In this episode of Live Players, Samo Burja and Erik Torenberg discuss the current Iran conflict, how we got into this situation, and how the US can turn this into a winning moment and reindustrialize. Along the way they discuss rebuilding the US military to win the next war using start ups, the exit options for the current administration, and how to decrease the need for oil.

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00:00 Introduction

00:43 Energy independence and Iran

02:49 A brief history of how we got here

08:27 Oil as THE globalized good

24:26 The Options out of Iran

26:25 China’s smart moves

29:04 We are in an energy Crisis

32:09 Startups are needed to win the next wars

38:05 Using this war as a way to reindustrialize the US

40:30 US energy change recommendations

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