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Super Soldiers, Bioweapons, and Soviet Ape-Human Hybrids
At 14:42 · chapter starts 14:30
Rogan asks what country tried to invest $160 million in Sinclair's company before the US government blocked it on national security grounds — Sinclair stays coy, saying it was somewhere 'between here and China.' The conversation spirals into a fascinating digression about the darker applications of biological enhancement, with Rogan recounting the allegedly Stalin-backed Soviet program in the 1920s led by physiologist Ilya Ivanov to crossbreed humans and apes for an 'invincible' army. Sinclair notes that a scientist in New York is legally creating human-animal hybrid embryos today. The two agree that while American regulatory frameworks provide guardrails, the global landscape is far less controlled, and that longevity and strength-enhancement technologies pose genuine national security concerns.
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