So you still think they have enough ammo? Do you? You think they have enough ammo if this guy did that play? No, you don't do that play if you have enough ammo or you expect to. You do that play when you know you're not getting any ammo.

Now the other possibility is Putin doesn't want the Wagner group to win. Have you ever thought of that? Putin might need this Prigozhin guy to lose. You know why? Because Prigozhin is, I would assume, his biggest competitor to take over. Prigozhin could probably kill Putin maybe even faster than Putin can kill him. So I've got a feeling that the last thing Putin wants to do is make Prigozhin a huge war hero by having enough assets to win, whatever that looks like, winning in Ukraine. It's entirely possible Putin is playing to lose. It might be his best play. Because if Wagner and Prigozhin win the war for Putin, I think Prigozhin's your new leader of Russia or at least he's got a path to it. Putin can't live with that. Putin I think would rather lose the war than win it and make Prigozhin the hero of the war because he'd have to kill him immediately. Maybe that's hard. Why play at all then? Well I don't think that Putin expected to be in this position. I think he expected to knock out Ukraine fairly quickly. Nobody's a big hero because it was easy. It only took us a week. Yeah we'll give you a medal but that's not a big deal, right? Anybody could have done it. It only took us a week. But once it became nearly impossible, once it became nearly impossible all the calculation changes. And then Putin's just trying to stay in power. Staying in power means you don't have somebody who's competitive with you for public opinion. So this is an interesting development to me. It looks like Russia couldn't possibly win from their current set point.

So I'll say that again. This was clear any time prior to today. If you had said yeah it could go either way I would have agreed with you. Any time prior to today you could, I would say it was a coin flip. I don't know, could go either way. As of today Putin has only a losing position. I don't think he has any possibility of anything that looks like a win. Now it could be that we start negotiating before the Wagner group is completely gone. We might. But I feel like Ukraine is just going to push Russia out of all that territory now. I didn't think that even yesterday. Even yesterday I didn't believe that. But as of today I think they're going to take it all back because they can't.

Here's a comment on Locals who's still trying to figure out why Scott is so consistently carrying the deep state's water on this topic. You know if you were not a Locals subscriber I would call you an idiot but I guess I am anyway. My God. I mean seriously. I look like I'm carrying the deep state's water? Like that's your best opinion on what's happening here? You should be embarrassed by that. That's stupid. Just stupid. And I have to swear when I have these situations. Joe says I'm lying for my World Economic Forum masters. At such a low level of analysis. Oh you're working for Soros now? No, you're an idiot. Oh you work for the World Economic Forum? No, nope, you're an idiot. Oh you're working for the deep state now? Nope. And I hate to repeat myself but you're an idiot, right? None of that's happening. It's the lowest level of understanding right there. The lowest level. You should quit this platform. You're not qualified to be on the Locals subscription platform. That's just too dumb. Honestly you should be embarrassed about that.

All right. I think I made my point. I was quite blunt. Thanks Maddie. No I'm not attacking the audience. I'm attacking the trolls. The audience I love. I will parrot it. Tucker Carlson, I actually respect my audience. You can tell, right? Can you tell? I don't respect the ridiculous trolls but I respect the audience a lot. Yeah, I think the audience is amazing and I do believe it's the smartest political audience. If somebody can tell me who they think is a smarter political audience I'm interested because I'd probably watch that content myself. But I'm not aware of any. I'm not aware of anybody who understands things better than this group.

Thoughts on Dr. Shiva running for Senate? So you know early in, was it early in the pandemic or something else, I had Dr. Shiva on my live stream. So Dr. Shiva is very smart. Yeah, multi-discipline education, etc. But I don't trust him. That's it. That's my whole opinion. Don't trust him.

All right. It happened. I don't remember which opinion it was but tweeted. Yeah now he does claim to have invented email and he has some backup for that claim. But you know it's sort of a subjective opinion whether he was an inventor or one of the people who was sort of involved in that area at the same time. Now my take is that his interest in publicity is a little too high. T