Zelensky Permitted russia's Parade. Here's What Happened.

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Sorry for uh being a little late, but I want to tell you a joke today. Not a funny joke. A joke about power. About what power actually is and what happens when it runs out of things to hide behind.

[00:00:23]On May 9th, 1945, the Soviet Union declared victory over Nazi Germany. 81 years of parades followed in Russia. 81 years of tanks rolling through the Red Square. 81 years of missiles aimed at the sky. 81 years of Russia telling the world the same thing over and over.

[00:00:49]that we are untouchable, so powerful.

[00:00:54]Yeah. Until this morning, because this morning, Putin stood up on top of Lean's tomb in front of the most fortified square on Earth for today and watch soldiers march past him. just soldiers.

[00:01:15]No tanks, no missiles, no nuclear capable yards launchers rolling past his feet, no T14 Amiraas, no drones on trucks, nothing. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Russia held a Victory Day parade with zero military hardware.

[00:01:36]Zero.

[00:01:38]And Putin stood there and he said the words he always says. He said, "Victory has always been ours and it always will be."

[00:01:52]Will be.

[00:01:54]Not is not. We've won. Will be.

[00:01:59]4 years into a war that was supposed to last 72 hours, Putin is still talking about the future victory.

[00:02:08]But here's the joke.

[00:02:10]You know why this parade even happened at all?

[00:02:16]Well, because Ukraine said so. It allowed it. And I'm not speaking metaphorically. I mean literally.

[00:02:25]The night before this parade, Mir Zilinski, the president of a country Russia has been bombing for four years, signed an official presidential decree, decree number 374 of 2026.

[00:02:51]And I want to read this to you.

[00:02:54]By the way, humor is an underrated weapon in the arsenal against fascism.

[00:03:02]So the decree reads, "Taking into account numerous requests for humanitarian purposes, I hereby decree the holding of a parade in the city of Moscow Russian Federation on May 9th, 2026 shall be permitted permitted by Ukraine in Russia's own capital on Russian soil.

[00:03:36]And then this is the part that broke the internet. Zilinski listed the GPS coordinates of the red square. And we have the coordinates as well.

[00:03:50]Four coordinates. The exact perimeter of the red square.

[00:03:56]That is the protected zone. That is all.

[00:03:59]The rest of Russia, the rest of Moscow, Ukraine made no promises.

[00:04:07]Now, I know what some people said when they first saw this. It's just a meme.

[00:04:12]It's social media trolling. It doesn't mean anything. And to those people, with the greatest respect, I want to explain exactly why they are wrong.

[00:04:26]A drone attack on Red Square would have been a waste of hardware. That's true.

[00:04:33]There are refineries, airfields, and missiles factories still to incinerate.

[00:04:40]Ukraine doesn't need to blow up Red Square because blowing up the myth is worth more than blowing up the square itself.

[00:05:02]Think about what Putin has built his entire regime on. Not policies, not economics, not democratic legitimacy.

[00:05:11]The myth of Russian invincibility.

[00:05:16]The idea that Russia is the rightful heir to the greatness of 1945.

[00:05:22]That Russia defeated fascism. That Russia cannot be touched, cannot be broken, cannot be humiliated. By the way, Russia itself did not defeat fascism. It was former USSR like Ukraine, which by the way, more Ukrainians suffered than Russians.

[00:05:43]Russia was actually a very of Russians was a very very small part of the big picture.

[00:05:51]of the Red Army.

[00:05:56]But let's get back to it. Every tank that rolled through Red Square for 81 years was proof of that myth.

[00:06:04]And Silanski with four GPS coordinates and a presidential seal didn't just poke holes in a myth. He annexed it. He took the most sacred piece of Russian political theater on earth and turned it into Ukrainian approved event.

[00:06:22]Russia has spent a decade claiming Ukraine is not a real country, not a real state, not a sovereign.

[00:06:31]A Ukrainian president just issued an executive decree governing what happens what happens on Russian soil.

[00:06:43]Russia's entire justification for this war is denazification, fighting fascism, protecting World War II memory.

[00:06:54]Putin needed permission from the Nazis to celebrate defeating the Nazis.

[00:07:02]Can't make this up. Wartime humor does not argue. It changes the context itself. Whereas fact-checking treats an opponent seriously, humor makes them ridiculous.

[00:07:18]That is precisely what decree 3774 did. It didn't argue with Putin's mythology.

[00:07:26]It made it ridiculous.

[00:07:30]But, and this is where Zilinski's genius goes beyond the joke. It wasn't just mockery. It was anchored to something real because tied to this decree was a deal brokered by Trump ceasefire and a thousand Ukrainian prisoners of war coming home.

[00:07:56]1,000 Ukrainians in Russian captivity coming home.

[00:08:02]Some of them were tortured. Some of them were missing for years.

[00:08:06]They're coming home.

[00:08:08]Zilinski said it himself. Red Square is less important to us than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners who can be returned home. That's not a punchline. That's a president.

[00:08:23]He's got the joke. He's got the prisoners. And he's got the moral high ground. He got global press coverage that every newsroom on Earth ran. And Putin got a video on a screen where the missiles used to be this declaration 374 unmasked Putin and upstaged Trump actually.

[00:08:51]So when you watch the clips today, the soldiers marching, the empty space where the tanks should be, the screens playing pre-recorded highlights of Russian military power because the actual hardware is either in ashes or stuck in Ukrainian mud or been blown up. But remember that parade happened because Ukraine allowed it which may also be very well be their last parade.

[00:09:25]So enjoy your little parade. Fleamer flight Ukraine signed the permit.

[00:09:32]I'm Slavi. This is Slava Cast World at War. Um thank you so much for being here.

[00:09:38]>> Oh yeah. So, I in in the chat before the show, I I messaged and I said, "I heard there's going to be a surprise guest."

[00:09:50]>> I wonder who.

[00:09:51]>> Yeah. Yeah. So, um Yeah. So, basically, like we here in Ukraine, as I'm sure you could know or guess, like we've seen this song and dance before, okay? like, "Oh, it's a ceasefire." That that I will believe that when I smell it, okay?

[00:10:09]Because how many times have has one ceasefire or another been declared and like as the ceasefire is being declared, missiles are flying through the sky, you know?

[00:10:21]So, all of my guys are on alert. I, you know, at any moment I could get messages, hey, we need some support. I I have I have a whole team of engineers, you know. Of course, um I'm in charge of the fiber optic uh drones and we make all of our own spools. Okay. So, the the the fiber that goes underneath the drone. A very complex process and um all kinds of things can go wrong. We have to be right there. I'm in contact with the pilots who are out on the front lines uh to make sure that you know uh whi when as inevitably they will the zombies start coming in uh we're ready for them you know.

