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Livestream: Russia Nearly Encircled Near Lyman! · Combat Veteran News

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  encircled nearly cut off near Lyman.
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  Uh the
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  the Britain's issuing their public dire
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  warnings to stockpile canned goods.
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  Yaoza,
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  it's not not really what you what you
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  say to the public when things are going
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  great. And of course, we're going to be
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  doing a breakdown of the road to
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  Costantine, the most dangerous road in
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  all of Ukraine.
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  Flat Earth Hero. Welcome. Please be
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  Please let your name be a joke.
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  I can promise you the Earth is is not
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  flat.
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  100%.
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  I'll be so sad. I'll be so sad. If uh
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  if you tell me that you're like, "Nah,
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  dude. Earth totally flat, bro.
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  So, okay.
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  So sad that flat earther was first.
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  Termin. Well, again, I'm hoping he's
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  joking. Like, everybody loves a good,
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  you know, a good conspiracy joke, right?
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  You know,
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  be like your name being like average
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  reptilian. You're like, "Ah, that's kind
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  of funny,
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  right?
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  Send it. Send it indeed.
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  Okay. So, while we're getting into this,
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  100% flat, level, and stationary.
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  So, then Okay. Okay, I got two
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  questions. How
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  in in the model of the Earth is flat,
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  level, and stationary. Oh, sorry, bros.
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  The gum is getting chewed. Okay, you
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  can't sit there and tell a man who owns
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  a gum company that you shouldn't be
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  chewing strike gum with 90 milligs of
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  caffeine, 100 milligrams alpha GPC. It's
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  made in the USA. It's veteranowned. It's
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  got all the energy of one of these
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  without having to drink carbonated cough
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  medicine. Fits in your pocket. If you're
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  a cop, if you're a nurse,
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  you do [ __ ] with your hands and you
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  still want energy. Lads,
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  these things aren't going to cut it.
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  You're a live streamer who talks with
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  his hands.
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  Ah, jump gum. [laughter]
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  Gum scare.
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  Hey, Clay. This is fun. I know you're
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  trolling, but it's pretty fun. Okay, now
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  I need you to explain two things in your
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  model that I have personally observed
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  personally. Okay. The first is that I
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  several years ago went on vacation. I
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  was the time I was living on the east
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  coast of the United States. It was
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  January. I experienced approximately
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  we'll say 8 hours of daylight.
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  I took a flight took me about eight
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  eight-ish
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  hours. I landed in the southern part of
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  New Zealand.
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  So within 18 hours I experienced in the
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  southern part of New Zealand
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  approximately 20 hours of daylight.
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  How does your flat earth model explain
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  what I observed?
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  Like I'm waiting
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  about made one for my life. I'm day
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  drinking. Listen, man. Just do me a
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  favor.
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  Have an honest conversation about your
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  alcohol intake. I love a good day drink,
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  man.
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  But it's it's a Thursday afternoon, you
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  know. Um there was layovers, right? But
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  yeah, I mean to get to southern New
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  Zealand. Yeah.
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  Grim Grimes. Did I hear the army was
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  sending our drone ending the drone
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  battalion? Bro, we talked about that
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  yesterday.
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  The number of people who casually out
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  themselves is not tuning in to every
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  single live stream. What? Watch every
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  single live stream. I'm kidding. Of
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  course, I can't expect you to watch
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  every single live stream. And the videos
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  do come out eventually.
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  The plane was not a P3 Orion. It was
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  not.
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  It wasn't 80 hours on a single plane.
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  I'd say it was probably whatever 12
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  hours of flying, but to get from
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  basically
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  the the DMV area, the Washington DC area
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  to the southern island of New Zealand.
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  Oh, I stream while you're walking your
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  dog. Hell yeah.
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  Okay, I love how we had the flatearther.
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  I asked him a simple question to explain
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  and now he's gone, which means he was
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  trolling, which would be pretty funny.
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  I'm pretty sure that's the case. But
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  there you go. flat earthers go real
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  quiet
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  when you point out
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  guys. I'm I I understand you're like
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  It's funny cuz I I talk to people I'm
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  like does chewing gum annoy you? Some
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  streams people are like nah it doesn't
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  really annoy me.
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  But today everybody's like, "Don't chew
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  the gum."
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  You were in northern winter, southern
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  summer,
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  New Zealand near the crust, US near the
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  center.
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  the Gleon map.
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  But that doesn't explain that doesn't
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  offer any explanatory
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  of why the sun was up for nine
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  additional hours.
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  What is the Gleon's map? This is This is
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  pretty funny.
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  Okay. So, here you go.
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  All right. We got it here. We got it.
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  Here's a Gleon's map.
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  Okay. It claims that this is I mean this
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  is a flat map of the world. Okay. So,
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  what he Where's the sun go?
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  Like here, I guess.
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  And it rotates like this
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  like.
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  And so how does
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  uh so it's like rotates like this.
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  But when it's winter, okay, when it's
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  winter in North America, what does the
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  sun do in the flat earth model?
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  Like it doesn't make any sense, guys.
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  Try to play it. Does the sun cross this
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  way?
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  But again, I can tell you with a
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  compass, assuming you know the compass
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  points north. That I can tell you for
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  sure based on this map. My compass
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  points north. All right. It points
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  towards all the towns to my north. So I
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  know that my sun appears to rise from
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  here. I know that for a fact, right? So
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  I wake up as you guys do. Sun appears to
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  right rise from the east, set in the
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  west. So I know this is the line the sun
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  transits based on your thesis and given
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  that the earth is flat and and and so
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  walk me through this. How does it so
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  does Australia never see the sun?
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  again explain to me how I got on the
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  plane here in DC, flew
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  uh to uh here New Zealand.
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  And how do I see the sun rise in the
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  east and set in the west? The only way
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  is if it rotates like this.
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  But then how did I observe the sun also
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  rise in the east and set in the west?
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  How did it do the same thing?
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  Like how did I do that? This this model
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  does not complete it, right? Unless the
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  sun sort of wiggle waggles. So it like
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  it just rose for me in DC, right? And
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  set But then I knew I was flying and it
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  followed me like a like a ghost and then
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  went in New Zealand and rose and set
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  much slower. Maybe it's like 10 suns.
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  Your winter sun is lower in the sky,
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  less hours of light because the outer of
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  the circle is where the sun is.
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  Yeah. So what you're saying is
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  so
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  in order for that to happen the sun
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  like how does it rise over the horizon
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  and also so you're arguing for it to be
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  a line based on your Gleon map here then
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  I the the sun would have to change
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  direction according from my perspective
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  it would have to shift something like
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  90°
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  so it would have to not just be lower in
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  the sky but actually be 90° way.
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  But remember, the model isn't about a
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  sphere versus circle. The model also has
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  to incorporate the sun moving around the
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  sun orbiting the earth.
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  The sun traverses the tropics inside and
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  outside of the circle over the year.
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  So it you're arguing that it shifts this
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  way.
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  But it's like very low.
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  Yeah. But again, but in that case,
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  the sun would have to like for this to
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  be true, the sun would never be
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  overhead. Like in the winter in in in
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  basically anywhere in the United States
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  for me to have observed those two
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  things, the sun would have had to have
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  actually been almost south. It would
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  almost have to never rise in the
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  horizon. It would never feel like I
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  would never have direct overhead shadow
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  because it would never be directly
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  overhead.
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  This isn't a flat earth channel. This is
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  somebody who's trying to
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  explain the fact that the seasons like
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  that I've been to both Australia and the
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  United States
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  and that it doesn't really have an
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  explanation for why the sun behaves
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  why the they have radically different
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  daylight hours.
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  The sun is not always overhead, right? A
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  little loud J.
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  Yeah. But like this argument that it
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  rotates in these different spheres
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  holds that like
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  I it struggles to actually make sense
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  because like the sun would have to be so
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  low that it simply becomes no longer
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  visible as it transits the United
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  States, but would have to be so high up
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  that it reaches still pretty high apexes
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  in the sky.
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  So it was like picture it like a dome. I
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  am picturing it like a dome. That's the
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  conventional model. It's a perfect dome,
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  a sphere if you will.
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  The highest the sun gets here is like
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  60° midsummer. And where's here?
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  Yeah, this model just model like
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  there's no position of the sun that
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  makes any sense from this model.
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  Like assuming what you're describing,
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  which is the sun rotating through these
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  these different parts spinning around,
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  the model makes absolutely no [ __ ]
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  sense.
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  It would mean that either the sun would
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  barely crest above the horizon anywhere
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  in the United States. Yeah.
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  Or again,
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  the the 20 hours of sunlight in
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  in New Zealand like can never occur,
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  aren't possible.
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  Yeah, I think it's funny. I'm just
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  having it. We're just having a goof.
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  Three poke hole. Hit the like button if
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  you're pro flat earth.
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  They got arguing with the flat earthers.
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  I'm more having a having a goof letting
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  people filter in. Larry Hootton bro
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  thinks the sun is real.
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  That's right. That's just reflected moon
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  burn. All right, I put on moon screen. I
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  mean, the map looks like a valid like a
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  valid projection.
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  Make sour strike gum, please, guys.
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  We're working on it. That's that's the
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  chemistry experiment that I got sent.
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  All right. Should we uh should we talk
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  about real news? I know. I can see I can
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  see people steadily tuning in and then
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  being like, why are we yelling about the
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  sun?
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  Listen, listen. We're not letting We're
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  not letting these guys work us up. I was
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  just sort of curious, honestly, to be
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  like, explain explain how that happened,
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  right?
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  Make sour apple strike gum. Okay.
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  All right.
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  Let's talk about a real topic. The
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  Ukrainians.
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  Yeah, you know, we got all kinds here.
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  All right, let's talk about this. Let's
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  pull it up. Let's Let's talk about this.
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  All right.
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  The Russians have repeatedly said that
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  the Ukrainian armed forces are on the
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  brink of defeat. But for an army on the
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  brink of defeat, the Ukrainians seem to
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  keep liberating more territory from the
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  Russian army. But the real story isn't
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  just the tactical success, but the fact
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  that for a lot of the analysts, this
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  encirclement is a complete surprise, but
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  again, maybe it shouldn't be. Take a
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  look. So this is a map from Thorill
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  which is a uh Polish analyst covering
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  the war who has pointed out that
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  according to recently acknowledged
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  updates from particularly the third
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  assault uh that the Russian forces in
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  and north of Lyman have been heavily
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  encircled. Now uh this is the
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  encirclement really centers on the town
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  of Kodiatsi
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  and reportedly this is a function of
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  third assault pushing from the north and
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  actually the 60th mechanized pushing
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  from the south pinsing off Russian
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  forces. Now again I want to point out as
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  is as needs to be acknowledged here that
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  that in this war because of the nature
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  of the sort of dispersed front line
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  terms like cut off are a little bit
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  looser but Ukrainian control is very
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  robust on either side of the town of
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  Koiatsi and that is not nothing because
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  if you are a Russian soldier and you
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  need to be resupplied it's or Kazvact,
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  you are going to have to pass through a
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  very narrow channel, a channel in which
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  Ukrainian forces are going to be
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  increasingly able to observe, monitor,
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  and cut off. And that is pretty
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  significant uh and spells a potentially
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  dangerous situation if you are one of
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  the Russian forces in these other towns.
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  And it's also wild because the encircle
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  the encircle and annihilate strategy is
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  something that the Russians have pursued
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  basically since the start of the war.
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  Ever since this war became a grinding
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  stalemate uh battle of attrition, not a
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  war of maneuver, the idea of slowly,
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  creepily encircling an area and then
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  forcing Ukrainians forces to withdraw
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  from it is actually been a reliable part
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  of the strategy. And this is one of the
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  first times I've seen Ukrainians
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  actually execute a encirclement
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  strategy.
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  Now the this is reportedly
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  uh has been the reason we haven't heard
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  anything about it is because of airtight
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  OPSSAC operational security. Now, what's
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  really unusual about this is that not
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  only have the Ukrainians not really
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  released any footage, any information
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  about this offensive action, which has
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  reportedly taken place uh as early as it
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  looks like July, which actually is not
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  that long a period, right? Basically
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  just two months of fighting. And
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  the
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  the fact that this has been totally
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  locked down in on an information space
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  perspective is shocking. But even more
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  shocking is that the Russians also
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  didn't acknowledge this. And it's funny
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  because for the Ukrainians, they likely
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  didn't acknowledge this because they
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  wanted to keep the element of surprise
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  and not allow Russian commanders or the
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  public or even Russian political
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  leadership to get fully a breast of the
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  the how badly the Russians are being
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  pushed back. But more than that, the
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  Russians likely were just quiet about it
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  because it's embarrassing. And if
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  there's one thing that we have
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  consistently reported on on this
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  channel, it's that on the basis of some
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  of the decisions and statements that
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  Putin has made, he himself appears to
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  not be getting briefed completely about
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  the reality of the battlefield. We've
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  seen on many different occasions Putin
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  himself make statements about Russian uh
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  control over key villages and towns,
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  notably Kian, and only to have that
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  refuted by sometimes video evidence. And
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  some of that you can go, oh well, you
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  know, Putin's just promoting his own
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  propaganda. But if you're a strong man
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  like Putin, getting lying opens you up
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  to being exposed and so and frankly
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  humiliated.
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  And so I think Putin may actually be
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  receiving uh lies from his subordinate
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  commanders in part because those
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  commanders get paid based on square
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  kilometers of territory taken. And again
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  in this war it's actually pretty hard to
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  determine whether or not you've taken a
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  territory. And so if you compound these
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  lies on lies on lies, uh, at every level
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  commanders kind of, uh, gassing up or or
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  overexaggerating their effectiveness,
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  adding, you know, if every level adds
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  about 10% to how much territory they've
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  taken, what you can end up with is a
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  situation where the maps briefed to
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  Kremlin officials look nothing like the
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  battlefield reality. And if that's true
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  of the Russian army when it is making
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  its creeping advances, you can bet that
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  the Russian army is probably not
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  acknowledging areas where they are being
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  driven back as we're seeing in this
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  fight. So for context, this salient
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  here, this little bulge north of
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  Crematorsque, a little bit north of
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  Lyman, um actually pretty close to Isum,
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  this is where you're seeing this pinser
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  movement take place. And again, this Ko
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  Diatsi is the kind of focal point of
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  what's believed to be. You can see even
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  these maps haven't officially updated
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  this information,
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  but it's fascinating to see that the
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  [sighs]
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  God bless God bless it. Uh what on earth
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  I have I get more spam ads. I have to
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  turn off my ad block on this because of
• 23:49
  the um
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  because the ads support them and they
• 23:54
  have like the anti- adblock stuff and
• 23:56
  I'm not here to like steal their money
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  um but I end up with crazy [ __ ] like
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  that. So
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  what you end up with is a is a situation
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  where again the Russians are probably
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  not ever going to like openly admit that
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  they have screwed up. There's also
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  though a little bit of a of a uh mapping
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  issue. You can see here this actually
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  has acknowledged the counter offensives
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  south of Kolo Diatsi and actually
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  depicts north of Kodiatsi as being
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  totally Russian controlled. So there's
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  really a lot of questions. There was
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  never really a lot of like solid mapping
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  on either side. But notice the terrain
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  here. the terrain naturally is going to
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  favor a Ukrainian offensive operation.
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  Why? Because of this waterway. You see,
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  when you have to cross a waterway in the
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  era of drone warfare, it gives the
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  defender some really big advantages.
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  Namely, that crossing a waterway is very
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  slow and there's not really a way to do
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  it at scale. And water crossings are
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  natural choke points. So when the
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  Russians send let's say uh 30 guys out
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  from from Blushkana, right, they have to
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  get to one of only a handful of bridges
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  or fords across this river. The
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  Ukrainians in turn don't need to monitor
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  the entire front. If they know where the
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  crossing points are, they simply monitor
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  those crossing points and as soon as
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  forces cross, they can be targeted and
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  struck.
