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Tomahawks Without Launchers: Ukraine’s Fantasy, Congress’s Money Train, Pentagon Paperwork, and Europe’s Drone-Panic Hysteria · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I have been doing some research today and i'm a little uh
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  I got curious this morning. There's been a lot of talk about tomahawks and
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  and it's really weird because uh
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  I have a lot and most of us do have a lot of useless factual data in our heads
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  right
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  and I had this
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  Series of useless
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  Data thoughts that just came
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  To my head and I was like, wait a second
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  the tomahawk
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  The tomahawk missile that we're talking about providing to ukraine, right?
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  We're supposed to be given tomahawks, you know, this threat's been going back and forth for weeks now
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  Tomahawks, no tomahawks again today. There were four or five, uh stories about um
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  Tomahawks and trump's gonna make a uh
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  Big announcement tomorrow. Oh my god. I'm tired. Sorry
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  I'm over here yawning and i've had I don't I don't sleep. Well, i've already told you this and I have a I have a
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  Serious sleep issues and have had for you know, a little while
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  Well many years in fact in driving me
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  Bananas, but anyway, this random thought came to my head and I was like, wait a minute
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  Trump keeps claiming he's going to give him the tomahawk
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  Zelensky keeps saying boy. We really need that tomahawk
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  and
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  Putin and company are all going don't give him the tomahawk
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  and
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  Then we all start and think about it and go wait a minute
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  Putin's been saying that the tomahawk has to be launched with the assistance
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  of the united states
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  like you can't just
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  Have you know deliver a bunch of tomahawks to ukraine? What are they going to do throw them?
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  You have to have the the launcher platforms and you got to have the right launcher platforms. What are they going to do?
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  Slingshot them somehow
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  uh the bulk of ours and I are in
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  are in
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  ships or submarines
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  Um, and I got pretty curious was sitting there going no, wait a minute
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  How many and how do we shoot this tomahawk the u.s?
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  Because we can't just wander over and hand them to ukraine and say, all right, you're on your own
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  Here's some tomahawks
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  Have fun. So I I decided to go and do a uh, a short little
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  blurb about
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  the tomahawk because
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  It's
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  Let's let's see what the tomahawk
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  uh, let's why don't we go just straight to wikipedia and see what the
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  tomahawk missile
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  really is
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  Okay, and whether you can believe in wikipedia or not
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  We're going to go to several different sources on this
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  Because I have a theory and it'll come together on this. This is all a bunch of nonsense
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  This is nothing but posture and on on probably on both sides, but
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  More on our side than on the russian side and and zelensky. I don't know that he has any clue what's going on
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  But but that's me
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  I i've been wrong before once or twice if I recall so the bgm
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  109 tomahawk land attack
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  missile
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  They give them these cool little names. This one's called the tea lamb
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  Is an american long-range all-weather
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  Meaning you could shoot it in the rain even or the snow
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  jet-powered
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  subsonic
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  cruise missile
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  used by the
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  us navy
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  royal australian navy
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  royal netherlands navy
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  and the royal navy in ship
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  and submarine base land attack operations
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  Developed at the applied physics laboratory of johns hopkins university under james h walker near laurel
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  Maryland the tomahawk emerged in the 70s as a modular
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  cruise missile first manufactured by general dynamics
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  Tomahawk aimed to fulfill the need for a medium to long range low altitude
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  Missile with diverse capabilities its modular design
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  Allows for compatibility with a range of warheads
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  including high explosive
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  Submunition and bunker busters the tomahawk can use a variety of guidance systems including gps inertial navigation
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  Terrain contour matching over a dozen variants and upgrade versions have been developed since the original design
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  Blah blah blah we'll skip some of these from 1992 to 94 mcdonald douglas was sole supplier of tomahawks
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  Producing block one and block three. I'm sorry block two and block three versions
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  and
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  Remanufacturing many tomahawks to block three specifications in 94
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  hughes aircraft having purchased general dynamics missile division
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  Outbid mcdonald doves to become the
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  sole supplier of tomahawks a
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  joint venture between hughes and Raytheon
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  manufactured the missile from 95 until Raytheon's acquisition of hughes in 97
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  solidifying their position as the
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  sole supplier in
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  2016 the u.s. Department of Defense purchased
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  149
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  tomahawk block four missiles
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  for
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  202.3 million dollars and as of
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  2024 Raytheon remains the sole
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  manufacturer of
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  Non-nuclear sea-launched tomahawks, okay
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  And it comes in several variants. You have the land-attack missile nuclear the bgm 109 a
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  And it was retired from service between 2010 and 2013
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  reports from early 2018 say the US Navy is considering
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  reintroducing the nuclear missile back into service
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  the
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  tomahawk anti-ship missile the RGM UGM 109 B
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  anti-ship variant
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  Converted to block 4 BGM tomahawk and land-attack blah blah blah BGM 109 D land-attack
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  RGM land-attack missile improved version also called tactical tomahawk
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  So here we get to one called the BGM 109 G Griffin
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  ground launch cruise missile
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  GLCM with a
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  W84 nuclear warhead, which was withdrawn from service in 91
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  back when I was in and
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  working for the on-site inspection agency under the
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  INF Treaty
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  Intermediate-range nuclear forces. We were getting rid of them. Okay, and so the ground launch missile systems were gone
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  Then came the medium-range air-to-surface missile a shorter range turbojet air launch cruise with
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  Conventional non-nuclear warheads was intended for the United States Air Force and Navy
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  okay with Turk common route and DS MAC terminal guidance and payload of
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  runway cratering
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  submunitions for the Navy with the unitary warhead was entering service and
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  The ground launch cruise missiles and their truck like vehicles were employed at bases in Europe
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  Until they were withdrawn from service to comply with the INF Treaty
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  Many of the anti-ship versions were converted to T lamps and then they talk about how they get upgraded
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  major improvements to the tomahawk network
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  come from
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  They get data to find its targets and the tomahawk block B variants
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  So I'm trying to figure out how they're going to mount them
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  So the and so I spent a little bit of time going through this
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  Because they have these missiles
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  They have strike controllers and the Navy is still the ones who carry most of these
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  Missiles and they are ship based
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  Missiles, which is the launch systems. Let's see. Each missile is stored
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  Let's see the bulk of them are installed in four reactive
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  Iowa class battleships to Iowa to New Jersey the Missouri the Wisconsin
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  The ABL's were installed on eight
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  Spruance class destroyers for Virginia class cruisers and the nuclear cruiser the USS Long Beach
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  These canisters are in vertical launch arrays on other surface
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  Ships as well in the later, Los Angeles class submarines the Virginia class submarines and in submarine
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  torpedo tubes
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  So the bulk of these things are hanging out in
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  On the ships. Okay, and so I'm sitting there going. No, wait a minute here here we have the
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  There's some also some some
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  launcher
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  Systems that came about a little bit later the Marines had some
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  That came out and we'll talk a little bit about those
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  The Navy has a history of using these things to Marines in the Gulf War
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  Shot and let's see number of Tomahawk missiles actually fired in
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  The Gulf War
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  288 in Iraq
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  Part of Iraqi disarmament
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  46 and
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  23 in 93 206 and 93 17
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  operation deliberate force Bosnia Herzegovina
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  13 were fired
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  more Iraqi disarmament
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  44 more operation infinite reach in Afghanistan and Sudan we fired
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  379 operation desert Fox Iraq did
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  325 NATO
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  intervention nice word there in Yugoslavia
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  218 operation enduring freedom in
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  Afghanistan 50 more
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  2003 invasion of Iraq
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  802 the Dobley airstrike in Somalia to
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  Al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen in 2009 to
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  2011 military intervention in Libya 124 military intervention in ISIL Iraq
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  47 in response again in Yemen 5 chariot missile strikes in Syria 59
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  218 bombing in Damascus and on Homs Syria 66
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  bombing of Yemen
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  135 March
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  2025 they didn't list any they didn't none were fired there an attack on Iranian nuclear sites
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  Just recently we allegedly fired 30. Okay, the United Kingdom Japan
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  Netherlands Germany
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  But they were removed from Germany Spain was interested in acquiring the Tomahawk system
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  Cancelled it in 2009
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  Let's see
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  There there are
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  plenty of these that talk about it and very few that talk about shooting them from
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  Anywhere, except a ship and Ukraine don't have any
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  Many ships they had one if I remember and it got destroyed in in in the river
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  Not too long ago. And so let's go back and have a look at
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  There was an article I read so on these other
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  Operating systems. Let's see here
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  Here's one coming out and this is a Ukrainian
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  friendly
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  News organization here and it says and this came out just today October 14
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  2025 get this there's a
