Ian

“Allies are being forced to accept that the United States no longer sees itself as the guarantor of the global order it built, but instead is the principal disruptor of it. This didn't all start with President Trump.”

“The threat that I worry the most about visav Europe is not Russia. It's not China. It's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within.”

“There are about eight of them in and around the fifth fleet area and about three latoral combat ships that are geared toward mind sweeping. This is nowhere near enough assets to escort what is estimated to be about 125 ships passing through the straight of Hormuz daily.”

“I think war is not inevitable, but there are a lot of butts that go around that.”

“on average globally we are about onetenth as likely to die violently as our ancestors in the stone age were.”

“And so I think the the possibility of a world without war is a real one.”