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Academy Awards got better ratings. The media got clicks. I had something to talk about. You were entertained. Is this the weirdest situation in the world? Literally everybody came out ahead. I'm not wrong about that right? I mean you know Chris Rock suffered one slap and then sold four times as many tickets and got rich and he's more relevant than he's ever been. And I don't know it looks like he…
← Previous segment →eople will do to survive. So I suppose they would just start raping the Ukrainian countryside but even that would be the army falling apart because even to rape and pillage they'd probably disperse.
So what do you think? If you had to guess is any significant part of the Russian military force near a culmination point? Well I'm guessing now if near means in the next month I'd say no. And if it takes longer than that then Russia will just find new ways to get supplies I suppose. So it looks like there's something about this situation where everybody can resupply but if you can't resupply quickly or well maybe you can keep limping along to do a peace deal without reaching your culmination point.
So here's a story I read in one publication, I forget which one I think it was a British publication, that one of the reasons that Ukraine is doing such a good job of defense is drones. But not the big ones. Not the kind that come from Turkey and they look like a big rocket. I'm talking about the little ones that you might have at home. So apparently there was some effort in Ukraine that was fairly advanced to sort of self-organize all the people who knew about drones, military or non-military didn't matter. And they formed some kind of a quasi-drone air force of small drones and they cobbled together in various ways and different models. And part of the story said they were having trouble getting parts because of things are banned in certain countries. To which I thought that doesn't make sense because NATO would just give them the parts. I mean if it's a military thing I can't imagine that those restrictions would be permanent. If we wanted to arm Ukraine we could certainly get them some hobby drone parts I think.
But the story goes that that little unit with the well-trained people that were part of it would go out on some kind of four-wheeled vehicles at night. They'd have their night vision. Small drones spotting stuff and they would blow up the most strategic things. So they blow up whoever is in front and then once they slow things down they'd look to pick off colonels and officers and supply trucks and stuff that sort of thing. So if you can pick and choose after you slow them down you basically can just stop a whole convoy. And it looks like to some extent maybe they did.
Now remember every story that comes out of this region has to be suspect. It's all propaganda fog. But it's what I was expecting to hear. So remember I'll tell you this too many times you'll be sick of it. I think I was the only person I know of, there had to be more but only what I heard, saying that the Ukrainians would be unusually effective because of new technology that we had not seen employed before. This is that. Now if this is true that's a big if. This would be a clear case of smaller drones being deployed in a way that had never been used this effectively before. Yes small drones have been used for a long time but not like this. So it's more about the way they're using it and effectively building a drone air force attack unit to strategically attack things.
Now here's the thing that I found fascinating. You wondered how the small drones could get through because of course Russia would have jamming stuff to be able to jam the signal right? But apparently the strategy is they wait for the Russians to launch their own drones because apparently you can't really have a convoy in 2022 without your own drones. And you would kill your own drones if you send out some kind of suppressing signal. So the Ukrainians would wait for the suppressing signal to be turned off which means the Russians are launching their own drones which means you can launch your drones. So they've got this whole drone electronic battle going on that is, and I'll say again I don't know if we're really reading the actual tactics of a thing happening or is total, it could be like the ghost of Kiev and all the rest it could be complete. But it sure sounds right. Sounds good.
All right. Ukraine allegedly, and here's another maybe fake news story, allegedly fired some artillery into Russian territory and at least one report, and I don't think any of this is confirmed or even reliable, it may have been a weapons depot or ammunition depot or something like that. But here's my question. Why is Ukraine waiting so long to attack Russia? Who made the rule that only Russia can attack inside Ukraine by Ukraine's military which must have some capability? Why can't they attack Russia? I've never really understood that. Is it because Putin will get mad? I mean he acts like he's kind of mad right now a little bit. Somebody says no ability but that seems so unlikely. Are you telling me that they can't even get a terrorist attack into Moscow? Not recommending it. Not recommending it. I don't recommend violence but I'm wondering about the strategy. Because if the problem is that the Russian citizens are not getting the message of what's happening over there how do you send the message? That's how I'd send it if I were an unscrupulous leader and didn't care about casualties. I would start blowing stuff up in Moscow anyway I could through individual agents you know because I got to be honest you don't have to blow up things like the twin towers with spectacular attacks. I'm pretty sure and I don't want to get into details and you shouldn't either but with no exaggeration whatsoever I'm pretty sure I could take out a city by myself. Am I wrong? It wouldn't be that hard I don't think. I think I actually could. Now I'm not going to tell you how I would do it. It wouldn't be straightforward but yeah I mean yeah it's doable right? I don't want to give you ideas but all I want you to do those of you who say it can't be done just look at the comments from the people saying yes. The people saying yes have already figured out how to do it. The people saying no it's just that you haven't figured out how to do it.
And I've never understood why the Islamic terrorists who are the extremists, I've never understood why they only do attacks one way because it's so limiting when they could just take out a whole city pretty easily. Nobody does it. I don't know why. All right well don't get your ideas from me but I don't u
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nderstand why Ukraine isn't doing it. There must be some strategy behind that. And here's some Disney fake news. I've been ignoring this whole Florida don't say gay bill because it's not really don't say gay. So I guess the bill in Florida that schools will not be allowed to teach anything about sexuality to kids below a certain age. Is that true? Did I summarize that correctly? Because I'm not r…
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