Secretary Rubio discusses strategic surprise concerns related to UAP in The Age of Disclosure
- Channel
- The Age Of Disclosure
- Length
- 1 min
- Format
- Clip
- Speaker
- Marco Rubio
- Claims checked
- 0 of 5
Summary
A one-minute excerpt from the documentary The Age of Disclosure, posted by the film's channel and titled as Secretary Rubio on 'strategic surprise concerns related to UAP'. The speaker, identified as Marco Rubio only by the video title, says that some of the biggest strategic blunders in history rested on a lack of imagination, the belief that an adversary could not do something because it had never been done. He gives two examples: the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, where he says the US did not think the Japanese could get there or use torpedoes that could navigate a narrow strait, and the 2001 hijackings, which he says were never imagined. He says the human tendency not to spend time or energy preparing for the unforeseen is what keeps him up at night, and that this leads to strategic surprise, sometimes of a kind that changes the course of human history. The audio contains no mention of UAP, aliens, programs or documents; the UAP framing comes from the channel's title and the film around the clip, not from anything he says here. It is an excerpt: the question he was asked, the interview date and the setting are not given.
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Speaker
- Marco RubioSecretary (as titled by the channel; the clip itself never gives his name or office)
Claims
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Some of the biggest strategic blunders in human history had as their foundation a lack of imagination: the belief that an adversary could not do something because it had never been done before.
Some of the biggest strategic blunders in human history, the foundation of those blunders were a lack of imagination, the belief that an adversary or whoever could not do something because it had never been done before.
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Before the December 1941 attack, the US thought its ships at Pearl Harbor were safe because it did not think the Japanese could get there, much less have torpedoes that could navigate such a narrow strait and hit the ships.
The US thought it was safe for those ships in Pearl Harbor because we didn't think that the Japanese could get there much less have torpedoes that could navigate such a narrow straight and hit these ships until they did.
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The US never imagined that terrorists would strike the homeland by training for a year to become pilots and then hijacking commercial aircraft and crashing them into buildings, and then they did.
We never thought in our wildest dreams that terrorists would strike us in the homeland by training for a year to become pilots and then hijacking commercial aircraft and crashing them into buildings. And they did.
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The one thing that always keeps him up at night is a tendency in the human psyche to say there is no time or energy to prepare for the unforeseen or for what has never been seen done before.
The one thing that always keeps me up at night is something in the human psyche that says I don't have time or energy to sort of prepare for the unforeseen or what I've never seen done before.
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Not preparing for the unforeseen leads to strategic surprise, and some strategic surprises change the course of human history.
that leads to strategic surprise and some sometimes strategic surprises that change the course of human history.
Topics
- Strategic surpriseAn event that catches a state off guard because it did not prepare for something it considered impossible or had never seen; he says some such surprises change the course of human history.
- Failure of imaginationHe calls it 'a lack of imagination': the belief that an adversary or anyone else could not do something because it had never been done before. He does not use the phrase 'failure of imagination' in the clip.