Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1668 Scott Adams： Let's Figure Out What's Going On In Ukraine Without Any Useful Information

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00:01:15.000 Encircled and being shelled. 1.00

00:01:24.420 Yeah.

00:01:25.800 All right.

00:01:26.460 Let's talk about all the things that are happening.

00:01:29.120 Number one.

00:01:30.500 So yesterday I retweeted a Alexander Vindman tweet, which some say included fake news.

00:01:38.840 The fake news being that there was a general in charge of the Ukraine situation who was fired by Putin for presumably doing a bad job.

00:01:49.020 But as other people said, wait a minute, Alexander Vindman.

00:01:54.100 Maybe the reports of this general being fired are fake because he appeared with Putin at some announcement after he supposedly had been fired.

00:02:03.300 So what do you say the general was reported to be fired, but then very soon after appeared with Putin in what seemed to be an official capacity.

00:02:16.140 So is it fake news or is it a reverse fake news, meaning that if if Putin had actually fired his main general, do you think he would not invite him to the meeting on the camera?

00:02:30.900 Of course he would.

00:02:33.820 Number one.

00:02:35.120 The guy you just fired from the head of the situation also knows the most.

00:02:41.540 Even if you just fired him, you'd keep him on the team.

00:02:45.460 You'd still go to the meeting.

00:02:47.420 And if you didn't want the world to know you had just fired your general, you would still invite him to the meeting.

00:02:52.700 So I'm going to say that the people who debunked Vindman's tweet may be the ones who are debunked themselves because their debunk is not convincing.

00:03:05.540 And Vindman only said it was a report.

00:03:08.900 He did not state it was true.

00:03:10.660 He said it was reported.

00:03:11.960 So the tweet was that it was reported and that's true.

00:03:14.840 And then the debunk is, I would say, marginally persuasive.

00:03:20.180 I get that being filmed in public after he should have been fired does make you wonder if it was true or not.

00:03:31.700 But it doesn't tell you anything for sure.

00:03:34.360 So I'm going to say that's a question mark.

00:03:36.520 But I'm guessing that story, because it sort of went away, we'd probably have some more confirmation if it were true by now, I think.

00:03:44.760 On the other hand, I also can't imagine that Putin wouldn't be firing a general by now.

00:03:51.760 Am I right?

00:03:53.140 Doesn't it seem to you that some general would be fired by now?

00:03:57.460 Or, you know, demoted or something.

00:04:01.060 All right.

00:04:03.340 I guess Ukraine and Russia are going to talk in Belarus.

00:04:07.240 Do you think this is real?

00:04:08.600 Do you think that Russia actually wants to talk about peace?

00:04:18.000 Or is it just part of the public relations?

00:04:23.040 Because we do think that Putin might need an exit ramp unless he's actually winning.

00:04:31.620 Do you believe anything that's coming out of Ukraine?

00:04:34.180 Because you probably shouldn't.

00:04:35.360 Do you believe that the Russian army is basically thwarted?

00:04:41.140 Or do you believe that they're just uncoiling and they've got the city surrounded and they can kind of take their time and do what they want?

00:04:49.000 Because nothing would stop them.

00:04:52.020 Well, we don't really know, do we?

00:04:54.320 And here's my question.

00:04:57.780 Does Ukraine already not have cell service anywhere?

00:05:02.460 Is the entire Ukrainian mobile phone network already down?

00:05:09.700 Can somebody tell me that?

00:05:10.780 It feels like that should be in the news all the time, if it is.

00:05:13.660 Do they have access to the Internet?

00:05:18.120 They can still upload videos.

00:05:20.240 So if you've got a population center that's full of people with smartphones,

00:05:25.420 and the population centers are being attacked, why are we not really seeing much in the way of video?

00:05:32.660 Should we not be seeing almost unlimited video?

00:05:35.900 Like people cowering down but sticking up their phone to record things?

00:05:41.920 Somebody says we are, but I'm not.

00:05:44.420 Like, what news source are you watching?

00:05:46.240 Check Reddit, somebody says.

00:05:52.320 Well, I also worry that things that are labeled to be from there are fake.

00:05:58.700 You'll see a lot today.

00:06:01.120 I don't know.

00:06:02.100 But don't you have a question about that?

00:06:03.980 It just does seem like, first of all, why are the phone networks working?

00:06:08.680 And if they are, it doesn't make sense we're not seeing a lot more video.

00:06:13.880 Because even the sources that I look at would still have those videos.

00:06:20.420 Yeah.

00:06:22.280 So I guess that's a big question.

00:06:25.520 Here's a question I asked.

00:06:26.720 Apparently this was a plot for the TV show Silicon Valley, but I didn't know that.

00:06:31.480 Is there a way to make, in an emergency,

00:06:33.460 is there a way to make your mobile phones a mesh network of some sort

00:06:39.480 so that as long as you were close enough to somebody else who had a phone,

00:06:44.380 your signal could hop to their phone before it finds another way out?

00:06:48.660 Is that a thing?

00:06:52.380 Well, it doesn't have the software, of course.

00:06:54.800 But could it?

00:06:57.740 The mesh needs to be in every app.

00:06:59.880 If the camera's pointed in the right direction.

00:07:06.220 Stuxnet.

00:07:08.240 I think they do that on cruises.

00:07:10.440 I don't think they do, do they?

00:07:12.940 Tethering.

00:07:14.680 All right, so I guess we don't know that,

00:07:16.920 but a company called Gotenna does that, somebody says.

00:07:23.060 Meshtastic.

00:07:24.300 All right.

00:07:24.680 So I guess the open question is,

00:07:27.100 is there a way that despots could be thwarted from turning off networks

00:07:32.620 because the phones just turn into a mesh network on their own?

00:07:36.020 It feels like we should be working on that for disaster, right?

00:07:39.760 See an Elon Musk tweet?

00:07:41.660 Well, I know about Starlink,

00:07:43.920 but you need a certain kind of terminal for that.

00:07:46.860 That's not going to help you if you don't have the right equipment

00:07:48.900 to use their network.

00:07:50.580 We already have Meshtastic and low-rod devices.

00:07:56.900 Yes, you can use your phone with those through BT.

00:08:01.480 Okay.

00:08:02.660 Interesting.

00:08:03.840 So maybe there's something there.

00:08:05.820 Question.

00:08:06.540 Do you think that the experience in Ukraine so far

00:08:09.920 is making China more or less confident that they could take Taiwan?

00:08:15.020 I feel like China is watching this and saying,

00:08:21.320 uh-oh, you can't really move massive equipment

00:08:24.680 into any place that has drones

00:08:26.440 or any place that has modern technology.

00:08:30.600 Right?

00:08:31.820 Because the whole process of occupation

00:08:34.960 requires lots of heavy equipment,

00:08:38.820 weapons and troop carriers and tanks,

00:08:41.220 and I don't think there's any world anymore

00:08:44.480 in which that kind of equipment

00:08:46.860 can make it into the country unmolested.

00:08:49.540 I mean, I think it would just be

00:08:50.740 turned to burning embers

00:08:53.300 somewhere on the highway

00:08:55.300 toward the metro centers.

00:08:57.900 So we'll talk about that a little bit more.

00:09:00.360 Do you remember when the military said

00:09:01.920 that the biggest threat to the U.S. military

00:09:04.220 was climate change?

00:09:05.380 And a lot of people snorted and said,

00:09:08.680 come on, you're being all politically correct there.

00:09:12.600 That can't be the biggest military threat.

00:09:15.780 And then we find ourselves looking at Putin

00:09:19.820 putting his nuclear forces on alert

00:09:22.240 because of Ukraine,

00:09:25.540 which is largely because,

00:09:27.720 or at least partly because,

00:09:30.040 the way we manage energy in the United States,

00:09:32.960 which is partly because of climate change narrative.

