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The Middle East war is exposing America’s weakness · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  The National Security Hour exposes the wolves in sheep's clothing and the nefarious plots to undermine and destroy US national security.
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  I'm Brandon Weinkert, your friendly neighborhood host.
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  You can catch me right here every single Wednesday night at 8 p.m.
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  We are now joined by a friend of the show, a man who's been on at least three times now.
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  This is his fourth appearance, I believe.
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  It is so good to have you back with us.
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  It's my pleasure.
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  My pleasure.
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  So I was thinking about you when the war broke out in the Middle East, because I was reminded of your book from about oh 10 or 11 years ago, where you predicted, Andre, that uh missiles and hypersonic weapons and drones were going to be the tip of any spear, rather than the conventional sort of platforms that we use, the manned platforms.
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  So uh you called it before anybody else that I can think of did that has a media presence at least.
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  How do you think the war in the Middle East?
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  And that's really what it is.
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  It's not the Iran War anymore, it's really the Middle East war.
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  How do you how do you think it's going uh so far?
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  Well, Iran already uh uh can declare strategic victory to start with, and uh uh essentially the uh they uh and again listen before we go anywhere, what people have to understand, and it is being taught even in US uh I don't know if they teach on those military academies, how they call it, which uh still not the let's put it this way, that great.
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  But if you go to the level of the war colleges, for example, or let alone the uh something like the uh General Staff in Command College in uh Leavenworth, Kansas, which teaches already some kind of the senior officers, uh the wars uh are won not on the tactical level, they are won only on the operational strategic level, period.
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  I mean, you can lose two divisions, you know, like within whatever uh I don't know, two weeks, okay, and you're still gonna come out and win the war because operationally you will uh declare you will win it, and strategically you will achieve your uh political goals, which are defined uh war.
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  And so um in this case, uh Iran already won, and as always, as have been stated so many times.
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  I write about this for 12 years in public space, you know, and uh publish books on that, and uh my editor also demands publisher say, Yeah, you have to do it again.
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  I don't have now I overwhelmed with this whole information stream, so to speak.
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  And so um the question now is that uh United States and whatever it was called NATO, it simply has no resources, but it is also technologically uh it's still stuck in the TOE table of organizational equipment from 1990s, and they never learned.
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  Yep.
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  And so, in terms of the operational strategic level, Iran definitely is a victor here, especially considering the cultural, social, military, economic shock it imposed on the uh especially Israel.
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  And uh what happens next, we can sit and it's purely political decision on part of the completely compromised Trump administration, which is completely class, ever since class, yes, and uh now we know that uh uh this uh platoon commander level dude with no military background, real military background, um, like Pete Hexett, who is for some reason the secretary of the war, he also invested things into the obviously uh you know military industrial complex companies prior to attack.
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  Well, he tried, I thought they stopped it.
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  I thought that it was discovered.
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  I don't know, but but I I saw that report last night.
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  Yeah, the report is that he invested.
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  And the point is that that tells you everything you need to know essentially about how they view war.
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  It's all about making money, they know how to make money, and again, by money, we have to understand these are virtual zeros in their computer, it's not actual money, not supported by anything, and uh, but they can't do not know how to run the country and how to fight wars, and here we are.
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  Yeah, and uh it's interesting because what you're what you're describing, and what I think of, and I think I've said this to you before, but I think it needs to be said again.
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  The kind of personality that we're talking about that's at the top level, particularly the political side of the military industrial complex in the United States, really reads like the old post-Soviet uh, you know, some of those those generals that were leading in the 90s that Putin cleared out, you know, when he took over.
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  There was all this corruption and and it was it was just you know, graft and grift.
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  And to me, it sounds no different.
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  Uh here in the do you think there's any, yeah.
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  But there is as I already stated, the tragedy of the American military, uh, not again, not to you know, diminish it, but I already dropped this pretense of the corporate solidarity about half a year or eight months ago.
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  When I said, okay, let's speak in the broad side.
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  It doesn't understand what general stuff is, it doesn't understand how it generates the culture, which uh allows you to even when you have like uh post-Soviet, but then again, it was the collapse, not just of the military, it was the collapse of the country, the whole country.
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  Right.
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  Uh so which allows you to preserve this culture, this operational and strategic experience, you know, and from there, if kind of you know what, like the antibiotic.
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  It's basically clears up the infection, you know, and then suddenly you are into the position that you begin to really dictate and uh project properly the development of the military science of the technological, military technological paradigm.
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  You tie it in, and here comes this critical issue.
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  General staff of Russia is totally an organic part of the what is called the circuit, which it develops grand strategy of the of the country.
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  That means general staff was a critical part of it, but there is economic block and things of this nature, which make country governable and controllable, and you know, if across the board.
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  But United States doesn't have it.
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  Uh you have the NASA 2.0, which for some reason is called US Congress, okay, which is completely corrupt and bought out with the exception of few people of honor and integrity, like Thomas Massey, you know, and uh so and Marjorie Taylor Green said is not in there anymore.
