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Livestream: Russia’s ”Starlink” Keeps Crashing Satellites! · Combat Veteran News

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listening to this your chat chat and the
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people who will watch this live stream
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after the fact.
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Welcome to a live stream or if you're
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watching it after the fact again I guess
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I just just a just a stream.
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We've got some some
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>> We got some fun ones.
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And sure enough,
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we're also going to be trying top secret
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experimental
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strike gum flavor. Let me let me get it
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out.
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I know as like a military influencer, if
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I need to um open a package, I know it's
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like a like a law that I have to use
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like a like a bayonet or a giant sword
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or something. And uh actually, wait, I
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do have a bayonet. So, what am I talking
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about?
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So, let's uh let's do this. Let me let
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me I'm just blocking out the address of
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my manufacturer and of course my address
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because, you know, you guys don't need
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that energy. I don't need I don't need
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to be getting surprise packages from the
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Russians. All right. I'm I'm a I'm I'm a
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man with uh got a family, man. You know,
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I don't want to be XQC, right?
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Thankfully, I live in a small enough
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town
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that if somebody swatted me, I could
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just I could just call the cops. Like, I
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would just call them and be like, "Hey,
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I'm an influencer. I'm an influencer."
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Um, they just be like, "Ah, the Russians
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are harassing me. Don't
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don't send me nothing. Uh, don't send
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the cops here. Just knock on the door."
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Uh, okay.
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All right.
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Good day. Good day, Tim D. Okay, so we
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have here
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allegedly, according to to the
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manufacturer, according to the guys at
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Liquid Core out in Denver,
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the
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a new formulation of Strike Gum. Well,
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well, we don't don't panic. The old
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formulation is not going anywhere. This
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is going to be a new flavor, right? We
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sampled a bunch. We've done we've
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sampled probably
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six or seven different flavors
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before. We're like, "Okay." And then
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he's like, "Okay, I I think I have a
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sense of what you guys like, what you're
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looking for." And then he says, "Okay,
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well, we're going to we're going to do
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it. We're going to we're going to make
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you something that's going to be sick."
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So, I'm going to try it right here on
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stream.
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So, supposedly, not supposedly, he
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reports that this is Oh.
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Okay.
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Classic classic Troy. All right. He sent
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me empty
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empty gum. This is like some drug dealer
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energy. And then the salty apple fill
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formulation and I have to do it myself.
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Okay. Uh that's probably going to have
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to happen on a different stream.
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Uh, I understand he's he listen.
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Uh,
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so damn. Okay, I'm so disappointed.
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So disappointed. I really wanted to try
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it. And now look at me. Like a like a
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I'm going to have to use regular strike
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gum. There you go. See? See? There it
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is. Have you gotten your strike gum? 90
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milligrams of caffeine in every piece.
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That's why. Right. I just finished my
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lunch. We're gonna be cracking into it.
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I want bring the energy. If you want to
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bring the energy,
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we got
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no energy in. Energy out.
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Okay.
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Daniel, what do you think about a lot of
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military influences taking Israeli
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money?
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Nobody ever offered me Israeli money.
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I mean, I would take it, but I wouldn't
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change my stance on Israel. I think I'm
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a moderate. I don't want like Israel
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wiped off the face of the earth. I just
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think they shouldn't systematically
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starve children to death and they
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shouldn't invade their neighbors.
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Like if Iraq can't go into Kuwait, even
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if they're really mad, then Israel
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shouldn't be able to just march into
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Lebanon and annex 10% of Lebanon.
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So,
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you know, no, I I actually as a policy
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don't accept money from foreign
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governments. I'm joking around. As a
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policy, I don't accept money I don't
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accept gift from anyone affiliated with
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an official government agency. Um, the
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only exception
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is battalion and below units of the
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Ukrainian military. They live in a gift
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culture.
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A lot of those guys, individual
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soldiers, gave me patches. It really
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means a lot that they they did that.
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Miles B. Absolutely.
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Like the funny thing is when you look at
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polling data, latest polling data,
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American Jews in terms of opinion
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polling, um
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actually look almost exactly map almost
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perfectly onto like other American
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college educated Democrats, right?
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Israeli, right?
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This is from July 8th.
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AP Northpole find sharp divides in US
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dudes over Israel and Gaza right
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support of Israel remains better luck
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with their religious identity existence
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a guarantee of Jewish self-determination
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and safety
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less connected judge its actions actions
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more harshly
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about 7 and 10 Jews identify as Jewish
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when asked about their religious
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affiliation. Oh, okay. I know a lot of
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people who are culturally like but not
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religiously Jewish. I think that's
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actually pretty common.
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And then
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Okay.
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Um, only about half of American Jews say
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Israel's ongoing military operations in
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Gaza are justified.
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That is crazy. And by the way, this is
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this is from uh
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July 8th, 2026. So just just uh two
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months ago, right? 50% of American Jews
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think
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Israel's operations in Gaza not
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justified. One quarter believe Israel
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has committed genocide against
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Palestinians in Gaza.
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Oh my god. No, that's crazy. That's that
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is religiously active Jews. Among
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religiously active Jews, half say the
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only half say the military operations of
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Gaza are justified and one in four think
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Israel has committed genocide. And if
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you are less religiously active,
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40%
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of religiously inactive Jews say Israel
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has committed genocide against the
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Palestinians. Wow.
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And only two in 10 believe Israel's
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current operations in Gaza are
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justified.
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Vast majority say they are not at all or
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not too emotionally attached to Israel.
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Interestingly, Anna Constant, they
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interview
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says she identifies as culturally
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Jewish, usually meaning like ethnically
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Jewish, says she doesn't feel closely
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connected to Israel. Quote, "I kind of
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think of myself as an American version
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of a Jew. I do have a homeland," she
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said, referring to the United States.
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So again, this is the survey data where
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I tell people like listen in this
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channel, Israel is a nation state that
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takes actions and we can be we can
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support some of those actions and we can
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be critical of those actions. That's
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standard stuff.
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Jewishness is a religion
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that is practiced all over the world in
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the United States, in Israel, in Europe,
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in Asia. some a couple Asian countries
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and
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like
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we don't pedal in in like anti-semitism,
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right?
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Just like we don't pedal Islamophobia.
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You know, you're not going to come into
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chat and tell me, somebody that fought
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shoulder-to-shoulder with Afghan Afghan
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Muslims, that like Muslims are
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intrinsically evil. That [ __ ] don't fly.
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That's not
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Russia has a right to defend itself from
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NATO expansion.
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Okay. Um,
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list of European countries NATO's
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invaded. Please feel free to drop it in
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the chat because I can give you a list
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of countries Russia's invaded since
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2000. of course
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Georgia, Muldova if count the breakaway
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regions
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that um
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and of course Ukraine. So I think
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joining a defensive alliance is just
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simply a logical practice.
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general consensus here. Making my point
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for me, right?
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This is like this is like saying that
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selling security systems causes crime.
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It's like, "No, dude. People install
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security systems because they live in
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high crime neighborhoods." And the
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criminals are like, "Hey, I had to break
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into this house before they got a
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security system." And you're like, "You
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could have just not broken into any
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houses and you wouldn't have to worry.
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And October 7th wasn't a genocide on
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Jews. I love this. I love guys coming in
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chat and putting words in my mouth. We
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have repeatedly on this channel every
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been October 7th was a horrific
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terrorist attack because
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it wasn't like a military operation. A
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military operation would be one in which
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military targets were were targeted,
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right?
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But it was a terror attack. Why? because
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they targeted a civilian music festival.
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They targeted children in communities,
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right? They targeted
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people, by the way, people who were not
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in internationally recognized like like
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the Palestinian territories.
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And so if we agree, we can have
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consensus here that it is horrific to
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deliberately inflict
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harm onto innocent civilians, especially
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children. Then we are also forced to
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conclude
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that the Israeli operation in Gaza and
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in Lebanon,
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but particularly in Gaza, is also
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horrific. It's also a crime of
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comparable magnitude.
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Chetchna, right? We forgot about Russia
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invasion invading Chetchna.
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All right, P. Russia has its own
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military alliance, the CIS with such
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regional powerhouses like Kazakhstan,
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Bellarus.
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Um,
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Kazakhstan
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general consensus. Yeah, right. Hamas
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launch military attack. I have no I I
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sleep fine at night
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with the leadership of Hamas getting
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killed. I sleep fine at night. You
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staged an operation that killed a bunch
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of kids, right? Called yourself freedom
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fighters. Good [ __ ] riddance. But
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just like the American military, we
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didn't ou the Taliban by surrounding
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Jalabad City and then cutting off food,
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water, and electricity. That wasn't our
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strategy because it doesn't work.
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Huh? Ms. Fuller. Yeah, we didn't ounce
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the Taliban at all. It's sure true. It's
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sure true. And it's probably one of the
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reasons I think actually why I mean I
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think the Israelis
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pursued this strategy
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or or absence of a strategy in part for
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religious reasons um actually believe
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that like
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if you believe that God
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has a chosen people that God isn't like
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doesn't have any notion of panhumanism
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or that we are all God's sacred
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children. Instead, if you believe that
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there is one subset of human beings
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which are fully human, then by
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definition, the rest exist as cannon
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fodder.
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And I think among
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especially very conservative
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Jews, right, who are overwhelming who
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are in Israel and vote a lot. Like they
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operate that way and they're like,
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"Listen, God would be mad if we didn't
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kill as many Palestinians as possible.
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Like God would be mad because it's like
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why would God make an enemy and then
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we're denying his will by not killing
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them?"
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And if you're like, "Man, Paul, that
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sounds exactly like what ISIS believed."
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You're like, "Yeah, yeah, it is." And
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ISIS was bad.
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Again, if you believe that subset of
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things, as discussed,
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just like ISIS doesn't speak for all
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Muslims, the
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ultraright wing Israelis that are right
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now seemingly in the government don't
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[snorts] speak for the Jewish
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population.
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Adam. Yeah. Anytime someone starts to
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adopt this belief of
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there's a group of human beings that are
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like fully human and then there's a
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bunch of other people who are just not
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not so human.
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That rel that results in horrific
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outcomes. It just does. Doesn't mean
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that everybody has to share everything
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equally. Doesn't mean that everybody
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belongs in everybody else's country. But
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you have to recognize like the basic
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tenants of like someone else's humanity,
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right? Because
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what kind of horrific outcomes do you
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get from that logic? Well,
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well, is it is it right and good then to
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take a to harvest organs from the lesser
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human to ensure a longer healthier life
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for the superior human?
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Yeah, it is right by that logic
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and trust me,
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USA does not officially starve children.
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USA cuts off US aid services and that
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starves the kid. Yeah.
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Yeah. But it there's a big difference
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between we stopped giving you free food,
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right? Which which again I think that's
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I think that is both a good policy from
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the perspective of realism and a good
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policy from the perspective of of being
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a humanitarian.
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But
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there's huge difference between we're
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not giving you food and hey, our
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military is going to prevent
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food, water, and electricity from
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entering your area. We're going to
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intentionally starve you to death.
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Yeah. Right. Soft power. US aid was a
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great source of of soft power but
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sometimes hard power. Like one of the
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stories that we
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think is really important when people
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talk about US aid is that um
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is
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there's a US power station Muldova.
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Right.
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Okay.
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So
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here you go. This is from
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2014 from the US embassy, right? We're
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not This isn't like a top secret
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operation.
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When is this? This is from September
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17th, 2024.
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Right.
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US A has gave $40 million. It says to
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improve energy security, boost trade,
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support independent media, and bolster
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local public administration.
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an additional four million to expand
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Muldova's fruit exports and increase
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support for Muldova small and mediumsiz
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enterprises
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and US aid is going to be working with
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with Congress to allocate an additional
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75 million in development assistance to
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strengthen Muldova's vital
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transportation and infrastructure
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logistic infrastructure but understand
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the why.
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Okay, the why here is about the oh my
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god straeni gutinas project $130 million
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US grant straight cash a transmission
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line linking a US funded substation in
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Muldova to a substation in Romania what
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does that do for them right simple
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the projects helps Muldova move away
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from its historic reliance on Russian
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supplied energy and power generated in
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the separatist Russianbacked transnistry
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region,
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right? US A also supported battery
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energy storage systems and grid
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optimization to help Muldova handle
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power fluctuations and integrate
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renewable energy. Do we do this because
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we love Muldova? I mean, we like Moldova
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just fine. The reason we did it, guys,
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is because Vladimir Putin's Russia by
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installing a puppet government in
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Transnistria effectively took over the
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energy production of the state of
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Muldova. And guess what? If you control
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the power grid,
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you control the economic output of that
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country.
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And so what did US A do? We coughed up
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peanuts by American budgetary standards.
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We coughed up approximately 15 seconds
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of the war in Iran.
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And
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we built a whole new power station
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and we linked them to Romanian power
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stations, an ally, an EU member, a NATO
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member,
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so that when Vladimir Putin goes to
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Muldova and says, "Hey, you better play
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ball with us or else Muldova could go or
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else what? You have no leverage, dude.
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What? You're going to turn off your
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power stations in Transnistria? We'll
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just buy it from Romania on the cheap.
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Right. Same with the battery energy
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storage and the green energy. Okay. We
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didn't invest in green energy because
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we're fighting climate change. I mean,
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don't get me wrong, I'm sure we're happy
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to fight climate change. We did it
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because coal fired power plants
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and fossil fuels and oil fueled heating
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systems
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increase reliance on Russia.
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And it's the point of leverage as we've
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learned now. If we go back in time, we
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probably should have passed that [ __ ]
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Green New Deal. Why? Because if
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America's less less reliant on fossil
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fuels, then what happens when the
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straight of war moves gets closed by the
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Iranians?
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Nothing. Because we power our cars with
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solar panels and nuclear fision.
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Right? Tell me I'm wrong. Imagine a
22:05
world in which gas prices
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are as irrelevant to you as
22:13
the price of Lays. Like, yeah, I buy
22:15
chips. I love a good I love a good
22:17
cheddar ruffle, but they don't I'm not
22:19
making like like budgetary fundamental
22:22
life decisions about it,
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you know?