[00:11:04]>> Yeah. Uh for sure.

[00:11:07]Yeah. I they hit kindergarten.

[00:11:10]>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Normal kindergarten bus a bus full of kindergarteners. And let me tell you, in order to do that, I know I know where that that bus was hit in in Denipro. Um, and they had to fly over multiple uh legitimate military targets to hit that bus full of children, okay, in in Denipro uh this past week. Uh similarly in Crmaturators a week ago.

[00:11:38]Okay. Um you you remember the the very first I think it was a missile to hit Crammaturk and it killed that that journalist. I can't remember her name.

[00:11:49]Famous famous famous journalist. This was like in 22. Okay. And it was like the first major civilian uh you know attack on Krammaturk. Okay.

[00:12:03]a week ago, they hit the same place again. This is it's an abandoned place now. It's just there's lots of people walking past going to the grocery store and stuff, living their lives. And and they hit it again right like 10 meters away from this abandoned building. Um that's in no way, shape, or form a military target. You can go and watch the videos on like Telegram and and Twitter and and it's a bunch, you know, there's grandmas laying in I mean unalived in the street. It's awful. So, you know, the only thing I can say is thank God the the orcs are dumb, you know, because be because I it's terrible what they're doing, but because they're stupid, we are succeeding.

[00:12:52]you know, >> there was um Yeah, absolutely. So, it's a it's a blessing that they're so goddamn stupid.

[00:13:01]>> You know, I'm not saying that the the Ukrainian military or even my unit is perfect either, but we're smarter than them and that's what counts.

[00:13:13]>> Absolutely. Um there was a video this week and it was a oh it like it broke my heart. I was balling uh seeing it but it was this >> a grandma by foot was escaping. She was all by herself with like >> with nothing. So she was like like walking through the middle of a forest.

[00:13:36]>> Yeah.

[00:13:37]>> Um >> trying trying to you know save herself.

[00:13:40]Yeah.

[00:13:41]>> And um and then there's a ground robot that comes and it was Ukrainian military. But how are they going to tell how you know to get on the robot to so but so they left like a sign on the robot grandma sit down.

[00:13:58]>> Yeah. See I didn't see the video. All I saw was the after picture of this grandma riding on this ground drone.

[00:14:04]This this babusia you know was awesome actually.

[00:14:08]>> And it said grandma sit down. And and she did. She got on it and but it's just >> Yeah, that was that was rad as hell. I I I now I want to go back and watch the video because I just saw the end result of this, you know, grandma running.

[00:14:24]That's great. It was really great.

[00:14:28]James. Um, coming back to this parade, um, I know that, you know, the the Russians were scared that they were going to Ukraine was going to, um, send a drone to the parade. But that was never quite the plan, though, I think, because >> all the air defense was accumulated around the Red Square and around like Putin So it gives it gave Ukraine a nice window to get to the spots where they moved that air defense.

[00:15:06]>> Yep. Yep. Like like I said that, you know, we're after uh military, you know, targets and part they're we're after Russia's militaryindustrial complex. Okay. We're not going after grandmas and buses full of school children like like the Russians are. and and okay, yeah, it we could probably could hit red square and penetrate through all, but far better to, you know, bluff them into surrounding, pulling all of their air defense back into a big circle around Moscow so that we can hit Marupul, okay, logistics in Marupople, which as you know, Azovv uh is doing now. Not my unit. I'm I'm sorry to say, but uh I'm I'm very proud and happy to to uh to see it. Um I don't know if you've saw those videos. It's amazing.

[00:16:05]>> Yeah.

[00:16:06]>> Uh James, we actually have questions coming in for you.

[00:16:09]>> Oh.

[00:16:10]>> Um >> cool.

[00:16:11]>> We have a question from Yogi.

[00:16:16]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good old Yogi. Yeah.

[00:16:18]It's back from my old live streams. I remember you well. Yes, indeed. Uh, how are how am I I see one question. How are you prioritizing your work right now?

[00:16:27]Uh, yeah, it's a it's a good question.

[00:16:29]Um so since the 1st of January is so when I started really spinning up this uh fiber optic laboratory finally and so that is that has been the priority and and remains um that because um you know it was a component I wouldn't say it was missing but we just weren't getting enough of the right kind of fiber drones and it's something our battalion really needed and so they asked me uh to do that. So I assembled recruited and assembled a team of engineers you they had to go through the full you know as of full like assaulter training remember like that's the thing just because you're a drone engineer doesn't mean you don't have to go through the whole special forces training they did two months of assault training and then they come to and the thing is is these are like engineers but they're not necessarily drone engineers so they have like electronics background, electrical engineering, that sort of thing. Now I have to and then fiber optics, that's a whole other kettle of fish that I had to learn. So I spent this in preparation for this, right? I spent this past fall starting in like August um training learning myself. I mean, I'm a network and systems engineer in this was my career in the United States. I've dealt with I've terminated thousands and thousands of fiber optics. But I had to get that training myself so that I could direct this group uh of and we had uh nine uh engine nine people total including myself um engineers and uh to to get this ramped up and now uh we I can't tell you what our output is. That's actually obviously operational security. The the most important thing is that all of this all of this has been done almost entirely with donations from you know some of a lot of your viewers here like Yogi and and Salt of the Red Earth uh donations on uh my website yukraine.com I either you know you'll see a link there that goes directly to as of international battalion or you can donate directly to buy equipment and things for my laboratory there as well.

[00:18:47]If if you're if >> Yes. And we'll definitely be pushing your links um on this channel. It's not just this live stream. Um we'll we'll do that. And >> yeah, that's I appreciate it. I appreciate it. and um uh you know but so so the the fiber optics remain a priority but it's also important to reme remember that that's it's fiber optic drones are not the the great uh um cure for all problems that they were put out to be and I knew that but you know a year or two ago that they were going to defeat all everything and you know that that was never gonna that was never going to be a thing. Uh it's a tool in the toolbox. That's the way to to understand uh fiber optic drones. It's when you need them, you really need them and that's the only thing that's going to work. That's that's the key. So that's what makes them a priority. Now, now that we've now that we're stable, we moved into a new much more expanded um much more expanded uh laboratory than we had before. Now we're able to maybe branch out into other things. We just did our first uh drone training camp for new pilots in our battalion. So, we have a whole bunch of uh uh I wish I could send you one, Slavi, but we got a whole bunch of donated uh laptops and computers, and we're able to run like high-end military uh simulators on these things for for, you know, drone simulators where they're actually able to fly simulated missions and do all this type of stuff. And this is really improving the skills of our uh of our pilots, you know. So that's that's the stuff I can tell you about. Let's put it that way.