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  But uh, and then there's no even connection.
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  You have this bunch of the uh morons on the political top, uh, primarily lawyers and so-called political scientists who uh drop those orders into the military, which is well, basically essentially we know this famous revolving door, you know, the generals who foresee their future only as the members of the board of the Raytheon or Boeing or what have you as the result uh we observed here what you have the United States armed forces, which are still stuck in 1990s going against the country like Iran, which first it's continental power, it's it's not the greatest continental power, but it's real continental power, actually, with and many people don't understand that uh Iranian military actually, army in is actually around 3,000 years old.
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  These guys remember that, you know.
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  And so they're very professional, Andre.
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  Something that I something that and feel free to push back if you don't agree, but something that I have observed since the war began is I don't see crazy head chopping Islamists.
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  I see a very professional, calibrated strategy.
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  They are not phased at all by what they were anticipating.
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  Everything we've done.
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  I mean, that is a very worthy adversary right there.
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  Well, absolutely, unlike Iraq.
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  We have to put immediately uh first, it is Arab Sunni military.
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  It was semi-literate, it was they you cannot really consider how the culture within uh the military developed.
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  Essentially, it was the five-year-old child in the sandbox being beaten by Mike Tyson, which is the United States, you know.
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  So, and everywhere, oh my god, we defeated this guy.
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  Oh, come on.
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  I mean, apart from the fact that terrain is beautiful for bank warfare.
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  So here we have the country of which is uh uh around uh six times larger than Vietnam.
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  Uh no, more than that, and it has population of 93 uh million, and this population remembers not just their Islamic part, which they're Shiites are like Sunnis, right?
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  They remember their history from the Zoroastrian times, you know, and uh it it's uh they have a very vibrant Zoroastrian country.
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  Community, which is the huge part of their legislature academy.
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  They teach a lot in universities.
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  And so uh, yeah, they're very illiterate society, and uh obviously the picture which was portrayed as some kind of well, they have their own Islamic peculiarities there, but many people do not understand uh they have to open the constitution of Iran.
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  And do you know what is the uh uh term which is present in this constitution last time I read it?
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  It was about a year ago.
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  It's the word we are not just um republican or whatever scientific society yes, and they are they are they are they have problems, they have oversupply of the majors in physics and mathematics.
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  That's the if only we had that problem in the United States.
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  Yeah, so and this is what we have, and many people ask, you know, the the word being spread around right now that oh, yeah, we we miscalculated.
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  Show me the time when the United States didn't miscalculate.
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  I think the last time was night was the 1940s.
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  I think that was the last time.
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  That was the yeah, again, we had at that time.
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  Uh it was obviously their uh uh time of people with uh uh well, let's put it this way people of the uh international repute even, you know that uh you had the Isaac Howard, you had uh George uh Marshall, you know, people who over thinking and were competent, and if you look attentively, even the operational planning department of George Marshall, then you had the people like Stanley Ambik, who was already in 19 uh 41, uh dealing with this ABC uh uh negotiations between you know uh American British Canadian uh type um conferences and things like that.
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  This is the same thing.
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  And we even had you even had at the civilian side.
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  I mean, you had a young George Kennan was the Moscow ambassador, who's probably our greatest statesman in the diplomatic realm, you know, probably ever.
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  You had uh even FDR, who I'm a critic of domestically, but you know, he could yeah, exactly.
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  He was secretary of the Navy, let's recall that right that's so he had the degree, and during the time when you have to have not all this baloney with the stock market, and you you actually have to deal with the actual industrial uh capability, you have to look at uh attentively at the costs, how to proper uh procure things, and that is why essentially that's what happened uh obviously because of the World War II, and uh he was the guy who presided essentially over extracating United States from the consequences of the Great Depression and granted Great Recession of 3738.
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  Many people forget there were two bangers, so to speak.
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  And so um that's completely different caliber of people, but you have today, it's pathetic, really, and I've been on record, it's militarily uh again.
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  For anybody who ever doubted what kind of extreme incompetence uh US military had, uh 2023 famous counter-offensive, russians were in awe.
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  I'm not kidding you.
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  They were like really they knew it was bad, they just didn't know that you have to be that stupid and incompetent.
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  They ran uh this.
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  And by that you mean you mean the US created for the Ukrainians an offensive, yes.
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  US not only created, yeah, trust Mr.
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  Aguda, Mr.
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  Donaku, who is today the Supreme Commander on so Mr.
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  Kavoli, all this Wizbaden group, you know, with the all those, you know, chihuahuas from Great Britain and Bundeswehr running around, they were like now we're gonna show those damn backwards.
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  So, and they planned it, and what many people do not know, and American officers were present even on the tactical level in command and control, up to the down to the battalion level.
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  So, what they do, they ran those half million people, they accumulated, killed 200,000 of them, and never reach the first line of defense.
