1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,397 I work in the weapons industry and I've seen a lot of cool stuff. I've seen 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,677 stuff that the US is making, that I'm making. 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,117 I'm familiar with a lot of the weapon systems that 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,437 Russia and China have in fielding or in progress. Some of the stuff that China 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,677 and Russia are doing, I mean it's as sci-fi as what the United 6 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,357 States is doing. But I've come to the conclusion that their most powerful 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,437 weapon is not any bomb or missile or drone, it's their ability to control 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,597 people's minds through the media, through propaganda, through kind of 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,957 state pressure. They convince them to believe things 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,837 about the world that weren't true, that aren't true. And then they're they're 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,877 basically making people willing to fight for causes that don't really exist. Like 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,597 good example of this is Ukraine. A lot of the Russians who went to fight in 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,517 Ukraine in the early days. I think the truth is out now. But when they were 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,997 first invading, they were told that the people of Ukraine want to be liberated. 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,957 You're going to be a hero. You're going to go over there like they desperately 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,117 want Russia to save them and reunify them. And it's it's just this, you know, 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,917 Kiev-led, you know, cabal funded by the 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,677 West that has a that's barely holding on 19 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,157 to the country and and keeping and staying in power. Um and people in 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,317 Russia really believe that. Like the guys who are fighting on the front 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,437 lines, the guys who are flying tanks and helicopters, they believed it. When when 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,677 I went to when I went to Ukraine during the war, 23 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,797 one of the things that I got to see was there was this helicopter wreck. It was 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,037 an attack helicopter that was trying to seize an airfield of a of a private 25 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,037 aerospace company. And the guys actually shot it down themselves. Like I did show 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,877 me videos of them wearing polo shirts 27 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:37,280 shooting down the helicopter in their parking lot. I mean it's like 28 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:42,317 So the the the pilots the pilots kind of go bag, you know, this bag with all of 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,277 his emergency and survival gear in it. 30 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,677 It had three or four days of water, three or four days of food, 31 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,837 another flight uniform, his dress uniform with dress shoes because he they 32 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,877 were told they were going to be they said this is going to be a five-day 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,477 military operation. There's going to be parades. I was having So 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,517 dress uniform and then 50 condoms. This guy thought that he was going to be 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,077 he thought the women were going to be all over him. They were going to he was 36 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,357 going to need 50 condoms for the post-war celebration. Wow. 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,637 >> And to me that speaks to how brainwashed 38 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,997 this guy was. And remember helicopter pilots aren't like the dumb grunt Right. 39 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,717 >> dragging I mean he's probably one of the more highly educated people. 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,717 >> Right. And they convinced him that the people of Ukraine wanted him to liberate 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,757 them and that they were going to be so happy to see him that he was going to 42 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,997 need his dress uniform and 50 condoms. 43 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,517 Wow. >> And there were similar 50 is a lot. 50 44 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,077 is a lot. Yeah. Kind of a storm. That's crazy. 45 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,757 >> I I will give him a little credit. You know, it 50 condoms doesn't take up that 46 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,437 much space in your bag. But but it's but it's a lot. It's a lot. 47 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,277 >> Yeah. And the this wasn't like the Well, 48 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,597 this wasn't the only guy. Like this was actually pretty common. 49 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,797 >> Everybody had 50 condoms? I don't know if everybody had 50, They all brought 50 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,517 condoms. >> Well, a lot of guys had condoms and a 51 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,437 lot of people brought their dress uniforms. They thought that they were 52 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,837 they were going to roll into Kiev, take over, the people wanted them to be in 53 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,237 power and that they were going to be marching around town and people would 54 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,437 say, "Look, it's our liberators, our saviors." 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,197 Now of course, that's totally divorced from reality. Like whatever you however 56 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,877 you feel about the politics of Ukraine and Russia and the and America cuz 57 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,157 they're all tightly intermingled. 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,637 >> Right. That's clearly not reality. And so what I worry about is like the easy 59 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,517 one is if China invades Taiwan, they're going 60 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,917 to come up with a similar story. They're going to trick their people into 61 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,437 thinking, "Oh, Taiwan wants to be reunified. You're fighting for the 62 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,437 better cause." But then the really spooky thing is what happens when our 63 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,757 media pulls the same stunt? I would argue that what we did in the Middle 64 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,717 East was driven by really not that different, right? I mean a lot of the 65 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,717 justification for going over there and doing this nation-building. I mean we 66 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,837 were told all these stories. "Oh, they want they don't want they they want to get 67 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,397 out from under the Taliban. They don't want to have these, you know, tribal 68 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,317 rule. They do want democracy." And in reality, we were kind of sold a bill of 69 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,837 goods just wasn't true. So it's easy to make fun of the Russian with his 50 70 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:01,240 condoms, but we're not really that much better.