Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

what happened in Russia and we're going to go over the importance of it, whether or not it's going to be sustained, whether or not

this is the same as what Zellinsky was talking about, whether or not this is Russia's next mistake. And we're just going to kind of run

through everything because there are a lot of downstream effects from this that

may not be apparent at first.

So if you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about right now. A group of non-state actors moved into Russian territory and conducted some raids.

Now, last bit of information I got was that there are still some there conducting raids.

Now these people are somewhat aligned in theory with Ukraine, but they're not the Ukrainian armed forces.

They are non-state actors.

They're Russians or at least have Russian passports.

Now, I know that some people are going to want to draw a distinction and say that they're not really separate from the Ukrainian

armed forces. Yeah, I can't do that now. I would point you back to the initial

invasion. I would point you back to the initial invasion before this one when Russia first started taking Ukrainian land and all of those people that were not really Russian military, the contractors, the special operations, those folks.

You know the rules and so do I. You can't change them now.

These are non-state actors. They have claimed responsibility for them. There's two separate groups. Now, is this going to be sustained or is it just a diversion?

Just something to get them looking somewhere else and kind of trick them a little bit.

We don't know. We don't know if this is a

full commitment, if they were just never going to give it up, or this is something

that is relatively short-lived.

They could be gone tomorrow

or they could never desert it.

But once something like this starts, there's always the risk of it organically widening. There is a lot of discontent in Russia a whole lot.

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