I bet they're anarchists. This is basic crypto-anarchist philosophy said using words that military academies use to teach the officer core.

You can think of encryption as raw physical power in the sense that you impose a cost (billions of years) on reading your encrypted message. The capabilities of raw physical power, he's saying, in the video, represents a cost you impose on an enemy for making a claim into your sovereign territory, be that a state machine running globally or your own encrypted networks or on your borders. "If you want peace, prepare for war." - Plato, I think