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

what went down and why the geopolitical situation between Russia and the United States.

Got a little bit more tense.

We're going to go over what happened the way both countries are framing it.

Whether the framing really matters, and what the long-term impacts

from it are going to be.

Okay, so if you have no idea what I'm talking about, there was an

MQ9 Reaper that was flying off the coast. Now it was a, this is an unmanned aircraft US unmanned aircraft and it was doing a

surveillance flight surveillance flights happen all the time.

Now, it was in international airspace.

The Russians sent up to

SU-27s or Sioux-27s or Sioux 27s or flankers depending on who's telling you what happened.

They're all the same aircraft, just different names for it and they started playing with the drone basically.

One of them dumped fuel on it, pulled in front of it and dumped fuel on it a couple of times.

Then the United States says there was a collision that is a very

the Russian aircraft hit the drone and the drone went into quote unguided

flight.

That is a very Pentagon term for it crashed. Now the Russians are saying that there was no

collision that something just went wrong with the drone. The odds are there was a collision. It was not intentional. My guess is the

Russian pilots were playing and one of them messed up.

It hit according to the US, it hit the propeller, and the propeller on the MQ9 is on the rear of the aircraft.

It's not on the wings like you normally see in movies, it's on the back.

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