00:09:38.680 So indeed,

00:09:41.260 maybe not in the way that was imagined,

00:09:45.280 but climate change actually literally

00:09:47.260 became our biggest military problem

00:09:49.260 because of the way it works through the system

00:09:52.180 and makes Russia richer

00:09:53.920 and that emboldens them.

00:09:57.700 So I didn't see that coming.

00:09:59.200 Are you seeing any reports

00:10:03.340 that Russia is holding a major city in Ukraine?

00:10:08.680 Because the standard news is saying no, right?

00:10:14.540 But I'm also seeing Russian trolls on Twitter

00:10:18.340 saying that, you know, some city fell.

00:10:23.060 Now, is anybody else getting a lot of Russian troll action?

00:10:29.160 Because I am.

00:10:30.280 I'm getting obvious Russian operatives 1.00

00:10:32.980 who are tweeting at me.

00:10:34.080 I mean, they're just really obvious.

00:10:36.960 Now, is everybody getting that

00:10:39.080 or are they targeting people

00:10:40.400 who just do some kind of public commenting?

00:10:47.240 Why assume they are trolls?

00:10:48.720 Because they have completely different information

00:10:50.440 and it's obvious disinformation.

00:10:53.480 I'm not even going to tell you what they're saying

00:10:56.140 because it's pretty obviously disinformation.

00:11:00.020 Yeah, I think I might be a target,

00:11:01.760 but it could be just a general approach.

00:11:04.720 Who knows?

00:11:07.460 I remind you again that I might be the only person

00:11:10.340 who said prior to the invasion

00:11:12.280 that if there was an invasion,

00:11:14.540 which, by the way, I predicted incorrectly,

00:11:17.140 because I said there's no way Russia...

00:11:18.480 I said there's no way Putin thinks this could pay off.

00:11:24.740 Right?

00:11:28.840 And so I got that wrong.

00:11:30.820 But I was making an assumption

00:11:32.660 that he was operating rationally.

00:11:35.440 And who knows?

00:11:37.360 You know, the information at the moment

00:11:38.940 is that he's not,

00:11:40.380 but you can't rely on that either.

00:11:41.800 Oh, you are a bad person there.

00:11:47.940 Let's get rid of the bad person

00:11:49.260 who's putting the bad words here.

00:11:51.800 Remove.

00:11:54.260 Sorry about that.

00:11:55.600 Sorry you had to put up with that.

00:12:01.460 Now, there's a big mystery going on,

00:12:05.060 which is why is Ukraine doing so well,

00:12:07.820 or are they?

00:12:09.380 I guess the first question is,

00:12:10.900 do we even know for sure

00:12:12.680 that the Ukrainian resistance

00:12:14.300 is putting up a great fight?

00:12:16.360 Because I don't know that we know that for sure.

00:12:19.520 Right?

00:12:21.060 Yeah.

00:12:21.520 I don't know that we know that for sure.

00:12:26.360 Yeah, you know,

00:12:27.040 we're also not seeing pictures of dead Russians.

00:12:31.060 Is that true?

00:12:33.460 Well,

00:12:35.080 I saw Mike Cernovich asking about this yesterday.

00:12:37.380 It was a good question.

00:12:38.080 Apparently,

00:12:39.480 there are people who know more than I do

00:12:41.060 who say,

00:12:41.680 it looks like the Russians are sending 0.99

00:12:43.060 their low-end tanks.

00:12:45.740 They're not sending their best equipment.

00:12:48.040 Does that make sense,

00:12:48.980 that they wouldn't send their best equipment?

00:12:51.860 Yes,

00:12:52.300 my allergies are back.

00:12:53.260 And I'm not sure even that's true.

00:12:59.900 Now,

00:13:00.340 could it be?

00:13:01.420 I was seeing a lot of speculation

00:13:03.000 about why we're seeing what we're seeing,

00:13:05.280 if it's even true.

00:13:06.800 One is that maybe they're just,

00:13:08.320 you know,

00:13:09.100 testing the defense,

00:13:10.440 so they send in their bad tanks

00:13:12.000 to see what happens,

00:13:13.280 and they figure they'll lose a bunch.

00:13:14.660 It might be

00:13:16.760 that they're putting all the good equipment

00:13:18.460 in one place.

00:13:20.300 So maybe the best equipment

00:13:21.700 is already staged for,

00:13:24.600 let's say,

00:13:25.180 taking the capital or something.

00:13:27.040 So it could be that the,

00:13:28.680 you know,

00:13:28.860 what you're seeing

00:13:29.500 is the bad equipment being destroyed,

00:13:31.840 but that's a diversion

00:13:33.120 from the good stuff

00:13:34.360 which is waiting to attack somewhere else.

00:13:36.620 I suppose that's possible.

00:13:38.420 The other possibility is

00:13:39.980 they don't have any good stuff.

00:13:42.640 That they do have high-end tanks and whatnot,

00:13:45.960 but not many of them.

00:13:47.280 Maybe they just didn't want to risk them.

00:13:49.340 Maybe they thought

00:13:50.180 it would be such an easy war

00:13:51.580 or that Ukraine

00:13:53.580 would just fold immediately

00:13:54.980 that they didn't need

00:13:56.380 to risk any of the good stuff.

00:13:58.180 Maybe they didn't want

00:13:59.000 the Americans or NATO

00:14:00.160 to see how their best equipment operates.

00:14:03.300 And they thought,

00:14:03.740 well, we don't need the best stuff.

00:14:05.960 So those are all possibilities, right?

00:14:07.880 Let me give you my filter on this,

00:14:12.480 which I don't know

00:14:13.720 if anybody else has said this yet,

00:14:16.020 but I'm going to put

00:14:19.040 the Dilbert filter on this.

00:14:21.280 Now, the Dilbert filter is

00:14:22.740 how does any large organization operate,

00:14:26.300 whether it's a government,

00:14:28.060 could even be within a dictatorship,

00:14:30.180 or, you know,

00:14:31.980 a regular corporation.

00:14:33.440 There are some things

00:14:34.400 that are very common

00:14:35.400 to large organizations,

00:14:37.180 and one of them is the slow walk.

00:14:40.380 The slow walk

00:14:41.420 is when the boss tells you

00:14:42.520 to do something

00:14:43.180 that you don't think

00:14:44.640 should be done,

00:14:45.940 but you don't want to argue

00:14:46.860 with the boss

00:14:47.520 for all the obvious reasons.

00:14:49.480 So you say,

00:14:50.160 sure, boss,

00:14:51.440 and then you go about

00:14:52.420 the job of doing it,

00:14:53.520 but inefficiently.

00:14:55.160 In other words,

00:14:55.800 you might put in a phone call,

00:14:58.680 but then you don't do anything

00:14:59.960 until you get a return call,

00:15:01.360 which often never comes.

00:15:03.540 And then when somebody asks you,

00:15:04.840 you say,

00:15:05.020 yeah, I put in a call,

00:15:06.800 I just haven't gotten

00:15:07.500 a call back.

00:15:08.580 Now, if you were really

00:15:09.560 trying to get something done,

00:15:10.800 you'd put in a call,

00:15:12.640 you'd put in a text,

00:15:13.580 you'd go visit the person,

00:15:15.020 you'd bug them

00:15:15.700 until you got a response,

00:15:16.780 you'd try somebody else.

00:15:18.540 You know,

00:15:18.720 that's what it looks like

00:15:19.580 when you're trying

00:15:20.140 to get something done.

00:15:21.640 But when you're slow walking,

00:15:23.740 you do what you're told to do,

00:15:25.520 and you just make it look like

00:15:26.900 you're following orders.

00:15:29.820 To me,

00:15:30.460 it looks a lot like

00:15:31.320 the generals are slow walking this

00:15:33.100 because they don't want to win.

00:15:37.440 And one reason

00:15:38.600 that they might not want to win

00:15:40.080 is that they think

00:15:41.060 Putin has lost it,

00:15:43.040 and if they lose the war,

00:15:45.700 then they could have

00:15:47.980 a justification

00:15:48.680 for taking Putin out.

