“In some ways, we are fortunate that they have such a cultural falsification of battlefield data because they then organize fire support around lines and positions they don't actually hold. … They'll end up having their own soldiers killed because the map they were given is not correct.”

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…Somebody made that. So, where up that chain does somebody know this is not an accurate report and we're not there and they send it anyways? Or is it going all the way up and everybody genuinely believes that to be true? Because it paints a very different picture of how the war is playing out.

It's crazy when you really think about it. Lex, like I could color a map on the screen and nothing matters, doesn't really change anything. The fact that leaders are making those changes and then sending their troops forward with bad information is crazy. It's costing lives. Like at the very least…

you want an anecdote, I was just west of Kupyansk at that time last year when Gerasimov declared to Putin in the meeting that they had all the Ukrainian units in Kupyanska and circumvent. And I was there with a colleague from one of the Ukrainian brigades basically reading this news. And it's a…

To me, this is fascinating because maybe you can educate me on this, but my guess would be throughout human history, throughout all the wars, whether you look at Napoleon, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, maybe even Genghis Khan, although the interesting dynamic there, there's always going to be some…