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Ukraine Exposes US Military Industrial Complex FRAUD!! · Combat Veteran News

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Ah, the American military industrial
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complex, a symbol of American industrial
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might or technological innovation or
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willingness to bomb any wedding or
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hospital that their allies want to. No
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matter what you dislike about the
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military industrial complex, there's one
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thing that's absolutely true, which is
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that shareholders make bank. Just a
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quick glance at Lockheed Martin stock
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tells you everything you need to know
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about just how profitable it is to be
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the only person in the world making
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prestige level weapons. At least that
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can be sold to the west. There's just a
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tiny little problem. And that problem is
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that the free market cuts both ways
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because the American military industrial
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complex has now some serious competition
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from Ukraine and they might just be
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forced to, hear me out, actually compete
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on product. Yeah, buckle up for this
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one. Let's talk about it. So, this is
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actually a story of Ukrainian drone
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expansion, right? But specifically,
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and now Ukraine, for those of you that
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don't know, has greatly relied on the
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private sector and the startup universe,
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the startup format to generate
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emerging battlefield technology in a
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really cost-effective way. Thanks to
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startups like Brave 1 and and a number
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of other startups as well as just a
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really aggressive willingness to buy
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from startups and open markets and test
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and iterate on new combat technologies,
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Ukraine has an ecosystem that can go
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from idea to combat effective to scaled
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up in months for new technologies. The
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best example I think is probably the
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low-cost interceptor. Things like the
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Sting and the P1 Sun are
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considered absolutely unbeatable
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technologies. This P1 Sun is costs Uh,
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probably about $1,500, Maybe a little
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more. And it can be operated by
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essentially anybody. Can be retrained in
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a couple of weeks to fly this. It's
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designed to shoot down low-speed drones.
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It has a limited battery life. It zips
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fast through the air and gets close to a
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Russian or often Iranian, they're the
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same, Shahed, blows up taking the drone
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out with it.
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>> [snorts]
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>> And since deploying these type class of
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interceptors, these have been an a
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game-changer, literally, taking out 95%
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of Iranian Shaheds.
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Now,
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as you can imagine, if you have
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something that is that cheap and that
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effective,
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well, American allies like Israel, the
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Persian Gulf states, and even the United
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States military themselves are saying,
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"Yo,
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we want to
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we want some of this technology for
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ourselves." And Ukraine is happy to sell
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its tech to its allies. All right,
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right? Also, giving advice and
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establishing joint production lines for
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financial and diplomatic gain. Cuz
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one of the things that's also true, and
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Ukraine has said this explicitly, is
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that
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the iteration, the generations of
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technology, are so fast. We're talking
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about 90 days to 6 months before old
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drones are obsolete and new ones are in.
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Air defense units that I've personally
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in contact with over the last 6 months
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have gone from flying almost exclusively
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modified quadcopter drones, the ones
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like you see hanging behind me, uh, to
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flying almost exclusively those
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interceptors. It's a huge change that
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just sort of happened like that.
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And the fact is that Ukraine still has
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the production lines for these older
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models that they don't really field
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anymore. But, again,
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it's all these a lot of these other
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countries saying, "Listen, we'd be happy
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to get a slightly outdated bomber drone
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because we're not facing the Russian
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military. We're not worried about their
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jamming capabilities or their electronic
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warfare or their detection systems or
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that you have a more a drone with
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slightly better range. That's not that
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important to them.
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Ukraine, according to one
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uh mean major manufacturer, said, quote,
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"Ukraine has received a lot of blood
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experience. This is experience gained
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the hard way. And to tell the truth,
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right?
