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Комментарии • 936

  • @WORLDCRUSHER9000
    @WORLDCRUSHER9000 24 дня назад +319

    u know it's getting real when they put a paradox player in charge

    • @EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrection
      @EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrection 24 дня назад +8

      Lol. When assimilation goes wrong

    • @channel_lurker
      @channel_lurker 24 дня назад +7

      criminal syndicates make their own meta, 1000 hours in multiplayer and i love it ^^

    • @finnfeaver1196
      @finnfeaver1196 24 дня назад +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @Reichsritter
      @Reichsritter 24 дня назад

      like eu4?

    • @greentoby26
      @greentoby26 24 дня назад +5

      'I've done a WC several times; how hard is it going to be to paint Ruthenia??!"

  • @MineKraftwerk_
    @MineKraftwerk_ 24 дня назад +533

    Life lesson: do not fly in a heli if you're the president of a middle-eastern country

    • @zollen123
      @zollen123 24 дня назад +40

      The Iranian president is now with Allah. He must have a lot of explaining to do.

    • @thirtythreeeyes8624
      @thirtythreeeyes8624 24 дня назад +2

      Shh don't tell them lol

    • @drowzy7338
      @drowzy7338 24 дня назад +13

      And make sure your pilot isn't an agent by the name of 'Eli Copter'

    • @PatagoniaAries
      @PatagoniaAries 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@zollen123" ye, Israel ain't dealt with chief"

    • @anotherbacklog
      @anotherbacklog 24 дня назад +5

      Let’s hope mossad hide its trails really well so we don’t have mushrooms popping up all over.

  • @Ji66a
    @Ji66a 24 дня назад +139

    Let’s not forget “Shoiguuuuuuuu” (prigozian voice) had absolutely NO battlefield experience upon him becoming DM either.

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass 24 дня назад +15

      "Шойгу! Герасимов! Где наши чертовы боеприпасы?" 😂

    • @nicholasbrown668
      @nicholasbrown668 23 дня назад +6

      neither do most defense Secretaries or ministers, they don't need to and having military experience often makes them corrupt, Defense Secretaries/ Ministers are glorified accounts/managers they don't really handle war strategies they handle procurement or war material

    • @ScarletImp
      @ScarletImp 22 дня назад

      @@Robert_Douglass You gotta do it the way he did.
      "ShOIGUUUUU!!! GGGEERRRRAASSIMOOVV!!!!"

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass 22 дня назад +2

      @@ScarletImp O-kay..... Here goes, I suppose.
      "ШОЙГУУУУУУУУУУУ!!! ГГГЕЕЕРРРАААСССИИИМОВ!! ГДЕ БЛЯТЬ НАШИ БОЕПРИПАСЫ!!!"
      How'd I do...?

  • @JLT1187
    @JLT1187 24 дня назад +423

    Mr Shoigu better not travel by plane ever again in his life.

    • @teddypicker8799
      @teddypicker8799 24 дня назад +58

      And buy a windowless house

    • @marclohnhardt6420
      @marclohnhardt6420 24 дня назад +30

      Dont go to tea partys

    • @DEADG6D
      @DEADG6D 24 дня назад +17

      Or train or car or bike or scooter

    • @16mopey
      @16mopey 24 дня назад +33

      That's a lot of stressful things he would have to avoid hopefully he doesn't decide to shoot himself in the back of the head 5 times as a result

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 24 дня назад +1

      .... if he lives that lomg...

  • @MrEnjoivolcom1
    @MrEnjoivolcom1 24 дня назад +482

    Nothing live in my head like Prigozhin screaming out in that infamous video, “Shogu!! Gerazimov!!” Lol 😂

    • @DocBroketsky
      @DocBroketsky 24 дня назад +46

      For sure... especially "Where's the ammunition?".

    • @adriangospodaru9733
      @adriangospodaru9733 24 дня назад +28

      That memory lives rent free in my head for the rest of my life 😂😂😂😂

    • @teddypicker8799
      @teddypicker8799 24 дня назад

      Prigozhin/Wagner were the only capable Russians too. Now they're buried in a car park along with Russias hopes of reforming the USSR

    • @PatagoniaAries
      @PatagoniaAries 24 дня назад +21

      I miss big boss

    • @ryanr.3925
      @ryanr.3925 24 дня назад +9

      Где мой сука боеприпасы 🤬

  • @np8139
    @np8139 24 дня назад +251

    Andrei Belousov doesn't have a military background, but does have a deep understanding of defense economics. Sounds like a more cutthroat Russian version of Perun. I wonder if he likes making hour-long PowerPoint videos.

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 24 дня назад

      More like loves making underlings sit through hour-lomg powerpoint presentations. He is Russian, after all.

