Cold War
topic on 8 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2019
Acquired 6 
Invest Like the Best 3 
American Optimist 1 
Sourcery 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
20VC 1 
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Christodoulides: Global order inevitably reverts to realist anarchy and great-power competition
“And I was always, ah, believing in this, ah, realist school of thoughts, that, you know, states, they always compete, who is going to be, you know the leader. So, even after the collapse of the Cold War, you know, I was expecting that in 2030, 15 years, we're …”
Harrison: DoD Accounted for 36% of Global R&D in the 1950s and 1960s
“During the cold war in the fifties and sixties, the DoD alone represented 36% of global R&D.”
Grimm: The West is in a Cold War escalating toward hot war
“Which to me, I think it's pretty obvious that we're in escalating into a hot war.”
Hicks: DoD 2024 R&D request of $145B triples Cold War spending
“In real dollars, DoD's twenty-twenty-four R&D budget request of a hundred and forty-five billion dollars is triple what it was during the Cold War.”
US defense spending is at historic lows relative to the Cold War
“We are spending at historic lows relative to the Cold War.”
Silicon Valley Wouldn't Exist Without Cold War Defense Competition
“All the things we just talked about, Silicon Valley itself, for God's sakes, wouldn't have existed without this.”
Sacks: The U.S. has been at war two-thirds of the post-Cold War era
“We've been at war for something like two out of every three years since the cold war ended.”