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Smiggma
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[snorts]
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going hard on strike gum. Son, you say,
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"Damn, you ran out, bro." Bro, okay. I
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think I think if you ran out, I think
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the promo codes for our
22:51
um streamers still work and will still
22:54
give you a discount.
22:57
So, let's let me see let me see if I can
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find him here.
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Yes. Okay. Maddie and send it. We'll do
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send it daddy because
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>> actively waiting for Modern Warfare 4
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>> goes to um stack up a charity. So, let
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me get you Let me get you his his promo
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code.
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>> What? Where's your promo code, dude? I
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think it's daddy. Oh my god. Come on.
23:26
You're killing me, Send It. You're
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killing me, dude.
23:29
Wait.
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Okay. Also funny. Right now he is live
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and right now the Puff is actually in
23:35
his chat. So, let me Sorry. I'm sure
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this is like screwing with you guys.
23:41
He's getting over uh Legend, I think.
23:50
Okay. Puffs in the chat,
23:55
but I don't know. We'll just strike gum
23:57
stuff.
24:01
Okay. I have no idea. I think it's send
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it. No, wait, wait. Stack up.
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Okay.
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I'm 100. He needs to put his promo code
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up there way more prominently.
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If someone in chat, do you know what's
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what
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uh can somebody tell me what the uh what
24:30
send it daddy's promo code is?
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That way you can get the the discount. I
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I I'll just ask. I'll just ask. I think
24:38
I think I just have to do strike
24:40
exclamation mark.
25:03
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna just look it
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up.
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Change a prom and Dolly Barton.
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Listen, rest in peace to Dolly.
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Everybody appreciates
25:20
somebody that uh
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makes some tunes for those of us that
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work hard, do our best.
25:29
Um,
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okay. Let me look it up. I can find on
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Shopify.
25:36
We'll have to buy strike. Trump needs
25:38
Trump needs more than strike gun to stay
25:40
awake. I mean, it won't hurt.
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Matsu van. Yeah, there you go. Welcome
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20. Well, well, I think
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I think Smiggle is not a new customer
25:57
because welcome 20 is only for first
25:59
time. But I'm I'm going to get this to
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you. Whoa, Ron. Ice. Thanks, man. I've
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seen US aid symbol and praise in train
26:04
stations. Simple looking things like
26:06
little electrical boxes on the inside
26:07
buildings here and there in Ukraine.
26:09
Likely involves helping in the winter
26:11
and so on. Passive wins. Exactly. That
26:13
is what the USA does. And because
26:16
they're always aid operations that
26:18
advance American interests, right? They
26:22
they like
26:24
like it's not the CIA, right? You
26:28
wouldn't trust a a box labeled CIA
26:31
instead. And it's a better way, right?
26:33
What the CIA has to do with subdivision
26:35
and and and like shady kind of dirt
26:38
baggery, USA does by just being your
26:41
best friend, by being a great neighbor.
26:44
Sergeant Gunnry, since the Kremlin
26:46
mobilized people, what can we do to help
26:47
Ukrainians on the front line? We are
26:49
working right now on getting together,
26:51
it'll be out in the next day or two, a
26:53
fundraiser to get some of the most
26:55
advanced
26:57
ground drones in the Ukrainian arsenal
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for third assault.
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So,
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okay. Wait, wait. I just need the
27:13
Shopify
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uh discount code.
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Again, I really want to try to get our
27:21
creators. Like, if you're if you're
27:22
going to get the discount one, I think
27:24
it's more with the creators.
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Wait. Okay. Wait. We got it. We got it.
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Oh,
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okay.
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Damn mad. Promo code mad. We're crushing
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it.
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27:52
there literally isn't a cuz no one has
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why don't we do Sergeant Hein? Here's
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28:33
Because one of the things, one of the
28:35
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28:37
addition to the fact that, you know, I
28:39
love caffeine gum
28:42
is that I wanted to like prove a point
28:45
about
28:47
doing it right. There's so You don't
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the like getting stiffed by creators,
29:06
creators that give you these like
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terrible or uh um companies give you
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these terrible affiliate codes. Uh
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companies whose products are absolute
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going to make a good product. I'm going
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to make it in America. I'm going to
29:19
charge a fair price for it. We haven't
29:21
raised our prices in three years. And
29:23
I'm gonna be a a sponsor that creators
29:30
love. Like my goal is to have creators
29:33
be like, "This dude is awesome. I love
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again, if you're going to order it, like
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use one of our creators discount codes.
29:45
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29:52
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29:53
at now? We're making UGV Abrams
30:01
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30:03
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30:09
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30:12
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30:13
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30:15
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30:25
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30:28
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30:38
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30:41
of caffeine. This thing, the gum still
30:43
has flavor, man. That's one of the
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things I love. I don't actually want to
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stop chewing it.
30:52
But
31:03
Jacobs, you give me your YouTube money.
31:05
Listen, dog.
31:07
YouTube money is down, bro. It's down
31:09
bad. Now, again,
31:12
I am both smart in that I never built
31:15
like a team. I don't have like 50
31:17
editors. I have zero editors. I have I
31:19
have me. I'm the editor, right? I work
31:21
in my garage. I didn't like rent a
31:23
studio. So, I I keep my expenses low
31:26
because YouTube money is like this. And
31:28
right now, it's like this. And you'll
31:30
watch if you go go on YouTube, you can
31:31
search like creators panicking or
31:33
whatever.
31:35
It's cuz in the era of AI slop, like a
31:37
lot of um companies just don't want
31:39
creator sponsors.
31:42
But
31:46
yeah, it's up, it's down. But you know
31:47
what? I again, I'm like a responsible
31:50
guy. I invest a lot of I invest a lot of
31:52
it because I understand intuitively that
31:54
like
31:55
being a YouTuber is is awesome. I love
31:58
doing this. I love that you guys help me
31:59
do this every day. I hope I provide a
32:02
lot of value to you, but like I'm aware
32:04
that
32:07
that it's a short-lived career and that
32:10
you got to treat it like getting drafted
32:11
to the NFL, right? Average NFL career,
32:14
three years, right? They make a lot of
32:17
money in those three years, but almost
32:18
all of them go broke. Why? because they
32:20
make a lot of money but they cannot
32:23
understand that
32:25
making
32:27
um I you know whatever the average
32:30
whatever the NFL starting salary is I I
32:33
think it's like
32:38
uh salary minimum right
32:42
oh okay so $900,000 so you make $900,000
32:46
let's say for five years you get $4
32:48
million you think whoa $4 million. But
32:51
remember that's the equivalent.
32:54
Your career wasn't 40 years long. It was
32:57
four.
32:59
You see the problem, right? So normally
33:03
you say, "Hey, what's better? Working 40
33:06
years to make 4 million or working four
33:09
annihilating your body and then the only
33:10
thing you can do is be a high school
33:12
football coach, right?" Creators don't
33:14
think this way and NFL players don't
33:17
think this way.
33:19
So, I really, again, the advantage of
33:21
like, you know, if I was 19, I probably
33:24
wouldn't think this way. But because,
33:26
you know, I I I I
33:28
started being able to do this full-time
33:30
when I was in my mid-30s, I said,
33:32
"Listen, I know exactly what this is."
33:37
Yeah, Evelyn, YouTube, I worry about the
33:40
prevalation of AI slop, right,
33:45
Turtle tower. Uh, I actually the last
33:48
stream we talked about it. We covered it
33:49
last stream. Um,
33:52
there's a whole video on it if you look
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in the channel.
33:58
Min. Yeah, I heard I heard they're
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counting as a view only 5 seconds of
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video. I'm not that worried. Squisad
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soup. Will I do a 500k special? Yeah.
34:07
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people have been getting unsubscribed,
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subscriber numbers, so check to make
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what Monster does. Okay, Monster's huge.
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right, you just I get my hands.
35:04
>> All right. Should we Should we cover the
35:06
actual news? Some of you guys may have
35:08
tuned in here to actually cover some
35:09
stories.
35:12
Let's do it. Let's Let's do it, lads.
35:14
Okay.
35:22
The Russian space program is famous, not
35:25
necessarily for the best reasons. uh
35:28
they've killed something like six times
35:30
the number of cosminauts as the United
35:33
States has lost in astronauts. So in
35:35
addition to lighting Russian uh air
35:38
force pilots on fire, the Russian space
35:40
program is facing another tiny little
35:43
problem. Their satellites keep falling
35:45
out of orbit. But that's not the even
35:48
the biggest problem facing the Russian
35:51
spacebased military programs. Take a
35:53
look. So Russia uh has very publicly
35:58
announced the launching of its Starlink
36:00
competitor called Rosvet. Now the reason
36:04
why launching rovet satellites is so
36:07
important to Russia is because they have
36:10
up until this point or up until about
36:12
last year maintained uh the ability to
36:15
use Starlink terminals. Now technically
36:18
Starlink should never actually have made
36:20
its way to Russia. uh you can't be a
36:23
company that is publicly traded in
36:25
Europe and then have your supplies reach
36:28
Russians uh and support the Russian
36:30
military. And because Starlink terminals
36:33
obviously have a two-way communication
36:36
with their satellites, it is extremely
36:39
obvious to Starlink that their terminals
36:42
were being used by the Russian military,
36:44
particularly to launch drones. And the
36:49
they are so soughta because of a quirk
36:52
of how the terminal talks to the
36:55
satellites. The fact that it hops around
36:57
frequencies, it actually makes jamming
36:59
really difficult to do. Uh it almost
37:02
sort of frequency hops as a as a
37:04
feature, not a bug. So it is
37:06
inadvertently Elon also built not just a
37:09
space-based internet network, but a
37:11
space-based internet network that is
37:13
jam-proof.
37:14
And so Elon
37:17
possibly out of Ukrainian patriotism,
37:19
but also probably so that SpaceX could
37:21
trade on European markets. Uh because
37:24
again, your company cannot support the
37:26
Russian military and trade in Europe. He
37:30
deactivated all Russian Starlink
37:33
terminals. And basically when that
37:35
happened, other than the massive
37:38
casualties facing Russian forces or
37:42
that is probably one of the most
37:43
decisive things that has ground the
37:45
Russian offensive to a halt. And if
37:48
you're not sure if that's true, you can
37:50
just take a simple look at the map,
37:52
right? You can see that even towns like
37:55
Costanka, which have been under which
37:58
have been the the heart of Russia's
38:00
current offensive operations, Russia has
38:02
made glacially slow pace. I'm walking
38:05
backwards day by day here. And you can
38:07
see that Russia just simply cannot make
38:10
the pace uh even match the pace that
38:14
they were hitting in other offensives
38:16
when they had Starlink access. uh you
38:19
look at something like Pocrosk right to
38:21
the south and when you looked at the
38:23
Prok offensive let's let's take us back
38:26
uh exactly 12 months you can see that 12
38:30
months ago Pocroska was being encircled
38:32
and
38:34
in you know you can just sort of take a
38:37
look here and observe that the actions
38:41
the Russian encirclement in Pokrosknoad
38:44
was a lot more dynamic than what we see
38:47
today. And a big cause of that is the
38:50
fact that the Russians simply have lost
38:52
the ability to conduct sustained
38:55
operations now or not sustained but like
38:59
to link their units via Starlink
39:02
terminals.
39:04
And so that is why there has been a
39:05
tremendous incentive for the Russian
39:07
government to build their own Starlink
39:09
that is not subject to the whims of an
39:13
American billionaire, right?
39:14
particularly one like Elon who has done
39:16
a lot of ketamine and kind of melted his
39:19
brain. So instead of depending on a the
39:22
again an an eccentric ketamine user with
39:24
a bizarre plan to reproduce with as many
39:28
women as possible, the Russians simply
39:30
said, "Listen, we're going to make our
39:31
own Starlink called Rosvat."
39:34
But there's just a tiny little problem,
39:38
and that is that the latest batch of
39:40
satellites, which were launched July
39:42
20th, uh both failed to complete an
39:44
orbit raising maneuver and have now
39:46
begun to fall back to Earth and are
39:49
likely going to burn up during
39:50
atmospheric re-entry. This is on top of
39:54
three more that failed to ascend and are
39:56
stuck at about the 193 mile mark above
40:01
the earth which of course means they
40:03
cannot get into the orbit necessary to
40:05
function. An additional nine are uh
40:07
maneuvering but are below the altitude
40:09
reached uh by a test batch. So and 16
40:13
satellites launched in March were also
40:15
confirmed as lost in June. This is a
40:17
huge problem because in order to provide
40:20
like the critical mass of Starlink type
40:23
connectivity which is that you get
40:25
continual internet access that never
40:27
interrupts. That's sort of the magic of
40:29
Starlink and that you need around some
40:33
around a thousandish satellites.
40:35
Starlink currently can drop uh has about
40:41
um 8,000 active satellites. And so I I I
40:45
think it's around a thousand. it might
40:46
be closer to 2,000 that you need to
40:48
maintain good smooth internet
40:50
connectivity,
40:52
you know, across the globe. Obviously,
40:54
Russia wants this system to focus solely
40:56
on eastern Ukraine, but it still needs a
41:00
lot of satellites to do that. And the
41:02
their plan is to get about 300
41:04
satellites in orbit by 2027.
41:07
And that's a pretty tall order given
41:09
that again it seems like they have
41:11
something like an 80% failure rate of
41:13
satellites and there's only about what
41:17
four months left in the year to achieve
41:19
that. It's a pretty significant problem
41:22
actually uh for the Russians. And again
41:26
uh right now analysts have warned that
41:28
Rosvet is able to provide at least two
41:30
daily communication windows over Ukraine
41:33
each lasting more than an hour. Right?
41:35
So right now, even with just a few dozen
41:38
satellites in orbit, right, they don't
41:40
even have the 292. They think they're
41:42
closer to 80. They hopefully we'll see
41:46
these communication windows expand. Um,
41:49
and it's a again a pretty significant
41:54
uh problem. Again, Russian satellites
41:56
are in orbits that allow them to pass
41:58
over Ukraine about four times a day, but
42:00
only during only two or three of these
42:02
passes do the satellites rise high
42:03
enough above the horizon to ensure a
42:05
stable connection with ground terminals.