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  Russians were sitting like this.
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  Are you freaking kidding me?
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  And I'm not exaggerating.
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  I know people who were there like in awe.
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  They say, are they that stupid?
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  So I'm sorry, I I don't, but but you you just brought up something that I was gonna bring up later, but I want to attach it to what we're seeing in the Middle East.
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  Because what we're talking about here is the tactical operations, and we are constantly told since the global war on terror, well, America doesn't do strategy well, but tactics it does very well.
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  I actually don't think either is true anymore.
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  No, it's like no, and listen, I can give you or send you links right now of Ukrainian officers saying, if we actually went also in the Washington Post and New York Times, is that uh we had to reserve uh resort back to the Soviet level uh manual combat manuals because if we do this, how you tell us, we're not gonna survive, we're gonna get killed.
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  And I'm telling you what went into the uh, I mean, listen, uh, once you open the field manual, uh uh Army Papa, you know, uh doctrinal publication, NDP uh, you know, uh FM 3-0, and you read this.
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  Oh, yeah, it's all correct words, you know.
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  We organize how you open the staff, you know, things, what staffs have to do and things of this nature, but then you begin to look at it.
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  It's like everywhere where you go through this, then you have to bring their long-range fires, long-range fires.
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  Uh uh the question is what are you gonna do when you are outranged and you don't have air defense?
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  This people do believe it.
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  I mean, this tells you how incompetent they are.
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  They do not understand the future.
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  Well, they're ideological.
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  That's the thing.
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  Yeah, they're it's because I deal with the acquisitions team.
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  I used to at least acquisitions at the Pentagon.
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  There is a handful of really top people, but they're not they're not at the senior level.
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  They're kept in secondary roles for a reason.
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  It's the people who are ideologues who are running everything, and you're just like, nothing's gonna ever change.
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  And you're looking at this now, and and so just you know, feel free to correct me, but I've been kind of as this Middle East War is consumed more time.
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  I do periodically keep my eye on what's going on in Ukraine.
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  And it does seem ever since the Middle East War really kicked off.
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  It really to me looks like the Ukrainians have started going their own way at a doctrinal level.
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  It really seems like they are starting to try to divorce themselves from whatever the NATO types are telling them to do.
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  And first of all, do you think that's correct?
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  And second of all, how much more effective do you think that would make the Ukrainians in the war against Russia?
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  They are at the point of no return.
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  So no number of the uh actions on their part, even if you will find their some thinking people.
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  Well, first you have to understand people with their Soviet background who had a very serious uh uh academic background, and especially people who went through the Academy of the General Staff, for example, they had some, they have been completely removed.
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  You have this new crop which uh graduated from those uh not really good military academies in Ukraine to put it mindly.
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  Much of them have been already uh basically mirroring all kinds of this NATO standards and all that, for example.
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  Um Mr.
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  Silsky, many people do not understand the guy who commands all that uh he was from 2014 responsible in Ukrainian military of bringing it up and literally, I quote you to the NATO standards.
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  You saw yourself how it fights, and today when we look attentively at what is going on, the uh billboards of uh calling on women uh to enlist uh all over Ukraine in the places where they uh can still be erected, and uh the uh issue of their manpower.
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  When you look at what is going on, it's it's just gone.
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  They have no uh mobilizational resource anymore.
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  They uh basically have the canon forder, which now we have between uh 72 to 48 hours so-called combat training.
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  Incredible.
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  It's they have been better.
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  The one thing I've always thought the Ukrainians have been better than say the US or the Israelis in the Middle East is anticipating and using drone warfare in innovative ways.
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  The Russians have been as well.
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  Um but that's what I I think I was meaning.
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  I I know the manpower shortages because it does seem like they are a little bit better than the NATO types are in Ukraine at figuring out how to use these new systems, uh adapting it.
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  Um because well, I bring that up because I'm looking at specifically the IDF performance with the Galani Brigade in Lebanon.
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  It's uh I mean they've got a hundred more than a hundred Merkava main battle tanks have been for the last week just obliterated in these perfect kill boxes that Hezbollah has set up, very obvious kill boxes.
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  Yeah, the only thing I can think of is the ground troops refuse to advance into Lebanon without the armor going in first, but that to me runs counter to all the hard lessons learned both by Ukraine and Russia in the Ukraine war.
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  So, what the heck is going on?
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  Why are the Israelis and Americans still doctrinally fixated on this old method?
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  Because they're high on their own supply, and uh so and yeah, uh, and the the problem is again, you have to understand that uh actually there is a this war criminal Madiar called uh Madiar, he's famous, you know.
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  I'm gonna, you know, truth is you can find it's very it's uh including in the statements by the Russian defense uh uh officials, their actual uh uh effectiveness.
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  That means they hit the target.
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  It doesn't mean actually that they necessarily destroy it.
