Peter's Marietta College Q&A from March 27:
-70 significant minorities in Russia, most Turkic, lots of room for radical Islam
-That ISIS splinter group that did the terrorism thinks "ISIS is a bunch of pussies" and wants to kill everyone, doesn't care about holding terrority
-Lots of people in former Soviet world hate Moscow
-Shits on Tucker a bit on the way to reminding everyone about how foreign news reporting fell apart
-2032 is when the Russians run out of fighting age people to throw into the Ukranian War
-If the oil in the Russian pipelines freezes, it'll fuck up their wells and they'll have to redrill them
-Democratization of weaponized drones is biggest deal since American Revolution
-Anyone can do nanny cam + explosive + drone, whole new set of domestic problems as criminals adopt the tech
-The NSA has more offensive hacking capability than rest of planet combined (at least according to Peter), hacked the Houthis and switched target transponders to Russian/Chinese ships
-Starlink is within 24 months of being nationalized
-BRICs is Meryl-Lynch financial product, originally investment index, calculus of being in BRICs is changing, might lead to its dissolution
-Inevitable result of war with China is naval severing of import lines to the country, causing eventual collapse
-China may have overcounted population by 300 million under 40, have twice as many 60+ year olds as teenagers
-80% of global chip production by value is between 10nm and 90nm, lots of manufacturing all over the world
-Sub-10nm chip manufacturing is nowhere near as robust and will be lost if Taiwan war
-Democratization of violence plays against US strengths as a military power
-Democratization of violence = removal of heirarchical processes to use/support drones, full democratization of violence is any individual being able to get a drone and strike someone, latest point will be 2025
-If it blunts power of aircraft carrier battlegroups or long range bombing, US is in trouble
-Replicator Initiative is US plan to take any flattop ship and put fabrication facilities on them that can pump out 1000 drones every 24 hours
-If supercarriers max out both reactors, they can sail at 90 knots (not sure if this is BS, but he believes it), might be able to outrun Shahid drones in endurance race
-Peter asserts China will not reach parity with US Navy until 2270 at current rate of expansion and assuming US adds no ships
-Chinese doctors were lying about amount of kids being immunized to sell the vaccines to third world countries
-Isreal situation cannot be solved in non-horrific manner
-Can't stop Hamas without leveling Gaza Strip
-Best case scenario is it being over when they hit 2% civilian death toll
-Peter sees no reason for the Isrealis to stop and no way to avoid mass civilian casualties
-Ultra Orthodox faction is now 20-35% of the Israeli population, don't know how to use military force properly
-Good time for US to go "fuck it" to Middle East entanglements
-The pure logic is to have relationship with Turkey and let most of the Middle East be other people's problems
-The Egyptians do NOT give a fuck about the Israelis killing the Palestinians and are confused it hasn't happened yet
-Most Arab states are down with killing the Palestinians, just not out loud
-Once Saudi Arabia gets to saying "kill the Palestinians" aloud, Arab-Israeli alliance is possible