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  now. So, it makes cutting off enemy
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  resupply, at least groundbased resupply,
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  much easier. Now, we know that the
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  Russians are also willing to use things
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  like Molinas to resupply their
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  positions, but you have to think that
• 25:46
  supplying things uh you know 10 kg at a
• 25:49
  time via drone over a nearly 20 km wide
• 25:52
  front and a a area that is also up to 20
• 25:56
  kilometers deep is pretty tough. And
• 25:59
  again, basically everything here, right,
• 26:03
  these these lakes, there's not really a
• 26:05
  scenario where they can be easily
• 26:07
  crossed by a person. Much of this area
• 26:09
  is reportedly uh swamp land. Again, easy
• 26:12
  to maintain observation. You can also
• 26:15
  see a little bit from the terrain map
• 26:16
  that there's actually you have to cross
• 26:18
  this river and then scale up a ridge. So
• 26:22
  this really slows Russian infantry
• 26:24
  infiltration tactics and is just like
• 26:27
  perfect for conducting observation. So
• 26:29
  the Ukrainians likely said, "Listen,
• 26:31
  these guys are going to be vulnerable.
• 26:33
  It's going to be really hard for them to
• 26:34
  be to resupply through this difficult
• 26:36
  terrain. So let's use our drones to cut
• 26:39
  this off." That's my [snorts] theory
• 26:40
  anyway. And then we're going to use
• 26:42
  conventional assault tactics to kind of
• 26:45
  drive south and north, pinching off the
• 26:48
  Russians here. I think that's probably
• 26:49
  what they did. This was an operation by
• 26:52
  the third core, third assault. And I
• 26:55
  think this is really significant because
• 26:58
  one of the reasons I think this opsseack
• 26:59
  works so well is that third assault is
• 27:02
  just a little bit like a cult. And they
• 27:05
  literally have like a secret handshake.
• 27:07
  They actually are one of the few units
• 27:10
  authorized to do their own recruitment
• 27:12
  and recruit training. And I think this
• 27:14
  has the effect particularly in Ukraine
• 27:16
  today of saying, you know, we like we
• 27:21
  get to vet and pick our own recruits.
• 27:23
  And if you know you're going to get
• 27:26
  drafted, you as a Ukrainian are probably
• 27:28
  saying, "Listen, if I'm going to go have
• 27:30
  to fight with a unit, I might as well
• 27:32
  fight with the third assault." Right?
• 27:33
  Third assault, for example, um, every
• 27:35
  one of their soldiers is actually
• 27:37
  trained to what's called CLS or combat
• 27:40
  lifesaver, right? that is every single
• 27:42
  soldier. And normally a combat lifesaver
• 27:46
  is is uh you know a a the idea of like a
• 27:51
  squad uh firstline medic or aid provider
• 27:55
  designated aid provider is the best way
• 27:57
  to think of it. So they get trained for
• 27:58
  example to a st to open a nasal
• 28:00
  ferangeal airway uh to start an IV to uh
• 28:04
  apply I mean apply tourniquet is
• 28:06
  something like basically everybody's
• 28:07
  trained to do but the point is is that
• 28:09
  it takes you know an additional 40 hours
• 28:11
  of training third assault does that
• 28:13
  right because in part they say listen
• 28:15
  part of our culture is that you know
• 28:18
  like we view ourselves as members of a
• 28:20
  brotherhood the third assault
• 28:21
  brotherhood and that means that we don't
• 28:24
  leave soldiers behind we don't stick
• 28:26
  them in positions to die. Um, we get
• 28:28
  them out uh even at significant cost and
• 28:32
  we do everything we can to save lives
• 28:35
  because again today it might be soldier
• 28:38
  X, tomorrow it could be me. And that's
• 28:41
  part of the culture. But I think when
• 28:43
  you also have this insular unit culture
• 28:45
  that values this, they say, listen, part
• 28:47
  of keeping each other safe is
• 28:50
  maintaining operational security. We
• 28:52
  cannot afford to let our people walk
• 28:54
  into traps. And we avoid that happening
• 28:57
  by not letting the Russians know where
• 28:59
  we are. And that means maintaining
• 29:00
  discipline on social media. That means
• 29:02
  means maintaining discipline about where
• 29:04
  you're stationed, about what you're
• 29:05
  doing. Um what you're preparing for. And
• 29:08
  it seems like Third Assault did that
• 29:09
  really successfully, right? And
• 29:12
  um obviously according to reporting from
• 29:14
  Euromidan press uh it's this has been
• 29:17
  reportedly an even more successful uh
• 29:20
  fight than was previously acknowledged
• 29:22
  right and
• 29:24
  the Russian forces again caught in a
• 29:28
  pinser movement and part of this is also
• 29:31
  to help take the pressure off Lyman and
• 29:33
  in turn take the pressure off Slavian
• 29:35
  and Kremursk the last two big cities in
• 29:37
  Dyetsk but I I think the the fact that
• 29:43
  according to at least Thorill what
• 29:46
  you're looking at here is literally I
• 29:48
  mean this is basically just a little bit
• 29:51
  past the border of Kodiatsi which means
• 29:54
  that the units based on the most recent
• 29:57
  uh guesstimates right is probably
• 30:00
  literally within 2 kilometers uh of
• 30:03
  linking up with each other which is
• 30:05
  crazy to see which mean which implies
• 30:08
  kind of that all This has just been kind
• 30:11
  of sliced open, which is not just wild,
• 30:16
  right?
• 30:18
  But this represents also something
• 30:20
  significant because the
• 30:24
  Russians were on the offensive
• 30:27
  uh as of like the end of June which
• 30:31
  implies that just July and August you
• 30:33
  might see in fact a change of again an
• 30:37
  area that is roughly a 12x
• 30:43
  15 kilometer area get
• 30:47
  flip control, right? Almost 150 km we're
• 30:50
  talking about here
• 30:52
  and in in just 2 months, which is
• 30:55
  unusually fast. It's it's lightning fast
• 30:58
  by Russian standards, but even by
• 31:00
  Ukrainian standards, which rely on a
• 31:02
  little bit like faster counter punches
• 31:04
  over smaller areas, it's a very unusual
• 31:09
  event.
• 31:10
  And I think it might be indicative of
• 31:13
  something larger because one of the
• 31:15
  things that we have talked about is that
• 31:17
  over the last couple of of months, we've
• 31:21
  seen Russian casualties rise and a
• 31:24
  corresponding rise in Russian
• 31:26
  recruitment hasn't really materialized.
• 31:29
  And so we estimate right based on the
• 31:31
  30,000 recruits a month that Russia has
• 31:34
  uh reportedly
• 31:36
  uh had. Well, we can see here that
• 31:40
  Russia recruits about a thousand troops
• 31:41
  a day. And you can see that Russian
• 31:44
  losses are as high as it can be as high
• 31:46
  as um uh 1,500 a day. And even on the
• 31:51
  low end, you're talking about 1,200. In
• 31:54
  fact, the lowest casualty day in the
• 31:57
  last 90 days has still had 11 nearly
• 32:00
  1,00 Russian casualties. These are these
• 32:03
  are KIA and and seriously WIA. And when
• 32:07
  you look at those numbers, what you see
• 32:09
  and what we talked about is that every
• 32:12
  month the total number of Russian forces
• 32:15
  actually conducting combat operations in
• 32:17
  Ukraine diminishes. And that's important
• 32:21
  because just like a football team or or
• 32:23
  think of it like a hockey team, right?
• 32:26
  The the a hockey team, right? when uh a
• 32:30
  a a player commits an infraction, he is
• 32:32
  removed from the ice and that team plays
• 32:35
  short-handed. So instead of I think it's
• 32:37
  like five people on the ice, they play
• 32:39
  with four or instead of six people on
• 32:41
  the ice, they play with five. And a 5v6,
• 32:44
  it's hard, but for a brief period,
• 32:46
  right, a 5v6, they can keep the fight
• 32:48
  going. But rarely in hockey, you
• 32:50
  sometimes see two players draw
• 32:52
  penalties. Now you've turned it into a a
• 32:56
  six versus a four. and the odds of a
• 33:00
  goal being scored in that interval is
• 33:02
  incredibly high. And then let's say
• 33:04
  theoretically that you had something as
• 33:06
  bad as a six versus three. Well, at that
• 33:10
  point you would essentially be looking
• 33:12
  at a situation where uh
• 33:16
  scoring a goal would become inevitable.
• 33:18
  In fact, the odds of goals being scored
• 33:20
  rise exponentially
• 33:23
  as each individual uh is removed from
• 33:27
  the ice. That is how it works with a
• 33:29
  military where the Russian military
• 33:32
  operations,
• 33:34
  right? In order for a Russian
• 33:36
  infiltration squad to push out.
• 33:39
  Remember, they have to have drone teams.
• 33:42
  Those drone teams have to be supplied
• 33:45
  and sourced and receive, you know, their
• 33:48
  drones, their batteries, their food,
• 33:50
  their water, their ammunition, right?
• 33:52
  And those drone teams are often supplied
• 33:55
  in turn by other drone teams or other
• 33:58
  logistics units or truck driver units.
• 34:00
  And those truck driver units are also
• 34:03
  resupplied by logistics units, logistics
• 34:05
  depots. Um, and those logistics depots
• 34:08
  receive their logistics from other
• 34:10
  things. So there's this network of
• 34:12
  people, this pyramid of people that
• 34:14
  culminates with a fighting with an with
• 34:16
  an actual Russian infiltration unit. And
• 34:20
  the problem is that what you do when you
• 34:22
  start to lose people is that the
• 34:24
  Russians say, "Listen, we can't afford
• 34:25
  to stop offensive operations." So, how
• 34:27
  do you maintain the the the point of a
• 34:30
  pyramid? The answer is you start pulling
• 34:32
  blocks out of the bottom. You start
• 34:33
  playing Jenga. And the problem is that
• 34:36
  if you don't bring blocks in to replace
• 34:38
  the pyramid, eventually the Jenga tower
• 34:40
  starts to collapse. And that might be
• 34:42
  what we're seeing here. a Russian
• 34:45
  military that has fewer troops doing
• 34:49
  supporting roles, right? In order to
• 34:50
  maintain their offensive operations,
• 34:52
  they have to pull from these supporting
• 34:54
  roles, pull from these diminished units
• 34:56
  that aren't getting backfilled. So now,
• 34:58
  instead of three truck drivers, you
• 35:01
  might have just one, right? Maybe
• 35:04
  instead of of four, you know, fourman
• 35:07
  drone teams providing roundthe-clock
• 35:10
  coverage of an area, maybe there's just
• 35:12
  one drone team that can only operate for
• 35:15
  eight hours at a time. So, when you look
• 35:18
  at that, right, you're going to see when
• 35:20
  you add in those little chinks to the
• 35:21
  armor, again, pulling one block out of a
• 35:24
  pyramid and putting it on the top isn't
• 35:26
  going to collapse the pyramid. Pulling
• 35:28
  15
• 35:29
  might cause some real structural issues.
• 35:32
  And the idea, the fact that we're seeing
• 35:34
  Ukrainian offensives that look like
• 35:36
  this, that create this level of
• 35:39
  territorial change in a comparatively
• 35:41
  short period of time, may indicate that
• 35:44
  this is a Russian army that is that is
• 35:48
  being bled out, that doesn't have enough
• 35:51
  blocks in its base anymore, that hasn't
• 35:53
  replaced the blocks that it's pulled
• 35:55
  out, and it's not going to get better.
• 35:59
  That's the other thing that unlike the
• 36:01
  hockey analogy where uh you might think
• 36:03
  of if you have only four people on the
• 36:06
  ice, those four people might play more
• 36:09
  aggressive physical hockey increasing
• 36:11
  the odds that one of them will draw a
• 36:13
  penalty. And that's kind of what the
• 36:15
  Russians may find themselves having to
• 36:17
  do because the more their
• 36:20
  army is having to make do with less, the
• 36:24
  more likely they are to have situations
• 36:26
  emerge like the one we're seeing in
• 36:28
  Koliati
• 36:30
  where significant amounts of troops are
• 36:33
  potentially cut off. And normally Russia
• 36:35
  would perhaps deploy reserves, try to
• 36:38
  stabilize the situation, try to conduct
• 36:39
  a fighting withdrawal, try to preserve
• 36:41
  some of their combat power. But with no
• 36:44
  reserve in place or with an anemic under
• 36:47
  undermand reserve, there might not be
• 36:49
  anything to deploy here to save them.
• 36:50
  And they'll incur further losses.
• 36:53
  Meaning that the next time there's a
• 36:55
  Ukrainian offensive, maybe the Russian
• 36:58
  forces that were here could be pulled
• 37:01
  out or rotated or put in a reserve
• 37:03
  compon reserve force and they won't be
• 37:05
  available. And so that that subsequent
• 37:09
  attack might even be more successful,
• 37:11
  more one-sided, unless of course Russia
• 37:14
  can find a way to mitigate what's
• 37:16
  becoming increasingly a manpower crisis.
• 37:28
  Uh the Mog, no, that the map we're
• 37:30
  looking at is a is from a guy named
• 37:32
  Thorill.
• 37:34
  Um the uh Thorill's map uses the Russian
• 37:38
  style. He's meant I think he's
• 37:40
  deliberately trying to be a uh a
• 37:43
  reputation of uh Ryar. Um because Rybar
• 37:47
  uses a similar style of map. Um but you
• 37:51
  notice you know this isn't Rybar because
• 37:53
  these are NATO standard symbols right
• 37:56
  and you notice he frames blue which
• 37:58
  indicates friendly in NATO um NATO map
• 38:02
  symbology right so this is third assault
• 38:05
  core or I think this is actually a
• 38:06
  battalion
• 38:08
  right so you have third a third uh
• 38:11
  mechanized battalion you have 66
• 38:14
  mechanized battalion um I think this is
• 38:18
  a I think two dashes is is a squad. So
• 38:22
  maybe a you know a 33rd
• 38:25
  um
• 38:27
  yeah I think it's battalion maybe these
• 38:29
  are companies but again the framing
• 38:32
  tells you that this is not rivar um that
• 38:35
  this is a pro-NATO this is using NATO
• 38:38
  mapping and the red triangle or the red
• 38:41
  diamonds are the NATO symbology for a um
• 38:45
  an enemy it.
• 38:54
  So
• 38:57
  yeah, I think this is a I think this
• 39:01
  really has the potential to be a very
• 39:03
  significant development. again more
• 39:06
  indicative also the fact that we're
• 39:08
  seeing this closely on the heels of the
• 39:13
  offensive operation I think it was by a
• 39:16
  different unit
• 39:19
  one of the mechanized units um in the
• 39:22
  south right remember they also announced
• 39:25
  hey man we just did a big sweep in the
• 39:26
  south we drove all these guys out and
• 39:29
  now in normally you would see a long
• 39:33
  interval a very long interval between
• 39:35
  that that offensive action and another
• 39:39
  significant offensive action by Ukraine.
• 39:40
  You'd see them wait a long time to
• 39:42
  replenish reserves, restock units, train
• 39:45
  up. But now you're seeing that actually
• 39:48
  they have they're conducting offensives
• 39:51
  at a snappier clip. And part of this, I
• 39:54
  think, is to keep the Russians keep
• 39:56
  pushing into the Russians because again,
• 39:58
  what they don't want is in order to
• 40:00
  maintain the casualty rate that they
• 40:01
  need to, they can't let the Russians,
• 40:04
  they can't only
• 40:06
  defend against Russian infiltration
• 40:07
  because the Russians when they start
• 40:09
  running low on people, they'll just
• 40:10
  launch fewer attacks and they'll sort of
• 40:12
  sit back and they'll they'll they'll
• 40:14
  replenish their forces before attacking
• 40:16
  again. The Ukrainians like, "But we
• 40:17
  definitely can't let them do that." So
• 40:18
  they say, listen, we have to maintain
• 40:20
  this quot of forward lean, this forward
• 40:22
  posture. It's also not nothing that this
• 40:25
  took place as the Ukrainian senior
• 40:27
  leadership was in total flux. But that's
• 40:30
  a sign again of kind of the NATO
• 40:32
  NATOification
• 40:34
  of the Ukrainian armed forces. In fact,
• 40:35
  they're doing NATO doctrine better than
• 40:37
  NATO does because again, this is
• 40:39
  something where the third assault was
• 40:41
  literally the the the guys the third
• 40:43
  assault. Like this seems like a third
• 40:46
  assault and 66th operation almost
• 40:48
  entirely, which to me says that the
• 40:52
  senior leadership in Kev, it didn't even
• 40:55
  matter that they were literally didn't
• 40:56
  know who was in charge of the army. It
• 40:58
  didn't disrupt this operation at all.
