Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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of power. Do you all know who Malcolm Nance is? He had been until recently one of the voices or contributors on MSNBC. If you don't know who Malcolm Nance is the story won't be nearly as funny. But apparently he quit MSNBC and he joined the Ukrainian International Legion to go fight for Ukraine. Now he was in, apparently he's a Navy veteran. I guess he was a linguist or something. I don't know if…

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hing. Translation as a translator. What languages does he speak? Does anybody know what language Malcolm Nance speaks? He probably speaks a few languages I'm guessing.

Anyway I don't even know what to say about that story. All I can say is if you know him and if you know the things he said on MSNBC he is one of the consistently crazy sounding people. Like in a scale of one to Keith Olbermann, you know where Olbermann would be like the top of the crazy scale. He'd be sort of a full Olbermann. You know some people would be like a half Olbermann but he'd be like a full Olbermann. We'll talk about him a little bit too.

Remember I told you that if you wanted to predict who's going to win in Ukraine that the only number that matters at this point would be the number of Switchblade and other drones they have. And I said if they have enough drones, and presumably they could train people fairly quickly to use them, I don't know how long it takes. If your life depends on it how long does it take to learn how to use a drone? A day? I don't know. So 300 Switchblade drones are being sent to Ukraine. So how many Switchblade drones? These would be things which can hover over a target for several minutes I guess or half an hour or ten minutes, whatever it is, and get a really good idea of what's down there before they dive down and destroy it. But they're suicide drones so you get to use them once but they're pretty good. But it's like one and done.

So now they have the ability to make 300 Russian assets explode including maybe some assassinations of generals or whatever. Would 300 successful attacks change the course of the war? I don't think so. Right now it wouldn't even be like a dent because when the Russians do these bombing runs aren't they doing thousands and thousands? By the time Russia is done how many bombing runs will they have made? Like 30,000 or something? It's a g

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igantic number isn't it because they're just continually going. So it seems to me that if the numbers we're looking at is hundreds, the low hundreds of drones, then Russia gets what it wants. Am I right? Somebody says they've done 1,500 missile strikes that Russia has and the missiles are just being a small percentage of the blow-up stuff they're sending over there. The exploding stuff. All right…

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