RattlerGator Report: 10/5/26 - Russia’s Lab Leak, Hegseth Delivers and the Endless War on Terror
JB opens the week with some perspective for Gator fans after the loss at Mizzou, plus a victory lap for the Jaguars, then gets down to what he calls a world of competing confusions. A lab accident and a researcher's death in Siberia set up "Poor, Poor Russia": why Russia is running China's old playbook, why geopolitics is never binary, and how rogue actors inside every nation-state, Russia's siloviki included, can push even Putin around. From there JB sings the praises of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, from sinking nine of ten threes with Air Force cadets to his "Send me" speech in Colorado…
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