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@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib4009 Because these antics are specifically designed to fly just under the radar of what would trigger Article 5 - at least that's the idea. Personally, I think they are clearly overt acts of war.
Served in Germany in the 1990's right after the Berlin wall fell ('89) and Russia imploded for a bit before Putin took over in 2000. It was the Wild West for spy activity from Russia, to East Germany, to many parts of Europe in that short time. With borders and checkpoints obliterated and everyone thinking Russia was suddenly our friends (they were not), new pathways were wide open. Intelligence tracking was a nightmare. I'm surprised more books are not written about it. I should write some memoirs
Wait how was US intelligence surprised that Russian intelligence was paying the Taliban. That is LITERALLY what we did in the 80s why would you not expect the Russian to do the same?
NATO is all about the hypocrisy. 2014 Ukraine NATO installed a government in one of the most blatant coups in history, and a democratically-elected Russian leaning government was replaced by NATO appointments. Putin's government are obviously the bad guys here, but still, it is a very valid reason for Russia to be furious enough to invade, just like how the USA would justifiably invade Mexico or Canada if the situation were reversed.
Kinda sad how getting the word out about Havana Syndrome was entirely the work of the affected individuals, while even their own hierarchy tried to gaslight and shut them up. Even saying it was “classified” to talk about what happened, while at the same time saying it hadn’t happened.
That is standard fare when there are ongoing investigations or operations though. And may well be more a case of obfuscating what specifically is known and understood. As frankly if the US were to come and say 'yup, it was Russia, we know exactly how it was done, who it was done by and have already used an adjacent technology to cause them to shit themselves in the middle of their debriefing' Then that would tip our hand on the extent of both US intelligence reach, and our technological capability in the field of DE weapons. (note, the above scenario is to my knowledge fiction, yet a known symptom of exposure to a certain range of infrasound vibrations)
Havana syndrome was a wide range of effects and couldn't be directly linked to any foreign individuals. It would have been hysteria to support the theory it was Russian attacks on U.S Personell without the proper evidence. Obviously anything besides damning evidence of an attack would be considered classified as to protect our sources of information.
@@brunsy1990 interesting reasoning. This is also a reason why they don't want to talk about uaps because then they have to talk about how they know what they know.
@@brunsy1990 Very common excuse in all fields. It happened but it didn't happen. You're stupid. You're crazy! I'm not gonna argue with ya! That's the unspoken SOP for many, especially those who want you to know they have a DEGREE! It's sCiEnCe! and all the other buzzwords, slogans, catch phrases, and insults in the big bowl of word salad.
I was in class with other infrastructure workers when we started feeling dizzy and sore. One day I came down off a ladder but the ground didn't stop moving for a few minutes. I've had headaches come and go ever since. I didn't hear about Havana syndrome until years later. Some of our instructors would go over seas to help build bases or relieve disaster areas. I guess they weren't kidding when they said it was the most hazardous job you could do. They might of been trying to get to someone else and apprentices just got in the way. They did do sloppy poison assassination jobs in the past with that hotel tea pot story. Hard to believe any of it. 20:10 'to collect intelligence from their computers and cellphones'. Well what were the odds our HTC phones got hacked in that class and some of us lost all our phone data. Maybe it had something to do with this. What a job... what a job. Suppose I should mention this happened in 2011.
From a non-EU/US/NATO/Russian perspective its amusing and baffling how far the countries affective go to minimise what are acts of war, as 'hybrid', or 'sabotage' so that hash words and ineffective sanctions are seen by the public as an adequate response
Last time the US intelligence were not this cautionary, it resulted in the false WMD allegation on Iraq in the 2000s. I think that may affected how careful the intelligence community has been doing.
@@chrisblack6258 The 'false intelligence' about WMD's in Iraq wasn't an intelligence failure. It was an information operation to convince US allies to back its invasion of Iraq, and to enable internal backing for a war against a nation that had NOTHING to do with 9-11 Based on your response I see that it was effective for many
@@aether3697 Because that's what the GRU does. GRU is a military org that does direct influence and intelligence, they are different from the KGB (Russia's CIA version). Basically, GRU is a SOG/SAG/SAD equivelant.