• 41:00
  which that is actually I think even
• 41:02
  crazier that this seems to have gone off
• 41:06
  not requiring that much direction from
• 41:09
  senior leadership.
• 41:13
  So uh okay
• 41:25
  again it's also a sign I think that
• 41:27
  Ukrainian units are have quite good at
• 41:29
  at independent operation independent
• 41:31
  command. Maybe psycho thanks to the 10.
• 41:34
  Nothing ominous about that name.
• 42:03
  I love how K's like using maps to prove
• 42:05
  a point without a single proof your idea
• 42:07
  is real. Uh I mean Euromid and Press has
• 42:10
  generally reported true facts. They are
• 42:13
  a legitimate news outlet. Um,
• 42:16
  and I think
• 42:19
  uh, Militari,
• 42:22
  I believe, is also covering this. Uh,
• 42:27
  let's see if I can pull this up.
• 42:38
  Let's see.
• 42:58
  Yeah. Let's see if Militarian's got
• 43:00
  this. Uh, they cover third assault.
• 43:10
  Yeah. Again, Euromine's usually pretty
• 43:13
  good about their reporting.
• 43:16
  Um, these guys probably may still be
• 43:18
  keeping it under wraps.
• 43:21
  Let's just see. Let's just see what news
• 43:23
  on Google has, right?
• 43:33
  Let's see. Let's see if I've just made
• 43:35
  this up or if it's actually legitimately
• 43:37
  reported.
• 43:40
  Uh here we go. Here's here's ISW, an
• 43:44
  entirely second source that relies on
• 43:46
  almost exclusively um
• 43:50
  uh legitimate sources.
• 43:52
  And let's take a look
• 43:57
  uh talking about Lyman.
• 44:01
  So this depicts Russ Ukrainian forces.
• 44:04
  Again, this depicts it as
• 44:09
  that Ukrainians, yeah, are again sort of
• 44:11
  putting the pinser on them here. So, you
• 44:14
  can see it there.
• 44:16
  And this is from
• 44:20
  See if we can get this.
• 44:25
  This is from August 26. Yes, this is
• 44:26
  yesterday.
• 44:32
  So,
• 44:37
  Right. Talking about Costa Anteneva,
• 44:44
  uh, Ukrainian forces recently advanced
• 44:46
  in Doropilia and Kian's directions
• 44:55
  again. You got curse,
• 44:59
  right? The Oscill
• 45:02
  Costeneva
• 45:05
  let's see
• 45:09
  more dignets south.
• 45:19
  Oh, this is a Russian occupation update.
• 45:30
  again five hours ago.
• 45:33
  Yeah, this says Ukraine. Here's more
• 45:34
  Eurom mine and Ukraine secret counter
• 45:36
  offensive
• 45:40
  on ice. He says, "I was at an event a
• 45:42
  few days ago. Third assault arrange
• 45:43
  showing off VR anti- drone training,
• 45:44
  shotgun, semi-auto rifle. People could
• 45:46
  practice making cameraing, etc. And very
• 45:47
  tasty food. They know what's up. Good
• 45:49
  food also. I believe it.
• 45:56
  Yeah. Yeah. Third Third Assault knows
• 45:58
  what's up.
• 46:00
  Yeah. Here's another article again by
• 46:02
  David Axe who does really actual like is
• 46:04
  a real reporter.
• 46:07
  Right. Again, Clemen Mullen Ukraine
• 46:10
  forces attacking for two weeks
• 46:11
  unnoticed. Right. Barely any
• 46:13
  geoloccation. Good level of opsac.
• 46:15
  Russians reluctant to publish videos
• 46:16
  from these areas.
• 46:22
  Uh again, he says, quote, "By the end of
• 46:24
  the month, we should have an official
• 46:25
  update on good results. The Ukrainian
• 46:26
  offensive has largely remained secret."
• 46:28
  So, we'll find out. We'll find out if I
• 46:30
  know what I'm talking about or not.
• 46:37
  So,
• 46:39
  we'll see.
• 46:45
  We shall see.
• 46:55
  Yeah, I'm looking around.
• 46:57
  Okay, these guys are just publishing
• 46:58
  screenshots.
• 47:09
  Like I said, I I have pretty good faith
• 47:11
  in uh in the reporting of Euromiden.
• 47:39
  Uh, let's see. Why would you want Russia
• 47:42
  to win?
• 47:45
  Cal explain how does a large offensive
• 47:47
  remain secret?
• 47:51
  Okay. Well, um,
• 47:54
  did you have a stroke? Well, I was what
• 47:56
  I was just talking about. I explained
• 47:58
  extensively why both sides have an
• 47:59
  incentive to keep this a secret.
• 48:02
  It's pretty easy. The Russians don't
• 48:05
  want to acknowledge territorial losses
• 48:07
  because it'll get them fired or, you
• 48:11
  know, Kremlin. Um, plus they will be
• 48:14
  exposed as having lied to their
• 48:15
  commander about success, something
• 48:17
  that's been well documented. And the
• 48:19
  Ukrainians don't want to because it will
• 48:21
  allow the Russians to better prepare and
• 48:23
  better respond to their offensive
• 48:25
  actions, right? It'll allow them to make
• 48:27
  to learn information. It's pretty
• 48:30
  straightforward.
• 48:31
  Tell a guy, "Any new update on the
• 48:32
  conscription guidelines for Ukrainian
• 48:34
  men? I have a friend over there and I'm
• 48:35
  worried he's on the hook." Uh, I haven't
• 48:37
  I haven't seen anything like this. All
• 48:39
  I've seen is some discussion about
• 48:41
  lowering the conscription age to like 55
• 48:44
  or something, but I'm not familiar with
• 48:45
  any new um new guidelines that have come
• 48:48
  out.
• 48:52
  Why is Ukraine keeping it a secret?
• 48:59
  I
• 49:01
  >> [laughter]
• 49:02
  >> Okay, dude. All right, man. Good luck
• 49:04
  out there. Good luck out there in the
• 49:05
  world.
• 49:12
  It's a It's a It's a It's a hard world
• 49:13
  out there. But if you don't understand
• 49:15
  why it's bad to not post on Facebook
• 49:18
  about what your your unit going on a big
• 49:20
  offensive and where exactly they're
• 49:22
  located, um I don't know what to tell
• 49:25
  you. You and the flat earth guy can hang
• 49:27
  out.
• 49:38
  But why mados?
• 49:54
  Okay. Want to talk about the UK?
• 50:08
  Yeah, you shouldn't be I mean I mean I
• 50:11
  understand listen if you've been at war
• 50:13
  for years like you're going to be on
• 50:15
  WhatsApp, you're going to be at on
• 50:17
  Signal. You're you're going to be on
• 50:19
  Facebook. Like you remember a lot of
• 50:20
  these guys have kids. I mean, one of the
• 50:23
  guys, two of the guys actually, one of
• 50:25
  them has a kid my age, and you know, it
• 50:28
  was really sad. Like, when I was there
• 50:30
  in December, we both got videos from our
• 50:33
  spouses, um, showing our our kids almost
• 50:36
  the same age, doing the exact same
• 50:37
  thing, like doing the the crawl practice
• 50:39
  where they sort of get up on all fours
• 50:41
  and they rock back and forth like, I'm
• 50:42
  doing it. I'm doing it.
• 50:55
  And yeah, it was sad. I was like, "Oh
• 50:57
  man, I'm in two weeks I'm going to get
• 50:59
  to go home and I'm going to get to like
• 51:01
  give the little guy a kiss and he's not
• 51:03
  going to go home until like he gets his
• 51:06
  five days annual leave, you know. Uh,
• 51:09
  Sat, do you think it's cowardly for
• 51:10
  Ukrainian men to dodge a draft? Like two
• 51:12
  million Ukrainian men have dodge a draft
• 51:13
  at this point in time?" Uh,
• 51:16
  yeah, kind of. I mean, I hate to on one
• 51:20
  hand, I hate to like sit in judgment of
• 51:21
  people and be like, "You should sign up
• 51:24
  for this like very dangerous war." Um,
• 51:27
  but on the other hand, like when my
• 51:30
  country needed me and there was a war, I
• 51:33
  like signed up for it. So, um, you know,
• 51:37
  I I I understand. I think the tragedy is
• 51:40
  that at this point
• 51:43
  there are
• 51:46
  um
• 51:48
  there's not a lot of like as somebody
• 51:51
  pointed out they're like listen all the
• 51:52
  like highly motivated Ukrainian men that
• 51:54
  are like patriots those people signed up
• 51:57
  in 2023 you
• 52:14
  like draft is a form of slavery
• 52:16
  regardless of the cause. Uh it that's
• 52:18
  true. That's true. It's something I
• 52:20
  think about a lot that like the draft is
• 52:22
  something where we agree collectively
• 52:24
  that nation states just have this
• 52:26
  ability to do, right? They they say,
• 52:28
  "Listen, we can force work and fighting
• 52:31
  out of you. Um
• 52:33
  you know, if you're a man, uh we we can
• 52:37
  force you to fight and kill and die. Um
• 52:39
  if it's necessary to defend the state
• 52:42
  and again, the United States, right, I
• 52:45
  think about a lot like what being
• 52:47
  drafted to fight in Vietnam, being
• 52:48
  drafted to fight in Korea to be like,
• 52:50
  listen, the Vietnamese, there is no
• 52:51
  scenario where they threaten American
• 52:52
  core interests. Like it just doesn't
• 52:54
  happen." And
• 52:58
  Yeah, I mean I think about that a lot
• 53:00
  like like what does it mean when you
• 53:03
  have a society like you know we we
• 53:04
  always love to dunk on the boomers and
• 53:07
  stuff but like
• 53:09
  I maintain that part of the reason that
• 53:12
  the boomers but also their parents the
• 53:14
  silent generation part of the reason
• 53:16
  they built this like big safety net
• 53:19
  society was because
• 53:23
  the
• 53:26
  because their country had asked an
• 53:28
  unbelievable amount from them and when
• 53:31
  your country asks you to do some
• 53:33
  unhinged [ __ ] you go, "Well, [ __ ] a
• 53:36
  dude, you owe me this, right? You owe me
• 53:39
  VA healthcare. You owe me uh uh a social
• 53:44
  security. You owe me FHA backed loans or
• 53:47
  GI Bill backed loans." You have to think
• 53:49
  that like the benefits that current
• 53:50
  veterans get were all given not to
• 53:55
  today's veteran population which is like
• 53:57
  half a percent of the of the US
• 53:59
  population. Um but back then it would
• 54:01
  have been basically 80% of males,
• 54:06
  right?
• 54:09
  So you got to think that
• 54:14
  you know
• 54:16
  the government was like like these
• 54:17
  people were like hey man you asked a lot
• 54:19
  of us you got to
• 54:22
  you got to give something back.
• 54:46
  So, and again, I worry about a society
• 54:48
  that like looks at that that expects
• 54:51
  that like being a citizen of a
• 54:52
  government entails or being a citizen of
• 54:55
  a country, excuse me, being a citizen of
• 54:57
  a country, especially a democracy like
• 54:59
  demands asks nothing of its citizens.
• 55:02
  Like it only exists as a gimme or you
• 55:04
  think your your service to the country
• 55:06
  is paying taxes.
• 55:10
  Like I I've told you this. I loathe I
• 55:14
  loathe the term taxpayer. I'm a
• 55:16
  taxpayer. No, you're a citizen because a
• 55:20
  citizen like a taxpayer my Strikegum LLC
• 55:25
  is a taxpayer. It is an a a a legal
• 55:29
  entity that pays taxes. But Strikeum LLC
• 55:33
  is not a citizen and it doesn't have
• 55:37
  rights and privileges only. That's
• 55:39
  something that citizens have. Yes, I pay
• 55:42
  my taxes. I do it. I I play no tax
• 55:45
  games, right? Trust me, I have I have
• 55:50
  two investment properties that
• 55:52
  essentially have become completely
• 55:53
  unprofitable because I pay every local
• 55:56
  tax. Even though my my manager is like,
• 55:59
  "Dude, they're never going to come after
• 56:00
  you for the county short-term rental
• 56:03
  taxes, I don't care. I do the right
• 56:05
  thing." And if you and I'm like, "If
• 56:08
  they raise the taxes, I'm just going to
• 56:09
  have to sell the properties because they
• 56:11
  obviously don't." But the point is the
• 56:13
  point is is that yeah, your citizenship
• 56:17
  involves sure being a taxpayer, but
• 56:19
  you're also required you have to be an
• 56:21
  informed voter, right? You're if you're
• 56:23
  going to cast a vote in a democracy, you
• 56:25
  should know things about who's running
• 56:27
  and why.
• 56:30
  Yeah, Richard. Non-citizens also pay
• 56:32
  taxes. Exactly. I mean, that's true.
• 56:34
  That's that's that's another example of
• 56:35
  someone who pays taxes, right?
• 56:37
  Non-citizens, non-citizen entities pay
• 56:39
  taxes. Um, but I I don't like the idea
• 56:42
  of a taxpayer because also it like like
• 56:45
  Elon Musk pays let's say a thousand
• 56:48
  times more taxes than I do or a million
• 56:51
  times more taxes than I do.
• 56:53
  But
• 56:55
  he [snorts] is not a million times more
• 56:57
  important a citizen than I am. But if
• 56:59
  you use taxpayer as the metric of
• 57:02
  importance as a reflection of who you
• 57:04
  actually serve. I serve the taxpayer.
• 57:07
  But like Congress doesn't serve the
• 57:08
  taxpayer. They serve the voters. They
• 57:10
  serve the citizens of this country. They
• 57:13
  do not serve the taxpayers or they're
• 57:14
  not supposed to. Obviously, they serve
• 57:16
  the people who write campaign
• 57:18
  contributions, which implies that they
• 57:20
  are, of course, taxpayers. And the fact
• 57:22
  that they just like sort of dropped the
• 57:23
  mask and are like, I work for the
• 57:25
  taxpayer. And you're like, okay, so you
• 57:27
  work for Elon Musk or Tesla or or
• 57:32
  Tencent or Alibaba or or the big pharma
• 57:35
  or whoever writes you checks, right?
• 57:38
  and you work for them because they pay
• 57:40
  the most taxes. They're the best
• 57:41
  taxpayers. And sometimes in the bottom
• 57:45
  40% of Americans, they can [ __ ] right
• 57:47
  off, right? Like my kids aren't
• 57:49
  taxpayers.
• 57:51
  Are they citizens? Should Congress work
• 57:54
  on their behalf? Yeah, probably.
• 58:14
  Birth-based citizenship is not a chosen
• 58:16
  state. It should not carry obligations
• 58:17
  like the draft.
• 58:21
  That's that's one way to look at it. Uh
• 58:25
  I didn't ask to be born, bro. I mean, if
• 58:28
  you want to get technical, yeah, you can
• 58:30
  surrender your citizenship. You can
• 58:32
  easily surrender your citizenship. You
• 58:34
  just you got to I mean you got to find
• 58:36
  another country of residence and but
• 58:39
  that's pretty easy to do. And then you
• 58:40
  just go to a US embassy and you say,
• 58:42
  "Hey, I'm here to surrender my
• 58:43
  citizenship." I think it's like 1,500
• 58:44
  bucks.
• 58:52
  Uh let's see.
• 58:54
  I wonder what the process is for
• 58:56
  surrendering
• 58:58
  US
• 59:00
  citizenship. I'm going to get like a
• 59:02
  bunch of crazy ads. All right. If you
• 59:04
  thought my ads were weird before,
• 59:06
  they're going to be worse now. Okay.