00:15:50.960 A palace coup,

00:15:51.820 as it were.

00:15:54.260 At the moment,

00:15:55.420 correct me if I'm wrong,

00:15:56.920 Putin is still wildly popular

00:15:58.720 in Russia.

00:16:00.460 And taking Ukraine, 0.90

00:16:01.400 I think taking Crimea

00:16:02.440 brought him to like

00:16:03.720 80% popularity,

00:16:05.040 didn't it?

00:16:05.420 At least for a while.

00:16:06.080 Who knows if those numbers

00:16:08.020 are accurate.

00:16:09.560 But there's no way

00:16:12.260 that anybody could

00:16:13.520 take Putin out

00:16:14.420 unless they degrade his,

00:16:16.480 let's say,

00:16:17.900 his reputation.

00:16:21.220 Are the generals

00:16:22.340 slow walking the war

00:16:24.220 because they have

00:16:25.720 no reason to win?

00:16:27.180 There's nothing in it for them.

00:16:29.120 And their best play,

00:16:30.940 if they think Putin

00:16:32.300 has lost it,

00:16:33.700 and that he's actually

00:16:34.440 just dangerous at this point,

00:16:36.360 they might try to

00:16:37.740 slow walk the war

00:16:38.720 and not try to win.

00:16:43.880 There's huge corruption

00:16:44.960 in the Russian army.

00:16:45.900 Yeah, I don't know

00:16:46.380 if that plays a part in it.

00:16:52.980 Maybe he thought

00:16:53.820 it would be like

00:16:54.420 taking Crimea.

00:16:55.740 Yeah.

00:16:56.000 Now let's talk about

00:16:58.400 why it's not.

00:17:00.460 Have you all seen

00:17:01.140 some drone footage

00:17:02.260 of what looks like

00:17:03.340 Ukrainian-operated drones?

00:17:08.240 I think they're

00:17:08.820 Turkish by design. 0.94

00:17:11.540 And I asked

00:17:12.820 how many they have

00:17:13.680 and how many would it take

00:17:14.660 to stop

00:17:15.200 a Russian incursion?

00:17:18.800 Well, the big variable here

00:17:20.940 is the Russian

00:17:22.840 anti-aircraft

00:17:24.120 defenses.

00:17:26.760 So presumably,

00:17:28.260 you know,

00:17:28.480 so I'm not a military person,

00:17:29.740 so correct me

00:17:30.700 in real time

00:17:31.260 as I go, right?

00:17:32.140 I'm just saying

00:17:32.980 some things

00:17:34.000 that sound logical

00:17:34.820 but they may not

00:17:35.640 be militarily sound.

00:17:38.200 That I would think

00:17:39.280 that the only defense

00:17:40.480 the invading army

00:17:42.060 would have

00:17:42.680 would be

00:17:44.300 ground-based

00:17:45.300 anti-aircraft.

00:17:46.760 So if a

00:17:47.980 serious military drone

00:17:49.280 came into the airspace,

00:17:50.700 they would try to

00:17:51.240 shoot it down

00:17:51.740 with the anti-aircraft.

00:17:52.880 Am I right?

00:17:53.300 If the drone

00:17:55.900 or some other

00:17:56.920 kind of weapons

00:17:58.740 took out

00:17:59.860 their ground-based

00:18:00.900 anti-aircraft,

00:18:02.540 which would be

00:18:03.280 easy to identify

00:18:04.160 because apparently

00:18:05.500 they'd just come in

00:18:06.220 on a big highway

00:18:06.880 during the daytime.

00:18:09.040 If you're looking

00:18:09.920 down from above

00:18:10.880 with satellites

00:18:11.780 or anything else,

00:18:12.880 drones or satellites

00:18:13.900 or who knows,

00:18:15.200 can't you just see them?

00:18:17.640 And, you know,

00:18:18.580 you're also talking

00:18:19.340 about jamming equipment.

00:18:20.920 Couldn't we just see

00:18:21.620 the jamming equipment?

00:18:22.440 And then could we

00:18:24.040 take that out first?

00:18:26.100 So here's the real question.

00:18:28.240 Could we take out

00:18:29.060 their jamming

00:18:29.860 and anti-aircraft

00:18:31.060 so soon

00:18:32.840 that they would

00:18:34.440 come into the country 1.00

00:18:35.220 naked?

00:18:36.780 In other words,

00:18:37.740 it's the only thing

00:18:38.580 you target.

00:18:39.680 As soon as the convoy

00:18:40.800 comes across the bridge,

00:18:42.160 you take out

00:18:42.920 their anti-aircraft

00:18:43.960 and then here's

00:18:44.820 the genius part.

00:18:46.400 You let them in.

00:18:48.120 But you let them in

00:18:48.980 naked

00:18:49.300 because they wouldn't

00:18:50.580 have anti-aircraft.

00:18:51.580 You took it out first.

00:18:52.440 Once they're in

00:18:53.700 and it's hard

00:18:55.120 for them to go back,

00:18:56.960 you just pick them off.

00:18:59.440 And here's the real question.

00:19:01.920 What kind of hardware

00:19:02.860 or equipment

00:19:03.500 would it take

00:19:04.200 to make sure

00:19:05.540 that you could

00:19:07.940 take out

00:19:08.440 their anti-aircraft

00:19:10.060 on the ground

00:19:10.780 before they can

00:19:12.540 take out

00:19:12.980 your whatever it is

00:19:13.940 that's taking out

00:19:14.560 the anti-aircraft?

00:19:17.120 Do you think

00:19:17.900 that might have been

00:19:18.740 maybe some

00:19:19.720 American equipment

00:19:20.660 involved in that?

00:19:23.920 You know,

00:19:24.420 I don't know

00:19:24.760 if there would be

00:19:25.300 an American operator,

00:19:26.500 but there might be

00:19:26.980 American equipment

00:19:27.880 involved in that

00:19:29.580 somehow.

00:19:32.040 So,

00:19:33.040 I do believe

00:19:34.680 that it wouldn't be hard

00:19:35.820 for ground-based

00:19:38.900 anti-aircraft

00:19:39.800 or jamming

00:19:40.620 to take out

00:19:41.120 a drone.

00:19:41.480 but if we had

00:19:44.840 missiles

00:19:45.360 that could be

00:19:47.400 guided onto

00:19:48.300 an incoming transport,

00:19:49.720 let's say you had

00:19:50.220 a spotter.

00:19:51.660 This is a real thing,

00:19:52.700 right?

00:19:53.040 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:19:54.200 If you have

00:19:54.600 special forces

00:19:55.400 and they have

00:19:56.760 a visual sight

00:19:58.080 of an incoming convoy,

00:20:00.520 doesn't the special forces

00:20:01.820 just put a

00:20:02.700 laser tag

00:20:04.800 on whatever

00:20:05.940 they want to blow up

00:20:07.000 and then

00:20:08.180 a missile

00:20:08.540 arrives

00:20:09.100 from some

00:20:09.840 distant place

00:20:11.340 and it follows

00:20:12.680 the laser pointer

00:20:13.600 to the exact target?

00:20:16.260 Right?

00:20:16.820 Now,

00:20:17.240 wouldn't it be

00:20:17.640 really hard

00:20:18.100 to shoot

00:20:18.580 that missile down?

00:20:20.040 It would be

00:20:20.400 a lot harder

00:20:20.900 than shooting

00:20:21.340 down a drone,

00:20:22.640 right?

00:20:23.940 Am I right

00:20:24.480 about that?

00:20:24.880 So I don't know

00:20:31.700 what technology

00:20:32.420 we have

00:20:32.960 for blowing up

00:20:33.820 anti-aircraft

00:20:34.740 stuff on the ground,

00:20:35.880 but I would guess

00:20:36.980 if you could see it,

00:20:38.600 that's all you need.

