BLUF

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Welcome back to The Bottom Line Up Front, an Artorias podcast.

I'm Matt.

And I'm Stefano, the Chief Intelligence Officer of Artorias.

So I don't think that we can simply frame the GOP as anti-Ukraine because there are clearly members of the the GOP members of Congress who are pro-Ukraine and bothered by what recently happened with Starshield and Starlink.

So there are divisions, and it would be fair to point out there are divisions within both parties when it comes to both of these conflicts.

But it's also a very nuanced conversation that would be very difficult to impact on the podcast sort of format because there's an important connection between these two conflicts.

And that is the support that the Russians are providing to the Iranians and the Iranian war effort and vice versa.

But that being said, This morning, we're going to quickly go over the price of oil.

Then we are going to do the bottom line up front for those of you who have busy, busy lives and can't do a whole hour with us.

And then we're going to go deep into what's going on, and then we'll do a bottom line at the end.

So, Wajid, can you hit us with the price of oil while I grab my latest cup of coffee from my wife's coffee cup? Bless.

So thank you, Waja.

And we will get to – I'm going to get some cool slides.

That'll be like bottom line up front.

The bottom line up front today, first item on the list, the United States is removing all of its unnecessary personnel from American embassies in 12 countries.

This is a format of our README files where it's like, well, that's weird.

There's this acronym called BLUFF, bottom line up front, which a lot of READMEs bury absolutely what the thing is about at the bottom.

Yeah.

an agent might read there but for me if i have to scroll and i have no idea what this repository is about from name or from the readme you already lost me you're out uh Because it means that you didn't document it with intent.

What I want to do right now is we also have a special guest today.

I want to do the bottom line up front for those of you who need to go mow the lawn.

Or do something with your kids or go to church, right? Yeah, I'm spitting my coffee.

I was on that joke.

Oh, yeah.

Who, right? I had one of those, you know? And it's just like, that person who never comes up in your mind, except when you're talking to your spouse or somebody else about batshit crazy people, and you go, oh, yeah, I knew this person.

All right, here's the bottom line up front.

First thing we're going to talk about is France.

Yeah.

Before we go any further, I know I've promised you, it is time for bottom line up front, for those of you who are busy adults who don't have time to listen to our bullshit analysis.

Our analysis is deep, but it is a little in-depth.

So I'm gonna go over the major stories of the morning.

Well, I just wanted to say two things.

Number one, this...

We're going a little bit into this bottom line up front because this could be a very, very serious international war situation.

Mm.

But then the point is we definitely do the, uh, the bottom line up front.

It's called BLUF, B-L-U-F, bottom line up front.

What's the TLDR? What are the key takeaways? So we do that so that, uh, for two reasons.

People, uh, make sure that they are the right place, and then the bots also understand [laughs], "Oh, this is what this is about."

We're gonna start the show.

I have decided there will be a new program to this show, um, that we are now over the next two minutes for the people who have been waiting, going to get into a quick review of what we're gonna do deep analysis on, and I call this now Bottom Line Up Front, BLUF, B-L-U-F.

We are going to discuss this morning, Donald Trump made another incredibly stupid statement about Greenland and taking Greenland.

Ukraine, SpaceX apparently cut Ukraine's Starlink ability to fly any drones faster than 100 miles per hour, 165 kph, outside of Ukraine, which means essentially Elon Musk has intervened in this war to stop Ukraine attacking Russian oil refineries and data centers.

Don't worry about banter.

I'm gonna do a thing called the BLUF, B-L-U-F, military speak for bottom line up front.

We will start this show with a quick recap of everything that's going on.

Then we will go back and recheck them and do analysis on that, so that you guys who are short, who need your intelligence...