• 59:07
  Surrendering renouncing US citizenship.
• 59:08
  Inerson appearance for a US consular,
• 59:10
  diplomatic officer, US embassy or
• 59:11
  consulate outside the United States.
• 59:13
  Must be done abroad, obviously. Um,
• 59:16
  schedule an appointment, contact US
• 59:18
  Department of State, request an
• 59:19
  appointment, bring your US passport,
• 59:20
  proof of citizenship, like a birth
• 59:22
  certificate, proof of foreign
• 59:23
  citizenship or nationality, right? You
• 59:26
  just got to be something else. Uh, you
• 59:28
  got to have somewhere else to stay.
• 59:31
  Fill out documentation, but don't sign
• 59:33
  them until you're instructed to do so.
• 59:36
  Council officer will verify you're
• 59:37
  acting voluntarily without duress and
• 59:39
  that you understand the irreversible
• 59:40
  nature of the choice. Pay a
• 59:42
  non-refundable renunciation fee because
• 59:44
  it's the government. Take the oath of
• 59:46
  renunciation and then sign it. But it's
• 59:48
  irrevocable. You can't you can't change
• 59:50
  your mind. You should hold or require
• 59:52
  citizenship in another country.
• 59:53
  Otherwise, renunciation leaves you
• 59:54
  stateless.
• 59:56
  Doesn't automatically clear plus tax
• 59:58
  obligations. You may be subject to exit
• 1:00:00
  taxes or a final filing.
• 1:00:04
  So there you go. You don't have to be
• 1:00:06
  here. You don't want to be a citizen,
• 1:00:08
  that's fine.
• 1:00:28
  Jane Johnson. Yeah. Even if someone who
• 1:00:30
  hasn't worked a single day still pays
• 1:00:31
  tax if he buys Yeah. food, sales tax.
• 1:00:33
  That's a good point. That's a good
• 1:00:35
  point.
• 1:00:39
  But again, my kid my my my kid like my
• 1:00:42
  my kids cannot legally purchase
• 1:00:43
  anything. Um
• 1:00:46
  like
• 1:00:48
  uh my 80-year-old grandmother. You also
• 1:00:50
  produce again like the tears of like,
• 1:00:53
  okay, my 80-year-old grandmother pays
• 1:00:55
  probably like functionally nothing in
• 1:00:57
  taxes because she has basically no
• 1:00:59
  income. Um, [clears throat] you know,
• 1:01:02
  I'm sure she pays I'm sure like there
• 1:01:05
  might be some taxes because her her
• 1:01:08
  like,
• 1:01:10
  you know, her my uncle pays for her like
• 1:01:13
  care home like like is the uh power of
• 1:01:16
  attorney pays for her care home. So they
• 1:01:18
  should probably pay some taxes there.
• 1:01:19
  But like the the working for taxpayers
• 1:01:21
  implies that you work for both human
• 1:01:24
  beings and for legal entities that pay
• 1:01:26
  taxes
• 1:01:28
  and that it implies the existence of a
• 1:01:30
  score in which in which like citizens
• 1:01:34
  are all like voters all have one vote. I
• 1:01:36
  work for the voters. Each voter gets one
• 1:01:38
  vote. All voters are equally important
• 1:01:40
  regardless. But if you work for the
• 1:01:42
  taxpayers, then you're implying that if
• 1:01:45
  you pay $1 in taxes, you're one
• 1:01:48
  millionth as important as someone who
• 1:01:50
  pays a million dollars in taxes.
• 1:02:25
  again the like you shouldn't force
• 1:02:26
  people to fight, bro. It's like okay
• 1:02:29
  well like you shouldn't but but that
• 1:02:31
  also implies like uh you should just
• 1:02:33
  volunte
• 1:02:34
  where their taxes go they'll just give
• 1:02:36
  you taxes. They'll just hand over the
• 1:02:38
  taxes if they like what they're being
• 1:02:40
  used for. No, they won't. That's stupid
• 1:02:42
  and you're an idiot if you think that.
• 1:02:45
  Not you. I'm not saying that's what you
• 1:02:46
  think, but like you would you would
• 1:02:48
  laugh at someone who says that who says
• 1:02:50
  people will just see what the taxes buy
• 1:02:51
  and they'll just voluntarily turn over
• 1:02:53
  their money. You're like, "Nah, dude.
• 1:02:55
  That's not how this works." We all know
• 1:02:57
  that's not the case. You got to have
• 1:03:00
  like carrots and sticks, right? Mostly
• 1:03:03
  sticks. And you know, you say, "Listen,
• 1:03:08
  like you're happy to consume the things
• 1:03:10
  that society provides, like the safety,
• 1:03:13
  um the secure property rights, the lack
• 1:03:17
  of roving gangs of want and committing
• 1:03:19
  want and violence, the lack of of
• 1:03:22
  warlords, um you know, the the running
• 1:03:25
  water, the electricity.
• 1:03:28
  Um,
• 1:03:30
  [clears throat]
• 1:03:32
  like if you like all those things, then
• 1:03:33
  you have to realize that living in that
• 1:03:35
  society comes with obligations. Part of
• 1:03:37
  it is voting and being informed and
• 1:03:39
  making sure you you
• 1:03:42
  put into you advocate for policies that
• 1:03:45
  you think are going to be best for your
• 1:03:47
  for the free society of the future. You
• 1:03:50
  also have to pay your taxes and not play
• 1:03:52
  stupid games, right? Not again you can
• 1:03:55
  surrender your citizenship and you won't
• 1:03:56
  have to pay those taxes but you also
• 1:03:59
  have other obligations you know again
• 1:04:02
  those things can include like um
• 1:04:06
  like you know being drafted fighting in
• 1:04:09
  a critical war that your nation has. Um,
• 1:04:12
  you also have an obligation, for
• 1:04:14
  example, to do other things that are
• 1:04:16
  like basically pro-social, right? Um,
• 1:04:20
  you know, respecting the rules of the
• 1:04:22
  country, right? If the country has a law
• 1:04:25
  that says that you can't
• 1:04:28
  like
• 1:04:30
  um
• 1:04:32
  that says no no no spitting on the
• 1:04:36
  president or whatever. You can't spit on
• 1:04:37
  him. um you you just got to go, hey, I I
• 1:04:41
  gotta respect this, right? Civil
• 1:04:42
  disobedience. I get it. That is a but
• 1:04:45
  those are the whole point of civil
• 1:04:47
  disobedience that it is very carefully
• 1:04:49
  done, very selective and in advance of
• 1:04:53
  like of like deeply held beliefs.
• 1:04:59
  Uh Richard, no, no, no, no. You have to
• 1:05:01
  pay taxes uh the the final tax if you
• 1:05:03
  surrender. Also, I guess if you earn
• 1:05:05
  money in the United States, but you you
• 1:05:07
  can't if you surrender your citizenship,
• 1:05:08
  you have to reside somewhere else. It
• 1:05:10
  has to be done abroad,
• 1:05:28
  right? There's also things like you have
• 1:05:30
  to, you know, in in emergencies, you
• 1:05:33
  know, you may also have to do certain
• 1:05:36
  things like you may have to listen to
• 1:05:38
  authorities, right? Like uh
• 1:05:42
  for example, there's a there was a um an
• 1:05:44
  active shooter situation like in my
• 1:05:46
  neighborhood like somebody had called
• 1:05:47
  the cops and was like, "I have a gun.
• 1:05:48
  I'm going to hurt myself." Well, the
• 1:05:50
  cops had to sit there and tell people,
• 1:05:52
  "Hey, listen. Don't go outside. There's
• 1:05:54
  there could be a shooter." And yeah, did
• 1:05:57
  they legally have the authority to
• 1:05:58
  imprison me on my home? No. But like as
• 1:06:01
  a citizen, also as someone who enjoys
• 1:06:04
  not being shot, I was like, we all just
• 1:06:06
  got to play the rules, right? This is
• 1:06:08
  one of those things. You live in a
• 1:06:10
  civilized society. You want to have
• 1:06:12
  police that can respond to these sort of
• 1:06:13
  things. Then you have to like like not
• 1:06:17
  be a jerk to them and not pointlessly
• 1:06:19
  make their life difficult. Again, does
• 1:06:22
  that absolve police from misconduct?
• 1:06:24
  Does it mean you always listen to a cop
• 1:06:26
  no matter what? No. But like that should
• 1:06:28
  be your default
• 1:06:32
  your default response, right? You that
• 1:06:34
  like without a compelling reason to say
• 1:06:35
  otherwise. Part of living in a civilized
• 1:06:37
  society, a a society is saying, "Listen,
• 1:06:40
  that's just something we do here,
• 1:06:41
  right?" When when a traffic cop is goes
• 1:06:43
  like this, you're not like, "F that guy.
• 1:06:46
  Some dude in the road can't tell me to
• 1:06:47
  stop." Like, no. Uh what happens if
• 1:06:50
  you're stateless? It just means that you
• 1:06:51
  live somewhere, but you're either a
• 1:06:53
  refugee or a you have like you have a
• 1:06:57
  different status in a country that's not
• 1:06:58
  citizenship. Lots of countries make
• 1:07:02
  citizenship hard to access. Uh you could
• 1:07:03
  live, for example, in Dubai, right? You
• 1:07:05
  go, you get residency, but you don't
• 1:07:07
  have a you're not a citizen of Dubai.
• 1:07:09
  You're just a Dubai resident and you're
• 1:07:11
  a stateless person.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah,
• 1:07:43
  interesting. DJ, yeah. Uh, talking about
• 1:07:46
  who didn't vote in the last election.
• 1:07:47
  Okay, I know this is like distraction
• 1:07:48
  and we've we've got other stories to
• 1:07:50
  cover, but I do want to point this out
• 1:07:51
  because I think it's interesting. Um
• 1:07:55
  uh if
• 1:07:58
  okay
• 1:08:02
  here is a map that's called if did not
• 1:08:05
  vote was a candidate in each election.
• 1:08:06
  This is all eligible voters who won and
• 1:08:09
  all eligible voters not who won among
• 1:08:12
  people that voted but basically if did
• 1:08:16
  not vote was a candidate
• 1:08:19
  a huge portion of the electorate
• 1:08:23
  would have just never happened. No one
• 1:08:25
  would have won. I mean did not vote
• 1:08:27
  would have won easily.
• 1:08:29
  Um which is interesting and I think
• 1:08:32
  that's actually true of almost all
• 1:08:34
  elections.
• 1:08:57
  The towel has co mandates. Okay, dude.
• 1:08:59
  Get over yourself. Like
• 1:09:03
  most of them, believe it or not, were
• 1:09:05
  suggestions. Were either suggestions or
• 1:09:08
  they were policies of private businesses
• 1:09:11
  that can do whatever they want. like my
• 1:09:13
  grocery store doesn't have a legal
• 1:09:15
  obligation to like have me wear a mask.
• 1:09:21
  And again, believe it or not, in a
• 1:09:24
  crisis, the government
• 1:09:27
  has some emergency powers to handle
• 1:09:29
  public health crisis.
• 1:09:34
  And again, if you think that they're
• 1:09:36
  like there it was a totalitarian
• 1:09:38
  dictatorship, but you can't believe that
• 1:09:40
  and also simultaneously be like there
• 1:09:42
  was unprecedented protest and rioting
• 1:09:44
  like you can't say both. You can't be
• 1:09:46
  like Americans were totally oppressed
• 1:09:48
  and destroyed by a by a totalitarian
• 1:09:52
  regime. And also there were remember
• 1:09:54
  January 6 was a was co January 6 2021,
• 1:09:58
  right? You can't you can't say both. You
• 1:10:01
  can't be like January 6th was a was a
• 1:10:03
  large peaceful protest that nothing bad
• 1:10:06
  happened, but also COVID banned freedom
• 1:10:08
  of speech forever, right? You can't say,
• 1:10:11
  "Oh, Black Lives Matter protest
• 1:10:13
  destroyed all your blue cities and also
• 1:10:16
  freedom of speech was banned."
• 1:10:19
  Like, you got to pick one. You gota you
• 1:10:21
  got to pick one.
• 1:10:26
  Like, your grocery store asked you to
• 1:10:27
  wear a mask and I'm sorry. I'm sorry
• 1:10:28
  that happened. Yeah, I would have
• 1:10:30
  preferred to not have a global pandemic.
• 1:10:33
  I I would have preferred that.
• 1:10:40
  I know the trolls are in here just
• 1:10:41
  getting me worked up, but you know, I'm
• 1:10:42
  just in a mood today. I'm I'm all hyped
• 1:10:44
  up on Strike Gum.
• 1:11:17
  N I I like this cuz here's the thing
• 1:11:19
  with the trolls. One, it's something to
• 1:11:21
  talk about. Two, I think it's really
• 1:11:23
  good because it's like inoculating,
• 1:11:24
  right? It's it to me I think my goal is
• 1:11:27
  with some of these trolls is that if you
• 1:11:30
  encounter them in your real lives, they
• 1:11:33
  love to
• 1:11:35
  like trolls love to put these things
• 1:11:36
  out. And there's real people that
• 1:11:38
  believe these things, right? Trolls that
• 1:11:39
  believe absurd stuff I don't I don't
• 1:11:40
  like get get worked up about. But I
• 1:11:43
  think it's really important when
• 1:11:44
  somebody says something that is a
• 1:11:46
  popular opinion I disagree with to say,
• 1:11:48
  "Listen, here is the way here is the
• 1:11:51
  evidence-based framework for why we we
• 1:11:55
  believe these things." Because a lot of
• 1:11:57
  times people a lot of times people's
• 1:11:59
  response is, "Well, that's just wrong."
• 1:12:01
  Like flat earth. Like flat earth, that's
• 1:12:03
  just wrong. But then you go, okay,
• 1:12:06
  how would like what exactly are they
• 1:12:08
  claiming and what exactly have we
• 1:12:10
  observed in our individual lives that
• 1:12:12
  refute this and like why do we know
• 1:12:14
  they're wrong? So this way, right, maybe
• 1:12:15
  you have a young cousin, maybe you have
• 1:12:17
  a kid who goes, "Hey man, I've been
• 1:12:19
  consuming a lot of stuff and they say
• 1:12:20
  the earth isn't round." You go, "Hey,
• 1:12:23
  let's talk for a minute." Right? You
• 1:12:26
  know, why
• 1:12:28
  like why do they why is the day so much
• 1:12:30
  longer in Australia than, you know, why
• 1:12:32
  is it summer in Australia but winter
• 1:12:34
  here?
• 1:12:38
  Like I want to give people tools to be
• 1:12:42
  better analysts and better thinkers. And
• 1:12:45
  when someone comes into the chat and
• 1:12:47
  rolls out misinformation or
• 1:12:48
  disinformation,
• 1:12:50
  um, you know, again, I'll take it and
• 1:12:53
  say, "Okay, here's the claim. Let's
• 1:12:55
  let's break down this claim. What does
• 1:12:57
  it mean? Right? And again, especially we
• 1:12:59
  can couch it in our values like we talk
• 1:13:01
  about being citizens. Being citizens
• 1:13:03
  means some of these things happen,
• 1:13:05
  right?
• 1:13:14
  Again.
• 1:13:18
  Okay.
• 1:13:23
  Jimmy Turbo, you and me, boss. You and
• 1:13:25
  me, boss. The sun is somehow both so low
• 1:13:28
  it disappears quickly over the horizon,
• 1:13:29
  but also so high that it appears like
• 1:13:32
  directly overhead despite it not like we
• 1:13:35
  we we talked about it earlier in the
• 1:13:36
  stream. It it the the altitude of the
• 1:13:38
  sun makes no sense.
• 1:13:42
  A critical thought is our biggest
• 1:13:43
  national deficit. That's the real
• 1:13:44
  critical mineral. All right. The real
• 1:13:46
  critical mineral is [ __ ]
• 1:13:49
  the ability to perform basic analysis.
