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Chapter 1: What happened in Ukraine's drone attack on Russia?
They actually were just using them to keep the drones powered up as long as they needed them, and then they could launch them whenever they were in place and ready. Reportedly, they were planning this operation for 18 months before they launched it. And so they got these containers into Russia. They got them outside of these different bases they want to attack.
And to give you a sense of the scale here, one of the bases they attacked was just outside Murmansk, Russia. If you look that up on a map, it's in the Arctic Circle. It's in the far northwest of Russia, close to Finland. And on the other end of Russia, another place they hit was in Amur province. That's way out in far eastern Russia. It's close to China. It's close to Japan. They hit a base there.
They also hit a base at Irkutsk. That is in central Siberia near Mongolia. And they hit two air bases closer to Moscow. So they really hit every single part of Russia with this attack. They claim they took out. several dozen of these heavy bombers that Russia has.
These bombers, they can be used for delivering nuclear weapons, but the reason they wanted to hit them was they're also used for delivering cruise missiles, other heavy ordnance. And so they took them out. They're claiming they took out about $7 billion worth of Russian airplanes, which is quite a few. And as we've learned with these drones, they can be made incredibly cheaply by comparison.
Well, it was interesting too, because this was part of a fairly secretive operation to fund the drones by Jake Sullivan during the Biden administration. U.S. taxpayers poured $1.5 billion into developing these drones that were probably used to
coordinate and execute this attack so american fingerprints are very much all over this i want to i mean so it's 117 drones we're talking about to the arctic circle near japan closer to the border around moscow uh right in north of mongolia and siberia i mean this was a very widespread attack vladimir zelensky is saying that this was a brilliant execution and again you
The peace negotiations are ongoing in Istanbul. So turning our attention to that, Blake, I mean, so it's fair to say Russia got hit pretty hard, but this doesn't fundamentally change their nuclear capability. it maybe stretches their capacity somewhat, right? That they now have maybe a third less of these heavy bombers that can deliver nuclear blows. We're not hopefully getting to that point.
That's the big question. Are we escalating towards a potential World War III? That's been the risk with this conflict from the beginning. There's some news reports that are saying Vladimir Putin is being urged to consider nuclear weapons. But even if he doesn't go that far, Blake, Maybe paint a picture for the audience of just how robust the Russian capacity is to execute this war.
I mean, a ballistic missile, I've seen video footage of that in eastern Ukraine where they drop these. Those are devastating in and of themselves. Does this change Russian calculus of what they're able to do inside Ukraine?
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Chapter 2: Is the world closer to World War III after the attack?
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So, Blake, you were talking about the soft targets, vulnerabilities that we have to contend with here. This drone technology is really going to change the way that warfare is executed in many different theaters across the world. But definitely here in the United States, kind of makes me think of Golden Dome, kind of makes me think of hardening our own southern border.
But there's that northern border, which is huge. People don't talk about it or think about it as much, but it is a vulnerability here. Um, reflect on what happened in Boulder, Colorado and dive deeper into what you're thinking there, Blake.
Well, so there's Boulder, Colorado, of course, where you just have a guy who came across the border and, uh, shouldn't have been in this country. And he was just a lunatic. Thankfully went nuts, tried to kill people by, uh, setting them on fire. Thankfully he was nuts and inept. So nobody died currently, but it's trivially easy to imagine, uh,
Far more effective people coming in who likely have already come in. We had this effectively open border with Earth for four years under Joe Biden. It wasn't just people coming from Mexico. It wasn't just people from Venezuela or Haiti. We had literally tens of thousands of people who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border who came back.
From China and got in and you hear wild stories like Chinese gangsters basically took over the illegal marijuana growing business in Maine, things like that. Another story I always find myself thinking of, you can Google this in Fresno, California. the Chinese managed to build an entire illegal secret biolab in a warehouse in Fresno.
And we don't really know what the purpose of it was, but someone built an illegal entire biolab that we only found months or years later. So if you're able to sneak that kind of thing in and pull it off, you can sneak in and pull off just about anything. And what we see overall is there's been a change in... The nature of warfare.
