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Oct. 27, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Andrei Martyanov talks with Mike Adams about Russian weapons technology...
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And today we're joined by a first-time guest here, but someone who has done many hundreds of hours of outstanding geopolitical analysis, including the war between Ukraine and Russia, and also, of course, now what's happening in the Middle East with Israel and Hamas and the Palestinians.
His name is Andrei Marcianov, and he joins us now for, I think, an analysis that you won't want to miss.
Welcome to the show, Andrei.
It's an honor to have you on today, and I greatly appreciate the analysis you've offered the world over the last several years.
Thank you very much.
Pleasure to be here.
Well, you are someone who...
You must be...
Conducting in-depth research many, many hours of the day because you have your finger on the pulse of almost everything happening geopolitically.
What is your background that you could share with us before I begin with the other questions?
Well, my background is pretty simple.
I'm a former Soviet naval officer.
I graduated Naval Academy in Baku, which is cast on the Red Banner Academy.
It's defunct now, obviously.
And in 1985, I graduated and went to serve on the surface ships.
And...
In 1990s, basically, I was done with service because of the issues with the stomach.
Well, I had ulcers.
There's no secret about that.
And they said, yeah, you cannot go to sea anymore.
So I ended up doing some staff work as one of the flag specialists of the separate brigade.
And then, of course, the Soviet Union collapsed.
I was thrown out of the service.
And then later, we, you know, already in civilian capacity, we immigrated to the United States.
Because basically, I took part in the events in the Caucasus.
Well, it's connected with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
And since then, yeah, we've been living in the United States for quite some time now.
Well, three decades almost.
Wow.
I'm almost kind of native now.
Yes, yes.
Okay.
Well, that's a fascinating background, and it really gives you this international perspective.
That's why I think your commentary on the situation in Ukraine has been so enlightening to so many of us.
I want to give out your channel name as well, SmoothieX12.com.
is the name of your channel.
People can search for Reminiscence of the Future to find you on various platforms, but if they want to go to you directly, it's smoothiex12.blogspot.com, correct?
Yep.
All right.
Outstanding.
Let me ask you actually first about Ukraine.
In your analysis, we still hear Western media and Western leaders living in what I would describe as a fairytale delusion of thinking that they're going to make gains and defeat Russia and take back Donbass and take back Crimea.
How crazy is that in your opinion or do you disagree with me?
No, no, I agree with you completely.
It is crazy, but it is also the part of what I've been writing my books for many years now.
It's the fact that basically United States and its current state cannot do strategy.
They love to use all those big words, but in reality they are utterly incompetent and illiterate.
And when you look, especially in terms of how they miscalculate it, because they don't know Russia...
But, and again, American academia is, and especially what it's called the Russian study field, it's a wasteland, basically.
It's a combination of shysters, self-proclaimed experts, but most of them have zero background in real practical geopolitics, and, of course, they don't understand what modern real economy and modern militaries are.
You just cannot get this education in any Ivy League school in there.
I mean, it's just that if you have a degree in political science, especially from American university, you will be basically primarily in the darkness and in this delusion of the American exceptionalism.
And the issue, of course, is that they are miscalculated yet again.
And they thought that, you know, they can use Ukraine as RAM. But they don't understand the size of Russian economy, the Russian military potential.
And as a result, basically, we observe what we observe today.
And we're looking at the catastrophic failure of the primarily American, well, we say NATO, but it's primarily American because NATO is the United States.
Without the United States, there is no NATO. And the failure of their not only strategic, but also operational planning, because they have no skills, they don't have knowledge in terms of finding real combined arms war of this scale, what is called multi-domain war.
And yeah, they've been graduating, all of them primarily, you know, there's...
School of the Advanced Military Studies called, you know, Top Gun Maverick.
They live in Hollywood and nothing you can do about it, which is the scariest part that you have many American military so-called professionals, those generals, those, you know, they have no clue what they're dealing with.
Some of them probably.
I also noticed that they appear to be living in 1992.
