S8 Ep667: PREVIEW FOR LATER John Hardie explains Russia is now supplying Iran with upgraded, lethal drones. These shipments likely travel via the Caspian Sea as Ukraine provides counter-drone expertise to targeted Gulf nations. (3)
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Colleague John Hardy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's comments on the report that Russia |
| 0:07.3 | is augmenting drones and sending them overland or by sea unclear to Iran to enter into the fight. |
| 0:16.7 | These are better drones for the refitting by Russia. However, the question is asked by my colleague Bill Rajo, how do they get there? |
| 0:24.8 | John entertains several possibilities, one involving the Caspian Sea, |
| 0:29.2 | that internal waterway that touches both Russia and Iran, |
| 0:33.1 | and Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, and of course, Turkistan. |
| 0:39.1 | Here's John to explain the possibilities of Russia resupplying. |
| 0:44.8 | Augmented drones. More than I. Good. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 1:03.9 | Bill Rajio, my colleague and co-host, a senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's Ukraine War. |
| 1:10.2 | We welcome our watch on the Ukraine War, John Hardy, of the Foundation for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's. Ukraine War. We welcome our watch on the Ukraine War, |
| 1:12.5 | John Hardy of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 1:16.3 | writing most recently at Long War Journal. |
| 1:19.4 | Headline, Russia reportedly sending Iran drones for use. |
| 1:24.3 | There it is. |
| 1:25.9 | What is that? |
| 1:32.9 | John, did you just open your speaker? No, I didn't. |
| 1:42.4 | And I've had my mic off, so. All right, John, do you have a mic that you can turn on and off while we talk? |
| 1:48.9 | It's really unreliable. I think it's like kind of the wires on the fritz, so it's probably best to just use my computer. Can we do this? I can also get on my phone if that's better. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, let's go to your phone. That works. Okay. Get off of this link and come back on with your phone thank you okay |
| 2:03.5 | sounds good yeah i suspect it was him um because we didn't have a problem all day right i'm trying |
| 2:11.6 | to push an fddd to get everybody get decent mics and setups because we're doing way too much. |
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