WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:13.880 I'm right. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Ion Geopolitics. 2 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.280 I'm Dimitch con Tako, so I'm here with the full crew. 3 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.480 Andy Milburn, Mick Mulroy, Jason Lyons. A lot happened today, big, 4 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:25.359 big sabotage attack in Russia by Ukraine hit a ton 5 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.719 of aircraft, a ton of strategic bombers at an incredible operation, 6 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.399 and like, let's just crack into it. You guys want 7 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:34.840 to mud wrestle for who goes first? 8 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.960 You tell me, I'll jump in if you want, go 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.840 for it. Andy, all right, so you know essentially and 10 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.240 guys jump in. Of course, here's what we know right 11 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:50.359 now at upwards forty and upwards, strategic bombers have been destroyed. So, 12 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:55.240 for instance, something like twenty seven Russian TU ninety five, 13 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.880 and those of you out there who are egg geeks 14 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.520 or followers of Alex Holings on, to U ninety five 15 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.480 is very important to the Russians because they use it 16 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.000 as a missile platform. In fact, a lot of the 17 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:12.040 cruise missiles that are launched that Kiev are being fired 18 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.319 by the t U ninety five, for instance, from over 19 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.920 the Caspian Sea. Anyway, that's not the point. The main 20 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.840 point is like at least forty of these strategic bombers, 21 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:29.480 I mean it's strategic aircraft and deep located deep within 22 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.799 side Russia four bases. Okay, and the reports vary, but 23 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.519 as far as how deep inside Russia, one report says 24 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:40.560 as far as names of place as deep as four 25 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:45.159 thousand kilometers inside Russia have been destroyed by multiple FPV 26 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.280 and other types of drones, mostly FPV drones. How did 27 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.879 it happen? Well, apparently it's an SBU operation. SBU is 28 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.319 their intelligence agency, not their military intelligence agency, but their 29 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:03.239 equivalent of the CIA, and it's a eighteen month operation 30 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.519 was planned for eighteen months by the head of the 31 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.639 SBU is a guy named Vassilo Maluk by the way, 32 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.120 who was born in nineteen eighty three, so he's a 33 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.719 young guy, and he began the war actually as a 34 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:19.800 as a soldier. He fought, he was involved in the 35 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:25.599 fighting for the airport early on in the war. And 36 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.960 so what they did this is really astounding. They smuggled 37 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.840 in multiple FPV drones unknown how many, but it's probably, 38 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.439 you know, probably upwards to of one hundred or more. 39 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.360 And they smuggled in these wooden compartments all right, and 40 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.759 I say smuggled in, I mean that's not that easy. 41 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.120 But somehow they got them in over land and then 42 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.879 subsequently welded or attached these compartments with the drones inside, 43 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.960 to trucks that they knew the routes of these trucks 44 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.719 would lead them within a few kilometers of the various 45 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.599 bases that they've attacked. Okay, so you can imagine all 46 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.560 the background that has to go into planning this. The 47 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:10.479 truck drivers are unwitting. And here's the really astonishing part 48 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.240 that we don't we can't answer how this was done, 49 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.319 but it appears as though the FPV drones were operated 50 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:20.120 from inside Ukraine. And if you look on in Twitterland 51 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:25.800 you'll see now there's video of the trucks exploding. In 52 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.120 one case, Russian soldiers are boarding the truck to try 53 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.240 and stop the drones from taking off and the right 54 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.639 and the truck just catches on fire and then explodes. 55 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:41.360 So factored into this were, you know, some means of 56 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:43.960 destroying the evidence and killing anyone who tried to come 57 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.000 on board to prevent this from happening. I'll pause there 58 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.680 for a moment. Let's see what you guys have to 59 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:52.319 add to that. 60 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.840 Mick Nick, you're muted it you're muted. 61 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:00.479 Sorry, Well, what I would say is, hats off to 62 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.080 the SBU. It's a you know, I'm very familiar with, 63 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.639 and you know this is going to go down in history. 