Tucker Carlson: “The only real thing we make are weapons.”

“… excellent article, too big to win, become defense secretary and really take a look at how are we fighting these wars? What do we need to do to defend America? The only real thing we make are weapons. And so that's what that money does. Yeah, I don't think that's necessarily true. There's certainly again, you still have that industrial base. You spend A trillion dollars out of $28 trillion economy, $29 trillion economy.” (50:10–50:13)

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