00:20:40.500 If you have

00:20:41.220 modern equipment

00:20:42.000 and you have

00:20:43.600 a visual sight

00:20:44.600 on it

00:20:44.940 as it comes in,

00:20:45.840 isn't it gone?

00:20:48.560 I mean,

00:20:48.860 it's pretty much

00:20:49.520 gone if you can

00:20:50.360 see it,

00:20:50.920 right?

00:20:51.700 And then once

00:20:52.520 that's gone,

00:20:53.560 I feel like

00:20:55.540 you can just

00:20:55.960 pick them off.

00:20:57.240 So how many

00:20:57.920 drones does

00:20:58.860 these high-end

00:21:00.040 drones,

00:21:01.240 how many of them

00:21:01.960 does Ukraine

00:21:02.760 manage?

00:21:04.340 I looked that up,

00:21:05.440 somebody said 10,

00:21:06.760 I saw an article

00:21:07.740 that said 20.

00:21:09.320 You know what

00:21:09.700 the real answer is?

00:21:11.640 How would we know?

00:21:13.380 Would we really know?

00:21:15.460 And if they had

00:21:16.200 20 on

00:21:16.960 Saturday,

00:21:19.160 how many did

00:21:20.000 they have on Sunday?

00:21:22.360 Because they fly,

00:21:23.340 right?

00:21:23.720 I mean,

00:21:24.060 I don't know

00:21:24.460 how hard it is

00:21:25.180 to deliver a drone

00:21:26.140 to a war zone,

00:21:27.500 given that they fly.

00:21:30.860 But

00:21:31.260 Ukraine seems 0.90

00:21:34.160 to have lost

00:21:34.640 five drones,

00:21:35.480 somebody says.

00:21:36.280 You know,

00:21:36.500 everything's fog of war,

00:21:37.580 so we don't

00:21:38.740 believe it.

00:21:40.020 An Apache 0.99

00:21:40.540 helicopter would work.

00:21:42.720 Would work for what?

00:21:47.460 Yeah.

00:21:47.900 All the videos

00:21:54.140 about Russia losing

00:21:55.160 are in Telegram,

00:21:56.760 but that would

00:21:57.520 also suggest

00:21:58.280 they're not real,

00:21:59.860 because if they're

00:22:00.680 real,

00:22:01.180 they would jump

00:22:01.640 from Telegram

00:22:02.460 to the regular

00:22:03.580 news pretty quickly,

00:22:04.860 because the regular

00:22:05.560 news would love

00:22:06.220 to show that story

00:22:07.060 of Russia losing.

00:22:08.560 So there's something

00:22:09.340 not tracking here.

00:22:11.740 Well,

00:22:11.920 there's a lot

00:22:12.300 not tracking.

00:22:12.800 So here's my

00:22:15.140 hypothesis.

00:22:18.080 In addition

00:22:18.720 to all the stingers,

00:22:21.600 you know,

00:22:21.780 what about

00:22:22.320 one of those

00:22:22.960 anti-tank weapons?

00:22:25.120 If you had

00:22:25.880 the high ground

00:22:26.640 and you could see

00:22:28.320 a military convoy

00:22:30.020 coming by,

00:22:31.020 couldn't you

00:22:31.440 recognize and

00:22:32.280 destroy

00:22:32.780 the anti-aircraft

00:22:34.640 stuff

00:22:35.900 pretty easily?

00:22:39.000 I don't know.

00:22:39.840 So I'm guessing

00:22:40.560 that the Ukrainians

00:22:41.420 just have better

00:22:42.000 equipment than

00:22:42.560 we think,

00:22:43.020 or they're

00:22:43.280 using it better.

00:22:44.580 And I don't know.

00:22:46.660 I think we may

00:22:47.440 have reached a

00:22:47.940 point in history

00:22:48.680 where as long

00:22:50.700 as a country

00:22:51.320 has access

00:22:52.000 to unlimited

00:22:52.780 technology from

00:22:53.840 the outside,

00:22:55.320 nobody can

00:22:56.060 conquer and

00:22:56.560 hold them.

00:22:58.040 And I think

00:22:58.740 maybe having a

00:22:59.580 border with

00:23:00.120 friendly countries

00:23:00.920 is all you need.

00:23:02.900 That as long

00:23:03.480 as you have a

00:23:03.940 border with a

00:23:04.520 friendly country,

00:23:06.000 and there are

00:23:06.480 other countries

00:23:07.120 that are willing

00:23:07.580 to support you

00:23:08.320 financially by

00:23:09.100 sending you

00:23:09.580 unlimited military

00:23:10.640 stuff,

00:23:11.600 then nobody

00:23:12.080 can hold

00:23:12.520 the country

00:23:12.960 because it

00:23:13.820 would just

00:23:14.080 be too hard.

00:23:15.500 Because if you

00:23:16.000 can put in

00:23:16.420 one person's

00:23:17.120 hand enough

00:23:18.560 firepower to

00:23:19.300 take out a

00:23:19.800 building,

00:23:21.220 which largely

00:23:22.520 we have now,

00:23:23.640 if one person

00:23:24.580 with a handheld

00:23:25.280 weapon can take

00:23:26.040 out a whole

00:23:26.380 building or a

00:23:27.480 tank,

00:23:28.620 I don't know

00:23:28.920 how you can

00:23:29.280 hold the

00:23:29.560 country.

00:23:29.820 Russia's stock 0.92

00:23:34.220 market closed,

00:23:35.560 the ruble is

00:23:36.140 plummeting,

00:23:37.140 sanctions are

00:23:37.880 on, the

00:23:38.660 Russian

00:23:39.680 central bank

00:23:42.680 is going to

00:23:43.180 be stalled

00:23:44.480 in a variety

00:23:45.120 of ways.

00:23:46.620 And I guess

00:23:47.020 Putin's response

00:23:47.920 to that was to

00:23:48.560 put his nuclear

00:23:49.560 arsenal on some

00:23:51.060 kind of high

00:23:51.600 alert.

00:23:52.860 Now, I don't

00:23:53.480 believe we have

00:23:54.120 responded or

00:23:54.940 anybody's responded

00:23:55.780 because that looks

00:23:56.940 like just

00:23:57.820 posturing.

00:24:00.600 Looks like

00:24:01.460 posturing.

00:24:03.080 We hope.

00:24:04.600 But, here's

00:24:06.040 the question.

00:24:07.600 I'm still

00:24:08.400 seeing the

00:24:09.140 two world

00:24:10.060 reporting.

00:24:10.820 One is that

00:24:11.460 the sanctions

00:24:11.960 are too weak

00:24:12.740 and Putin will

00:24:14.160 just ignore them.

00:24:15.400 And the other

00:24:15.840 is the sanctions

00:24:16.700 are devastating.

00:24:19.600 Why don't we

00:24:20.420 know that?

00:24:22.160 Don't you think

00:24:22.800 that would be

00:24:23.180 like a basic

00:24:23.840 thing to know

00:24:24.420 about this story?

00:24:25.260 Maybe the most

00:24:25.920 basic thing.

00:24:26.940 The most

00:24:27.540 basic thing

00:24:28.120 about the

00:24:28.460 story is

00:24:28.900 are the

00:24:29.720 sanctions

00:24:30.160 really going

00:24:30.740 to make

00:24:30.960 a difference?

00:24:32.260 Like, are

00:24:32.560 they the

00:24:32.920 type that

00:24:33.380 would make

00:24:33.720 a difference?

00:24:34.620 And apparently

00:24:35.320 we don't

00:24:35.740 even know

00:24:36.140 that.

00:24:38.460 Apparently

00:24:38.860 we don't

00:24:39.260 even know

00:24:39.660 that.

00:24:41.480 Yeah, so

00:24:42.080 SWIFT has

00:24:42.880 kicked in as

00:24:43.920 at least

00:24:44.540 partial

00:24:45.600 problem there.

00:24:47.560 Some people

00:24:48.160 say, hey,

00:24:48.860 crippling 80% 1.00

00:24:49.780 of Russia's

00:24:50.880 banks will

00:24:51.520 plunge them

00:24:52.420 into economic

00:24:53.220 despair.