The recent speech by Joe Biden really just recycled all the tropes of the Gulf War, that America is the indispensable nation, that whatever America wants to do with its military might must be dominant in the world, that all of America's enemies are incompetent and have no training, no arms whatsoever.
And It appears to me, you know, here we are 30 years later, and everything has flipped.
And I want you to know, those of us who were born as Americans, many of us realize that what you are saying about American leadership is absolutely correct.
They are illiterate, and I know you don't use that term in a flippant, insulting kind of way.
It's actually a description.
Exactly.
Yeah.
They are illiterate.
They don't know history.
They certainly don't know Eastern Europe or Russia or even the history of the Soviet Union, nor the history of America, by the way.
They don't know the history of anything, but they still think they're stuck in 1992.
And you use the term miscalculation.
What will be the end result of this miscalculation on the part of the West and the U.S. State Department in particular?
You know, I obviously hate to give forecasts.
I've never been into the business of forecasting things, although those forecasts sometimes come up as a natural flow of the thought, so to speak.
I wrote the third book, the latest book, which came out in 2021, which is called Disintegration, where I discussed the possibility of a United States disintegrating as a nation, per se, as people, because obviously we already have regionalization of In the United States along their, well, regional lines.
You know, there is a uber-liberal coastal cities on the American northeast, on basically eastern seaboard.
There is obviously a western part of it.
There is a heartland, which is absolutely incompatible in their outlook on life.
And of course, we have South and Texas and, you know, things of this nature.
California is not even America anymore.
I don't even know how to judge California, how to assess it.
I mean, literally, it's not an American state as I remember.
So, it is a possibility.
But generally speaking, we already observed this, basically, process.
We are in the middle of it.
It's departing of the combined West as the dominant force.
Eventually, the United States probably will enclose itself in the Western Hemisphere, while Europe...
Well, economically, Europe is nothing what they tell us about the G7. Same goes for the United States.
So, economically, Europe is...
How to put it?
They don't...
We have been de-industrializing as fast as the United States, and we can observe it now on the example of Germany.
So basically, Europe will become, which is becoming, basically, a peninsula of the large Eurasian continental mass, which drives now economic, scientific, and other developments in the world.
And so that's what it's going to be.
Well, I'm really glad you mentioned that because it's extraordinary how Russia has reinvigorated its industrial base, especially since being cut off from the swift economic system and the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets that were held in Western currencies.
But instead of weakening and destroying Russia, which, again, that's what the United States has been doing for generations, to say, economic sanctions cast upon you.
We shall destroy you unless you do what we say.
But this time, Russia said, oh well, we'll just invest in our own country, and...
Russia's military output now in terms of drones, tanks, artillery rounds, even to some extent ships but certainly aircraft and the technological superiority of hypersonic missiles, anti-air defense systems, ICBMs, hyperglide vehicles, all of these examples...
By any honest comparison, it's the U.S. that has been left in the dark ages with very little industry, very little military technology, but a lot of propaganda and boasting and money printing.
But you can't print artillery rounds.
I mean, as an American myself, and I love my country, don't get me wrong, and I'm a Texan, I love my country, but I am astonished at the incompetence of my country's leaders.
They have put us in a situation that seems fatal for America.
What are your thoughts?
I actually agree with you completely.
And again, as I already stated, when you look at the American military history, of course, you have to keep in mind, which I warned for the last 10 years nonstop, rewriting the history of World War II will do no good.
It's not only about the issue of what we would define as the stolen valor.
Nobody takes anything away from the heroism of the Western Allied soldiers, sailors, especially glorious history of the US Navy, you know, so that's not about it.
It's about the fact that people evidently lost, which is the direct result of the neoliberal outlook on the gross domestic product by those Chicago, you know, economists and London School of Economics.
Those people completely lost touch with the economic reality of the world.
And then suddenly they recognize that actually iPhones are not necessarily the most technologically advanced things.
Spaceships are, but I mean...
And so when you look at this and you have people who come out again as the Ivy League and other universities, they go out from those economic faculties or departments with education economics.
