New Ukrainian Weapons Hit Russia Where It Hurts || Peter Zeihan 

The WWII us bombers channel is covering how German rail network was disabled. For instance fighters would make 70 small cuts of the rail and later relentlessly strafe repair crews. Germans were quoted as saying rail damage was the biggest problem of the war.

Funny thing is how this Toropets depot was meant to supply Russia in a war against NATO. If some drone debris did this, how on earth could it survive a proper missile attack.

“In my country there is problem…and the problem is transport.”

The new nickname for this Ukrainian drone is "Debris".

Zeihan is still lost in the wilderness. I hope he finds his way back to civilisation soon.

Word of the day…”Blammy”

"Things are very blammy" Quite the technical terminology there lol

Latest reports are that the train got away. But the stuff it unloaded was still sitting around.

One report I just saw said the Waxed Cardboard Drones that are being sent to Ukraine by Australia, are almost impossible to detect. The Ukrainians are cutting a hole in the bottom and installing a Go Pro for recon missions. Drone goes out, does the fly over, but instead of broadcasting the data from the Go Pro back, and making the Drone a target, they just fly back home. Data gets downloaded then. These Drones have a 475km range, and because they are wax covered, all weather. Might be a great way to get railroad intelligence. Slava Ukraini

“(...) victory is about justice. A just victory is one whose outcome satisfies all - those who respect international law, those who live in Ukraine, those who lost their loved ones and relatives. For them the price is high. For them there will never be an excuse for what Putin and his Army have done”. V. Zelenskyy, Sep 22nd 2024 Interview.

"Blammy"... I learned a new adjective today

Love this quote “things go very blammy’

Good morning, man. Thanks for the continuing work.

The main advantage the Ukrainians seem to have is the ability to shift and adapt tactic's quicker than the Russians.

Logistics are so cool.

Thanks for everything you do Peter!

Ukraine continues to amaze me with their fierce resistance and innovation. What a shame it would be if US politics curtailed the good work they're doing. Happy to see them give Putler his Waterloo moment of history.

The drone is called Palianytsia and is a medium sized turbojet powered ground launched cruise missile. It's not a rocket. Conceivably they might use rocket assist for launch, but I doubt it. The only reason for calling it a drone is if it's piloted, or has manually adjustable terminal guidance, which cruise missiles like the Tomahawk traditionally don't have although who knows, maybe they do now. It looks like it has a fairly large wing for a cruise missile, which implies a less powerful engine and lower top speed than the Tomahawk or Storm Shadow, but basically a cheaper, smaller ground launched variant on those systems. By cheaper, reportedly about $1m each, but while that's super expensive for a drone it's super cheap for a cruise missile. The Turbofan will be the big ticket item, and the limiting factor on production. Wonder what they're using, and where they're getting them from.

I just don't get the trepidation of our governments to fully support Ukraine - whereas Russia is able to utilise relationships with China, Iran and Nth Korea with impunity.

That's why Russia lost the Crimean War in the 19th Century, no rail.

Yes they have found a way to track the trains, it’s called the US military industrial satellite complex.

I believe that new missile drone is pronounced for us English speakers - pah lya nit si ah

The Toropets ammunition dump had over 30,000 tons of ordinance stored when it blew after the Ukrainian drone-missile strike.

YESSSS. Slava Ukraini!!

Краснодар, Торо́пец, Тихоре́цк. The latter means The Quiet Place, which I find especially ironic. The missile drone is called Паляниця.

Great vid. Ukraine keeps adapting & upping their logistical & strategic targeting ability to disrupt Russian supply chain. Seems pretty critical. Thanx Peter & team. Cheers, Milan

Really good analysis. Than you!

While I listen intently to every word, I also look for bears in the background even though I can't wave them off from sunny Thailand...

When the Kerch bridge was hit it was at a point where a fuel train just happened to be. That was back in October 2022. Rumours now that sailors from the Russian surface fleet are being sent to Ukraine to take part in meat wave assaults. Very interesting and terminal if confirmed.

Ukrainians should rename these drones to "debris"

The Russian advance on Pokrovsk has been stalled for a few weeks not a few days.

Osint accounts showed ‘before’ satellite pics of how much ammo was stacked outside the Toropets bunkers. Some comment that the bunker doors were probably left open too Initial guesses were it would only be the older section that was blown up but the ‘after’ pics showed half the new section was blown up too

"3 days", ladies and gentlemen.

The underdog is biting back! 🎉 never give up!

Thanx for starting my morning off with a blam.

Brilliant success for 🇺🇦- might need to brief Putin fan boys on USA media

An army succeeds or fails based on the availability of supply. Disrupt their ability to supply their army and for all intents and purposes the war stops. A gun without ammo is useless. a missile without fuel is useless. So IF they can disrupt logistics that's a massive issue.

Paul-yan-it-sa!

You pronounced the placed correctly, Peter

You don't mess with the Zeihan!

After that shipping accident its hard to look at Peter with any knowledge beyond what certain agencies tell him to say

Listening to this made me want a subway

Does Russia have any means at all to protect itself from this new drone? The Russian mil bloggers are saying there is nothing they can do short or long term. But I would expect they are just panicking now.

