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just means you have a military. If your military has not prepared for every likely or even potential war, they're not really doing their job. So would it make sense, even if we had no intention of starting a war, would it make sense for us to move a bunch of weapons into US control away from Ukraine? And the answer is it probably makes sense to move those weapons. But it also makes a good warning…

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ke they're changing their focus to us." But it could be unrelated.

Russia is apparently increasing their offensive into Ukraine and they're going into the Dnipro region. Now, if you're wondering how to pronounce that correctly, that's why you come to me. It's called the Dnipro region and that's very important. And apparently it's just above Crimea, somebody said. So if you were walking toward the center of Ukraine, you'd start in Crimea and then you would have to pass through the Dnipro region and Russia really wants that apparently. So it's making a major push to try to get it. So that sort of suggests that Putin is not planning for peace anytime soon. One more thing about the Russian incursion. Do you think the Ukrainians are saying to themselves, you know what we'd really could use right now? 20,000 anti-drone missiles. That would really help us right now.

I always tell you these stories about electric batteries that are new technology. I don't tell you all of them because there's probably more than one of them every day. And when I do tell you about them, I remind you it's not that this particular one is going to become the standard in the future. But once you get a sense of how many battery-related breakthroughs there are, like just major breakthroughs, then you just add to that all you need is some big car company to want to use t

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hat technology and operationalize it. But Interesting Engineering is talking about a new battery breakthrough, a Serbian company. So they've got this battery that you can get an 80% charge in 12 minutes and it will last 310,000 miles. I mean that's the lifespan of the battery and it can charge that 80% in just 12 minutes. 12 minutes. That's pretty impressive. Anyway, so the battery stuff is what t…

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