And as Michael Hudson, one of the greatest economic brains of our time, says, they don't teach economy, real economics, in American universities.
They don't also teach physics as a separate subject in the American public schools, you know, bar some private schools which do deal with that.
They don't teach real mathematics.
Oregon, yesterday, Oregon, it's our neighbors, you know, to the south, from Washington.
They basically repeated their policy that students do not have to basically confirm their knowledge at the exams, at the test, in reading mathematics and vocabulary.
It's absolutely extraordinary, yeah.
I mean, you cannot have a sustainable nation if you don't have an education system that functions, and it's just been watered down again and again.
But because of that lack of education, we now have leaders in America who say things like what Janet Yellen recently said when she was asked, can America afford a two-front war?
She said, oh, certainly, yes, of course, we can just print money for a two-front war.
And I suppose the answer is the same on a three-front war.
Well, why not?
Do I hear four?
Can you give me five?
You know, we can just print, print, print.
And they believe this.
They believe this.
That's the thing.
And yet, I would argue we can't afford a single front war because we're broke.
We can't even protect our own border.
Much less Ukraine's border, so to speak, or Israel's border, which we're going to talk about, or Taiwan's border.
We can't protect our own border.
We're broke.
It's already done.
Yeah, that's when you judge everything by what used to be the mighty dollar.
Many people do not understand what good your money is if you cannot buy anything with that.
And, of course, to understand that, you go to any nearest Walmart, and it's all pretty much made in China or elsewhere, not in the United States.
And...
That's the whole idea.
They think, look at these numbers of their finances, of the money mass, so to speak, financial mass, and they think, oh, we have a great economy.
No, you don't.
And that's the problem.
Yes, the United States still retains some very important strategic industries, which are world-class, for example.
Obviously, even today, Boeing fights for its survival.
And let me tell you, if not for this snafu with them, obviously...
737 MAX, which is, of course, main cash cow, but long-range white-body aircraft by Boeing are still outstanding aircraft.
They are really good.
Okay, so they are extremely competitive.
But the point is, when you have even the U.S. Navy and U.S. military-industrial complex, which cannot come up with their real decent frigate, And they have to go to Fincantieri.
Granted, Fincantieri has one of its ship warfs in Wisconsin.
But I mean, it's an Italian firm which developed together with the Europeans the Fram-class frigates.
And the United States has to go and literally contract out for the frigate.
They couldn't develop the normal frigate for the U.S. Navy, which objectively, they are real workhorses of the modern navies.
And even then, they come up with an incredible price tag, no matter how you put it.
So yes, we have the situation that they think that everything is measured in pure dollar mass.
It's not.
It never was, actually.
And in the end, yes, you suddenly recognize many people do not understand.
Russia, who has less than 50% population of the United States, produces the same amount of steel.
It produces seven times more aluminum.
And when you look at those real output numbers on which our livelihood depends, not to mention the fact that Russia now is number one exporter of grain and other foodstuff.
People still don't get it.
There's a level of delusional thinking in the West where I saw a Bloomberg report the other day that said that in order to achieve a net zero economy, which they mean no carbon emissions, that it would require $21 trillion of investment in electrical infrastructure and nearly tripling copper mining to 13 million tons per year and Bloomberg failed to point out that the West cut off Russia from the exports of aluminum
and copper and fertilizer and, of course, the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline necessary for natural gas to fulfill the industrial capacity of Western Europe.
So, I mean, this...
This net-zero economy is a pipe dream unless you have raw materials.
And even then, to mine copper, you have to burn diesel.
I mean, you can't mine minerals without burning diesel.
So these people are living in a fantasy land.
They are.
I mean, the...
Okay, first, all this net zero global warming and things of this nature, I mean, there is no doubt that there is a climate change, but it's not anthropological.
It's not human-driven.
It's just natural cycle of basically Earth, Sun, and our larger space environment, which influences all that.
But we have to understand, this fraud, starting from this...