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  The u.s. Rolls out a new
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  Mobile Tomahawk launcher that could one day strike for Ukraine
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  This get this article
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  This is entertaining as the u.s. Explores more mobile and autonomous ways to launch long-range missiles
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  one system
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  unveiled in Washington today
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  Could mark a turning point for both American doctrine and for Ukraine's future strike capability
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  This is today at the a USA 2025 Defense Expo in Washington DC Oshkosh defense
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  unveiled what they call the XMav a
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  new mobile land-based launcher designed to carry four
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  Tomahawk cruise missiles the vehicle developed as part of the u.s. Is
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  Modernization efforts is entering the spotlight just as Washington and Kiev engage in technical talks
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  over a possible transfer of Tomahawk systems to Ukraine
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  Said army recognition on October 14th the XMav which stands for extreme
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  multi-mission autonomous vehicle is
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  Engineered for cross-country mobility
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  Autonomous operation and rapid repositioning
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  According to army recognition it offers a more survivable and flexible alternative to the current
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  containerized
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  Typhoon launcher system used by the US Army which has been deployed
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  Which has already deployed land launch launched Tomahawks to the Indo-pacific theater now this is
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  Highly unwieldy when you look at a picture of this thing you got a huge truck with
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  What is the name of that thing that they put them on the on the
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  Man
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  They're more they're usually used for fuel deliveries and stuff like that and I can't remember name them from my old army days
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  but there's a huge trailer a
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  Huge trailer being pulled behind it and it's got a box on it and this box has to be pulled behind the trailer
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  so all total you have one two, three, four, five six seven sets of wheels and
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  These wheel I mean that they got wheels everywhere in this and I'm not sure that this is all that mobile
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  This thing is huge. So this typhoon system is the one that
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  Is the one pulling a trailer right? So the typhoon system which relies on trailer mounted launchers
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  is
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  You know, really not all that mobile
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  So the XMAV is built for off-road operation in contested trains
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  It's got same for missile capacity
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  but it has better mobility and a little bit of a reduced signature because they can shoot and scoot as the army likes to call it and
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  Easier conceal themselves in wooded or urban environments
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  The XMAV is part of a new family of multi-mission autonomous vehicles
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  Which include the MMAV for Gia GM LRS and PRSM
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  rockets and the LMAV designed to launch switchblade 600 drones and
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  counter unmanned air hill
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  systems and
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  So each of these, you know, they had they show pictures of them all the rollout comes as Ukraine
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  Ukrainian officials confirmed on October 10 that Kiev and Washington are now in
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  Detailed and active technical coordinate technical coordination on Tomahawk integration
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  This includes discussion on missile configuration
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  targeting
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  Architecture now, that's very interesting
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  targeting architecture because
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  Everybody knows you cannot target a Tomahawk without a u.s
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  intelligence platform from somewhere and
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  Suitable launch platforms. Well, I'm here to tell you there aren't any
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  suitable launch
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  platforms
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  President Zelensky stated that if Tomahawks are transferred
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  They would be used exclusively against military targets a message intended to manage
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  escalation concerns with Moscow
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  Don't believe a word that any of that specially Zelensky says about that
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  They will definitely use them against Russian infrastructure or
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  Russian civilian targets no problem and they will do that and not say anything about it and but they will have to
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  If the u.s. Targets them that is an escalation. And by the way
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  Everybody is saying that if they do do do provide the Tomahawks. It's automatically an
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  Escalation and will destroy any chance of the u.s. And Russia has of working together in the future near future
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  anyway
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  So
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  Several articles. There's another one called. What is a Tomahawk missile?
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  And how can it help Ukraine from a technical standpoint the x-map supports the US Army's common autonomous?
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  multi-domain launcher concept
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  and Oshkosh hasn't
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  Pre-created one they had one
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  What do you call it?
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  showpiece that they put out at the
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  At the exhibition and that's it and
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  So so that's the news of today
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  yesterday there was a
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  an article
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  Trump offers Putin a choice
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  Settle the war or face the Tomahawk
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  right said he plans to raise the possibility of
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  Sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if he doesn't agree and this is from Fox News Trump said he spoke with
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  Zelensky the same day and discussed Ukraine's weapon needs so I went through the budget to find out where they are
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  No
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  Safe zone would be left if here's some latest news from October 7 boy
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  They've been pushing this there so many articles could the u.s. Miss and there's another one on the Barracuda
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  Versus the Tomahawk and whether that could provide something
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  Enderil's new Barracuda family of cruise miss cruise like missiles has emerged as a cheaper longer range
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  alternative to scarce
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  Tomahawks, but with small warheads and no mass production line
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  Let's see how that stacks up
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  Enderil industry's new Barracuda family of wing crews like missiles often described in Ukraine as
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  Rocket drones has attracted attention as a potential medium-range option for strikes in the European theater Ukrainian defense
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  media outlet Defense Express reported on October 2nd
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  But despite promising ranges and low cost per unit to Barracuda line comes with drawbacks that limit its usefulness for
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  High value strikes very small warheads and no current production capacity
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  Well, that's depressing for them, isn't it?
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  But there's no real production capacity for the Tomahawk either which we'll get into here in a minute
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  So, let's see. I want to
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  Go back to here where we get why why all the hubbub
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  about all of these alleged Tomahawks going everywhere, so
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  So
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  again, the Tomahawk is a
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  subsonic sea or land launch cruise missile
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  But it's been a United States Navy me and other Navy's mainstay since the 80s
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  And and then they've you know upgraded them all the time. The latest generation is block 5
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  ranges described as about
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  900 nautical miles or about 1600 kilometers, but exact figures by variant are classified
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  it can go speeds of
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  Mach 0.7 to 0.75 according to the Navy
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  Let's see
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  It's a solid booster kicks it out of the canister
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  Wings pop out and a small turbofan takes over for subsonic cruising
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  It has INS or GPS for midcourse turcom terrain contouring matching and DS MAC digital scene
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  Matching to hug the ground and match stored maps in the terminal area. It's harder to see on radar until
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  too late
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  Block four and five the latest ones at a two-way data link
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  so a controller can reroute retarget or
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  Loiter for a better shot window, right?
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  Warheads are typically a thousand pound class unitary
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  but they can be
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  you know use a
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  Bunker buster for hardened targets or something like that
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  The launch platforms are what's interesting ships submarines
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  You know, we know we have those and those are the vast majority of these but the US Army has ground launchers the Typhoon
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  the SMRF and the MRC
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  for
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  strike strike length
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  Mk41 cells in a 40-foot
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  container on a tractor trailer
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  They can fire the tomahawk missile or the sm-6 the first live tomahawk was shot
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  out of such a container in
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  2023 the first overseas deployment
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  Was to the Philippines in April of 2024
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  The u.s. And that was in the Typhoon the one I was telling you about that comes on a weird container shaped trailer
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  That's a extremely large and unwieldy
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  so
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  The US and the Philippines say that Typhoon remains forward and is in training and contingency use a
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  battery typically fields for four cell launchers 16 cells
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  Okay, and so they could argue, you know if they can cart them around
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  In the new Oshkosh XMAV, which we told you about it came out here just today
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  They also allegedly had the army in the Marines had a single round
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  trailer style launcher
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  They demonstrated these single cell strike length
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  Mk41 launchers on small trucks or a trailer and they called them the rogue fire or jail
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  LTV based launcher. They had long-range fire single cell concept noted for
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  2026 these are concept to demo. They're not fielded
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  It's meaning so two of these three the Typhoon is the only one that's fielded and it's only been fielded in
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  2023 and it's in the Philippines
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  Okay, so we got problems on there unless your ship shooting them from ship to shore or ship to land ship to wherever you're
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  you're gonna fire them and I don't know how they're gonna give these to Ukraine because Ukraine can't put them on a ship and
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  Maybe somebody can you know, I'd be happy to learn more about this if it's if it's not out there
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  this is all research I've done today to go and find out because I don't remember this from my missile training when I was
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  Eliminating missiles under the INF Treaty. I remember getting rid of some of these most of them were
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  Our
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  Pershing twos we were getting rid of but we were also getting rid of many other classes that were coming up during the
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  INF Treaty and the Russians were getting rid all their ss-20s
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  So I got a little bit curious about how many tomahawks the u.s. Actually has
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  the precise inventory is
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  classified but open sources say that the in the end DOD budget records show that the Navy has purchased
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  eight thousand nine hundred and fifty nine tomahawks historically and
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  Not more than 2,300 have been used in combat since 91
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  Analysts estimate that approximately 4,000 are in the u.s. Inventory today
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  Getting rid of you know demolish getting rid of a demilitarization
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  using them in training or post expenditure
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  and
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  According to some current sources block five sites. They say that there are three thousand nine hundred and ninety-two
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  missiles left and
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  How many are produced per year it varies by budget lot and the amount of foreign sales a recent?