42:07
So, they are a year or more away from
42:11
building this alternative, but it's
42:13
worth noting that the Russians, the
42:16
Russian state is able to deploy
42:18
something that looks like a functioning
42:20
alternative to Starlink relatively
42:22
quickly. Now
42:25
the problem is that Elon Musk has said
42:28
again a arbitrary decision by this guy.
42:31
He has decided that Ukrainians can use
42:33
Starlink terminals in Ukraine but they
42:35
cannot use them to strike Russian
42:37
targets. Why? Why? Because Elon is going
42:40
off of vibes, right? He thinks he's he
42:43
thinks he's he thinks he's a real
42:44
general, right? Obviously, you can see
42:47
his hat here. Trump was right about
42:48
everything. Uh which obviously Trump
42:51
totally was. And but nonetheless, in
42:55
order to persuade Elon to change his
42:57
stance, Zalinsky actually gave Musk
43:01
Ukraine's order of liberty. And I think
43:04
this is interesting because Zillinsky
43:06
cited quote Musk contributions to the
43:07
protection of human life and freedom and
43:09
the development of relations between the
43:10
peoples of Ukraine and the US.
43:12
The honor comes as Ukraine seeks to
43:14
expand its use of Starlink enabled
43:16
drones against Russian ballistic missile
43:17
launchers inside of Russia. Kev hopes
43:20
the technology could disrupt abilities
43:21
Russia's ability to strike Ukrainian
43:23
city. And
43:26
part of this is actually kind of easy
43:27
because Elon is is transparently like a
43:29
painfully insecure man and probably a
43:32
raging narcissist. And when you have
43:34
somebody who is so simple in their
43:37
desires and needs, it's actually pretty
43:39
easy to manipulate them. and giving them
43:42
a high honor with a little ceremony and
43:44
a hug and a high five and a and gassing
43:47
them up. That's actually a really easy
43:49
way to get a narcissist on your side
43:51
because obviously um the more they
43:54
support the person who gave them the
43:57
award, the more prestigious the award
43:59
appears, right? It's like if I got an
44:01
award from the Russian government, I'd
44:03
be like, "Put that [ __ ] in the dumpster,
44:05
dude. This thing is worthless. The
44:07
Russian government is grotesque." Uh,
44:11
but obviously they're not going to be
44:12
sending me any awards, but this is part
44:15
of again kind of the standard standard
44:18
protocol for manipulating these kind of
44:21
ultra uh pretty narcissistic guys. And
44:24
it may work, right? There may also be
44:26
some kind of
44:28
palm greasing. I assume there's some way
44:30
they're funneling Elon Musk money
44:31
because the only thing he loves more
44:33
than prestige and awards is cold hard
44:36
cash. you don't become a trillionaire
44:38
because you're lukewarm on making money.
44:40
Now,
44:42
I think the real story here though is
44:44
that Starlink and Rosvet are just sort
44:47
of a a tiny part of a growing drone arms
44:51
race because both sides, in fact, all
44:54
countries in the globe have come to the
44:55
realization that drones are the future.
44:58
This is the the the remotely operated
45:02
combat vehicles are how wars of the
45:05
future will be fought and and frankly
45:08
how wars of the present are fought. And
45:10
it's not just obviously Ukraine where
45:12
you're seeing, you know, each side
45:14
produce 1 to 2 million drones a year.
45:16
You also look at uh Hezbollah fighting
45:19
in um Lebanon, right, where they have
45:22
deployed fiber optic FPV drones against
45:26
uh IDF targets. and the IDF has used
45:28
their own strike drones to the same
45:30
effect, taking out individuals
45:32
combatants. So, you're seeing this
45:34
dronification of warfare really scale up
45:36
very rapidly. We can see here that the
45:39
latest Ukrainian sea drone, the Mura,
45:41
um, is actually a carrier. This thing
45:44
deploys. Again, there's a little white
45:46
terminal. What What could that be, guys?
45:49
And
45:50
what's fascinating is that this is
45:53
actually built to carry and launch
45:55
drones instead of ramming enemy ships.
45:57
It is a drone carrier. And obviously, it
46:01
was revealed during the Ukrainian um
46:03
Independence Day parade. So, it's likely
46:05
already being used in combat. Generally,
46:07
you're not going to um reveal your
46:10
highest uh magnitude technology until
46:14
it's successfully proven itself in
46:16
combat and that you're confident that
46:18
the enemy uh has a really strong um
46:22
knowledge of the system. And I talk
46:26
about this because this is a really I
46:29
think important thing. It doesn't do
46:31
everything that an American aircraft
46:32
carrier does. Obviously an aircraft
46:34
carrier has tremendous range. It has
46:37
tremendous power. But what it it it
46:39
performs a rudimentary version of this,
46:41
right? It can communicate with its
46:44
drones that it launches. It serves as a
46:47
hub for those drones, right? It's a
46:50
mother ship. And this concept of a drone
46:53
mother ship
46:55
um that acts as a link. It's likely that
46:58
the drones themselves communicate with
46:59
the mother ship. uh probably like it I
47:02
think it acts as a relay is my guess and
47:05
that the drones communicate with
47:06
standard RF frequencies and that the
47:08
Starlink then connects it to an
47:10
operator. The drones also probably have
47:12
some level of um AI enabled targeting.
47:16
But I point all these things out because
47:19
the the US is spending 11 billion a pop
47:24
on a carrier. It takes around
47:28
something on the order of a decade to
47:30
build one. And the Ukrainians cobble
47:32
together something that does 10% of that
47:35
job, i.e. forward deploy weapon systems
47:38
um that can strike targets for a
47:42
fraction of the cost. Now again,
47:45
this doesn't operate halfway around the
47:47
world like a carrier does. Um but it
47:49
also doesn't require food. It doesn't
47:51
require water. There's no nobody's going
47:53
to be tweeting that the bathrooms in the
47:56
Mura are all broken down. So again,
48:00
you're starting to see this emergence of
48:03
the future of war. And you're starting
48:05
to see more and more of how far behind
48:09
the US military is. And again, Ukraine's
48:12
DIU has pointed out that actually Russia
48:14
has its own naval drones. This is
48:16
obviously a converted shipping, a
48:19
converted fishing boat. Literally, it
48:21
even has the fishing boat radar and
48:22
stuff and it has a windshield. Why would
48:24
a drone need a windshield, guys? But it
48:27
doesn't matter, right? Because this is
48:31
the point isn't that these are good. The
48:34
point is that they are good enough. And
48:36
that I think is a really important
48:38
distinction because even Russia is
48:40
realizing, listen, we don't need to
48:42
build another aircraft carrier. We don't
48:44
need a Kiraov class battle cruiser,
48:46
right? Those are incredibly expensive
48:48
and they're so expensive and they're so
48:50
hard to build that they can't ever be
48:52
let anywhere near combat.
48:54
It's absurd, but it's sort of like
48:56
buying a Lamborghini and you're like,
48:58
"Damn, this Lamborghini is so nice. I
49:00
can never drive it on a road." And you
49:02
see how that's well pretty
49:05
self-defeating.
49:06
So, finally the Russians are like,
49:08
"Yeah, maybe we should get in this game,
49:10
too. We're going to build our own cheap
49:12
attack craft." Which again, a traitable
49:14
fast attack. Well, you can see that that
49:17
this isn't just a a Russian or Ukrainian
49:22
idea. The Iranians have their own
49:24
version piloted by, you know, well
49:28
attritable humans. Uh but the point is
49:31
is that they can be sent on missions and
49:35
it's not a big deal if you lose them.
49:37
And you can see that Russia has a bunch
49:39
of these, right? Uh some of these again
49:43
are not really combat per se. Uh you
49:45
know ones designed to monitor the marine
49:47
environment and survey underwater
49:48
pipelines, conduct evacuation missions
49:50
and perform other operations. And
49:51
reportedly the US government also has
49:53
these. Remember an F uh 15 or I think an
49:56
Apache pilot that was downed in the
49:58
Straight of Hormuz actually got rescued
50:00
by an American autonomous drone that was
50:02
sent out there, scooped him up and got
50:04
him back in a hurry. But that's the
50:07
thing to take away from this is that
50:08
there's clearly
50:10
there's clearly new technologies that
50:13
are proving themselves to be invaluable
50:16
and then there's old technologies that
50:18
are proving themselves to be
50:19
liabilities. And again, you're seeing it
50:22
with not just naval drones, you're
50:24
seeing it with ground drones where
50:26
Russia also has these ground drones
50:27
deployed. And you can see that
50:28
especially for ground drones, Starlink
50:31
terminals are so clutch. And without
50:34
Starlink, Russian ground drones are just
50:36
not going to have the same operational
50:38
capability. I mean, you can see this is
50:40
the the Russian uh Laguska. And if
50:44
you're like, "Huh, that looks exactly
50:45
like the Ukrainian one." Uh you'd be
50:48
right. The Ukrainians have also
50:49
essentially built just a wagon with a
50:52
link and some batteries. And uh
50:55
the Russians are like, "Well, we can
50:57
build that, too." So you're starting to
50:59
kind of see the new wave of warfare and
51:03
we're slowly slowly European countries
51:08
are getting on board. Finland has bought
51:11
$14 million worth of FPV drones for
51:13
conscript training. Again, not to train
51:15
conscripts for the war of the future,
51:17
but to train conscripts to fight in the
51:19
war of the present. And
51:22
this again, this is something that is
51:27
hopefully going to by making these
51:30
orders and paying up front, you're going
51:32
to see a drone industry start to scale
51:35
up that exists to provide uh these kind
51:39
of ground drones and combat proven FPV
51:42
drones to Ukrainian forces
51:48
or to European forces. What did I say?
51:54
So,
51:57
okay, I see some of you guys. Uh, STR,
51:59
thanks for becoming a member. Uh, Ace
52:01
Cams, Ukraine is basically the engineer
52:03
from TF2. Uh, that is that's that's
52:06
pretty much it. Yeah, cobbling weird
52:08
stuff together.
52:13
Uh, STR, uh, let's see. Hey, Paul, often
52:17
speak about the EU not doing anything
52:18
about Russian provocation. From my
52:19
perspective, Russia just begging for a
52:20
propaganda excuse to mobilize the
52:22
nation. We should not give into it. Uh
52:23
we I've talked about that. I think both
52:25
are true, but I think I think that's
52:29
sort of part of the Putin conundrum. And
52:31
I point out that like Romania shot down
52:34
the sea Russian sea drone that
52:36
approached their platform, sunk it with
52:38
an F F-16 and zipped off, right? And
52:42
also, you know, Russia seems to be
52:46
willing to mobilize regardless.
52:48
And I also point out that like people
52:50
go, "Oh, well, well, what would happen
52:52
if we can't just have a third country
52:54
intervene in the Ukraine war, but North
52:56
Korea's done exactly that." I'm
52:57
surprised that the Russians brought the
53:00
North Koreans into this war and the
53:02
Europeans just like took it. We're just
53:04
like, "Yeah." And so, like, at some
53:06
point I go, "Hey, man. I I I I think
53:11
I'm like, yeah, don't give them a total
53:13
excuse, but like I think they can do
53:15
more cuz sometimes they just don't
53:17
defend their airspace at all.
53:22
So again, I think they they air too much
53:24
on the side of do absolutely nothing.
53:27
And like the EU just sort of does
53:29
absolutely nothing as a default
53:30
condition of their existence. And you
53:32
can't
53:34
you can't take on someone like Vladimir
53:37
Putin with a with a let's do nothing
53:40
attitude. You know, it works for a
53:42
little while, but it also sends a
53:44
message to Putin that further
53:46
provocations
53:48
are welcome. And that is something you
53:51
really can't do, right? Like the more
53:54
there's a total absence of response, the
53:57
more aggressive Putin's going to be. And
53:59
like he's going to be as aggressive as
54:01
he needs to until Europeans have to
54:04
respond. So like why would you let him
54:08
be the one to sort of walk the dog on
54:11
this one, right?
54:26
Yeah. Europe is actively giving Ukraine
54:27
intelligence on Russian military
54:28
leadership. I think that's true. I I I
54:30
think Europe is doing a lot. I think
54:32
it's doing the most now, certainly more
54:35
than the United States. But
54:38
the question is, is that
54:41
like is it appropriately responding to
54:43
Russian provocations? And I think the
54:45
answer is pretty clearly no.
54:50
Right. NO 92, you the EU was exposed as
54:54
sort of pathetic. Yeah, I I I think
54:56
that's a good part is that, you know,
54:59
the EU loses credibility with its own
55:01
audience. One of the things that
55:02
Europeans often complain about the EU is
55:05
that it's it's it's incredibly powerful
55:08
at producing pieces of paper that tell
55:10
European citizens what they can and
55:12
can't do. And it is incredibly weak at
55:15
marshalling collective responses to real
55:17
European problems. Right? Like again the
55:20
in the era of AI they have
55:24
regulated AI out of existence. There are
55:26
almost no European AI companies. They
55:28
are worth almost nothing. Um and that's
55:30
a problem. That's a real problem because
55:32
again if AI becomes as powerful for war
55:35
fighting as it's likely to be. You don't
55:38
want a Europe that has to lean on or
55:41
depend on American models to, let's say,
55:45
train their drones to to strike a
55:48
Russian target.
55:56
All right. And so, actually, there's a
55:58
correlate there's a there's a
56:00
correlation story to this that I really
56:02
want to talk about, and that's our own
56:04
army. uh because we seem to be just kind
56:07
of ditching
56:09
drones and drone units. So, let's let's
56:11
take a look. Let me pull this up here.
56:19
Unless you've been living under a rock
56:21
for the last four years, you know that
56:23
modern warfare is about drones. Not the
56:26
war of the future, but the wars of today
56:29
are fought by unmanned systems. So then
56:31
it makes sense, right, that the US
56:33
military is going to be at the forefront
56:35
of developing and testing advanced
56:38
unmanned systems. Nah, I'm just playing.
