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How to Win a War of Attrition

Ukraine shows that if you take it militarily, you don't actually get it. You get a smoking pile of room. This also tells you why the Chinese can't take Taiwan. If they take it, they can't have it. They don't get a country that's prosperous, dynamic, middle class. Don't call our country coming to Taiwan. That's okay. But the point being is that Ukraine shows that ifyou take it military, you don’t actually get it."

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