    • @ericp1139
      @ericp1139 24 дня назад +5

      Perun is a hack

    • @charliefinn7874
      @charliefinn7874 24 дня назад

      Shoigu wasn’t in either

    • @ericp1139
      @ericp1139 24 дня назад +30

      @@charliefinn7874 Shoigu is a relic of the old Soviet era of rising through the ranks by connections. Ironically, Russia is shifting to qualified posts while the US is reverting to the Soviet style.

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato 24 дня назад

      he is no one and nobody
      he was chosen only because he will not lead a revolt

  • @mitchellsanford2658
    @mitchellsanford2658 24 дня назад +83

    Thanks for keeping us updated. Here’s some money towards the writers’ caffeine fund

  • @wizzzer1337
    @wizzzer1337 24 дня назад +192

    2020's are not a decade to fly private jets and helicopters.

    • @JakeyBaby6
      @JakeyBaby6 24 дня назад +21

      Or on a Boeing.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 24 дня назад +30

      @@JakeyBaby6 Theres a new saying. If its Boeing, I ain't going

    • @JakeyBaby6
      @JakeyBaby6 24 дня назад +4

      @@thesenate1844 The fact that's a riff on a saying of the opposite shows how far they've fallen.

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 24 дня назад +4

      Someone tell Mike Lindell.

    • @CrowClouds
      @CrowClouds 23 дня назад

      I'm not waitin in traffic like a b*tch

  • @browerkyle
    @browerkyle 24 дня назад +151

    That film vignette frame is distracting and not an improvement over the normal talking-head monologue shot.

    • @brian4872
      @brian4872 24 дня назад +9

      I agree! My ADHD is going wild

    • @alexhennigh5242
      @alexhennigh5242 24 дня назад +11

      Sounds like a personal problem guys

    • @tom.m
      @tom.m 24 дня назад +10

      I think I've seen (or made) this comment on every video for over a month. They clearly don't give a shit.
      At this point I'll settle for no fake historical images or wacky distracting overlays. Which may still be asking too much. The animations on the vignette are getting worse...
      Yet they want to be called serious analysis, not just news.

    • @mattjones5813
      @mattjones5813 24 дня назад +8

      I personally don't even find it distracting, just dumb and unnecessary. At least they aren't using AI photos anymore, so whatever

    • @Langelmaki
      @Langelmaki 24 дня назад +5

      I agree, distracting as hell and looks unprofessional

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 24 дня назад +80

    0:00 - Chapter 1 - Russia's new defence minister
    13:20 - Chapter 2 - Is georgia on the path to revolution ?
    23:30 - Chapter 3 - Russia steps up sabotage attacks in Europe
    32:20 - Chapter 4 - Tunisia in turmoil
    39:45 - Chapter 5 - Iranian conspiracy in Jordan

    • @shzarmai
      @shzarmai 23 дня назад +1

      thank you very much

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 22 дня назад +1

      You're a legend! Thank you!

    • @ignitionfrn2223
      @ignitionfrn2223 21 день назад +1

      @@masseyfurguson8871 Fun fact, i have a master degree in nuclear engineer & i'm working at a nuclear facility as a radiological protection technician

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties 18 дней назад

      ​@@ignitionfrn2223That's cool, what nation are you in

    • @ignitionfrn2223
      @ignitionfrn2223 18 дней назад +1

      @@coconutsmarties France

  • @saint-miscreant
    @saint-miscreant 24 дня назад +25

    Shoigu being shifted could very well be a way to shift him out in a way that still takes care of Shoigu. Shoigu may or may not want to be Minister, but he’s never betrayed Putin and we all know Putin takes care of his friend. It’s a cushy retirement.
    As for Belusov, that makes a lot of sense because the Defence minister’s job right now isn’t to handle the battlefield, it’s to optimise Russia into a war economy. More interesting imo is to see where Patrushev ends up.

  • @LordSluggo
    @LordSluggo 24 дня назад +45

    You guys haven't done an update on Haiti in quite a while, which is a shame because you've probably been the best on that topic

    • @MARfilms
      @MARfilms 24 дня назад +35

      It's bad, thats your update

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 24 дня назад +20

      It's probably too chaotic to get accurate information at the moment.

    • @jacobschindler2513
      @jacobschindler2513 24 дня назад +13

      ​@@MARfilms This is unironically the most accurate update I've seen.

  • @FUL0H8
    @FUL0H8 18 дней назад +7

    How to properly spell CORRUPTION:
    Everyone, all at once now:
    R U S S I A

    • @1_1__1_1
      @1_1__1_1 15 дней назад

      How to properly spell idiоcy?
      Correct: You)

    • @masterofpuppets8111
      @masterofpuppets8111 11 дней назад

      @@1_1__1_1daaaamn how long did it take you to come up with that one? Clown

    • @1_1__1_1
      @1_1__1_1 11 дней назад

      @@masterofpuppets8111 nice to meet you, clown)

  • @mathieulechat2564
    @mathieulechat2564 24 дня назад +42

    In france the GRU tried to hack a dam and ended up jamming a water mill, that was funny

  • @artarezaei8720
    @artarezaei8720 24 дня назад +127

    Eyyyy guess who's president just got dusted

    • @ReySchultz121
      @ReySchultz121 24 дня назад +11

      Give him some time, i'm patiently waiting too.

