WEBVTT 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 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:07.677 stuff that the US is making, that I'm making. 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:11.117 I'm familiar with a lot of the weapon systems that 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:15.437 Russia and China have in fielding or in progress. Some of the stuff that China 00:00:15.520 --> 00:00:18.677 and Russia are doing, I mean it's as sci-fi as what the United 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.357 States is doing. But I've come to the conclusion that their most powerful 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.437 weapon is not any bomb or missile or drone, it's their ability to control 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:29.597 people's minds through the media, through propaganda, through kind of 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:32.957 state pressure. They convince them to believe things 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 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.877 basically making people willing to fight for causes that don't really exist. Like 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.597 good example of this is Ukraine. A lot of the Russians who went to fight in 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:47.517 Ukraine in the early days. I think the truth is out now. But when they were 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.997 first invading, they were told that the people of Ukraine want to be liberated. 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 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, 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:01.917 Kiev-led, you know, cabal funded by the 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.677 West that has a that's barely holding on 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:09.157 to the country and and keeping and staying in power. Um and people in 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:12.317 Russia really believe that. Like the guys who are fighting on the front 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.437 lines, the guys who are flying tanks and helicopters, they believed it. When when 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:18.677 I went to when I went to Ukraine during the war, 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 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:26.037 an attack helicopter that was trying to seize an airfield of a of a private 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.037 aerospace company. And the guys actually shot it down themselves. Like I did show 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:31.877 me videos of them wearing polo shirts 00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:37.280 shooting down the helicopter in their parking lot. I mean it's like 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 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.277 his emergency and survival gear in it. 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:48.677 It had three or four days of water, three or four days of food, 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.837 another flight uniform, his dress uniform with dress shoes because he they 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 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:58.477 military operation. There's going to be parades. I was having So 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.517 dress uniform and then 50 condoms. This guy thought that he was going to be 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 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:10.357 going to need 50 condoms for the post-war celebration. Wow. 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:12.637 >> And to me that speaks to how brainwashed 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:15.997 this guy was. And remember helicopter pilots aren't like the dumb grunt Right. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:18.717 >> dragging I mean he's probably one of the more highly educated people. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.717 >> Right. And they convinced him that the people of Ukraine wanted him to liberate 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 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:27.997 need his dress uniform and 50 condoms. 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.517 Wow. >> And there were similar 50 is a lot. 50 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:34.077 is a lot. Yeah. Kind of a storm. That's crazy. 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 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. 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.277 >> Yeah. And the this wasn't like the Well, 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.597 this wasn't the only guy. Like this was actually pretty common. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.797 >> Everybody had 50 condoms? I don't know if everybody had 50, They all brought 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:51.517 condoms. >> Well, a lot of guys had condoms and a 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:54.437 lot of people brought their dress uniforms. They thought that they were 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.837 they were going to roll into Kiev, take over, the people wanted them to be in 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:00.237 power and that they were going to be marching around town and people would 00:03:00.320 --> 00:03:03.437 say, "Look, it's our liberators, our saviors." 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.197 Now of course, that's totally divorced from reality. Like whatever you however 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.877 you feel about the politics of Ukraine and Russia and the and America cuz 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.157 they're all tightly intermingled. 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:16.637 >> Right. That's clearly not reality. And so what I worry about is like the easy 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:19.517 one is if China invades Taiwan, they're going 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:21.917 to come up with a similar story. They're going to trick their people into 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.437 thinking, "Oh, Taiwan wants to be reunified. You're fighting for the 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.437 better cause." But then the really spooky thing is what happens when our 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.757 media pulls the same stunt? I would argue that what we did in the Middle 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.717 East was driven by really not that different, right? I mean a lot of the 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.717 justification for going over there and doing this nation-building. I mean we 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 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:48.397 out from under the Taliban. They don't want to have these, you know, tribal 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:52.317 rule. They do want democracy." And in reality, we were kind of sold a bill of 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 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:01.240 condoms, but we're not really that much better.