about what would be the right thing to do. And that led us into many wars. And a lot of spending that no one can account for. And I was listening last week to Chinese commentators at the moment, trying to understand how are we going to negotiate to a deal with China, which I think we are. I'm very optimistic that we're going to get to a deal with China. But one of them was saying, you guys were the best economy in the world and you took all the money you made and you spent it on wars and you spent it on stuff that no one can know about. And I would like, yeah, that's true. So the secrecy community, of course, don't want any transparency or any conversation or any reform. And they believe they know better than everyone else because they believe more intelligence than anyone else. But I'm not sure that's actually true anymore in an internet world. What is the truth of a situation maybe more apparent in open source information than it is from all these secret classified sources? And (18/99)
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