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How Russia Is Helping Kill Americans In Iranian Conflict · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Hi, good morning friends, Welcome to the second hour The
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Prestin Scott. It is Monday, March sixteenth.
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  Speaker 1: We outside careful, take your time. But the kids are
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  Speaker 1: not out in school, not on the buses, not driving around,
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  Speaker 1: so that helps a little bit more more than a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Show fifty five sixty three of this fine
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  Speaker 1: radio program. I told you we were going to update
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  Speaker 1: things what's going on in the Middle East, and to
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  Speaker 1: do that, we've got a unique perspective. Stephen Moore is
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  Speaker 1: founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project and he joins us
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  Speaker 1: on the program. Stephen, good morning, how are you pressing?
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about the Ukraine Freedom Project. What brought this about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, when the Russians launched their full scale invasion
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  Speaker 2: of Ukraine, I went over to help. I went arrived
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  Speaker 2: in Ukraine on day five of the war for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of reasons. One just because it seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: the right thing to do. I had a little time
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  Speaker 2: in my hands, and I wanted to help. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the Russians are are not our friends, and so
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  Speaker 2: I thought anytime to be able to push back against
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  Speaker 2: the Russians would be a good use of my time.
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  Speaker 2: So I went over on day five of the war
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  Speaker 2: started doing humanitarian aid. And now what I'm doing is
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to the front. I'm going to different places
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  Speaker 2: around there get first hand information. Is that I can
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  Speaker 2: chat with people like you in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Where does this intersect with what's going on in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East right now?
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  Speaker 2: In your opinion, Well, a lot of people don't recognize
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  Speaker 2: that we're in a global war right now, that Russia, China, Iran,
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  Speaker 2: North Korea, all the Islamic extremist movements and the drug
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  Speaker 2: cartels in South America are all working together. And Russia
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  Speaker 2: and Iran have been supporting each other since for years now.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you you hear a lot about these
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  Speaker 2: drones that are attacking American bases. They are attacking our allies.
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  Speaker 2: These are Iranian design thrones that the Russians have been
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  Speaker 2: using for years in Ukraine. They've shot fifty seven thousand
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  Speaker 2: of these drones into Ukraine and the Ukrainians, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they've taken that that battle testing and they've improved
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  Speaker 2: to drones that the Uranians are making. So the Iranians
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  Speaker 2: of the Russians are working together and these drones at
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  Speaker 2: this point have killed you know, half a dozen US
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  Speaker 2: servicemen and that number is probably not going to stay
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  Speaker 2: that low. So Russia is sending weapons and expertise into
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  Speaker 2: Iran to kill US servicemen.
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  Speaker 1: How does Russia have any supply left? I mean, as
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  Speaker 1: I was following and have been following the conflict with Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed as though they were running low of conventional
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  Speaker 1: weaponry and we're having to resort to using these drones
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  Speaker 1: against the Ukrainians. Where's their stockpile? How are they coming
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  Speaker 1: up with them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you there's no resort, man. These are
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  Speaker 2: really good weapons. They cost about fifty thousand dollars and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, and that's what they're using. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're using a four million dollar Patriot interceptor to take
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  Speaker 2: down these fifty thousand dollars Russian Iranian drones and that
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  Speaker 2: math doesn't work for very long. So they're cheap to make,
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  Speaker 2: they're deadly effective, and they're getting more and more precise.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to being able to go longer distances because
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  Speaker 2: the Russians again are battle testing these things in Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: and then sending that information back to the Iranians and
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  Speaker 2: they're actually sending the actual drones too. There's a number
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  Speaker 2: of instances, photographic instances evidence of Russian language markings on
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  Speaker 2: these Iranian drones that are using being used to kill
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  Speaker 2: US servicemen.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of progress have Ukrainians made in defending against
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  Speaker 1: these things? And is that technology coming from them or
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  Speaker 1: is it coming from us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I got to tell you, you know. So,
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  Speaker 2: there's four countries leading the world drone warfare. It's Russia, China,
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  Speaker 2: Iran and Ukraine. And our stuff does not work in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to the front seventy times or so. We
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  Speaker 2: work a lot with drone pilots in Ukraine. I got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of friends in the drone world in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: And here's an example. This is not the larger drones
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  Speaker 2: that are killing our people right now in Iran, but
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  Speaker 2: these are the smaller drones, kami Kazi drones five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Two of these Kamakazi drones will blow up a Russian
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  Speaker 2: ten ninety tank five hundred dollars each. Now America has
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  Speaker 2: a Kamikazi drone as well. The cheapest one we have
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  Speaker 2: is the switch played three hundred. The switch played three
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  Speaker 2: hundred fifty eight thousand dollars. Let me repeat that back
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  Speaker 2: to you. The Ukrainians are making five hundred dollars drones,
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  Speaker 2: two of which will blow up a tank. Our cheapest
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  Speaker 2: Kamikazi drone is fifty eight thousand dollars and it actually
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work as well as the as the cheaper stuff
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  Speaker 2: that the Ukrainians are manufacturing. The nature of warfare has
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  Speaker 2: changed and America has been left behind.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Moore, founder of Ukraine Freedom Project. You mentioned, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: that our stuff isn't effective in Ukraine. I've seen, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we're working on laser technology to try to short circuit
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  Speaker 1: these things and literally burn them out of the sky.