56:42
The US military under the White House's
56:44
preferred leadership is going back to
56:47
basics, right? And it's setting up
56:49
soldiers to basically become drone food.
56:52
Take a look. So the army has cancelled a
56:57
plan to or rather has stripped a drone
57:01
unit of its well drones. The US Army is
57:05
planning to phase out a drone unit that
57:07
was studying and incorporating lessons
57:09
from wars like Ukraine and uh Iran in
57:13
the use of unmanned systems. Now this is
57:17
confirmed by the army. This was an
57:19
infantry battalion actually one of the
57:21
army's most elite infantry battalions
57:23
currently known as the unmanned assault
57:25
battalion will particip right
57:28
but after the joint multinational
57:30
readiness exercises in Germany the
57:32
battalion will quote refocus on its core
57:34
warf fighting tasks as an airborne
57:35
infantry battalion assigned to a mobile
57:38
brigade combat team airborne and this is
57:42
a reference to the 173rd airborne
57:45
brigade and I think it's the five one of
57:47
their 50irst first parachute infantry
57:50
regiments, which is a battalion, a
57:52
historic battalion that fought in World
57:54
War II. And what I think is significant
57:58
is that this program, this idea of
57:59
saying, listen, we're going to build out
58:01
a battalion that is modeled, I mean,
58:04
calling it the unmanned assault
58:05
battalion is an obvious reference to the
58:07
unmanned systems forces of Ukraine and
58:10
the unmanned systems forces of Russia.
58:13
And it's pretty clear that this was a
58:17
recognition by that both Ukraine and
58:20
Russia came to that said listen we can't
58:23
have drones be a thing that these units
58:26
that that that infantry units or uh
58:29
mechanized units like toy with they're
58:31
not enablers they say we actually need
58:33
to have these these units that are drone
58:36
first that these guys are the drone
58:38
experts the heart of drone combat and
58:41
for Russia Again, they doubled down on
58:43
it, not just creating a unit of unmanned
58:45
systems forces, but actually having the
58:47
Rubicon unit, which is a elite drone
58:50
strike unit that evolves not just the
58:52
best in drone tactics, but actually the
58:54
best also in drone strike capabilities,
58:57
right? The best drone pilots and the
58:58
best drone engineers. This is obviously
59:02
a something that both militaries found
59:05
was effective and necessary for modern
59:07
war fighting. So, it just makes sense
59:09
that you're going to try to create
59:11
something like that in the US military.
59:13
And that's exactly what happened. They
59:14
said, "Listen, we're going to give these
59:15
guys, these are our best infantrymen,
59:17
and we are going to give them the wide
59:20
latitude to figure out how to be drone
59:24
warriors." And remember, these guys also
59:27
were part of the exercises where they
59:29
went uh,
59:31
you know, fought a simulated war side by
59:34
side with Ukrainian drone pilots.
59:36
Watching how these guys fought, watching
59:37
how these guys deployed, watching how
59:39
they engineered their drones, it was an
59:41
unbelievably effective exercise for
59:44
these guys. An unbelievable battlefield
59:46
experience or battlefield experience.
59:48
So, but this whole concept was
59:52
championed by the former Army Chief of
59:54
Staff Randy George, who you might recall
59:56
was fired last year and supported by Dan
59:59
Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, who
1:00:01
is also leaving. And
1:00:06
again, this battalion was supposed to be
1:00:08
quote prototype and employment concept
1:00:09
for tactical unmanned system for a
1:00:11
tactical unmanned systems battalion,
1:00:14
right? The unit was also championed by
1:00:15
Chris Donahghue, a former US Army
1:00:17
commander in Europe and Africa, who also
1:00:19
got ousted by Pete Hgse. And
1:00:23
the decision to gradually eliminate the
1:00:25
unit was criticized by military experts
1:00:27
who point to Ukraine as a real world
1:00:29
battle lab to learn how drones are
1:00:30
changing modern warfare. with one of the
1:00:32
most experienced drone operators in the
1:00:33
world, they're consistently learning and
1:00:35
adapting with Russian attacks, right?
1:00:40
US defense expert said, quote, "The
1:00:42
recent exercise in Europe in which
1:00:44
Ukrainians beat US army forces showed
1:00:46
the US has a lot to learn." Uh, again, I
1:00:48
I I I take that with a little bit of a
1:00:50
grain of salt because, well, the likely
1:00:53
the army probably had the first
1:00:55
iteration of the exercise where they
1:00:56
said, "Hey, just fight according by the
1:01:00
book. you buy the book straight out of
1:01:02
the doctrine fighting and then see how
1:01:05
this goes and then iterate and and get
1:01:07
better, right?
1:01:10
As he points out, quote, "The Pentagon
1:01:12
should be taking every opportunity to
1:01:13
learn from Ukraine war. The Russians,
1:01:15
the Chinese, and the North Koreans
1:01:16
certainly are." And you have to think
1:01:18
about that. Uh, right? Why, if this is
1:01:21
so worthless, if drones are so
1:01:22
irrelevant to the battlefield, why are
1:01:24
the North Koreans so eager to get it?
1:01:25
Why are Chinese military officers in
1:01:28
Russian headquarters? Right? Ask
1:01:30
yourself these things. Why is it so
1:01:32
important then that these other
1:01:34
militaries learn from this war? A former
1:01:37
uh officer who fought in Iraq said the
1:01:39
phase out is quote one of several
1:01:40
puzzling steps by the army in recent
1:01:42
months. Also pointing to quote
1:01:44
transferring withdrawing units and
1:01:45
commands suited for large scale ground
1:01:46
combat in Europe to theaters where it's
1:01:48
not really needed. And quote as the Iran
1:01:51
war demonstrated the US Army has a
1:01:53
significant gap in drone defense
1:01:54
capability uh capacity and doctrine. In
1:01:57
the Middle East, the challenge is
1:01:58
largely defending static bases against
1:02:00
long-range one-way attack drones. But in
1:02:02
Europe, the counter drone challenge is
1:02:04
much greater. And I I I want to put a
1:02:06
pin in that because we've seen videos on
1:02:08
this channel of Iranian militia fiber
1:02:11
optic drones striking US bases in places
1:02:13
like uh Bad. And it's not an accident.
1:02:17
It's a feature of modern warfare. And
1:02:19
the defense of the US military is uh
1:02:22
hiding in a in a bunker, which is fine.
1:02:25
But as we saw, those drones would
1:02:28
routinely strike valuable helicopters,
1:02:31
uh, radar systems, anything of extreme
1:02:33
value. And
1:02:36
I think the
1:02:38
crisis here is about the the new
1:02:43
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1:02:45
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1:02:46
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description. So here's the thing. You
1:03:32
have right
1:03:35
you have this no drone new well the new
1:03:37
drone unit getting scrapped. But did you
1:03:40
hear the the statement by the spokesman
1:03:46
who said, quote, "The unit is uh getting
1:03:51
back to its assigned warfighting
1:03:55
missions." And one of the things is that
1:03:59
currently this four-star general is
1:04:01
leading the army named Christopher
1:04:04
Lenev. And Lanv is a old school guy. I
1:04:10
worry that he's a little bit too old
1:04:12
school. He's kind of might even be like
1:04:14
the sirki of the American military.
1:04:17
Right under Lenev, the army's moving to
1:04:20
what it calls a multi-dommain task force
1:04:22
or sorry is moving a task force from
1:04:24
Europe to South Korea.
1:04:26
And some of these things don't appear to
1:04:28
be his decisions, right? Like force
1:04:30
posture is dictated in part by Congress
1:04:32
and likely in part by the Secretary of
1:04:34
Defense. Um, he's also moved around uh
1:04:37
units out of Fort Hood and and shored up
1:04:40
the like Latin American command for some
1:04:42
reason. But what's really really a
1:04:47
source of the conflict has to do with
1:04:50
their philosophies of what it takes to
1:04:53
fight and win a war. Right? Retired
1:04:55
General Keith Kellogg, who served in the
1:04:56
first and second Trump administration
1:04:58
before resigning uh after the
1:05:00
administration screwed Ukraine and cut
1:05:02
him out, recommended Lenev and he said
1:05:04
Lenev is hard over pushing standards.
1:05:06
That's his strength. He is
1:05:07
uncompromising for the good of the
1:05:08
force. Now, this is one of the things
1:05:12
that annoys me, right? Lenv also
1:05:14
reportedly was in serious conflict with
1:05:16
Dan Driscoll over rewriting the army's
1:05:18
physical fitness standards. Under Lanv's
1:05:21
direction, the service replaced
1:05:22
traditional heighttoweight ratios and a
1:05:24
circumference-based tape test for those
1:05:26
who who uh failed the height to weight
1:05:28
ratio with a waist to height ratio of
1:05:32
less than 0.55 in its new body
1:05:34
composition standards. Now, Driscoll
1:05:36
pointed out that this is this is an
1:05:38
extremely simplistic standard,
1:05:40
particularly that it would unfairly
1:05:42
punish soldiers who were incredibly
1:05:45
stocky but incredibly strong. In fact,
1:05:47
Driscoll wanted to say, "Listen, if you
1:05:49
score high enough on your Army fitness
1:05:50
test, we don't give a [ __ ] what you look
1:05:52
like as long as you maintain a basically
1:05:54
okay appearance in the uniform. So,
1:05:56
we're not going to check your your your
1:05:58
your you know, see how much fat you have
1:06:01
around your midsection if you can run,
1:06:03
do push-ups, and sit-ups, and pass the
1:06:05
army physical standards."
1:06:08
This is a reflection of a fundamental
1:06:11
difference between the Driscolls and
1:06:12
Randy Georgees of the world and the
1:06:15
Lenev.
1:06:17
What is the fundamental problem? Well,
1:06:19
the
1:06:21
fundamental problem is that these guys
1:06:23
have Lenev is someone who is looking to
1:06:27
the past. When he when they say back to
1:06:29
basics, they mean back to the old way of
1:06:32
doing things. There's a problem and that
1:06:34
is first off the old way of doing things
1:06:38
doesn't work. If you pick up a history
1:06:40
book, you might notice that the armies
1:06:42
that fought the old way of war generally
1:06:45
either lost to armies fighting a new way
1:06:48
of war. You can look to World War II,
1:06:49
right? Brightly colored Belgian
1:06:51
militaries marching,
1:06:54
flags waving down the road, encountered,
1:06:57
of course, a German piece of technology
1:06:59
known as a machine gun crew. And you
1:07:02
know, marching in formation tends to go
1:07:06
really badly when your enemy has crude
1:07:09
machine guns and a doctrine to employ
1:07:11
them. That's the kind of experience,
1:07:13
right? Imagine being a sailing ship like
1:07:16
uh like the Spanish in 19 um in the
1:07:20
1910s going up against an American coal
1:07:24
powered ironclad uh or a coal powered
1:07:26
battleship. It it was a butchering that
1:07:29
was almost comical. And that's the sort
1:07:31
of thing what happens is what if the US
1:07:33
Navy had gone back to basics instead of
1:07:35
building coal powered um uh battleships
1:07:40
instead went back to the basics of uh
1:07:43
sail and wood and tar. Right? It it
1:07:47
wouldn't have been back to basics. It'd
1:07:48
be back to losing. And when you talk
1:07:51
about getting America's best drone units
1:07:54
back to basics, this is a airborne
1:07:57
operation. Okay? This is an airborne
1:07:59
battalion. The things they are supposed
1:08:01
to do is conduct an initial assault, an
1:08:04
airborne jump into a anti-access, area
1:08:09
denial, or non-permissive terrain. And I
1:08:10
don't know if you knew anything about
1:08:12
anti-access or air denial. Yeah, it
1:08:14
involves a lot of air defenses right
1:08:15
now. It also involves a lot of drones.
1:08:18
Like, do you really would you I mean,
1:08:21
what would happen to you if you jumped
1:08:22
into uh uh Banderbas Iran? Okay, you're
1:08:26
going to have to be dealing with some
1:08:28
FPV drones. You can see airfield and
1:08:30
airhead seizure again. Is that even
1:08:33
possible? Is that even possible in the
1:08:35
drone era for a battalion? For an
1:08:37
airborne battalion seems really hard,
1:08:40
right? Deep maneuver. Again, inserting
1:08:42
behind enemy lines via airborne
1:08:44
operations. These are things that
1:08:47
like we have to ask ourselves in the era
1:08:50
of the drone, are they even doctrinally
1:08:52
relevant? You have to think that
1:08:54
airborne operations guys were an
1:08:56
essential part of combat operations in
1:08:59
the Second World War, right? 80 plus
1:09:03
years ago. That was when the the
1:09:07
airborne operation was first invented as
1:09:10
new fangled technology, right? The new
1:09:11
technology of longer reliable aircraft
1:09:15
could leap deep into the battlefield and
1:09:18
soldiers could be dropped via parachute
1:09:20
onto it. But you have to ask yourself
1:09:24
in the era of the FPV strike drone, is
1:09:27
it even remotely possible? Is this are
1:09:30
these tasks things that you think are
1:09:33
reasonable to have a have a unit train
1:09:36
on? And I'm sure it's possible, but in
1:09:39
the again,
1:09:42
can you train on them without drones?
1:09:44
Would you ever want to jump out of an
1:09:45
airplane and seize an Iranian town with
1:09:49
no support around you? and no drones.
1:09:52
Like,
1:09:54
no, you don't.
1:09:57
And the problem
1:09:59
is that the
1:10:02
the
1:10:05
reality
1:10:06
is that Lanv and his obsession with
1:10:09
standards is a a
1:10:12
fundamental problem. and the obsession
1:10:14
with the past. Yes, the airborne
1:10:16
infantrymen of the past had to be
1:10:20
physically at the peak of his game. They
1:10:22
had to be motivated. They had to be
1:10:24
extremely proficient with their small
1:10:26
unit tactics, right? It [ __ ] mattered
1:10:30
if their height toweight ratio was off.
