NATO companies host a drone military exhibition in ukraine so Russia strikes it with ballistic weapons and kills them

Russian strikes on Ukrainian drone exhibition. Let's have a bit of a look at this one. And the question here team is, how can one strike, how can one single strike by Russians, how can that expose in such a material way the systemic weakness that exists in NATO with their proxy, their proxy in my view team, the Ukraine. The poor people of Ukraine, it's just terrible man. It's absolutely terrible. So, yeah, Major Russian strike on a drone exhibition. Why were they having a drone exhibition? Surely they knew that this was going to happen. You've got to ask yourself, right? Let's go into the details, back with the background. So, a Russian strike had a Major Ukrainian drone exhibition near Kiev. Kiev? Kiev. The event brought together leading developers, leading manufacturers, military decision makers. The result was the deaths of a said key personnel and significant disruption. I'm not laughing at death, but I'm like, how could it be this stupid, right? Significant disruption to Ukraine's drone program. No, shit. One relatively small precise strike, one small tiny precision strike just devastated Ukraine's defence management. So, let's go and examine this. What was the why the impact is much bigger than just a missile camp and what it says about the state of the conflict and the hubris. I mean, just the hubris, the cockiness of the people involved. So, Ukraine has been totally reliant on drones, right? This was for a strike steep into Russian territory. You know, they've been blowing up refineries, boom! Up goes the refinery and the whole cloud's full of black soot from the refinery and everybody's cheering in the West. You know, like, yeah, we've got them. They're on their last legs. We're going to have Ukraine's going to win. And then all of a sudden, Russia turns up with some surface to MSRs and starts shooting down these attacks on refineries. So, they go, oh, shit! We're cooked. We can't hit the refineries anymore. So, the next thing they do is they go, oh, well, we're going to strike the grain ships and commercial ships and the sea of air's off. So, they do that. They're like, oh, these drones going, boom! Up goes an empty ship that's been parked there. And it's a grain boat. So, it's basically on anchor and it's waiting to go and pick up a new load and cut that out and do its job. Because it's just like a, it's like a carrier driver, right? These big, big ships, these big bulkers. They're like a carrier van. And they get a phone call, oh, can you do a pickup from here and drop off of there? No problems will be over there in five minutes. Boom! Off they go. Not five minutes, but you know what I mean. So, they think of it like a carrier driver, but they're all parked up and the sea of air's off. Because that's where they parked their van. And then all of a sudden, they get, you know, they instead of getting a phone call in the middle of the night, they get all these drones coming in from Ukraine. And they blow up these van. You know, these van on the sea of air's off. And they don't just do that because the thing is, Ukraine doesn't really have the visibility needed. They're military, right? They're very, very good people. But they don't have the satellites to see, to see the latitude and the longitude, the point data to locate in real time where these things are. And you need that, right? You need exactly where, because they're drifting. They're moving about. So, you have to have information on exactly where these things are. And then you also need, to about basically pilot these drones. You don't need any vision. And you need a data link back to Ukraine so that the operator, you know, goggles or a screen, they can actually fly this thing and then find the ship that they want to go and hit and then crash the thing into the ship and blow it up. So, they need a network, right? You need the styling network to go up to the satellite, go back across the satellite and then back down to the Ukraine where the operator is, right? So, got all this sort of complexity. Do you think Ukraine can do that by themselves? Absolutely not. Zero chance. So, they have to leverage NATO basically. They have to leverage NATO and they have to leverage the Starlink military network. Because there's two networks, and as far as I understand it, there's two military networks there. There's two networks. There's a military network and a commercial civilian network. And Starlink basically, you know, Elon Musk, they contracted to the US government to provide them with a bunch of these satellites. Now, are they the same satellite as the standard satellite? Or are they a custom thing just for the DOD? I don't know, but I can tell you, they are very, very good at doing exactly what I've just described. So, I don't know if it's all true. I don't know if that's exactly how it happened. I'm guessing and I'm surmising. I'm presuming, you know, I assume with a high degree of probability that this is what's happened. Because I don't see any other way of doing it. You can't just, like, you know, hope and pray, fire one and put in the coordinates and then hope the boat's still there when you get there. It's not our works. You've got to fly this in there. So you need vision, which means you need enough data link to sustain a video. Basically, a video calls like a FaceTime