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Well, Jen Psaki, spokesperson for Biden, is reportedly going to leave for MSNBC. She hasn't finalized a deal there. But the important thing to know is that according to people who know more than I do, NBC is maybe the closest network to the CIA's control, meaning that the most reliably CIA messaging entity. Now I don't know what the relationship is with the CIA, but people who know more than I do basically say they're in the bag for the CIA. And she's going to go work for them directly from the spokesperson job.
Does that bother you? Does that bother you at all that you worry that the deep state and whatever John Brennan is doing lately and all the former and current intel people are secretly running the government? And then you see somebody at that level of government go directly to MSNBC, which feels like it's in the bag. The CIA controls it, or at least for the stories they care about. Not the whole thing. And everything about this is icky. Everything about this is icky.
Now it's fully disclosed, but I almost have to ask the question: is she really changing jobs or is she just being transparent that she's always worked for MSNBC and the CIA? Because I don't even know if they change your direct deposit, do they? I'm just kidding, of course they do. But it feels like it's the same job. They just changed the title. Am I right? It feels like it's the same job. It's not a different job. It's the same job. That's the story. The story is she didn't change jobs. She changed job titles. Yeah, I'm exaggerating, but you get the point.
All right. Here's something that General Omar Bradley once said. He was an American general during World War II. And he's quoted as saying amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. Meaning that wars are won or lost based on whether you can resupply your military.
And CNN is still hammering on this idea that the Russian army is running out of fuel and food and everything. And there are other voices saying, ah, that's just complete propaganda. That's just Ukrainian propaganda. But let me ask you this: how many big fuel depots does the Russian military have within striking distance of the Ukrainian border?
Because the Ukrainians have apparently taken out one large fuel depot that fueled some percentage of the army on the eastern border, the Russian army. So here's the question for you. If it's true the Ukraine took out one large fuel depot, how many are there? How many are there? Because you know if there are three, Russia is totally, am I right? If there are only three, if they took out a third of their fuel, they're in real trouble.
Because remember, you don't have to take out all the fuel or all the food. If you take out 20, 30 percent of either the fuel or the food, there's chaos, right? They've got to do all kinds of stuff to adjust to that shortage and it's not going to be pretty. So you don't have to take it all the way. You just have to degrade it to the point where they're so ineffective that there's a cascade effect to collapse.
So I've asked you a very specific military question. Do you think anybody knows? First of all, can anybody make that kind of an estimate? And could anybody ask our military, do we have any idea how many large fuel depots are there? And can they quickly spin up a new one? In other words, has Russia already just sort of spun up a new fuel depot and it didn't even make a dent because they have plenty of fuel, they just have to get it to the right place?
So yeah. Define large. So here's the question. If there are 50 fuel depots of that size, the size that the Ukrainians allegedly destroyed, if there are 50 of them, well then Russia wins for sure because they're not going to run into fuel. Well what if there were three, right? Isn't that the right question? If there were only three, the Russian army's already in pretty bad shape because they just lost a third of their energy.
You're watching the wrong Ukraine movie, somebody says. What does not spin up a fuel depot? You need pipe welders, pipe fitters. Yeah, it can be easy, but I don't know. Maybe they just have giant tanks of fuel and they can move them wherever they want. I don't know if you need a gigantic tank to put the smaller tanks into or temporarily. Maybe you don't.
All right. So I'm going to say that I am unconvinced that logistics alone will be the decider in Ukraine. But I think it's at least a 50 percent chance that the big story will be logistics.
By the way, here's a little history lesson that I also learned by the CNN article. That the mistake that Hitler made attacking Russia was that he thought it would be fast and he did not develop his supply lines correctly. He only developed supply lines. And actually clothing, warm weather or cold weather clothing, was not even sufficient for the war. So huge numbers of German troops just froze to death or got frostbite because they couldn't even supply them with warm jackets. They never planned for that.
Somebody says and Napoleon too. Well so is the winter plus the supply line? Although the winter seemed like a bigger factor for Napoleon. So well I suppose it's always supply because you could survive any winter if you had enough supply. So yeah, I guess it's supply.
I don't know. I've been saying since the beginning that the Ukrainians can take out the supply lines. And we're learning more about their kamikaze drones. But then I heard they only had a hundred of them. What the hell good are 100 kamikaze drones? You're not going to win a war with a hundred. I feel like you need, I don't know, 5,000. So how fast could we make these things? Is somebody cranking out some more?
Yeah, 100 to start maybe. Yeah, these are the Switchblades. So it's the little drones you can launch from your backpack or carry the backpack. It's a little drone and it just goes up and hovers for 15 minutes until it finds something and then it dives in and destroys it. That's a pretty devastating psychological weapon. Like knowing that there's one hovering around you and it's just picking out which person to kill. I think I'll kill the people in that truck. Very psychologically devastating.
So we don't know how many fuel depots there are and
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we don't know how many of these Switchblade drones there are. But I would say that those two numbers are the only numbers that will tell you what's going to happen. So I'm boiling it down. The only thing that will tell you what's happening is how many drones do the Ukrainians have? We don't know. And how much fuel do the Russians have? We don't know. The only two things that matter and we don't kn…
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