Afghanistan, every mention

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▶ 31:28 Zachary Bookman I came back from Afghanistan, uh, in the summer of 2012.
▶ 54:45 Zachary Bookman I pitched Peter Thiel, and I was so green, and I'd just gotten back from Afghanistan, and I literally would go to work in slacks and leather shoes, like a business lawyer-looking type person, and the Founders Fund guys, at least in those…

▶ 1:25:44 Harry Stebbings I mean this in the nicest way, but if you're fighting, you know, in the hills of Afghanistan, and we have, you know, 50 robo dogs, or robo planes, or whatever robo we choose to have, and you've got, you know, local militia, or whatever it… 2 times in the scene

▶ 4:08 Harry Stebbings You also got deployed to Afghanistan. 2 times in the scene
▶ 6:24 Shaun Maguire Um, look, like, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the first year or so, a lot of the munitions were coming from Iran, and anyways, it's, it's, you know, when, when America was fighting in Afghanistan, Iran was, like, deeply supporting the…
▶ 40:08 Shaun Maguire And I don't remember exactly which country I'm drawing the lines, like from Iraq or from Afghanistan or from the combination or, but like, like, even though America had started the wars there, Sweden had taken more refugees, not on a per…

▶ 41:43 Harry Stebbings When you look at a future though, where you can deploy thousands of autonomous AI drones into the mountains of Afghanistan, and the Taliban have machine guns, I think it seems like a pretty unfair fight.

▶ 49:11 Trae Stephens Uh, and you're quite, the problems that you're dealing with, with things like, uh, airspace superiority in Iraq or Afghanistan, totally different than determining airspace superiority in Ukraine or in, you know, a potential Taiwan conflict.

▶ 1:07:44 Emil Michael I spent a lot of time in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Pakistan.

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