call with drone. You need about a sustained, that video all the way through until it hits the target. And that's what you can get from the Starlink satellite. So, pretty amazing stuff to be able to pull it off. So they did that, right? So the first example, what was the first example? It was all about the refineries. It blew up the refineries. In the second example is they blew up the ships and the sea of Azov. And then the third example is Amazon. There's something called Wildberry or something in Russia. And basically, this wildberry is like their version of Amazon. And it's full of soft toys and other stuff. You know, when you've ordered something from Amazon, it goes through this big logistics warehouse. And there's like, I don't know, there's 50, 60, 70 of these things across Russia. Anyway, so in the sea of Azov, they must have tuned on the the air defense system in Azov. And it got too hard. So they said, oh, shit. Looks like that's finished. So we better find another target to go and hit. And they found these wildberries, you know, Amazon warehouses. So they've been blowing these things up. I think they're up to like three or four of them now. So they haven't a great old time flying them into. And just the other day, I saw a video of chucking in this video's classic. It shows the drone coming in. And then all of a sudden, the drone goes straight down. And it's just about to dive into the, into the warehouses and blow it up and set it on fire basically. Once these things get set on fire, it's very difficult to put them out. So it only really takes one shot. But the whole thing's going to burn down. So, but then the thing came straight down. And then there's a fence here, a air defense unit lit up. And took out this drone, shot it down. I mean, maybe we're now at the end of this cycle. And they left it up for another category of targets, which they will. They absolutely will. But now, that was just sort of comtics to explain how Ukraine are relying on drums. They are relying on this technology to reach deep into Russia and to get some incredible footage, which they can use to convince their sponsors. By sponsors, I mean, the people that pay their bills. So NATO, essentially. And the Americans, to some degree, you know, the Congress and then the Senate and the warmongers and the USA. They love this stuff because they can put it on TV. And they can say, look at how great we are. You know, this is what we get for all our money. You put them, they're asking you for another 500 billion dollars just for this one year. For one year, they're going to go from $1 trillion, $1,000 billion a year for military. They want to go to $1,500 billion a year for military. They're trying to get up, trying to do it right now. And again, a lot of pushbacks. So these videos, right? These videos are great for them. They are absolutely fantastic to convince America that, look, you know, you just need to pay more tax and you need to borrow more money. Yeah, your kids are going to have to pay for, you know, you just have to do these things because look at the results. We see them on Fox News. You see them going on, boom, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. But now, what happened here? Because I'm framing this as like, there's a hell of a lot of reliance by Ukraine on drones. And what happened is, well, there was a major strike. And this is the Ministry of Defense reported. A group strike with high precision long range weapons. Oh boy. Key deaths include senior figures from Ukrainian state security department, the SBU and the GUR. I mean, what were you doing there? I mean, you know, just incredible, really. It is incredible. And what do you think they were going to do? A Polish defense company employee was also killed? Was it the CEO or just was it a junior technician? No, we don't know. The Ukrainian Council of Gunsmiths confirmed the defeat of the location. The presentation platform itself was destroyed. I mean, if you see some of the footage from this, try and chuck it in here. Oh, there's a lot of spices to do today. But I mean, brutal, man. Just absolutely devastating. Unbelievable. So yeah, the ripple effects from this, let's go and have a look at that. It's a systemic crisis, internal problem. This is what it's reflecting, but mostly hubris. The strike exposed internal contradictions, I'll say, and possibly leaks from within the Ukrainian defense complex. I'll say that again. How did they know? Of course they knew. Of course they knew. I mean, you're talking about Ukraine, where most people, as far as I understand it, most people, I'll go and look it up in there if I can find it, I'll chuck it in there. But as I understand it, most people in the Ukraine, do you not language their speak Russian? Literally speak Russian. So even Zelensky, you know, like the Green Goblin, they call them. They're the president of Ukraine. He often speaks. I don't know, you can speak Ukrainian. He speaks Russian. That's just, it's like, of course they knew. Of course they knew. Do you think they don't have people on the ground? You know, finding out what's happening? Of course they do. Of course they do. I'm sure they've got microphones everywhere as well, cameras. You know, we're talking about the Russians, you know. The KG, but it's not KGB, it's something else, yeah. Yeah, anyway. So you've got these Spooks node out, and they've got microphones. So they knew what the