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Why I Told President Trump to Attack Iran - Sen. Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 00:18

He talked about subterranean warfare that he thought would be a component going forward. But in terms of a vulnerability, something very few people are talking about that Palmer mentioned. He said He [Palmer Luckey] worries about our vulnerability to a bioweapon attack that we don't have nearly sufficient defenses to fight against. and the ability to spread. And he pointed out, look, Covid, which at the end of the day, in terms of mortality, there are many bioweapons whose mortality is orders of magnitude worse than Covid. (00:18–1:08:58)

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Asserts that the U.S. is vulnerable to bioweapon attacks due to insufficient defenses.

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