    • @noir1923
      @noir1923 24 дня назад +17

      im fearing that someone more fierce and bloodthristy than raisi might come to power

    • @unc54
      @unc54 24 дня назад +34

      @@noir1923 Can you be more bloodthirsty than a guy literally nicknamed "The Butcher of Tehran"? Regardless it doesn't matter because the real power has always been Khamenei

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 24 дня назад +7

      ​@@unc54
      The Tehran reaper?
      The Iranian annihilator?
      The Persian poison?

    • @artarezaei8720
      @artarezaei8720 24 дня назад +1

      @@noir1923 Lets hope he at least has higher education than 6th grade

  • @maxwirt921
    @maxwirt921 24 дня назад +75

    Russia putting an economist in charge actually makes a lot of sense. Last time they got in a big economic war, the USSR didn’t survive. Granted that was with the US, a much bigger economy than Ukraine.

    • @4362mont
      @4362mont 24 дня назад

      The USA is still a target. The cyber-war rages pn.

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato 24 дня назад

      anything you think is wwrong westerners arte so spoiled by democracies they can't think like a rat

    • @l3vi23
      @l3vi23 24 дня назад +4

      To be fair they have a portion of the GDP of every country supporting them with munitions and equipment.

    • @timstone2813
      @timstone2813 23 дня назад

      Guy, the war is between the us and Russia. If you can't see ots a proxy war, God help you and o wonder how you even live threw life on your own.

  • @krzysztofsaa2997
    @krzysztofsaa2997 24 дня назад +63

    Coruption was not a reason. Coruption is a base of Russian country.

    • @CrashNTheBoys2002
      @CrashNTheBoys2002 24 дня назад

      Good one 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @worldwanderer91
      @worldwanderer91 23 дня назад +3

      Same with Ukraine and any other post-Soviet countries

    • @octoxodunomuoro2614
      @octoxodunomuoro2614 17 дней назад +1

      as someone who lives here, you're correct. it's so everywhere that you often can pay for a driver's license, a high school exam score, a uni degree, a medical diagnosis, even to dodge the draft. i absolutely hate it here and everything that putin is doing, but i don't know if it will improve or not, occasionally i see anti government graffiti around, but i didn't see much else, granted, here there are cops everywhere. but it feels like unrest is growing slowly

    • @krzysztofsaa2997
      @krzysztofsaa2997 17 дней назад

      @@octoxodunomuoro2614 It is a high time.

  • @kneau
    @kneau 24 дня назад +42

    Me: Oh, this looks pertinent.
    Also me: I'm starting to develop an aversion to the game Simon Says.

  • @knobjob2839
    @knobjob2839 24 дня назад +39

    Corruption in Russia? Never.

    • @margaretthatcher6828
      @margaretthatcher6828 24 дня назад +5

      Corruption in Ukraine? Who would have thought.

    • @Sergiblacklist
      @Sergiblacklist 24 дня назад +10

      ​@@margaretthatcher6828Eventually you will learn how to gather and comprehend data but it's not today

    • @Vaeldarg
      @Vaeldarg 24 дня назад

      @@margaretthatcher6828 Yeah, there's never been more corruption in Ukraine....now that Putin has installed puppets in areas he has "annexed", who have people vote in rigged "referendums" at gun-point....

    • @DirtbagWeeb
      @DirtbagWeeb 23 дня назад

      @@SergiblacklistUkraine is just as corrupt as Russia, simple google search will tell you that information.
      Corruption index for Russia is ranked 137 while Ukraine is ranked 117 according to 2022 reports and still high even with amid anti-corruption laws and they were higher amid 2014-2018.

    • @daveconrad6562
      @daveconrad6562 23 дня назад

      Get your booster and appease your pedo overlords

  • @gideonhorwitz9434
    @gideonhorwitz9434 24 дня назад +17

    3:41 neither has Shoigu but that didn’t stop Putin making him the second highest ranking general only than of a marshal and there has only been one marshal of the Russian federation
    This is nothing new for Putin to promote civilians with no military experience to head the defense ministry there hasn’t been a “military man” at the head of the MOD since 2001

  • @kevinlangan9055
    @kevinlangan9055 24 дня назад +18

    3:45 bro is probably a HOI4 player they put into a military general role

  • @Nasir3623
    @Nasir3623 24 дня назад +22

    SHOIGU! GERISAMOV! WHERE ARE THE AMMUNITIONS

  • @thomasnelson6161
    @thomasnelson6161 24 дня назад +23

    Shoigu looks like he belongs in that business suit. Certainly matches him more than the military outfit.