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  Uh of the uh Ukrainian drones ranges, depending on the circumstances, between two to four percent.
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  So out of uh each hundred day uh launch, uh only two to four of them really hit target, and it doesn't mean that they annihilate it.
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  And so uh Russian drones are higher effectiveness, but still it's about 20-25 percent.
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  It's much higher than Ukrainian, but still, if you take a look at it, but Russia can afford it because she produces it.
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  I mean in millions, actually, not just so and um what you see, what many people still do not understand, and again, we have to understand that this a lot of media types uh get into this and they love those, of course.
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  I use it, you know, footage myself, you know, the drones and things like that.
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  But truth is, if you look attentively at the shared data which was presented, including by the Russian defense ministry, it is also described in the one of the most important military magazines, not only in Russia, but in the world, which is called Vienna missile military thought.
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  Uh and uh so artillery is responsible.
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  55% for the main essentially fire impact, it it remains the most important part of the uh uh essentially the uh fire impact, uh, which is provided against the uh enemy.
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  Uh drones are somewhere between 15 to 20 percent.
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  I'm talking from the top of my head.
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  The rest of it obviously, uh, and again, artillery MLRS also is the part of it, yeah, which is of course rocket artillery, and so the rest of it air force and uh then, of course, long-range fire, such as uh ranging from even uh Iskanders to what have you, cruise missiles and things of that nature.
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  So it's um you know drones are important part, uh obviously very important part, but the main impact of the drones actually, of course, is recon.
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  This is uh this is the thing which nobody ever had before.
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  Russians literally have 24-7 uh uh tactical and uh situational awareness over the line of the combat contact.
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  I'll just give you example.
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  Russia, uh Russian troops are in full control of the Kupansk and surroundings.
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  So, and because obviously what uh uh Vesu does primarily, they're really good at atrocities, make no mistake.
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  I have to really stress that.
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  But they also they have a lot of fentanyl uh going on there.
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  They many of them are drugged to the point.
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  And so, what they need to do, they need to do those PR so-called mid-storms, they're called mid-storms because very few people return from them.
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  And just recently, a couple of days ago, you can see the V visually, yet another, they get the platoon, they stick it into the couple of trucks and all those vehicles, and they run again to the outskirts of Kupansk, trying to plant obviously what their flag, make a photo, and yeah.
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  So they do not go far because they are immediately several points, they are immediately seen.
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  And guess what?
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  So this platoon is gone, like in literally 15 minutes.
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  Then, of course, the blood uh the corpses are collected, and the blood samples and all fentanyl, all kinds of the things, and they do it pretty much once a week, you know, and they continue to do it, and so they throw that people, they are all killed, their equipment is destroyed.
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  And what many people uh do not understand when they look at the scale of things, you can go it.
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  It's a famous source, it's uh basically uh mirror of the statement by the uh Russian defense ministry.
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  When you look attentively at just the number of tanks and APCs in the last four years, it is uh reaching 20,000, just annihilated, and then of course, we have armored vehicles, which is all together so when you look at the numbers, it is the uh slaughter on unimaginable scale.
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  It's the West still hasn't adapted to this.
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  Oh no, it cannot, it cannot because it doesn't have as many times stated, especially when you look attentively at the United States, it was always will remain, and uh the expeditionary force, it has different cultural military DNA, and you cannot change it.
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  You cannot change American system of their military education, despite the fact that if you uh go to 2024 um uh uh the parameters, you know, the US uh uh war uh army war college uh publication, which is very important publication.
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  It's once in a while, there are some brilliant uh thoughts about warfare, obviously.
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  Uh and uh the uh people uh from Tradok and others write that you know what we need urgently the STEM education, emphasis on the uh science, technology, engineering, and mathematics because well Russians that's what Russian military does, but we don't have enough, and then they provide this numbers that by 2000 uh 26-27, I believe, which is already now essentially, uh, 55% of the uh brigade level uh officer core in the US Army will not have their uh engineering or mathematical or uh education.
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  This is in the 21st century when we look dealing with the systems of the extreme complexity.
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  Okay, and so uh this is not like uh uh many people do not understand what modern uh air defense complex is.
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  Uh iPhone is just you know, just not nothing, you know.
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  So and um when you look at that, yeah, you have to have this DNA, you have to this clockwork to make this video.
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  I mean, uh uh basically not video games, but real military science to work, and you don't have it.
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  That's right.
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  You don't, it's not just in the direct military sphere, you're seeing it in the defense industrial base itself, where you know, look at Boeing.
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  It used to be run by engineers and flight people, and now it's all Harvard.
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  Management and it's DEI, and you've had this for two generations now, and you're seeing a real decline.
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  They're very good at maximizing their shareholder value.
• 30:09
  They're not so good at producing things that actually are helpful to the society or to the military.
• 30:15
  Um, which gets us into what has been a big bugaboo of mine, um, which is stockpiles.
