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re going to see the sky blackened with drones. I feel like there might be an enormous wave of drones that nobody's ever seen in warfare before that would only be unleashed if it's necessary. Otherwise maybe we'd keep this in our back pocket. But I feel like the Ukrainians would not be managing the drones if you know what I mean. So if you have one let's say master control to handle an army of dro…

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ones that changes the war doesn't it? I don't know how you would defend against it. There would just be too many. So yeah I think the thing that would keep us from doing it is that it would be too obvious that Americans were operating them. But that we would drop our worry that it's too obvious Americans are in the war directly. I think we would drop that objection the same way we dropped the what, F-16s? Oh we'll never give you these really good ones. Okay you can have them. Well we're never going to give you any of these HIMARS. Okay you're gonna need some HIMARS, right? So we don't give them anything until there's no choice and we're running up against the point where there will be no choice but to introduce a wave of drones that are operated by Americans who we will try to tell the Russians are non-Americans. But there's no way in hell a Ukrainian is going to be sitting at the control panel for you know 10,000 American drones operating as one. There's no way that's going to happen.

So anyway war is unpredictable. No did you hear Tucker is doing a story on Keith Olbermann? Cocking Phil Bump? I don't know is that real? It's coming from NPC court jester. That doesn't sound real.

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Oh a lucky Palmer or I'm sorry Palmer Luckey. Wait is it Lucky Palmer or Palmer Luckey? He's got two first names and two last names. I've actually talked to him and I'm forgetting which it is. But Andrew is his, who's telling me this. Well I've got a feeling of somebody who knows his proper name. All right so one kook attacking. They're already sitting in control of thousands of drones. Drones ev

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