00:24:54.320 And then other

00:24:54.900 people are

00:24:55.300 saying, well,

00:24:56.500 Putin only

00:24:57.580 needs 20%

00:24:58.380 of the banks

00:24:58.860 and he can

00:24:59.200 do whatever

00:24:59.520 he wants.

00:25:00.800 But I don't

00:25:01.480 think that's

00:25:01.940 true either.

00:25:03.720 Yeah, we're

00:25:04.260 still buying

00:25:04.740 Russian oil,

00:25:05.440 which is just

00:25:05.900 the weirdest

00:25:06.300 thing.

00:25:07.620 But I suppose

00:25:08.200 if they're

00:25:08.520 willing to sell

00:25:09.080 it to us

00:25:09.440 at a good

00:25:09.780 price, we

00:25:10.320 should buy it.

00:25:12.020 None of

00:25:19.360 them is real.

00:25:20.560 Well, none of

00:25:21.080 the information

00:25:21.560 is real, I'm

00:25:22.140 sure.

00:25:23.040 Germany says

00:25:23.820 it's going to

00:25:24.200 keep its

00:25:24.560 nuclear plants

00:25:25.260 longer, partly

00:25:26.140 in response to

00:25:27.200 feeling vulnerable

00:25:28.740 in their energy

00:25:29.520 supply.

00:25:30.500 So why did it

00:25:31.480 take so long

00:25:32.140 for Germany to

00:25:33.120 decide to

00:25:34.000 extend its

00:25:35.420 nuclear power

00:25:36.000 plants?

00:25:36.960 Well, it turns

00:25:37.900 out we have a

00:25:38.540 new little

00:25:38.920 report about

00:25:40.440 Russia.

00:25:42.140 Apparently the

00:25:42.780 Russian energy

00:25:44.720 giant Gazprom,

00:25:47.220 and this is

00:25:48.020 reported by

00:25:48.860 Zion Lights,

00:25:52.380 she's saying

00:25:52.860 and apparently

00:25:53.720 Dominique Rene

00:25:55.360 reports, I

00:25:56.380 don't know who

00:25:56.660 that is, that

00:25:58.000 we found that

00:25:58.720 Gazprom funded

00:25:59.580 environmental

00:26:00.220 NGOs, non-government

00:26:03.140 organizations, that

00:26:04.260 provide ministers to

00:26:05.280 various governments

00:26:05.920 such as Belgium,

00:26:07.240 which then

00:26:07.660 advocated a

00:26:08.460 abandoning

00:26:09.040 nuclear power.

00:26:10.340 In other words,

00:26:11.900 the competitor to

00:26:13.120 nuclear power, the

00:26:14.460 Russian competitor,

00:26:16.740 had been funding

00:26:17.700 disinformation to

00:26:20.080 get people to get

00:26:21.000 out of nuclear,

00:26:21.900 because nuclear was

00:26:22.760 actually the better

00:26:23.540 solution.

00:26:26.160 So, thank you

00:26:28.300 Russia.

00:26:30.040 And do you

00:26:31.060 remember when

00:26:31.580 there was this

00:26:32.240 guy, I can't

00:26:33.700 remember his name,

00:26:34.620 maybe you can

00:26:35.160 remember, he had

00:26:36.580 orange hair, he

00:26:37.920 was the president

00:26:38.440 for a while,

00:26:39.480 and he called

00:26:39.940 China, he 1.00

00:26:42.300 said that

00:26:42.800 climate change

00:26:44.440 was a Chinese

00:26:45.480 hoax, and

00:26:47.720 it turned out to

00:26:48.320 be a Russian

00:26:48.760 hoax, like

00:26:50.660 actually,

00:26:51.300 literally a

00:26:51.760 Russian hoax,

00:26:53.400 in the sense

00:26:54.600 that Russia,

00:26:56.180 you know,

00:26:56.440 Russia's, a 0.98

00:26:57.800 Russia-owned,

00:26:58.880 you know,

00:26:59.580 energy giant was

00:27:00.700 literally trying to

00:27:01.720 disinform the

00:27:02.680 public to change

00:27:04.280 the course of

00:27:06.320 civilization away

00:27:07.900 from nuclear,

00:27:09.220 which probably

00:27:10.600 is going to be

00:27:12.480 one of the

00:27:12.880 biggest problems

00:27:13.500 that ever happened

00:27:14.180 on the planet

00:27:14.720 Earth, according

00:27:16.540 to the climate

00:27:17.840 people.

00:27:20.060 All right, so

00:27:20.840 thanks for that.

00:27:23.380 This story, of

00:27:24.380 course, the next

00:27:25.140 story was I saw

00:27:26.100 in Fox News, so

00:27:28.240 you're going to

00:27:28.900 have to give it a

00:27:29.660 grain of salt for

00:27:30.560 the bias, because

00:27:32.000 when they talk

00:27:32.500 about their

00:27:32.860 competitors, it's

00:27:34.620 always interesting,

00:27:35.440 and it's funny,

00:27:36.900 but remember, it's

00:27:37.960 somebody reporting

00:27:39.020 on their

00:27:39.360 competitors, so

00:27:40.180 they're going to

00:27:40.580 paint them in a

00:27:41.020 bad light.

00:27:42.160 But I guess Tom

00:27:44.380 Cotton, I didn't

00:27:44.980 see it, but Tom

00:27:45.620 Cotton was on

00:27:46.360 ABC News with

00:27:47.860 Stepanopheles, and

00:27:50.260 Stepanopheles,

00:27:51.160 apparently,

00:27:51.960 reportedly, was

00:27:53.320 getting frustrated

00:27:54.720 because he

00:27:55.880 couldn't make

00:27:56.460 Tom Cotton

00:27:57.260 insult Trump,

00:27:59.820 to which I

00:28:01.020 say,

00:28:02.000 why was

00:28:03.200 Trump really

00:28:04.460 even the

00:28:04.960 topic?

00:28:06.060 Now, we get

00:28:06.680 that he made

00:28:07.280 some decisions,

00:28:08.280 he said good

00:28:09.140 things about

00:28:09.680 Putin, but

00:28:11.040 Cotton was

00:28:12.040 refusing, just

00:28:14.060 saying, you

00:28:14.520 should have

00:28:14.840 Trump on if

00:28:15.440 you want to

00:28:15.760 talk to him,

00:28:16.980 and Tom

00:28:17.820 Cotton just

00:28:18.280 focused on the

00:28:19.400 actual real

00:28:20.440 issues.

00:28:22.100 And apparently

00:28:23.540 that was a

00:28:24.500 terrible thing

00:28:25.100 because ABC

00:28:26.000 only wanted to

00:28:26.860 use the

00:28:27.220 opportunity of

00:28:29.460 this event that

00:28:30.240 has nothing to

00:28:30.860 do with Trump

00:28:31.500 to make it

00:28:32.520 an anti-Trump

00:28:33.280 story.

00:28:34.680 And they're

00:28:35.680 still trying to

00:28:36.400 torture the

00:28:37.280 fact that

00:28:38.520 Trump plays to

00:28:39.680 Putin's ego and

00:28:41.080 calls him smart.

00:28:42.720 They're trying to

00:28:43.320 make that into a

00:28:44.100 story negative

00:28:45.040 about Trump,

00:28:46.460 when in fact,

00:28:48.740 he is the

00:28:49.380 smartest person in

00:28:50.260 the game.

00:28:51.060 Because you

00:28:51.700 should absolutely

00:28:52.600 tell Putin he's

00:28:53.460 smart while you're

00:28:56.060 arming Ukraine,

00:28:57.460 and while you're

00:28:59.380 doing everything

00:28:59.900 you can to

00:29:00.540 minimize his

00:29:01.200 impact, you

00:29:02.120 should totally

00:29:02.600 call him smart.