😂😂😂😂 y’all are worth way more than that and it shows how dumb they are to take that deal I would of been wheeling and dealing to get more money if I was on the opps side 😂
sounded more like leftist governments blaming their madeup usual suspects every time something goes wrong.......probably covering up their own screwups....the record will get set straight once we get rid of the incompetence in washington and others........
And you think that everything is hunky-dory in RF because they took Tucker Carlson to a 'show' grocery store for the elite? LMFAO... you are so gullible.
That has nothing to do with them performing espionage, they can be decently well off with domestic production AND performing spy activities at the same time. Putin had an active interest in sabotaging american operations in Afghanistan because it would distract the US from any wars Russia DOES have interests in. There's no reason or value in them pushing further west after ukraine, it makes ZERO sense and doesn't lime up with putins decisions to invade in the first place.
Company director literally says the people with Havana Syndrome are making it up. I watched my friend go from being a well spoken, very intelligent person turn into a paranoid, angry, completely unable to control their emotions. Felt sick all the time, headaches and nausea days and days. He disappeared, I can’t find him anymore. He just disappeared.
QAnon will do that to some people. Intelligence is no defense, and makes it harder to treat. Also brain tumour, or maybe severe mercury poisoning. Or TBI, which seems involved in Havana syndrome if it is real.
@@jimsimminins3020 Nah. Directing microwaves is not easy, it takes a large array antenna & lots of power. Or a bigger parabolic antenna. They can be mounted on a truck. It is not pinpoint, you can't do that with waves from a distance. Sound waves, microwaves are similar wavelength and follow the same principles mostly. As for sending them anywhere in the world, just no. Sending them to the end of the block requires an obvious large antenna.
Russian hybrid warfare has split the country down the middle, making our democracy less effective by hindering our focus. We MUST come back together as Americans to fight the real enemy.
I can't wait to see these videos from when you traveled to the frontlines in Ukraine. You have become one of my favorite sources for learning about different current events & other geopolitical, military, historical information. I wish RUclips would fully support channels like yours because you provide quality that we don't see almost anywhere else. So RUclips should see how valuable your work is for their platform and they shouldn't let their stupid guidelines ruin something so informative & beneficial even if it does cover difficult topics.. oh well it is very important to cover difficult topics and RUclips has got to stop acting like people can just IGNORE it.. RUclips is really dropping the ball with their censorship guidelines and who and what they choose to support or not.. i hope that changes
@@scottyspliffen7421 Cappy is a joker who can't even correcly pronounce or spell most things he talks about, people like him because he's basic like they are lmao fr fr
@@DushmanHron America has no need to aim at Moscow. Their tiny little economy and nation of alcoholic, uneducated and impoverished citizens (with the *lowest male life expectancy* in the European AND Asian continent) is taking care of itself. Russia is in so much trouble with regard to demographics that they're going to be completely ineffectual over the next 50 years. They have lost so many fighting age males they'll neither be able to repopulate or fight another war for decades.
Fascinating…and disturbing Cappy. You keep upping your game man! Please keep going with these deeper stories on both domestic and foreign SpecOps and Intel ops. I especially love the history as anecdotes and photos. Sometimes, because of this, your vids play a bit like a book which I think is great. By that I mean they are truly interesting, deeper, supported by references and yet nice and informative and focused (in video).
Yeah, but they made up things to sell their narratives. There's zero incentive to be factual and neutral. It's like if Steven Seagal writes a book about US in Russian - do you think it will be an accurate depiction?...
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms. Anatoliy Golitsyn(GRU defector)
Перебежчикам -Предателям жить на что-то надо вот пишут всякую ерунду ... В начале 90-х я не особо верил , а когда литературы стало прочитано больше с годами , то понял что книги Суворова-Резуна , как и Олега Калугина полная ложь и чушь ...