64 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.560 Is one of the most effective, certainly in the cost 65 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:11.919 effective range. Right, You're looking at some of these drones 66 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:13.840 that are like five hundred dollars and they're taken out 67 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.279 billion dollar aircraft. And I'm just getting because I'm going 68 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.839 to be talking about this on ABC to show you 69 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:23.319 the level of this. ABC usually doesn't break in on 70 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.079 the weekends for this kind of stuff, but they are, 71 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.800 so it really does show you how enormousis was. It 72 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:35.160 looks like there were four different air bases that were targeted, 73 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.519 and I mean, it's almost worth going down the list 74 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:42.519 of aircraft that were taken out because it's a lot, 75 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.800 you know, like like Andy said, billions of dollars worth 76 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.279 of strategic aircraft which are not easily replaced. And it 77 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.959 shows that once again, Russia is not anything near what 78 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.120 we had made them out to be. When you can't 79 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:01.399 even protect your places like this, thousands and thousands of 80 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.759 kilometers inside Russia. But this is part of a much 81 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.519 bigger discussion, right. So we saw a lot of talk 82 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.680 this week with Senator Graham and Blumenthal and visiting President 83 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.879 Zelensky talking about the sanctioning Russia's Russia Act. That needs 84 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.480 to happen. It means we need to stop talking about 85 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.360 these things. It's claire Russia is not interested at all 86 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:31.399 and ceasefire negotiations. I mean they proposed Istanbul and then 87 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.040 didn't show up basically even though President Trump was willing 88 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.160 to show up and President Solenski was willing to show up. 89 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.240 There's one party to this and it's been the same 90 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.680 party since the invasion that isn't interested in the ceasefire. 91 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.639 They only understand strength. This was showed. This showed strength 92 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.639 today and it showed us. And then there's even other 93 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:54.600 videos of other attacks going on today. I'm sure will 94 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.920 we met with Russia sen and cruise missiles and drones 95 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.600 right at civilians as it's done the whole time. Another 96 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:04.480 war crime. But it's time and I think you can 97 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.759 see the movement on including in Japan but also in Europe, 98 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.959 on releasing frozen Russian assets and they need to pass 99 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.199 this sectioning Russia Act, which will have a devastating effect 100 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:22.399 potentially on Russia's ability to keep this war going financially. 101 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.959 So hats off to them a hell of an operation. 102 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.480 This is going to be dissected by every military of 103 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.920 the planet right now to see how this was carried 104 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.519 out and how they can potentially do in the future 105 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.560 and defending goodness in the future, because this is going 106 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.279 to lead to a whole different discussion on the use 107 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.600 of drones, which is coming so fast. I don't think 108 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.079 people even understand modern militaries, don't even understand the impact 109 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:52.199 of what's going on in Ukraine on the future of warfare. 110 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.079 And if you add that artificial intelligence in quantum computing, 111 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.240 we're about to enter on a whole new air. I 112 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.399 don't even know if science fiction has even caught up 113 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.480 depicting what this era is going to be. 114 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.639 So clearly it's time to coincide with I'm sorry, mat Yeah, 115 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:17.160 clearly it's it's it's time possibly to coincide with with 116 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:23.720 Senators Graham. Senator Graham and Bluementhal's visit to Kiev, right, 117 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.040 I mean, they're in Kiev for now, and Silansky has 118 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:29.519 just said to them, look, we have a roadmap for peace, 119 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.800 we'd like to present it again and evidently had this 120 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:37.879 up his sleeve, which is which is masterful timing. 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And the Russians have 161 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:41.840 released two others having determined that they were unwitting crazy. 162 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.480 Yeah, Jason, give us a rundown of like what was 163 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:45.840 lost and stuff like that. I think you have like 164 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:46.960 a good handle on what. 165 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:52.039 Yeah, it's kind of conflicting because some of the number 166 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.960 the numbers saying forty aircraft were hit, but the numbers 167 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.480 that I'm getting it's way way over that. So I'll 168 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.200 just read you the types of it aircraft and their significance. 169 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.360 So we have some T one sixty Blackjacks, that is 170 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.639 the and I'm giving you the NATO designation Blackjack. Those 171 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.759 are the equivalent of their answer to the B one 172 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:19.840 USB one bomber supersonic bomber long range. As Andy mentioned, 173 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:23.080 some t U ninety five ms bears. Those are Cold 174 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:29.320 War era propeller driven bombers, but have massive range for 175 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:33.000 launching cruise missiles, anti ship missiles, those sorts of things. 176 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.080 And they're using those almost every night, right, lobbing over 177 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:36.840 cruise missiles. 178 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:42.960 Yep. Absolutely. And then a couple of IL seventy eight 179 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:47.720 m mitas aircraft. They are military transports pardon my notes here, 180 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:53.440 Some AM twenty six CURL military transport aircraft. A couple 181 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:57.240 of AN twelve cubs those are also Cold War era 182 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:03.039 transport and patrol aircraft. Also significant. Some TU twenty two 183 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.879 M three backfire supersonic bombers. Those are also Cold War 184 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:14.919 air aircraft, some MiG thirty one Foxhounds. Foxhounds, they're supersonic interceptors. 