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Uh
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a lot, right? We've talked about the
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fact that uh other Russian allies like
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Hezbollah has been deploying UAVs to
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attack Israel and Israeli troops. Iran
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has used your heads against several
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countries in the region. Uh and
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the
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um
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Again, according to one Ukrainian
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manufacturer, they said, "Listen,
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Russian
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Many of these
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uh other countries are using the same
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tactics and strategies that worked in
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Ukraine a year or 2 years ago. Most new
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things in drone and interceptors come
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from us, not to us." And I think this is
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really interesting because you're seeing
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more and more of these drone deals being
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signed. Latvia has signed a long-term
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drone a deal with Ukraine to per- to
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receive Ukrainian-manufactured drones
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and drone defenses. Uh there's also a
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10-year security agreement that has been
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signed by Ukraine with Cutter, Saudi
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Arabia, and the UAE, right? In some
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instances, there's reports that
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Ukrainian interceptor teams are
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currently deployed to these countries
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and are actively shooting down Russian
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uh excuse me, Iranian drones.
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Uh you also have Latvia and Estonia.
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And Zelenskyy has repeatedly said he's
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got an offer on the table for American
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partners.
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And this just makes sense, right?
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Ukraine needs money, but it also needs
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uh capital, which don't at me. I know,
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capital and money are kind of the same
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thing. But what it needs is capital for.
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It needs investors to go in and say,
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"Listen, you can If you want to reduce
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the cost of, again, that P-1 Sun is a
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great example, right? When it was
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started, it was about a $2,000 drone.
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But when you have an economy of scale,
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if you can get an order, particularly an
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order with some payment up front for a
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million of them, you can start to scale
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up your production lines. You can reduce
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the cost per unit down exponentially.
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So, you can get it down to six or seven
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hundred dollars a pop as you can order
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parts at scale.
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And and automate processes that were
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that were not worth automating when you
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were making a few thousand. So, this has
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resulted in a lot of these countries
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suddenly signing deals right and left.
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And what I [snorts] think is most
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interesting is a story like this one.
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This was the one that actually caught my
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attention here. And it's this. It's that
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Lockheed has announced apropos of
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nothing that they themselves are
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building a cheaper Patriot missile.
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Patriot, remember guys, is the
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interceptor is the do-it-all
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interceptor. This is something that the
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US built at tremendous cost in the early
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'90s or '80s, and it can shoot down
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everything from a ballistic missile uh
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to a cruise missile to a drone to a
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attack helicopter to a fighter aircraft.
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Patriots are meant to do it all. The
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problem is when you build something that
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can do it all, it's expensive doing
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everything. A machine that does
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everything is very, very expensive,
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okay?
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Which is why they're saying, "Actually,
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uh maybe we should build a cheaper one."
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And this is so quintessential of the
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American military-industrial complex,
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right? The Lockheed Martin saying
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they're building a PAC-3 Adapted
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Capability Effector or ACE that will
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cost less than half of what a PAC-3
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Missile Segment Enhancement Interceptor
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costs, and it can be used with existing
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Patriots.
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Uh now,
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the US has explicitly said it wants to
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reduce its dependence on expensive
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interceptors uh because Ukraine's or
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excuse me, Russia's and Iran's answer to
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these exquisite and exquisite is the
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term here uh systems is to mass produce
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them, right? If you If you force a
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four-million-dollar Patriot interceptor
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to blow up a $30,000 Shahed.
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The American side hasn't won. They have
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lost $4 million dollars
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to at a at at a cost of just a few tens
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of thousands. And because the United
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States only produced about 600 Patriot
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missile batteries a year or excuse me,
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Patriot missile interceptors a year,
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there's a huge disparity in terms of
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their capabilities. But also,
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there's the free market, right? Pack 3's
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cost about $4 million dollars. Uh an
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Iranian Shahed 35,000. And the US
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increased interceptor use has raised
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concerns whether stockpiles can be
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replenished quickly enough to sustain a
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prolonged campaign. They cannot. It's
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not a concern, it's just a fact.