• 30:22
  You know, I keep telling people if war is a science, war, you know, the how many weapons you have and how many defensive systems you have, it's sort of like gravity.
• 30:32
  You can't ignore it.
• 30:33
  You just it's it's a fact of life.
• 30:35
  And I've been looking at some of these documents coming out in the last couple weeks, one of them from and I think they're the oldest um think tank in the world, and they certainly are usually quite pro-war, but they've been very skeptical about the Iran War or the Middle East War, the Royal United Services Institute.
• 30:54
  Yeah, exactly.
• 30:55
  That's my usual, but I thought it was very shocking they actually did this report because here they have they they admitted last Monday, Israel is days away from depletion of their Aero 2 and Aero 3 interceptors.
• 31:09
  They then went on to say that the U.S.
• 31:11
  has burned through 40% of available terminal high altitude area defense systems with just now.
• 31:19
  This is from a week ago, so there's two weeks now, but at the time they said three weeks' worth of uh supply remaining.
• 31:25
  Um, and it will take if the war stops now, it will take eight years to replenish those THAD batteries.
• 31:34
  So what is what is the plan here for the West?
• 31:39
  Because it seems like we're getting into an even bigger war globally and we're depleting what what do we do?
• 31:46
  What how how does America survive this?
• 31:48
  Because it doesn't seem like we're gonna have the tools.
• 31:50
  No, no, it can't.
• 31:52
  Uh just as we already even before we uh NATO's fiction start with this.
• 31:57
  So Europe will decompose further, and we already know that because this is the problem.
• 32:02
  When you have the guy who has some MBA from Oxford or what have you or Harvard, and he talks about who is a prime minister or whatever uh have you, and they talk about oh, yeah, we have to put our economy on the uh war footing or the war rails.
• 32:17
  Do they even understand what it means?
• 32:20
  They don't, they have no freaking clue.
• 32:22
  None of them ever was on the factory floor, let alone none of them, none, I can tell you, including many people in the general staff or whatever they call it in Great Britain, United Kingdom, or in Germany, in Bundeswehr or in Pentagon, understand what R and D is and how you project the development of the essentially the military science, technological parent.
• 32:43
  So and they don't have the resources.
• 32:46
  And now that uh yeah, sure.
• 32:48
  Uh today G7, G7, no less uh Ministers of Finance and Energy, uh uh issued declaration.
• 32:56
  They ask Russia to sell, you know, to batch of the you know, lack of the fuel.
• 33:03
  No, no, it's not happening.
• 33:05
  Uh Russia's will tell them that they can crawl on all their force to Russia now because Europe is the existential enemy of Russia.
• 33:13
  Okay, European people are existential enemies of Russian people.
• 33:17
  They don't understand what happens outside, they don't understand that overwhelming majority of Russian uh population today, they hate uh European guts.
• 33:26
  Okay, they still give I'm not a fan of Europe either, just to be clear.
• 33:30
  They still give a little bit of birth of their for uh Americans because in again two superpowers they have to talk, despite the fact what is happening in the United States now.
• 33:39
  But Europe is dumb.
• 33:40
  So uh and they can crawl to Russia and back all in snot and tears, and you know, like to sell them and I say, yeah, you see the premium.
• 33:50
  Sure.
• 33:51
  The full prosperity and ability to uh advance any kind of the scientific or technological development in Europe since uh 55 years ago was completely dependent on their low price, low cost uh energy supplies from the Soviet Union and Russia, even when this alcoholic barrel, he used to be the chief before this bimbo Kaya call us, he was the achieved their um what's his name?
• 34:19
  Uh diplomatic dude for European Union, European Commission, even he admitted it.
• 34:24
  I quote you him because our prosperity was based on uh Soviet and Russian energy.
• 34:31
  So if they want to put their economy based on those uh costs of energy, which is growing exponentially now, uh, and they want to produce, yes, they can produce about two, maybe five Leopard tanks in a year.
• 34:48
  They probably will produce one and a half Rafael, you know, in a year.
• 34:52
  Sure, let them, you know, this imbecile, you know, this uh cabana boy for Rothschilds, uh what's his name?
• 34:59
  Macron.
• 35:00
  Yeah, he said that, yeah, by 2038, uh, you know, uh we will build the new nuclear aircraft carrier.
• 35:08
  Yeah, uh uh Russians are gone uh just laughing in the corner, shoot.
• 35:15
  So it's like uh these people do not even understand they live in an alternative universe, technological universe because they have no clue.
• 35:23
  Well, it's true, and you know, that carrier, the acronym in French is paying P A N G, which I always say, oh, it's a paying, uh, you know, like it's a it's a pain in the side there because it's just all if they can do it, it's gonna be the biggest drain on resources.
• 35:41
  I mean, uh it's not just about being able to build it and fund the building.
• 35:46
  It's main dating.
• 35:47
  Yeah, sustainable.
• 35:48
  Ask the British, ask the British.