185 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.399 They're developing the seventies, if I'm not mistaken. 186 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:19.559 Yeah. 187 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:23.320 So, and then there's rumor I don't know if they 188 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:27.200 were hit or up, but probably the most significant aircraft 189 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.440 that were lost, if this is true, or some two 190 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:35.879 af A fifty mainstay aircraft. They are airborne early warning 191 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:41.039 and control aircraft, so they can control multiple areas of 192 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:47.399 the battlefield. Aircraft, missiles, they're not armed themselves, but they 193 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.960 can control those things. And from what I understand, there 194 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.039 were only six operational ones because there were others that 195 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.679 were lost earlier as of twenty twenty four, So if 196 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.879 they lost two more or even one, that's a significant loss. 197 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.360 So that's the rundown that I have so far. 198 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.759 Guys, can't I can't think of I can't think of 199 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:12.320 a special operations case. And I mean, I'm sorry, special 200 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:17.960 operations operation that rivals this, can you guys certainly you 201 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.919 know in modern times, please let us know. 202 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:22.000 Yeah. 203 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.679 And and the fact just the fact that you're you're 204 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.279 using and I've heard others in the media use the 205 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.120 term special operations, like most traditional special operations that people 206 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.600 think of are green bereys, you know, seals, maresc. That 207 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.440 sort of thing. And the fact that drones have been 208 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.440 now placed in that realm is it's pretty significant. 209 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:47.720 Yeah, I mean the intelligence that went into this, it's yeah, 210 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.279 that's why I was running by the intelligence services, and 211 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.440 that's likely what we're going to be seeing in the future. 212 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:57.200 And incredibly ballsy actions on the ground, you know, getting 213 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.919 I mean, the logistics of getting these things in country, 214 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.360 getting them on top, welled in on top of the trucks. 215 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:08.399 However they were attached on top of these trucks without 216 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.720 being seen, you know, multiple trucks. I mean, it's it's 217 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.720 just phenomenal. And the technoledge of being able to control 218 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.080 these drones from all that distance. 219 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:20.879 Absolutely Now I don't know how true. Sorry, no, no, 220 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:22.799 not true. This is maybe U jents know, But I'm 221 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.720 hearing that Zelenski himself took a personal interest in this 222 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.679 and overseeing this, do you know if that's right makes sense? 223 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.600 I mean, this is strategic level, This is a strategic 224 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.440 impact operation for sure. I guess they probably could have 225 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.360 guessed how successful it could have been when they were 226 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:44.759 planning this and it looks like, you know, hit met expectations. 227 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.840 So I hope this translates. Obviously it's going to be 228 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.639 a military, huge military setback for Russia, but I hope 229 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.799 it translates to people understanding that Ukraine is not losing 230 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.799 like this this fiction that they're losing, and that there 231 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.879 is is Russian propaganda that's there. I mean, if you 232 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.080 look at the map from a year ago till now, 233 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.000 it's barely any changed and this is UH and this 234 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.440 is going to really set them back. And I and 235 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:16.320 I hope they can just capitalize on this, not just militarily, 236 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.879 but politically and internationally when it comes to support, I mean, 237 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.720 back the back not only the person the country that's 238 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.120 in the right, but back the country that's in that's 239 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.559 got the mic and the smarts, and they're they're they 240 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:32.440 are showing it, they're bringing it. 241 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:34.799 Yeah, it turns out they do have some cards to play, 242 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:36.720 you know. Yeah. 243 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.840 Yeah, And Melayak has been you know, we've mentioned, we 244 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.919 talked about Budenov who hits the UH, the g U 245 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.919 R and UH, you know, he's the military intelligence side. 246 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:52.919 Also relatively young guy late no and now forty years old, 247 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.840 and he's been behind a lot of the he was, 248 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.480 so the GUA is behind You remember all the talk 249 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:06.639 about the Russian insurgent groups withinside Russia, and that was 250 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.039 that was a g u R operation, and some of 251 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.279 the drone strikes from Moscow came from g u R. 252 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.720 But the SBU was behind the Crimean bridge attack if 253 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:20.480 you remember that, and the and thee the sea drone 254 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.480 attacks too. In fact, that one of the sea drones 255 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.360 is named after Maluk, the head of the SBU, And 