The Peter Zeihan Podcast Series - Ukraine Shoots Down Russia's "Unstoppable" Kinzhal Missiles || Peter Zeihan

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

Russia launched a volley of missiles into Ukraine overnight, and Ukraine was able to shoot down all the Kinzhals in the strike. Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-missiles

Hey everyone, Peter Zion here, coming to you from the Denver Airport, and today we're going to talk about things that fly and explode. Really good news out of Ukraine overnight. Today is May 16, and overnight, Ukrainian time, there was a fresh missile attack by the Russians, about 16 missiles, of which six were the new Kinsels. Those are the supersonics. They can go 10 times the speed of sound. According to the Ukrainians and according to satellite telemetry, all of them, were shot down. Now, the Kinsel is important because it's got decent range and because it's super fast and supposedly can evade any sort of missile defense. And so for an entire flight of them to be shot down, even if the Ukrainians are lying and the data gaffes right now is wrong. Even if it's only

half of them, that's still a big deal. There's only one Patriot missile defense battery in all of Kiev, which means one of two things happened. Either number one, that one patriot stopped the entire flight or the Kinsels were more dispersed and non-patriot systems took out the flight. It really doesn't matter which is true because it means that the most lethal, fastest, most advanced weapon in Russia's arsenal can be taken out with actual relative ease. And that means that if you are anyone who in the future might be facing down the Russian more machine, the Russians don't have a quality advantage over you anymore. So pretty much any American defendant installation,

I don't want to say they have nothing to fear from these things. But all of a sudden, when the capacity of the Russians to get past American air defenses look significantly degraded, and the Russians don't even have anything in development that is better than the Kinsel at this point. So, you know, take the good news where you can. That's it for me today.