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  Selected acquisition report says that the average procurement
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  unit cost cost per unit is
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  1.3 million dollars and
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  It has about a 1300 kilometer range, okay and
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  Production is now between the new build block fives and
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  What do they really cost the u.s. Procurement data?
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  puts it at 1.3 1 million and
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  And
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  block five the most the newest ones are 2 million and
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  Higher if you include spares and support
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  foreign military sales packages like training spare support
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  Push per round equivalents higher than that and say that they're closer to the three to four million dollar plus
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  per round
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  once you include the
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  Requirements for what you have. So what the tomahawk can and cannot do a
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  Land attack they can do pre-planned routes. They can fly low. They can weave around defenses. They can retarget or loiter
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  Maritime strike there. They can be a seeker and they have a software for for hitting moving ships, you know, they can do that
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  the reality versus modern
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  Low-altitude make, you know make it hard to detect until late, but they aren't invulnerable in Syria in 2017 and 18
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  Russia claimed that to
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  shot down large numbers like only 23 of 59 ever reached a spot while u.s. and
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  Independence say the majority of missiles hit their aim points
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  There will be contested narratives in Ukraine to Russia says that they're layered defenses
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  They're s400 the book the tour the panzer while Kiev highlights tomahawks low-level routing and complex guidance
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  It's tough to stop. We don't know
• 30:07
  But let's go back and look at the track record
• 30:09
  1991 Gulf War first major use
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  1998 Desert Fox 99 Kosovo. I told you about all of those and
• 30:17
  80 80 missiles in the first night since
• 30:22
  1991 to any 300 fired in combat the new thing we've heard about is this launcher though
• 30:30
  It's a heavy
• 30:33
  Autonomous capable truck can shoot four
• 30:37
  Canisters it so it's equal in salvo strength to the Typhon, but is far better off-road, right?
• 30:44
  And so it'll complement that but the
• 30:48
  Single tomahawk trailer that one doesn't work. There's been news in the last few days that the most
• 30:56
  This is the the funny part of it all because if this is a war game changer
• 31:02
  You know, I'll be happy to eat my hat
• 31:04
  I'm not wearing a hat, but I'll go find one and then put it on and then eat it
• 31:10
  Let's see how many can get to Ukraine?
• 31:13
  At the very most
• 31:15
  experts say that they could get maybe 50 and probably between 20 and 50 and
• 31:22
  multiple outlets saying like the Financial Times
• 31:26
  report US deliberations on a limited initial grouping Russia calls this a major escalation of course and
• 31:35
  Threatens to destroy the missiles, but more importantly to strike the launch sites
• 31:41
  The Kremlin has been messaging hard on this point and the reason is
• 31:46
  Because they can't shoot them, you know to use them on land
• 31:50
  Ukraine would need ground
• 31:53
  launchers
• 31:54
  They don't have any the only
• 31:58
  operational US system to launch a tomahawk is the Typhon the four-cell container launcher and the
• 32:06
  XMF won't be available for another year
• 32:09
  They say they won't be available till at the earliest mid 2026
• 32:13
  Okay
• 32:14
  and so if anything we're making threats for for the future right and and and this is more
• 32:21
  posturing to you know force a settlement of some sort, right and
• 32:27
  anyway
• 32:29
  The there is that single cell but that also was terminated
• 32:33
  Two years ago by the
• 32:38
  Marines and the army had never had it and so they're not in production either
• 32:44
  The tomahawk is a proven but legacy
• 32:48
  subsonic weapon Russia says it's defeatable with layered air defenses
• 32:52
  Moscow says that any Ukrainian transfers an escalation and it will preempt launchers
• 33:00
  you know you were where you gonna and and and
• 33:03
  Remember Russia's already taken out all the attack comes. I mean there are very few of those left attack comes where'd they go?
• 33:10
  where the Patriots the
• 33:12
  defense
• 33:13
  gone
• 33:14
  where the
• 33:15
  what's the other one the
• 33:18
  attack comes and
• 33:21
  Forgot the name of it a token batch of 20 to 50 is
• 33:26
  Symbolic millions per round two to three million bucks a shot unless it's paired with enough mobile launchers
• 33:34
  some sort of deception some sort of
• 33:37
  radar to generate survivable
• 33:41
  Scenarios for Ukraine, so Russia will prioritize just what they did with every other launcher system or
• 33:49
  launcher for Patriot systems, which are
• 33:53
  virtually gone
• 33:55
  So they'll take these typhoon trucks and x-mav assets
• 33:59
  Loitering munitions ballistic strikes. They'll get rid of them
• 34:03
  So I'm not so positive. This is gonna be a a good
• 34:10
  Tried to find a number of the ground launchers that are actually in in
• 34:18
  Not production but in
• 34:20
  supply
• 34:21
  so the typhoon has
• 34:24
  Let's see
• 34:27
  How many launchers exist today get this?
• 34:31
  To fielded batteries, which equals eight launchers, how about that?
• 34:40
  One aligned to the first
• 34:44
  Defense forces and one earmarked for the third quarter
• 34:48
  So they aren't even all both in their planned total army plan is one battery
• 34:55
  with five batteries total by fiscal year 2026
• 35:00
  With the next battery is going to go to Europe in fiscal year 2026
• 35:07
  They have deployments so far in Luzon Philippines arrived in 2024 and they were left in country in
• 35:14
  2025 and
• 35:16
  Training of Philippine troops is underway
• 35:19
  So there aren't any launcher systems even of the typhoon, right?
• 35:25
  And in 2025 Congress was briefed that procurement covered one additional
• 35:32
  additional typhoon battery that means four more launchers plus reload and support and that means 32
• 35:40
  tomahawks plus canisters a
• 35:42
  total of so get this for launchers reload support 32 tomahawks
• 35:50
  233 million
• 35:52
  dollars
• 35:55
  How about that the DOD has not published a clean per launcher or per battery equipment only price
• 36:03
  so the bottom line today eight
• 36:06
  operational army launchers with 20 planned by
• 36:11
  2028
• 36:12
  the first real-world forward deployment is the Philippines and
• 36:17
  that's of
• 36:18
  the
• 36:20
  typhoon the XMF is
• 36:23
  You know, it isn't even it can do the same thing, but it's it's supposed to be more mobile and blah blah blah
• 36:29
  Fielded zero and the unit battery cost is not yet public because nobody's bought any
• 36:37
  Hmm curious, so
• 36:39
  What are we talking about?
• 36:41
  With all these crazy thing the single-cell ones those I just kind of threw in because the Marine Corps canceled that contract
• 36:48
  Effective in July of 2025 the army picked up the concept for a live-fire demo in
• 36:57
  2026 as of today. These are only prototypes and demonstrator launchers. There's no operational battery
• 37:03
  No publicized cost
• 37:07
  Unbelievable, I can't I feel like I've been once again had to had
• 37:14
  You know just been snookered here that people are just
• 37:17
  Giving me
• 37:20
  Nonsensical nonsense and talking about and and I've been thinking about it for a while anyway, cuz Trump
• 37:26
  Tomahawks, no Tomahawks Tomahawks. No Tomahawks. Jeez, you know Putin. We're probably gonna give up those Tomahawks
• 37:33
  Well, who you gonna give them to and how I mean, okay, let's what are we gonna mail them over? I mean
• 37:41
  Who's gonna fire them?