London tapping in. Really interesting content my man. Ill have a look at your back catalogue and may sub to you but for now Ill smash the like button for sure 😅
Waste of assets, and short sighted strategy...all hallmarks of the current Russian Government. Imagine if you will that its two years ago, and instead of a Special Military Operation the Russians tried a Special Marketing Operation to bring Ukraine into their fold. Where would they be now?
They are probably just trying to see what they can get away with. We let them take Crimea, currently letting them take the whole country of Ukraine, who knows what else
Bro I am litterally in a trench in ukraine fighting. Just visiting isn't too dangerous. But being where we are. None of us expect to survive more than a few months here. Or a few weeks if you're unlucky
GRU has entered the comment section :p Just to clarify, I don't have to work for the government to not want a hostile foreign power to interfere in my government. I didn't make any geopolitical decisions for the USA, that's always done by a handful of people wherever in the world you are.
@@Robertsmith001 Lol, Robert Smith is pretty anglophone, bro. IDK what Anglophone country the USA f'ed over. You wouldn't be a hired bot from another country, would you?
@@DennisMartinezCalifornia So the lefty thing to do is support Russian oligarchs plots against America? I hope you're a bot, otherwise IDK how you haven't had an accident with logic like that.
Greetings from Ukraine. few coments 1. appreciate your detailed and accessible explanation for the Western audiences that don't speak Ukrainian or Russian. 2. this is not a "secretive" unit anymore because russian journalist broke stories on this ages ago. There's a really interesting point about how standard journalists managed to uncover and connect some of the links - russian military literally rents apartments for their top agents next to the building where they work. Journalists bought the official russian drivers database for like 10$, which contained all names, plates and so on. They connected the plate numbers to people, people to the building, building to the GRU unit, GRU unit connections by linking names+plates to vkontakte social network. Best part about russia, you can buy anything. Another thing that's good about this video, it clearly shows that while US might want to isolate itself, the russians are actually waging a 24/7 war on US already. Assassinations, political interference, bribery, espionage, industrial sabotage, direct military action, attacks on allies, james bond like poisonings and testing of high end military tech. It's all happening today. Russians basically behave like standard thugs, they will press you as far as they can. if you don't stop them, they're going to press harder and deeper. US behaves like a *itch for the past 20 years & russians are using this to the full extend. By the way, it got so bad that Microsoft and top US banks are begging Senate to take actions on russian sponsored cyber crime groups/threats, but the government is mostly drinking kool-aid here. Finally, its showing that unlike EU/US, the russians never stopped their cold-war era operations. While EU/US have some sort of changes in political direction, the russian government operates pretty much as it did back in 1930s. Their chief intelligence agency hasn't moved from their original building for more than a 100 years now, it basically has the same principles, and still considers US its primary adversary. I'm really clueless to how US is sleeping on this one, but I'm pretty sure that one of the next cyber attacks on US grid, oil, military, or banking sector will provide a solid wake-up call.
Cold War era operations never stopped on either side. The US isn't sleeping on Russia (or China) either. The US deploys a ton of honeypots to pull threat actor resources away from targets that matter and use a lot of subtlety in target hardening and attack surface reduction. If an adversary believes they've taken down a system or disrupted it, when in reality it's only toggling power to a light bulb, they're less likely to expect that resource to be available and are more likely to become overconfident in their abilities which gives them two disadvantages for (essentially) free. Even better when the intent is known, and the effects can be replicated and controlled, so staging a believable reaction to the attempt to make sure that the watchers are satisfied.
@BSGDiscerp this is how a US intel organization played the KGB like cheap puppets for years and did the final end run via Solidarity et al. Knowing how the CIA, MI6, politicians are compromised and allowing it to go along uninterrupted (mostly) blew up the KGB ego while they missed all the important stuff.
I still don't know if the various people online claiming to be Americans who say things like "it's not our war" are genuine, or just paid trolls... As such, I appreciate videos like this one providing more clarity. There is a small, but concerning chance we will actually lose the "hybrid war", if too many people are too misinformed about Russias capabilities and intentions, so all of us have some responsibility in informing other people.
