The Peter Zeihan Podcast Series - Announcing Our June MedShare Donation Match + Ukraine Updates || Peter Zeihan

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

Donate to MedShare Here: https://www.medshare.org/zeihan-impact/ I’m pleased to announce our donation matching drive for the month of June. We will be matching up to $50,000 in donations this month to our chosen charity partner, MedShare International. Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/announcing-our-june-medshare-donation-match

Everybody, Peter Zion here. For those of you who haven't been following me for a while, you may not know that I back a charity called MedShare, who provides medical assistance to communities who, through no fault of their own, have lost the ability to look after themselves. In this specifically, I support their Ukraine fund. The primary reason we're doing a new fundraiser in the month of June

is very simple. The Russians have dusted off an old Soviet strategy. They're bringing out their really large bombs, things called the Fab 1500, the Fab 5,500, the Fab 3,000. Basically, the number is the kilogram weight of the weapon, and somewhere between half and two-thirds of the weight is high explosive. So you're talking about weapons that have six to ten to twenty times, the explosive capacity of most of the bombs of the United States drops,

and they've now been married to a rudimentary glide and targeting system, which is kind of a poor man's cousin of joint direct tack munitions. Those are the things that the United States uses, in order to hit targets within a few feet. The Russians aren't that accurate. They're usually only going to hit it within about 100 feet or so. But when you have a metric ton of explosives in play, that's more than enough. We saw these weapons first to use in the battle of Adidivka earlier this year,

where the Russians dropped a couple hundred of them in less than 48 hours and just obliterated the Ukrainian positions. What has changed recently is the Russians are now targeting civilian areas with these weapons, specifically going after power plants. Now, in years past in this conflict, when the Russians would go after the power grid, they would usually use a swarm of uranium imported Shahid drones, which only have warheads of a couple of dozen pounds, and they'd send them into target things like transformers.

Well, now dropping a metric ton of bombs on a electricity-generating assets just leaves a crater. So it used to be that the Ukrainians could get their power back up and running in a matter of hours to days, Now you're talking about a complete physical reconstruction of power generating facilities. And even in the most aggressive circumstances where money and security are not issues, you're talking about months probably over a year. So the power plants that the Russians have managed to take out in the last three months, they're not coming back anytime soon. And that just leaves the Ukrainians forced to rely upon power imports from the European Union.

Anyway, for the month of June, we are doing a funds match. So we will match the first $50,000 of donations to MedShare. We have a link that we are attaching to this email and this video. I urge you and anyone you know to give whatever sort of support that you can give. The Ukrainians have been fighting for their lives for over two years now, and now the Russians are doing what they can to destroy what is left of the Ukrainian ability to look after themselves. specifically in this sort of situation MedShare tends to help hospitals

keep the lights on with diesel generators and fuel and then of course come in with surgical kits because everything about the supply chains in Ukraine has been gummed up by the Russians going after the physical infrastructure it's designed to cause as much civilian hardship as it possibly can and MedShare are braver than I am is right there in the thick of it trying to help people however they can so please please please dig deep

and I will see you next time.