The Ukrainians especially have access to the American spy satellite network, which I think has given them a huge edge. This is definitely the first major conflict where drones of all sizes are used to accentuate and propel an even direct combat operation. The Russians might have taken it into account and said that this is the hand that you're dealt and you play it. But more so than that, I really do think that it would stun the world or it would stun me and maybe people in our sphere. It wasn't that this happened. And I really don't get the impression that anybody, and I certainly did not think, that we would see this kind of combat make a return to the world.
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.