Hhahahahaha tool. When has a democrat ever asked you if you live in america. With all the evidence on former federal administrations doing dirt. The cia killing and ruining lives to combat communism in the seventies? Anyone?
It's largely irrelevant. there are probably some bots but anyone who doubts that there are not millions of American who do believe that it is not our war, regardless of whether you agree with them or not, simply aren't paying attention. To say that opinions on the Ukraine conflict are polarized among the American population is an understatement. It's not even a new phenomenon, per se. the largest anti-war movement in history was actually in the United States before its entry into World War ii, since even back then many Americans did not want to get involved in what they saw as a foreign conflict that did not concern them.
The US and England have USED it's VETO power TWICE when a deal to stop hostilities was on the table...but nope that wouldn't fund all the weapons... especially since the Pentagon failed it's 7th Audit.
Russia’s Unit 29155 likely has operatives from Vympel, which is their version of Delta Force. Those guys are some of the best, unfortunately, and they have tons of clandestine intelligence experience.
You do a really good job of being as objective as humanly possible. **That was an awesome transition though 😭😂😂 One second I was nodding my head In agreement, the next I was listening to an ad for Ground News 👌😂😂
"By 2015' Russia closed access through their territory. That was TWELVE YEARS of war on their border. They were very patient and accommodating for over a decade..... Probably they were laughing at us the whole time, but they did make room for us to operate.
Remember when a close friend deployed back in 2018... when he got back he mentioned having to track dudes down and connecting them back to russia for equipping and paying them.. wild to hear this video.
The people who stopped them originated from the same Soviet-era unit. It's an even match and they lost fairly. Not to mention they already destabilized Ukraine in 4 separate events prior to the invasion.
It’s interesting how so many of the conservative talking points seem to line up with what benefits russia and it’s also interesting how conservative PACs are receiving money from Russia and also funding conservative campaigns.
Then why did Putin not invade during Trump’s administration, but did invade during Clinton, Obama and Biden, all of whom Democrats. Trump’s administration helps bring peace and stability to both sides, while the other 3’s administrations have brought nothing but destabilized relations through political insults, sanctions, and refusal to discuss issues.
Conservative Christians in America have more in common with with Orthodox Christian Russia than they do with a secular US Government that has in recent years become openly hostile to people who hold traditional Christian values.
Yes, it is. And the new conservative talking point is how strange it is that Hunters pardon, which we would assume is for the crimes he was found guilty of, instead go all the way back to 2014. I mean....what are they trying to insinuate?
I've always wanted the superpower of making anyone shit their pants at any time. Cut off in traffic? Shit your pants, idiot. Boss is an asshole? Get poopy, dumbass.
I don't think they ever gave up, development continues a pace it's just a long and detailed process. You can see many recent developments, I'll be at incremental ones especially in Naval surface weapons. I think the idea that we are going to be able to shoot down missiles and fighter jets with lasers by the year 2000 turned out not to be quite feasible, but we are getting there. right now their utility is mostly in terms of dazzling or in terms of disrupting and potentially destroying slower moving cruise missiles and small drones. the energy density to Simply zap something within a couple seconds and blow it up isn't quite there yet but you can do a lot of damage to sensors and you can start fires if you contract something slow moving enough
2:05 - Russia funded the Taliban during our war, and now they're big mad that we're funding Ukraine in their war. We lost 15,263 people over the course of 20 years of war when we add in DOD Civilians and Contractors. Russia loses that many bi-weekly. Sucks to suck.
Funded the taliban ? That’s how I know your are some teen idiot . Russia actively helped us in our anti terror efforts after BESLAN ! & the Moscow theatre crisis .
except the part that Russians are fighting a conventional war against a regular army with arguably top weapons of NATO, while the US with air superiority still lost against insurgents
lol, the clown really compares counterinsurgency against taliban's guirella warfare to an all out conventional combined arms warfare. My brother, if all US military branches struggled that hard for 20 years against insurgents with small arms, IEDs and mortars only to leave the country eventually, then I wouldnt have been so patriotic about their might if I were you lmao
Russia does hits in the middle of England. I haven't heard of anything that bold in America but I wonder if it was covered because of the embarrassment factor.