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Um
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the
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uh Pack 3 is designed to combat with
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they call air-breathing threats, weapons
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that rely on oxygen for propulsion,
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cruise missiles and close and
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short-range ballistic missiles. This is
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what Patriots are currently deployed
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for. Drones are doing
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everything else. And
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what I think
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is the real story here is that Remember,
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between basically
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1980, when the first Patriot came out,
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and
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today, despite them producing tens of
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thousands of Patriots, they haven't
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gotten cheaper. They've gotten more
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expensive.
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And anyone that knows anything about the
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free market knows that if you have a
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monopoly as Lockheed Martin does on the
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Patriot,
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you can charge whatever you want. That's
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how a monopoly pricing works.
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And what you have,
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it is not an accident that as soon as
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someone is building a Patriot
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competitor, which by the way,
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the P1 sound and other Ukraine drone
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interceptors are not direct Patriot
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competitors, as we just discussed. The
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Patriot can do everything. And
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unfortunately, the Patriot and the THAAD
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basically the only two things made in
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the United the the only two things that
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that are for sale that can shoot down a
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ballistic missile reliably in in the
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world actually.
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Uh China claims to have alternatives,
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Russia claims to have alternatives,
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they've never been shown to work.
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And
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the fact is when you offer life-saving
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medication, or in this case life-saving
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interceptors, you can charge anything
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you want. There it it supply and demand
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do not apply, right? What would a the
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president of a country uh pay to protect
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his capital city? The answer is
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anything.
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And
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the fact that the the Ukrainians have
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fielded these drones that can do at
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least the bottom strata
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of intercepts, right? These drones can
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shoot down a helicopter, they can
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probably shoot down certain types of
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slow-moving aircraft, they can shoot
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down critically these low-cost drones
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for less than a tenth of what the drone
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cost is.
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And the fact is that is encroaching
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on the market.
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Right? It's like whoever built the first
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competitor to the Model T, even if it
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wasn't as good, even if it could only go
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a third of the distance,
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it still caused Henry Ford to sweat. He
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had to lower the price.
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And this is what's happening here.
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Lockheed Martin is saying, "Oh, no.
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The free market is working against us.
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We love the free market when we have a
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monopoly, but when someone's competing,
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all of a sudden
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you start to see something. You see
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costs come down
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for that capability. The cost of
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intercepting a ballistic missile is is
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going to come down because
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the military-industrial complex in the
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United States, which created a sprawling
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array
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of rules and regulations that say that
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conveniently the only person that can
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win a defense contract in the United
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States is basically Lockheed Martin or
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Boeing.
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And
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when you do that, you ensure that you
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can charge anything you want. And that's
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why the
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stunning innovations have looked
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basically the same since the 1990s.
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Since the Cold War ended and the US
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um
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stopped stopped an arms race against
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stopped racing against the Soviet Union
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for weapons,
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basically that military has been frozen
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in time. Now, you're going to at me in
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the comments. You're going to tell me we
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have a bunch of stupid software systems.
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We're going to have a bunch of
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ridiculous stuff. But when you look at
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the composition of the American military
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today,
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it is indistinguishable from the one
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that went into the Persian Gulf in 1991.
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Patriot missiles were deployed to
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protect believe it or not to protect
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Israel in 1991.
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The
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heavy brigade combat team or heavy
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brigades were deployed to charge drive
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through the desert shooting tank rounds.
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Artillery looked the same. Everything
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almost everything looked exactly the
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same as it did today. F-16s the same
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strikes the same ones striking Iran are
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striking Iran in the same way with
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basically the same tactics
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that
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were used to strike Baghdad in 1991 35
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years ago.
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This is the equivalent of World War
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breaking out
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and
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the and a military fighting like it is
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1901.
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Excuse me 1910.
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Like pre-World War a pre-World War
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military trying to fight World War
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charging in with cavalry and bright
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colored uniforms and single shot rifles
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taking on
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the the
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a German tank formation and and dive
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bombers. It is preposterous. It is
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absurd. And yet the American military
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has just done it.
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And they've said whoa
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The F-16 isn't out of date. Look at all
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the cool software we've put in it. It's
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got this software and that software.