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  Speaker 1: I've also seen Raytheon's project, which is a reusable missile
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  Speaker 1: that can actually be launched and then caught and reused
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  Speaker 1: again that flies by these things in mass and takes
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  Speaker 1: them out of the sky by burning up their circuitry.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of technology has been tried and failed over
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  Speaker 1: there that we've put.
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  Speaker 2: Out, Well, it's so again. I mentioned switch Play three
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  Speaker 2: hundred two, and there's you know, Witches was underpowered and
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  Speaker 2: much more expensive than the Ukrainian stuff. There's a company
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  Speaker 2: called Skydio. If folks want to look at the Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal, there's an extensive documation on documentation on Skydio's
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  Speaker 2: shortcoming in Ukraine. And and here's the fundamental problem is
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  Speaker 2: that our stuff is super expensive, and the drones that
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  Speaker 2: the Russians and the Iranians make, the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: killing servicemen in the Middle East right now, are cheap.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty thousand dollars for one of these drones is actually
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  Speaker 2: probably less, and they're very effective. So we can't make
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  Speaker 2: that kind of level of stuff, that is that is
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  Speaker 2: inexpensive to take out their inexpensive stuff. And so the
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  Speaker 2: math doesn't work on that for very long. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got we spend a trillion dollars in the US
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  Speaker 2: Department of War right now. And you know, if we
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  Speaker 2: had to, the Russians made four million roans last year,
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  Speaker 2: and the Ukrainians made a similar amount, and so four
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  Speaker 2: million times five hundred dollars is a reasonable amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: And four million times you know, fifty eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: is like, you know, a third of the budget of
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  Speaker 2: the US Department of War. So our stuff is a
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  Speaker 2: too expensive, and then it's not really the drown hardware.
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  Speaker 2: That's the hard part. It's the software associated because because
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  Speaker 2: there is a daily fight between the Russians and the
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainians to jam the other other team's drones, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it changes, you know, weekly, what we're doing. So
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  Speaker 2: if you make a bunch of drones right now in
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  Speaker 2: the United States and you you know, ship into a
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  Speaker 2: warehouse in Uma, Arizona and wait for the big war
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  Speaker 2: to breakout, those things are going to be obsolete by
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  Speaker 2: the time you use them, because the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: world's technology is moving faster than ours is.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about the coalition between Russia and Iran, which
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  Speaker 1: we've known has existed for many, many years, probably since
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine in reality, Yeah, yeah, I'm curious. Is
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  Speaker 1: this on the radar of anybody in Congress? Is anyone
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  Speaker 1: sitting down in the State Department. I have high regard
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  Speaker 1: for Marco Rubio, He's a friend of our.
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  Speaker 2: Greg.
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  Speaker 1: Is anybody talking with the Russians and saying, look, we
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  Speaker 1: can do this the easy way or the hard way,
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  Speaker 1: stop providing material aid to Iran?
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  Speaker 2: You know my sense of things. You know, you listen
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  Speaker 2: to what Steve Wicoff had to say and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Russian said, oh, no, we're not providing that stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and Wickoff says, well, we got to take him at
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  Speaker 2: their word, you know. And Putin is a liar man.
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  Speaker 2: Putin has broken forty five peace agreements or international treaties
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  Speaker 2: with dozens of countries around the world, including the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America. So you can't take Putin at his word.
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  Speaker 2: So so my concern is that there's no one doing
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  Speaker 2: the necessary due diligence here on understanding that you know,
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  Speaker 2: Putin is a KGB agent from way back, and he's
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  Speaker 2: trained to lie, he's trained to be deceptive, he's trained
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  Speaker 2: to be manipulative, and so you can't take him at
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  Speaker 2: his word. So that's that's my concern.
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  Speaker 1: Steven, thanks for the time this morning. I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: update on things and best of success with the Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: Freedom Project.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Steven Moore this morning with us. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be fun to get a different perspective on
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in there Russia. I mean, how hard
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  Speaker 1: can it be? You just dump one of the drones
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  Speaker 1: that has the Russian you know, terminology wording their stamps
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  Speaker 1: all over it, and you dump it on Putin's desk
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  Speaker 1: and say, here you go. I want to tell me
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  Speaker 1: you're not helping her on now. I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 1: hard