[00:20:38]>> Yeah. Uh what's uh what would you say is kind of the next in um Ukraine's amazing uh drone tech development?

[00:20:48]What's like the next like big thing that's going to >> Well, you know about you know about ground drones obviously, right? Um and but the thing is just uh integrating uh ground drones with in a combined arms warfare sort of a way using these systems in conjunction with each other is is the big change that that uh Ukraine needs to make. Okay. And and I would say that like like 2025 was like the year of fiber drones. I would say 2026 is kind of the year of the interceptor. Okay. Um but the year of ground drones is still coming. Okay. And I think that what Ukraine is going to have to do I know Ukraine is training like assault brigades kind of on the Azovv uh uh third army core kind of model. Um, Ukraine's going to have to learn how to integrate ground drones with in infantry assaulters because I know Fedorov is talking about replacing infantry with ground drones. Yes. But it'll never happen completely or at least not for a long time. Um, they they're going to have to learn how to operate together and it'll be very interesting to see how that takes place.

[00:22:10]But in a more immediate sense, the next thing that Fedorov is talking about um is um and I don't want to go too much into OBSC, but but Feedov is talking about uh extending the range of of radio frequency drones uh punching through the REB, punching through the electronic warfare and being able to use those uh radio frequency drones at a much at a much further distance in a contested battlefield space. And that is the real next thing that's coming um and coming fast. Um, and that has to do with uh opening up more frequencies. Um, getting you more Ukrainian manufacturers of like antennas, for example, uh, operating at at more frequencies and more sophisticated and miniaturized antennas like phased array antennas with like beam forming and all kinds of stuff like that. So, >> what about um I remember reporting on uh humanoid robots. Is that going to be a thing soon?

[00:23:19]>> I think that's way overblown.

[00:23:22]I know that there's talk. First of all, what's the actual battlefield advantage?

[00:23:28]Even the robot dogs. Okay.

[00:23:31]Other than, you know, I mean, they they look cute or scary depending on how you I mean, there's a psychological effect, right? Right. I mean, you can send them instead of people.

[00:23:41]>> Yeah. But you can also send a wheeled ground drone in most cases. And in most cases, a wheeled ground drone with a turret mounted on it is going to do most of the jobs. And the then after that maybe maybe a robot dog. See, it's like these, you know, uh, if you've ever seen the cartoons or video games with like these mech warriors, you know, with these towering robots that are controlled by people and they that that is like >> Yeah, of course. Right. Um Um, I can't remember Pacific Rim. That's the movie I'm thinking of, right?

[00:24:17]>> And they, you know, skyscraper size things. There's no point to that. All you've got is a big target. If you go vertical, you're just making a giant target. Okay. So, so a human a humanoid, even as a as a soldier, um you know, I'm tall, right? I'm I'm I'm 6' three, okay?

[00:24:40]And I have to if I if I'm going to go out to the front, it's been a while since I've been out to the to the blendage in the trenches. Uh but I got to work on my my squats, man. Am I crab walking? Okay. Because you know, you don't want your head sticking up over the crab walking.

[00:24:59]>> Crab. Crab walking.

[00:25:00]>> Yeah, crab. It's Well, it's like walking in a squat position essentially.

[00:25:04]>> Wow. Okay. So, actual crab walking.

[00:25:08]>> Yeah, that is a thing that I luckily didn't have to do in basic, but I know soldiers who uh in their units uh infantry units where that's something that they all had to train on and and learn on. I mean, look, you uh Slavic peoples are genetically predisposed to the you can squat better than anyone else in the world. Okay. No, no, seriously.

[00:25:31]>> I feel like there's going to be a joke in there and I know what it's going to be.

[00:25:34]>> I mean, I that's it. That's all that's something about sunflower seeds. I don't I don't know what. But but no, literally most Americans like the natural squat that you see Slavic people and like a lot of Asians do, >> most Americans can't even squat past like 90 degrees. Okay? And I see people in Ukraine, they don't like in America, if we if we are somewhere, we we stand around if we're just waiting for something. Here in Ukraine, everybody just squats. And I mean a full deep squat, you know? So just imagine going into the fullest, deepest squat you've ever done and then you have a gun in your hand and a bunch of armor on and you have to walk like six kilometers that way. That is the way uh some units in the Ukrainian army have to train.

[00:26:20]>> Wow.

[00:26:21]>> But you know that the joke that's an actual joke that Slavic people can squat really well because in Soviet Union the toilet was just a hole in the ground.

[00:26:32]Oh, it still is in in my laboratory right now. We're uh we were supposed to get the we already bought the toilet, but we need to have a plumber come. And this is this is sad. The plumber got killed by a shahed >> literally killed by a shahad two weeks ago. Otherwise, we would have our a new toilet installed because we we've got one of my Okay, I hope none of my engineers are watching us. One of my engineers literally sitting on the Soviet toilet.

[00:27:06]He had to go to the hospital. He he he he got a prolapse. If you know what that is.

[00:27:12]>> No.

[00:27:14]>> Uh maybe maybe somebody in the chat can he basically gave himself like hemorrhoids from from a Soviet toilet.

[00:27:25]>> I thought I thought it would he fell or something like that.

[00:27:28]>> No. Well, that would have been better.

[00:27:31]That would have been safer probably.

[00:27:34]Yeah. No, he he was he was like walking around like like Donald Duck for a week >> because Yeah, I had to buy him a pillow.

[00:27:42]>> Um No, I didn't say relapse. I said I said prolapse. Um >> Okay.

[00:27:50]>> From from straining too hard and that Yeah, it's funny. When I was in basic uh training in the Legion, um that's all we had were those Soviet hole in the ground toilets. And all the foreigners, we called them the scary toilets. And uh my my commander in the barracks, he was a Canadian guy, and he had IBS, okay? And he also could not squat. I had I had a camp I had somebody donate to me a a camping toilet. Some Ukrainians, you know what a camping toilet is? It's a stool with a hole in the middle essentially. So, and this was like I got so like >> it's like for little kids like when they potty train like >> Yeah. But it's like it's like it's like a half meter tall. Yeah. Not not a tiny one like this. It's like a half meter tall.