00:29:04.420 Because you

00:29:05.120 take away one

00:29:06.100 ego reason for

00:29:07.240 him to act

00:29:07.660 irrationally.

00:29:08.820 You want Putin

00:29:09.700 to act rationally,

00:29:11.140 so don't give him

00:29:12.400 a reason to act

00:29:13.080 irrationally.

00:29:14.260 Don't make it

00:29:14.840 personal.

00:29:17.360 Trump is just a

00:29:18.320 better negotiator.

00:29:20.100 Do you know

00:29:20.380 what, here's some

00:29:21.880 advice for Tom

00:29:22.700 Cotton.

00:29:23.020 You should say,

00:29:25.820 I don't know,

00:29:26.300 Trump is a

00:29:26.860 salesperson.

00:29:27.980 Does a salesperson

00:29:28.920 usually insult the

00:29:29.880 buyer?

00:29:31.820 And then just be

00:29:32.720 done.

00:29:33.700 And if he asks the

00:29:34.380 question again,

00:29:35.020 well, but do you

00:29:36.160 think it was wise to

00:29:37.380 praise Putin like

00:29:38.320 that?

00:29:38.600 I would just say the

00:29:39.300 same answer again.

00:29:40.700 Trump is a

00:29:41.440 salesperson.

00:29:42.380 He tells you he's

00:29:43.300 a salesperson.

00:29:44.640 He tells you what

00:29:45.540 he's selling.

00:29:46.420 He even tells you

00:29:47.080 how he's selling

00:29:47.660 it.

00:29:48.600 He does it right

00:29:49.300 in front of you

00:29:49.880 transparently.

00:29:51.260 He's selling

00:29:52.100 something to

00:29:53.680 Putin.

00:29:54.680 Do you want

00:29:55.180 your salesperson

00:29:55.940 to insult the

00:29:56.720 customer or to

00:29:57.920 sell the way

00:29:58.540 sales has worked

00:29:59.520 since the

00:29:59.960 beginning of time

00:30:00.740 where you praise

00:30:02.240 the customer,

00:30:02.860 you tell them

00:30:03.180 they're making

00:30:03.540 excellent choices,

00:30:04.800 and then you

00:30:05.580 work with them

00:30:06.120 to persuade them

00:30:06.880 in the direction

00:30:07.340 you want?

00:30:08.020 Which one works?

00:30:10.600 I think the

00:30:11.660 next politician

00:30:12.640 who's asked to

00:30:13.400 answer for Trump

00:30:14.340 just needs to

00:30:15.780 go high ground

00:30:16.760 and just slap 1.00

00:30:17.880 the shit out of

00:30:18.580 whoever's asking

00:30:19.180 the question.

00:30:20.500 I mean, you

00:30:21.320 know, with

00:30:21.840 words, not

00:30:22.440 with slapping.

00:30:24.600 Am I right?

00:30:26.280 It's the easiest

00:30:27.280 defense you could

00:30:28.060 ever have.

00:30:29.120 Trump's a

00:30:29.580 salesperson.

00:30:31.000 Is he supposed

00:30:31.580 to insult the

00:30:32.280 customer?

00:30:33.480 Well, how would

00:30:33.920 you do it?

00:30:35.060 How would you

00:30:35.560 plan it,

00:30:36.620 Stepanopheles?

00:30:37.960 What's your plan?

00:30:39.000 Insult the guy

00:30:39.660 you're negotiating

00:30:40.260 with?

00:30:42.220 When has that

00:30:43.000 ever worked?

00:30:44.180 In the history

00:30:44.920 of all negotiations

00:30:47.280 from the beginning

00:30:48.060 of time, when

00:30:49.260 has that ever

00:30:49.900 worked?

00:30:50.280 your idea.

00:30:51.800 So why don't

00:30:52.180 you defend

00:30:52.760 why you think

00:30:53.940 it's a problem

00:30:54.600 to negotiate

00:30:56.340 exactly the way

00:30:58.040 it has always

00:30:58.560 worked since

00:30:59.080 the beginning

00:30:59.460 of time?

00:31:01.200 So, Stepanopheles,

00:31:02.500 do you have

00:31:02.820 access to some

00:31:03.980 kind of new

00:31:04.440 research that

00:31:05.840 says the thing

00:31:06.420 that has always

00:31:07.160 worked,

00:31:08.680 everywhere in

00:31:09.540 every context,

00:31:11.200 won't work in

00:31:11.900 this one case?

00:31:13.680 I mean, he

00:31:14.020 should have

00:31:14.240 turned it around

00:31:14.840 and just crushed

00:31:16.440 it.

00:31:16.680 because the

00:31:17.920 opportunity was

00:31:18.640 there.

00:31:19.420 I think I

00:31:19.980 would have

00:31:20.180 done it.

00:31:22.820 All right.

00:31:25.640 Did I see

00:31:26.480 in the comments

00:31:27.340 somebody said

00:31:27.880 the ruble's

00:31:28.440 down 30%?

00:31:30.640 Does it

00:31:31.160 matter?

00:31:32.200 I don't know.

00:31:33.260 We're seeing

00:31:33.780 Bitcoin being

00:31:34.860 part of the

00:31:35.900 story.

00:31:37.640 Bitcoin,

00:31:38.380 part of the

00:31:38.720 story.

00:31:39.080 So I guess

00:31:39.400 people are

00:31:39.820 donating.

00:31:40.200 I heard it

00:31:41.420 was a million

00:31:41.940 dollars so far

00:31:42.740 to Ukraine,

00:31:43.360 which is really

00:31:44.660 not enough

00:31:45.140 to make a

00:31:45.500 difference in

00:31:45.940 anything.

00:31:46.740 But it does

00:31:47.420 show that

00:31:48.380 crypto might

00:31:50.020 be a necessary

00:31:51.100 tool against

00:31:52.280 despots.

00:31:54.340 Meaning that

00:31:55.220 if the people

00:31:56.300 in Ukraine

00:31:56.820 think it's

00:31:57.420 money,

00:31:58.340 well, it's

00:31:58.800 money.

00:32:00.160 If they

00:32:00.880 treat it like

00:32:01.380 money, it's

00:32:01.800 money.

00:32:03.080 So Russia 0.88

00:32:05.860 is using

00:32:06.340 crypto.

00:32:06.780 Everybody's

00:32:07.160 using crypto

00:32:07.680 at this point,

00:32:08.220 I think.

00:32:10.020 Russian interest

00:32:10.780 rates went

00:32:11.260 from 9.5 to

00:32:12.420 20%.

00:32:13.300 Now, I

00:32:15.280 imagine that

00:32:15.920 Putin is

00:32:16.620 telling the

00:32:17.740 public it's

00:32:18.300 temporary.

00:32:20.260 Have we

00:32:20.900 heard anything

00:32:21.360 like that

00:32:21.900 where we

00:32:23.640 are?

00:32:25.580 Yeah, it's

00:32:26.240 temporary.

00:32:26.720 He's going to

00:32:27.100 go all Biden

00:32:27.740 on that.

00:32:28.100 It's transient.

00:32:29.340 It's totally

00:32:29.780 transient.

00:32:31.180 Don't get all

00:32:31.820 worried about

00:32:32.280 this transient

00:32:32.960 stuff.

00:32:35.020 Yep,

00:32:35.340 transitory

00:32:35.900 inflation.

00:32:36.500 That's what

00:32:36.780 he's going

00:32:37.020 to say.

00:32:38.100 All right.

00:32:40.360 There's really

00:32:41.060 nothing else

00:32:41.620 happening except

00:32:42.300 the war,

00:32:42.880 am I right?

00:32:43.300 Red Cross

00:32:47.360 needs donations

00:32:48.100 for Poland,

00:32:48.900 somebody says.

00:32:53.280 No videos

00:32:54.100 of Russia

00:32:54.600 sucking.

00:32:56.220 Well, there's

00:32:56.580 no...

