t. For the whoever's trickling in at the end there's nothing I say about Ukraine that you should assume comes from a credible source. There's nothing I say about Russia that you should assume comes from a credible source. A hundred percent of everything out of Ukraine is not reliable. It's all fog of war. But to talk about it I'm going to talk about it like I have some credibility because it's just easier to talk that way. So don't confuse the way I talk about it with the belief that I believe anything coming out of that area. Right, I'm the person who is more skeptical than you are. You cannot get left of me on skepticism, right? If you think that you're watching me being gullible and you not, you are mistaken. There must be some context you're missing because there's no way you will ever get more skeptical than me about anything. So don't even think that that's happened.

All right anyway if you believed the information that we're getting and you shouldn't, it all indicates the same direction. Now I do think there might be something to all of the clues being in the same direction. If you saw mixed signals you know Russia won this one, Ukraine won this one, that you should completely discount. It's not reliable. But even the Russians haven't been able to come up with a story about something they won recently. Am I wrong? Even the Russians are saying they're retreating. The only things Russians have said about the actual war is that they retreated and they admitted they retreated. There's zero stories where Russia says but okay we retreated over here but look what we did over here. Apparently Russia has less control of Ukraine than they did in February when they had a lot. But again it doesn't mean anything does it? You know anything could change four weeks from now. We could find out that Putin had a secret plan and he just cuts Ukraine in half. It could happen. It doesn't look like it.

Here's some data. Again do not believe any data out of there. Do not believe it. I'm just reporting it. According to official data from the EU, Georgia and Kazakhstan around 220,000 Russians have fled across the border since the partial mobilization. And it's a huge increase over prior periods. And independent Russian media says that 261,000 men of military age have left the country. 261,000 men of military age got the out of Russia. And the only reason it's not all of them is because Russia's borders got closed. Otherwise they'd all be gone. Why would anybody fight for that war? Seriously why would anybody fight Ukrainians in Ukraine?

You got two nephews out. Yeah so how can the population, the citizens of Russia, I think they could ignore Ukraine when it first started because it was people who were already in the military and they were just doing their thing somewhere and it was on the news and that was it. But now as people in their family who left the country, if somebody that you know personally left the country then that's a whole different level of how it affects you mentally especially if it's a family member.

So I say that time is on the side of the Ukrainians as long as they have infinite borrowed U.S. money which apparently they will. And as I was saying in the man cave last night have you noticed that the Republicans seem to be completely on board with funding Ukraine? Sort of quietly they were completely on board. Here's my interpretation. The reason that the Republicans are quietly on board is that they know more than we do. And I think what they know is that the entire Russian military is ready to fold. I think the entire military of Russia is about ready to collapse. And I think that that's the play. I think the Republicans are planning to bring down the Russian military because they think it's close enough that it's worth a try. Now that doesn't mean it's guaranteed but I think that the reporting that they're getting, given that the Russians are barely even fighting back at this point, they don't seem to have any military c