Bruv, you somehow managed to fuck up every name of city and person, even the ones you almost certainly heard the pronunciation of many times in the news
I'm a native russian speaker and I'm ready to give you free phonetics lessons. Been watching ya for a while and some russian words are so mangled, yet the content is great. Keep up ❤
Honestly... hearing Chris mispronounce foreign names and locations (especially Russian ones) makes the videos doubly entertaining :) I feel your struggle Chris. But don't ever change :D
Something has happened involving Russian men and Russian nerve agents.... Russia: "It wasn't us!".... Of course Russia, it wasn't you for the 10th time 😂
@@ivanmedrano7882 I like how calling the person being appointed as some "fox news weekend dude" like it degrades his credibility. He is an Army national guard officer who founded Vets for freedom.
@@LHedH16 He also knocked up his Fox News producer while he was married to someone else. He also paid off another woman who accused him of sexual assault. I don’t question his military service, but I do question his character.
Well the Kremlin is still stuck in the coldwar. Thinking they desderve to own half of Europe. Obama let them get away with invading Crimea to avoid "escalation" and look where that led us. Putins was fucking around and olny found out in 2022
Lol they tried even after the Soviet Union fell we where supporting terrorists in chechenia in the 2000s it makes Raytheon money even the president can't stop it look what they did to trump when he tried to get troops out of sryia
Your question has been answered-look up George Kennan The Long Telegram. While it was written on Soviet thought processes regarding its position in relation to the West, it is just as relevant to Russia under Putin.
Supporting Ukraine 😂 if you gave two shits about Ukrainians you would've never overthrown their democratically elected president! But you said it yourself, it's about working against Russia! Sick people always needing and enemy and simply cannot coexist! Shame on you! Release your traumas and stop putting them on the rest of the world!
@@albollinger5431 We are giving Ukraine expired equipment and vehicles that we would otherwise scrap. It's very low cost as far as funding war efforts go. Also not remotely futile. The Russians fail to move for nearly 2 years, and the Ukrainians have had a full fledged invasion of Russia's Kursk region for how many months now? ~ yet the Russians cannot even push the Ukrainians out. That's not futile. That's beautifully successful.
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Are you going to one day make a vid, about Nigeria's insecurity issues?
Would personally love to see that.
Here another one Military Unit 48658 (ICO of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation)
Question why do these not trigger article 5 ?
@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib4009 Because these antics are specifically designed to fly just under the radar of what would trigger Article 5 - at least that's the idea. Personally, I think they are clearly overt acts of war.
😂 Another Propagandist, Justification........ mouth.......
Said Julian Assange ⁉️
The cold War never quit it just went underground.
The Cold War ceased.
It’s the ex-Soviet autocratic ruzzians who must rely on foreign boogie man to stay in power.
"Rushhhh-ah! Rushhh-shah-shah-shaaaah!"
- Hillary Clinton
Permafrost?
What do you think American's CIA have been doing for over the last 60 years
Served in Germany in the 1990's right after the Berlin wall fell ('89) and Russia imploded for a bit before Putin took over in 2000. It was the Wild West for spy activity from Russia, to East Germany, to many parts of Europe in that short time. With borders and checkpoints obliterated and everyone thinking Russia was suddenly our friends (they were not), new pathways were wide open. Intelligence tracking was a nightmare. I'm surprised more books are not written about it. I should write some memoirs
Wait how was US intelligence surprised that Russian intelligence was paying the Taliban. That is LITERALLY what we did in the 80s why would you not expect the Russian to do the same?
That's because they want everyone to believe Americans are saints and everyone else in the world is corrupt
NATO is all about the hypocrisy. 2014 Ukraine NATO installed a government in one of the most blatant coups in history, and a democratically-elected Russian leaning government was replaced by NATO appointments. Putin's government are obviously the bad guys here, but still, it is a very valid reason for Russia to be furious enough to invade, just like how the USA would justifiably invade Mexico or Canada if the situation were reversed.
underrated comment
Who said it was a surprise?
