> They are very different threats, and should be treated very differently. The FBI and CIA are immune system type systems, where China is a guy with a knife. T

> They are very different threats, and should be treated very differently. The FBI and CIA are immune system type systems, where China is a guy with a knife. This analogy is great, because it's a better analogy than you think. Immune issues kill a LOT more people than knife attacks in the USA every year. In general, external enemies are less dangerous than internal enemies. It's easy to rally people against an external enemy (see the Robbers Cave Experiment in psychology), but much harder to rally people against an internal enemy. There are 0.60 knife deaths per 100k people in the USA. [1] There are 3.97 deaths for SAID per 100k [2], and that's just the first type of autoimmune issue that I googled for off the top of my head. Rome faced plenty of external enemies over the years, what actually caused the fall of Rome was internal. [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-deaths-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-.... [2] https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/60/3/1321/5908065 https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/60/3/1321/5908...