• 37:43
  Don't understand it
• 37:45
  So the Navy platform capacities get this so and in almost all of these and I think it's important to put this
• 37:52
  so the Ohio class
• 37:54
  boats four boats have
• 37:58
  154 Tomahawks per boat 22 tubes seven rounds apiece, right?
• 38:05
  so all four boats carry
• 38:09
  616 but wartime loadout could be you know a little bit different and that's an Ohio class on a Virginia class the
• 38:18
  early blocks carry Tomahawks via torpedo tubes and
• 38:22
  Then they can add four large tubes seven Tomahawks each means 28 apiece
• 38:27
  Okay
• 38:29
  And on the Arleigh Burke, they can hold 90 to 96 VLS cells depending on the flight cells are mixed and
• 38:36
  So Tomahawk counts very per ship, but most of these are for ship
• 38:44
  New I don't I don't know. Let's see how many ground launchers Zippo where have they been deployed?
• 38:52
  Philippines nowhere else cost of each
• 38:56
  Astronomical how many missiles in the Navy Marines three thirty nine ninety two and
• 39:02
  The army doesn't have very many at all
• 39:05
  They're you know, I
• 39:10
  It's I
• 39:13
  Think this is nothing more than a talking point
• 39:18
  So we sit and we talk about these
• 39:21
  these
• 39:23
  Tomahawks and here I've done it now now I've been put but I mean if you can look at YouTube
• 39:29
  Let me give you a quick rundown of YouTube
• 39:31
  News about Tomahawk missiles Donald Trump Ukraine
• 39:37
  Just in 11 hours ago, right?
• 39:41
  You have Trump warns Russia. He may send Ukraine long-range Tomahawks two days ago
• 39:47
  Kremlin says don't supply Ukraine Tomahawks two days ago
• 39:52
  Trump considers sending Tomahawk missiles
• 39:55
  Moscow warns of escalation
• 39:58
  Seven hours ago one day ago Tomahawk tech the lethal long-range missile
• 40:04
  Ukraine wants to target Russia, but it shows it being shot from a ship
• 40:10
  Where are they gonna get it?
• 40:12
  Trump's brazen Tomahawk missile threat to Putin Russia hits back one day ago with one line
• 40:19
  Putin aid shuts up Trump and Zelensky on Tomahawks. I
• 40:27
  First true deterrent lies in Tomahawk missiles to talk directly to Putin
• 40:34
  Nonsense, I I don't know that this is gonna do anything. Oh
• 40:44
  Crazy sauce
• 40:48
  Tomahawk missiles would put two key Russian targets within Ukraine's reach
• 40:54
  Yeah, if they could figure out how to how to
• 40:58
  How to fire them is what I say
• 41:03
  Oh
• 41:05
  Let's see
• 41:06
  All right. We're gonna go back to the we talked about that one
• 41:12
  the Typhon missile the Oshkosh based and
• 41:17
  We even did that. So we're gonna get back to here
• 41:21
  My next question that I that I got to thinking about is how come?
• 41:27
  it has been so quiet lately as
• 41:32
  To where we stand on
• 41:37
  The budget
• 41:40
  Where I think the budget is still in shutdown people are still in shutdown. I had a video appointment with a
• 41:50
  doctor
• 41:51
  from the VA today and
• 41:54
  it was a video appointment for 15-20 minutes and she said something that she was late because
• 42:01
  They were in shutdown and the tech people were gone
• 42:06
  And they were having issues because they had to send people home
• 42:10
  none, uh, there's a bunch of piece of people missing from places where they go and
• 42:16
  so and I
• 42:18
  Think the budget is still out there pending, but truthfully I didn't go look specifically
• 42:23
  She just said there were people missing so I assume it's still going on, but I really haven't paid attention
• 42:29
  Today to that issue
• 42:33
  But what I wanted to get to
• 42:36
  was I
• 42:38
  Still am very curious as to how much money
• 42:43
  the slime balls in DC are
• 42:47
  Attempting to funnel to Ukraine even now
• 42:51
  quietly
• 42:52
  without raising any flags
• 42:55
  Without telling the people
• 42:57
  Because we don't have the right to know we don't need to know
• 43:01
  They just want to send that money to Ukraine for what?
• 43:05
  for a losing cause
• 43:07
  by the way that I
• 43:09
  meant to finish that last segment by saying
• 43:13
  Let's assume that Ukraine can slingshot throw
• 43:19
  mail
• 43:21
  Missiles
• 43:22
  Into Russia shooting these tomahawks with whatever platform that they can figure out
• 43:29
  That they can somehow
• 43:31
  weasel their way into getting
• 43:34
  the Philippines to send over the two operational batteries that they have and
• 43:40
  Maybe there's one or two in Europe that weren't really mentioned
• 43:44
  That we could talk about
• 43:47
  Let's see, I think somebody wants to discuss this. Hold on. Let's see if I can figure this out
• 43:54
  Hello caller, how's the family?
• 43:58
  Well
• 44:03
  I'm here. There's some areas of the Dnieper River north of Kiev where the waters a
• 44:11
  Couple hundred feet deep. So I gotta do is load them in a boat and take them out there and chuck them over the side
• 44:16
  Those things are self-propelled they'll take off
• 44:20
  So all you got to do is throw them over the overboard. That's what you're saying
• 44:23
  I mean all the ships do is just shoot them out the side. It's the fans on the unit itself that propels them
• 44:30
  the fans and fins
• 44:33
  Well the fence. Yeah, they guide it
• 44:36
  All you got to do is chuck them over the side. Just drop them off the side
• 44:41
  Then why have launchers at all?
• 44:45
  Well, why does the army why does the army need a launcher
• 44:50
  Because I mean you can't just set it on the ground and turn it on. It's got to have
• 44:57
  Some initial boost in the land on the land in the air not on in the water though the water
• 45:03
  It can just be floating you just flip it on
• 45:08
  You sure that?
• 45:12
  No, I'm not sure. I'm not sure that I know
• 45:17
  Launcher on the land, of course, you can't just turn it on expect it to surf across the cornfield
• 45:23
  Well, yes, but you can't do that in the water either
• 45:26
  Of course you can in the water it can be sitting there for then
• 45:30
  Then why does the Navy go to such great lengths to shoot them out of the vertical launch system
• 45:42
  I don't think they have to do much at all
• 45:44
  You just told me yourself that all they do is just they just squirt them out the side of the boat
• 45:49
  That's not what I said. I said they are all launched from a ship
• 45:54
  You described it specifically
• 45:56
  There's a little thing in the boat that squirts them out of the boat after that the fan kicks on and they take off
• 46:02
  No, no, no, no. No, that's not they're not underwater except on a submarine and even there
• 46:08
  They have to go through a torpedo boot tube and be sure to get them
• 46:11
  You got to get them in suspense is the point if they're in the air
• 46:15
  So you got to have a launcher or they have to be on the top of the boat
• 46:20
  But if it's in the water if it's in a tube, I just heard you say it
• 46:25
  All it does is push it out the boat and it takes off on its own with the fan
• 46:29
  I that's not what I said. I said they have launchers on boats
• 46:34
  That they they are they are boat launch torpedo tubes. Yes
• 46:40
  Yes, and you don't just open a torpedo tube and the torpedo shoots itself
• 46:45
  It's got a launching system inside of there you go
• 46:48
  That's exactly right to get it out of the way from the boat
• 46:50
  and then the fan comes on after the after the the blades come out the fan comes on and it's gone and
• 46:58
  Ukraine has no such boat
• 47:01
  You don't need it. You start off the side
• 47:03
  So so just give Sam and a pile of row boats and we'll go up to the Nepper River. That's 200 feet deep
• 47:09
  We'll load my row boat right up. I'll row out to the middle and push it off the side and
• 47:17
  Who's gonna who's gonna target
• 47:20
  How you gonna target him?
• 47:27
  Once once you get him in suspense
• 47:30
  Then that's the shit we can do it from
• 47:33
  Here in the United States for that matter. Well, and that's the point. That's the whole point the US
• 47:42
  To do it
• 47:45
  You said the point was Ukraine's got no way to launch him
• 47:49
  I'm saying they don't if you can drop them if you get if you can throw them in the river
• 47:54
  We can handle it from there
• 47:56
  You get a pile of boats in the river with a bunch of missiles on them
• 48:02
  And I I don't believe they'll be long for this earth. I
• 48:06
  Agree with you, but you only need how long are these things like 20 feet long?