“ I don’t know what weapons will be used in WWIII, but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. Albeit Einstein

Although I agree with the principle behind Peter's statement about the reason for the lack of road infrastructure, that did not prevent the USSR from building the largest military kit in history, which they ended up using 30 years after the fall.

Either Ukraine has built an analogue of the Taurus cruise missile with MEPHISTO-type warhead technology or Russian construction is sorely lacking when it comes to building hardened bunkers. For a subsonic drone weighing less than a ton to be defeating Russian bunkers is a damning indictment of baked-in corruption and nepotism.

Russian people should protest to stop the war

Great update, thank you 👏

Courage et ténacité à l'Ukraine.

Ukrainians track Russian rail? NATO/U.S. is suppling vast amounts of Intel to them, quite sure.

Normal people? If I'm not mistaken palletization is a NATO & allies thing, not a people thing.

Nothing about the way this war has been conducted makes sense

Damn, foggy Colorado looking good

“Blammy” should be used for descriptions more frequently.

Yes they are able to monitor the rail system via sudka And the Russians cannot cut them off

Exellent!

Russian government could have built road networks with all their fossil fuel money if there wasn’t so much corruption and so many snouts in the trough!

Hello Peter Feel smarter watching to you

Blammy, dig it!

Back in WW2 the Allies spent a great deal of resources and effort at trying to take out German oil production. After the war it was discovered that Germany had a constant increase with their oil production throughout the war. It wasn't until the Allies started going after German rail infrastructure when it put the hurt to them.

Too late..

Russia would be smarter to use random trucks for ammunition and have decoy trucks rather than relying on rail so much.

If u check out every video of Zeihan u'll find a 100% pattern: all his prediction - all of them - were shown to come out the other way around.

Two thirds of their trains are electric...boogie ooggie woogie

Actually due to logistics lag, the depot strikes couldn't have stopped the pokrovsk push this fast

That's amazing intel, considering the Russians themselves don't know when their trains are running.

Do you ever worry about Bears?

Let's see an A-10 drone "comparable" drone next. Just a huge gun with 100s of rounds/seconds - we've gotta be close?

Watch out for the bears

I got some good info from Peter on this one. Admitting Ukraine is performing deep strike with missiles and the fact they are targeting the rail network as a weak-point for these depots. This analysis is way more then Peter usually does.

Peter, Those huge transformers at the output end of the Russian nuclear and fossil electric generation plants take months or years to replace. Not an on the shelf item. They are not radioactive either.

Those explosions are in tactical nukes territory

This war is exposing the weakness in armor and artillery, as well as troop movement and concealment. Not to mention supply storage. This is tantamount to the change in trench warfare or sea warfare we saw in WWi and WWII. The current thinking on combat tactics and standoff ranges are gong to have to be reevaluated or new systems are going to have to be developed and employed to deal with drone technology.

Peter always has something original to say. At least we didn't have to hear the atrocity "NU-CU-LAR".

Nope. Drone swarm. They don't have hundreds of those Peter...

Trains are large and visible things easy to track from the air, also they can hack into the internal systems of the RZD to follow train movements. "to peter out"? hehe

If the situation is comparable to the wider European one the passenger transport is likely electrified. However cargo is normally pulled by diesel locomotives. This would mean that if the Russians are willing to get the electric trains of the rails, and thus disrupting travel for people, the cargo would be able to continue.

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🫡

FYI, the new drone/missile weapon is called the Palianytsia (pah-lia-nee-chia), in honor of a traditional Ukrainian bread that invading Russian troops find notoriously difficult to pronounce 😂😂

And yet, showels are still somehow closing in on Vuhledar.

A Ballon with an attached Cable might do the Trick 🤔

I wonder what temperatures Moscow will have come winter.

did Peter just say peter out

Blamey sounds British.

Anyone remember the predictions he was making last year that never happened?

"Blammy"

Palantir baby!

The new drones are pronounced... "Made In The USA"...

Soo-dzja!

Peter says at 4:23 somehow the Ukranians are tracking trains... yeah somehow like nato cia etc... if this continues things are going to get glowy

Does this man ever go home?

And it's called "storm shadow"

The new missile drones raise a question, what is the warhead? Ukraine has now had plenty of time to cobble together undeclared capability in the 50kt class. If ruzz does use a nuke, ukraine now has the wherewithal to respond in kind.

Of course Ukraine has access to real-time satellite intel, because their allies do. However there are probably trains in active wartime depots as often as there are not, so that is spurious evidence.

Dont escalate behind the tree

For some reason his beard and sweater make him look like a king fu master

Now I don’t really know how they would work in Russia but someone putting apple air tags on trains by partisans or operatives, would that work?

Drissle?

I was wondering about how russian logistics were doing. I was curious if they had made improvements. So this video was very much appreciated. I'm also very curious about how well russia's internal security is working... Or should I say not working? Because I strongly suspect that their ability to collect and analyze intelligence is getting pretty bad. Do you have any info to confirm or deny that?

Didn't Peter say Russia would take Kiev in months? Didn't he also say Bitcoin would drop from 16k to 0?