No One Is Coming to Save Taiwan — Only You. Only Me.
No One Is Coming to Save Taiwan — Only You. Only Me. When Palmer Luckey, the Silicon Valley wunderkind behind Oculus VR, took the stage at National Taiwan University this summer, he didn’t come with platitudes. He came with a challenge. And he delivered it not with the polished ambiguity of a diplomat or a think tank consultant, but with the urgency of someone who has watched democracies underestimate dictators—at terrible cost. In a speech titled “Deterrence, Technology, and the Defense of Taiwan,” Luckey laid out what he called a “moral, technological, and existential imperative”: that Taiwan cannot wait for anyone else to secure its future. Not the United States. Not the mythical "arsenal of democracy." There is no cavalry. There is only us. Ukraine's Bloody Lesson Luckey’s perspective is forged not just in boardrooms, but on battlefields. In 2022, weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, he flew to the front lines to help train Ukrainian soldiers on autonomous ...