• 1:14:10
  Can we make a list of the Paul is wrong
• 1:14:12
  award? Yeah, I mean I was wrong. I
• 1:14:14
  thought when the war started I was like
• 1:14:16
  Russia big, Ukraine small, Ukraine's
• 1:14:18
  going to get its ass kicked. I was
• 1:14:19
  wrong. I got that [ __ ] way wrong.
• 1:14:26
  Okay guys, let's talk about it.
• 1:14:36
  The government of the UK is warning its
• 1:14:38
  citizens that they should be prepared
• 1:14:40
  for war. But it seems like their
• 1:14:44
  warnings are actually completely
• 1:14:46
  grounded in reality. Just how is the UK
• 1:14:50
  potentially sleepwalking itself into a
• 1:14:53
  war? Take a look. So Russia
• 1:14:57
  has threatened to strike British
• 1:14:59
  military targets. The defense ministry
• 1:15:00
  of the UK says that quote sites beyond
• 1:15:02
  Ukraine's borders could be targeted or
• 1:15:04
  sorry the defense ministry of of Russia
• 1:15:07
  says that site quote beyond Ukraine's
• 1:15:09
  borders could be targeted after Ukraine
• 1:15:10
  used a British-made missile. Now Russia
• 1:15:13
  has threatened to strike British
• 1:15:14
  military targets inside and outside of
• 1:15:16
  Ukraine after British missiles were used
• 1:15:17
  to hit Russian territory. This is from
• 1:15:20
  the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign
• 1:15:22
  Ministry who in a briefing in Moscow uh
• 1:15:26
  literally said, "We're going to hit you
• 1:15:28
  beyond Ukraine's borders."
• 1:15:30
  And I point this out that this is sort
• 1:15:32
  of stupid on a number of levels. First
• 1:15:35
  off, she accused London of bearing
• 1:15:37
  direct responsibility for what she
• 1:15:39
  characterized as terror attacks on
• 1:15:40
  Russian soil and warned that those found
• 1:15:42
  quote guilty of war crimes against
• 1:15:43
  Russian civilians would be quote
• 1:15:45
  punished commensurate to their deeds.
• 1:15:47
  Now, this is because the Ukraine used
• 1:15:50
  British Storm Shadow missiles, a
• 1:15:52
  long-range cruise missile to strike
• 1:15:53
  targets inside of Russia. and some
• 1:15:56
  Russian civilians have indeed been
• 1:15:57
  killed uh in the missile and drone
• 1:16:01
  attacks that uh Keev has conducted
• 1:16:04
  against Russian logistics targets
• 1:16:06
  particularly Russia's state o oil
• 1:16:08
  industry as well as um a key Russian
• 1:16:12
  logistics hub uh the Wildberries which
• 1:16:15
  sells significant amounts of personal
• 1:16:17
  military equipment to Russian mobilized
• 1:16:19
  service members or sorry Russian contra
• 1:16:21
  contract service members. Now,
• 1:16:23
  obviously, uh Andy Bernham, prime
• 1:16:26
  minister of the UK, said that Moscow was
• 1:16:28
  making outrageous threats. Uh Russia
• 1:16:30
  also earlier this week threatened to
• 1:16:31
  attack British factories,
• 1:16:34
  uh after it gave Ukraine the blueprints
• 1:16:36
  to build its own storm shadow missiles.
• 1:16:38
  Now, what I think is wild about this is
• 1:16:42
  first and foremost that this is this is
• 1:16:45
  transparent Russian hypocrisy, right?
• 1:16:47
  They like to, and this is a really
• 1:16:49
  classic Russian maneuver, to um to try
• 1:16:54
  to hide behind a mirror to say, "Ah,
• 1:16:57
  you're the bad guys here." Because
• 1:16:58
  almost everything that Russia accuses
• 1:17:00
  the UK of doing, Russia is extremely
• 1:17:01
  guilty of. Uh first off, the very notion
• 1:17:05
  of that a third country
• 1:17:08
  is somehow
• 1:17:11
  uh that by providing aid or assistance
• 1:17:14
  to Ukraine that this constitutes being a
• 1:17:17
  bringing a new country into the war in
• 1:17:19
  unprecedented escalation.
• 1:17:21
  Russia is currently not may but has and
• 1:17:25
  is currently deploying North Korean
• 1:17:27
  troops uh who are conducting combat
• 1:17:30
  operations. drone operators, ballistic
• 1:17:31
  missile units are currently firing
• 1:17:33
  missiles at Kev like as we speak. So
• 1:17:38
  Russia is the one who is really bringing
• 1:17:39
  in third party countries into this. Uh
• 1:17:42
  you also of course have the fact that
• 1:17:44
  Russia has as a matter of routine
• 1:17:46
  targeted civilian sites particularly um
• 1:17:50
  for years they've been targeting uh
• 1:17:51
  power generation facilities in the
• 1:17:53
  winter in order to freeze Ukrainian
• 1:17:56
  civilians to death which they do every
• 1:17:58
  year. Uh they also Russia has routinely
• 1:18:00
  targeted um shopping malls and in fact
• 1:18:04
  targeted a shopping mall then actually
• 1:18:05
  doubletapped it killing uh a bunch of
• 1:18:08
  first responders. So the very notion
• 1:18:11
  that the UK is somehow a belligerent
• 1:18:16
  because it's given Russia a ballistic
• 1:18:18
  missile is is kind of absurd. And again,
• 1:18:22
  the fact that they call the use of Storm
• 1:18:24
  Shadow cruise missiles terror attacks
• 1:18:26
  against Russia uh and a war crime is
• 1:18:29
  also comical because again, if we're
• 1:18:32
  going to be arresting people for war
• 1:18:34
  crimes, there's basically the entire
• 1:18:36
  Russian military is fairly clearly
• 1:18:39
  culpable in this. Uh but again, this is
• 1:18:43
  part of the Russian propaganda machine.
• 1:18:46
  Now, where things get more interesting
• 1:18:48
  is what the UK is telling its citizens
• 1:18:50
  at home. Because as we have talked about
• 1:18:53
  here, by the way, the other hypocrisy of
• 1:18:55
  Russia is that the UK government has
• 1:18:59
  been targeted repeatedly
• 1:19:01
  by Russian intelligence services with
• 1:19:05
  attacks, sometimes very dangerous
• 1:19:07
  attacks. Um
• 1:19:10
  the hybrid war by Russia against the UK
• 1:19:14
  is kind of wild and the we found for
• 1:19:19
  example that UK Prime Minister Kier
• 1:19:21
  Starmer uh his home and his personal
• 1:19:23
  vehicle were emulated by arsonists um
• 1:19:27
  working on behalf of the Russian FSB but
• 1:19:30
  also
• 1:19:31
  uh the Russia has been conducting
• 1:19:34
  routine cyber attacks against the UK.
• 1:19:37
  Russia has been uh uh targeting right
• 1:19:41
  with with um bombs or uh arson attacks
• 1:19:46
  uh drone factories and other suppliers
• 1:19:49
  inside the UK. Right?
• 1:19:53
  So this
• 1:19:55
  this notion that the the Russians are
• 1:20:00
  completely don't want any of this.
• 1:20:02
  They've done nothing to to the the UK is
• 1:20:05
  being a big mean bully is absolutely
• 1:20:07
  absurd. And the
• 1:20:12
  unwillingness of the UK to come out and
• 1:20:15
  and honestly, I mean, the UK does come
• 1:20:17
  out and say it that listen, Russia
• 1:20:20
  conducts routine hybrid attacks against
• 1:20:25
  UK government facilities. And now the UK
• 1:20:27
  is actually warning its citizens,
• 1:20:29
  listen, stock up on food. Now, they
• 1:20:31
  frame it as a threat from the the the
• 1:20:33
  climate crisis and hostile states, but
• 1:20:35
  I'm going to be honest, hostile states
• 1:20:37
  probably leading the charge here. Or at
• 1:20:41
  best, it's going to be like a hybrid
• 1:20:42
  version of it, right?
• 1:20:45
  Uh right. The government's resilience
• 1:20:47
  campaign aims to ensure people can cope
• 1:20:49
  in a national disaster to free resources
• 1:20:50
  to help the most vulnerable, those who
• 1:20:52
  can't. But UK citizens are told to stock
• 1:20:55
  up on tin food and take steps to ensure
• 1:20:56
  they're prepared for national
• 1:20:57
  emergencies as part of a new government
• 1:20:59
  campaign to improve the nation's
• 1:21:00
  resilience. Right?
• 1:21:03
  People should be able to prepare for
• 1:21:04
  extreme weather events, potential
• 1:21:06
  attacks from hostile states, stock up on
• 1:21:08
  bottled water, uh food, and other basic
• 1:21:11
  supplies. Uh households should have
• 1:21:13
  knowledge of how to cope in a crisis to
• 1:21:14
  free up immediate government resources
• 1:21:16
  to help the most vulnerable. And this
• 1:21:18
  could range from cyber attacks which
• 1:21:20
  again as we have talked about uh Russian
• 1:21:22
  hackers routinely target critical
• 1:21:25
  infrastructure uh
• 1:21:28
  like water supply facilities right or
• 1:21:31
  power generation stations. So
• 1:21:35
  I mean again a quick search here reveals
• 1:21:37
  that the Russian governments routinely
• 1:21:40
  target uh all kinds of critical
• 1:21:44
  infrastructure. I mean it's it's almost
• 1:21:46
  like a joke. Uh almost every hospital my
• 1:21:48
  wife has ever worked at has been
• 1:21:49
  targeted by Russian hackers and had its
• 1:21:52
  um uh patient care portals and and
• 1:21:54
  patient records and entire electronic
• 1:21:57
  systems downed. And by the way, every
• 1:21:59
  time those hospitals make a statement
• 1:22:00
  where they say we have backup paper
• 1:22:02
  backups, they do not. Uh I can tell you
• 1:22:04
  that the intake form for their
• 1:22:06
  psychiatry department um was generated
• 1:22:08
  by me. Uh my wife texted me when when
• 1:22:11
  they got hacked, this was years ago, and
• 1:22:12
  she was like, "Yo, we have no intake
• 1:22:14
  forms." And I was like, "Okay." Okay, I
• 1:22:15
  Googled the different hospitals intake
• 1:22:17
  form in the US and I just changed the
• 1:22:19
  letter head and sent it to her. Um, so
• 1:22:21
  there there's no backups. These these
• 1:22:23
  these hospitals are absolute dog [ __ ]
• 1:22:26
  But again, it is normal for Russia to
• 1:22:31
  make these sort of to to target this
• 1:22:34
  critical infrastructure. Obviously, if
• 1:22:36
  they were to target it in an incident
• 1:22:37
  where say there's extreme heat straining
• 1:22:39
  the power grid, right? Imagine the power
• 1:22:41
  grid getting hacked during another heat
• 1:22:42
  wave or flooding or any number of
• 1:22:45
  disasters, right? And I think that's the
• 1:22:47
  real fear is that the UK may say, "Hey,
• 1:22:50
  listen. What would happen if there was a
• 1:22:52
  massive heat wave, a bunch of people had
• 1:22:54
  heat injuries, and then the Russians
• 1:22:56
  hacked the NHS's uh uh hospital
• 1:22:58
  admission system, right? It would be a
• 1:23:02
  critical critical disaster, right? or
• 1:23:04
  again a winter uh a freezing winter
• 1:23:07
  storm and the UK's um power grid gets
• 1:23:11
  hacked and taken down. These kind of
• 1:23:13
  things are worst case scenarios for
• 1:23:16
  sure, but
• 1:23:19
  uh
• 1:23:21
  oh my god. Okay, but this is this is
• 1:23:24
  classic. The government was criticized,
• 1:23:26
  however, for its decision to send an
• 1:23:28
  emergency phone alert warning of
• 1:23:30
  wildfires last week, which charities and
• 1:23:32
  domestic abuse survivors said risk the
• 1:23:34
  safety of people who might be hiding
• 1:23:36
  secret phones.
• 1:23:40
  Guys,
• 1:23:42
  if you have a secret phone, keep it
• 1:23:45
  turned off until you're ready to use it.
• 1:23:49
  Classic. I mean, that's that's the UK.
• 1:23:52
  The UK is just like
• 1:23:54
  No one complains as much as uh the UK
• 1:23:59
  people in the UK. I've never seen a
• 1:24:01
  country where more people whine about
• 1:24:03
  things and get taken seriously.
• 1:24:05
  But the bigger takeaway is that the UK
• 1:24:08
  seems to be aware something big and bad
• 1:24:10
  is coming. And the Baltics are too,
• 1:24:12
  right? They are saying that the Russia
• 1:24:15
  threat hasn't been mitigated or changed
• 1:24:16
  at all by the CIA director's Moscow
• 1:24:19
  visit. And remember, this isn't because
• 1:24:22
  the Baltics assess Russia to be uh
• 1:24:25
  peaceful or nice or not a threat. The
• 1:24:28
  Baltics have also been victims of
• 1:24:30
  Russian cyber attacks, sabotage, uh
• 1:24:35
  public opinion influence, uh repeated
• 1:24:38
  drone incursions. remember uh a Russian
• 1:24:41
  attack drone armed with real explosives
• 1:24:44
  uh three of them actually were found to
• 1:24:46
  have flown into Leipzig airport uh
• 1:24:48
  targeting a Ukrainian cargo plane that
• 1:24:51
  was full of high explosives that were
• 1:24:53
  being shipped to Ukraine as military
• 1:24:56
  aid. So the Russians obviously are more
• 1:24:59
  than capable of staging real significant
• 1:25:02
  terror attacks and
• 1:25:05
  again Estonia's minister right not
• 1:25:07
  mincing words the threat posed by Russia
• 1:25:10
  and possible provocations against NATO
• 1:25:11
  must be taken seriously and that's
• 1:25:13
  precisely what we're doing again taking
• 1:25:14
  things seriously and taking robust
• 1:25:16
  action are not the same thing right you
• 1:25:18
  you have to do both you have to take it
• 1:25:20
  seriously and then take actual action
• 1:25:23
  but they also add I want to tell the
• 1:25:25
  people of Lafia there's currently no
• 1:25:26
  reason for concern. Lafia's level of
• 1:25:28
  military threat has not changed. The
• 1:25:29
  risk of direct military invasion threats
• 1:25:31
  to Lavia is currently low. That is that
• 1:25:33
  is true. And I think again this is the
• 1:25:36
  real fear is that this hybrid war
• 1:25:41
  is dangerous, but it's dangerous in ways
• 1:25:45
  that are meant to be hard for
• 1:25:47
  governments to counter. Right? The UK
• 1:25:49
  can very much handle a military
• 1:25:52
  incursion, right? a a Russian um you
• 1:25:54
  know Russian tank brigades driving into
• 1:25:56
  Latvia is something NATO is ready for.
• 1:25:59
  NATO is not ready. NATO countries are
• 1:26:02
  not ready for what happens when again
• 1:26:04
  Russian propagandists uh push a message
• 1:26:07
  that a um that a highly communicable
• 1:26:12
  disease is actually not dangerous at all
• 1:26:15
  and the government is lying to you. uh
• 1:26:17
  or when as we discussed uh a freeze
• 1:26:21
  happens and hackers down the power grid,
• 1:26:24
  right? Or a flood uh uh requires a surge
• 1:26:29
  of aid to a a remote town and someone
• 1:26:32
  associated with the Russian government
• 1:26:34
  destroys railways leading to that town.
• 1:26:37
  This is something that you governments
• 1:26:39
  are just not that prepared to do. And
• 1:26:40
  it's very hard to get people to
• 1:26:43
  understand the difference between a
• 1:26:47
  these kind these kind of threats and a
• 1:26:49
  true national crisis. It's very
• 1:26:51
  difficult and the Russian the Russians
• 1:26:54
  exploit this all the time. Also because
• 1:26:57
  this is part of almost like a Russian
• 1:26:59
  insurgency. Uh having fought an
• 1:27:01
  insurgency in Afghanistan, what I can
• 1:27:03
  tell you is the insurgency wants to core
• 1:27:06
  goal of an insurgency is to humiliate
• 1:27:09
  the legitimate government, to make the
• 1:27:11
  legitimate government appear powerless.