Creep, basically, let's put it this way, Al Gore with this baloney which he presented and got Nobel Prize for it, which is completely discredited, basically, award anymore.
And it is fraud.
There's a lot of money in it.
It is fraud driven by people who actually never studied physics.
They never got their proper degrees.
And of course, we now talk about utter corruption.
Not only the political and economic so-called sciences, that is a well-known fact.
We're talking about the corruption of what would come to the stem of hard sciences.
And when you have the physicists who are ready to compromise their integrity, their consciousness, their academic standing, just writing basically garbage about their anthropogenic...
Global warming, which is being not denied.
It was scientifically debunked by a number of people inside the United States, let alone, for example.
They have to go to people who actually have an incredible experience with this science.
And those are Russians.
They were actually one of the first to put their weather satellite on there.
And of course, the United States is not even in the same league in terms of studying the Arctic.
As Russians do.
And Russians openly, including Russian Academy of Science, say it's not anthropogenic.
It's natural.
We have a minimal impact on that.
So basically, we are talking about the pure scientific fraud, which is done for their whatever monetary gain.
And people go for it.
It's incredible.
It's really incredible.
I'm a scientist myself.
I'm a published scientist.
I own a mass spec laboratory, food science lab, and I'm astonished as well.
I let the instrument tell me what reality is.
I don't pre-decide what I want and then twist the instrument to produce the results, which is how climate change now works.
But Okay, quick note to the audience.
We had a little glitch there, so I'm re-asking a question that got lost.
So, Andre, I wanted to mention that in America, we have the media pushing ethnic hatred at a level that I've never seen before.
It's almost like a form of psychological terrorism against the American people.
And the government pushes this ethnic hatred as well.
And there are two examples that are worth mentioning here.
Number one, right after the special military operation began, In 2022, everyone was told to hate all Russian people.
And it wasn't just to hate Russians in the Russian military or to hate Putin himself.
It was hatred directed at Russian artists, Russian race car drivers, Russian sports figures.
I was astonished, astonished as someone who's very international myself.
You know, I speak different languages.
I've traveled.
I've lived in other countries.
I couldn't believe the level of hatred directed to Non-military Russian civilians and Russian immigrants to Europe and the United States.
And then the other example right now is now Palestinians.
You're supposed to hate all Palestinians.
You're supposed to say that they're all animals, they're all dirty dogs, which is incredible racism.
But we're seeing those two things right now, and it is acceptable in American media to hate, at the moment, Russians and Palestinians.
What is your response to that?
Well, my response to that is very simple.
Don't forget that this Russophobia was always present among what is called elite, quote-unquote, struggles in the West.
And don't forget Russiagate.
And don't forget when James Clapper in 2018 started that Russians are genetically predispositioned to penetrate, to coerce, and things of this nature.
So, hey, James Clapper, you know, he says that Russians genetically are, you know, Damaged people.
So this is as far as it can go now.
Well, short of praising the SS butcher in Canadian Parliament, but yeah, it becomes absolutely normal for the U.S. media especially, and you have to understand who those U.S. media are primarily.
Most of the corporate media in the United States, those people who work there And especially they are kind of leading, so to speak, anchors and what they call thinkers.
There are no thinkers in the New York Times or anywhere there.
They are basically studios who share the same, you know, hatred.
And then, of course, we shouldn't forget Mr.
Merschheimer and Mr.
Walt with their...
Israel lobby.
And that actually, practically most of the American mainstream media are controlled by people of, well, they're Jews primarily, but they are people who are AIPAC-connected and neocons by definition.
Not all Jews are neocons.
Right.
Well, right.
And just not all Jews are Zionists.
Exactly.
I have many wonderful Jewish friends who are absolutely not Zionists and one of the best people I knew in my life.
So that's the point.
But basically what you have in the American corporate media circle are not only the sports, They're stupid and they're shysters, but they primarily are people with the Neocon inclinations, and many of them are just downright Zionists.
And many of them are, like Mr.
Blinken, for example, they bear with them also hatred of Russians.