    • @coodudeman
      @coodudeman 24 дня назад +1

      nice... outfit matches my opinion of him FAR more than a uniform!! i agree completely!

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 24 дня назад

      Now picture him in a shroud.

  • @cllncl
    @cllncl 24 дня назад +13

    We love to say that Russia's attacks are costly and dangerous and mad and immoral and outdated.
    That's true. The thing is that they work. The one who wins wars isn't the one who is an expert in strategy and tactics and calls out the other for not doing so, the one who wins wars is the one who does what wins wars.

    • @retsaMinnavoiG
      @retsaMinnavoiG 22 дня назад

      Pretty simplistic take...
      Sure they're 'winning' but it's almost impossible for them not to win.
      I'm not sure when everything is stacked in your favour that you can say your 'plan' is the reason you won (more like a lack of a plan).
      For example, if one guy with a hand gun gets in a gun fight with a hundred guys carrying assault rifles... but the guys with the assault rifles walk around a corner one after the other getting shot in the head, until he finally runs out of ammo.
      Is that really a plan or strategy?

    • @cllncl
      @cllncl 22 дня назад +2

      @@retsaMinnavoiG All that matters is that whatever it is, plan or not, succeeds.

  • @Searkar
    @Searkar 24 дня назад +10

    Simon, you are a fucking legend man. How in the world do you work this hard spoon-feeding me such good information? 46 minutes again!?
    Deserve all the rewards coming to you man. Your analysis is aware of bias and absolutely awesome. Thank you.

    • @ASR0023
      @ASR0023 24 дня назад +1

      Because there is a whole team doing the work its not only Simon 😅.

    • @Searkar
      @Searkar 23 дня назад

      @@ASR0023 I'm sure you're right. I extend my comment to all those who help him as well.

  • @jimcappa6815
    @jimcappa6815 24 дня назад +48

    Wait wait wait...Russia claimed to make a real AT-ST? We need to hear more about this! I need a good laugh!

    • @phantomkrieger2744
      @phantomkrieger2744 24 дня назад +7

      lol Soviet chicken walkers, I was also thinking it looked a lot like the magitech suits used by the Empire from Final Fantasy 6

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad 24 дня назад +5

      Sadly, not even good for a laugh. The videos are on RUclips still I believe. It's less like a weapons program and more like a bored weeb making a Gundam out of cardboard trying to be cool... Not that I have any experience with that sort of thing.

    • @Sleepy7666
      @Sleepy7666 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@PlapradWHY DO YOU HAVE CAMERAS IN MY ROOM?

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad 24 дня назад +2

      @@Sleepy7666 More importantly, why do you still have that old Wing shirt from the 90's. Let it go. It's tired.
      And take those dishes downstairs to the kitchen!

  • @EverythingsFine82
    @EverythingsFine82 24 дня назад +8

    Great channel. Thanks Simon Whistler and team!

  • @swopejp
    @swopejp 24 дня назад +7

    The old-timey TV filter is dumb. It makes no sense. It gives the impression that the footage is old, and doesn't lend itself well to discussions of current events.

    • @yeehawanarchist
      @yeehawanarchist 24 дня назад +3

      What about the obvious filter over the HD footage of modern events would give anyone the impression it was old footage?
      Poor editing choice maybe, but it was obvious to everyone.

    • @SpamMouse
      @SpamMouse 23 дня назад

      Agreed it's really bad choice, totally stupid.

    • @Idler_JP
      @Idler_JP 20 дней назад

      @@yeehawanarchist Yes, obvious, to the point of second-hand embarrassment.

  • @juliaellis611
    @juliaellis611 24 дня назад +3

    Thanks!

  • @notajetplane
    @notajetplane 24 дня назад +3

    Great video. Thank you for taking about these events when most mainstream news ignores them.

  • @FlawedFabrications
    @FlawedFabrications 14 дней назад +1

    "A good general knows strategy, but a brilliant general knows logistics."

  • @anthraxmorbus
    @anthraxmorbus 24 дня назад +1

    Amazing analysis! Please keep us updated

  • @Omni0404
    @Omni0404 24 дня назад +9

    I guess we're getting the Iran video tomorrow, lol

  • @alexandreturgeon9831
    @alexandreturgeon9831 24 дня назад +9

    One of the main issue is China trade relations with Russia kinda negate a lot of the sanctions on Russia by the west … and yeah Russia is so huge , with lot of resources and a lot of main power … hopefully Ukraine stay strong and Putin will decide to give up seeing that the cost of the war is too much and useless

    • @daveconrad6562
      @daveconrad6562 23 дня назад

      Hopefully zelensky is ousted and a truce is initiated while Ukraine is liberated from western corrupters

    • @daveconrad6562
      @daveconrad6562 23 дня назад

      Hopefully zelensky is ousted and a truce is initiated and Ukraine is liberated from western corrupters

    • @retsaMinnavoiG
      @retsaMinnavoiG 22 дня назад +1

      Unfortunately without actual intervention from other countries then Ukraine cannot win and Putin cannot lose.
      It was always going to be a numbers game if Ukraine couldn't make some headway in the first 1.5 years because Russia will gear up and they have the numbers.