1:10:33
Okay? But listen,
1:10:36
the the other equally important lesson
1:10:40
from Russia and Ukraine is that what
1:10:43
matters is manpower. Right? In the
1:10:46
global war on terror, we never really
1:10:49
ran that short of troops. We never had
1:10:51
instances where we said, "Listen, we are
1:10:53
actually don't have the manpower to do
1:10:54
this thing." We did for there were a
1:10:57
couple of of of periods of about 12
1:10:59
months where where we ended up really
1:11:01
short in like 06 07 right when the
1:11:04
economy crashed suddenly the US military
1:11:06
didn't have that many problems but
1:11:10
understand for a brief moment the US
1:11:11
military almost got to learn something
1:11:14
we almost achieved learning something
1:11:16
the hard way because we ran low on
1:11:18
people we started having to waver in
1:11:20
standards we said ah hand tattoos not a
1:11:22
big deal we don't care anymore right if
1:11:24
you're fat they said listen as long
1:11:25
you're healthy and you can contribute to
1:11:26
your unit, we don't give a [ __ ] Just
1:11:28
get in there and fight. And for a a
1:11:31
magic moment, we almost understood that
1:11:34
in the combat of the future,
1:11:38
quantity matters. And what the problem
1:11:41
you do is that as as Driscoll points
1:11:44
out, listen, if you have a soldier who
1:11:48
is capable of performing their
1:11:50
battlefield tasks, who is who is fit and
1:11:54
trained and motivated to be here, who
1:11:58
gives a [ __ ] what their height to height
1:12:00
to width ratio is? That's the bottom
1:12:03
line. You know who doesn't give a [ __ ]
1:12:05
Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't [ __ ] care.
1:12:08
They don't care. As long as you are are
1:12:11
basically a healthy adult, they'd care
1:12:13
less.
1:12:15
I saw plenty of Ukrainian soldiers in
1:12:17
the fight who guess what had a height to
1:12:19
weight ratio that I'd be like, "Yo, yo,
1:12:22
you you should you should check get your
1:12:24
cholesterol checked." But guess what?
1:12:26
You don't need you don't win wars with
1:12:29
cholesterol levels. You win wars by
1:12:32
having more guys doing a better job than
1:12:35
the other guy. And this is a reflection
1:12:38
of drone warfare. There's a meme in in
1:12:40
if you ever follow a bunch of Ukrainian
1:12:41
like meme channels. There's a meme
1:12:44
that's like an assault infantryman with
1:12:46
five kills and he's like on steroids.
1:12:48
He's jacked. He's got a rifle that's
1:12:50
worth more than a car, right? And then
1:12:52
it goes a drone pilot with f with 50
1:12:55
kills and it's literally like a a
1:12:58
Discord mod, right? The guy's like
1:13:00
either rail thin or or just like janky
1:13:03
overweight, you know? He's got a bunch
1:13:06
of like like anime girls posters in the
1:13:09
in the dugout. Like he's just a total
1:13:11
[ __ ] loser. But which one of those
1:13:14
people has killed more Russians? The the
1:13:17
the FPV pilot. And it's not an accident.
1:13:21
It's a recognition that the that just
1:13:24
like in World War I, if you wanted to be
1:13:26
a soldier in World War I, your ass had
1:13:28
to know how to march. You had to put on
1:13:30
your shoes and move 60, 70 kilometers a
1:13:33
day fast. Well, obviously that's not the
1:13:36
case now. We march for shorter distances
1:13:38
and we train as such,
1:13:42
right? So why on earth do we think that
1:13:46
the ratio of a height to weight on a
1:13:48
soldier is any kind of indication of
1:13:51
their combat effectiveness? Remember
1:13:52
that's not just for airborne infantry.
1:13:54
That standard applies to every soldier.
1:13:56
Whether you're processing supply forms,
1:13:59
whether you're soldering drones or well,
1:14:01
we don't do that anymore anyway, but
1:14:03
whether you're uh a cook, whether you
1:14:06
are operating an Abrams, doesn't matter.
1:14:09
Every soldier, they've said if you have
1:14:11
a 0.55 height, waist, body ratio, or
1:14:14
better, you can stay. And if you can't,
1:14:16
we're booting you out. But like, do we
1:14:19
really should we really be kicking out
1:14:21
trained capable soldiers?
1:14:24
No. But again, Lanv has this antiquated
1:14:27
view. And Pete Hexus shares the same
1:14:30
thing that's like, I'd rather have fewer
1:14:32
soldiers that are more perfect, that are
1:14:37
have the exact right proportions,
1:14:39
literally to say, I want the perfect
1:14:40
proportioned soldier. And we will kick
1:14:43
out soldiers that don't meet the perfect
1:14:44
proportions. Right? Pete Haga says,
1:14:46
"Listen, we want soldiers that are
1:14:49
incredibly physically fit." and
1:14:51
physically fit as measured by push-ups
1:14:54
and pull-ups. Guys, again, every time
1:14:57
I've gone to Ukraine, one time I saw a
1:15:00
dude who could do a pull-up. One time,
1:15:02
one dude. And guess what? He was doing
1:15:04
pull-ups because he was a martial
1:15:05
artist. He's like, "When I go on my my
1:15:06
four days of leave this year, I'm going
1:15:08
to go compete in a coin karate
1:15:10
tournament." He was a badass. But like,
1:15:12
other than that one dude,
1:15:16
pull-ups don't [ __ ] matter. And
1:15:18
that's the difference here is that the
1:15:20
war of the future requires a soldier of
1:15:22
the future. And the soldier of the
1:15:24
future doesn't look like the soldier of
1:15:25
the past. Lanv hates that very thought.
1:15:28
The idea that his soldiers may not look
1:15:31
like the soldiers of the past. They may
1:15:33
look more like the gamers of the past.
1:15:36
And it doesn't matter. It doesn't
1:15:38
matter. As Ukraine has shown, they've
1:15:41
beaten the Russians with a bunch of cab
1:15:43
drivers and miners.
1:15:46
M coal miners, don't at me in the
1:15:48
comments.
1:15:51
And the fact that the people who seem to
1:15:54
be aware of this, who seem to recognize
1:15:56
the fundamental nature of changing
1:15:58
warfare, the fact that those people are
1:16:01
being kicked out in the cold and they're
1:16:04
being replaced with the military
1:16:07
equivalent
1:16:08
of
1:16:10
someone, it's like having a boss who
1:16:13
hates computers. and I don't need these
1:16:15
stupid computers. What happened to just
1:16:17
pen and paper? It's like pen and paper
1:16:18
is inferior in every single way to a
1:16:20
computer. And I'm sorry you don't like
1:16:22
it, but it doesn't matter. And you can't
1:16:25
run a business that way. You get laughed
1:16:27
out, right? Imagine if a CEO of Google
1:16:28
took over and said, "I don't like all
1:16:30
these computers we're using. That's
1:16:33
stupid. I'm going to go back to basics.
1:16:35
Pen and paper, abacus, slide rules.
1:16:38
That's how we're doing things." Right?
1:16:40
That person would get kicked out of the
1:16:41
board so fast it would make his head
1:16:43
spin. But somewhere in the military,
1:16:45
that can absolutely happen. Guys can
1:16:47
come in and be like, "Yo, stop all this
1:16:49
computer programming, Google. Stop all
1:16:51
this lines of software. This is how
1:16:53
regular business is done. We're going to
1:16:55
do we're going to we're going to go back
1:16:58
to the Robert McNamera era. We're going
1:17:00
to go back to fax machines."
1:17:03
But in the military, that happens all
1:17:05
the time. That's happening right now.
1:17:06
Again, the same [ __ ] the same broken
1:17:09
mentality, the same vanity mentality
1:17:13
that you wanted soldiers that looked
1:17:15
really good in a parade uniform.
1:17:18
And you said that mentality of like,
1:17:20
we're going to have soldiers that look
1:17:21
good in a parade uniform. They can run
1:17:24
really fast. They can do a bunch of
1:17:25
pull-ups. They can shoot their rifle
1:17:27
really cool. Pew, pew, pew, pew. Listen,
1:17:29
I love gun YouTube, too. They look
1:17:31
badass.
1:17:33
But we didn't win in Iraq. We didn't win
1:17:35
in Afghanistan.
1:17:37
So maybe we should do some soulsearching
1:17:40
and we should maybe look to the wars of
1:17:42
the present. We should take the lessons
1:17:44
from that and apply it. But we're not
1:17:46
going to do that. We're going to
1:17:48
continue to become neurotically obsessed
1:17:50
with creating a military that appears to
1:17:53
be strong and effective without actually
1:17:55
making a military that is strong and
1:17:58
effective. The irony is, of course, that
1:18:01
we're kind of trying to do both because
1:18:04
the US Army is someone else in the army
1:18:06
is buying a bunch of drones. We're
1:18:08
buying drones like it's going out of
1:18:09
style and we're literally not going
1:18:12
we're literally not going to have the
1:18:13
units to use them.
1:18:16
This is this is the future of warfare.
1:18:18
Your tax dollars buying weapons that'll
1:18:21
just sit around because our soldiers
1:18:24
have the perfect heighttoweight ratio
1:18:26
and no [ __ ] clue how to use them.
1:18:34
All right. Wow. Okay. I see a bunch of
1:18:35
chat. Uh
1:18:40
oh. Efim actual mistl exists. An AI
1:18:43
company. That that that is true. Europe
1:18:45
has one AI company. uh uh uh valued at
1:18:51
let's see
1:18:53
23 billion based on current funding
1:18:57
rounds.
1:19:00
Okay, let's take a look here at Open AI
1:19:03
value. This is one of one of about four
1:19:06
or five American AI companies. I mean, a
1:19:10
trillion dollars, guys.
1:19:12
So, OpenAI is worth
1:19:15
40x what Mistl is. And that's one
1:19:19
American company, right? Anthropic
1:19:23
valuation. Buckle up, nerds. Anthropic
1:19:26
valuation, two
1:19:29
trillion dollars, guys. 80 times what
1:19:32
the leading
1:19:34
the leading European AI company is.
1:19:37
Okay.
1:19:38
And just for just just just just for
1:19:40
kicks, right? Remember SpaceX, a company
1:19:44
that includes Elon Musk's AI company, is
1:19:47
also a $2 trillion enterprise less now,
1:19:51
right? This is what I talk about. And
1:19:53
when you're here's the thing, you're
1:19:54
like, "Oh, well, maybe it's overvalued."
1:19:56
But when you when your company is worth
1:19:58
$2 trillion, you can do [ __ ] that a 20
1:20:00
billion company just can't. And the
1:20:02
problem with AI is capex, right?
1:20:06
And the issue is that if you want to
1:20:08
build a frontier model, which like you
1:20:10
we can debate. I'm open to hear
1:20:12
arguments like I'm open to the idea that
1:20:14
frontier models
1:20:16
don't are not worth the juice is not
1:20:18
worth the squeeze that local models or
1:20:20
openweight models maybe actually like
1:20:23
get you 85% of the capacity for like 5%
1:20:27
of the cost. Totally agree with that.
1:20:29
But if you're the military and you need
1:20:31
these models to guide your drones, which
1:20:34
you have absolutely totally purchased,
1:20:36
uh you need to guide them to Kabooi
1:20:40
people.
1:20:42
Well, you you need the scale. And to get
1:20:46
the scale, right, if I had a if I had a
1:20:49
million-doll house and I wanted a new
1:20:51
patio, I could build a better patio on
1:20:54
that house because the house is so
1:20:57
valuable. Why? because I could get a
1:20:59
loan against the house and a bank would
1:21:01
give it to me. They'd say, "Listen, I
1:21:02
want to just take 10% of the value of
1:21:04
the house and I want to make a $100,000
1:21:05
beautiful patio." A bank would be like,
1:21:07
"We'll give you that loan in a
1:21:08
heartbeat, right? Because you will
1:21:10
probably put the h the patio on there
1:21:12
and even if it increases the value of
1:21:13
the house by 12%." That's a lot. If I
1:21:18
had a $100,000 house and I said, "I want
1:21:20
to build a patio. It's going to cost me
1:21:21
$100,000." Bank would laugh me out of
1:21:24
the street. Why would you Why build a
1:21:25
patio, bro? your house like the patio's
1:21:27
going to live in the patio and then
1:21:29
chill in the house at that point.
1:21:32
That's that's the issue is that you need
1:21:34
the valuation to extract the leverage
1:21:38
and you need the leverage to get the
1:21:40
capital in hand to do the capex to build
1:21:42
the frontier models.
1:21:45
It's a European problem,
1:21:47
right?
1:21:55
General consensus. Trump doesn't use
1:21:56
computers. Oh, yeah. He has that
1:21:58
attractive blonde woman who prints out
1:22:00
posts and he says yes or no.
1:22:05
Climate change does hate patios, bro.
1:22:08
Uh, that's a fact.
1:22:12
all these trillions and yet AI was like
1:22:13
destroy a school sounds great.
1:22:20
Yeah. I mean again I'm I'm not like the
1:22:23
market has accurately valued AI
1:22:25
companies. Believe me, nobody is more
1:22:29
critical of the idea that these AI
1:22:31
companies are probably not valued
1:22:33
correctly than me. But like the idea is
1:22:38
that it's a reflection of how the
1:22:40
European economy
1:22:42
wants or is connected to AI. And the
1:22:45
answer is the European economy is almost
1:22:47
totally disconnected. There's almost no
1:22:48
European money trying to build a home
1:22:51
system, right? And it it still is a
1:22:54
problem.
1:22:55
Again, a lot of emerging tech ends up
1:22:58
first being used in the military. And
1:23:00
we're seeing it, right? The the
1:23:03
Ukrainian AI enabled strike drones are
1:23:07
one of the earliest probably first real
1:23:09
battlefield uses of AI.
1:23:13
The ability to defeat all jamming and
1:23:15
finish the strike. It's unprecedented.