It's a very complex issue which has a lot to do with basically what would amount to the Jewish immigration from Russian Empire and their constant desire to settle their accounts.
But again, they were always like this and it's nothing really surprising.
So now, yeah, Russians kind of fade away a little bit because the war there is lost militarily.
It's going to be lost politically.
And now, guess what?
We have the Palestinians.
So all of them are bad in accordance to them, you know?
And so the fact that...
Well, I apologize, but this is my next question.
Just as the West grossly miscalculated, through their own arrogance and incompetence, they miscalculated their strength in Ukraine, and they miscalculated the resolve and the technical capabilities of the Russian military, do you believe that they are also grossly miscalculating the situation in Israel versus Gaza right now, and especially the Arab nation's response?
Absolutely.
And it's not only Arab nations.
We have to keep in mind that Israeli lobby, which you can see it's, you know, in AIPAC, American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or like, I call it Political Action Committee because that's what it is, essentially.
And...
We have, of course, the Christian Zionists, which is altogether a thing which defies imagination.
They have issues with Iran.
Let's keep this in mind.
There are late war criminal John McCain, his buddy who is still around and mentally unstable Lindsey Graham, John Bolton, people of this nature, by the way, who are not Jews at all.
I mean, but they are Zionists and they are New Yorkers.
It's also about Iran.
We can sit here and basically discuss all kinds of the possibilities with how the crisis unfolded, granted that Hamas definitely went on the offensive, so to speak, including some things which they shouldn't have done.
And I'm never going to be whitewashing the pure terrorist act of taking the civilian hostages.
Taking civilian hostages is a terrorism.
But the point is, they did miscalculate.
They did miscalculate in terms of the efficiency of the Hamas missile strikes or rocket strikes, if you wish.
They overestimated their own capability.
And now it's all about Iran, too, in the United States, for sure.
Well, since you brought up Iran, which I'm glad you did, I wanted to ask you about that, but it's my analysis, and I've interviewed many, many people, former high-level military operatives, Defense Intelligence Agency.
My contacts go into a lot of U.S. military and special forces and so on, and what they are telling me is that the U.S. is desperately trying to engineer a situation where they can not only justify bombing Iran, but they want to ensnare Russia into and what they are telling me is that the U.S. is desperately trying to engineer a situation where they can not only justify bombing Iran, but they want to
However, if anybody could handle a two-front war, it would be Russia or China right now.
So it's like the U.S. is saying, oh, we caught you, and Russia is saying, no, we're not caught, you caught yourself.
But this is the current thinking, to try to bring Russia into the Middle East.
Do you think the U.S. is going to be successful in that?
No.
First, when you talk to most, not all, U.S. military professionals about war, their imagination and experiences do not extend beyond the two things.
Either their ground, high-intensity police action, which essentially Afghanistan was.
It wasn't their combined arms warfare.
It was just basically high-intensity police action or bombing something by the standoff weapons or using U.S. Air Force.
That's about it.
That's their extent and understanding of the war.
What they do not understand, that the United States cannot fight, obviously, Iran on the ground.
It just simply can't.
And secondly, Iran has an absolutely astonishing number of very good and very advanced ballistic missiles, or theory-wide ballistic missiles, operational tactical, with the ranges up to actually two and a half thousand kilometers.
And that means once the United States starts doing stupid things against Iran, the bases, all US bases in the Middle East will burn.
As it happened with that, In 2020, after Trump, on his orders, General Soleimani has been assassinated.
And the United States doesn't have any defense, really.
I mean, no American system can intercept modern missile, such as, for example, again, Iran has an astonishing variety and number of those missiles.
Well, the U.S. is currently deploying the THAAD, the theater, high altitude, THAAD, right?
Yeah, THAAD, yeah.
But I get the feeling.
I don't know.
I don't have any specific technical success rates on this, but given all the propaganda surrounding the Patriot missile battery system that mostly failed, I tend to think that the THAAD systems are also mostly going to fail.