• 1:27:13
  And that's one of the reasons why
• 1:27:15
  oftentimes insurgencies will target uh
• 1:27:18
  individuals or institutions of zero
• 1:27:21
  military significance. They'll just blow
• 1:27:23
  up random cars. They'll just start a an
• 1:27:26
  interthnic conflict. And the reason they
• 1:27:28
  do it is because it's about it's about
• 1:27:31
  showing the people that their government
• 1:27:33
  is powerless to to stop anything. And
• 1:27:36
  that's a core part of this Russian
• 1:27:37
  strategy as well. That's why they send
• 1:27:39
  these drones, right, again and again
• 1:27:41
  because they are want to send a message
• 1:27:43
  to the average lobby and the average
• 1:27:44
  member of the UK to say, "Listen, your
• 1:27:47
  government isn't as strong as they want
• 1:27:49
  you to think it is. They can't stop our
• 1:27:51
  drones. They can't stop our hackers.
• 1:27:53
  They can't even protect their prime
• 1:27:54
  minister's own house from being burned
• 1:27:56
  down by Russian FSB agents."
• 1:27:59
  And so
• 1:28:01
  I think that's why you when you combine
• 1:28:03
  that with the fact that the United
• 1:28:04
  States is become a less and less
• 1:28:07
  reliable ally, you start to see why
• 1:28:09
  these governments are grasping its
• 1:28:10
  straws here. Right? Reportedly, Berlin
• 1:28:12
  is actually weighing funding the UK
• 1:28:14
  nuclear arsenal. Uh not out of the
• 1:28:16
  goodness of their heart, but because
• 1:28:18
  they say, "Listen, we it's really
• 1:28:20
  important to have a nuclear deterrent."
• 1:28:23
  And while Germany
• 1:28:25
  won't build their own nuclear weapons,
• 1:28:27
  they have too big a Green Party. Um the
• 1:28:31
  UK may choose to extend its own nuclear
• 1:28:34
  arsenal to protect NATO in a way because
• 1:28:38
  they're not sure the United States will
• 1:28:41
  be there. And this is again a scoop from
• 1:28:44
  the Telegraph that Berlin is seeking
• 1:28:46
  greater involvement in Europe's existing
• 1:28:47
  nuclear programs developed by the UK and
• 1:28:49
  France rather than pursuing their own
• 1:28:50
  nuclear arsenal. I think that's just
• 1:28:52
  that just makes sense, right? They say,
• 1:28:54
  quote, "We have a strong interest that
• 1:28:55
  the existing nuclear powers in Europe
• 1:28:57
  extend their capabilities."
• 1:28:59
  And again, there's thinking and talking
• 1:29:01
  about how existing nuclear capabilities
• 1:29:03
  like the Trident, they play a bigger
• 1:29:04
  role for the defense of Europe and deep
• 1:29:06
  cooperation among European countries,
• 1:29:08
  namely because they're not sure the
• 1:29:10
  United States would actually pull the
• 1:29:11
  trigger and actually defend NATO
• 1:29:13
  territories. Right. Under article 5 and
• 1:29:16
  based on sort of treaties and statements
• 1:29:17
  by the United States government, the
• 1:29:19
  policy up until now was that our nuclear
• 1:29:22
  arsenal protects Warsaw or Kkow just as
• 1:29:26
  much as it protects New York. So if
• 1:29:28
  Russian if a Russian tank battalion
• 1:29:29
  rolled into Warsaw or if the Russians
• 1:29:31
  used a nuclear weapon against Warsaw, we
• 1:29:34
  would treat it as though they had bombed
• 1:29:35
  Kansas City.
• 1:29:37
  Actually, maybe one of our good states,
• 1:29:39
  one of our good cities. Um we would we
• 1:29:42
  would respond, right? we would say
• 1:29:43
  listen this is it this is the mutually
• 1:29:46
  assured destruction and the Europeans
• 1:29:50
  are not sure that's the case anymore so
• 1:29:51
  they say listen we need to have people
• 1:29:53
  who we believe will be critical will
• 1:29:55
  will actually show up when the chips are
• 1:29:57
  down and that I think is all part of the
• 1:30:02
  same sort of theme of the European
• 1:30:04
  governments waking up to a a much more
• 1:30:09
  brutal difficult reality
• 1:30:13
  one that I think in part over the last
• 1:30:15
  20 plus years has been sort of
• 1:30:17
  subsidized by the United States that the
• 1:30:20
  US military's job is to defend everyone
• 1:30:22
  else and protect everyone else's
• 1:30:24
  interest and so they don't have to worry
• 1:30:26
  so much. It's like my kids. My kids
• 1:30:28
  don't worry about why we lock our doors
• 1:30:30
  or why dad has a gun safe, right? They
• 1:30:32
  don't worry about those things because
• 1:30:33
  they're not supposed to. They're kids.
• 1:30:35
  But one day they'll grow up and we'll
• 1:30:37
  talk to them about, hey, this is why we
• 1:30:38
  lock our doors. This is why we use a
• 1:30:40
  deadbolt. this is why you you you carry
• 1:30:44
  this or that thing. And I think that's
• 1:30:47
  the reality the UK is starting to to
• 1:30:49
  wake up to to say, listen, we have real
• 1:30:51
  enemies and when push comes to shove,
• 1:30:54
  we're not certain anyone is will be
• 1:30:56
  willing to fight our enemies um
• 1:31:00
  and protect us as much as we have to
• 1:31:03
  protect ourselves.
• 1:31:07
  Whiskey Omega, thanks for the five.
• 1:31:08
  Article five might be a new point. Not
• 1:31:10
  sure we can hold Poland back much
• 1:31:12
  longer. I don't know if Poland's being
• 1:31:13
  held back. Uh to be honest, I think the
• 1:31:17
  Poles are
• 1:31:19
  happy to continue to learn as much as
• 1:31:23
  humanly possible from
• 1:31:26
  um
• 1:31:29
  from the Ukraine war, right? The longer
• 1:31:31
  this goes on, the the stronger the
• 1:31:33
  Polish military gets, the weaker the
• 1:31:35
  Russian military gets. So the Poles want
• 1:31:37
  this to stretch on as long as possible.
• 1:31:39
  The more Russia gets weakened and the
• 1:31:41
  stronger an ally like Ukraine gets, the
• 1:31:44
  better off the polls see themselves. I
• 1:31:48
  their calculus is totally correct.
• 1:32:21
  All right,
• 1:32:23
  we got one more. We're going to be
• 1:32:25
  taking a look at some footage from the
• 1:32:27
  24th mech,
• 1:32:30
  the most dangerous road
• 1:32:33
  in Ukraine.
• 1:32:42
  Let's talk about it.
• 1:32:48
  All right,
• 1:32:50
  let's do this.
• 1:32:58
  What's it like operating in the most
• 1:33:00
  dangerous road in all of Ukraine? Well,
• 1:33:04
  for the soldiers of the 24th mech,
• 1:33:06
  they've released a video, 30 minutes on
• 1:33:09
  the road to Costanka, and we're going to
• 1:33:12
  take a look at what it's like to operate
• 1:33:14
  in one of the most dangerous roads
• 1:33:16
  probably in the entire world. Let's
• 1:33:19
  crack into this one.
• 1:33:22
  So, for the record, this is uh 32
• 1:33:23
  minutes long. We're probably going to do
• 1:33:24
  about half of it. And if you like it,
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• 1:34:00
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• 1:34:02
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• 1:34:08
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• 1:34:15
  Okay. So, yeah, Costantine. Costa. Fun
• 1:34:19
  fact, there's not that many fun facts
• 1:34:21
  about Costantine, but one is that I was
• 1:34:23
  actually in Costa in 2024. Uh obviously
• 1:34:26
  in 2024 for for context guys, Costantine
• 1:34:30
  is um right here. So here's Crematorque.
• 1:34:33
  Cost Coantene is right down to the south
• 1:34:36
  and uh it was before Costa. There was
• 1:34:41
  Tourett. So in 2024 when I was there,
• 1:34:45
  this was uh let's see, I was there in
• 1:34:47
  about December, I think 15th. So in
• 1:34:50
  December uh I was with the or like I was
• 1:34:54
  uh being accompanied by the Leu Brigade.
• 1:34:57
  They were like, "Hey, we want to show
• 1:34:58
  you this headquarters in uh overseeing
• 1:35:00
  the Battle of Tourett, which they were
• 1:35:02
  goal was to turn Tourett into just like
• 1:35:04
  a Russian kill zone." But they said,
• 1:35:05
  "Listen, the Russians are trying this
• 1:35:07
  new thing. They've got these fiber optic
• 1:35:10
  drones that are not jammable, so we may
• 1:35:13
  not be able to get there." And so we
• 1:35:15
  drove down uh way now past Co Costineka
• 1:35:18
  uh to around even Opilia or maybe even
• 1:35:21
  Placivka. And we ended up having to hide
• 1:35:24
  in a house because we could hear a
• 1:35:26
  Russian FPV drone stalking us. And uh we
• 1:35:29
  were we literally it got I mean close
• 1:35:31
  enough that we could hear the buzzing.
• 1:35:32
  It was probably within about 40 40 to 60
• 1:35:36
  ft of us and we never made it to
• 1:35:38
  Tourett. Um, but Costan is again a
• 1:35:42
  medium-sized town along a river, uh, has
• 1:35:44
  a railway, bunch of schools, like it's a
• 1:35:47
  it's a distinctly urban industrial area.
• 1:35:51
  And obviously, it is now the heart of a
• 1:35:53
  war zone. Um, you can see here, this is
• 1:35:56
  a Russian Molina. This is a Russian
• 1:35:58
  strike drone that obviously was trying
• 1:35:59
  to hit something and failed. It looks
• 1:36:02
  like it's actually been stripped of its
• 1:36:03
  warhead. Um, probably just as a safety
• 1:36:06
  precaution, right? be you know [snorts]
• 1:36:09
  you don't want to be underneath it when
• 1:36:10
  that warhead goes off but yeah this is I
• 1:36:14
  mean this is this is Costan I think I've
• 1:36:16
  actually been like here
• 1:36:23
  there's a fiber optic drone you can see
• 1:36:24
  it spooling out you can see these guys
• 1:36:26
  engaging it uh this is what's
• 1:36:28
  interesting right for a while they were
• 1:36:30
  having people shoot down um uh fiber
• 1:36:33
  optic drones with shotguns and they
• 1:36:35
  actually found that these shotguns while
• 1:36:36
  really effective were so short range
• 1:36:38
  that they would detonate them um too
• 1:36:40
  close to the actual operator and we're
• 1:36:42
  hurting a lot of operators
• 1:36:46
  >> there. Damn it. Got him.
• 1:36:49
  >> Okay, so again, this is autodubbed. The
• 1:36:53
  autodubbing kit's kind of weird, but
• 1:36:55
  we're still going to give it a listen.
• 1:36:57
  We got on tape.
• 1:37:03
  And what about the drone?
• 1:37:14
  No, stop.
• 1:37:17
  >> Civilian.
• 1:37:30
  So again, this is
• 1:37:32
  okay.
• 1:37:38
  So, I want to point out that you may be
• 1:37:40
  noticing it's pretty rainy, it's pretty
• 1:37:43
  wet. This is actually great conditions
• 1:37:46
  to uh conduct a rotation to move troops
• 1:37:49
  in and out of position because in poor
• 1:37:52
  weather, drones are much harder to fly.
• 1:37:56
  So, there are fewer Ukrainian drones in
• 1:37:58
  the air, which is beneficial for
• 1:38:00
  Russians, but there's also fewer Russian
• 1:38:01
  drones in the air, which can help
• 1:38:03
  Ukrainians.
• 1:38:07
  >> Well, we just shot down.
• 1:38:09
  >> Yes. Nice job.
• 1:38:13
  >> I'm filming.
• 1:38:15
  [music] Also
• 1:38:16
  want to point out, this is one of the
• 1:38:17
  things that I was told uh when I was
• 1:38:19
  there last year uh when we were going
• 1:38:21
  towards uh uh one of the the forward
• 1:38:23
  company positions. Uh they were like,
• 1:38:25
  "Don't put on your seat belt because if
• 1:38:27
  a drone starts to approach the vehicle
• 1:38:29
  or we see an ambush drone, um you're
• 1:38:32
  going to want to ditch the vehicle as
• 1:38:33
  fast as possible and that seat belt is
• 1:38:35
  going to impede you from doing that."
• 1:38:41
  >> And the bomber and you have
• 1:38:45
  above me.
• 1:38:49
  Listen, you can actually hear it.
• 1:38:57
  >> Take that.
• 1:38:59
  Got it. Okay. That's a really unique
• 1:39:01
  looking weapon.
• 1:39:05
  The situation varies. Some days are
• 1:39:07
  tense, some are calm. Well, it all
• 1:39:09
  depends on the weather. The weather is
• 1:39:11
  clear. Like now the activity is high.
• 1:39:14
  Generally in the morning and evening the
• 1:39:16
  activity is very high. For example at
• 1:39:18
  the disposition we fire over a,000
• 1:39:21
  [snorts] rounds a day. Well each of us
• 1:39:24
  fires about 350 rounds.
• 1:39:27
  Now the
• 1:39:28
  >> now that is crazy because not just think
• 1:39:30
  about this for a minute. One position
• 1:39:32
  1,000 rounds a day. What does that mean?
• 1:39:34
  That means that the Ukrainians have to
• 1:39:36
  find a way to resupply that position
• 1:39:39
  with not just the food, not just the
• 1:39:41
  water, not just the medical supplies,
• 1:39:43
  but also 1,000 rounds every single day
• 1:39:47
  at least. And you realize you're like
• 1:39:50
  that's a huge logistic burden to
• 1:39:52
  resupply again one position of the tens
• 1:39:56
  of thousands of positions throughout the
• 1:39:58
  front line
• 1:39:59
  >> has
• 1:39:59
  >> you start to realize the scale of this
• 1:40:01
  war
• 1:40:02
  >> decreased a bit back in winter before
• 1:40:05
  New Year's it was very active
• 1:40:11
  [music]
• 1:40:12
  and by the way this video is from
• 1:40:16
  one month ago.
• 1:40:17
  Okay. So again, assume it was probably
• 1:40:20
  recorded maybe two or three months ago.
• 1:40:34
  Okay, I want to point out that also like
• 1:40:38
  one of the things that I learned in
• 1:40:40
  Ukraine is that
• 1:40:43
  um people have a their risk tolerance is
• 1:40:47
  crazy, right? Two guys, two soldiers
• 1:40:50
  body armored up, you know, filming,
• 1:40:53
  sure, uh no no no shade, film
• 1:40:56
  everything. both both people love
• 1:40:58
  filming to get their cool moments, but
• 1:41:00
  also um for
• 1:41:03
  uh reconnaissance purposes because you
• 1:41:05
  have to think that somebody might ask
• 1:41:06
  you, "Hey, where did you see that
• 1:41:08
  drone?" or "What kind of drone was it?"
• 1:41:09
  And you might just It's one thing to
• 1:41:12
  say, "Ah," they'll say, "Oh, well, I it
• 1:41:14
  was like one of the big ones or
• 1:41:15
  whatever." That doesn't help. But if you
• 1:41:17
  say, "I have HD footage of the drone."
• 1:41:19
  Now you're talking. Now you can give
• 1:41:21
  your intelligence something good. But as
• 1:41:22
  you can see, this is just some guy. And
• 1:41:24
  there's a lot of civilians that just
• 1:41:26
  don't leave these towns. Some of them,
• 1:41:28
  the rumor is that it's because they're
• 1:41:29
  Russian sympathizers. But I've actually
• 1:41:31
  heard from other Ukrainians that
• 1:41:34
  oftentimes people say, "Listen, if I
• 1:41:36
  abandon my home, then it will be
• 1:41:38
  regarded as abandoned property and I'll
• 1:41:41
  lose it." And again, a lot of these
• 1:41:43
  older folks, they say, "Listen, my home
• 1:41:45
  is my entire life savings is this house.
