Former Google CEO and noted Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt urged the American tech industry to take a deeper role in national defense.
, the former tech executive, who developed close links between Google and the U.S. Department of Defense, said the Ukraine war would “solidify” the need for deeper ties.
“The war is going to help solidify the tech companies’ understanding of why national security is important,” Schmidt told CNBC. “If you believed, falsely, that 10 years ago, that war had been eliminated, that conflict was eliminated, we didn’t need militaries and so forth to protect us, then you would say, ‘Let’s not work with the government, let’s not focus on this stuff.’ And I think we’ve unfortunately and horrifically put that argument to bed. We need a strong national security in our country, and the tech industry needs to support it.”longstanding ties to the U.S.
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