Russian fighter jet and a military drone from the United States had a little whoopsy-doopsy over the Black Sea and Donald Trump is lashing out Ron DeSantis is lashing out Russia's lashing out and basically everybody's pissed about it. So let's try to go through some of the details because some of it has to do with dumping on each other. like literally dumping on each other. We're going to talk about that, uh, and just get through this.

So basically here's the Scoop a U.S drone was on a spying Mission over the Black Sea. It ends up getting intercepted by two Russian fighter jets. The Drone we use is an unmanned MQ-9 drone. it's used for surveillance and Recon it's kind of like a fancy version of a really cheaply made Chinese spy balloon Chinese spy balloon picked up off Craigslist for like 10 bucks.

Okay, not really, but our spy drone costs like 32 million dollars and the price of it is skyrocketing. That drone keeps getting more and more expensive. Everything in Aerospace keeps getting more and more expensive. Well, apparently this Russian jet or one of these Russian Jets I Don't know if they were like trying to communicate with it like hey, this is an interception, please pull over I Also, don't know why I'm using a German accent, but given that it was an unmanned drone I Think the Drone is probably like yeah, exactly like nothing and that probably pissed the Russians off.

So they tried to wake the Drone up. The way they apparently tried to wake the Drone up is by dumping fuel on it. The Russian Jets were apparently quote unquote harassing the Drone flying over it and dumping fuel on it. It's literally like they were trying to dump on the normies, but I thought usually that only relates to AMC.

But anyway, the Russian Jets were basically trolling the Drone to try to either wake it up or mess with its Communications. Uh and uh, the Maneuvers were called Reckless by Air Force. Generals and environmental activists were freaking out because they heard fuel was being dumped above the Black Sea even though planes that have to make emergency Landings do this all the time. But anyway, apparently at one point this Uh drone was struck and ended up crashing into the Black Sea and that drone has still not been recovered.

We don't know if the Russians are getting it or if we're able to get it. It's probably not the safest area for us to to try to go get it. Right now, it's probably Russia that's gonna end up getting their hands on our UAV unmanned aerial vehicle. But anyway, Russia is now claiming that our drone was flying with its transponders turned off because it was trying to spy on the Russian borders.

That basically makes it harder for that to show up on Russian uh surveillance technology and it basically makes Russia feel like their airspace was being violated, that the fact that they say it was flying around with their transport of transponders turned off is a violation of international law. And it basically implies that the United States is trying to spy on Russia. Which imagine that the United States spying on Russia I mean that's probably exactly what's happening. Let's be real.

Uh, but the Black Sea is is really important. and even though Russia is confirming that there was no shoot down of the Drone that this apparently was an accident, it's still pissing people off on both sides. Really? all sides, there are a lot of sides. I mean there's like the United States and European side.

There, there's the Ukrainian side, which there's an alignment here. Then there's the Russian side. Then there's the Chinese and rest of the world side. Although it's like how much of the rest of the world in China are wanting to relate to each other, how much is staying? There are a lot of sides at play here.

Then you've got like Ukrainian separatists as well. Uh, then you've got the mysterious people who definitely weren't the CIA who blew up the North Stream pipeline. So there are a lot of parties at play here, as is typical with war, but it's worth considering why the Black Sea is important in the first place. There are a few reasons for this: First, the Black Sea provides Russia with access to warm water ports because the Black Sea kind of goes up into the Russian borders a little bit and uh, Russia gets really cold and really icy.

Uh, especially up north or closer to the Arctic. So the nice thing about the Black Sea is if you can have warm water ports like in Crimea Sebastopol which remains ice free year round, you can actually function a lot easier. You know it's it's easier to function on a warm sunny day than it is is on a freezing day, right? Anyway, a second thing is it also allows Russia to kind of influence trade in that region which is obviously pretty important. Wheat exports, grain exports, whatever.

Uh, then obviously the Black Sea is home to Russia's like naval fleet for that side, so that gives them a lot of power in the region, which also explains why we were probably spying on them over there. It also acts as a buffer zone between Russia and NATO countries, which is kind of interesting to think about because you kind of got like Russia Turkey and then like a big black sea. Uh, and then Ukraine and Crimea right? So you kind of have a buffer zone that the sea creates which is interesting. and then of course the United States likes to monitor this area because well, a we spy on military activity.

We you know want to obviously help NATO out. so we give them our 32 million dollar drones to screw around with. The goal obviously also is to maintain some form of global Freedom whether it comes to trade or otherwise. Now, Donald Trump has freaked out I Wanted to play this video from YouTube but YouTube uh, deleted the video.

Uh, the YouTube's really good at sort of censoring some of the stuff. but basically Donald Trump is freaking out. He says we're living in the most dangerous times in history and the only person who can actually save you from World War Three is Donald Trump according to Donald Trump Not biased at all. Uh.