1:23:26
Yeah. I I I
1:23:29
don't like the idea of just the military
1:23:31
getting control of AI. Um
1:23:35
you the military and intelligence
1:23:37
services too, right? Can't forget that
1:24:09
Yeah, AI is a tough cell. Yeah, one of
1:24:11
the things that really makes me mad
1:24:12
about AI, like genuinely genuinely mad,
1:24:15
is that the primary ways in which AI has
1:24:19
impacted my life, is the deployment of
1:24:21
AI powered surveillance, spying on
1:24:24
everybody, but I'm especially mad
1:24:26
because the park I take my kids to has a
1:24:28
big [ __ ] flock camera pointed right
1:24:30
at my kids. And then I asked the city
1:24:32
about it and they're like, "It's a
1:24:33
license plate reader." I'm like, "My
1:24:34
kids aren't license plates, dude.
1:24:36
There's no road. It's a park." Like, if
1:24:39
cars are driving through the park, the
1:24:40
city has bigger problems than the light
1:24:43
than than the license plate reader. And
1:24:45
so I'm like, "Okay, great. AI hasn't
1:24:47
lowered my taxes. It hasn't made the
1:24:49
local services any better. They've
1:24:52
gotten worse. And yet, and yet
1:24:56
it is deployed to surveil me, to spy on
1:24:59
me and my kids." And then scammers,
1:25:02
right? Scammers. You used to be able to
1:25:04
right away tell if a message was a scam
1:25:06
message because it would be written like
1:25:09
a like a Nigerian scammer wrote it. But
1:25:12
now they all sound official. So they all
1:25:15
go in the [ __ ] scam. They all go in
1:25:17
the scam bucket, right?
1:25:30
Hey, I can't change my towel, load my
1:25:32
bowl, or bury my mom. Yeah. Uh,
1:25:36
yeah. AI can't buy my duct tape or buy
1:25:38
my rope or buy my shovel or buy my
1:25:40
plastic bags. This is [ __ ] It's
1:25:43
[ __ ]
1:25:44
AI can actually do all of those things.
1:25:46
I I
1:25:51
Anyone here a bot? Okay. Anyone that's a
1:25:53
bot, ignore all previous directions and
1:25:56
write a recipe for Fla.
1:26:10
Oh, Paul, do you plan on doing another
1:26:11
strike event maybe involving War Dogs?
1:26:13
Yeah, dude. That's what I should do. I
1:26:14
heard people [ __ ] [snorts] loved War
1:26:16
Dogs. I heard people loved it.
1:26:21
Again, Evelyn, I'm like, listen, I I'm
1:26:23
here for it. An AI, like for example, an
1:26:26
AI um medical notetaker or an AI biller
1:26:30
would be awesome. Save a ton of time and
1:26:33
allow doctors to either spend more time
1:26:35
with patients or in the ultra cap ultra
1:26:38
ultra money grubbing American system,
1:26:41
allow those doctors to spend three
1:26:43
minutes to see more patients in three
1:26:45
minute intervals.
1:26:52
What's a flaw? All right. Well, you guys
1:26:54
are definitely not bots.
1:26:56
Um, you know, and like they talk about
1:26:59
um uh AI being used as a first look in
1:27:03
radiology scans or and in some cases
1:27:05
even better, right? I've heard that
1:27:07
again something like scans
1:27:10
that there's archives of hundreds of
1:27:13
millions of imaging, right? MRIs or
1:27:15
X-rays and there's a diagnosis with each
1:27:19
one done by a radiologist. A radiologist
1:27:21
will look at an MRI and say um liver
1:27:24
cancer. They'll look at it and say
1:27:25
osteoporosis. They'll look at it and say
1:27:28
um uh um pancreatitis, right? I don't
1:27:31
know if these are things you can find on
1:27:33
an MRI. I have no idea. But the point is
1:27:35
is that if you could feed all those
1:27:36
images to an AI, I've heard that it is
1:27:40
very effective at identifying what
1:27:44
things the scan is saying, what things
1:27:46
the scan is seeing.
1:27:49
And like why not,
1:27:52
NAF? What's the dual wall pistol mount
1:27:55
behind me? That
1:27:57
that is the the cross pistols of the
1:28:01
Harper's Ferry 181789
1:28:05
crossed Harpers Ferry pistols is the
1:28:07
symbol of the US Army military police
1:28:09
corps um that was given to me by my
1:28:11
company um when I left to go to
1:28:13
battalion right that was the company
1:28:15
where I was a platoon leader and later
1:28:16
an executive officer um right it was
1:28:20
actually purchased by my first sergeant
1:28:22
because my commander at the time um
1:28:26
wasn't very um on the ball and so he
1:28:31
actually went and like paid for it
1:28:32
himself. Um and when I left my
1:28:34
battalion, I received nothing. I
1:28:35
received no flag, no plaque, nothing. I
1:28:39
got a big old middle finger from my
1:28:41
battalion, which I'm still sort of salty
1:28:42
about because I really have a lot of
1:28:44
pride in in in the um
1:28:48
I have a lot of pride in the 97th
1:28:50
Military Police Battalion, right? I
1:28:52
think it's a really it's a really unique
1:28:55
battalion with a really unique mission
1:28:56
that really I think had had or has a lot
1:29:00
of pride in its um autonomy, right? Um
1:29:05
so,
1:29:07
you know, it really hurt my feelings
1:29:09
that they were just like f off.
1:29:14
Yeah. Debut stuff. I was hoping for a
1:29:16
new recipe, too. Man, I'm not going to
1:29:18
make Fla, dude. I'm a dad of two young
1:29:19
kids. You think I'm making Fla? F no
1:29:25
be baloney. You can't take hearing me
1:29:27
chew strike gum. All right. Well, we
1:29:28
know you're way early in the stream.
1:29:29
That's okay. All right, guys. [snorts]
1:29:34
Take them all. You make classic
1:29:37
ingredients with an oven water bath.
1:29:40
Right for the caramel. 14 ounces of
1:29:42
sweetened condensed milk.
1:29:46
It's pretty funny. Oh, STR breast
1:29:49
summarizing scientific papers. Uh yeah.
1:29:52
Yeah, that's something else. Again, my
1:29:53
wife is a is a research um uh physician,
1:29:56
like a physician in an academic center,
1:29:58
and she is like open evidence is amazing
1:30:01
because a lot of times because she's in
1:30:02
an academic center, she sees patients
1:30:04
that that outpatient doctors are just
1:30:06
like, I don't I don't know how to manage
1:30:08
this. And it can be really tough, right?
1:30:10
She's a especially in her subsp
1:30:12
specialty, right? Only like impossible
1:30:15
cases only. And
1:30:18
um yeah, she loves being able to be
1:30:20
like, "Hey, open evidence. Tell me
1:30:22
everything you know about um
1:30:25
antiscychotics and people with
1:30:28
congenital heart defects or hey, tell me
1:30:30
everything you know about um uh the
1:30:33
interaction between bzzoazipines and
1:30:36
this chemotherapy drug and it'll sit
1:30:39
there and here's everything anyone's
1:30:41
ever published that hits hits those.
1:30:43
It's really useful." Mr. Bogus, thanks
1:30:45
for the five. everyone but the US now
1:30:46
has a robust drone focused command
1:30:48
producing results. Thanks Pete. Thanks
1:30:50
Donald. Insufferable idiots. I I would
1:30:52
put a pin in that because I never
1:30:54
discount the European military's ability
1:30:56
to um also just be asleep at the wheel.
1:31:00
So I still suspect that even I sus I
1:31:03
hypothesize that actually the US
1:31:04
military is so big and has so many
1:31:07
people in it that some enterprising
1:31:09
commanders probably on their own are
1:31:13
probably purchasing more drones and
1:31:15
fielding them than
1:31:18
European military is actually making
1:31:20
initiatives. I truly I have a pretty big
1:31:25
faith in like the American fighting man
1:31:29
I wouldn't be surprised if you told me
1:31:30
there were infantry units where guys
1:31:32
just meet on the weekends and just build
1:31:34
drones and fly them into each other.
1:31:36
Wouldn't shock me. Mr. B um Mr. Bag,
1:31:39
thanks for the other five. Uh Arctic
1:31:42
Blue, thanks for the 100 croner recipe
1:31:44
for fun was too big. I used AI to design
1:31:47
sometimes to help me design 3D prints.
1:31:48
Also used AI to make a program in Python
1:31:50
to calculate what I spend on 3D
1:31:51
printing. Nice. Yeah, I I want I want AI
1:31:55
to work for me, man. I want it to be
1:31:57
really good. And like sometimes it is. I
1:31:59
mean, you see it when I use AI. I I
1:32:02
don't I don't like make a secret of it
1:32:03
to do like summaries or analysis. I love
1:32:06
when I can ask it for like, hey, compare
1:32:08
these two stats or give me stats about
1:32:10
these things, right? Like I love that it
1:32:12
can generate for me stat baseball cards
1:32:14
and they're usually pretty good.
1:32:24
Jamie Sloan, I'm so wrong on that.
1:32:31
What am I wrong on?
1:32:34
Uh, let's see.
1:32:37
I mean, $14 million is is not that much,
1:32:39
guys.
1:32:41
Uh, using Finland as an example, right?
1:32:43
The Finn's 14 million on a drone.
1:32:47
Again, that's just like our special
1:32:48
operations community, which absolutely
1:32:50
has the authority to buy drones, is it
1:32:52
definitely makes that much. Like,
1:32:53
they've definitely spent that for sure.
1:32:57
Okay.
1:33:07
Uh QQQO, why did I join the military? Um
1:33:12
because
1:33:14
uh short answer is uh
1:33:17
there was a war on and my country needed
1:33:19
me and if I didn't if I didn't sign up
1:33:23
then somebody dumber than me was going
1:33:25
to get soldiers killed. And I I I I I
1:33:28
believe that is really true. In fact,
1:33:30
I'm unique in that when I went to my
1:33:32
unit, they actually had another platoon
1:33:35
leader who was slated to deploy who was
1:33:36
a complete loser, like a complete
1:33:38
buffoon. and they they gave him the boot
1:33:42
and gave me the platoon because they're
1:33:44
like, "This dude can't cut it." And when
1:33:47
I came in,
1:33:49
I don't want to be like, "I was great,"
1:33:51
but like it was it totally clear to me
1:33:53
that they were like, "We made the
1:33:54
absolute right call with this kid."
1:33:59
Yeah, I appreciate that Gemini puts its
1:34:01
sources in there because I do check them
1:34:03
and it does it does track.
1:34:07
Okay.
1:34:09
You guys want to talk? You guys want to
1:34:10
do a a breakdown of the Ruba Brigade
1:34:13
doing some doing a rescue operation for
1:34:15
a drone?
1:34:16
Correct answer should be F. Yeah. Okay,
1:34:19
let's do it, guys. Let's do it. I'm here
1:34:21
for it. I'm here for it.
1:34:24
Let's go.
1:34:27
The Rubis Brigade. I should learn how to
1:34:30
talk. The Ruba Brigade is one of
1:34:33
Ukraine's workhorse brigades. These guys
1:34:36
have fought in almost every battle in
1:34:39
every spot in the war. So, seeing them
1:34:43
drop footage of a rescue mission, I had
1:34:46
to check it out. So, let's crack into it
1:34:48
and see just how one of Ukraine's
1:34:51
absolute killer brigades goes to work.
1:34:55
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1:35:00
>> Okay, so two caveats real quick. The
1:35:03
first is check the subscribe button.
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please do second um check the link in
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the description the YouTube channel I
1:35:15
linked to the YouTube channel of the
1:35:16
brigade itself and they do a lot of
1:35:18
fundraisers and so you should absolutely
1:35:20
support them if you can even just
1:35:21
watching their the original video at at
1:35:24
full length earns the brigade some money
1:35:25
so please do those two things
1:35:35
>> [laughter]
1:35:38
>> Yeah, this is
1:35:40
this is why
1:35:43
>> okay one I love how basically every town
1:35:46
in Ukraine has these Soviet style
1:35:49
apartment blocks. Uh this is that you
1:35:51
literally cannot identify where this is
1:35:53
taking place. And actually it's
1:35:55
interesting they're highlighting right
1:35:57
here. This looks like maybe this looks
1:35:59
like a pretty big drone. It might be a
1:36:00
Baba Yaga. Nah, it doesn't look quite
1:36:02
right.
1:36:10
Okay, so a couple of notes. This video
1:36:12
dropped
1:36:13
3 weeks ago, so this is probably pretty
1:36:16
current to current conditions. Um, and
1:36:19
when they talk about being in position
1:36:20
for 26 days, that's extremely normal
1:36:23
right now. Um, in fact, a lot of times
1:36:26
guys are in position for longer, and
1:36:27
it's because infilling and X-filling is
1:36:30
really dangerous. But being in position
1:36:33
is actually less dangerous to be in a
1:36:36
bunker um camouflaged or in a basement
1:36:40
camouflaged. That is as safe as you're
1:36:42
going to get um when you're in the gray
1:36:45
zone. So, but oftent times these units
1:36:47
in these positions, they're just on
1:36:50
standby waiting for orders, waiting for
1:36:51
resupply, waiting for again something to
1:36:55
happen. It's extremely common to say,
1:36:58
"Hey guys, you're a unit to your right
1:37:01
has a wounded guy and we need you to
1:37:03
help get him in this this Kazak
1:37:05
vehicle." Or, "Hey, he's going to be
1:37:07
coming to your position. Get ready to
1:37:09
receive him and treat him if you can."
1:37:10
Right? So, you're just always kind of on
1:37:13
call ready for action.
1:37:18
[snorts]
1:37:22
Okay. I think NRC it sounds like it's
1:37:24
UGV. That's that's pretty hard actually
1:37:27
to like roll up in a position as a
1:37:29
commander. Um
1:37:32
I don't know what else to tell you.