• 48:11
  I
• 48:11
  like 28 something like that, they're in a 40 foot they're in a 40-foot rail and I
• 48:19
  Think I might have the weight of them somewhere, but I don't recall
• 48:22
  I thought I heard you say they weigh a thousand pounds. I think that's I may have said that I know I said there
• 48:31
  Yeah, I think you know what you may be right but but I delete I closed that page and going back
• 48:39
  We put one on a pontoon boat in Lake Ozark and you can drop it out the back and tell the Pentagon, okay, we're good
• 48:49
  So Jr is ready to JR is already
• 48:52
  You're ready to get your pontoon and and have it airlifted into the Dnipper River
• 48:58
  I'll bet you there's already boats there. I bet you there aren't boats that have launch systems for the
• 49:06
  Launch system you got to have a couple guys who can throw it off the side of the boat or out the back or out
• 49:12
  The front of the boat. So why are we spending all this money on warships?
• 49:16
  I don't understand at all why we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on warships
• 49:22
  We could have a flotilla of
• 49:26
  pontoon boats and all go out and just throw out missiles and we would be just as successful as that way you're saying
• 49:33
  That would not be efficient
• 49:37
  So it's more efficient to spend hundreds of millions of dollars
• 49:41
  Well, yeah, you have to protect
• 49:43
  There's a lot of things
• 49:44
  There's nothing protecting a pontoon boat for sure if you and me are out there shoving this off the front of the pontoon boat
• 49:50
  This is guerrilla warfare and in Kiev at this point, right? Oh
• 49:57
  I don't know about that
• 49:59
  you you launch somehow you launch a
• 50:03
  What would it be called?
• 50:06
  What is it called whatever the Tomahawk if you launch a Tomahawk and you happen to hit Moscow even
• 50:13
  Accidentally, it's a whole new dynamic
• 50:17
  You think so, huh?
• 50:20
  Yeah, actually that's not why I called I was curious if you had an opinion on the new Pentagon press
• 50:31
  Requirements
• 50:31
  They have to fill out like a 20-page report now, didn't they say they were going to ignore them completely?
• 50:38
  Every network has said we're not doing it except one and that's television number five
• 50:43
  They went ahead and signed it and said we're in
• 50:47
  They said we are in
• 50:49
  Yeah, OPM said yeah, they signed theirs already. In fact tonight was the deadline and
• 50:55
  So nobody's gonna be allowed in anymore. Is that right?
• 50:57
  Is what
• 51:00
  So they'll be the only ones
• 51:03
  Nobody else signed it. Nobody not even Newsmax Newsmax Fox ABC CNN
• 51:09
  Washington Times and they're opposing nobody only and was the only one
• 51:13
  What were all the questions?
• 51:17
  What were the questions? Well, it mostly had to do with
• 51:20
  Just anything you report
• 51:23
  You're gonna have to have us sign off on you're not just gonna
• 51:27
  Meander the halls. You'll have to be guided around here. Just like every other base on planet Earth
• 51:33
  and so nobody can report from the
• 51:38
  Yeah, that's right First Amendment, oh my god First Amendment, yeah. Yeah, but nobody has to allow you into the Pentagon
• 51:51
  Do they will
• 51:53
  Now you after starting tomorrow you will
• 51:56
  No, no, no. No, I'm saying that it's not wouldn't you I mean everything they do in Missouri is oh, no, that's a privilege
• 52:04
  It's not a right. So I'm saying it's not a right to go into the Pentagon
• 52:08
  Correct. You know, I can't just when I had a military ID. I went into the Pentagon on a regular basis when I was
• 52:16
  stationed in Washington DC
• 52:18
  And you weren't you didn't have a press pass but I didn't have a press pass and
• 52:23
  Today, even though I'm a veteran and I have an ID card. I got all that stuff
• 52:30
  There ain't no way I'd just be able to wander in to the Pentagon. Well, the press has been
• 52:37
  Wow
• 52:38
  And that's it until tonight at midnight. Well, I doubt they will be tomorrow then
• 52:43
  Well
• 52:45
  Yeah, it's it's a whole different deal. They're saying hey, this is a matter of national security, which Trump's the First Amendment is what the argument is
• 52:54
  Trump Trump's the First Amendment
• 52:57
  They say yeah national security. You can't just come in here and walk out of here without
• 53:02
  Letting us sign off on what you're what story you're writing or what you're gonna run and and I'm telling you man
• 53:08
  all these news medias are like
• 53:10
  Going ain't shit over it. They're like no way. This is this ain't right. How are we supposed to?
• 53:17
  How are we supposed to report what's going on and how do you know what's going on these are everybody's always a
• 53:25
  Confidential source
• 53:28
  Exactly my point no more confidential sources, you know
• 53:33
  That doesn't work in many other countries
• 53:36
  I mean pick pick pick a friend try that in Israel
• 53:46
  Yeah, but First Amendment doesn't allow you to get on to Fort Hood, Texas either
• 53:52
  You know, you don't just get a wander on because you got a press pass
• 53:59
  Yeah, I know that but I mean it's it's it's a still a military base
• 54:05
  Right, well, well what we haven't realized basically our whole entire lives is
• 54:10
  Is once you get the press pass you you've had pretty as long as you're like recognized
• 54:15
  It was been very very very lax at the Pentagon
• 54:19
  over the past however many decades and now
• 54:22
  Sec def Hegseth is like nope that ends today
• 54:27
  No, no, no more. It's a matter of national security from now on and everybody's screaming First Amendment except OAN
• 54:35
  They say hey, where are we sign?
• 54:40
  I'll go sign. I have a press pass
• 54:44
  I'll go sign up and say let me in I will tell only what you want me to say. How about that?
• 54:57
  I don't know. I I got I
• 55:00
  I have mixed feelings on that. First of all, I I agree that that there ought to be
• 55:07
  If you have an oppressed conference in the Pentagon, then people should be allowed in to
• 55:14
  to
• 55:16
  Go to the presser, right?
• 55:18
  But it should be very
• 55:22
  Formal you remember when you had to sign for me to go to
• 55:27
  Bricks
• 55:28
  Bricks conference, right? That's a big deal. You don't just get in to the to the place where foreign leaders are gonna be meeting
• 55:37
  or
• 55:38
  having
• 55:40
  Meetings with important people even if you're a journalist in most other countries
• 55:44
  It's not that they're trying to stop you from saying one thing or another
• 55:49
  It's that they want to know who's coming in because they're gonna you know
• 55:54
  I think if you go from that point of view because the analysis on a legal on a legal basis in
• 56:01
  Missouri and everywhere else and and whether so let's take a quick a run down a legal platform here if
• 56:08
  somebody sues the Trump White House or the Trump Pentagon because they can't get in on
• 56:15
  First Amendment grounds and the Pentagon says well, no, we're not we're not
• 56:21
  limiting what you can say
• 56:24
  we're limiting who can get in to have access to this secure facility and
• 56:31
  That person has to be allowed in in order to do it
• 56:35
  we don't give a crap what you say once you once you come in and are allowed in to
• 56:41
  Discuss, but if you're saying that the Trump White House is saying you we got to approve what you print before you print it. I
• 56:51
  Don't think that will hold up under the Supreme Court First Amendment scrutiny
• 57:03
  Well, I
• 57:04
  Say good luck. Here comes another lawsuit toward the Trump White House if it's based on that if it's based on
• 57:11
  You know where you get it be when you hear them
• 57:17
  Feel free to I may look into it
• 57:22
  ask your your favorite AI to define the
• 57:26
  the
• 57:27
  Conflict there with the new Pentagon press rules
• 57:31
  The new Pentagon press really amazing for me to see that, you know Newsmax and Fox are like no
• 57:38
  We got a problem with this Trump
• 57:40
  That's shocking. I mean, that's that's a that's a new dynamic. They usually almost always. Yeah, if Trump says it, let's do it
• 57:46
  Well, I haven't been a yes Trump said it let's do it for a while and
• 57:53
  But I'm generally supportive of the old
• 58:07
  Yeah, but it's not national security if it's just a press conference
• 58:13
  Depends on what you're coming in to do if you're coming in to clandestinely meet with somebody just go clandestinely meet him at his house
• 58:27
  Right exactly, that's what I'm saying
• 58:31
  You probably move about from the way I understand it
• 58:35
  You're you're basically free to move about the halls and talk to anybody you want to and that's what sect-f
• 58:40
  I accept is clamping down on
• 58:43
  So you can't just wander around you can only be in specified areas
• 58:50
  Why don't you ask your chat GPT or your grok or whoever
• 58:56
  To explain the situation here. It shouldn't take but a second. Well, I can't talk to it and I don't like typing
• 59:06
  I'll look into it tomorrow for you. That'll be fine
• 59:08
  Clackety-clack give it the oh, yeah, I can't see you can't type. I mean, you know, I've just plenty of
• 59:17
  Negative cell phones with a flashlight on it. I need something. It's
• 59:24
  It's but that's a good topic I am interested in that I may have to dig in
• 59:30
  All right, brother as you were I appreciate having you you have a very good day or evening and there he goes
• 59:42
  Where is he now?