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Well, it's like the Patriot. Well, if
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you needed all these software upgrades,
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why like
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where's the why don't I give us a cost
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reduction? Where's the cost reduction?
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It never showed up somehow.
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And that's because
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they're running the Apple. Apple's the
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only person that makes an iPhone. iPhone
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people buy every iPhone. So, Apple puts
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on some trivial feature. They go, "Ah,
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you know, we added a camera with three
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more megapixels." And they charge you
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$300, $400 more for the newest phone.
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That's what basically these defense
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contractors have been doing. And in some
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cases, we're seeing they're actually
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starting to drop the pretense entirely.
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Because look,
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here is an Inspector General report from
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the Department of Defense Inspector
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General
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who has found that a manufacturing plant
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was contracted in 2022 to produce parts
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for 155 shells. Remember, 2022, before
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the war became drones, drones, drones,
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it was an artillery war. Artillery,
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artillery, artillery. And in order to
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match or beat Russian artillery, the
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Ukrainians said, "Listen, we need more
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shells. We need more shells." And then
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the Pentagon said, "Listen,
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this is how slow, by the way, the
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defense establishment operates, because
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they said, "Okay, in 2022, 4 years ago,
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they said, 'Wow, war is all about who
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has more artillery. That must be what
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war is about now.'" So, they contracted
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a bunch of American factories to produce
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a ton of artillery rounds in the distant
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future, i.e. today. Right? Now,
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obviously, in those 4 years,
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the war has changed dramatically. 155
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shells are of almost negligible
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importance.
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And yet,
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these contractors are still out here
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swiping taxpayer money to produce
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artillery, or in this case, literally
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just defraud the government. Just cash
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the checks and produce not a single
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round of 155. According to a report, the
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Defense Department IG found that as of
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March of this year, a plant in Mesquite,
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Texas that had received nearly 100 and
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and
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several hundred million dollars
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uh had never produced a single metal
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part that was actually able to be used
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in artillery. They completely
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didn't they completely abandoned the
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contract. They did nothing.
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And
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it was
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absolutely insane. [music]
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The Army said, "Listen, in 2024, we want
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to produce uh 100,000 rounds of
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artillery every single month by October
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2025." The Army failed to do that. As of
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March 2026, it was operating only a
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third of its goal
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because the facility in Mesquite failed
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to produce a single
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usable metal part that was needed to
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build these.
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Now, the company the the Mesquite
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facility is owned by General Dynamics.
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Uh
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And they said, "General Dynamics and our
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Army customers have reached an agreement
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on a path forward for the Mesquite
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facility, which includes additional
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money." Oh, wow. Wow, shocking. They
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said, "Wow, you guys didn't give us
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enough money." Funny how every other
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plant was able to take that money and
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produce produce some parts.
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Only General Dynamics goes, "If only you
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could help this by giving me a little
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more money. Please, just a little more
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money, guys."
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The hilarious part is this is this is
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how brain rotted the Pentagon is. Okay,
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this is how brain rotted the acquisition
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system is. Is that literally war itself
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has moved on from this.
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And the military industrial complex
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the Pentagon cannot bring itself to say,
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"We should just stop."
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Instead, they're saying, "Listen,
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we should
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we why not just give us more money? Give
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us more money to solve this problem. How
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come the Ukrainians can put an explosive
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into a tank for $400.
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And
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for nearly half a billion dollars is
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what the army spent.
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Wow, it would The army spent over 400
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million. I'm sorry. I thought this was
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the entire program. 400 million is just
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the Mesquite facility. We spent half a
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billion dollars.
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And we didn't produce a single thing
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that blows up.
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We have not increased our production
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at all.
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Meanwhile, war itself has moved on.
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This is like This is like a an IG report
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saying, "Listen, we are failing at
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building sailing ships, and we just need
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to inject another trillion dollars into
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sailing ships to make them work."