And by the way, I also think that a lot of these systems, let's be honest, are engineered by Americans who can't do math.
That's just the honest answer.
They can't do math.
They don't understand engineering.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to say this, but our culture has become so lazy and apathetic in academia that they just can't do math.
Basic math.
If they could do math, they wouldn't be talking about climate change.
But that's my opinion as an American.
Oh, no.
It's a correct opinion.
I do not forget that.
The theater, high altitude ballistic interceptors, have been already basically disclosed about its inability to do anything when a few years back, when Mr.
Trump was trying to move things, you know, around North Korea, And Koreans actually launched a couple of the ballistic missiles, as usually they do, towards Japan, but they fall obviously short because they are not trying to keep Japan.
They merely want to demonstrate it.
And I believe that at that time, was it Mark Mullen, the Admiral Mark Mullen, who was asked, why didn't you use that or Aegis, you know, SM-3 missiles on the Aegis-equipped destroyers?
And he said not to get ourselves embarrassed, I'm quoting, because basically they might not work and we will kind of expose how ineffective those systems are.
So they were afraid to even, you know, try to take them out.
And again, 2020 retaliation by Iran on the two American bases in the Middle East.
I mean, they had their patriots, they had their thoughts, they did nothing.
Every single, actually, missile warhead hit those bases.
Well, you know what?
The U.S. Navy is very effective at shooting down commercial airliners like TWA Flight 800.
Well, I mean...
So as long as it's a slow-moving, fat target in the sky, they can get it.
Well, they can get it.
And again, they can get some cruise missiles such as they intercept periodically by Houthis.
But then again, those are really ancient subsonic missiles provided to Houthis, Houthi rebels by Iran, obviously.
So it's, yeah, I don't think so any...
You know, modern Navy, Western Navy, has the capacity to intercept a salvo of supersonic anti-shipping missiles.
I'm talking about salvo.
And let alone hypersonic, but we're not going there even, you know, it's...
Well, I do have a hypersonic question for you, though, about the, I believe, the relatively new air-to-air Russian hypersonic missiles that are being credited, as I understand it right now, as shooting down quite a number of Ukrainian fighters and helicopters and so on.
And I think these are the...
Is it 37Ms?
I'm not sure.
No, R-37.
R-37.
And as I understand it, they fly at Mach 6, and they have a range of 400 kilometers, which seems extraordinary for air-to-air.
Go ahead.
What do you know about that weapon system?
Well, no, it's been already battle-tested.
It's shot down a number of the Ukrainian aircraft.
But what is most important, it has to be understood that what Russians do militarily in special military operation is, as Mr.
Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, or Mr.
Rutskoi, the chief of the main operational directorate, they shape Russian military to...
Meet the challenges which will be extending to 2050, even beyond that.
And of course, you see the new weapon systems.
And R-37 have been in use now for quite some time.
What was actually more interesting in the last week, when Russians within a week shut down, I believe, 12 fixed-wind aircraft and several helicopters.
Yes.
Almost done by S-400 at the extreme distances and using the targeting from the A-50U, AVAX, Russian AVAX. So that means you literally have their air defense complex,
which shut down their low-flying, those aircraft, Ukrainian aircraft usually fly at the height of altitude of 1,000 meters, not to be, they think they are not going to be seen.
So it's 3,000 feet, roughly.
And that is, in itself, astonishing.
And that's even more impressive, actually, than R-37, because at least R-37, you have the combat aircraft, which is movable, highly maneuverable, and they receive the targeting from, including the AVAX and all other kinds of means of the recon, ISR complex, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance.
And we are looking right now at the first Serious, multi-domain use of the net-centric warfare.
And the last week is even more impressive than actually R-37, which kind of by now everybody knows, yeah, it's gonna get, it's a shoot-and-forget missile.
That means what?
You just get your blimp on the, you know, your multifunctional display screen and, you know, just...
And it also brings into question, then, the effectiveness of the F-35, which already has a tremendous number of problems, viability issues, parts, supply chain, electronics.