• 59:44
  He is gone
• 59:46
  He has departed henceforth into the wilderness and we believe it shall be well with him
• 59:54
  Although I still think he's a bit loopy on the idea of just taking a bunch of pontoon boats
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  flotillas to Ukraine and
• 1:00:05
  Pushing them over the edge, especially when you only can get 20 to 50. I
• 1:00:12
  Very well in that in that regard
• 1:00:19
  Let us see. I
• 1:00:22
  Wanted to go through the budget and see what these goons were talking about
• 1:00:29
  as far as
• 1:00:31
  Throwing more money at a losing battle
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  so the Senate's National Defense
• 1:00:40
  Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026 and the Armed Services Committee bill extending
• 1:00:49
  USAID what is it you us you couldn't where's my piece of paper? Oh
• 1:00:55
  I have a piece of paper here because there's so many acronyms. I was losing my mind
• 1:01:04
  So I said I got to write these down because there's so many
• 1:01:08
  Ukraine money trains and the first one is called the Ukraine
• 1:01:14
  security assistance
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  Initiative and it is from the Department of Defense
• 1:01:22
  Funding funding line that buys weapons and services for Ukraine
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  Congress this is Congress and
• 1:01:33
  What they're after
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  for the
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  For the
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  USAI Ukraine security assistance initiative
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  through
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  2028 the authorization is going up to
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  500 million
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  Dollars, there we go again
• 1:01:54
  There goes another half a billion. That's the Senate the Senate appropriations
• 1:02:01
  This is different not the Defense Authorization Act. This is Senate appropriations
• 1:02:05
  This is a GOP led panel that is advancing the fiscal year 2026 defense bill with
• 1:02:11
  1 billion for Ukraine
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  800 million would be
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  the
• 1:02:18
  Ukraine security assistance initiative and
• 1:02:23
  Then other lines in fact there and this they're doing despite Trump
• 1:02:28
  administration's request to eliminate Ukraine aid in that specific bill
• 1:02:34
  Then the house let's go to the house for fiscal year 26 National Defense Authorization Act the house kept
• 1:02:43
  Ukraine security assistance initiative lower their committees put it around 400 to 500 million
• 1:02:50
  Which you know the Senate and the house are going to agree right about this 500 million
• 1:02:55
  but the Democrats summary shows 400 million that's been adopted already in the markup and
• 1:03:01
  Then stand alone more money for Ukraine
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  This is the Senate
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  Senate bill
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  2592 supporting Ukraine act of 2025 by Shaheen and Murkowski they propose get this
• 1:03:17
  30 billion dollars
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  For Department of Defense split 15 billion
• 1:03:25
  Ukraine security assistance initiative and 15 billion for replenishment of what's been
• 1:03:31
  Taken so far what's disappeared so far
• 1:03:34
  plus 3 billion
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  something called
• 1:03:37
  FMF foreign military
• 1:03:41
  Financing that helps partners by u.s. Arms. How about that so we?
• 1:03:48
  Fund arms for them in a loan that they got to pay back. That's not what Trump said
• 1:03:54
  Trump said that we're gonna make them buy arms and what they do with them after that we don't care. That's not what's here and
• 1:04:02
  It credits u.s. Military aid as a capital contribution
• 1:04:06
  to the new
• 1:04:08
  US Ukraine
• 1:04:09
  Reconstruction investment fund so they introduced that one that was introduced in July
• 1:04:15
  2025 and that one is in committee and the house has house resolution
• 1:04:21
  2913 the Ukraine support act
• 1:04:24
  Meeks it's stuck in committees the Democrats have filed a discharge
• 1:04:29
  Petition to force it to the floor. They want more money for Ukraine
• 1:04:34
  And they're all out there trying to get it. How much has the u.s. Already?
• 1:04:42
  Appropriated right the u.s. Government's official oversight portal says we have
• 1:04:48
  given
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  187 billion dollars in total appropriations
• 1:04:57
  tied to
• 1:04:58
  operation
• 1:05:00
  Atlantic resolve and the Ukraine response through fiscal year
• 1:05:05
  2024 which comprises five Ukraine supplemental acts from
• 1:05:11
  2022 to 2024 plus other agency funds within that the April
• 1:05:17
  2024 security supplement included
• 1:05:20
  61 billion
• 1:05:22
  for Ukraine part of the 95 billion foreign aid package
• 1:05:28
  Unbelievable, so Biden versus Trump. What was approved under whom?
• 1:05:34
  under President Biden February 22 to January 2025
• 1:05:39
  Congress passed those five supplements remember
• 1:05:42
  Cumulating in April 24
• 1:05:45
  61 billion the DoD
• 1:05:48
  executed dozens of PDA drawdowns and
• 1:05:52
  US AI contracts Patriot missiles naysayers missiles attack comes missiles
• 1:05:57
  artillery, etc and under President Trump
• 1:06:02
  2025
• 1:06:03
  January to the president the admin
• 1:06:07
  Shifted emphasis toward Europeans funding u.s. Weapons for Ukraine, right via NATO's
• 1:06:14
  prioritized Ukraine
• 1:06:16
  Requirement list that is P URL, but Congress moved on baseline
• 1:06:23
  Ukraine security assistance initiative 500 million from the
• 1:06:33
  Senate and 400 million from the house and
• 1:06:36
  Appropriations with 1 billion in Senate appropriations still more
• 1:06:41
  admin level actions
• 1:06:42
  resumed limited money and
• 1:06:45
  brokered green and grin
• 1:06:48
  Can't talk green lit Patriot backfield deals with allies
• 1:06:52
  Trump and Zelensky have discussed long-range options including tomahawks, but no
• 1:06:57
  public green light yet
• 1:07:01
  Then remember all the talk about Patriots and they've all disappeared basically there are very few Patriots
• 1:07:07
  Remaining in Ukraine. They've all been blown the hell up
• 1:07:11
  How many batteries are actually in Ukraine right now?
• 1:07:18
  Open source tallies consistently say that there may be as many as
• 1:07:24
  six or seven
• 1:07:27
  Operational Patriot batteries in Ukraine as of mid
• 1:07:31
  2025 they have mix of full batteries and component sets donors include the US and Germany
• 1:07:39
  multiple each
• 1:07:40
  Romania one full system the Netherlands launchers and radar and Spain has provided Patriot missiles
• 1:07:48
  And what is pledged in?
• 1:07:50
  2025
• 1:07:52
  US and Germany plan
• 1:07:54
  July of 2025 the US and Germany announced up to five additional Patriot systems for Ukraine a
• 1:08:02
  Mix of intermediate. I'm sorry immediate German transfers and the US backfilling German transfer
• 1:08:09
  Germany later specified only two would arrive by the end of 2025
• 1:08:14
  Several European deliveries are trying to be accelerated and some partners have accepted delay to their own orders as
• 1:08:22
  backfill
• 1:08:23
  Romanian battery Parliament approved
• 1:08:26
  donation in September 2024 and it was delivered in October 2024 the
• 1:08:33
  Ukraine relief in European funding the Netherlands became the first to buy
• 1:08:39
  500 million of a US kit for Ukraine
• 1:08:43
  including
• 1:08:44
  Patriot components
• 1:08:46
  under the first pearl mechanism for NATO
• 1:08:50
  so the money
• 1:08:52
  The money train is still
• 1:08:55
  chugging down the track
• 1:08:58
  Production and sustainment money for the Patriot industry ramp on Boeing just won a 2.7 billion dollar
• 1:09:06
  contract
• 1:09:07
  For pac-3 interceptors without put targets of up to 750 a year for 2030
• 1:09:15
  Lockheed landed a separate 9.6 billion production
• 1:09:20
  award last month and
• 1:09:24
  179
• 1:09:26
  Point one was awarded for Patriot sustainment for Ukraine on August 29th
• 1:09:35
  2025 so 179 million for Patriots
• 1:09:38
  The bottom line for Patriots Ukraine sits at about six or seven batteries that are in service now
• 1:09:44
  allegedly
• 1:09:46
  Oh crap
• 1:09:48
  Where'd it go?
