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George Barros

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769 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

These are drone components that are made primarily at first in their inception for hobbyist aviation purposes, but now they have a great dual use in military applications. These drones, Mike, they're inflicting about 60% of the casualties right now on the Ukrainian side, or again, I'm sorry, for the Ukrainians against the Russians.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

These are drone components that are made primarily at first in their inception for hobbyist aviation purposes, but now they have a great dual use in military applications. These drones, Mike, they're inflicting about 60% of the casualties right now on the Ukrainian side, or again, I'm sorry, for the Ukrainians against the Russians.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

These are drone components that are made primarily at first in their inception for hobbyist aviation purposes, but now they have a great dual use in military applications. These drones, Mike, they're inflicting about 60% of the casualties right now on the Ukrainian side, or again, I'm sorry, for the Ukrainians against the Russians.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

I mean, this is not just a capability among many, this has actually become the main thing that puts Russians in the dirt, which is incredible.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

I mean, this is not just a capability among many, this has actually become the main thing that puts Russians in the dirt, which is incredible.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

I mean, this is not just a capability among many, this has actually become the main thing that puts Russians in the dirt, which is incredible.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Absolutely. The tactical doctrine for how to do a platoon mechanized assault, battalion-sized mechanized assault, that doesn't work anymore because as soon as you leave your line of departure and you start heading towards the enemy positions, you start getting engaged before you're even within five kilometers of the zero line. 100% accurate. And not just for combat forces too.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Absolutely. The tactical doctrine for how to do a platoon mechanized assault, battalion-sized mechanized assault, that doesn't work anymore because as soon as you leave your line of departure and you start heading towards the enemy positions, you start getting engaged before you're even within five kilometers of the zero line. 100% accurate. And not just for combat forces too.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Absolutely. The tactical doctrine for how to do a platoon mechanized assault, battalion-sized mechanized assault, that doesn't work anymore because as soon as you leave your line of departure and you start heading towards the enemy positions, you start getting engaged before you're even within five kilometers of the zero line. 100% accurate. And not just for combat forces too.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

It's changing concepts for how to do logistics. The Ukrainians have... Usually these unmanned ground vehicles that are hauling medicine and hauling ammunition and fuel, the Russians use them for casualty evacuations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

It's changing concepts for how to do logistics. The Ukrainians have... Usually these unmanned ground vehicles that are hauling medicine and hauling ammunition and fuel, the Russians use them for casualty evacuations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

It's changing concepts for how to do logistics. The Ukrainians have... Usually these unmanned ground vehicles that are hauling medicine and hauling ammunition and fuel, the Russians use them for casualty evacuations.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Though in the path where you might have a logistics platoon or a logistics company that'd be trucking all kinds of stuff with a physical driver exposing himself to risks, the Ukrainians have in some regards minimized that because now they'll have robots that are hauling the stuff to the frontline fighting forces. So, yeah, it's changing a lot of things about warfare.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Though in the path where you might have a logistics platoon or a logistics company that'd be trucking all kinds of stuff with a physical driver exposing himself to risks, the Ukrainians have in some regards minimized that because now they'll have robots that are hauling the stuff to the frontline fighting forces. So, yeah, it's changing a lot of things about warfare.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

Though in the path where you might have a logistics platoon or a logistics company that'd be trucking all kinds of stuff with a physical driver exposing himself to risks, the Ukrainians have in some regards minimized that because now they'll have robots that are hauling the stuff to the frontline fighting forces. So, yeah, it's changing a lot of things about warfare.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 12th, 2025: Can China Survive A Tariff War? & Russia Launches Spring Offensive

So I think the key thing to focus on is Vladimir Putin very much decisively rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's very straightforward proposal for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Putin rejected that. He instead said, well, we'll talk about a ceasefire and energy infrastructure. We'll talk about a ceasefire on the Black Sea.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 12th, 2025: Can China Survive A Tariff War? & Russia Launches Spring Offensive

So I think the key thing to focus on is Vladimir Putin very much decisively rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's very straightforward proposal for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Putin rejected that. He instead said, well, we'll talk about a ceasefire and energy infrastructure. We'll talk about a ceasefire on the Black Sea.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 12th, 2025: Can China Survive A Tariff War? & Russia Launches Spring Offensive

So I think the key thing to focus on is Vladimir Putin very much decisively rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's very straightforward proposal for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Putin rejected that. He instead said, well, we'll talk about a ceasefire and energy infrastructure. We'll talk about a ceasefire on the Black Sea.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 12th, 2025: Can China Survive A Tariff War? & Russia Launches Spring Offensive

But the key issue there that he rejected the main area where the actual fighting is happening, the land domain, which is where 95% of the killing is at. So that's important not to lose sight of. The Russians continue to want to conduct conventional operations. They want to keep war fighting. They see a military solution to this conflict. They think that they can wait out the West.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | April 12th, 2025: Can China Survive A Tariff War? & Russia Launches Spring Offensive

But the key issue there that he rejected the main area where the actual fighting is happening, the land domain, which is where 95% of the killing is at. So that's important not to lose sight of. The Russians continue to want to conduct conventional operations. They want to keep war fighting. They see a military solution to this conflict. They think that they can wait out the West.