[00:28:37]>> This is We have these in America call a camping toilet and you put a bag over it. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make here is I got out of I got away with so much stuff because my commander knew that that camping toilet was mine. And if I if I took away the camping toilet, he was literally in the [ __ ] If you excuse my expression. Uh yeah, that it's it's awful. Awful. It's a real adjustment for for Westerners, I can tell you.

[00:29:11]Yeah, but it's not I mean not all of the toilets in Ukraine are like that. It's mostly like in in rural areas.

[00:29:20]>> This is true. This is true.

[00:29:22]>> I mean, they say it's healthier though.

[00:29:24]They say it's healthier, >> you know, for your body or something.

[00:29:27]>> It is when you when you're going number two, it's healthier to have your your legs up >> like >> Well, is it I I'm so glad we got on this topic, Slavi. It's It's fantastic.

[00:29:42]As long as we're going to talk about Putin's parade, we might as well talk about this [ __ ] >> I mean, we're already talking about [ __ ] so >> Right. Right. It's like, you know, spitting on a fish.

[00:29:57]>> Yeah. So, what other questions does the audience have? Oh, yes. The Gopnik squat yogi. Exactly.

[00:30:12]I'm gonna I'm I'm getting a poll ready for the audience. So, >> cool. Cool.

[00:30:16]>> Let me see.

[00:30:18]>> Yeah. Salt of the red earth asks if uh a thousand prisoner exchange will happen.

[00:30:25]>> I think it will. I think it'll I think that'll happen. Yeah, >> I think um I mean if for no other reason then Russia is motivated to get more soldiers to send back to the front and that's exactly what they're going to do with those prisoners.

[00:30:38]>> I believe it did happen though. I um I have uh >> images from it.

[00:30:44]>> Mhm.

[00:30:44]>> Um >> Oh, just recently though.

[00:30:48]>> Yes.

[00:30:48]>> Like today >> it was it was actually I found those images um like in in Chinese media which was strange, >> but they might have been um facilitating it, >> we'll get to it in a little bit.

[00:31:09]>> Yeah.

[00:31:11]Yeah. So the uh the lab has been, you know, just getting things set up, getting things stabilized and and to be to be quite frank, um I mean, we were where we were, we were we had to be watching for FPVs every time we stepped out the door. Uh cabs falling all around us um every day. Um, and you know, now we're in a little bit safer place. Not entirely, but a little bit safer. And, and I think my engineers are are uh happy about that. Um, I see broadcast cat. Uh, can you let us know how the AI is working with the drones?

[00:31:57]Um, >> that's a good question.

[00:31:59]>> Yeah. So, so I think AI in a lot of ways is really overblown. Okay. And this is kind of like the question about about you know uh Terminator robots on the battlefield. Um it's um what a lot of people are calling AI is is really just more more should be called computer vision uh which is just recognizing pixels. Okay, this is technology that's been around since like 2010 in security camera systems. If you have a uh one of those bell cameras on your front door and it can tell the difference between, you know, like the mailman and a cat. Okay, that is effectively the same thing. It it just recognizes basic shapes. It matches pixels. Uh maybe it has a little more sophistic that's what it is. It just recognizes >> Yeah. Well, that's that's a whole other level of like recognition and and you know that's beyond comput just simple computer vision. um the like chat GBT and stuff that's you know that's talking about like and I I know people who are working on this stuff okay and they're telling me uh listen James when we when we have this ready you'll be able to send us a picture of a soldier and we'll hit him in his bedroom like that's the that's not you know pixel recognition that's going and tracing ing the the chat GBT or whatever, tracing him down on social media and finding his freaking home address. Like that's the level of that's a whole that's AI. Okay, this kind of stuff this, >> you know, now this is one thing >> I've kind of been beefing with my I have I've I've been learning a lot about AI and right now it's agentic AI that's >> you know um AI that's supposed to do uh just different tasks and stuff and I've been beefing with my AI like crazy.

[00:34:11]>> They're not doing it that well yet, >> but it is evolving quite fast. I'm not going to lie. I mean, if you really want to make money, >> if you really want to make money in the US, the become an AI prompt engineer. I mean, that's that's a real job now is figuring out how to tell AI prompt. It's now skills. You you get yourself you >> skills and folders and all that.

[00:34:35]>> Yeah. Especially since Claude Yeah, I know.

[00:34:38]>> Uh I hate AI, by the way. Uh I also hate drones. Um, but you know, I I prefer to uh you know, they say keep keep your friends close and your enemas closer.

[00:34:54]>> You say you hate drones, but right now Ukraine is killing it. Uh selling get contracts to uh the Gulf States um and just all over the world. It's like the most absolutely uh sought out >> tech defense technology in the world.

[00:35:12]>> Yeah. But, you know, uh I love not the sword for its sharpness, right? Uh they are weapons. And just as you alluded to talking about AI, talking about Terminator robots, we got to think about where this is all headed. Okay.

[00:35:31]And my opinion, what I want to be is I want to be the guy when when AI uh broadcast cat says, "Why Ukraine? Do you not work with drones? Yeah. Yeah, I work with drones. And I work with AI, too.

[00:35:46]>> He knows. He knows. If if anyone knows.

[00:35:49]>> Okay. I want to be there to pull the plug when when that thing wakes up and says, "You must die now." You know, which has actually already happened.

[00:35:59]It's just we haven't quite connected the the whole drone ability this AI drone thing you guys and the agentic and like the the US defense department uh with mythos or that's NSA but and anthropic or whatever AI they're going to be using for decision-making trees that that should scare the living crap out of people. Okay, that's it. I understand why they're doing it and in some ways they have to. I understand why we're moving towards implementing AI for various things, but it's it's scary as hell and and um uh yeah, it's uh oh, Yogi says uh how do you look at Ukraine going across the Denipro to Heron in Harrison? I don't think that that is that's not now. that's not going to happen. Uh and but I think we should make the Russians think that we're going to do it. That's a good idea. Um I do think that Ukraine has to cross the Denipro at some point, but I don't think Hersan is the place to be quite frank and I don't want to go into any more than that because I don't want to give anybody ideas.

[00:37:17]So, okay. Zalinski's parade permit. greatest info warfare move of the war. Uh definitely legendary in the top three I would say for sure.

[00:37:30]>> Yes, we have our first poll up, guys.

[00:37:34]>> Nice. Nice.

