Lori Siegel

Every big war, there are signs of where things could have been.

So like the script for the First World War, the trench warfare, was written in the siege of Petersburg at the end of the Civil War.

Just the Europeans thought that they were better than us and they would be able to fight differently.

They were totally wrong.

The script for the Second World War, there were multiple skirmishes.

I mean, even before the U.S.

entrance, you could see how things were working with Poland, with the Iraq War, Vietnam, obviously.

Even with Vietnam, it was not our Vietnam, but France's Vietnam.

We just decided to redo that.

And for this one, the proof has been there for four years now in Russia and Ukraine, is that it doesn't matter.

Like, you can have all of this fancy stuff, but at the end of the day, these cheap little drones—

have the ability to destroy infrastructure, to kill troops, suicide drones, and the asymmetry of a global powerhouse like Russia, which has all these awesome tanks and all that, just gets completely mired in the mud and held up by the Ukrainians with not, you know,

all that expensive military technology.

Now I'm not saying they're gonna win, but you can hold off for a long time.

It's the asymmetry in the cost.

And the perfect example of that is suicide drones taking out billions of dollars worth of natural gas infrastructure while a multi-billion dollar carrier gets taken out by a laundry fire or whatever.

It has to sail to port and is out of commission now for two years.

So at every turn, you see very quickly that anyone paying attention to warfare, literally for the last four years, and even before that in Syria, we saw that with the ISIS war with the body cams and the drones and all that.

Everything was there for the last 15 years.

Which they're right.