• 1:09:50
  With additional batteries slated for u.s. Germany blah blah blah and missile interceptor production
• 1:09:55
  Surging if they can call it that under multi-year
• 1:09:59
  Contracts, so they're expecting this to go on for a while
• 1:10:03
  So the Tomahawks how many and what funding so multiple outlets
• 1:10:07
  citing briefings to the Financial Times say the u.s. Can spare only
• 1:10:12
  20 to 50 Tomahawks for Ukraine a token number
• 1:10:17
  very unlikely to change battlefield dynamics absent large
• 1:10:22
  numbers of missiles and
• 1:10:25
  Mobile launchers, but no formal transfer has been announced on the ground launcher side the Typhon is operational
• 1:10:32
  But nothing else is there we talked about all that red already
• 1:10:36
  What's still being provided the high-level stuff our Patriots?
• 1:10:41
  batteries launchers and missiles
• 1:10:43
  NASAMS launchers and missiles iris-t hawk patriot they remain the only widely deployed Western
• 1:10:51
  system able to get past Russian ballistic missiles in Ukraine service and
• 1:10:58
  Continued focus here is gun. You know it'll continue with both the
• 1:11:04
  Ukraine security assistance and
• 1:11:06
  this NATO
• 1:11:09
  funded buying
• 1:11:11
  and long-range
• 1:11:12
  ongoing artillery and rocket munitions are in serious
• 1:11:21
  shortage
• 1:11:22
  From the Ukrainian side and Russia's producing literally ten times more than Ukraine is
• 1:11:30
  all of NATO together u.s.. Everybody is
• 1:11:34
  it's
• 1:11:35
  for
• 1:11:38
  Artillery shells
• 1:11:41
  Not not going well on the Ukraine side
• 1:11:45
  I watched quite a few of the because I haven't watched in a couple of weeks, and I
• 1:11:50
  Got on and watched some of the lines of
• 1:11:56
  The front that have shifted over the last couple of weeks, and it's
• 1:12:02
  It's still not good for Ukraine. It's gonna be cold freakin winter
• 1:12:08
  Let's do a quick
• 1:12:10
  Biden versus Trump ledger right he had five Ukrainian supplements
• 1:12:17
  Trump has this
• 1:12:20
  Funding at least he's
• 1:12:22
  Trying to save the Americans a little bit of money. I guess although. I really don't
• 1:12:28
  Necessarily see it that way
• 1:12:34
  Because I believe he's gonna sign these if he's given these these bills that show some
• 1:12:41
  Some more money what I really wanted to do was get a Ukraine
• 1:12:46
  Note card on funding because I already have the active and the standalones
• 1:12:52
  and what's been approved and all the Patriots and Tomahawks and
• 1:12:58
  You know Lindsey Graham out there crying for more
• 1:13:01
  You know we got to have some more, but I thought it would be interesting to go and try to find out
• 1:13:08
  the country by country
• 1:13:11
  annual aid
• 1:13:12
  At least since 2022 and
• 1:13:17
  there's a place called the
• 1:13:18
  keel
• 1:13:20
  Institute and they have a keel Institute Ukraine support tracker another acronym for you
• 1:13:28
  UST it is the
• 1:13:31
  authoritative public data set that breaks out military financial and
• 1:13:38
  humanitarian commitments by donor country and
• 1:13:42
  by
• 1:13:43
  Time you can do it monthly, but I don't want monthly. I'd prefer yearly it covers
• 1:13:50
  41 donors
• 1:13:53
  all EU members
• 1:13:54
  individually
• 1:13:56
  Plus the u.s.. The UK Canada Norway Japan
• 1:14:01
  Australia South Korea Turkey
• 1:14:04
  Switzerland Thailand and the EU separately as a separate donor the latest update
• 1:14:11
  Was today October 14th
• 1:14:15
  that
• 1:14:16
  includes data through August of 2025 and they have it where you can download
• 1:14:23
  the
• 1:14:25
  entire spreadsheet
• 1:14:28
  And I did that but I couldn't print it out. It's so big
• 1:14:34
  It's pretty huge and so they have this also
• 1:14:38
  Data tracker that you can do an XLS download at the keel Institute and so
• 1:14:46
  what I really wanted to do was just get more of a
• 1:14:55
  Global I
• 1:14:56
  Don't know and global is not right either more of a
• 1:14:59
  high level or a macro sort of thing that would say yeah, I can't I can't open it on on the
• 1:15:11
  Studio computer well, it won't work and
• 1:15:14
  And I it won't automatically
• 1:15:17
  Here's a support tracker
• 1:15:21
  here
• 1:15:22
  Download the new data because you can download it. It's really it's really kind of cool. How'd they do it?
• 1:15:28
  I don't like the politics of it all but
• 1:15:32
  government support to Ukraine by month in
• 1:15:36
  billions of euros
• 1:15:38
  Right and
• 1:15:40
  this is I
• 1:15:43
  Mean troubling by month. We're talking about January through March of 2022
• 1:15:52
  the u.s. Was at about 2 billion and
• 1:15:58
  Europe was at about
• 1:16:00
  7 then the u.s.
• 1:16:02
  I mean these numbers went huge and now if you go through January to March of
• 1:16:09
  2025 the u.s. Dropped
• 1:16:12
  Dramatically in this keel
• 1:16:14
  This keel Institute. It's down to 500 million, right?
• 1:16:18
  but in the last part of 2024 it was
• 1:16:23
  27 billion and
• 1:16:27
  now typically
• 1:16:28
  Ukraine monthly is getting and this is monthly
• 1:16:31
  I'm telling you these numbers that this this now you're seeing Europe putting up
• 1:16:36
  18 did it was 20 billion from April through June now, it's down to 10 billion
• 1:16:42
  I see it is dropping off a little bit that government support to Ukraine by country group and
• 1:16:50
  they have Europe in the United States between
• 1:16:53
  total
• 1:16:55
  177 plus 96 is about what?
• 1:16:59
  275 for
• 1:17:01
  For Europe and the u.s
• 1:17:04
  It only shows it aid to be allocated because this aid is still supposed to go shows
• 1:17:10
  114 billion by the United States and
• 1:17:15
  Then they have government support though and ours is
• 1:17:19
  Quite a bit higher not for military support, but government support. It's huge and
• 1:17:28
  Our our numbers are in the number of billions
• 1:17:32
  We've given 64 plus 46 a hundred and what does that make it about a hundred and ten hundred and fifteen?
