＂Russia's Drones Are From Iran＂ - Chris Cappy Uncovers EXPLOSIVE Alliance Against The West
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In this episode, we discuss the differences between China and the United States when it comes to military spending, and why China spends more than the U.S. in terms of military spending. We also talk about who is advancing the most in military technology, and who is catching up.
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Who are you noticing, Chris, that's advancing in military the most?
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I mean, when we look at budgets, right, Rob, if you can go back to that one that you had,
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you know, because we see this budget here, right?
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You got China, Russia, India, Saudi, UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, Ukraine combined
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I think that this is, it tells a story, an interesting story.
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And this ratio has been similar to this for a long time.
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I would say it doesn't tell the full story because I think China's actually spending a
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lot more than that because there's so many different ways that you can determine what's
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There's so many different ways that it's almost an accountant game where China, for
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instance, there's large parts of their, what we include in our military budget, like things
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like the Coast Guard and the National Guard, for instance, the National Guard budget, China
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does not include their, what you would call their National Guard is not included in their
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It's a separate thing that they include as part of their accounting for police force because
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so much of what China does is policing their own people.
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And this is the People's Armed Police, by the way, have flamethrowers and rocket launchers
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It's essentially another part of their military, but they just don't do the accounting that way.
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And there's a bunch of line items that are like that.
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And also with our 800 something billion dollars, I wonder how much of it is maintaining our
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Imagine the maintenance of that, the keeping, you know, that afloat.
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I would love to see the breakdown of how much the overseas bases are.
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I would make the argument that those bases are a net benefit to us, but they certainly
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A lot of times, though, the countries themselves pay for a lot of the stationing of our bases.
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In China, for instance, that budget is much larger also because of something called purchasing
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So if you account for it, and this is not a perfect example of how it works, but goods
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So buying an M16 here is different than what China would pay.
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So if you account for that discrepancy, basically there's a firm, an actual economics firm that
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ran the numbers, and they assessed that China's budget is probably closer to twice as high as
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If you see this other chart that we all see, and again, you're getting me to not question
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the drone part, the country's set to dominate drone warfare by 2028.
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And then you got, this is by The Guardian, you got China, we're at 1,000, China, 68, Russia,
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India, Australia, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Israel, okay?
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And how are they calculating those numbers, Rob?
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Is there a number to it, or what does the 1,000 mean?
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Brandon, can you send us what that 1,000 means in calculation?
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But when you're seeing, you know, drone warfare, future way of going to war, who is advancing
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I think with the drones is probably the, especially the organic to the squad, that level of smaller
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drone, I think we were caught off guard a little bit by the FPV drones, the first-person view drones that are
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just for, like, the size of one soldier can use.
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Because we were, for a long time, and still are, the leaders at the most high-tech and sophisticated
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But so much of what's happening, so much of the innovation is those lower-level drones.
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For instance, we are basically, right now, what's happening in the U.S. military is the
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largest transformation of how our forces fight since the 1980s.
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Like, in the 1980s, the military went through a giant overhaul in the Cold War when we got
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We got the Big Five systems, the HIMARS or the MLRS rockets.
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These systems changed our entire military doctrine of how we fight, and we went and we were able
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to defeat Iraq in several days using these new systems.
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And now we're doing—this was the land-sea battle doctrine.
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We're now doing multi-domain task force fighting, which we're seeing were less focus
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and emphasis on Abrams tanks and heavy tanks, more focus on these light Jeeps called infantry
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squad vehicles, kind of like going back, basically, to the Humvee of the 80s.
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And we're going to send troops out in these unarmored Humvees with—
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And then all those dudes are going to have drones with them.
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So this is the new meta, you could say, of how we're going to fight wars.
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It's so crazy to see an organization like the Army that's so opposed to change, and you
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really got to twist their arm to get them to make any kind—an institution like that
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So they're making massive, radical changes that they—more changes in the time span of
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Yeah, so drones, by the way, that 1,000 that we saw, that was 1,000 times 1,000.
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So we would be essentially at—it's 1,000 individual military drones, not dollars monetary.
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So 1,000 times 1,000, which means a million, that military drone warfare that's being built.
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By the way, when you look at—did you see the Russia drones that came out just released
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Did you see these black drones that were shown?
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Russia drones were just released, I think, three days ago, two days ago.
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And Russia appears to be launching—go a little bit lower, be launching.
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Oh, from the pickup truck, the Ford pickup trucks?
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If you go on X, type in the same phrase you put on there and just put it on X and see what
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Russia drones and X and see what it—what shows us.
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Go a little bit lower, Rob, to see what we see.
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There were these drones that were just absolutely—I mean, you can see the—go a little bit lower,
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Russia flaunts its massive drone—that's the one right there, July 22nd.
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Russia flaunts its massive drone war machine on state TV unveiling—yeah, this is the one.
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These Russians never want us to see these videos.
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It's funny because they got—those Shahed drones are from Iran.
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Iran were the ones that—very famously, Shahed drone is Iran basically set up these production facilities in Russia.
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They sent CUDS force operatives to help train them on how to use—because Russia has a lot of very sophisticated—it's kind of like the United States, where they have sophisticated weapon systems.
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But they had this gap in drone technology, and Iran happened to have the capability and the know-how for these type of explosive drones, and they provided that to Russia.
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Yeah, so these guys right here—pull it—zoom a little bit.
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Iran, North Korea, Communist Chinese Party, all of our allies are funding and helping Russia.
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They're all getting together and doing everything they can to help Russia, which is part of the reason why I am kind of of the mind that I'm like, maybe it's not such a bad idea for us in the West if all of our enemies—and I consider them our enemies.
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I think they don't want us to do well—if they're all backing Russia, putting resources in, I would say that's a pretty good argument and evidence for why—or what I would say is a strong evidence for why we should support Ukraine to the degree that it's in American interest.
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What else is Iran known for building outside of this?
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Oh, they get everything from, like, old Soviet Russian equipment, Chinese equipment.
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As far as I know, the drone is their big, like, claim to fame.
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Manufacturing military weapons, including various types of missiles, armored vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels.
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They do also—I should say, actually, that's—maybe that's not accurate.
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So all of the ballistic missiles that the Houthis use, their anti-ship missiles that they fire in the Red Sea, for instance, all of that is Iranian technology that the Iranians ship to the Houthis.
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