Seth Jones

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | January 31st, 2026: American Firepower Gathers at Iran’s Doorstep & The Cost of Putin’s War · 31 Jan 2026 podcast

You know, the top 100 tech companies right now

Russia has zero right now.

The U.S.

has 60.

The Navidias and Googles and Amazons, they've got zero.

So, you know, just struggling on multiple fronts is what we came away with.

I've been to Ukraine.

I spent a lot of time when I was in the US military in special operations in places like

Afghanistan and Somalia.

So I spent a lot of time on battlefields.

But having been to Ukraine, this one, it's a war of attrition.

This is very different.

It's a different feel from any of the wars I've ever been involved in.

So I'm not surprised that there were going to be high numbers.

But I think...

When we looked at 1.2 million in a roughly four-year period, I think that surprised me.

And then when you looked at it compared to other major powers in the last 100 years or so, and even the Russian performance in Chechnya or Afghanistan in the 1980s, yeah, it surprised me.

It surprised me how poorly they're doing and how much their military is suffering.

Yeah, one of the striking parts for me was when we actually looked at some of the timelines, even compared to where the Soviets were in World War II.

So if you start the timeline at when the Nazis invade,

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