• 1:17:40
  quick numbers
• 1:17:41
  Those are huge
• 1:17:43
  government support to Ukraine total bilateral allocations including EU aid
• 1:17:48
  Government support to Ukraine total aid with estimated refugee costs and the u.s. Is still way up on the top of that
• 1:17:55
  We're still given far more than
• 1:17:58
  Than everybody else. We're just not calling it military
• 1:18:02
  We're calling it everything else if you look at the data transparency index where they're stretching this
• 1:18:08
  The EU completely at five billion is all together
• 1:18:14
  These higher indexes by donor of people that you know, don't want to give up money versus people who are
• 1:18:21
  it's
• 1:18:24
  Greece
• 1:18:25
  Is it as is way down low? They don't want to give any money
• 1:18:29
  Romania doesn't South Korea Spain Bulgaria Turkey
• 1:18:34
  India are all down below
• 1:18:38
  You know, they don't want to
• 1:18:41
  They're giving it's a disclaimer, but it's basically saying it's a
• 1:18:46
  Transparency index of how much they are giving and these people aren't aren't allocating any budget support
• 1:18:53
  and so basically the way I see this Kiel Institute thing, it's like
• 1:18:59
  It's a shaming
• 1:19:01
  If your name's on here and you're not near the top of the list, you're shamed into going
• 1:19:05
  Oh, geez, you better come up with some more money. I
• 1:19:09
  think it's I think this war has been extremely costly and
• 1:19:14
  I think it needs to end and I think the way to end it is quit freaking funding it
• 1:19:19
  But oh, no, we will continue to fund, you know, it'll here. We got our idiot our idiot
• 1:19:27
  fearless leaders
• 1:19:28
  That are just going to continue to pump money
• 1:19:33
  into yet another rat hole of
• 1:19:37
  Ukraine
• 1:19:39
  Not much success coming out there
• 1:19:45
  Well, let's see
• 1:19:47
  Annual total 80 billion in 2022 80 billion 2023 80 billion in
• 1:19:54
  2024 Europe versus US military. Here's military
• 1:20:01
  62 billion u.s. 64 billion Europe
• 1:20:05
  2025 trend u.s. Is very slow. Europe is procuring more more
• 1:20:10
  I had my acronym list, but I'm not gonna read that to you. It's very dull and
• 1:20:15
  No entertainment at all
• 1:20:19
  Let's see, and I believe that now where were we
• 1:20:29
  Um
• 1:20:33
  The EU isn't at war with Russia. However, they continue to say
• 1:20:40
  We're not at war with Russia. We are just supporting Ukraine
• 1:20:46
  But we we hate Russia by the way European leaders are just you know
• 1:20:53
  Among other things this moment in history will be remembered whether in books whether in chapters
• 1:21:01
  Or forgotten footnotes as the great European drone scare
• 1:21:07
  because for weeks now the
• 1:21:09
  populations of NATO EU Europe have been subjected to a barrage of vague but scary
• 1:21:17
  reports about drone sightings
• 1:21:21
  The drones have appeared over various places
• 1:21:26
  prominently including airports in Denmark in Germany
• 1:21:30
  They are of unknown origin and unknown purpose
• 1:21:34
  They could be UFOs and quite often it is actually also unknown whether they're even real
• 1:21:41
  There are no pictures no proof. Indeed. There is no proof of Russia being responsible for any of these incidents as
• 1:21:51
  even Western media admits we're once again asked to simply trust our politicians and
• 1:21:58
  Quote experts
• 1:22:00
  That is the same ones who took months to stop pretending that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipelines in
• 1:22:07
  2022 as late as spring of 2023
• 1:22:11
  Germany's Carlo masala for instance who also believes Gherkin and Strelkov are two different individuals just like
• 1:22:19
  well masala was still spreading groundless speculation a
• 1:22:24
  Conspiracy theory about a false flag attack by Russia on Nord Stream. So once again
• 1:22:32
  Russia Russia Russia
• 1:22:35
  an old coincidence of coincidences
• 1:22:38
  Recently Moscow as we are told has had nothing better to do than oblige Western
• 1:22:45
  information warriors with three further sort of incidents a purported electronic warfare attack on
• 1:22:53
  the plane of an EU
• 1:22:54
  despot and de facto u.s. Pro Consul Ursula von der Leyen over the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv an
• 1:23:03
  Alleged incursion into Estonian airspace and low flyovers over the German frigate Hamburg during recent
• 1:23:10
  NATO exercises in
• 1:23:13
  Reality these three stories share only one thing with the great drone saga
• 1:23:19
  They don't hold up to scrutiny
• 1:23:21
  The case of the alleged Plovdiv GBS attack is so shoddy and cratered so badly so quickly
• 1:23:28
  That it has been quickly forgotten the incursion into Estonian airspace didn't happen either
• 1:23:33
  Due to an agreement that Estonia itself signed in 94
• 1:23:37
  It cannot claim a 12-mile but only three mile zone in the relevant area
• 1:23:42
  Estonia's case is hysterical to begin with the
• 1:23:45
  1994 agreement deprives it of even the flimsiest pretext of legality
• 1:23:52
  Regarding the so-called buzzing of the Hamburg
• 1:23:56
  Finally even Western military officials admit it was not imminently dangerous instead
• 1:24:02
  They say it was unfriendly and provocative
• 1:24:05
  frankly boo
• 1:24:06
  Freaking who what do you expect holding exercises on Russia's doorstep?
• 1:24:11
  While fighting an indirect war against it in Ukraine a friendly chat among sailors over a stiff grog and
• 1:24:20
  Yet everyone in NATO EU establishment politics and the mainstream media has been singing the same
• 1:24:27
  old song
• 1:24:28
  once again
• 1:24:30
  Russia is coming Russia is here Russia is everywhere the head of Germany's new spy agency
• 1:24:38
  the boon this
• 1:24:40
  Nachrichten sides
• 1:24:42
  Dines they said that wrong seems to believe that his job is not to do secret things quietly
• 1:24:48
  But to join the chorus of panic mongers. He also has sleepless visions of Russians attacking any day now
• 1:24:57
  Maybe from right under his bed or out of his cupboard one might say
• 1:25:02
  It is almost as if they are all reading from the same
• 1:25:07
  Hymnbook that is memo and of course the new wave of self-induced hyperventilation
• 1:25:14
  Has been milked for all its worth a lot as in billions of euros and yet more money to be spent on
• 1:25:22
  armaments including but not limited to a
• 1:25:26
  Drone wall while ordinary people are subjected to ever more brutal austerity even more disturbingly
• 1:25:32
  There's clear drive to concentrate ever more power with those same political
• 1:25:37
  Establishments that can't stop ruling by fright and confusing their own
• 1:25:42
  citizens
• 1:25:44
  That the drone stories are already crumbling makes no difference a dramatic French attempt
• 1:25:52
  Special forces at all to pin nefarious drone activity on a tanker for instance has failed miserably in
• 1:26:00
  Germany a recent sighting has actually been cleared up quickly the culprit a hapless German drone amateur
• 1:26:08
  Who is living under a rock?
• 1:26:12
  That's funny and perish the thought that Ukraine itself might have anything to do with these mystery drones
• 1:26:18
  Its regime has plenty of motive and by now even the West has been compelled to acknowledge. It is perfectly capable
• 1:26:26
  Ukraine that is of massive sabotage
• 1:26:29
  operations and lies to manipulate its European backers
• 1:26:34
  Because that is now even the official story of the Nord Stream attack
• 1:26:42
  Instead let's pretend that we know that we what we don't know Russia Russia Russia and start
• 1:26:50
  Overreacting again based on our ignorance and panic
• 1:26:54
  at best on a malevolent
• 1:26:57
  Deliberate strategy of cognitive warfare
• 1:27:01
  against our own countries in
• 1:27:03
  Germany for instance both Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and defense minister Boris
• 1:27:09
  Pistorius have made the bizarre claim that while the country is not at war
• 1:27:14
  It is also no longer at peace and the Russians are coming head of the BND
• 1:27:21
  he feels the current peace is icy at best and
• 1:27:25
  Could turn into heated confrontation at any moment
• 1:27:30
  What is that supposed to mean? Is there a backhanded admission?
• 1:27:35
  Finally that Germany has made a deliberate and off awfully self-harming choice to fight Russia through Ukraine
• 1:27:43
  Hmm we wonder
• 1:27:45
  We have noticed that how about you our supposed leaders stop playing with fire. I
• 1:27:53
  Tend to like that article
• 1:27:58
  Consequences, I don't understand that word though. It's a German word. So basically
• 1:28:04
  Are these fear-mongering statements meant to prepare the ground for a concrete power grab?
• 1:28:10
  That is what Roderick Kiesel whiter an ultra russophobe and war
• 1:28:15
  Fanaticist from Mertz's own center-right CDU party has already suggested. He wants to German
• 1:28:22
  Parliament to declare the so-called
• 1:28:26
  Spannungsfall literally
• 1:28:28
  situation of tension in the mainstream media
• 1:28:32
  For instance the important newspaper wealth the usual information warriors are already
• 1:28:38
  Amplifying his message and yet another striking coincidence in a recent military
• 1:28:45
  Exercise in Hamburg one of Germany's busy cities was dedicated to
• 1:28:50
  coastblane the Spannungsfall with maximum
• 1:28:54
  Publicity
• 1:28:56
  last but not least Spannungsfall allows the government to postpone or
• 1:29:01
  Influence elections. Those are problems, aren't they?
• 1:29:06
  Anyway, it doesn't look like I'm gonna have time to finish that lovely article because there's about
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  well
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  How about this?
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  But there is also something special in the words of Jonas Togel one of the few Western experts daring to notice Western
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  Information warfare it is worse than it has ever been but there are no guarantee that things won't get worse
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  The real question is how much longer our warriors-in-chief will have a free hand to drive us all mad with fear. I
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  Am Samuel Trapp. This is international flavor. You have been listening to damn radio
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  Please join me nightly on damn radio from 9 p.m. To 10 30 p.m
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  Nightly, hope you had a good time. I know I did and good night