Ironically, and concerningly, the worst thing that could happen right now is a large scale global conflict, or even a civil war in the US.
Why?
Not just because of the cost in human suffering.
It would set back technological progress in science, or at least seriously bottleneck it.
Humanity can't afford science to take such a hit right now.
Another problem is that there are lunatics who hate science and its progress who are motivated to stop it by any means necessary. Those lunatics are capable of causing global war.
Historically war in the industrial age was a boon to technology and innovation. That would not be the case this time. The destruction would likely be so catastrophic as to induce the rock-throwing scenario Einstein predicted for a post-nuclear-conflict Earth.
The most important task for firms like Anduril is to be so good that conflict with civilised, scientifically progressive First World democracies is unthinkable: a kind of new layer of mutually assured destruction, but asymmetrical via supremacy.