256 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:33.080 it's kind of interesting. Malayuk's the first non political appointee 257 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.559 as head of the SDU. You know it was I 258 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.519 don't know if you're tracking, but earlier on in the war, 259 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.639 not long after I appeared my infamous appearance on the 260 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:47.000 Team House where you know, I said I they said, hey, 261 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:51.519 Ukraine has some problems to solve itself. Zelenski was evidently watching, 262 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.600 realizing that I was right, and fired five senior guys 263 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.600 within the SBU. They've had problems within the SBU. In fact, 264 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:04.399 Maluo after he was appointed, personally arrested the chief of 265 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.919 staff of SBU's counter terrorism center as a Russian agent, 266 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.159 and he's exposed three hundred's the SPU's arrested just in 267 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.720 the last few months, three hundred alleged Russian or Ukrainian 268 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.960 traitors within the Ukrainian security Service. So he's cleaning house 269 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.639 inside and he's doing you know, he's him doing incredible 270 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.799 things against Russia itself. You know, just finish up by 271 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:33.679 saying that we talked about the fact that Russia not 272 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.039 only has lost control of the seas, but has lost 273 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.200 most of its black sea fleet, and the Ukrainian and 274 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.559 Ukrainians don't even really have a navy to speak of. 275 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:46.240 You know, it's all been asymmetric attacks. And in the 276 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.200 same way, you know, here we are faffing around with 277 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.240 thirty billion dollar aircraft carriers over. 278 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.120 I knew it. I knew you were going to bring 279 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:54.600 it back instinct. 280 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:58.879 According to our own Secretary of Defense, within twenty minutes, right, 281 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.039 that's what he said today. Every single US aircraft carry 282 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.640 can be sunk within twenty minutes. But what's a real 283 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:09.359 aircraft carrier. It's an articulated lorry, right, as the heads 284 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.920 the British say, I just knew it. 285 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.079 I knew I was coming back to go ahead and 286 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:14.599 make sorry. 287 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.039 Is the support that the US has in the pipeline 288 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.119 is going to run out, right, So there's talk discussions 289 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.440 underway of Europe buying our stuff and giving it to them, 290 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:29.119 and we just need to not only continue our support, 291 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.720 we need to increase our support. That's what the leader 292 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.359 of the free world does. When a one country, particularly 293 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:39.720 a country we identified from multiple national security strategies as 294 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.400 one of our biggest adversary, invades the democratic country, we 295 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.960 need to support. I'm going to be a broken record 296 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.240 on this, but the problem is is there's a lot 297 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.400 of talk, and the talk's going in the right direction, 298 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.200 but there isn't a lot of action. Pass the bill, 299 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.720 increase the support, release the funds of frozen assets. This 300 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:01.079 is the time to really make difference. If you want 301 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.119 to see a ceasfire, it's gonna have to be Russia 302 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:05.400 seas itself losing. 303 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.000 Yeah, we have an opportunity here. 304 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:14.839 Absolutely, I'm I guess h early estimates are saying that 305 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.200 if the reporting is correct on the aircraft that were 306 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.079 struck in the damage onto these airfields, there's about it's 307 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.440 about two billion dollars in damage if it's true, which 308 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.160 is a huge blow. And then also I think Andy, 309 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:31.640 you sent us the link on x about a explosion 310 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:36.039 observed at several Amorsk, home to Russian submarines. 311 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.880 Your mut muty, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting to see. 312 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.400 There's much chatter and twitter land on that, but there's 313 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:46.359 more than I mean, there's multiple reports now of explosions there, 314 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:50.920 suggesting maybe somehow they've combined this with an attack on 315 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.000 a submarine base, either with c drones or maybe also 316 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:55.920 with fpvs. 317 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.279 And soon I saw two major bridges were hit as well. 318 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:04.000 I didn't see where nine dead and uh yeah, I 319 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.759 think one fell on a h a civilian train as well, 320 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:13.039 so it'd probably be more casualties. But yeah, bold moves. 321 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:15.039 Just think about what's going on right now in the 322 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:19.519 US military, right all look at our all our bomber bases, 323 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:22.759 look at our uh, you know, nuclear submarines. 324 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:23.839 Right. 325 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:29.400 We've got very comfortable with, you know, having conventional overmatch 326 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.000 of all our adversaries. But this has changing the equation entirely. 327 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:33.599 Absolutely. 