Also, Russia is known to be very strong in electronic warfare that may interfere with F-35s.
But with these R-37, this long-range standoff capability, air-to-air, it really brings into question...
Whether the US can establish air dominance over any theater of war in which Russia is operating, which brings us back to the Middle East.
If the US thinks they're going to go in there with F-35s and just dominate all the battlefield, it seems like they're miscalculating on that again.
No, they will dominate battlefield around Gaza Strip, but when you go to Iran, Iran is one of the only five entities in the world which produces all naturally long-range air defense complexes.
They say they are Bavar air defense complex, which kind of has some features from the S-300, but they say it's better than the earlier versions of S-300 and by far.
And you know what?
I won't dismiss that.
So, they have an enormously sophisticated air defense system.
So, and, you know, yeah, the whole SEAT, what they call it, suppression of the enemy air defense, United States Air Force never encountered serious enemy air defense, except when it was encountered in Vietnam.
Well, that ended up really badly for the U.S. Air Force, losing more than 10,000 aircraft, among them 2,500, of course, the fixed-wing aircraft in Vietnam.
And actually, then Israelis learned a hard lesson during 1973, when they lost within a couple of weeks 130, I believe, combat aircraft from the Russian-supplied aircraft.
Air defense complexes.
They did really well on the ground, but in the air, it was a tough going.
Now, again, going back to the issue of the Gulf War.
Iraq at that time, Saddam's Iraq, didn't have any viable air defense.
It was ancient, and I mean, yeah, if they think that they can basically shoot a bunch of the tomahawks, sure, sure, but that's about it.
I don't think so.
Any U.S. aircraft, including F-35, want to go into the battlefield.
Right.
And into the very challenging environment, which their enemy will have in terms of electronic warfare and advanced air defense systems, which see everything.
They see everything, modern weapon systems.
They see any kind of stealth.
They see whatever.
And that's the whole thing, you know, because, I mean, what are you going to do?
This reminds me of deploying the M1 Abrams into Ukraine.
For the longest time, the U.S. said, well, we can't give you Abrams.
And then at some point, okay, we'll give you Abrams, but you can't really use them in battle.
And I know the reason, because blown-up Abrams is not going to be good for selling more Abrams tanks to other buyers around the world.
But this gets me to one of my last questions.
We only have a few minutes left, but drones.
So Iran produces drones.
And Russia produces drones, and I think Russia buys drones from Iran as well.
No, they don't buy them from Iran.
It's a complete fantasy.
They were provided, Russians were provided with a number of the, like, small couple dozen of the drones for Russians to look at them, you know.
Okay, but Russia has the Landsat-3 drones, which Kalashnikov, I believe, is the manufacturer and designer of those.
ZALA, yeah, subdivision of Kalashnikov.
It's called ZALA. Okay, thank you for the question.
That is a game changer in the theater of war.
And the Lancet 3s, as I understand it, have taken out some Leopard 2 tanks.
But even when not doing that, they're taking out guns, artillery units, and so on.
And here again, yet, the U.S. military seems to be really lagging behind in terms of drone development technology.
And as an American taxpayer, I'm wondering, wait a second, we're funding our military with a...
Trillion dollars a year, very close to that, and our weapons are still stuck in 1995.
Like, what's going on here?
Talk about drugs.
By the way, today yet another two Leopard 2s have been blown up by Russians.
It's all over the news, including videos.
Wow.
Again, it's modern warfare.
So this is what I... Again, in 2019 I published a book which is called Real Revolution in Military Affairs.
It's also on Amazon.
And I basically described in detail what's going to happen, and it's happening right now.
And again, as I already stated, they do not understand what Russian industrial, not potential, industry is and industrial capabilities.
It's massive.
So yeah, the long set drone is just part of it.
There are many other things, and it is confirmed now that SU-57s do fly in pairs with S-70 Ochotnik, the hunter.
This state-of-the-art heavy drone, that's stealthy, and you probably saw it.
It's a flying wing type thing, and...