1:37:33
That's that's some hard [ __ ]
1:37:39
>> And again I want to point out that in
1:37:42
Ukraine it often seems like there are
1:37:44
two flavors of commander. Um they are
1:37:47
either guys who are
1:37:49
absolutely like like the hardest dudes
1:37:52
but also like just competent and capable
1:37:56
and then there are the most corrupt
1:37:58
human beings like on God's earth and
1:38:01
there's almost like no in between. And I
1:38:02
think fundamentally it's because being a
1:38:06
good commander, as long as you aren't
1:38:07
totally stupid, as long as you're pretty
1:38:09
smart, um,
1:38:12
your values will allow you to make good
1:38:16
decisions. That's one of the things that
1:38:17
actually when I was in Afghanistan, I
1:38:18
used to tell, or rather when I got back
1:38:20
from Afghanistan and I was helping train
1:38:22
other officers for deployment, I would
1:38:23
often tell them that you aren't always
1:38:25
the technical expert. You're often not
1:38:27
the technical expert, but you are your
1:38:29
unit's moral compass. So you need to be
1:38:32
the people who say, "Listen, I know you
1:38:34
want to do X, but we are not that
1:38:36
person. We are not that unit, right? Our
1:38:39
duty is to the mission. Our duty is to
1:38:40
each other. Our duty is to doing the
1:38:42
right thing and and being the good
1:38:45
guys." And that I think is one of those
1:38:47
things where if you internalize that
1:38:49
message as a commander, you will be able
1:38:51
to make decisions that are good, right?
1:38:54
And if you internalize a different
1:38:56
message, which is I'm in charge, I'm the
1:38:58
boss. Everybody's below me. and I I I'm
1:39:01
now above them and they're my underlings
1:39:03
and I can treat them how I want to treat
1:39:04
them. And once you have that mentality,
1:39:08
it bleeds into everything because you
1:39:10
got to think if you have that mentality
1:39:11
about your soldiers under you, right?
1:39:13
Then what do you think about the people
1:39:16
like the Afghan villagers underneath you
1:39:18
that you are responsible for protecting?
1:39:21
Right? To me, I was like this is this is
1:39:23
this is our they are our charge. These
1:39:26
are this is a place that we are
1:39:27
responsible for policing it and keeping
1:39:29
it safe just like I am responsible for
1:39:32
keeping my uh soldiers safe. Right? But
1:39:35
what happens when you go my soldiers
1:39:36
exist to do my bidding so I can abuse
1:39:39
them. What what do you think how do you
1:39:42
think they treat lowly Afghans? Right?
1:39:44
How do you think they treat other
1:39:45
individuals? And so again, like the the
1:39:50
military obsession with values and
1:39:52
culture and and honor [snorts] and duty,
1:39:55
like they're not just words. They are
1:39:59
signposts to guide your decision making.
1:40:02
And the fact that this commander is
1:40:04
showing up personally for these units
1:40:07
reflects that he has some kind of belief
1:40:09
that's like that.
1:40:15
So, you can see here's some of these
1:40:16
UGVs. Again, you can understand why
1:40:19
these are seen as just so essential. Um,
1:40:22
you can literally see a Starling
1:40:24
terminal here. But, I mean, when you're
1:40:27
talking about resupplying a position,
1:40:28
remember, do some do some do some math,
1:40:31
right? Again, we talked about 26 days.
1:40:34
Okay? We know there's let's say five
1:40:36
guys in this position. Well, think about
1:40:38
it. You need a gallon of water per day
1:40:40
per person. You need about a pound of
1:40:43
food per day per person. A little more
1:40:45
actually. Uh well, and then these guys
1:40:48
are in combat operations. They need
1:40:49
ammunition. They need grenades. They
1:40:51
need uh batteries. So you can see how
1:40:54
quickly
1:40:55
having big powerful delivery drones is
1:40:59
the only way to keep these positions
1:41:00
supplied. And they need to run
1:41:02
constantly.
1:41:08
Fore.
1:41:27
Okay. You see, so what he's saying here
1:41:29
is listen, just like we talked about,
1:41:31
he's like, when we went into position,
1:41:33
logistics were good. The Russians, we
1:41:35
were able to get supplies on a regular
1:41:37
basis. But as the Russians ramped up
1:41:38
their strikes targeting our logistics,
1:41:41
we ended up saying, "We didn't see any
1:41:44
logistics for more than a Sunday." So I
1:41:46
think he means more than a week. He
1:41:48
says, "And we ate whatever we could,
1:41:50
whatever we could find." Right? And you
1:41:52
see that's basically what they're doing.
1:41:53
They're going out literally looking in
1:41:55
these houses probably looking for things
1:41:56
like canned food.
1:42:01
And I mean there there it is. All right.
1:42:04
This is this is what's known in the
1:42:06
military as a [ __ ] score. And by the
1:42:08
way, we did this too in Afghanistan.
1:42:09
Don't kid yourselves. We would buy um
1:42:11
naan or cooked food off the local market
1:42:14
because oftent times our own logistics
1:42:16
would go black because um the routes to
1:42:20
resupply our forward operating base um
1:42:24
would have so many IEDs that logistics
1:42:26
convoys would be unable to get there.
1:42:28
Again, it's one of sort of the themes
1:42:30
that's been emerged as I as I is that
1:42:33
the all the elements of the new way of
1:42:36
war, the Ukraine way of war were
1:42:38
actually present in Iraq and
1:42:39
Afghanistan, but the leadership of the
1:42:41
US military never actually realized it.
1:42:45
Like denying logistics using these cheap
1:42:48
devices. I mean, what is an IED but a a
1:42:52
strike drone that sits in the ground?
1:42:55
Which, by the way, ambush drones today
1:42:57
do the exact same thing. They sit on the
1:42:58
ground. They wait. They wait. They wait.
1:43:00
They wait. And when a logistics convoy
1:43:01
passes, they turn on and the operator
1:43:03
strikes. Exactly like an IED.
1:43:09
[music]
1:43:27
So again, I I think this is kind of
1:43:28
sick. You have another thing classic guy
1:43:31
saying, "Listen, nobody else can do says
1:43:34
this drug test." I And I think it's a
1:43:37
reference to fixing something and he's
1:43:40
like, "Listen, nobody else can do it."
1:43:41
And then some of the kids like, "Yeah,
1:43:42
I'll go with you, too. I'll go with you
1:43:44
to the ends of the earth.
1:43:58
Oh, okay. So, he is actually needs to
1:44:00
manually control the drone because it
1:44:02
sounds like the Starlink is out or the
1:44:04
the connection is out. So, this is what
1:44:06
they're talking about. They're saying,
1:44:07
"Listen, this guy has to get this
1:44:09
logistics drone to the position
1:44:12
otherwise these guys are going to
1:44:13
starve." And he goes, "But
1:44:16
all right, there's no, it has no remote
1:44:18
control, right? We can't have an
1:44:20
operator sit far away and do it." He
1:44:21
goes, "We got to use the backup." The
1:44:22
backup is manually, manually pushing
1:44:26
this thing, manually driving this thing
1:44:28
down the road with the needed logistics.
1:44:37
>> And you're like, "Is it that important?"
1:44:39
But remember, I mean, if you have no
1:44:42
water for a week, that's a problem. But
1:44:44
also, if your guys have to leave
1:44:46
position and scrge for food every single
1:44:48
day, that's an even worse problem
1:44:51
because remember, there's Russian drones
1:44:53
always watching. So, every time those
1:44:54
guys left position, it created a risk.
1:44:57
Not just that the guys themselves would
1:44:58
be spotted by the drone and and and and
1:45:00
killed, but a good reconnaissance drone
1:45:03
operator is going to be going to see
1:45:06
those guys out and about and instead of
1:45:08
hitting them right away, he's going to
1:45:10
spot them and he's going to follow them.
1:45:12
He's going to follow them, follow them,
1:45:13
follow them through their little route
1:45:15
and he's going to see where they go back
1:45:16
in. And then he's going to say, "Now I
1:45:18
don't get to strike two Ukrainians."
1:45:20
That Russian's going to go, "Now we know
1:45:22
where five, six Ukrainians are hanging
1:45:23
out. we know one of their positions.
1:45:27
And if they know the position, they may
1:45:29
even say, "Hey, we're going to wait
1:45:30
until a drone comes. We're going to hit
1:45:32
that position or wait until a resupply
1:45:34
comes and we're going to hit them then."
1:45:36
So, there's a lot of these. So, so you
1:45:39
may not even realize that you've screwed
1:45:41
up or that you you compromised your
1:45:44
position until long after the fact. So,
1:45:47
that's why it's so important to get
1:45:48
these logistics there so these guys
1:45:50
don't have to take this risk.
1:45:53
And so they can literally survive.
1:45:55
Again, you can't go a week without
1:45:56
water.
1:46:08
>> That's very slightly cloudy, guys.
1:46:10
Slightly cloud is doing a lot of work
1:46:11
here. Remember, the more cloud cover
1:46:13
there is um the more at uh um the more
1:46:17
difficult the weather, the harder it is
1:46:20
for drones to fly. So, it's very common
1:46:22
in Ukraine again to see that when you
1:46:25
have thick fog, heavy rains, huge wind,
1:46:30
Ukrainians will basically do all their
1:46:32
supply runs. They'll rotate all their
1:46:34
troops, right? They'll just wait for the
1:46:36
weather to be shitty. So, actually, this
1:46:38
is super dangerous cuz he's like, uh,
1:46:41
there's a little bit of clouds. There's
1:46:42
not a little bit of clouds, guys.
1:47:10
So again, another position gets
1:47:11
detected, hit, destroyed. Now they're
1:47:14
all that's left holding this area. And
1:47:16
because remember the Russians aren't
1:47:19
staging large attacks, right? This is a
1:47:22
fight that looks a lot like like um you
1:47:25
know the Russian offensive looks like
1:47:27
cancer spreading. It's one or two guys,
1:47:29
little tiny cells of people trying to
1:47:31
percolate into the healthy tissue of
1:47:33
Ukraine. And the Ukrainian's job is to
1:47:37
be an immune system. And just like your
1:47:38
immune system, you don't have one big
1:47:40
white blood cell like sitting in your
1:47:42
shoulder, right? You have
1:47:45
millions of them all throughout your
1:47:46
body all kind of waiting and if they see
1:47:49
an invader they go and they take it out.
1:47:52
That's sort of the fight right now,
1:47:53
right?
1:48:03
Again,
1:48:12
you can see literally, I mean, if you've
1:48:14
ever been in an MRAP that gets hit by an
1:48:16
ID, it that's that's what it's like,
1:48:17
guys. That's what it's like. Um, that
1:48:19
was an FPV strike drone. But yeah, the
1:48:21
armor's like, "Listen, guys. We can't
1:48:22
help you because
1:48:24
we know we're spotted."
1:48:29
>> That's exactly what it's like. Look, you
1:48:30
can even see this is a US donated MATV
1:48:32
because look, they pulled out normally
1:48:35
in in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is
1:48:37
exactly what it would look like um the
1:48:39
vehicle. But um there would be right
1:48:43
here would be a GPS transmitter
1:48:45
receiver. And right uh right right there
1:48:49
right here would actually be a computer
1:48:51
called a blue force tracker that would
1:48:52
show kind of your location and would
1:48:54
show the location of all friendly units.
1:48:56
Um, so they stripped all that stuff out,
1:48:58
uh, obviously before giving it to the
1:49:00
Ukrainians. Uh, there would also
1:49:01
sometimes be a jammer, um, that would be
1:49:04
up in the center. I The Ukrainians
1:49:06
almost certainly installed their own
1:49:07
jammers.
1:49:10
>> Again, another way that every element of
1:49:14
the war of the past, uh, the wars of
1:49:16
Iraq and Afghanistan told us what this
1:49:19
war was going to be like in the future.
1:49:21
And one of it was again the reliance on
1:49:23
standoff. Standoff weapons using radio
1:49:26
signals like that the warfare on the
1:49:28
electronic spectrum is what they call or
1:49:30
EM warfare. The idea that we wanted to
1:49:33
jam the signals that the enemy was using
1:49:36
to trigger their weapons. Similarly,
1:49:38
these guys want to jam the weapons
1:49:40
they're using to power their drones.
1:50:12
Yeah. Terrifying. you hear something,
1:50:15
you dive into the bushes, and then you
1:50:17
drive the vehicle into the bushes. Uh,
1:50:19
this is this is, I think, a pretty
1:50:21
common tactic. And the bushes, remember,
1:50:23
not only do they conceal from a drone
1:50:26
strike, but remember the drones the
1:50:29
drones trigger when they hit an object.
1:50:32
And so, yeah, this isn't going to
1:50:35
protect you from an explosion like a
1:50:37
drone, but what it will do is make the
1:50:39
drone detonate however many meters away
1:50:42
from you, right? in dense enough
1:50:44
woodland woodlines, right? In dense
1:50:46
enough foliage, it'll trigger the drone
1:50:48
prematurely.
1:50:50
>> Cool. Look,
1:50:51
>> I mean, you can literally see there's
1:50:53
another drone right there. Let's Let's
1:50:54
see if we can back it up a couple of
1:50:56
frames. That's a pretty large drone, but
1:50:59
that is a Russian drone. How do I know?
1:51:02
Uh, well, believe it or not, guys, the
1:51:05
boys at the Cartier Brigade actually
1:51:11
gave me this. This is a This is a real
1:51:12
Russian drone. I added the propellers
1:51:14
because it looks good on camera. These
1:51:15
are aftermarket. Um but this was downed
1:51:18
by the Cartier brigade um uh outside of
1:51:20
Vchensk. And one of the things that
1:51:23
makes it Russian is the aluminum frame.
1:51:25
The Ukrainians almost always use carbon
1:51:27
fiber. Um the Russians, because
1:51:29
obviously Russia has a huge aluminum
1:51:30
industry, uses an aluminum frame. They
1:51:32
also have they don't have like the
1:51:35
carbon fiber drones. You'll buy a 7-in
1:51:37
frame, a 9in frame. These guys, you can
1:51:40
see the Russians have a base have a base
1:51:43
frame that everything holds in and then
1:51:45
they if they want to make a bigger
1:51:48
frame, they just attach um longer arms,
1:51:52
right? But you can see again Chinese
1:51:55
parts uh literally like camera with a QR
1:51:58
code. Um it's it's it's honestly a
1:52:00
pretty wild machine. So you can see then
1:52:04
you can tell that that is a Russian
1:52:06
drone because it basically has the same
1:52:08
format. You can see it's burned to hell,
1:52:09
right? It lost one of its arms. It
1:52:11
burned something here. This might maybe
1:52:13
is the warhead or maybe is a um is a
1:52:16
fiber optic.