• 35:51
  They can't keep their two carriers afloat right now.
• 35:54
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• 36:08
  But I think actually the censorship of the Middle East war is even worse than the censorship coming out of Ukraine, and including in Israel as well.
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• 39:08
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• 39:10
  So we I've been following the Gerald R.
• 39:13
  Ford saga with uh and you're a former Navy guy for the Soviets, so I figured this I would I would put this to you.
• 39:22
  So we are led to believe that this 13 billion dollar brand spanking new aircraft carrier uh had a laundry fire aboard the ship, prompting it to go to Suda Bay, which is in Greece, but then it had to in the middle of the night a few nights ago be secreted over to the and I'm forgetting the name of the the facility, but it's in Croatia.
• 39:44
  I think it was Mussolini's old uh facility that he used to use.
• 39:49
  And um I'm just wondering is this because they're trying to hide the extent of the damage?
• 39:55
  Is it because they're scared that the Iranians could still hit the Ford and Port?
• 40:00
  At Suda Bay.
• 40:01
  What do you think is good really going on with this 13 billion dollar boondoggle that we have uh created for ourselves?
• 40:09
  Well, I mean, uh, famous phrase.
• 40:12
  Uh, you want to remember the disphrase uh World War One, you wanted uh uh to bankrupt the country, uh, made a gift of the battle ship.
• 40:20
  So same goes for uh you want to bankrupt just uh uh United States cannot sustain its navy as it exists today, and they're still not ready to uh and again it's a glorious navy, it's magnificent history, you know.
• 40:32
  And here is going back to magnificent history in a sense that uh Forrest Paul, okay.
• 40:37
  We remember that fire, or Zuni rocket of this asshole, uh you know, McCain and all this he was yeah, my grandfather was on the forestall.
• 40:48
  He saved a bunch of ship shipmates from the fire.
• 40:51
  Yeah, and so uh they had to sneak him out because the crew would be ready to kill him.
• 40:56
  He was always a jerk, actually.
• 40:59
  So and uh yeah, 161 uh KIAs, 100 uh or 130, I don't remember, but yeah, hundreds of wounded uh uh American sailors who fought heroically.
• 41:10
  I mean, this horrendous fire which penetrated uh also the upper armor deck or forestall went down the several decks, and again, that just nothing but the praise for heroic people who just basically, you know, some of them sacrificing their life, you know, to fight this.
• 41:28
  And uh 14 hours, and this is while it's the whole shit explodes, you know, everything just goes bananas and it just you can see it like 10 miles away there, you know, and you have so uh 14 hours they put it uh under control.
• 41:44
  So officially per Pentagon, they're talking about 30 hours, as the result of their uh fire in the laundry uh facility.
• 41:56
  This is their uh brand new uh uh American ship with their uh neural networks, uh fast acting computers, yeah, with the ability to fight for the survivability of the ship by erecting the what is called the defense walls throughout the you know, so you it's like it's state of the art thing, right?
• 42:16
  That's right.
• 42:17
  So uh it has the obviously sprinkler system, you know, it's you would think yeah, so it's either that it was the greatest uh technological and industrial fraud ever possible because obviously, yeah.
• 42:32
  So what is the deal with the uh you know what all those, you know, what not only carbon dioxide, there is or carbon uh type of the um uh fire extinguisher systems at long long talk about it, and there is of course sprinkler system with all kinds of the fire retardants.
• 42:49
  There are crews 30 hours, yeah.
• 42:54
  Something is really something really doesn't add up to it.
• 42:57
  It doesn't add up, especially because if I I talked to somebody who's familiar with the design, and apparently the laundry rooms are actually below they're they're at the bottom of the ship or near the bottom of the ship, and yet we're told the fire was up at the top, yeah, the flight deck.
• 43:15
  So that to me sounds like something hit the flight deck.
• 43:18
  Yeah, that's what it uh sounds like, and we will not know because United States right now, the United States military is in a full blown uh cover up of the casualties, and uh uh essentially we know that, and it's pretty much spoken by anybody who has any background in the military that essentially they're hiding now there uh see well, basically what is going on, and um even the fact that yeah, we have four uh injured people.
• 43:49
  Uh, let me tell you one thing.
• 43:51
  When you have about 800 pounds of the high explosive explosives uh landing even 100 yards away from you, you're gonna have a contusion, concussion of such a level that you're probably gonna be done for life.
• 44:05
  If they say what, oh yeah, they're recovering, uh, you're not gonna recover from that.
• 44:09
  Okay, you will have probably your hearing gone, you know, you will have their it's the best case scenario, but you know, and so they continue to lie about it, and what can I say?
• 44:21
  I mean, that's what we are in the middle of.
• 44:24
  So they've removed the Ford.
• 44:26
  It sounds like the George H.W.
• 44:28
  Bush was supposed to come in and replace the Ford.
• 44:31
  I haven't heard though.
