S-300 missile system

But even after that, when Putin took control, he was sending in troops, especially the Wagner Group, into places like Syria to help maintain the Assad regime and was really very busy trying to make money, for a large part, in selling as many militant armaments as he possibly can.

In fact, one of the things that created a real rift between the United States and And Turkey, who is a member of NATO, is that they were buying the advanced anti-aircraft missile systems from the Russians, the S-300, the S-400, which are challenging.

I think that we've just proven by our invasion of Iran that we can easily overtake those systems and protect against them, but nonetheless.

Part of the agreement that would be in NATO is that you don't buy weaponry from your archenemy or from the Russians.

And then the rest of Moscow takes care of it.

St. Petersburg, on the other hand, was popping off S-300s, S-400s and knocking everything down in sight.

But there was a finite number of S-300, F-400s.

And by the time they ran out of missiles, the drones kept coming.

It's one of the reasons why I enjoyed the enjoyed a modicum of success because it was able to get sufficient drones through the corridor to attack the you saw this the the Russians early on in the attack.

You know, the Russians had their S-300, S-400 Panseer systems launching and they were blowing everything out of the sky.

But the problem is there's Russia, like the United States, has a finite number of air defense weapons available to it.

And this attack was of such quantity.

Now, about Greece and Spain, yes, I think there's a fair chance that they will buckle.

In the case of Greece, by the way, The Greeks have Patriot Pack 3s because there was originally a deal, this is a long time ago, for Greece to buy S-300 missiles from Russia.

This is when we were all on reasonably good terms with Russia.

Then, of course, Turkey objected.

So Greece said that it would not by the S-300s.

And there was talk, I remember, of giving them to Cyprus.

I don't think they ever went to Cyprus.

You probably can fill me up on that one.

We've done it in two." No, you haven't.

What you did is inherit a system, an industrial infrastructure premised on the S-300 Russian surface-to-air missile, and you've, uh, modified it with a couple European components to create something called the Freya, which doesn't work, by the way, which doesn't even exist, but what they're trying to do is say, "We need this Euro missile sy- defense system," because the Ukrainians are offering this now to Europe as well, uh, "but we need all your investment." Those investments cycle their way through, uh, Ukraine and then make it into the pockets of the various corrupt schemes.

It's, there's no real missile defense system called Freya.

It's just a corruption scheme that Ukraine is running, again, under the premise that they need air defense.

Sometimes the Russians launch missiles.

Sometimes they launch their air defense system missiles, S300 and S400.

They use them as land attack missiles, right? These things can get through.

Sometimes there's bad weather.

What I am seeing are things like this.

Ukraine's 15th Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade, Black Forest, located and destroyed Russian 9-6L6 radar, a key detection component used with the S-300 and S-400 air defense systems.

The radar is valued at $50 million.

I'm seeing that and other military hits.