• 1:41:48
  You know, I paid off the mortgage."
• 1:41:50
  They're like, "If I abandon this house,
• 1:41:51
  then I've lost the only thing I own."
• 1:41:54
  And they just like, "I'm not going to
• 1:41:56
  abandon it."
• 1:41:59
  >> They tried to destroy our logistics,
• 1:42:01
  those little boxes, tanks, armored
• 1:42:05
  personnel, carriers,
• 1:42:07
  armored vehicles, and so on. Uh,
• 1:42:11
  I shoot down three or four a day, like
• 1:42:14
  yesterday. Yesterday, I was slightly
• 1:42:16
  wounded because I shot down a drone that
• 1:42:17
  was flying right over me.
• 1:42:20
  It fell four or five me away from me.
• 1:42:23
  Well, it's nothing. It was all pulled
• 1:42:24
  out fine. Our medic pulled it out with a
• 1:42:25
  knife. Damn, Doug.
• 1:42:29
  Yes.
• 1:42:30
  >> Okay, that's wild. I don't know what
• 1:42:32
  else to tell you.
• 1:42:41
  [music]
• 1:42:43
  Okay. So, that looks like actually a
• 1:42:45
  drone detector. So what I think it is,
• 1:42:47
  it is programmed to receive or or sort
• 1:42:50
  of observe frequencies the Russians are
• 1:42:52
  known to use and it will beep when it
• 1:42:54
  detects that that frequency is
• 1:42:56
  transmitting. Now obviously a fiber
• 1:42:57
  optic cable doesn't transmit anything
• 1:42:59
  over the air. There's nothing to detect.
• 1:43:01
  But other drones, Mavix particularly or
• 1:43:05
  um uh conventional FPV strike drones,
• 1:43:08
  this will start beeping pretty
• 1:43:10
  ominously. Again, if I'll try to maybe
• 1:43:12
  put in the video of of the my 2024
• 1:43:14
  video. Um, and you can hear the drone
• 1:43:17
  detector in that video when we're in
• 1:43:18
  Costa. You can hear it going off. It's
• 1:43:20
  just like beep beep beep. And when you
• 1:43:23
  know that there's a drone chasing you,
• 1:43:25
  it's really ominous.
• 1:43:28
  >> I don't want to carry it. I want Ah,
• 1:43:30
  let's put on the back. Let it beep
• 1:43:32
  behind me.
• 1:43:36
  >> That's the beep.
• 1:43:37
  >> Cool.
• 1:43:38
  >> On the back.
• 1:43:38
  >> Cool. That's it. Someone will walk
• 1:43:41
  behind and watch.
• 1:43:46
  >> Good day. How are things with you?
• 1:43:49
  >> This is peak Ukrainian soldier energy.
• 1:43:51
  You may be like, "Man, that dude doesn't
• 1:43:53
  look like a soldier at all." Listen,
• 1:43:54
  there are a ton of units that are like
• 1:43:56
  this. They're And and this is one of the
• 1:43:58
  things I find really unique about the
• 1:44:00
  Ukrainian military because their draft
• 1:44:02
  age doesn't start until 27. You get
• 1:44:05
  these older folks. And what's also
• 1:44:08
  unique is that older guys
• 1:44:11
  generally
• 1:44:14
  they're not going to behave like
• 1:44:15
  18-year-olds. 18-year-olds are
• 1:44:20
  dumb, impulsive. They don't think things
• 1:44:22
  through. And that's not a dig, right? I
• 1:44:24
  was 18 once. I was also dumb. And
• 1:44:29
  the
• 1:44:31
  but like
• 1:44:34
  you have to in the military, right? The
• 1:44:36
  whole military hierarchy is meant to get
• 1:44:38
  18-year-olds to do the [ __ ] you tell
• 1:44:40
  them and not dick it dick up everything.
• 1:44:43
  It it's and you have to be so it's like
• 1:44:46
  babysitting. People always say, "Oh,
• 1:44:48
  it's like babysitting." Older Ukrainians
• 1:44:51
  that have been out, they've been around
• 1:44:52
  the block, they've worked regular jobs.
• 1:44:55
  A lot of times those guys don't require
• 1:44:58
  the same level of babysitting. They
• 1:44:59
  require nothing close to the same level
• 1:45:01
  of babysitting. And that means that you
• 1:45:03
  don't have to sit there and be like,
• 1:45:05
  "Where's your [ __ ] uniform, soldier?"
• 1:45:06
  He goes, "Listen, dude. I got my helmet
• 1:45:08
  on. I got my my kit. I got my rifle. I
• 1:45:13
  got my tourniquet." Like, like, you go,
• 1:45:14
  "Fine, dude. It's it's it's Bill, right?
• 1:45:19
  Like, as an adult, right, your work has
• 1:45:23
  to make sure you're dressed
• 1:45:23
  professionally, but like you're not
• 1:45:26
  checking to make sure you're brushing
• 1:45:28
  your teeth. your work goes, listen, I
• 1:45:30
  don't need to tell you to brush your
• 1:45:31
  teeth because you're a grown man. Well,
• 1:45:33
  when you have a army of grown men, you
• 1:45:36
  just don't have to tell them as much and
• 1:45:37
  you don't have to be a jerk to them as
• 1:45:38
  much. You don't have to like this. The
• 1:45:40
  amount of screaming at teenagers that
• 1:45:43
  happens in the US military by by grown
• 1:45:45
  men is like really kind of unhinged. And
• 1:45:50
  uh I've just never seen that sort of
• 1:45:52
  [ __ ] in the Ukrainian military. Like
• 1:45:53
  full stop.
• 1:45:54
  >> Greetings.
• 1:45:57
  >> They're flying a lot. Very much so.
• 1:45:59
  >> Yeah. Today very very much.
• 1:46:01
  >> Today it's intense
• 1:46:11
  here. Damn it.
• 1:46:14
  Got him.
• 1:46:16
  This is wild. By the way,
• 1:46:19
  >> I got it on tape, too.
• 1:46:24
  See, there was somebody with a shotgun.
• 1:46:28
  Can you tell if anything has flown into
• 1:46:30
  the gun or is sitting there? The
• 1:46:32
  >> guys have already arrived. An ambulance.
• 1:46:38
  >> Okay, it almost Okay, also more unhinged
• 1:46:41
  [ __ ] There's all these guys out here.
• 1:46:44
  There's a there's a literal tank.
• 1:46:45
  There's a bunch of drones and then just
• 1:46:46
  some dude cruising by in his lada.
• 1:46:49
  >> They are digging.
• 1:46:52
  >> People usually they leave often fly by
• 1:46:55
  here. Or is it getting less and less?
• 1:46:58
  >> Very often.
• 1:47:16
  There's a corpse on the right and
• 1:47:19
  a civilian.
• 1:47:22
  It's a civilian corpse.
• 1:47:31
  Copy.
• 1:47:39
  Whoa.
• 1:47:42
  Again, not not hard to figure out what
• 1:47:44
  happened to that van.
• 1:47:47
  You can literally see all burnt out.
• 1:47:49
  Something threw right through the
• 1:47:51
  window. Still rolls, which is crazy.
• 1:47:53
  But I I point this out because again,
• 1:47:56
  just everything in these areas is
• 1:47:57
  treated as a target.
• 1:48:03
  [cheering] Look, it went in like this.
• 1:48:04
  Punch an opening.
• 1:48:09
  >> Are we going to look see who this is or
• 1:48:14
  check the documents?
• 1:48:18
  We're not sorry. There are documents.
• 1:48:30
  >> But also worth noting, look around this
• 1:48:32
  civilian. There's all these shotgun
• 1:48:34
  shells. Like somebody was trying to
• 1:48:36
  shoot it down with a shotgun.
• 1:48:49
  Again,
• 1:48:51
  UGV ground drone probably trying to
• 1:48:53
  deliver supplies or conduct a Kazvak
• 1:48:55
  taken out. You got to understand that
• 1:48:57
  when you talk about a war of attrition,
• 1:48:58
  this is what you're talking about.
• 1:49:00
  Vehicles, everything just has a lifespan
• 1:49:03
  and you're just your goal is to keep the
• 1:49:07
  loss, minimize your loss rate and
• 1:49:09
  maximize the enemy's loss rate.
• 1:49:22
  Right.
• 1:49:23
  >> Could it be something worse?
• 1:49:25
  >> And what unit are you from?
• 1:49:26
  >> 100.
• 1:49:27
  >> Are you on rotation?
• 1:49:29
  >> We were escorting a thing like that. The
• 1:49:31
  one they damn it.
• 1:49:32
  >> It didn't make it.
• 1:49:33
  >> It didn't make it about 600 m that way.
• 1:49:36
  In short, there is nothing.
• 1:49:40
  Always interesting to see them do these
• 1:49:42
  escorts. I'm not really sure why, but
• 1:49:43
  you can see this thing's loaded up with
• 1:49:44
  supplies. And probably because of the
• 1:49:46
  rain, it's probably taped up all over.
• 1:50:02
  Okay. It's funny because there's a
• 1:50:04
  little bit of a delay with the operator.
• 1:50:06
  So, the operator's probably trying to
• 1:50:07
  avoid the dog, not realizing that the
• 1:50:08
  dog is already out of the way. Oh, wow.
• 1:50:11
  COME HERE.
• 1:50:16
  OKAY, one of the things that's really
• 1:50:17
  interesting to me is that it's almost
• 1:50:18
  like these guys are like defending the
• 1:50:20
  road. I think these guys literally are
• 1:50:21
  like an air defense crew that just pops
• 1:50:23
  out, takes out these drones to keep the
• 1:50:25
  road open.
• 1:50:27
  That's crazy. I've I've never heard of
• 1:50:29
  that, but that's wild.
• 1:50:36
  >> Plus copied.
• 1:50:39
  See a cab site probably.
• 1:50:47
  Damn. Looks like a map. Impossible. What
• 1:50:50
  kind of Americ fiber?
• 1:50:51
  >> Damn it. Well, it means it's covered in
• 1:50:53
  some plastic.
• 1:50:58
  >> No way. What kind of people could be
• 1:50:59
  there? No windows.
• 1:51:02
  >> I guess they're saying maybe that they
• 1:51:04
  think there's someone in there because
• 1:51:05
  somebody's patching up the windows.
• 1:51:06
  They're like, "Oh, somebody's in there
• 1:51:07
  patching up the windows. Who's living
• 1:51:09
  there?
• 1:51:13
  >> It's smoking now.
• 1:51:15
  >> Oh, no. No. It was a down fiber optic
• 1:51:17
  and they just want to make sure it stays
• 1:51:18
  down cuz remember a key Russian strategy
• 1:51:21
  here is actually ambush drones. So,
• 1:51:22
  they'll plant a drone somewhere and they
• 1:51:24
  will have it wait in a low power mode
• 1:51:26
  sometimes for hours or even days waiting
• 1:51:29
  for a target to pass and then it will
• 1:51:32
  activate and strike. Um, and that's
• 1:51:34
  really key for fiber optics because the
• 1:51:36
  fiber optic cable is really heavy. And
• 1:51:38
  so the drone has less battery life. So
• 1:51:41
  it's much easier to just have it camp.
• 1:51:43
  Uh, just like camping in a video game,
• 1:51:45
  right? You want to camp a key route and
• 1:51:47
  you just sit there and just watch and
• 1:51:49
  don't spring into action until you see
• 1:51:51
  an enemy.
• 1:51:53
  >> Humming. Wait.
• 1:51:58
  >> It's far away.
• 1:52:01
  Oh, holy.
• 1:52:03
  >> And what are you doing here?
• 1:52:05
  >> Damn it. And isn't it high time to off?
• 1:52:08
  Damn it.
• 1:52:09
  >> Where to off to? Where to go?
• 1:52:13
  >> Somewhere to Duskfka. At least
• 1:52:17
  there are plenty of empty houses in Dka.
• 1:52:19
  At least move there.
• 1:52:22
  >> Maybe it's not being shad.
• 1:52:31
  come into the house.
• 1:52:32
  >> There's a guy just chilling, just being
• 1:52:34
  like I mean, look at this. This is crazy
• 1:52:37
  cuz look,
• 1:52:41
  look at this guy. Look at this random
• 1:52:42
  dude
• 1:52:44
  one. I mean, this guy looks like kind of
• 1:52:47
  a drunk or somebody who's just hiding
• 1:52:49
  out
• 1:52:51
  coming to the house.
• 1:52:57
  Jesus.
• 1:53:01
  Let's see. Number two.
• 1:53:07
  Been on duty for 4 hours.
• 1:53:32
  Just a reminder of how cheap these
• 1:53:34
  drones are, right? Just just piece of
• 1:53:35
  aluminum pipe. I mean, you can buy that
• 1:53:37
  [ __ ] at Home Depot here in the States.
• 1:53:39
  And look at this. These wings just like
• 1:53:41
  just like cheap foam.
• 1:53:45
  >> What's up?
• 1:53:47
  >> FPV drone uh wings.
• 1:53:52
  Another one. I want to point out
• 1:53:53
  interesting. This guy doesn't look like
• 1:53:55
  there's rifle plates. And that just
• 1:53:56
  makes sense because if the threat here,
• 1:53:58
  if their mission is shooting down
• 1:53:59
  drones, drones are an explosive weapon.
• 1:54:01
  They project out shrapnel. So, you want
• 1:54:03
  to com like the best armor is the one
• 1:54:05
  you're going to wear. And the
• 1:54:10
  the
• 1:54:12
  comfort and lightweight of just soft
• 1:54:14
  Kevlar armor that provides you
• 1:54:16
  protection against the threats that you
• 1:54:18
  face is probably what you want. And and
• 1:54:20
  that's something that like also kind of
• 1:54:23
  has been a a pet peeve of mine for a
• 1:54:25
  long time is that as a as a soldier, you
• 1:54:27
  can't prepare for every threat, right?
• 1:54:30
  You can't even prepare for every
• 1:54:31
  possible threat. You have to prepare for
• 1:54:33
  the likely threats, right? And so you
• 1:54:36
  look at what the likely threats are in
• 1:54:37
  your AO and you build your your plans
• 1:54:41
  around those. And so you say, "Listen,
• 1:54:43
  the odds of us being in a gunfight are
• 1:54:45
  super low." So this guy probably says,
• 1:54:47
  "Listen, this is what I want. I'm going
• 1:54:48
  to buy my own soft Kevlar armor and I'm
• 1:54:51
  going to wear that much more frequently.
• 1:54:53
  >> Another one.
• 1:54:55
  >> Right.
• 1:54:59
  >> Three.
• 1:55:02
  >> It's a Russian cab. A 500 pounder.
• 1:55:13
  [music]
• 1:55:15
  >> Good day to you.
• 1:55:17
  >> Good day. Not planning [music] to leave.
• 1:55:19
  >> No. Where to?
• 1:55:21
  >> Where to? And why? Here we have at least
• 1:55:24
  something. But if we leave, then what?
• 1:55:28
  >> Live on 2,000.
• 1:55:30
  And here we still live like human
• 1:55:32
  beings. We have
• 1:55:34
  >> uh Okay.
• 1:55:35
  >> Enough food.
• 1:55:37
  >> The boy.
• 1:55:38
  >> You live like human beings, dude. You
• 1:55:40
  have enough food. Oh my god. You're in a
• 1:55:41
  war zone.
• 1:55:42
  >> Police are great. They help out and
• 1:55:45
  sometimes they take people out. They
• 1:55:47
  pick him up. Well, it's a risk. He who
• 1:55:50
  dares wins.
• 1:55:52
  >> So, we will [music] live, not just
• 1:55:56
  exist.
• 1:55:57
  Let's go.
• 1:56:05
  [music]
• 1:56:07
  Jesus Christ, people are crazy, dude.