Because in 80s it was CCCP and it was invasion with aim to capture Afganistan. US mission differed
Kinda sad how getting the word out about Havana Syndrome was entirely the work of the affected individuals, while even their own hierarchy tried to gaslight and shut them up. Even saying it was “classified” to talk about what happened, while at the same time saying it hadn’t happened.
That is standard fare when there are ongoing investigations or operations though. And may well be more a case of obfuscating what specifically is known and understood. As frankly if the US were to come and say 'yup, it was Russia, we know exactly how it was done, who it was done by and have already used an adjacent technology to cause them to shit themselves in the middle of their debriefing' Then that would tip our hand on the extent of both US intelligence reach, and our technological capability in the field of DE weapons.
(note, the above scenario is to my knowledge fiction, yet a known symptom of exposure to a certain range of infrasound vibrations)
Havana syndrome was a wide range of effects and couldn't be directly linked to any foreign individuals. It would have been hysteria to support the theory it was Russian attacks on U.S Personell without the proper evidence. Obviously anything besides damning evidence of an attack would be considered classified as to protect our sources of information.
@@brunsy1990 interesting reasoning. This is also a reason why they don't want to talk about uaps because then they have to talk about how they know what they know.
@@brunsy1990 Very common excuse in all fields. It happened but it didn't happen. You're stupid. You're crazy! I'm not gonna argue with ya!
That's the unspoken SOP for many, especially those who want you to know they have a DEGREE! It's sCiEnCe! and all the other buzzwords, slogans, catch phrases, and insults in the big bowl of word salad.
I was in class with other infrastructure workers when we started feeling dizzy and sore. One day I came down off a ladder but the ground didn't stop moving for a few minutes. I've had headaches come and go ever since. I didn't hear about Havana syndrome until years later. Some of our instructors would go over seas to help build bases or relieve disaster areas. I guess they weren't kidding when they said it was the most hazardous job you could do. They might of been trying to get to someone else and apprentices just got in the way. They did do sloppy poison assassination jobs in the past with that hotel tea pot story. Hard to believe any of it.
20:10 'to collect intelligence from their computers and cellphones'.
Well what were the odds our HTC phones got hacked in that class and some of us lost all our phone data.
Maybe it had something to do with this.
What a job... what a job.
Suppose I should mention this happened in 2011.
Wow. This was like a Tom Clancy book coming to life. Well done Cappy.
fr, ghost recon
This stuff is SOP for most super powers.
Wait til you find out about a guy named Sergei Ryabkov
EXACTOMONT !! IT'S $$ BILLIONS & GLOBAL INTRIGUE !
It's sad that Trump loves and serves Putin. America is fucked.
In 2006-07, NATO was using Russian aircraft to resupply us at 9500-ft in Ghowr Province (food, ammo, fuel), just not US mail.
GW invited Vladimir Vladimirovich to Texas for good chat, BBQ, and a visit to a high school
From a non-EU/US/NATO/Russian perspective its amusing and baffling how far the countries affective go to minimise what are acts of war, as 'hybrid', or 'sabotage' so that hash words and ineffective sanctions are seen by the public as an adequate response
We live in a "democracy"... so those are the behaviors the game theory favors, one supposes.
Last time the US intelligence were not this cautionary, it resulted in the false WMD allegation on Iraq in the 2000s. I think that may affected how careful the intelligence community has been doing.
@@chrisblack6258 The 'false intelligence' about WMD's in Iraq wasn't an intelligence failure. It was an information operation to convince US allies to back its invasion of Iraq, and to enable internal backing for a war against a nation that had NOTHING to do with 9-11
Based on your response I see that it was effective for many
@@odinsrensen7460 yet it feels like Europe and the States are hiding under a metaphorical rug
I know, right? There is such a thing as accessory to murder.
For those who don't know, "gru" is GRU which is Russian military intelligence.
I thought it was the tall guy from Minions
@@nightfire_CSGO The word on the street, is that it is the same fellow. The little green men have switched to yellow uniforms.
