Dear Reader,
Today I want to talk about Elon Musk going to the Pentagon last week.
There was a whole big kerfuffle about it.
The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, all the papers of record ran headlines that Elon Musk was going to the Pentagon to discuss China war plans.
For the record, Trump walked that back saying no, he’s not going to discuss war game plans with China – he’s just going to the Pentagon…
But we all know that’s probably not the truth.
By why would Elon Musk go to the Pentagon to discuss China war plans?
Look, Elon Musk owns Starlink. If I were running the Pentagon, I’d bring in everybody who owns satellite companies.
If there is conflict with China, the first thing I’d do (as China or America, frankly) is point missiles and knock out satellites.
Satellites are the eyes and ears of modern war.
Remember all these missile systems, everything, uses satellite to communicate – for targeting, direction, all these things.
If you knock out your opponent’s satellite, you have a serious advantage.
You blind them. History has proven repeatedly how important that is in warfare.
Remember, back in the day we used to put up satellites that looked like buses. They were huge.
But now Starlink and others have created much smaller satellites as technology has advanced.
We’re moving into a world of “distributed satellites.”
So when an enemy shoots a missile at a satellite, all these little satellites are harder to hit than a big bus.
They could disperse and come back together and fly like a little swarm – let the missile pass right between them, which is why the moon has become so important again.
It hasn’t been this important since Kennedy’s Moon Project.
People say, “why is the moon suddenly important again?”
Well, the moon is the ultimate high ground.
So we will see the moon get weaponized (if it’s not happening already), because, again, in a potential conflict the country that knocks out its opponent’s satellite communication system first basically kneecaps the opponent and has a serious advantage.
If you’re on the moon, you can do things like that, whether it’s electronic warfare, projectile missiles, whatever it takes to knock out your opponent’s satellite.
So why did Elon Musk go to the Pentagon?
Think about that – it’s so taken for granted that a war with China is imminent, that a headline like that just seems ordinary in The Wall Street Journal these days.
Contrast that to five years ago when we first started putting out documentaries and videos warning about war with China based on our research…
People thought we were absurd.
Google and Facebook banned our accounts, saying, “you can’t say that kind of stuff” (and now it’s on the front page of The Wall Street Journal).
We were so vocal that the Chinese Communist Party actually sent a lady down from Boston to meet me for dinner (if you’ve been a reader for a while you’ll remember the story).
Two years ago, she sat down with me and said, “why are you saying there’s going to be war with China?”
She asked me a bunch of creepy questions.
Then she invited me to China, which I declined (because I don’t want to be locked away in a Chinese prison).
And now here we are.
I’d take a bow for calling it early, but it’s a pyrrhic victory, because this is one prediction I’ve made that I pray I’m wrong on.
But let’s be real. Let’s be sober.
Remember, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, “be ready to take Taiwan by 2027.”
And the truth is, the longer China waits, the more we’re pointing assets toward that area, the more it will cost them to succeed.
So China has this window – we don’t know if they’re going to do it in 2025, 2026, 2027.
They have a little window of opportunity where if you’re Xi Jinping and you’re looking at Taiwan and this is part of your legacy…
You want to be up there with Mao as one of the key seminal leaders of China…
To end their “century of humiliation”…
You want to take Taiwan.
You look at America and see it’s divided against itself, fighting with its allies… and you say to yourself, Taiwan looks very tempting. Let’s take Taiwan.
You know that if you take Taiwan, you own and control AI.
End of story. Game, set, match.
And if you’re America, you know you can’t let that happen.
China is saying to itself, “gosh, we want to be the future; the rulers of AI.”
It’s like a wolf looking at a lamb and licking its chops. That’s how they’re looking at Taiwan.
Taiwan unlocks a lot of things for China.
Here in the U.S. we are putting up missiles and batteries, doing all these things.
But if you’re Xi Jinping you think to yourself, “the longer I wait, the more assets the United States will move East and the more it’ll cost me to take Taiwan.”
So we have entered that window I predicted about two years ago – the critical 36-month window.
If I was a betting man, I’d say Xi Jinping’s maximum window of opportunity is during the Trump administration.
We will see if Trump dissuades him from doing it.
“The Buck Stops Here,”
