microsoft. | |
| There's some really good laptops, HP's, Apple, whatever you want to call it. | |
| I would say that we got to be smart. | |
| And what you're seeing here on the national security side, on the manufacturing side, it is, it is, we have massive opportunities to bring a lot of jobs, a lot of concepts, and build up our industries within the United States and doing our costs. | |
| We're going to pay a little bit more, but I'd rather pay a little bit more and be safer down the road. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Like, I'd rather have a little bit of pain now, but bring jobs and opportunities back into this country and be safer and protect our national interests versus getting a little bit cheaper today, but selling to someone that's going to do me a lot more harm in the future, | |
| potentially. | |
| That's just not a risk that I'm willing to take. | |
| You know, I'm hopeful that over the next couple of years we're going to see a pretty drastic change in that. | |
| I'll be part of that solution, hopefully. | |
| So tell me more about what you are working on right now. | |
| So I'm working on the national security side, some of the things we just talked about. | |
| Another aspect of my business that I'm standing up with some really good teammates is the concept of what's happening in Europe, the war in Ukraine. | |
| And not the war itself. | |
| I'm talking about post-war. | |
| There's a requirement there to rebuild. | |
| It's disastrous what has happened to Ukraine. | |
| The whole community, city, has been completely leveled. | |
| History has been leveled over there. | |
| And so there's going to be a requirement to rebuild. | |
| And I think this is going to be a pretty big endeavor. | |
| And I want to be a part of that. | |
| And I know my company and the groups that I work with want to be a part of that solution. | |
| We want to allow these 10 million plus refugees who left Ukraine to come back home and have the opportunity to rebuild, restart. | |
| So an example is something that I know is imperative to the rebuilding of... | |
| of Ukraine is partnerships with different European countries and then bringing in companies like heavy lift helicopters. | |
| We own one heavy lift helicopter that's the best in the world. | |
| I just think about the reality. | |
| Out of Poland, there's about eight border crossing points. | |
| It's already hard to get through today. | |
| Imagine when you bring all these people back and bring all these companies that are going to want to be a part of the rebuilding. | |
| It's going to take days to cross the border, potentially, when you can have, once they open up the airspace, you can have these heavy-lift helicopters lifting 10, 20, 30 thousand tons, 10, 15, 20, 30 people at a time, cranes, be able to move what would take days and hours, potentially. | |
| That's going to help the country rebuild a lot faster. | |
| So these are concepts that we sat down and trying to figure out. | |
| How do we play a part in the rebuilding Ukraine? | |
| And it's by bringing American jobs to Europe. | |
| It's by bringing American companies to Europe. | |
| It's by partnering with good European companies, by partnering with good European governments. |
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