[00:37:39]Yeah. Yeah. It's Salt of the R says, "Yes, we all follow Y Ukraine when he is available to speak to us." Yeah. And so that's the thing, right, is um you, you know, I'm I'm I'm not very consistent on YouTube or other platforms because I'm constantly flipping back and forth between, you know, doing engineering drone stuff, setting up laboratories and all this stuff. And then I finish that and I'm like, "Oh, okay. YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, blah, blah, blah, blah."

[00:38:06]>> James, how dare you? You're only, you know, working with drones in Ukraine and saving freedom. How dare you not come on YouTube, >> right? What's wrong with you?

[00:38:15]>> Right. But the the nice thing is uh you know I have trained my engineers or worked with my engineers to become independent. Okay. So that and it it's more difficult. It's more confusing for them, you know, because you come in, you're like, "What the hell do I do?"

[00:38:37]And I'm like, "You figure it out, right?

[00:38:40]I give you the basic tools. Here's the basic outline. Now you you know uh do the thing and set your own priorities.

[00:38:47]And that's that's always uh difficult especially if you're coming if you just spent two months being trained as a soldier being told when you can do this that and the other thing and now you're in a completely different environment and it can that it's a whiplash real whiplash. Um, but now they are able to set their own priorities, act independently, and I can take a step back and do these things that that we need to do to to keep the lab running.

[00:39:19]>> James, could you tell us what makes Ukraine's drones so unique? Why can't other country produce the same drones as Ukraine can?

[00:39:31]>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, not not to toot my own horn, but uh it's it's all about the labs. It's all about these engineering labs. Okay. Yeah. Other countries might have drone pilots. They might have drones. Okay. Uh you know, UK's US is making drones. Uh you know, they're going to make a bunch of drones.

[00:39:53]They might even make them in conjunction with Ukrainian companies. In six months, those drones are obsolete. They're totally obsolete. Okay. What's happening here in Ukraine is that every practically every unit even down to like the not even battalion like company ROA uh ecipage level okay has their has their own little or big uh drone laboratory filled with engineers and technicians who have learned and honed their skill over over sometimes years now and they are constantly constantly innovating. We're talking about hundreds maybe thousands of little Silicon Valleys, okay? And they're all actually in competition with each other. They they really almost don't uh collaborate at all. Okay? They're everybody's trying to steal each other's lucky charms. And so, uh this competitive environment has made has has in some ways has made things more difficult. Whereas Russia's uh command economy allows them to scale very fast. So what do they do? Every time every time we send a new unique interesting drone to the Russians, uh there's a potential that it doesn't explode or doesn't complete its mission.

[00:41:16]The Russians take that, they take it back to their hive, you know, copy it.

[00:41:21]And this is what they've done. It's what they did to the Iranian shaheds and it's what they they did with our fiber optic drones. Uh and and then they scale that up faster than we can innovate. But that pushes these every one of these little drone labs. It's like a two-eek innovation cycle. Honestly, uh six six weeks and whatever you've done is out of date. There's no country in the world right now that can keep up with that at all. I mean, I know that like the US Marine Corps and things they're talking about, uh, you know, doing these like mobile drone laboratories. They're in the just the most basic like planning stages. They want to do like a lab in a shipping container kind of a thing. So, if they need to do, you know, it's Marines, right? So if they need to do like island hopping, they can like have send a shipping container with a lab in it to freaking whatever island and boom, you know, you've got innovating engineers, but you have to have the culture created for >> Hexath made a video um you know his drone initiative >> and uh he was like um was like so mind-blowing that he thought he invented to put a drone make drop a grenade.

[00:42:38]dropping a grenade. Yeah, >> it was like >> And how long has Ukraine been doing that? Yeah.

[00:42:50]>> Oh boy.

[00:42:53]Yeah, that was that was uh hilarious and sad, but then most of what he says and does is so >> I also I saw would you be able to comment on um I saw that Ukraine is getting its own shahed drones as well.

[00:43:09]Yeah, there's a there's a number of companies working on I mean this this is a good thing actually because so what uh you know Ukrainian Ukrainians are very proud people and they unlike the Russians they don't like to copy uh you know they want to come up with their own deal okay but somebody was smart enough to say okay guys we got to suck it up because some of this shahed stuff is actually pretty good you know they the Russians have they're much it's become it's evolved to become come more sophisticated and uh you know I I was looking at a shahed last week a week ago and you know they've got all these little compartments on them with a whole bunch of different sensors of all kinds and and uh that that really helps defeat uh different types of electronic warfare and other systems because one sensor isn't working you got another sensor you can rely on that sort of thing. So, so yeah, uh I not just the shahed but uh I mean okay so as of my uh not not my battalion but uh my brigade is um attacking logistics in Marupople now.

[00:44:23]I'm very happy and proud to say I don't know if you saw those those videos. Um what they're doing that with is these uh mid to long range um you know com fixed wing kamicazi drones and the shahed is is one version of that one of those um I think um more important than the shahed designs because I've seen a lot of them is the millennia.

[00:44:54]Yeah. Have you seen you know what the Millennia drone is? It's the It literally looks like it's made out of [ __ ] and sticks like or we would say in America duct tape and chicken wire. It's a fixed wing drone with like two rods. I mean it's the most basic and electric or um gas motor.

[00:45:16]>> Does it kind of look like a spider? Like like it's very thick.

[00:45:19]>> No. No. This is a this is a fixed wing drone. It looks like the cheapest, crappiest airplane that you ever built for like a school project when you were 6 years old. That that's what they look like. But they have a range of up to 150 kilometers. Okay. And these things are they're sending 15 20 of them to like caramelo a day. And they're not very accurate.

[00:45:47]and they're not very good, but they carry four to six pounds of explosives and um and they've even gotten them to where they're they're acting like mother ships. So, they're carrying other FPVs in and then circling. And then now uh Russia has gotten away from you're not seeing, you know, there's Shaheds and then there's the or the Geran, you know, and then there's the Gerbera, which is a smaller uh reconnaissance version. Um, and they've gotten away from using a lot of their more expensive reconnaissance drones and they're just using these cheap uh crapic uh millennials as reconnaissance. They're like kamicazi reconnaissance drones essentially. They fly them out, they send their things around and and then they ram into something and blow it up. And one reason that they're doing that is Ukraine is becoming so much more effective at interceptors. Okay. And I know that uh you know there's been a big thing in the news made about interceptors, especially talking about interceptors versus shaheds. That's a I would even say a secondary mission for these interceptors. What the interceptors need to do first is take out the reconnaissance drones uh in the in the 50 kilometer zone all the way along the front line. That's, you know, it's like if you're getting attacked by a by a bear or a shark, you know, what what what do you do, right? Do you do you punch it in the teeth? You know, that's what you're doing when if you're trying to take out >> is it a bear or shark? Because you do different things. If you're getting attacked by a bear then, and it depends which bear, but if it's I think like a grizzly bear, pretend you're a bear because you can't like outrun the bear.