Yeah, we, as I already stated, when their hostilities will wind down, it will be very interesting to get hands on some, at least, available information and combat statistics, but what is already known also, their air defense efficiency is just absolutely astounding.
And one more question along those lines.
I mean, we've been talking about weapons, but there is also an economic asymmetry in the cost of producing these systems that's very important to point out.
And I saw research on 155 artillery rounds that says that the United States spends upwards of about $6,000 per round to produce these.
And those are not exotic rounds, just kind of standard, normal, explosive rounds.
But Russia can produce the same round, as I understand, for about one-tenth that cost.
And so Russia has an economic advantage.
And I would think a similar situation exists in Iran, where Iran can produce military weapons at a fraction of the cost of the U.S.
So for those people who are saying, well, the U.S. has the biggest military budget in the world, which it does by far, but is it 90% waste?
You know, kickbacks, inefficiency, incompetence.
You know, why does it cost the U.S. or all the above?
Go ahead.
All of the above, yeah, all of the above, although I would say people are already coming back to the same issue of the real economics.
Just to give you an example, Russia already operates six state-of-the-art Barii-class strategic missile submarines.
Especially by A-class, which is improved.
They are state-of-the-art.
And each sub is around $1 billion.
Just to give you an example, Columbia-class US Navy future strategic missile submarine is around $9 billion a hull.
So basically for the cost of one American strategic missile submarine, Russians basically renewed their naval strategic missile deterrent.
And those submarines, especially Barrier-class, are state-of-the-art, one of the most silent submarines nowadays.
In fact, I understand, for example, that the United States needs to indeed kind of renew its deterrent, its normal thing, under the present condition of humanity, you know?
So the problem is, I mean, $9 billion, I mean, it's just unbelievable.
Single sub.
Well, but according to Janet Yellen, they can print whatever money they need forever for multi-front workers.
Well, Janet Yellen doesn't understand the real economy.
That's the problem.
That's for sure.
The United States is the biggest exporter of the inflation.
But the moment countries begin to kind of limit their operations in dollars, the inflation, which is already happening as we speak, is going to be coming back to the United States.
Yeah.
Well, and the horrifying thing is that if you put Janet Yellen in charge of the Pentagon and Lloyd Austin in charge of the Treasury, there would be no difference in outcome.
None of them know what they're doing anyway.
Andre, any final thoughts before we wrap this up?
Oh, no.
What can I say?
I mean, it was my first time at your show, and I really am grateful that you guys invited me.
And I hope that basically we're going to live through this incredible time.
This is nothing.
I thought Soviet Union collapse was huge, and it was, make no mistake.
But this is something else altogether.
It's a completely different level of what we're observing now.
Wow.
Yeah, well said.
I agree with you, and I want to thank you for taking the time with us today.
Andrei Marcinov, folks, and his website or his channel name is SmoothieX12, and you can go to SmoothieX12.blogspot.com or check out his books.
One of them is...
Wait, give us the series.
You have three so far?
Yeah, I'm writing the fourth one.
Okay, what are the three?
Yeah, it's...
You can easily find them starting from the Losing Military Supremacy.
And you can see them all.
I have my, evidently, they've opened, as they usually do for the authors, published authors.
I have the kind of small page dedicated to me.
So they can go to Amazon, can go to my publisher, people who publish me, which is Clarity Press.
Okay.
Incorporated.
They can buy those books from them too.
Oh, Barnes& Noble.
Barnes& Noble sell them.
So, I mean, everywhere.
Okay.
Outstanding.
Well, thank you so much for your analysis and sharing time with us today.
We wish you safety and blessings in the times ahead.
Hopefully, we can all get through this with our families intact and maybe our nations intact if it all goes well.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
Take care.
For those of you watching, I hope you enjoyed that interview.
I found it truly fascinating.
Andre is a brilliant man who has offered extensive analysis.
You can find many of his videos also online with other channels such as The Duran or with Brian Baletic, The New Atlas, and others.
I encourage you to check those out.
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