Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #2986 Segments
NewsReaction General Commentary

Back to episode — Episode 2986 CWSA 10/12/25

Context —

if it came from that gun and it definitely wouldn't have left that hole. Now, I hate that every single freaking thing that looks like it's simple turns into a conspiracy theory, but how do you get past those facts coming from somebody as qualified as Rob O'Neill? Which one of you is going to say, "Oh, based on my own Seal Team Six up close murders, not murders, but kills. Based on my own up close…

← Previous segment →

ne actually has they're turning the corner on having an advantage in the war. The advantage is that now that it seems to be purely a robot war, you know, drones mostly, that whoever does the best on drones will win the war so long as they can stay in business long enough to do that. Now, it does look like the human deaths on the front line may be lessened because they're just doing drone on drone on drone stuff. I don't hear too much about people dying on the front line anymore, so I assume the numbers are smaller. And it really is turning into drones against energy production in both directions. It's their drones against energy, their drones against energy. So that's what it is. But the Ukraine advantage, according to this one gentleman whose name I didn't write down because I'm a bad person, is that the freer market system of Ukraine will guarantee that they have the better drones over time and that's happening now. So that we're just turning the corner, you know, at first the first two years Ukraine is just desperately trying to get some kind of anything that works. So they're using whatever drones they can get. You know, they're not good ones, but they keep upgrading the drones. So the Ukrainian drones are getting to the point and they're right at the point where they won't be jammable by GPS and they'll be able to make unlimited numbers of them. Once they're not jammable and they can just darken the sky with them, then you'd say, "Oh, but Russia will just catch up." So they'll have better things for shooting them down. They'll have their own drones, you know, their own drones will be that powerful. But Russia has not modernized their drones as fast. And the reason given is that they have a system which does not reward entrepreneurship the same way we do or the same way Ukraine does. So the Ukrainians are trying to get rich and also save their country. And they have the freedom to get rich in whatever way can make the best drones. And the Russians are just going to get a paycheck. You know, if they work on trying to make a better drone and they succeed, just a paycheck doesn't really save the country. They're not going to get rich. So the theory is that the incentives for the Ukrainian side is to rapidly innovate and that will be the most important factor for how the war goes and that we're just turning the corner where Ukraine is going to turn on the afterburners for innovation in drones and that that will turn the corner. Now, of course, Russia has the big advantage in human power, the big advantage in missiles and all that. So a lot of this is psychological. It's not so much which each what each side could do because what Russia could do is nuke all of Ukraine if they wanted to. So Russia clearly has the weapons to just pave the place if they want to. But would they want to? Because what would happen to them?

So it looks like Axios is reporting that Trump is going to be talking to Zelensky about Tomahawk missiles and if the US provides them that would be paid for by the Europeans. Because Trump has cleverly gotten us out of the paying. The fact that Trump got us out of paying for Ukraine is one of the great accomplishments. I don't think he gets enough credit for that because as long as we're not paying for it and we're selling things instead of giving things, I feel a lot better about it. It'd be better without the war, of course. But Trump's made the decision, I think, to give them Tomahawk missiles, but he wants to talk to them about how they use them. And what I think he means by that is if you use these Tomahawks to take out their energy structure, I'll let you have them because that's just more of what you're already doing. And he's doing the same thing to you. So that would look like something that wouldn't necessarily escalate things too much because it's sort of what you're already doing, attacking the energy infrastructure. But imagine if Zelensky said, "Aha, I've got some Tomahawk missiles. I'm going to lob

Context —

these into the Kremlin and take out the leadership." That I believe would be a big big problem for the United States because we're not ready for that. So I assume that what he's going to do is say if you could limit these to taking out energy resources, you might be able to wrap this up quickly because if you took out probably, I'm just going to guess if you took out another 20% of Russia's domest…

Next segment → →