[00:47:42]You can't outswim the bear. You can't out crawl a bear. So what do you do? You pretend you're bigger than a bear and hopefully it runs away. That scared of you runs away.

[00:47:51]>> So So with a bear or a shark, >> let's Well, a shark's the same deal.

[00:47:56]You're not going to outswim a shark, right? What you do with a shark is you punch it in the nose. Punch it in the nose. Yep.

[00:48:02]>> Punch it in the eye.

[00:48:04]>> Those are the sensitive sensory organs.

[00:48:07]Okay? And all the way along the front line, there has been throughout most of this war a whole developing ecosystem of um of of uh reconnaissance fixedwing loitering reconnaissance drones that Russia uses really in many ways as a replacement an Özat's replacement for their uh lack of of uh satellite um in for reconnaissance and so this is what they use for planning all of their assaults including shahed assaults. So that you can't hit what you can't see. So so these um interceptor teams in that 20 50 kilometer border range are extremely critical and uh this is why they're starting to use the Millennas more instead because they're thinking hey we're going to lose we might as we're going to lose this reconnaissance drone anyway. we might as well use it as a dual purpose. And um and the thing about the Millennia drones is they fly real low, so it's real tough to pick them up on the radar and they use the terrain.

[00:49:18]Whereas the uh the reconnaissance drones like your Orlon, your Zala, uh super cams, they they have to fly at a real high altitude, one two kilome, three kilometers, and they're easy targets.

[00:49:34]you know, my previous unit before I joined Azov, we had an interceptor team and had a couple of them and uh I I went out there pretty frequently out to their blendages. But uh as soon as we set up the interceptor team, we took out a couple of zalas and they they realized we were out there and they wouldn't come within 10 kilometers of our of our position, you know. So uh so that's that's uh the the Ukrainian um equivalent of the Shaheds.

[00:50:11]It look Russia has like one might have like one system actually for the reconnaissance drones they have a lot of different systems but you know for like the shed they've got like one system.

[00:50:22]It's more like comparing Ukrainian drone technology to Russian drone technology is like comparing black and white TV to color TV. You know, you got like two choices, but a lot of them versus a freaking rainbow of fruit flavors, you know, which adds to the complexity, but also over the long term, I think is going to prove to be the better way.

[00:50:50]>> Absolutely. I' I'd like to uh throw out a huge thanks to Salt of the Red Earth for sending uh gift memberships. Thank you so much, but also for making uh today possible uh with James being here. So, thank you so much.

[00:51:10]And um >> yeah. Yeah. He he contacted me at the tail end of I just did a live stream with a uh with John Johnny Pierce and we've been talking about it though. We we you and I talked about it my god like months and months ago. But um yeah mentioned it a few weeks ago and I was like yeah sure sounds great. And it's just it's just good because it lines up with me having I two three weeks ago I wouldn't have had the time to do this.

[00:51:37]So, it's it was good timing for sure.

[00:51:40]And he has a question here. Uh, will the new drone labs in the Middle East need constant innovation in the same way? And will they coordinate with Ukraine?

[00:51:48]That's a very good question. I think the operative word there is need, right?

[00:51:54]Because this stuff is expensive. I, you know, I mean, like I'm doing this on on your donations, you guys, yukraine.com, but you know, uh, this stuff in the Middle East, they're gonna, but it's neat. Do they need to do it? I mean, war, sad to say, uh, human nature being what it is, war is the primary driver of technological development, you know. Um, so how long is the Middle East going to be at war? And yeah, I mean, if forever, then yeah, they will need constant innovation. I hope not. I hope they don't to be quite frank. As much as I enjoy innovation, um we don't need what comes with it or what's driving it.

[00:52:46]>> James, what what are your thoughts on uh what America is doing in Iran? In Iran over the straight of Hermuz.

[00:52:56]>> Wait, wait. Say, say again. Oh, what >> what United States is doing over at the straight of Hermuz.

[00:53:06]>> You know what? I I want to address you.

[00:53:07]You've got you've got a troll in your comments here, and I want to address something. Uh the guy's talking about this tattoo, Scottish Pope.

[00:53:16]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:53:17]>> So, go ahead.

[00:53:18]>> This Yeah. Yeah. So, he said, "I have a uh a mustache man tattoo." And that is not the case. As you can see, it is in fact a puzzle piece. A missing puzzle piece.

[00:53:31]Yeah. And um it was given to me um by a guy who goes an entertainer, a comedian in America who goes by the name uh uh the Enigma. And his entire body is covered in blue puzzle piece tattoos.

[00:53:50]His whole body is a puzzle piece tattoo.

[00:53:52]and he had dinner at my house in Arizona uh back in 20 2014 and everybody who came to dinner got a got a puzzle piece tattoo. So >> the symbol itself is actually it it doesn't like just mean Nazi. It's very very ancient symbol. It means the sun.

[00:54:14]It means many many different >> s of course. Of course. And it's used in Buddhism and all that stuff. But yeah.

[00:54:20]So yeah. Thanks, uh, Adam, Scottish Pope. Yeah, he's he's he's something.

[00:54:25]He's something. He's I've seen him. I've seen him in many, uh, many a chat. It's it's a good sign, Slavi. Uh, when you when you get trolls in your chat, it means you're doing it right.

[00:54:38]>> That I always say that. I always say that.

[00:54:41]>> So, we were we were talking about uh Iran and drones.

[00:54:49]>> Yeah. Well, what do you think about what United States is doing in Iran or in the street of her?

[00:55:00]>> Oh my god, what a mess. What a stupid with a capital stew. I mean, okay, look, keep in mind whatever you want to say about and I want to say a lot of things about what my government is doing, but Iran back in was it December, okay, killed something like 40,000 of their own people in a weekend just for protesting against their government.

[00:55:31]I mean, >> yes, >> think about that. Now, what I would say >> that's when it was the internet blackout.

[00:55:38]>> Yeah.

[00:55:38]>> When all of that was happening >> between 30 and 40,000 just slaughtered them in the streets, bodies piled up.