• 44:32
  I think they're still doing preparations for it, which seems to be taking longer than what I would have thought, which indicates there might be something wrong there.
• 44:41
  Um, the Abraham Lincoln is bouncing around, nobody's getting near the Strait of Hormoose, which seems to be the big problem for the United States is how do we keep that open?
• 44:52
  Um how does the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz given that it can't?
• 44:58
  It can't.
• 44:59
  You can't, uh you can't, and uh this is the issue of listen, uh the genius.
• 45:04
  Uh well no, yeah, you would expect it from the United States because obviously it's a naval power, it has a glorious, especially World War II history.
• 45:12
  Uh late Captain Hughes, uh Wayne Hughes, who was obviously in the Newport uh postgraduate school, and he wrote a number of the outstanding books.
• 45:21
  And the most important of them was the uh uh the tactics, naval tactics and the uh uh uh coastal combat.
• 45:28
  And he was writing already then into the first edition was 95.
• 45:33
  Uh but uh the uh updated edition, I believe 2000, 26 years ago.
• 45:37
  He wrote about the missile combat.
• 45:40
  He already then was explaining, which Soviets and we knew long ago before him, that uh and El Mozulon knew that too, you know, in 1970s, yeah.
• 45:51
  Uh that um uh it's a pretty big fat uh prestigious target, yeah.
• 45:58
  Okay, so and uh when you have salvo, not single missile, you have the chance against single missile, but when you have a salbo of eight, ten, twelve, even subsonic missiles, even if you have this so-called SM6s, you know, in Aegis, you know, the spy one, two, three, four, now it's spy six D, you know, all those things, you know.
• 46:23
  So um liquor will happen, okay.
• 46:26
  Doesn't matter how you try to do because they're physically not enough.
• 46:31
  It's a simplest simplest exponential.
• 46:33
  It's math, it's math.
• 46:35
  It's mass, yeah.
• 46:36
  Doesn't matter how uh you simply do not have enough missiles, and especially if you talk about modern missiles, first modern missile, which came out and shook the core of people who understood them.
• 46:50
  It was a 1970s, it was the first Soviet missile with the sub uh submarine uh submerged start, which was called Malachit.
• 46:58
  Yeah, it was 120 uh they called it Malahy, but it was it had only 120 uh kilometer range.
• 47:05
  But uh when uh actually uh granite, which is called shipwreck, no uh SSN uh 19 came out, which it came out in the 1977, actually.
• 47:16
  Uh it's uh had a range of 600 kilometers.
• 47:19
  So let me put it this way, and those were supersonic, okay?
• 47:23
  And those were the first real artificial intelligence things because when the salva of 12 of them and Oscar class could launch 12 of them immediately, it could be Oscar class being a submarine, yeah.
• 47:36
  So uh Kursk, which uh uh basically sunk was there, uh and so they uh they could communicate between each other, they were creating the network, and they would change the trajectories, they could fly on the high two and a half mach, uh all over 1.7 mach 1.7, still supersonic.
• 47:57
  And so, as the result was that uh, how do you defend against that?
• 48:02
  And this was already in 70s, okay.
• 48:05
  Uh everybody was saying that yeah, it's not biggie.
• 48:09
  And well, guess what?
• 48:11
  Iran has uh we know that Iran has at least 500 kilometer range, some of them supersonic anti-shipping cruise missiles.
• 48:21
  That means immediately, yeah, the range of 500.
• 48:25
  But as they assume, probably correctly, Iran has most likely uh 800 to 1000 kilometer range anti-shipping cruise missiles, and uh many people forget that uh before the start of the this aggression.
• 48:40
  Uh I believe it was uh like middle or 20th of February, they sent their two drones.
• 48:49
  Uh and those drones have been shut down by the escort, or obviously uh early world class uh uh destroyers.
• 48:56
  Uh, but those uh uh drones have been sent specifically to show that you know, yeah.
• 49:04
  We we can see you, we know where you are, shoot them.
• 49:08
  That's fine, you know.
• 49:09
  We're not gonna attack you here, but uh this time, and so since then we couldn't see any US Navy ship with the exception of the Virginia class uh submarines getting anywhere near of the uh coast of Iran, and they will not get anywhere near because they will be sunk, or I mean, God forbids, of course, and uh, or they will be hit, and then well, now we're seeing with the Ford what's happening, it's completely combat and effect.
• 49:38
  And they're saying 14 months to replay repair, it's gonna be more like 24 to 36, I think.
• 49:43
  Yeah, with all the shipyard backlogs here, yeah.
• 49:46
  Yeah, um, which means that we have now uh wasting asset uh here.
• 49:50
  And in fact, they've reactivated or they didn't deactivate the Nimitz because uh remember that was supposed to be decommissioned this month.
• 49:57
  Um again, it's it doesn't
• 50:00
  We'll not do much uh good anyway, because you again you have to maintain it beyond the right uh thousand kilometer range.