  • @anthonybraden157
    @anthonybraden157 24 дня назад +1

    Thanks again, Simon, for all that you and your writers do.

  • @morwickchesterham3875
    @morwickchesterham3875 22 дня назад +2

    3:13... estimated by whom? The US State Department? The British Foreign Office? The same institutions that told us Russia ran out of weapons back in August 2022...

  • @triskeliand
    @triskeliand 24 дня назад +5

    Gerasimov not Gerasiov at 10:40

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 23 дня назад

      I wondered...

    • @user-rl5um9zd1j
      @user-rl5um9zd1j 18 дней назад

      Shows Simon really is just a newsreader (and channel owner/creator). There's not a Ukraine invasion follower that doesn't know a major player like Gerasimov. Props to him though, the channel is great. Bit more acknowledgment to the writers would go a long way.

  • @peteraitchison7175
    @peteraitchison7175 24 дня назад +10

    Prigozhins wish was granted 😂

    • @gabbyt98
      @gabbyt98 24 дня назад +1

      Him in the grave be like 🎉

  • @camillalotus1177
    @camillalotus1177 19 дней назад +1

    Great discussion. Very informative. Enjoy this channel immensely.

  • @nedabehwilcox7215
    @nedabehwilcox7215 24 дня назад

    Thanks for the update

  • @nathanpress5013
    @nathanpress5013 24 дня назад +7

    Please tell me more about the Igorek walker

  • @springbreak2021
    @springbreak2021 24 дня назад +2

    Wow this episode was PACKED!! Thank you!

    • @springbreak2021
      @springbreak2021 24 дня назад

      If you see this, would love to see an inclusion of more irregular warfare and descriptions of the impact of influence operations and other IW operations. (Basically the second half of this video) Love your analysis!

  • @dogsbecute
    @dogsbecute 23 дня назад

    please do more of these longer form summary vids. great flow and transitions, nothing was jarring, music was at a good level (maybe a bit too low) and our fact boi had excellent delivery with this

  • @georgebernstein12
    @georgebernstein12 24 дня назад +4

    Didn’t the president of Iran go missing in a helicopter crash last night?

    • @daveconrad6562
      @daveconrad6562 23 дня назад

      Is simon a zio?

    • @domavner9321
      @domavner9321 23 дня назад

      I suspect this episode was finished before Raisin's death was confirmed or maybe even before the helicopter went down.

  • @luminyam6145
    @luminyam6145 20 дней назад

    Excellent video, thank you.

  • @zachb1706
    @zachb1706 24 дня назад +3

    Shoigu also had no combat experience

    • @BEASTCAREDIT
      @BEASTCAREDIT 24 дня назад +1

      he was in the soviet army when he was young

  • @dsnodgrass4843
    @dsnodgrass4843 24 дня назад +3

    Shoigu had a power base in the Russian East that helped keep it onside and sending the war effort young Asiatic Russian men to expend on the front lines in places like Bakhmut and Bucha. They will not be nearly so eager to go and fight for a Moscow economist and party hack.

  • @patricecoffee
    @patricecoffee 23 дня назад

    Keep up the great work!

  • @asabovesobelow4180
    @asabovesobelow4180 24 дня назад +2

    I love the situation room.

  • @tylerwhitley3125
    @tylerwhitley3125 24 дня назад +6

    Are you going to do one on iran?

    • @kieranklein2527
      @kieranklein2527 24 дня назад +2

      Probably has the writers furiously typing a script right now

  • @RechargeableLithium
    @RechargeableLithium 24 дня назад +4

    "...show Shoigu the window..." 👍

    • @ericp1139
      @ericp1139 24 дня назад +1

      Why? Is a promotion bad in your country?

    • @coodudeman
      @coodudeman 24 дня назад

      @@ericp1139 yep... instant death here when you get a promotion... thought it was common knowledge...

    • @casperthelegend1458
      @casperthelegend1458 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@coodudeman ah yes I'm sure Ukrainians all know about not flying in helo-chopters anymore unless they wanna be like KOBY!

  • @tyswenson7542
    @tyswenson7542 23 дня назад

    I just have no idea how you can put these together so quickly

  • @gregc8567
    @gregc8567 23 дня назад +1

    Shoigu was not a military trained person.