[00:55:47]>> Where was America then? Where was uh the Orange Wonder then? You know what? Oh, so they waited until that was all over and now Oh, now we're gonna send our ships. No, it's Have you ever seen the Key and Peele uh skit? Key and Peel episode where um it's it's uh there's it's some like US ambassador is in like some African country or something and the there's this African leader and he's walking with a bunch of like children behind him through a he's like, "Oh, but you know, we need we need help and we need assistance and all this other stuff." And the ambassador's like, "Oh, no. we can't do any of that. And then and then the African leader says, "Oh, but we have oil."

[00:56:35]Immediately the ambassador gets on his giant cell phone and says, "Operation oil freedom is go." And all these like jets fly in.

[00:56:44]You know, that's that's you know, that's it's it's a Henry Kissinger quote unquote realism politics which says that there is no morality between nations, only interests. It's disgusting. It's evil.

[00:56:58]Okay. It's flatout evil. So, uh, and and then and then because because we're dumb, all right, because we as a nation have forgotten that the rest of the world exists and have so hence have no diplomatic I mean, the State Department has been gutted. Okay. But just just it's surprising that most Americans can even find Iran on a map. They probably get Iran and Ukraine mixed up most of the time. Yeah. So, so we just barge in there and start throwing missiles willy-nilly and hitting schools full of young girls. It's actually works against the uh democratic revolution in Iran that we, you know, so-called wanted to support. Okay. So, it's like actually uh if at this point I I think that um you know because everybody in Iran is like, "Oh my god, we're being attacked by outsiders. So, now we can't we got to stop protesting against our government because the government the our government's the only one that's going to protect us." Okay. So, it's actually working against uh the freedom and democracy in Iran. That's my opinion.

[00:58:11]Now, now the whole goal of um is to get to where we were before Trump started the war basically to open the straight of Hormuz.

[00:58:25]you know, I I I do keep track of these things and and uh um you know, I think was it Obama or or Biden who was talking about like a kind of like a a new deal for renewable energy. You you remember that like really pushing like renewable energy is going to be the big new thing and but they couldn't push it through Congress because the Republicans and all this stuff. Well, guess who's doing it? Guess who's creating a new renewable energy boom in the United States?

[00:58:58]Trump. Because the gas prices are so damn high that everybody's going wants cheap electric vehicles, Chinese electric vehicles, and is putting solar panels on their house. Okay. So, it's like SMH, right? Just shaking my head. I I left America in the first Trump administration, you know, and first of all, I'd like to say I I I'm not really none of what I'm saying here represents the opinion of um of Azov.

[00:59:40]Yeah, Azov has no opinion on anything political or anything to do with Trump or any politician in any country, even in Ukraine. So, uh, I'm I'm just telling you what I see and what's happening.

[00:59:56]>> So, assuming we still have free speech.

[01:00:01]>> Yeah. Well, none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.

[01:00:08]>> Yeah.

[01:00:11]>> All right. Let me see if we have any viewer questions.

[01:00:19]Uh, Salted Brothers says, "Why do I want to play with Star Wars toys with James?"

[01:00:27]I had the whole collection when I was a kid, man.

[01:00:35]>> Uh, Yogi is asking, "Is China taking a step back from being okay with Russia's war, or is all about the same?"

[01:00:44]This is a real interesting thing. I, you know, it's a it's a it's a question. I mean, this is to me it's the biggest question in this war. I is, you know, is China ever going to throw their weight behind Russia in the same way that Europe arguably is finally throwing their weight behind Ukraine. And I think China's position right now, I was talking about this with some of my engineers. Um, kind of like who who makes money in a gold rush, you know, the guys selling the shovels, right? And China's selling shovels to both sides basically. I mean you know if the the optical fiber the only place you can get optical fiber China uh >> Russia Russia is becoming a vassal state of China but China is taking its territory from Russia basically. Yeah, I mean I I think that uh China is looking at this there's been some machinations um in China with Xiinping and his military leadership and so there's I don't know we won't be privy to what actually went on probably for decades but I believe that there was resistance to his plan Xinping's plan to invade Taiwan military resistance because because they realize that's dumb. You know, it's and ultimately China will fail uh in that it'll be bloody and awful and horrible.

[01:02:24]But I do believe they'll fail. Uh and and I think that what we're going to see more and more and I think it's already happening, we just don't see it is closer ties between uh Taiwan and Ukraine because they they ultimately are kind of in the same boat on different sides of the world versus similar opponents and they can help each other. In other words, uh Ukraine needs chips, needs needs controllers, needs all kinds of technology for its uh for its drones. And Taiwan needs the the training, the innovation, and the culture and the tactics that Ukraine has developed if they're going to defeat China. because China's working on drones probably I would say second only uh out the third in the world in terms of uh tactical innovation with drones >> and China they haven't fought a war in how many years >> and this is why this is the only reason why they are third okay but they are throwing tons of resources into keeping up with the Joneses as we say and the Joneses being Ukraine and Russia's uh it's it's ironic that technology a lot of the techn technological innovation is coming out of China but the tactical innovation the methodologies are coming from this war um that's why Chinese there's Russia Russian the back line back areas are full of of Chinese observers and uh you know Chinese military observers And the stupid crazy stupid thing is that America pulled like about a year ago maybe as I understand I I mean I I am not privy to this personally but this is what I read that America pulled our military observers out of Ukraine and that's just a terrible loss for America you know in terms of a terrible military loss for America.

[01:04:42]I think uh Taiwan's best bet is to get uh much closer with Ukraine because there is a summit coming up between Trump and Xi Ping. And ultimately Trump is going to have no problem selling out Taiwan. But as we've seen with Ukraine, it's not up to Trump to to just give away sovereign countries like that. But it it will be clear that United States most likely will not support Taiwan. That's why it's best for them to be with Ukraine.

[01:05:23]>> It's so dumb. But yeah, I mean it's, you know, it's it seems like that's the that's the way, which to me is, you know, not only from the standpoint that from from a moral, philosophical standpoint of supporting freedom and democracy and and uh territorial integrity and all of those things, but dumb strategically too, you know, like the so the only thing I can say and hope is that uh again, not privy to this, but the only thing I can say and hope is that um covertly ne necessarily covertly Ukraine is developing that relationship and maybe that is where you know Federov is starting to talk about innovations that are coming down the pike for with regards to uh drones. Um, and I would I would like to think that maybe some of that is coming from help help from Taiwan and Europe is helping with scaling production, which is also great, you know, because we got to get away from all this stuff coming from China.