You think 100 years ago in World War II, what mattered was what's your overall industrial output? Can you make thousands and thousands of very simple tanks and planes and guns and artillery and all of that? Then... In the 80s and 90s and early 2000s, what mattered was this extremely precise, advanced, extremely expensive technology. And that was great for America.
We could build these bombers, stealth bombers that could drop these extremely high-tech bombs that we could pilot into a specific spot. And you could just blow anyone to smithereens and we could beat any country in a war with almost no casualties.
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Chapter 3: What is Operation Spider's Web?
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I'm new Grady Andrew. Always nice to be on the Kirk show, either with you or Charlie.
Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that a lot. You know, so, Alex, I was talking with you in the break and, you know, we just we have to hit this. What a year. What a difference a year makes, especially when it comes to June. June may be the most pronounced difference, most pronounced difference.
different month that we could observe and that of course is because it's pride month or used to be pride month tell us what you're seeing in corporate america alex way our corporations sort of tacitly agreeing to this pride stuff and it's behind the scenes every year before this you would see them change their logos it would be all over yeah we're not seeing that this year are we
Not quite as much. It's really interesting. By the way, I think Trump missed an opportunity here, Andrew, and it's too late for this, but maybe he could do it next year. What he needs to do on May 31st is declare June Black History Month and then declare Pride Month, February, the shortest month. He needs to switch them.
So we'll do two Black History Months in the same year, and then we'll have no pride. And the Pride Month, let the wait become the shortest month. And he could do this. And I don't know if he can unilaterally do this, but he should try it and just see how that goes. See how people react. Just like people's hair on fire.
You can't get mad at that, can you?
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Chapter 4: How did the drone attack impact Russia's military capabilities?
You know, grown men whipping each other, wearing leather straps. You got like Scott Weiner, the state senator out of California, who's pictured doing these types of things, celebrating. You cannot normalize that type of behavior and still have a moral and upright culture. You just simply can't. And by the way, you can't.
I would feel the same, Alex, if it was straight couples doing the same thing out in the middle of the street. There's no place for that in polite society.
Yeah, I do think that the Internet, which is not always right, but I do think that the Internet sort of consensus that this is becoming – it's really about autogynephilia where it's really about – it's a sexual perversion that you dressing as the opposite sex and impersonating the opposite sex is a sexual fetish. I think that's the vast majority of these things.
I'm not saying it's every single one. I'm just saying that I think that's the vast majority of what's going on. And introducing this stuff to children, as PBS is doing with our tax dollars, is designed to usurp the family with – a higher authority, which is the government in this case, to try to sow confusion and to sow chaos because it makes people much easier to control in that way.
And that's what this is all about. But I'll tell you, for these companies, Andrew, it is a bottom line issue. It becomes a corporate issue. If you look at the WNBA and if you look at Major League Baseball and you look at the Washington Capitals and the Washington Commanders and the Washington Nationals and the New York Giants, these are all teams that did pride stuff this year.
Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, New York Mets. They're just trying to pander and try to sell more tickets. But you can make them feel a little pain over this. If you go over and say, we're not doing this, particularly if they got the trans stuff going on. If you're doing the trans stuff, I'm not going to bring my family to stuff when you're endorsing the trans behavior.
So if you want to get my tickets, if you want me to buy tickets from you, you can't keep doing this. And let's see how they react. Because every year, I think we're going to continue to make progress in this regard the way we have in the past few years.
Well, I think we are making progress, Alex. So there is a clip here. Let's go ahead and actually 327, throw that graphic up. Boise Pride cancels season kickoff, citing insufficient attendance, which is something... to behold, certainly.
And, you know, LGBTQ organizations across the country are reporting substantial cuts in funding, thanks in large part to the Trump administration ending DEI programs. So there are actual cultural wins that we're putting up. I mean, but again, let me restate, I am for Just getting rid of Pride Month altogether. We should just not acknowledge it. We shouldn't have to.
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Chapter 5: Is Pride Month fading away this year?
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