http://nutrientsurvival.com It's not every day that you get a chance to speak to a former Russian codebreaker, but that's who we have with us today in Lee, the Cold War Prepper. He runs a YouTube channel, is a member of a lot of different preparedness groups, has been a civil servant for his entire life, and he's here today to talk to us a little bit about some of the things that we're all scratching our heads on these days. So Lee, it's great to have you, and I appreciate all the great promotional support in the background there. Shameless plugs. Oh, shucks. Yeah, it's there. -Yeah. -In all my videos. -Awesome. -Welcome. -Well, thank you. Yeah, man. Definitely. Let me start with this. Someone who is fluent in Russian. You know, you don't meet folks like that every day. My roommate at West Point actually took Russian. But you've been a student of Russian strategy and tactics since, well, probably back Cuban Missile Crisis time. And in fact, it was your career for 20-something years and maybe even beyond that. You were with the Army Security Agency, Military Intelligence, and you had to have some pretty unique perspectives on what's happening today over in Russia and Ukraine. So do you want to talk a little bit about prepping for food prepping and planning? You talk about, like, first, you need to make sure you're the scenario, like what's happened and then the timeline for how long it's going to be or, like, where you are in the timeline. So can you give our audience a little bit of that perspective of mentality on how you approach prepping?" Sure. So let's take a look at my life. So, you know, back in 1963, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we had lifeboat rations and we had spam and a couple of other things, you know, canned dried beef. So that didn't become that much of an issue. But later on, back in the '80s, we had in the '70s started out with Mountain House. You now had a source of food company where you get some freeze-dried foods that would last you twenty-five years shelf life. So what I say is when do we anticipate whatever event is going to happen to happen? If you think you have a long time between now and when the event's going to happen, freeze-dried foods make the best sense because they're going to have a long shelf life. Then question number two becomes one of how long is the event itself and its total effects going to last? Okay, if we say that we're going to suffer an EMP and it's going to take down 90 percent of the US and we have two years' worth of seeds stored and we have two years' worth of freeze-dried food stored. But this event's going to last five years. We're not going to survive through it because we're one year short of covering that devastating time. So we've got to say we have to have enough so we can survive through that entire devastating event until it comes back to normal. And so then that tells you how much you need to get prior to the event. The longer time you have, the less money you spend, the more you can accumulate over time. If it's a very short horizon, if you think that World War III is going to happen before the end of the summer, then there's another triangle I use. And on the top, you've got time. Over here, you've got cost. And over here, you've got quality. Okay, so if you want it fast and cheap, it's going to be low quality because you can only have two of the three points at one time. If you want it fast and good, it's going to cost you a lot of money. It's not going to be cheap. If you want it inexpensive and good quality, then it's going to take you a long time to acquire it. So that's the basis I use for anything I do as far as planning food. And that is how much time do I have until the event? How long will the event last? And then what can I do to fill those gaps where I need to have my food?  @ColdWarPrepper  #prepping #prepper #russiaukrainewar