00:32:57.100 I'm just

00:32:58.260 really puzzled

00:32:58.900 by the lack

00:32:59.420 of video.

00:33:05.200 Yes, and

00:33:05.920 does it seem

00:33:06.440 that COVID

00:33:06.900 was cured

00:33:07.480 by war?

00:33:09.820 So we're

00:33:10.460 not hearing

00:33:10.880 about Durham,

00:33:11.740 we're not

00:33:11.980 hearing...

00:33:12.880 I don't

00:33:13.560 think the

00:33:13.920 war is

00:33:14.220 a diversion

00:33:14.660 from those

00:33:15.160 things.

00:33:17.500 Yeah, the

00:33:18.140 trucker

00:33:18.480 convoy, we're

00:33:19.300 not hearing

00:33:19.620 about anything.

00:33:23.520 New York

00:33:24.120 City is

00:33:24.580 lifting

00:33:24.960 vax

00:33:25.400 passports

00:33:26.180 March 7th.

00:33:27.360 Now, I

00:33:30.100 saw a

00:33:30.920 headline about

00:33:32.660 schools no

00:33:33.580 longer needing

00:33:34.220 masks, either

00:33:36.220 now or very

00:33:36.980 soon, but

00:33:37.500 that's not

00:33:37.920 true.

00:33:38.980 Is it?

00:33:40.860 That was

00:33:41.460 fake news,

00:33:42.060 right?

00:33:42.380 Because my

00:33:43.880 local school

00:33:44.460 still has masks,

00:33:45.200 as far as I

00:33:45.780 know.

00:33:45.920 what do you

00:33:50.760 expect from the

00:33:51.580 State of the

00:33:51.940 Union?

00:33:53.420 Is that

00:33:53.960 tomorrow?

00:33:55.320 When is the

00:33:56.000 State of the

00:33:56.380 Union?

00:33:56.840 Tomorrow?

00:33:59.480 Or is it

00:34:00.100 today?

00:34:00.480 Tomorrow?

00:34:00.760 Well, I would

00:34:02.880 agree with what

00:34:03.560 I saw in the

00:34:04.020 news, that

00:34:05.660 Biden is

00:34:06.600 probably rewriting

00:34:07.480 the State of the

00:34:09.320 Union, and he

00:34:09.900 might rewrite it

00:34:10.720 right up to the

00:34:11.460 moment of the

00:34:12.340 speech itself.

00:34:13.180 because I

00:34:13.960 think events

00:34:14.620 in Ukraine are

00:34:16.800 going to have to

00:34:17.300 be mentioned in

00:34:18.560 their most current

00:34:19.380 form, and who

00:34:21.420 knows in 24

00:34:23.240 hours, who

00:34:23.800 knows?

00:34:26.040 Now, well,

00:34:29.380 yeah, somebody's

00:34:30.220 writing it.

00:34:37.440 Yeah, gold, is

00:34:38.920 gold still going

00:34:39.920 up?

00:34:40.740 I've never

00:34:41.540 understood gold.

00:34:43.180 As a store of

00:34:44.100 value.

00:34:45.280 I've never

00:34:45.860 owned gold.

00:34:47.680 Because, you

00:34:48.300 know, I get that

00:34:48.880 it would have

00:34:49.180 made sense.

00:34:49.860 You know, in

00:34:50.180 retrospect, wouldn't

00:34:51.460 it have been nice

00:34:52.080 if I had 5% gold

00:34:53.200 or something?

00:34:54.340 But I've never

00:34:58.720 understood it

00:34:59.400 because gold is

00:35:00.680 the one thing that

00:35:01.340 could go to a

00:35:02.240 very low price

00:35:03.200 very quickly.

00:35:04.500 I realize it has

00:35:05.440 industrial use and

00:35:06.620 jewelry use and

00:35:07.540 that.

00:35:08.760 But once you get

00:35:09.680 past its actual

00:35:10.600 industrial application,

00:35:11.980 corporation, I

00:35:13.220 just wouldn't put

00:35:13.820 money in something

00:35:14.780 that's that

00:35:16.880 sensitive.

00:35:18.280 Now, that said, I

00:35:19.260 do have a small

00:35:20.500 amount of crypto in

00:35:21.480 my portfolio.

00:35:22.860 But that's

00:35:23.540 diversification.

00:35:25.920 And some of it was

00:35:26.680 accidental.

00:35:31.260 Gold has a limited

00:35:32.360 supply, does it?

00:35:34.080 I don't know, does it?

00:35:34.880 All right.

00:35:41.240 Gold usually has

00:35:42.340 tungsten inside.

00:35:44.640 And we need that

00:35:45.640 for what?

00:35:46.380 Some technology?

00:35:48.620 You are uninformed.

00:35:52.080 Well, yes, I realize

00:35:53.400 that gold is technically

00:35:55.640 exactly limited.

00:35:56.940 Okay, I get your

00:35:57.780 point.

00:35:58.700 But remember, we

00:35:59.420 thought oil was

00:36:00.480 limited.

00:36:01.400 And then fracking

00:36:02.180 was invented.

00:36:02.800 If you think that

00:36:06.720 gold is limited

00:36:07.580 forever, I would

00:36:09.920 say, I don't

00:36:11.880 know, what if

00:36:12.380 somebody invents a

00:36:13.160 new way to find

00:36:13.780 it or a new way to

00:36:15.300 extract it?

00:36:16.520 What if somebody

00:36:17.160 invents a way to

00:36:17.840 create it?

00:36:19.500 You think we could

00:36:20.480 never get to the

00:36:21.060 point where we

00:36:21.680 could artificially

00:36:22.360 create gold?

00:36:25.220 I don't know.

00:36:26.000 Maybe we can't.

00:36:26.880 But if we're doing

00:36:27.500 fusion, I got a

00:36:29.160 feeling we could

00:36:29.720 make some

00:36:30.060 artificial minerals

00:36:31.620 at some point.

00:36:32.920 So it does seem

00:36:33.900 to me that there

00:36:34.500 could be a

00:36:35.160 technical advance

00:36:36.060 that would make

00:36:36.620 gold worthless

00:36:37.620 at some point.

00:36:40.960 I don't know

00:36:41.580 about asteroids.

00:36:44.900 Yeah, fillings

00:36:45.720 for teeth. 0.72

00:36:46.960 Except I don't

00:36:47.460 think you...

00:36:47.900 Do you want

00:36:48.240 gold?

00:36:48.620 I don't know

00:36:49.760 if you want

00:36:50.100 gold.

00:36:50.340 So Maya is

00:36:56.760 saying that the

00:36:57.380 MSM's narrative

00:36:58.560 is Ukraine is

00:36:59.440 a helpless

00:36:59.780 victim, hence

00:37:00.580 no videos of

00:37:01.500 Russia losing.

00:37:03.220 So, you know,

00:37:04.520 I don't know

00:37:04.880 who's a Ukrainian

00:37:07.380 troll or a

00:37:09.300 Russian troll,

00:37:10.240 but anybody who

00:37:11.600 has some

00:37:12.180 confidence that

00:37:14.160 they know what's

00:37:14.680 happening in these

00:37:15.320 cities, I'm going

00:37:16.500 to assume is a

00:37:17.340 troll.

00:37:18.600 Is that fair?

00:37:19.320 Anybody who

00:37:21.480 has confident

00:37:22.440 current predictions

00:37:24.200 about what's

00:37:24.900 happening in

00:37:25.600 Kiev or

00:37:26.580 Kharkiv, I

00:37:28.920 would say I

00:37:29.840 wouldn't believe

00:37:30.280 anything that

00:37:31.060 somebody said

00:37:31.600 about those

00:37:32.100 places at the

00:37:33.280 moment.

00:37:34.360 You know, maybe

00:37:34.740 in 48 hours we'll

00:37:36.500 know what happened

00:37:37.140 two days ago,

00:37:38.280 but I wouldn't

00:37:39.260 believe anybody who

00:37:40.000 says they know

00:37:40.460 what's happening

00:37:40.940 right now.