hell was going on. So yeah, so it's bizarre, really. Absolutely bizarre, that they actually had this event. And they brought on a whole bunch of people that were highly valuable. Like members of the internal security team. And then it got destroyed. It got absolutely destroyed. So I just think it's a good reflection of the hubris, you know, the cockiness of Ukraine. I would like to know. I would really like to know if there were, let's just say, when we got Poland, right, Poland's a NATO member, and they obviously sent people over. So there you go. We know the answer that there are some non-Ukranians from NATO that were actually present. Yeah, how many were there? And how many of those were casualties? And how many of those were fatalities? I mean, it's pretty, it'll be pretty interesting to know, you know, whether they're people from the UK there, whether people from Spain, from Germany, Italy, France, the USA, whether people from the USA there, whether casualties from non-Ukranian passport holders. I think it's a very interesting question. I think it's a bloody interesting question. We won't know. Of course they will definitely suppress this. There's no way, you know, if it's the case that there are many, many foreigners that were there, you know, basically attending a conference to try and pitch their wares into this debacle. Yeah, I mean, you look at the footage. I mean, how did you survive that? I don't think anyone survived. I think there's a mass-casual re-event right there. I really do. So a terrible situation. Absolutely terrible. You know, just the arrogance and the cockiness to go to this location and set up and having an event like this. I just think it's a reflection of how arrogant the team NATO has become. I just think it's appalling, really. I think it's a systemic issue that this arrogant, that they are this filled with hubris to do a stunt like this. I guess, you know, what did you expect? What did you expect? Just nothing. Did you expect them not to know about it? Did you expect them to not to respond? You think they'd just go, oh, we're not going to do that because, you know, that could be a lot of foreigners there. Maybe in the old days, they wouldn't do that. Like, in the old days, they would let, you know, Boris from the UK. They'd let him turn up and hop take the train into Kiev and there's some sort of deconfliction protocol where you notify the Russians that a foreign official was going to take the train. So they wouldn't buy the train up. And they would get the assurance, the confirmation, yep, okay, we've acknowledged the time, the date, exactly who's going, where they're going, all that sort of stuff. And I think recently, I haven't got confirmation of this. I'd like to get confirmation, but I think recently there was a change in that tone where they were saying, actually, no, anybody that goes on that train to Kiev, they're fair game. I'm pretty sure something like that happened. I'd certainly heard that. I haven't seen the evidence of it yet. But if that's happened, boy, I tell you what, they just changed everything. But yeah, this incident where they had basically had a drone show. Let's have a drone show. We can sell more drones to the people of, you know, to the security officials in Ukraine, and to the investors and the decision makers. And we'll have this event in Ukraine. Then it got absolutely devastated. It's just stupid. Absolutely stupid. Yeah, just awful, really. Absolutely awful. A lot of people, I think, between you and me, a lot of people perished on that strike. And they're all probably, they went in battle costume. You know, they went in battle, you know, like armen, you know, vests, and all the kept. No, no, no, they were wearing suits, and they had little badges on. You know, hi, my name is Joe, and I'm from so-and-so company selling drones. That's what they were doing. Walking around, they probably had their tablet, and they had like demos, and there was show, like, would you like to buy a place on order, please? You know, there's a, you can order a million units, right? You know, yeah, this is our special discount price. It's a two-for-one deal today. Get a free set of ginsu knives. Yeah, that's what was happening. And then all of a sudden, Russia sent in some ballistics and took the whole lot out. So, hey, hey, hey. I mean, just crazy, right? Just crazy. So, not very nice, not very nice at all. So, yeah, but it's a reflection of the hubris and arrogance of NATO, of London, of Germany, France, and possibly even the USA. Although they're trying to keep their distance right now from Ukraine, but possibly even the USA. Absolutely, arrogance. And they've paid an awful price. So, all right, so, that's the story, right? It's an interesting story. Do you like that one? It's a bloody, interesting story. Yeah. I'm absolutely so, it's really shocked that it happened. I'm really shocked. I didn't think anything like that could happen. I mean, for the sake of taking the train out of Ukraine to Poland and having Yvinton Poland, I mean, it's just dumb. It's really stupid, super cocky. So, yeah. So, there you go. So, I hope you've enjoyed this little show today. My name's Dave. This show is Dave Talks Politics. We're on YouTube, and we're on X. And we're actually on 20 platforms now. So, it's keeping me super busy, pushing all these episodes out. Plenty good fun. 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