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Meanwhile, again, a German battleship
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made of steel and guns is sailing for
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the coast. This is what we're talking
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about here. This is a This is a
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a joke. This is pathetic.
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What I find interesting is that when you
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look at the report,
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here's a list, by the way, of
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the contracting officer. This is the
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taxpayer like the government employee
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whose job it is is to make sure this
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facility doesn't defraud the government
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by say cashing half a billion dollars of
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checks and producing nothing. It says,
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"As of March, the contractor responsible
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for the Mesquite facility has been
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unable to produce a single 155 mm
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projectile metal part that meets the
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contract's minimum requirements. The
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contract for the Mesquite facility
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included three production lines. The
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contractor focused initial efforts on
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production line one. Within 7 months of
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contract issuance, the contractor had
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missed initial milestones, and the
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contracting the contracting officer,
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that's the
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America's
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the American government's contracting
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officer, issued multiple letters of
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schedule inquiry, and then letters of
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concern regarding operator contractor
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performance and potential inability to
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successfully fulfill the contract.
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Contracting officer also expressed
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concern about a lack of communication by
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the contractor about problems at the
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Mesquite facility. The contracting
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officer issued the following letters. I
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want you to understand how [ __ ]
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absurd this is, okay?
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He wrote a letter of schedule inquiry in
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2023. One year later, he issued another
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letter of schedule inquiry.
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What? You waited a year to be like, "Hey
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man, you're not producing anything."
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Then nothing for 12 months and then
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going,
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"Hey hey hey,
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I'm I'm I'm inquiring again." Dude, you
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should be inquiring every week. You
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should be living at the facility.
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Then in October, he sent a letter of
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concern. A letter of concern? Task order
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completion. Then in December of 2024,
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issued another letter. Jesus Christ,
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it's like the UN. It's nothing but
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nothing but these sternly worded
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letters. Then in June of 2025, he says,
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uh
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I I I really need you to show why why
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you're not making these parts. That was
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3 years after getting the contract. Then
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in August, he finally said, "Okay guys,
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I'm ordering you to stop work. You're
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defrauding the government." And then in
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November, he said, "I'm extending my
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order for you to stop work, please."
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This is insane.
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By the way, he stopped work orders for
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90 days and only for two of the three
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production lines.
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To prevent the contractor from incurring
20:25
additional costs while the government
20:26
evaluated the contractor's ability to
20:27
meet the obligation.
20:33
We're going to [ __ ] lose this war.
20:35
If we have to fight, I mean, listen.
20:38
Like I'm I'm I'm I'm going to be really
20:41
transparent with you guys. Uh some of
20:44
the reporting around
20:46
the
20:48
uh
20:50
the
20:52
state of the US military is incredibly
20:55
troubling. And let me see if I can find
20:57
you this reporting. I think it's from
20:59
the Washington Post.
21:01
This is this is from the Washington
21:02
Post.
21:03
They said, "According to one official
21:05
they spoke to on condition of anonymity
21:08
you expansion of US operations will be
21:10
limited by dwindling stockpiles of air
21:12
defense and long-range munitions
21:15
and constraints on the ability to surge
21:16
more troops and aircraft into the area
21:18
because of battle damage. Quote, we do
21:20
not have enough to safely sustain
21:22
operations and I don't think the White
21:23
House is aware of that, the official
21:25
said.
21:25
>> [snorts]
21:26
>> Why on earth
21:27
like like
21:29
if there's one thing both sides of the
21:31
aisle can agree on it's that everybody
21:33
was worried that there was going to be
21:34
some wacky do Iran war. So it's not like
21:37
a secret. And the Iranian Shahed drone,
21:39
it's not like people were like, who's
21:42
making those Shahed drones? It's
21:43
literally an Iranian name.
21:45
So we can watch on our TVs
21:48
how the Iranians are going to fight.
21:50
And we still look and we go
21:52
huh?
