And Hodges genuinely believes some of the most abject nonsense that’s out there. For example, he said, oh, Russia’s economy’s in trouble and they’re just the size of Spain. No, they’re not. No, they’re not. The International Monetary Fund and others have now identified that Russia’s economy is in the top five in the world in terms of measured by gross domestic product purchasing power parity. That’s a far cry from being Spain who’s not even, I don’t even think they’re in the top 10 of those countries. The failure to recognize that a country like Russia, which is rich, you know, overflowing with gas, oil, uranium, other precious metals and rare earth minerals, and has an intact industrial base.

To not take that seriously is one thing. The other thing Hodges did, which I found shocking, because Danny was trying to press him on, why did you guys let Ukraine run that counter offensive? And on the one hand, Davis would say, well, I mean, Hodges would say, well, you know, we would never, we would never send U.S. forces into an offensive without air power. Okay. And you knew Ukraine didn’t have air power, so what the hell were you thinking? And he comes in and he, you know, he does the tap dance like Bill Robinson from Bojangles, you know.

He’s just a tap right, tap left. So it’s appalling and it’s not, but it’s not just him. Petraeus says these things. Keane says these things. And what they, their refusal to acknowledge, what’s taking place on the ground right now, is going to lead to one of these moments where people, you know, wake up and go, what the, what in the world’s going on? You told us we were winning. [tr:trw].

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