• 50:07
  Uh there you have to have the completely different um protocol of the uh uh refueling of your uh strike aircraft.
• 50:16
  Granted, they even go in because they don't, they carry whatever is remaining just they have them.
• 50:22
  Free teams are capable of carrying Jasms, right?
• 50:26
  And we're talking about again, many people don't remember.
• 50:29
  First version of Jasms actually only 300 kilometer range, Jasmine ER, uh the next generation.
• 50:36
  Extended range ER.
• 50:37
  Yeah, it's greater range, and they talk about that the results now, Jasms with 1900 kilometer range.
• 50:44
  So, and um we'll see whatever they do, but even their stocks have been diminishing really fast.
• 50:50
  But what we're seeing really in Iran is a microcosm or an early preview of what a war with China or even a direct war with Russia would look like on a grander scale with the anti-access area denial, A2AD capabilities, where not only are they keeping the American Navy out of the out of the way, they're also um smashing our early warning radar systems in the region.
• 51:16
  They've basically created a pathway in the sky that allows for their missiles to to fly free.
• 51:23
  Uh, they've depleted our um you know, this is this is a really savvy adversary we're up against, and they have a fraction of the resources that China andor Russia have at their disposal.
• 51:34
  So it gives me great worry about the future if we do find ourselves, heaven forbid, in a war with either of the a direct war with either of those two countries.
• 51:43
  It's not going to play out well for Uncle Sam.
• 51:46
  Going back to FM 3-0 operations, which is called operations and all those operation documents.
• 51:53
  I'm not talking, I'm talking about army, but it's uh uh obviously it's different from a marine corps, but uh one of the things with which I'm writing for years now.
• 52:03
  Uh there is no military uh which is more dependent on the assembly areas than the United States.
• 52:12
  Uh, what is assembly area?
• 52:14
  Okay, you take yourself, you get yourself even a battalion assembly area when you look attentively at how it is located, and uh obviously all different you know versions of how you design it, but it's still always the assembly area.
• 52:26
  You have to have the perimeter, you have to have some kind of the armored vehicles guarding, you know, force protection, so force protection and things of this nature.
• 52:34
  So, what do you have?
• 52:35
  Oh, you have probably uh mile by mile, okay.
• 52:39
  If you look attentively at something like battalion, uh what is mile by mile?
• 52:44
  Uh well, let me explain for uh people who do not understand.
• 52:48
  You have uh well, if you have an uh an analog of uh Russian Istanbul with cluster munitions, uh two conters, and guess what?
• 52:59
  You half of your battalion is gone, you know.
• 53:01
  No matter how you either have to immediately start digging yourself deep into this, which immediately you what you fix yourself into the position anyway.
• 53:10
  So, and then uh uh does uh uh Iran have it.
• 53:15
  Oh, yeah, they have those missiles, which and United States doesn't have short to middle uh range, real effective air defense.
• 53:24
  Shourat, what is Shorat?
• 53:26
  It's stingers which are stuck on their striker.
• 53:29
  Oh my god, we call it Shorat.
• 53:31
  Let's stick on in some optronic sensor.
• 53:33
  Oh, yeah, this is uh uh this is pathetic.
• 53:35
  They will not shoot down anything, and then of course there are drones.
• 53:38
  Okay, so what's gonna happen when you assembly uh even but obviously let's say brigade combat team.
• 53:46
  Okay, you are good, fat, prestigious target.
• 53:49
  That's right, because you cannot assemble and you cannot defend yourself, and you can't project.
• 53:54
  You can't project either because you're stuck.
• 53:56
  You stuck, yeah.
• 53:57
  And what do you have?
• 53:59
  You don't have Tor M2, you don't have Panzer S1, you do not have any kind of those types of weapons, let alone book M3s, which Russians dedicated decades developing of the water.
• 54:11
  That's why it was called not just air defense system, Soviet army, and even today Russia de facto still has it, which is called troops air defense.
• 54:22
  It is for example, famous S uh 300 V4.
• 54:28
  It's a brand new, it's people think it's S300.
• 54:31
  Well, it is S300 V4, which is for the development of the Ante.
• 54:36
  It didn't wasn't developed despite the similar things for uh actually air defense forces.
• 54:42
  It was developed specifically for the troops, it is troops air defense system, which is capable of intercepting actually inter intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, apart from the standard S500, which is so this is just to defend troops in the field.
• 55:00
  This is to defend them against, for example, if uh United States in war goes out there and launches those attacks, latest timers and whatever it has, you know, and so United States doesn't have it, they cannot defend their force.
• 55:15
  They but I mean a trillion dollar budget for our almost a trillion, and it doesn't even get you basic force protection in the modern era.
• 55:24
  No, it doesn't.
• 55:25
  It's just that it's because all these countries we're talking about spend a fraction on their defense than what we do, yeah, and they're running circles around us at that operational level.
• 55:36
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