forgiven. he is no longer a famous figure. but in his day, he was a famous fish guy. a preacher and political figure. at one point, he ran for senate in michigan as a republican. in 1944, he ran for president against fdr. he ran for the ticket on the america first party, which he had founded. gerald l k smith did not go far with that bid or the bid as a republican. either if gerald l k smith, is remembered for anything, today it is probably mostly for this, this is a statue that he erected in arkansas in the 1960s, it is called christ of the ozarks. crisis of the ozarks was a suspiciously huge fund raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976. but that statue still stands in arkansas today. but gerald l.k. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye. because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nation wide movement that he tried to build. a movement that he named and that he lied and that he promoted charsley. an
for you to follow, easy for you to brock, in terms of all the jargon and everything. but can you explain to our audience, why it is that the ukrainian government, president zelenskyy, are so interested in this one u.s. weapons system, that they have just started to obtain? and that does have a connection to your home state of michigan. yeah, i mean, i think it s basically gives them the ability for precision fires, in a way that they just didn t have before. you know, you talked about the range, 50 miles. i think what s been interesting is that the russians have backed up that range, right? those 50 miles, it s pushed them back in a way that i think has been different. and it just brings the menu capability that s long-range, more precise, and then, those himars can move, as you said, it s scoot and shoot, or scoot and shoot. and they can just get out of where they were, and they are very accurate, and so, it s just bringing a new capability to them. they haven t had that before, and
defense ministry has ordered commanders to prioritize them for targeting. the u.s. has sent a dozen of these himars to ukraine. the administration just settled overspending for more for a total of 16. it s possible that the germans and the british are maybe sending a handful more. but ukraine says, these weapons are game changing for them. and they need a lot more. the ukrainian minister of defense just said, quote, for an effective counteroffensive, we need at least 100. he said, quote, that would be a game-changer. it s clear that u.s. provided weapons on the ground in ukraine, or already it s clear that she has provided weapons already on the ground in ukraine, or doing the work they were intended to do. ukraine was able to take out russian ship on the black sea. they were eventually able to recapture snake island, with a u.s.-made harpoon missile, using these himars systems, ukraine was able to destroy an important russian command center for aerial operations that they say has dr
u.s. is capable of shipping them a lot more? i don t know much about these weapons in terms of the procurement process, from what i ve able to read, sort of open source stuff, it seems like they re $5 million a pop. there s open source estimates that maybe the u.s. has a few hundred of them in our arsenal. but they ve been around for decades. they ve been around since the 90s. it s not like their brand-new, highly precision, s weapon systems that we ve only got a handful of. do you think we are capable of giving them as anymore as they want? no, not as many more as they want. and when you re talking about hundreds upon hundreds, the planners at the pentagon have to make sure that we don t cut into bone for u.s. defenses, right? that we don t leave ourselves vulnerable. we are giving the green is a lot of different things, including himars, and so, the pentagon has to make decisions all the time on what we can get them from our engine tory, to other partner nations have similar system
in ukraine, the first big city they managed to control was the southern city, a southern port city called, kherson. despite fierce ukrainian resistance in the north and around the ukrainian capital of kyiv, russian troops were able to capture kherson in the south, just a week into the war. well, now, it s five months into the war, and aided by some new high powered american weaponry, they kenyan president, volodymyr zelenskyy, is promising a counter offensive to retake kherson, took russian troops out of that whole region. president zelenskyy said this weekend that ukrainian troops are advancing step-by-step. they liberated 44 towns in the kherson region so far. they are doing so in part, thanks to a new weapon they have just started using. a weapon called, himars, support for high mobility artillery rocket systems. himars our long range, precision guided artillery launchers, made in the united states, who provided them to