😂😂😂@@nightfire_CSGO
Why does it sounds like US's "DEVGRU"...
@@aether3697 Because that's what the GRU does. GRU is a military org that does direct influence and intelligence, they are different from the KGB (Russia's CIA version). Basically, GRU is a SOG/SAG/SAD equivelant.
in southeast asia there was a bounty on us personal. $10,000 for US Army Green Beret and $5,000 for 82nd Airborne troops. i felt slighted. lol
😂😂😂😂 y’all are worth way more than that and it shows how dumb they are to take that deal I would of been wheeling and dealing to get more money if I was on the opps side 😂
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@@scottyspliffen7421 Clearly not, if that's the price being offered. You obviously understand basic economics very well.
@@scottyspliffen7421 You understand that is multiple years worth of wages in some places?
@@scottyspliffen7421Do you understand the concept of purchasing power?
This was a really great job of reporting on a bunch of different events over the last 20 years and tying them all together in a meaningful way.
sounded more like leftist governments blaming their madeup usual suspects every time something goes wrong.......probably covering up their own screwups....the record will get set straight once we get rid of the incompetence in washington and others........
Yea great reporting & journalistic integrity in his word choices as well
I wish someone would come along and magically generate
a video documentary just using A.I. generated information!
This can’t be true; because Russia has grocery stores with shopping carts; and bread.
And you think that everything is hunky-dory in RF because they took Tucker Carlson to a 'show' grocery store for the elite? LMFAO... you are so gullible.
*sensually sniffs bread*
That has nothing to do with them performing espionage, they can be decently well off with domestic production AND performing spy activities at the same time. Putin had an active interest in sabotaging american operations in Afghanistan because it would distract the US from any wars Russia DOES have interests in. There's no reason or value in them pushing further west after ukraine, it makes ZERO sense and doesn't lime up with putins decisions to invade in the first place.
@@Bean_guy2...feels the subtle grooves on the crust
Oh I see what you did there Tucker xD
Company director literally says the people with Havana Syndrome are making it up. I watched my friend go from being a well spoken, very intelligent person turn into a paranoid, angry, completely unable to control their emotions. Felt sick all the time, headaches and nausea days and days. He disappeared, I can’t find him anymore. He just disappeared.
There is technology now that can pinpoint microwave weapons from anywhere in the world. Anyone can be a target anywhere at anytime.
What a clown story. Yes it is made up, yes you are mentally deranged
@ yeah it’s crazy
QAnon will do that to some people. Intelligence is no defense, and makes it harder to treat.
Also brain tumour, or maybe severe mercury poisoning. Or TBI, which seems involved in Havana syndrome if it is real.
@@jimsimminins3020 Nah. Directing microwaves is not easy, it takes a large array antenna & lots of power. Or a bigger parabolic antenna. They can be mounted on a truck.
It is not pinpoint, you can't do that with waves from a distance. Sound waves, microwaves are similar wavelength and follow the same principles mostly.
As for sending them anywhere in the world, just no. Sending them to the end of the block requires an obvious large antenna.
I love how the secret services can figure out all of that and still can't spot a shooter on a slightly tilted roof.
It's different agencies and different people with different capabilities.
@@kotenoklelu3471inside job
Dude the secret service knew where my car was when I got lost in DC
@@kotenoklelu3471 This is a bot people.
And different intent
they aren't the only country who can do spooky shit
💯 Amen.
@@kimberlina68 WE ARE 100 % BETTER
He literally said that at the beginning of the video. But thanks for the recap.
Russian hybrid warfare has split the country down the middle, making our democracy less effective by hindering our focus. We MUST come back together as Americans to fight the real enemy.
They all do,, I wonder he will Cover the United States :)
Yes it seems America knows it is being attacked but is quiet.
It's the quiet ones who make the biggest damage.
Best case scenario is that US is retaliating in kind covertly
That might happen when you instigate a war between two nations to sell your sh*t.
Yea when both of our 155 shell factories mysteriously caught on fire I knew all of the issues we’ve been having are not accidents.