328 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:36.759 I mean, this is this is in my estimation, this 329 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.799 calls for like an immediate freaking, I don't know what 330 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.279 you want to call it, summit coming together to talk 331 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:45.880 about where this is headed and how we make sure 332 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.079 we maintain our superiority. 333 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:55.640 Yeah, agreed, I'm not optimistic. We moved so slowly. And 334 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.720 it's kind of an interesting dichotomy, right if I can 335 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:00.519 say that word D. 336 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.000 On this show of course does feel free? 337 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.680 You know, we have a we have an assistance a 338 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.319 military assistance group within Kiev. Now, I mean the US 339 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:16.960 military does we and yes, But but what I'm heading 340 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:21.279 on this is the days of US teaching Ukrainians anything 341 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.119 a lot gone. I mean, we need we need to 342 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:28.680 be learning from them at every single level what they 343 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.839 have learned on the ground for everything from how that 344 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:36.960 their soldiers fight, how they organize, to you know, this 345 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.119 kind of special operation. I mean, we need to be 346 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.839 learning and I'm not sure we are humble enough as 347 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:46.599 an institution to do that. But you know, to mix 348 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:50.000 point everything from our vulnerability is our use of high 349 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:55.039 end drones and weapons systems that are incredibly vulnerable. We 350 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:03.400 talked about losing thirty, you know, thirty predators over Yemen 351 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:05.720 in the last few years, each of which is thirty 352 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:09.799 million billion, I mean thirty sorry, thirty million dollars. You know, 353 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:14.240 we just don't learn, and yet the Ukrainians are mass generating. 354 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:17.599 You know, I read about one factory turning out ten 355 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:19.880 thousand a month. You know, last time I was seeing 356 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.000 like one thousand a month, I was way low. People 357 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.640 were sending in comments about that, and we just are 358 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:31.240 nowhere nearvous And our acquisition system operates like glacial speed. 359 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.559 By the time that we you know, we've chosen to 360 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:41.920 adopt a platform or weapons system and costing multi multimillion dollars, 361 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:44.720 and by the time it hits the assembly line, it's 362 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.079 already obsolete. We've got nothing, done nothing to fix that. 363 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.160 We will do nothing to fix it. At the infantry level. 364 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:54.920 And certainly, I'm speaking for the Marine Corps, we are 365 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.319 hopelessly inadequately trained. I know that sounds like blasphemy, but 366 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:01.519 the Marine Rifle Squad operates in much the same way 367 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.359 did twenty years ago. It's no more lethal, has the 368 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.079 same weapons systems that the use of drones isn't off 369 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.319 the thought if they use them at all. You know, 370 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:13.440 we really need to we really need to wake up, 371 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.119 will we? I don't know. 372 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.799 Another aspect of this is controlling the transfer of technology. 373 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.200 Right, so we. 374 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.400 As a country, legislation, whatever we need to do, we 375 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:28.160 need to ensure that we're not only capitalizing on the 376 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:31.119 technological advantages. But we're doing everything we can to prevent 377 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:34.880 our adversaries from because you know, let's face it, they 378 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:39.160 generally their plan China and talking about specifically, it's let 379 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.240 the Americans develop it, innovate it, and then we're going 380 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:44.200 to steal it and then mass produce it. We've got 381 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:46.640 to make sure that that we cut that chain right. 382 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:48.640 And one of the ways to do that is to 383 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:50.920 work with your allies. I know it's not the popular 384 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:54.960 approach right now, but we can do that if we 385 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.839 work with our allies. And important to point out, you know, 386 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.640 if you look at where the hubs in the United 387 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:06.440 States are for technological advantage or advancement, I should say 388 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.559 it's in northern California and around Boston. Why because that's 389 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.279 what the universities that produce the best of the best 390 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:16.400 are coming out of. We need to ensure that that continues. 391 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:21.160 Like whatever political issues you know between the administration and 392 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:24.599 I'll leave that to the political folks, but from a 393 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:27.720 military standpoint, we want the best in the brightest come 394 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.720 to the United States and. 395 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:29.440 We want to take them. 396 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:31.599 We want to we want to basically steal them. 397 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:32.519 And I don't mean kidnapping. 398 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:35.480 But you know, if you look at the top ten 399 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:38.359 you know tech companies in the United States. I just 400 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.359 heard this morning, five of them are run by immigrants 401 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.200