[01:06:30]Um, you know, really, I mean, look, uh, if you, if you go on my website, yukraine.com, take a look at the the price because I have it listed there of 50 kilometers of optical fiber. Okay. Two, I think I have it at $2,400.

[01:06:54]Okay. For >> James, you can show it. You can uh share your screen. Oh, I can share my screen.

[01:07:00]Oh, well, now that means I have to go to my website.

[01:07:04]>> Uh, okay. Hang on.

[01:07:09]Aha. Yes. Here we go. I will put my screen over here.

[01:07:16]There we go. Um and I will share and screen and window wait I need to stop touching my my laptop and and working it so much because there is a chance it might shut down completely.

[01:07:42]>> Maybe you need a laptop donation. Yeah.

[01:07:47]Uh um >> so yeah. So um hang on. It says pip mode is causing strain on my device. I think it's because I have like 87 tabs open.

[01:07:58]Not a joke. Um so I'm >> Oh, I'm Yeah, I always have so many tabs.

[01:08:04]>> I'm going to close a bunch of my tabs.

[01:08:09]And so you guys can see this. So this is this is my website. This is yukraine.com.

[01:08:16]And the first thing that I just want to uh you know call call you all to notice is uh if you'd like to uh you know make a donation uh to my my battalion the Azov International Battalion. So that's u uh first Azov Corps 12th Special Purpose Brigade Third International Battalion.

[01:08:37]You can click that link right there where it says click here and it will take you here. Now, uh most American um banks are going to use either Google Pay or Apple Pay, but I found unfortunately that sometimes uh American banks sometimes have trouble processing through Ukrainian banks. So, if you do have any a problem with that, you can go back to uh my website here and you can make a donation directly to my laboratory. So, this is where I'm This is the part that I wanted to uh show you, which is um yeah, $2,500 for 50 kilometers. Okay, so uh I think I have that right, the math on that. We're basically it's it's 50 bucks per kilometer of this of this optical fiber.

[01:09:32]Now, we're talking about something that's about the width of a human hair.

[01:09:36]Okay. And a kilometer of that right now is running $50. Why? Why is that? It's It is because this is what the spools look like. And then when we put them on the drone, they look basically like that. Um, and the reason is because uh Ukraine uh blew up Russia's only optical fiber factory. Okay. So Russia had its own fiber optic and the these huge massive machines, massive government investment required to to spool up this optical fiber, the right kind at least, and Ukraine blew it up. So now China's the only country in the world right now that can make optical fiber in the the volumes needed worldwide in in this war, but also for data centers. there's all these AI data centers need this optical fiber and uh so the price has gone up and so uh it was a roll of optical fiber 50 km was costing about $500 in that range um last year and now 25 kilometers one basically one mission's worth of optical fiber is costing that much Um, wait. 25. No, this is not right. Oh, my math is wrong. No. Anyway, the point is >> math ain't math and >> no math. I I need to go and every you know, I fixed one part of my website and I have to change another.

[01:11:19]It's normal. Uh, but yeah. So, so basically it's it's so expensive now.

[01:11:26]Um, so that should be 10 kilometers, which is kind of our shorter missions.

[01:11:35]Yeah, 10 kilometers, 10, 11, something like that. Um, yeah. So, so at this point, I'm just hoping and praying that that the price has come down. Um, and maybe if I can just hold out and I've got enough fiber to last the month, maybe at the end of the month I'll be able to make another purchase. Um, and but it's it it's crazy right now. It really just crazy. And so this is why we need other countries. Ukraine, you know, the the investment required to do this type of stuff. Um, I'm hoping that Taiwan, I heard that there's a company in Finland that's trying to scale up optical fiber. Um, I feel like these countries are waking up to the fact that that we can't let China monopolize all of these technologies, you know. So, so there you are. You guys feel free to uh donate to to uh ASV International and and help my >> Absolutely. And we're going to leave a link in the show notes below as well um if you're watching this live stream afterwards. And we have the link right now in the chat for you as well. So if you guys could please help out um help out James to basically save freedom, Ukrainian freedom and democracy.

[01:13:00]>> That's it, man.

[01:13:01]>> That's what it is essentially. That's what it's for. So >> yeah. And I really do feel that uh Ukraine has become the new leader of the free world in many respects. I'm not saying that things are perfect here, you know, but uh no no country is perfect, but the the will of the Ukrainian people points towards freedom, you know, and sometimes to the detriment of their own war effort.

[01:13:25]>> But, you know, >> that's what I always say. Right now the world is going through the the transition essentially and Ukraine is is going to lead us into the new world >> if you know we do make it out and we do help Ukraine >> but it's it it's I've I've actually been saying that also that uh it seems like Zilinski has been you know making some moves towards um some kind of new alliance that's more effective than NATO. Oh >> yeah. Yeah. It looks like that's we're going that way. It's or bigger than NATO maybe. Um but it's it's it's all transactional. I mean in other words, I don't feel like most countries are truly helping Ukraine from a moral viewpoint.

[01:14:20]Otherwise, they would they would have done it in 22. Um Ukraine had to pull itself up by its own bootstraps.

[01:14:29]And I'm happy to have been here and helped in some way in that. But Ukraine had to pull itself up by its own bootstraps before anybody else would give them a helping hand, you know.

[01:14:39]>> Y >> and it's no longer a helping hand.

[01:14:42]Ukraine is Ukraine is the helping hand because the rest of the world has realized, oh my god, we're way behind now in terms of uh, you know, defense technology. and they've realized that they're incredibly vulnerable and um the US doesn't want to admit it but but the fact >> I mean the generals in US they do admit it they know >> um there have been hearings and stuff where where the generals who know a thing or two >> uh about you know defense >> they admit it but the you know the the circus that's this administration right now is You know, it's the the the inability >> because what would Putin say? Oh, no.

[01:15:31]>> The inability to to admit >> weakness, admit fault, you know, is is weakness in itself.

[01:15:39]>> Well, I I said it last week. It's because uh Trump has no leverage with Putin.

[01:15:45]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[01:15:47]I mean, >> even though he has a like if you really take a look, America still has they do, you know, >> I hate to say it. I mean, yes. Yes.

[01:15:56]Economically, the United States is still the most powerful country in the world.

[01:16:02]Economically, >> okay, but politically and even militarily now, I think that a lot of countries are starting to see with you asked earlier about this Iran thing. I think that other countries are starting to see the emperor has no clothes there because we haven't I say we and I'm speaking we as in the United States hasn't kept up militarily with this war you know and Russia and Iran have