As Vladimir Putin reportedly takes a major Ukrainian city, the West runs out of tools to fight him.

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They don't really even care about the casualties with regard to their own soldiers.

The Russians are sort of famous for taking extraordinary numbers of casualties in war.

And to get this straight, over the course of the entire Afghanistan war, the United States lost

approximately 3,000 American service people in Afghanistan.

According to Ukrainian sources, the Russians have already lost 6,000 American service people in Afghanistan. According to Ukrainian sources,

the Russians have already lost 6,000 people inside of a week. Now, even if that is exaggerated by a

factor of 10, even if it's only 600 people, the fact is that that's happened inside of one week.

The West hasn't really seen a war like this for a very long time. And I think that's why people

are going to be shocked by a lot of the images coming out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The reason is because in the conflicts that we've seen in the past, basically it's been the United States, which is the world's most sophisticated military power by a factor of 10. The United States spends more money on its military budget than the rest of the world combined. And our military hardware and our military infrastructure is

super sophisticated. So when we fire a missile, we know exactly where it is going. The tech on it

is better. Our targeting mechanisms are better. When you see the United States go to war,

and we miss, we miss very, very narrow. And when we hit and we hit somebody innocent, it's because we made a mistake in the intel,

not because we hit something we didn't mean to hit.

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