How much of Czechoslovakia's income comes from war material production?
According to the context, over 80 percent of Czechoslovakia’s basic production income comes from war material. The transcript notes this figure from memory, describing tanks, guns, rockets, and similar warfare materiel. That production is sold to the Middle East, where oil money funds purchases, making the economy dependent on such exports.
Les explains that the world is funneling arms, rockets, and warfare materiel into the Middle East, often without knowing why, though it is good economics. He cites Czechoslovakia as an example: over 80 percent, if he remembers right, of its basic production income comes from war material—tanks, guns, rockets, and the like. He notes that shutting off buyers would wreck such a nation’s economy. He also wonders how much of America’s economy rests on defense contracts, and points out that the Middle East’s oil money enables purchases. Yet Les says there is more than economics: the sovereign God is still in control.