  • @andyhurrell
    @andyhurrell 24 дня назад +3

    01:16 " . . . this is the moment when Pootin has decided to show Shoigu the door." Is it only a matter of time before Shoigu also gets shown the window? But the real question is this: where's Gerasimov?

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse 23 дня назад +6

    Exactly what's the point of the fake old-time TV-screen-frame on this video?
    It is to reduce bandwidth, lower costs or simply "justify" the sub-contracted video editor's fees?
    Keep it simple in future.

  • @bonniespeck
    @bonniespeck 24 дня назад +1

    Shoigu is no war hawk. Putin didn’t even tell him he was standing up the nuclear weapons. A picture said a thousand words in his facial expression.

  • @dreadtrain2846
    @dreadtrain2846 24 дня назад +3

    Holy crap you have a lot of channels!!!

  • @theburningskull100
    @theburningskull100 24 дня назад +11

    Luscious beard, Simon, keep it up

  • @DouglasJWalker
    @DouglasJWalker 23 дня назад +1

    I know my comments aren't read but I still feel that there should be at least one video on the war on poaching. It is very important to us in Africa

  • @garrettmastantuono8043
    @garrettmastantuono8043 24 дня назад +1

    In the immortal words of Cyril Figgis, "I'm a hell of an accountant"

    • @retsaMinnavoiG
      @retsaMinnavoiG 22 дня назад

      That sounded better in your head didn't it?

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 24 дня назад +15

    I do hope the people of Georgia manage to make their way to the EU and NATO.

  • @GothPaoki
    @GothPaoki 24 дня назад +3

    Love your family as much as Simon loves Russia.

  • @PuyiWuyi
    @PuyiWuyi 22 дня назад +1

    Please drop the old film effect overlay.

  • @brandonblackfyre5783
    @brandonblackfyre5783 20 дней назад

    *I have been looking forward to new episodes of "The War Room"... You guys are doing a great job. Keep up the great work.... Stay Safe & Stay Dangerous* 😈💯👍

  • @alfredlu7228
    @alfredlu7228 24 дня назад +18

    talk about Iranian president helicopter crash

    • @divinewillie2973
      @divinewillie2973 24 дня назад +11

      Definitely in a next upload. It's still a developing event

    • @mredhawk161
      @mredhawk161 24 дня назад +2

      They definitely filmed this just before that happened

    • @alfredlu7228
      @alfredlu7228 24 дня назад

      @@divinewillie2973 😆😆😆

    • @equarg
      @equarg 24 дня назад

      Probably gonna do that tomorrow….or next 2-3 days to see what’s gonna happen/see what’s stated to the cause of the crash.
      Yea. NOT A HARD LANDING.
      I have seen a hard landing. Helicopter looked liked a Splooching Squirrel on the ground and occupants survived (1-2 days in hospital max)

    • @gideonhorwitz9434
      @gideonhorwitz9434 24 дня назад

      You just did lol

  • @stepheng1523
    @stepheng1523 24 дня назад +3

    Bipedal combat walker???

    • @SpamMouse
      @SpamMouse 23 дня назад

      Long form name of "New Target".

  • @nathanmuluneh6842
    @nathanmuluneh6842 24 дня назад +1

    Change my day

  • @riverkeyes3455
    @riverkeyes3455 24 дня назад +3

    Russias population is only 9th largest?!? Does anyone else find that incredible? I had to google I thought russias population was third or something!

  • @florendilhobbit2099
    @florendilhobbit2099 24 дня назад +3

    Is there a Version without the annoying filter? I didn't pay 600€ for a modern phone to watch war updates like it's 1945. :/

  • @GRAPHGURUS1
    @GRAPHGURUS1 21 день назад

    It's been a while since you guys released an update on Haiti.

  • @joelwhay
    @joelwhay 24 дня назад +4

    What is the deal with the fake movie tone pastiche from the 1940s?

  • @RainedOnParade
    @RainedOnParade 24 дня назад +3

    Are you really gonna parrot American government talking points… 🙄
    Entirely inappropriate and dangerous.

  • @coolbreezy7092
    @coolbreezy7092 22 дня назад

    I like how you tried to make it that he got fired or something when he just got promoted basically.

  • @LungAlin
    @LungAlin 22 дня назад

    Man. You are irepleceble and unmached in this business! fantastic work like always.

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 24 дня назад +6

    Anyone who thinks Putin doesn't want an open conflict with Nato is a fool at this point.

    • @greentoby26
      @greentoby26 24 дня назад +4

      Why doesn't he just start that conflict then?

    • @flyingtigers3747
      @flyingtigers3747 24 дня назад +1

      ​@@greentoby26 Putin wants to make NATO exhaust its limited stocks of tanks, AFVs, APCs, & artillery in Ukraine before starting a war with NATO. By then, Russia's economy will have been on a war footing for several years and NATO will be left holding its collective ding-a-ling.