21:55
You think we should spend a couple bucks
21:56
trying to figure out how to blow those
21:57
things out of the sky? And Lockheed
21:59
Martin goes, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
22:00
We have something that can blow those
22:02
things out of the sky. It's $4 million a
22:03
pop.
22:04
You'll be fine, guys. How many drones
22:06
could they possibly make?
22:10
The idea that we were logistically
22:13
ill-prepared for a war
22:16
is is should be of concern to all
22:19
Americans.
22:21
Because if you are China and you want to
22:23
put the US in
22:25
the graveyard of history, turn the US
22:27
into a third-rate power that gets trade
22:30
deals and economic policy dictated to it
22:33
by its superior by superior countries
22:36
by more powerful countries
22:38
then
22:40
you probably should be concerned about
22:43
the fact that we seemed to be completely
22:45
ignorant as to the basic contours, the
22:48
basic math
22:49
of a war with Iran.
22:52
Like and and that's Iran, guys. This is
22:55
a
22:56
one of the most heavily sanctioned
22:57
countries on planet Earth. This is one
22:59
of the most
23:01
This is a
23:03
a country whose aspirations are to be a
23:05
regional power.
23:06
>> [snorts]
23:09
>> Think about what this would mean
23:11
the US military if we had to defend
23:13
Taiwan, like go toe-to-toe with China.
23:16
Who remember guys, not only
23:18
are they incredibly far ahead of us in
23:20
manufacturing, but they are comically
23:23
they are the ones who are building these
23:25
drones. A lot of the parts for Shaheds,
23:28
they're made in Iran, they're made in
23:30
Alabuga in Russia, and they're made in
23:32
China.
23:34
A lot of the
23:35
fiberoptic cables, the drone frames, a
23:37
lot of those are made in China and
23:39
bought by Russia. They're called
23:40
dual-use equipment. So, China has all
23:42
the parts, all the screws to produce
23:44
masses of drones. And the US, we
23:47
continue to have a system in which we
23:49
award incredibly wealthy contractors
23:53
sums of money that are unreal, that are
23:56
absolutely surreal, in exchange for them
23:58
doing nothing,
24:00
improving nothing, innovating in no way,
24:03
shape, or form, simply existing
24:05
as devices, as systems that ex- that
24:09
take
24:10
money from the taxpayer and produce a
24:13
outdated uh
24:17
outdated, overpriced
24:19
[ __ ] And by the way, if you want one
24:21
more mocking here, this report came out,
24:23
General Dynamics Corporation up 1% for
24:25
the day.
24:27
Look at this. This is their stock price
24:28
over the last 5 years.
24:30
And it makes sense. Who do you think got
24:32
those 500 million dollars, dude?
24:34
You You think they gave it back to the
24:35
government? [ __ ] no.
24:37
They took that 500 billion and they
24:39
passed off the shareholders. I mean, a
24:40
2% dividend, guys.
24:42
Okay? A P/E ratio of 23, that is a that
24:45
is a tradable stock right there.
24:47
So, we know who we know who lost, US
24:49
military,
24:50
soldiers who are forced to to use these
24:52
overpriced and under-equipped air
24:54
defenses. Um
24:58
you know, US allies who counted on the
25:00
United States to provide them with the
25:01
best war-fighting technology on Earth,
25:03
the American public who believe their
25:04
taxpayer money was being used to protect
25:07
America and its allies. But, you know
25:08
who won? You know who came out on top?
25:11
General Dynamics, baby. They came out
25:14
numero uno. Shareholders
25:18
number one.
25:19
American number zero. All right, thanks
25:21
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um
25:40
including including By the way, guys,
25:42
you want to know who saw the some of the
25:44
first videos of the P-1 Interceptor and
25:45
the Sting?
25:46
It was on this channel. It was these
25:47
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25:49
Sent to me by by air defense teams who
25:50
were like, "Yo, this thing's kind of
25:52
sick."
25:53
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