00:37:42.400 None of that

00:37:42.960 sounds real.

00:37:43.460 All right.

00:37:47.440 The fence in D.C.

00:37:48.580 has been put back

00:37:49.400 up.

00:37:49.660 I wonder what

00:37:50.060 that's about.

00:37:51.080 Or maybe the

00:37:51.640 State of the

00:37:52.020 Union.

00:37:54.820 The ruble has

00:37:55.860 been renamed the

00:37:56.860 rubble.

00:37:58.100 Oh, no, there's

00:37:58.920 a...

00:38:01.000 Wow.

00:38:02.080 The ruble is

00:38:03.020 rubble.

00:38:04.420 I'm sure somebody's

00:38:05.300 thought of that one

00:38:05.880 before, but I like

00:38:06.820 it.

00:38:08.480 Convoy.

00:38:09.280 So the trucker 0.78

00:38:10.000 convoy is heading

00:38:10.700 to D.C.

00:38:12.680 Is that worth

00:38:13.580 doing?

00:38:15.140 I don't even know

00:38:16.120 what mandates

00:38:16.700 are left.

00:38:19.400 Do American...

00:38:22.800 What mandates

00:38:23.800 are left?

00:38:24.280 I don't even know

00:38:24.720 what they're

00:38:24.920 fighting at this

00:38:25.540 point in the

00:38:26.920 United States.

00:38:28.380 It's a trap.

00:38:29.940 Yeah, I would...

00:38:31.080 I can't say I'm

00:38:32.260 necessarily in favor

00:38:33.240 of a U.S. 0.67

00:38:34.260 trucker convoy.

00:38:35.840 I'm not against

00:38:36.800 it.

00:38:37.140 I would be

00:38:37.540 uninformed, but I

00:38:38.560 don't know what

00:38:38.860 they're...

00:38:39.560 What are they...

00:38:40.560 What are they

00:38:41.240 trying to get

00:38:41.900 that isn't going

00:38:42.620 to happen on

00:38:43.180 its own anyway?

00:38:47.620 Yeah, I don't

00:38:48.240 know what that's

00:38:48.660 about.

00:38:52.940 So, Babak

00:38:53.940 Tagavi has

00:38:55.960 good videos,

00:38:56.640 you say?

00:38:59.960 All right.

00:39:00.680 That's all I

00:39:01.140 got for today,

00:39:01.820 so I won't

00:39:02.360 babble anymore.

00:39:03.360 And I will

00:39:04.020 let you go.

00:39:05.200 And shall we

00:39:06.560 talk again

00:39:07.020 tomorrow?

00:39:08.560 Anybody?

00:39:09.540 Yeah.

00:39:09.820 Kalen says,

00:39:14.520 Jesus, Scott

00:39:15.800 has absolutely

00:39:16.460 no idea of

00:39:17.260 what's going

00:39:17.660 on.

00:39:19.880 Kalen.

00:39:23.160 You may

00:39:23.820 have heard

00:39:24.160 that sometimes

00:39:24.840 I say harsh

00:39:25.880 things about

00:39:26.500 people who

00:39:28.420 make comments

00:39:29.040 of this nature,

00:39:29.980 very much of

00:39:30.740 the nature of

00:39:31.260 the comment

00:39:31.600 you're making.

00:39:32.500 In the past,

00:39:34.180 I do have a

00:39:35.400 history of

00:39:36.880 going off on

00:39:37.520 people who say

00:39:38.160 things like

00:39:38.600 that.

00:39:39.480 Because,

00:39:40.000 first of all,

00:39:40.940 you fucking 0.93

00:39:41.540 idiot. 0.79

00:39:42.860 That's what

00:39:43.420 I'm saying.

00:39:44.860 So, in order

00:39:45.560 to disagree

00:39:46.360 with me

00:39:47.040 when I say

00:39:48.780 I don't know

00:39:49.320 what's going

00:39:49.780 on there,

00:39:50.900 for you to

00:39:51.900 say,

00:39:52.720 Scott,

00:39:53.240 Scott,

00:39:53.540 Scott,

00:39:53.940 you don't

00:39:54.660 know what's

00:39:54.980 going on

00:39:55.360 there,

00:39:55.780 may I do

00:39:56.400 a short

00:39:57.080 skit

00:39:57.940 involving you,

00:39:59.720 fucking idiot, 1.00

00:40:00.860 and me?

00:40:01.980 I'll first

00:40:02.680 play the part

00:40:03.200 of me.

00:40:04.500 It's a fog

00:40:05.000 of war.

00:40:05.400 I wouldn't

00:40:05.980 believe anything

00:40:06.700 about anything

00:40:07.280 that's coming

00:40:07.760 out of there.

00:40:08.180 In fact,

00:40:08.880 I don't think

00:40:09.560 anybody should

00:40:10.140 trust any

00:40:10.700 of the

00:40:10.880 information

00:40:11.260 coming out

00:40:11.740 of there.

00:40:12.620 And now,

00:40:13.480 let me do

00:40:14.360 you,

00:40:15.180 fucking idiot. 0.98

00:40:16.560 Well,

00:40:17.340 Scott,

00:40:18.160 I don't think

00:40:19.100 you know

00:40:19.420 what's happening

00:40:19.920 over there.

00:40:21.840 Now,

00:40:22.480 back to me.

00:40:23.640 Yes,

00:40:24.400 fucking idiot, 1.00

00:40:25.880 that's exactly

00:40:26.880 what I just

00:40:27.940 fucking said,

00:40:29.160 you dickhead

00:40:29.900 piece of shit.

00:40:32.520 Well,

00:40:33.440 Scott,

00:40:33.960 I think

00:40:34.640 maybe you

00:40:35.100 should do

00:40:35.380 your own

00:40:35.740 research.

00:40:39.860 Okay,

00:40:40.900 you're agreeing

00:40:41.760 with me

00:40:42.140 really,

00:40:42.740 really hard

00:40:43.140 here that

00:40:44.120 I don't

00:40:44.580 know what's

00:40:45.040 going on,

00:40:46.100 and I

00:40:46.560 don't know

00:40:46.840 how to say

00:40:47.240 it in a

00:40:47.620 way that's

00:40:48.780 different,

00:40:50.320 and we'll

00:40:51.180 get through

00:40:51.780 to your

00:40:52.280 thick skull,

00:40:53.460 which is

00:40:53.900 apparently

00:40:54.320 entirely skull

00:40:55.440 material,

00:40:56.260 and no

00:40:56.880 brain whatsoever

00:40:57.800 on the

00:40:58.300 inside.

00:41:00.500 I guess

00:41:00.880 you don't

00:41:01.200 know what's

00:41:01.520 happening in

00:41:02.020 car keep.

00:41:02.700 Okay,

00:41:03.100 okay.

00:41:06.860 All right.

00:41:09.080 That's all

00:41:09.640 I got for

00:41:10.020 you today.

00:41:11.560 Thank you

00:41:12.140 for the

00:41:12.420 comments.

00:41:14.280 And by

00:41:14.580 the way,

00:41:15.460 I don't

00:41:16.080 know if

00:41:16.360 you caught

00:41:16.740 on to

00:41:17.080 this,

00:41:17.420 but I

00:41:18.740 don't know

00:41:19.000 what's

00:41:19.200 happening

00:41:19.540 over there

00:41:20.000 in Ukraine.

00:41:21.220 I know,

00:41:22.180 I know,

00:41:22.900 surprising

00:41:23.480 admission.

00:41:25.800 See you

00:41:26.360 tomorrow.

00:41:26.600 See you

00:41:27.600 tomorrow.

00:41:28.600 See you

00:41:29.600 tomorrow.

00:41:30.600 See you

00:41:31.600 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 28, 2022

Episode 1668 Scott Adams： Let's Figure Out What's Going On In Ukraine Without Any Useful Information

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