    • @retsaMinnavoiG
      @retsaMinnavoiG 22 дня назад

      It would be suicide for Putin...

  • @domenstrmsek5625
    @domenstrmsek5625 24 дня назад +4

    Can you make new caledonian riots?

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples 24 дня назад +1

    I just hope each place finds peace and freedom.

  • @TheIboWater
    @TheIboWater 24 дня назад +18

    Several years of failure combat and now their finally doing things to drastically fix it
    Edit spelling error fix

    • @ReySchultz121
      @ReySchultz121 24 дня назад

      Now for the next question.
      Is it safe to pass judgment on his performance as of now?

    • @16mopey
      @16mopey 24 дня назад

      Didn't they replace him with a economist though ? Seems a odd choice

    • @putinenjoyer3527
      @putinenjoyer3527 24 дня назад +8

      Its incredibly how you lads can rationalise your faulty worldview , somewhat of a human superpower I guess the power of cope , L after L but you guys persist with this ‘ Russians bad Russian dumb Russian lose next week’ narrative , when will it stop ?

    • @mushroomman8912
      @mushroomman8912 24 дня назад

      ​@@16mopey it was explained why they chose him in literally this video...

    • @ericp1139
      @ericp1139 24 дня назад

      What combat failure? Russia is carving out pieces of Ukraine by the day.

  • @smiththewright
    @smiththewright 24 дня назад +4

    What's next for Putin? Appointing Stalin's embalmbed body to the role of prime minister?

  • @tedmihalca
    @tedmihalca 23 дня назад

    is that Bane's theme song I hear in the background??? 🤣

  • @Zenith118
    @Zenith118 24 дня назад

    So sad to hear about Shoigu going missing tomorrow :(

  • @LordFlaggy
    @LordFlaggy 24 дня назад +2

    let's not use that vignette again please

  • @syntactyx
    @syntactyx 24 дня назад +4

    Thanks Simon for continuing to cover the ongoing situation in Georgia. If not for your coverage I literally would not have been aware of anything happening there, because news outlets in the United States for whatever braindead reason find the constant, day-after-day vapid drivel about the Trump hush money trial to be more worthy of national news coverage than an entire country struggling against the tightening grip of Russian influence.
    I look forward to hearing your analysis on the impact of Iranian (former) president Raisi's little helicopter mountain adventure, which I'm sure you and the team are working on right now. Keep up the brilliant work.

  • @luciusoptimus7888
    @luciusoptimus7888 24 дня назад +3

    The Russians have AT-ST?

    • @gchampi2
      @gchampi2 24 дня назад +2

      Nope. They have a really big model of one though...

    • @tkohout87
      @tkohout87 24 дня назад

      @@gchampi2good one😂

  • @aprosper
    @aprosper 24 дня назад +1

    You’re really gunna just mention a bipedal combat mech and move on aren’t you😂

  • @pgbrown12084
    @pgbrown12084 24 дня назад +6

    I feel like a lot of these issues, Georgia, Russia, the US, are a result of too many old people in power. Too many people that are addicted and clinging to Cold War style policies. But when this is pointed out, all of the old people say "rabble, rabble, rabble, experience, rabble, rabble, rabble!" And they continue to lock out younger generations from making decisions to protect their own future.
    Fact: The US has the oldest average age of representatives in the House and Senate in its history. The US is also the most openly corrupt than its ever been in its history. Ill leave correlation and causation to you.

    • @DJ1573
      @DJ1573 24 дня назад

      Russia is waaaay more corrupt.

    • @retsaMinnavoiG
      @retsaMinnavoiG 22 дня назад +2

      Considering you claimed it is the most corrupt as a fact... got some proof?

    • @pgbrown12084
      @pgbrown12084 22 дня назад

      @retsaMinnavoiG A Supreme Court Justice caught and censured for taking bribes to pass restrictive laws and overturn Roe v. Wade. I can keep going. Just let me know if you need more. examples. I can make a list.