Also, uh, you know Donald Trump is is responding to calls of potentially supporting regime change. Uh, in Russia we just had a Canadian exam prime minister, not the Canadian Prime Minister it was somebody in the prime minister's cabinet. uh, who is calling for regime change in Russia that's kind of dangerous and being seen as a way of aggravating Putin even more than he's already aggravated. Uh, anytime we hear about regime change for Russia it just gives Russia more propaganda to keep the war going on because it allows Putin to basically tell his apathetic Russians See, they're trying to overthrow me.

Look at these clips from the International Community saying they want to get rid of us. We must continue to fight to protect our country and people in Russia are like, all right, we're brainwashed by your media and we half believe it. but like whatever, we're just gonna try to keep living Our Lives over here which is kind of frankly now what uh DeSantis is coming across with DeSantis is making these arguments that hey, this is just a territorial dispute and we really shouldn't care about Ukraine and uh or Russia that this is just a territorial issue and maybe we should stop funding it. Uh, that's going to be really interesting for the 2024 presidential election, so pay attention to that.

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St Patty's Day link down below. Anyway, a little bit more detail on the Jets involved just because I think it's interesting and we've got nine minutes before we have to cover Uh PPI and and retail sales anyway. Russian Fighter jet involved was apparently a Sukhoi Su-27 It's a twin engine, super maneuverable aircraft designed for air superiority. Actually came into use First in 1985.

our remotely piloted drone first came into use in 2007.. Uh, there are a lot of people like Senator Jack Reed a chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee saying quote, this is a dangerous and provocative act that could have led to a broader conflict. There's a lot of argument that you know there are basically politicians who are arguing. that's it.

This shows why we need to send more Military Support to Russia and then you have basically the counter Trend to that saying dude, no, this is exactly why we should not be involved over there because this is getting ridiculous. We're getting too close to conflict and we don't want World War III So maybe we need less money and and generally what it's turned into is sort of like I mean I hate to say it, but a lot more Democrats that are like more money and Republicans are like less money. And a lot of this debate is going to happen with the debt ceiling debate that's coming up probably in about three to four months as we approach the X date for when we technically hit our debt ceiling limit and we actually run out of money since technically we already hit the limit, but we could play accounting tricks until we get to that point anyway. Uh The Reaper Drone: Even though I said it's worth about 32 million dollars because of supply chain shortages according to Uh H, I T C uh recently the costs have gone as much as double for this up to 64 million dollars for this drone that just got down.

It's a lot of money. The United States after all is the country that's sending the most of the money to support this war in Ukraine Uh, no other country is sending as much money to Uh Ukraine as the United States is. Uh, not only that, but uh, a lot of what we're sending uh is not just Weaponry some of it is just straight up cold cash. Here's a piece from the Council on Foreign Relations which shows you that 26 billion dollars of the money that we've sent, the 76 billion dollars we've sent has straight up just gone to loans and economic support for Ukraine Only about 23.5 billion has actually gone to weapons with another 4.7 for for like grants and loans for weapons, another 18 billion going to training, another 3.9 going to uh humanitarian assistance.

This is a uh, you know, a far cry from uh, what other countries and institutions are supporting. You can see here the United States contributing the most EU institutions barely getting above ha. Actually not even half less than half of what the United States is contributing. Of course A lot of people are saying No this is a good thing because it's basically the United States being able to uh, conduct War without the United States conducting War.

it's it's all really exhausting and I think everybody really wants it to end. But then of course you've got a lot of people uh, like uh, uh, basically uh. the Guardian reporting that hey, this is like unprofessional, uh this Collision is dangerous and an international threat. The Deutschevela reports the U.S has summoned their Russian Ambassador over the drone incident.

Both the U.S and Russia are conducting investigations into it. Whatever, people on social media are kind of going all over the place on this. You've got both sides of the argument. I Always kind of like seeing what the sentiment is.

So you got some people saying this is an excellent justification for providing Ukraine more money, the fighter jets that they need, and more uh support with United States basic like aircraft support so they can attack Russian bases I I Feel like the person might be being a little bit sarcastic, but that is kind of what some people are saying. Uh, then then you have other people saying uh, like this is basically the worst that could happen because yes, this could lead to more money being spent and we don't want that to happen because we want this war to end not to escalate into World War III Remember, Colombia's position on this is like, look, we're not sending a dime because we're not. We don't want to be known as contributing to this war. So uh.

anyway, kind of crazy. Steve Here in the comments to say maybe China will broker a peace deal. That's kind of everybody's hope right now is that maybe there could be some form of a neutral party Like a neutral third party that could actually broker a peace deal between the axis of the United States and Europe and Ukraine and the axis of Russia and Iran and North Korea. Although a lot of people question like how neutral really is China could China actually be uh, the the country to broker that peace deal? Who knows.

but this whole Russian jet stuff in summary is a disaster. Again, you had a Russian jet that dumped fuel on our Reaper drone to try to wake it up. Probably because you had the Russians in the cockpit going to pull over right now is not even meant to be a Russian I don't even know what it is. Uh, but uh.

but the Drone is probably just you know. Like again, because it's unmanned and that pissed the Russians off. the Russians again flying in 1985 style Jet and we're flying a 2007 drone that's unmanned so a little bit of a mismatch there. They're like on Gen 2.

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