I was reminded at dinner in D.C. this evening that the “national security state” and the “great powers conflict state” actually represent two different worldviews and sets of political orientations. Sometimes they overlap, but often they don’t. This is something @matthew_pines also pointed out today during his panel at the #BitcoinPolicySummit. 

 Yes.  As humanity wakes up to the existence of super-advanced "non-human intelligences," whether they are artificial intelligence or UFOs we will realize that the "defense" is only from ourselves, and the real threat is not other nations, it is the conflict states.