  • @jjanovsky1983
    @jjanovsky1983 24 дня назад +3

    Sone of Russia-related parts were self-contradictory and/or ignored the industrial reality.
    1. Going beyond maxing our arms and ammo production at current factories means building new ones or expanding current ones which even in an optimistic case takes 3-5 years (there is a lot of custom-made machinery involved, so throwing money at the problem has its limits - as the West has seen recently with its artillery ammo production, which is far easier to make than tanks, BMPs, jets, etc.) - not something you can do overnight - and there are no signs (or even just announcements) of new ammo/arms factories being built.
    2. It doesn't make sense to claim that after this war Russia would at the same time be going for a mass of basic equipment and "move beyond inherited Soviet weapons" when most of Russian current weapons are Soviet models or based on them - with new designs being stuck in development hell and/or just too expensive (like T-14 Armata).
    3. Customers for Russian weapon exports are rarely interested in basic equipment like artillery of ammunition - damn near everyone makes basic ammo in their country and if you look at the past sales, there have been relatively few buyers fro Russian artillery. Without export numbers that Russia used to generate with mostly aircraft and SAM sales, Russian arms export is practically dead.
    4. Presenting high ammo usage as cure-it-all ignores that it is resulting in burning through enormous number of artillery gun barrels - far beyond the current or near future production rates and that just like with many other items, Russia is compensating for the massive gap between newly produced weapon and they losses mostly by pulling older equipment from inherited storage of ex-USSR weapons, which are not infinite.
    5. It would take Russia a lot longer than 5 years just to rebuild its military to pre-2022 state - and even that state of the Russian military was far inferior to NATO.
    6. As has been said many times, in any war between Russia and NATO, NATO would rely on its massive airpower - immediately shredding Russian railways-based logistics and after achieving air superiority obliterating both frontline (tanks, BMPs, etc.) and rear area (artillery, HQs, etc.) assets - with Russia not having anything to effectively counter NATO stealth aircraft beyond attacks against airbases - which have been pretty ineffective even against a much much much smaller Ukrainian Air Force. Artillery-based warfare just doesn't work if the opponent has air superiority.

    • @Skyhulk95
      @Skyhulk95 24 дня назад

      Just shut up you don’t know what your talking about just a lot of cope

  • @davitkordzaia4273
    @davitkordzaia4273 24 дня назад +1

    actually, couple of weeks ago there were 300 000 people protesting in Georgia

  • @ianmason96
    @ianmason96 24 дня назад

    Of all the things I expected would happen in 2024, Tunisia’s president trying to recreate Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice was not one of them

  • @THE-X-Force
    @THE-X-Force 24 дня назад +3

    JUST STOP WITH THE ARTIFICIAL "OLD-TIMEY" FILM/TV EFFECT!! SO ANNOYING!!

    • @SpamMouse
      @SpamMouse 23 дня назад +1

      Agreed it's terrible !

  • @SiegeDamage
    @SiegeDamage 24 дня назад +4

    I find the 'TV screen' border around Simon extremely distracting & unnecessary. Please consider disusing it moving forward.

    • @SpamMouse
      @SpamMouse 23 дня назад

      Agreed it's so bad. Just their to boost subcontracted editor fees.

  • @CHRISA2095
    @CHRISA2095 19 дней назад

    after 1:30 I kept expecting someone to be shifted out a window. 🙃

  • @davidheary2482
    @davidheary2482 24 дня назад

    Ty

  • @christophercrider907
    @christophercrider907 24 дня назад +3

    The videos without the film/flicker effect recently have been much better. I'm not sure why your editors seem so married to it, but give up on the flicker effect. It diminishes the quality significantly and distracts from the information you're trying to convey - which is what people come to your channel for.

  • @Maybe7hursday
    @Maybe7hursday 24 дня назад +15

    LOL Well the editor has officially declared that they don't care about those of us who hate the tacky, unnecessary vingette applied to these videos and made them even worse. They simply take away from the seriousness of the topics mentioned and brings the quality of the video down. Imagine if the evening news had all the hosts in the dark with spotlights and dramatic music, it would be a joke. These editors should save the ridiculous and cringy editing for TikToks for Gen α. Stop playing with your shitty After Effects plug ins and take your job seriously.

    • @billcipher4996
      @billcipher4996 24 дня назад +2

      i was thinking the same

    • @swedichboy1000
      @swedichboy1000 24 дня назад

      Its fearmongering.

    • @joelwhay
      @joelwhay 24 дня назад

      Probably they should do an investigative reporting exposé on what intelligence agency is running Simon and who Simon is really working for.

  • @rickwong9049
    @rickwong9049 24 дня назад

    With Shoigu gone, its time for Gerasimov to complete the double.

  • @declan1123
    @declan1123 10 дней назад

    Need to turn this feed into an audio podcast.

  • @victoriaeads6126
    @victoriaeads6126 24 дня назад +3

    Russia has been meddling in Georgian politics longer than almost anywhere else post-Soviet period except perhaps Chechnya. It was their test country for deciding how far they could initially push the West in carving off bits and pieces of a sovereign nation without any serious (from Russian perspective) consequences. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still contested territories.

    • @domenstrmsek5625
      @domenstrmsek5625 24 дня назад

      They are indepedent and south ossetia would likely become part of russia. they never should become part of georgia in first place

  • @LoneHeckler
    @LoneHeckler 24 дня назад +4

    Don't know why anyone thought Ukraine would win 😂

    • @ZontarDow
      @ZontarDow 23 дня назад

      Because Russia isn't willing to sacrifice 20 million Russians to win.

  • @MrLeary73
    @MrLeary73 24 дня назад +1

    Give less than a year we’ll hear how he’s fallen out of a window