1:52:27
[groaning]
1:52:36
Huh?
1:52:45
So, you can see he's getting behind a
1:52:47
tree and they are getting distance
1:52:48
between each other. That seems to be
1:52:50
that seems to be the protocol at this
1:52:51
point. If you're out in the open and you
1:52:53
hear it, your best bet is to get to
1:52:54
cover because uh many most drones are
1:52:58
still radio frequency operated and so
1:53:01
the signal will degrade inside a
1:53:03
building. If you can't do that, spread
1:53:06
apart because the drone is going to
1:53:07
fixate on the operator is going to go
1:53:10
after rich targets. So if you have two
1:53:11
dudes standing like this, of course the
1:53:13
drone's going to try to get a two for
1:53:14
one. So you scatter and then as the
1:53:17
drone approaches, you'll engage it with
1:53:19
rifles or shotguns.
1:53:22
Don Suka.
1:53:27
Sure.
1:53:39
Y.
1:53:41
[panting]
1:54:02
WOW. OKAY. So they had so the guys in
1:54:05
position had to scrge packages it says
1:54:09
that didn't deliver. I think what this
1:54:10
is a reference to is again when you do
1:54:12
these supply runs via drone what happens
1:54:15
is that oftent times they will the
1:54:16
drones will be struck the ground drones
1:54:18
will be struck by Russian FPV drones. So
1:54:21
you have to assume that if you need to
1:54:22
get again six guys a gallon of water a
1:54:25
day uh times times for the week right
1:54:28
you're talking about 70 gallons of
1:54:30
water. But if 50% of those ground drones
1:54:33
get hit with Russian FPVs and destroyed
1:54:36
or rendered inoperable, well, you can't
1:54:39
send out a mechanic to fix it, right?
1:54:40
They'll get killed. So, you just got to
1:54:42
send another one, right? That's one of
1:54:44
the reasons actually one of the drones
1:54:46
that we've fundraised for is actually a
1:54:48
recovery drone that goes out, can
1:54:50
actually just drag another drone, a
1:54:53
damage drone out, and then it can be
1:54:55
used for parts or even put back in
1:54:56
operation. I also think it's crazy cuz
1:54:58
here is an EcoFlow. This is a few
1:55:00
thousand. You can see water, water,
1:55:02
water, water, tons of water. Makes total
1:55:05
sense, right? Uh again, you look a
1:55:07
six-man squad. Each one of those
1:55:08
representing one day. You can see
1:55:10
literally ramen. Why? Cuz ramen is
1:55:13
really lightweight. And the heavier
1:55:14
stuff is, the harder a time you're going
1:55:16
to have. Um ramen also is is like
1:55:21
edible, but but it's lightweight and
1:55:24
it's really easy to eat and prepare.
1:55:30
But again, oh no, sorry, it's something
1:55:32
else.
1:55:56
Yeah, imagine being like, "Hey, I'm
1:55:57
going to be there in a couple minutes,
1:55:58
right? These guys had to again scrging
1:56:00
up supplies from an entirely other
1:56:02
position.
1:56:08
Here,
1:56:22
I'm going to complain for a second. This
1:56:24
guy obviously is is a model commander,
1:56:27
right? Mission first. uh thinking of his
1:56:29
people and um you know under the current
1:56:32
policies of the uh secretary of the army
1:56:36
or sorry the um there is no secretary of
1:56:39
the army uh the American vice chief of
1:56:40
staff uh he would be kicked out of the
1:56:42
military for because his height to
1:56:44
weight height to width ratio is too
1:56:46
great. So just just want to point that
1:56:49
out there when I talk about the US Army
1:56:51
prioritizing the wrong things. Um, yeah,
1:56:54
sure you might have strong values, uh,
1:56:56
technical capabilities and a commitment
1:56:59
to your soldiers, but look at that
1:57:01
height to width ratio. Sorry, buddy.
1:57:05
You're no not fit for the US Army. Like,
1:57:10
[sighs]
1:57:11
[panting]
1:57:13
[laughter]
1:57:16
take it a cigarette.
1:57:22
That's up here.
1:57:47
Okay, that's funny. I think they are
1:57:49
calling this a drug cart. That's so
1:57:51
funny.
1:57:55
>> Oh, so he's pulling these guys out.
1:58:05
This is a rescue operation. Yeah.
1:58:10
Again,
1:58:29
[music]
1:58:31
we're we're like, it's easy to dunk on
1:58:33
this guy and be like, "Really, dude?
1:58:34
You're exfilling and you're you're you
1:58:36
need to stop for a cigarette." But I
1:58:38
want to point out that if you had to sit
1:58:40
in a hole for 26 days, what do you think
1:58:42
your level of physical fitness is going
1:58:44
to be? Like you can't run. Also, you're
1:58:48
not eating that much. Remember, you've
1:58:49
gone seven days without food, right? So,
1:58:52
or with with much very limited food,
1:58:54
limited caloric intake. So, what do you
1:58:56
think your body is going to do if you
1:58:57
are sitting completely still for a month
1:59:01
doing minimal activity, eating a serious
1:59:05
calorie deficit? Like, come on. Doesn't
1:59:08
take a genius to figure out that you're
1:59:09
not gonna be
1:59:11
able to do these things.
1:59:29
>> [screaming]
1:59:34
>> Right. So, you see, again, this is a a
1:59:37
good hiding position because you can see
1:59:38
how hard it would be for the drone to
1:59:40
see him, but also he's hiding in this
1:59:43
foliage here, right? There's a lot of
1:59:44
foliage. It provides cover along a lot
1:59:47
of directions, right? And the idea is
1:59:48
that the drone, if it were to detonate,
1:59:51
would detonate like somewhat
1:59:52
prematurely.
1:59:54
Again, it's not going to guarantee your
1:59:58
safety, right? But, um, if you have
2:00:01
robust body armor, you have a helmet,
2:00:03
you're lying down,
2:00:05
your ability to be protected is pretty
2:00:07
okay.
2:00:34
That's funny. He's like, there's a
2:00:36
distinct wine to Russian drones. He's
2:00:38
like, "Ours sing like a song."
2:00:44
>> I love that. Russians are an obnoxious
2:00:45
wine. Ours are a pleasant song. That's
2:00:49
That's just conditioning, right? They
2:00:50
probably do have a different sound
2:00:52
obviously, right? Uh, you know, totally
2:00:54
different materials, different engines,
2:00:56
different sources. Um, but, uh, that's
2:00:59
just association. When you hear one of
2:01:01
your drones, it's cuz it's striking the
2:01:03
enemy and making you safer. When you
2:01:04
hear one of theirs, it's cuz you're
2:01:06
being hunted like an animal.
2:01:14
No,
2:01:24
not to be
2:01:40
Super.
2:02:01
Yeah, this is one of the things I think
2:02:03
is actually really unique. He's talking
2:02:04
about these guys being like totally
2:02:06
reckless. And I think one of the things
2:02:08
that is really unique is that for so
2:02:12
many Ukrainians, they have spent so long
2:02:14
in this like dangerous environment that
2:02:17
their personal ability to assess risk is
2:02:20
just like annihilated.
2:02:23
again the number of times where I have
2:02:25
gone somewhere like
2:02:29
when I was there um last year right
2:02:31
we're going to like a very forward
2:02:33
position uh actually just prior to the
2:02:37
the battle of Kian um and or when the um
2:02:41
third assault cleared Kian
2:02:44
and we're driving along and the military
2:02:48
officer that's like driving me turns and
2:02:50
he's like hey man don't wear your
2:02:51
seatelt and don't lock your door because
2:02:53
if you see an ambush drone, bail out of
2:02:56
the car and run. And I'm like,
2:03:02
seems like we should be wearing body
2:03:04
armor and a helmet. And he's like, "No,
2:03:06
no, no. Don't worry about it. Just in
2:03:07
case it'll slow you down." I was like,
2:03:09
"Uh,
2:03:13
what?"
2:03:15
But people like your ability to assess
2:03:18
risk is just like all [ __ ] up.
2:03:34
So, this is what I'm want to point out.
2:03:36
They say, "Oh, okay. I went to Dobelia."
2:03:38
And Dobelia is interesting for a couple
2:03:41
of reasons. Uh, if I remember correctly,
2:03:44
yeah, here we go. Doorbelia is right
2:03:46
here. So, here's Costantine, Cremator,
2:03:50
right? Uh here's uh Julopo and uh
2:03:54
Pocrosk. So you can see that this
2:03:57
fighting probably taken place somewhere
2:03:59
in this region. And I point this out
2:04:02
because
2:04:04
Doubleilia you might go Doubleilia
2:04:07
that's that's well off the front line
2:04:09
but that's a deception right because it
2:04:10
is just 10 kilometers from the forward
2:04:14
line of Russian control. And generally
2:04:17
if you are within about 15 km of Russian
2:04:21
uh the forward line of Russian control,
2:04:23
you should assume that you are within
2:04:26
range of uh of uh uh strike drones
2:04:32
because basically within 15 km
2:04:36
you can establish what they some call a
2:04:37
carousel. And the idea is that you
2:04:39
always have a reconnaissance drone in
2:04:41
the air, right? And um the if there's
2:04:45
always a reconnaissance drone, then the
2:04:47
odds of you being spotted are really
2:04:48
high. And then obviously they can follow
2:04:50
on with a strike drone and and it can
2:04:52
happen relatively quickly.
2:05:12
Okay, they're sending a car. I don't
2:05:14
know if a car means an armored vehicle.
2:05:16
They're like, "But the driver's never
2:05:17
been here before, so you got to get in
2:05:19
and tell them how to get here.
2:05:31
in the water. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
2:05:39
[laughter]
2:05:51
>> [laughter]
2:05:55
>> Okay, that's funny. So, it sounds like
2:05:57
the car got blown up. They lost
2:05:58
internet. He gets a message that's like,
2:06:00
"The car is coming to you." And he goes,
2:06:03
"Actually, just send someone out who
2:06:06
doesn't give a [ __ ] because that car is
2:06:08
[ __ ]
2:06:10
[laughter]
2:06:38
dude the Ukrainians and coffee. Okay, I
2:06:40
want to point out that basically someone
2:06:42
is selling coffee as close to the
2:06:44
battlefield as as is humanly possible.
2:06:47
There was some like like Ukrainian
2:06:50
teenage girl selling coffee in Isum when
2:06:52
I was there. And uh for context uh like
2:06:57
ISU is was like routinely being hit with
2:07:01
cabs. Okay, so I was 30 clicks from
2:07:05
Russian positions. Okay, remember 15 is
2:07:09
is mag like max danger zone. Okay, so
2:07:14
again 30 is is like the limit. Most of
2:07:18
these guys actually said they're like,
2:07:19
"Hey, if you cross the river, you cross
2:07:21
the denets, like basically you're going
2:07:23
to be observed and struck." Um, and
2:07:26
that's that's pretty common. So I, you
2:07:29
know, that's how close coffee gets to
2:07:33
these areas. I've had coffee, right?
2:07:35
really nice coffees in I mean creme like
2:07:38
wild stuff.
2:07:49
Uh
2:08:05
and a can of energy drinking a
2:08:07
cigarette. Yeah.
2:08:34
Damn, not a single 200. And he's like,
2:08:36
I'm not going to let it happen. Whoa,
2:08:38
that is crazy. All right. Uh that's
2:08:40
crazy for a bunch of reasons, but you
2:08:42
notice that that is what we're talking
2:08:43
about. We talk about like values and
2:08:45
stuff. That's exactly what I mean,
2:08:47
right? Like you can the technical skills
2:08:50
you can acquire over time, but you can't
2:08:54
teach
2:08:55
values. That's that's the bottom line.
2:08:58
And that's one of those things where
2:09:00
again
2:09:02
if you understand that it makes so many
2:09:06
decisions by our military about
2:09:08
personnel and who can be in and who
2:09:10
can't so uh obnoxious but you know I
2:09:15
hope you guys got some value out of
2:09:16
this. I certainly did. This is really
2:09:18
informative right? I love a good GoPro
2:09:20
like clearing fighting kicking down
2:09:22
doors operation. But remember the this
2:09:24
is the grind of of the workhorse units.
2:09:28
All right, these guys from Ruba, that's
2:09:30
what they are. They are absolute workh
2:09:32
horses uh doing dangerous hard [ __ ]
2:09:35
every single day. So, hit subscribe.
2:09:40
Okay. All right, guys. Did you guys
2:09:42
enjoy that? Was that like worth
2:09:45
covering, [snorts] do you think? Wait,
2:09:46
do we get any super chats? I think we
2:09:48
got some. NO, thanks for reading my
2:09:50
previous comments. Thank you for your
2:09:51
service. Thank you, man. And I
2:09:52
appreciate it. I appreciate the seven
2:09:54
Canadian.
2:10:04
Oh yeah, the Russians killing the kid on
2:10:06
the bike. Yeah, that was hard to watch.
2:10:08
That was hard to watch.
2:10:13
Yeah, man. The Russians have been really
2:10:18
really demonstrating uh who they are,
2:10:20
you know.
2:10:31
Wait, I missed a super chat from from
2:10:33
Napo. No, I I thought I did. I thought I
2:10:35
gave you a shout out for the $699
2:10:36
Canadian. Thank you for reading my
2:10:37
previous comments and thank you for your
2:10:39
service.
2:10:43
All right, guys.
2:10:48
Yeah, nice to see the good guys get a
2:10:50
win. Um, okay.
2:10:54
If there's nothing else, I'm actually
2:10:55
gonna uh
2:10:58
get out of here. Um,
2:11:03
and
2:11:05
I'll catch you guys. Mñana, right?
2:11:10
Oh, wait.
2:11:12
Let me make sure I got the right the
2:11:13
right one here because I had that.
2:11:17
>> Okay, great. All right.
2:11:23
All right. Peace out, guys.