• 1:56:15
  >> [music]
• 1:56:17
  >> You can see here, it looks like the
• 1:56:19
  drone struck. You can see the the the
• 1:56:22
  cage actually was pretty effective, but
• 1:56:24
  the drones basically targeted the tires.
• 1:56:26
  It looks like targeted the tires. Looks
• 1:56:28
  like maybe from the tire, it just kind
• 1:56:30
  of burned through to the um engine and
• 1:56:34
  then burned kind of underneath the
• 1:56:35
  fuselage, burned it all out
• 1:56:38
  because I think once they disable the
• 1:56:39
  vehicle, then they'll do repeated
• 1:56:41
  strikes. But what's important and this
• 1:56:43
  is the M8. This is the M wrap. The M
• 1:56:45
  wraps were not meant to be the M wraps
• 1:56:48
  themselves were not meant to survive.
• 1:56:50
  The MRAPs were meant to protect the
• 1:56:53
  crew. So the crew the M wrap exists to
• 1:56:56
  protect the crew from being destroyed.
• 1:56:59
  [music]
• 1:57:02
  And let's take a look.
• 1:57:10
  [music] So again, the the the actual
• 1:57:12
  crew cab looks pretty intact. And so I
• 1:57:15
  suspect that the crew probably got out
• 1:57:17
  here. Okay. Got out of here in one
• 1:57:18
  piece.
• 1:57:24
  [music]
• 1:57:26
  Again, looks like someone's helmet, but
• 1:57:30
  yeah, hard to say. I mean, the helmet
• 1:57:31
  looks intact. Obviously, some shrapnel.
• 1:57:34
  Where whoever was the wearer of this?
• 1:57:36
  It's hard to say. It's hard to say. that
• 1:57:38
  that part right there that's pretty
• 1:57:40
  close to the brow. So I don't know
• 1:57:46
  [music]
• 1:57:54
  >> they're from the outskirts
• 1:57:56
  >> from Costantin
• 1:57:58
  >> from Cona. It's being hit terribly in
• 1:58:01
  Costa.
• 1:58:02
  >> It's hitting hard. Houses are burning.
• 1:58:06
  Let me be
• 1:58:07
  >> houses are burning.
• 1:58:08
  >> Explosions everywhere.
• 1:58:10
  >> Right.
• 1:58:12
  There is nothing
• 1:58:15
  >> left there. We took our bikes and left
• 1:58:18
  at our own risk.
• 1:58:21
  >> Damn.
• 1:58:22
  You know, I always I always tell my
• 1:58:26
  prepper friends, it's like, listen,
• 1:58:28
  dude. You know who gets out of war zones
• 1:58:29
  first? Rich people. Do you know who gets
• 1:58:32
  out of war zones last? Poor people. And
• 1:58:35
  like they said, these guys didn't have a
• 1:58:37
  car. They took their possessions. They
• 1:58:40
  took what they could carry on their
• 1:58:41
  bikes and they biked out.
• 1:58:42
  >> This is all we managed to bring,
• 1:58:46
  >> right? All we managed to bring. And
• 1:58:48
  these guys, like, you think they have a
• 1:58:50
  big old fat bank account? You think they
• 1:58:52
  got a bunch of investments sitting
• 1:58:54
  around? No. Like it's a reminder of just
• 1:58:58
  like in a crisis
• 1:59:01
  having resources and the ability to
• 1:59:04
  access those resources
• 1:59:06
  quickly and to be able to spend your way
• 1:59:08
  to safety is the ultimate preper move.
• 1:59:12
  And you see it here, right? You got to
• 1:59:15
  bike out with a car and your plastic
• 1:59:17
  bags.
• 1:59:19
  >> My mom's house burned down. The other
• 1:59:21
  mom's house burned down.
• 1:59:24
  How about half destroyed?
• 1:59:25
  >> Our house burned halfway down. It
• 1:59:28
  happened a week ago.
• 1:59:31
  Our son died. Our only child.
• 1:59:35
  He looked after us. Rode his bike to the
• 1:59:39
  store.
• 1:59:41
  It's been 5 months since we buried him
• 1:59:43
  under the apple tree.
• 1:59:48
  >> Okay, we shouldn't stand here.
• 1:59:50
  >> That's for us. It's from over there.
• 1:59:53
  That's for us.
• 1:59:54
  >> Yeah, it's for us.
• 2:00:10
  >> Boom.
• 2:00:15
  >> Take cover you guys, too. A
• 2:00:22
  I want to have their level of chill. I
• 2:00:24
  want to I want whatever whatever lets
• 2:00:26
  them just like not feel fear where
• 2:00:28
  they're just like get down drone and
• 2:00:31
  then then it blows up and they're like
• 2:00:33
  take cover and they're like
• 2:00:37
  I mean I mean actually this is the most
• 2:00:38
  common sense thing they have is an
• 2:00:39
  electrolyte drink cuz listen if you're
• 2:00:41
  going to bike for 20 kilometers and
• 2:00:43
  you're in your 50s or 60s bring bring
• 2:00:47
  some hydration. Yeah.
• 2:01:03
  >> Keep your heads down.
• 2:01:07
  >> Wishing you well. All the best. Our guys
• 2:01:08
  are further on.
• 2:01:12
  >> Oh, lightning struck right into that
• 2:01:14
  thing.
• 2:01:15
  >> Clash the cops again.
• 2:01:18
  It's starting again.
• 2:01:23
  >> It was flying around recently. You know,
• 2:01:26
  been 21 22.
• 2:01:33
  >> Are you used to such conditions?
• 2:01:35
  >> It's a resort compared to there.
• 2:01:39
  >> Did you transfer?
• 2:01:40
  >> Yes.
• 2:01:41
  >> No, I was awall. After being a wall, I
• 2:01:46
  The 24th got me. I was still on
• 2:01:48
  crutches.
• 2:01:49
  They patched.
• 2:01:51
  My first vacation is coming up. Do you
• 2:01:54
  have any plans for your vacation yet?
• 2:01:56
  There's so much to do. Wife, kids,
• 2:01:59
  the unexplored Carpathians. Well, of
• 2:02:01
  course, 14 days is not much, but at
• 2:02:04
  least to get away for a week, the rest
• 2:02:06
  of just silence with the children,
• 2:02:08
  family. It's just
• 2:02:10
  >> Yeah, that's one of the things. So, it's
• 2:02:12
  really interesting. Ukraine has a huge
• 2:02:14
  campaign to bring back soldiers who went
• 2:02:16
  awall because a lot of them, you know,
• 2:02:17
  signed up in 2022, but they go, "Hey,
• 2:02:19
  man. I've been fighting continuously for
• 2:02:21
  3 years. How is there not rotation?" And
• 2:02:24
  a lot of them go AWOL. Also, a lot of
• 2:02:26
  them go AWOL because their commanders
• 2:02:29
  are corrupt, because their commanders
• 2:02:31
  send them on missions where they don't
• 2:02:32
  feel like they
• 2:02:34
  can have any chance of returning. Um,
• 2:02:38
  and so a lot of units will actually
• 2:02:41
  recruit and they'll say, "Listen, if you
• 2:02:42
  went awall," and this is one of the
• 2:02:44
  conundrums. They'll say, "Listen, if you
• 2:02:46
  went awall, we'll bring you back." And
• 2:02:49
  24th classic, this looks like a classic
• 2:02:51
  example where he's like when he's like,
• 2:02:54
  "Oh, this is like paradise compared to
• 2:02:55
  before." Probably because he's like,
• 2:02:57
  "Listen, I'm I'm I'm keeping this road
• 2:02:59
  open, shooting down drones. Supplies are
• 2:03:02
  way easier to get to here." um you know
• 2:03:06
  and he probably it's I would hypothesize
• 2:03:09
  that the 24th was like listen if you're
• 2:03:10
  AWOL we got these spots they're they're
• 2:03:14
  with a rear air they're a a
• 2:03:16
  comparatively safe unit right a sort of
• 2:03:18
  a localized air defense unit keeping
• 2:03:20
  this road open and he said fine I'll
• 2:03:23
  come back here right
• 2:03:25
  um
• 2:03:28
  yeah
• 2:03:31
  and so I but the one of the conundrums
• 2:03:33
  is that other guys are like, you know,
• 2:03:37
  are like, "Hey, I never win awall and I
• 2:03:39
  don't get the opportunity to be
• 2:03:40
  reassigned to a chill gig." Like, what
• 2:03:43
  what gives, you know? And that's one of
• 2:03:45
  the big conundrums is like guys will
• 2:03:47
  often get they'll feel like awall
• 2:03:50
  soldiers are getting rewarded with
• 2:03:52
  better positions than guys who just
• 2:03:55
  stayed and fought and said yes to
• 2:03:57
  everything.
• 2:03:59
  >> What's missing?
• 2:04:01
  >> It's not even that. It's just wanting
• 2:04:02
  that peace to be with the family.
• 2:04:06
  >> That's what's lacking. It starts in the
• 2:04:09
  morning. Dad, I'm hungry. Dad, what are
• 2:04:11
  we going to do?
• 2:04:17
  Yeah, that's that's being a parent. All
• 2:04:19
  right.
• 2:04:36
  And my trust is gone.
• 2:04:47
  See,
• 2:04:50
  this is what they fire from const.
• 2:04:52
  >> So, how do you distinguish friend from
• 2:04:53
  foe?
• 2:04:55
  >> Well, if it's flying from over there,
• 2:04:56
  it's ours. And if it's from over there,
• 2:04:58
  it's clear it's not ours.
• 2:05:01
  >> Yeah, that's actually how it works.
• 2:05:04
  Also, sometimes guys will know where
• 2:05:06
  their drone units are positioned and
• 2:05:08
  they'll say, "Okay, like I know like
• 2:05:12
  they'll say, "Okay, well, I know that
• 2:05:14
  our drone units are forward of us." And
• 2:05:16
  so any drone that's rear of us, like
• 2:05:18
  nobody's doing reconnaissance behind
• 2:05:20
  you, you know?
• 2:05:28
  That's hostile. That's our own.
• 2:05:31
  >> Yeah. Whatever burns will go down.
• 2:05:34
  >> Yeah. I also feel like there versus
• 2:05:37
  there as a like they probably just shoot
• 2:05:39
  down a lot of their own drones.
• 2:05:41
  >> He kind of gave him a bit of shell shock
• 2:05:44
  a little. It fell somewhere nearby.
• 2:05:47
  >> Yeah. I got hit a little bit here. Here.
• 2:05:49
  I took it on the chest. Only managed to
• 2:05:51
  move my legs. It pecked at me a bit. hit
• 2:05:54
  my thigh one time.
• 2:05:57
  And here you can see the holes left in
• 2:06:00
  my jacket right through the neck. The
• 2:06:02
  armor was ripped. This is already at the
• 2:06:04
  point. I was just by your guys over
• 2:06:06
  there. It is this some police car.
• 2:06:09
  >> No, this is a mech infantry vehicle.
• 2:06:11
  >> And are you a mech infantryman?
• 2:06:12
  >> Well, it turns out by position. I have a
• 2:06:14
  mech infantry position.
• 2:06:17
  [laughter]
• 2:06:18
  >> Yeah, a mech infantry. I'm in a mech
• 2:06:19
  infantry unit. Look at me. Don't I look
• 2:06:22
  like mech infantry? This is also
• 2:06:23
  classic. Okay, this is one of the
• 2:06:25
  reasons why people are like, "You were
• 2:06:27
  an MP. You weren't in combat." I'm like,
• 2:06:30
  "Buddy, buddy, in Afghanistan during the
• 2:06:33
  surge, if you had every unit was being
• 2:06:36
  reassigned to combat roles, to battle
• 2:06:39
  space ownership roles like artillerymen,
• 2:06:42
  I saw artillery units be like, "You
• 2:06:44
  don't run artillery anymore. Here's six
• 2:06:46
  MRAPs prepare to patrol, right? Cav
• 2:06:49
  units, engineer units." Right? Our
• 2:06:51
  sister unit was a bunch of engineers.
• 2:06:53
  They were and they were just like,
• 2:06:54
  "Listen, your job battle space owner.
• 2:06:56
  Buckle up, nerds." So yeah, he's like,
• 2:06:58
  "Ah, mech infantry air defense now."
• 2:07:00
  >> Me course 320 lightning.
• 2:07:02
  >> It might turn towards you, but you need
• 2:07:04
  to hide.
• 2:07:11
  >> There is There is either a dugout or a
• 2:07:15
  shelter. We'll find something
• 2:07:17
  interesting. I don't know what the day
• 2:07:19
  or date is. Damn it. You keep track by
• 2:07:21
  cigarettes, you take for yourself, damn.
• 2:07:22
  A pack a day, but for 30 days, they have
• 2:07:24
  40 packs. Damn.
• 2:07:26
  >> And how many do you have now?
• 2:07:27
  >> 23 packs left. [laughter]
• 2:07:30
  >> So that's three solid weeks more. Do you
• 2:07:32
  know that if you live here more than a a
• 2:07:34
  year, they might register you? They
• 2:07:36
  might register you.
• 2:07:38
  >> Oh, no. Thank you. No, I'm doing just
• 2:07:40
  fine in the Curville Corp region.
• 2:07:41
  [laughter]
• 2:07:44
  >> Don't need to register me.
• 2:07:47
  I think they mean like you'll get signed
• 2:07:49
  up. Anyway, guys, we're going to call it
• 2:07:52
  right there. Um, again, be sure to make
• 2:07:54
  sure you're you're subscribed. And if
• 2:07:56
  you want me to do the other part of
• 2:07:57
  this, let me know. Uh, and
• 2:08:00
  yeah, thanks.
• 2:08:02
  Okay, sorry. I saw a bunch of you guys
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  sent me some super chats. Seen the
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  chat's been super active. John Mahoney,
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  mates, two parents void of emotion.
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  Yeah, I imagine burying your only son
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  who's care caring for you probably
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  leaves you feeling that way. Mr. Mr.
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  Bas, thanks for the two. Uh, a lot of
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  these older dudes likely served before.
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  Yeah, that's a really good point that if
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  you were 18 in when the Soviet Union was
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  intact, you likely got recruited and did
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  some mandatory military training, which
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  gives you at least a good amount of
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  familiarity with the basics of like
• 2:08:35
  military operations and military
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  culture. So,
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  uh,
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  actually, huh, I wonder when Ukraine
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  stopped mandatory,
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  uh,
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  inscription
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  in the 2000s. I wonder. Okay.
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  Uh
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  starts at age 25. Part of the ongoing
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  mobilization
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  history.
• 2:09:08
  Uh let's see.
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  Okay. So actually conscription Ukraine
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  continued until 2013 when Yanukovich
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  ended conscription. 60% of Ukraine's
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  forces were composed of professional
• 2:09:20
  soldiers. But due war in Donbas,
• 2:09:21
  conscription and a partial mobilization
• 2:09:22
  was immediately reinstated. Uk modified
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  age group males right.
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  uh longer deployment mobile service into
• 2:09:30
  a combat area was ceased in 2016.
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  Um
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  so it sounds like basically yeah you're
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  right all these guys probably through
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  2013 would have done some mandatory
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  military service.
• 2:09:55
  Yeah, people love cigarettes, dude. I
• 2:09:57
  see you guys.
• 2:10:13
  That's funny. I see all you guys from I
• 2:10:16
  see a bunch of people chatting now
• 2:10:18
  having just tuned in and picking up the
• 2:10:20
  like conspiracy part of this the the
• 2:10:21
  stream. Um yeah, we move we move past
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  it. We were just kind of I was waiting
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  for the gum to kick in.
• 2:10:35
  All right, guys. I'm going to get out of
• 2:10:36
  here. Uh I got a bunch of stuff I got to
• 2:10:38
  take care of. Uh thumbnails and and and
• 2:10:40
  the like. Um but if you guys like that,
• 2:10:42
  right, let me know. You can always let
• 2:10:43
  me know in the comments. Um and uh I'm
• 2:10:47
  going to catch you guys
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  mñana, I think. All right, peace out.
• 2:10:53
  Cheers.