MAGA is full off Russian assets, it will get even worst soon
Thank you Cappy! From Central Europe, very much appreciated.
I can't wait to see these videos from when you traveled to the frontlines in Ukraine. You have become one of my favorite sources for learning about different current events & other geopolitical, military, historical information. I wish RUclips would fully support channels like yours because you provide quality that we don't see almost anywhere else. So RUclips should see how valuable your work is for their platform and they shouldn't let their stupid guidelines ruin something so informative & beneficial even if it does cover difficult topics.. oh well it is very important to cover difficult topics and RUclips has got to stop acting like people can just IGNORE it.. RUclips is really dropping the ball with their censorship guidelines and who and what they choose to support or not.. i hope that changes
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This channel has 0 evidence to support most of the claims made, just FYI.
@ lol then let’s hear ur opinion on the matter cause the way ur yapping seems like u have all the right sources ffs 🤦♂️ 🙄
@@scottyspliffen7421 Cappy is a joker who can't even correcly pronounce or spell most things he talks about, people like him because he's basic like they are lmao fr fr
@alexorehowski3387 hello Vladimir
Hope you're doing better Chris. Thank you for keeping the show going. 😊
What happened to Cappy?
So glad you're covering this, this open secret has been screaming for the last 4 years especially.
0:14 they seemed to have failed in Ukraine. Else the special military operstion would not have been necessary in the first place
It was Putin's fault for the failure
@@DushmanHron you know, Estonia, Latvia is in same distance to Moscow?
@@DushmanHron America has no need to aim at Moscow. Their tiny little economy and nation of alcoholic, uneducated and impoverished citizens (with the *lowest male life expectancy* in the European AND Asian continent) is taking care of itself.
Russia is in so much trouble with regard to demographics that they're going to be completely ineffectual over the next 50 years. They have lost so many fighting age males they'll neither be able to repopulate or fight another war for decades.
@@besconstextremely small and not viable for an offensive due to terrain
@@besconst Gonna have to agree with Nicholas Brown here, the difference in those countries is quite substantial.
Not sure if you are back from Ukraine but if not safe travels and thanks for the video!
Fascinating…and disturbing Cappy. You keep upping your game man! Please keep going with these deeper stories on both domestic and foreign SpecOps and Intel ops. I especially love the history as anecdotes and photos. Sometimes, because of this, your vids play a bit like a book which I think is great. By that I mean they are truly interesting, deeper, supported by references and yet nice and informative and focused (in video).
Russians have GRU but Americans have DEV-GRU :-D
Dah, komrade.
lol
Actually the American equivalent of russians GRU would be the CIA’s Special Activities Divion or Political Action Group.
Americans have DEI-GRU
@@VideoSpectator1223. there’s probably even more secretive American units by now and private sector groups for contract.
There are literal books on the GRU made by Soviet era KGB defectors in the 80s, like Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov lol
Yeah, but they made up things to sell their narratives. There's zero incentive to be factual and neutral.
It's like if Steven Seagal writes a book about US in Russian - do you think it will be an accurate depiction?...
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.
Anatoliy Golitsyn(GRU defector)
As opposed to figurative books?
Перебежчикам -Предателям жить на что-то надо вот пишут всякую ерунду ...
В начале 90-х я не особо верил , а когда литературы стало прочитано больше с годами , то понял что книги Суворова-Резуна , как и Олега Калугина полная ложь и чушь ...
@@ДядяСэм-м6нruscist bot. You don't belong here
Thank you to all the known and unknown US forces who work tirelessly around the clock to keep us safe and away from all these bad people. ❤🇺🇸🗽
Great videos i love those deep dives on russian activities. Could you continue to make this type of underground intelligence topics please ?
London tapping in.
Really interesting content my man.
Ill have a look at your back catalogue and may sub to you but for now Ill smash the like button for sure 😅
Greetings from East Asia.
It's Londonistan last I visited. A joke.
Wow this really connected the dots with a bunch of news stories id seen. Great job.
Waste of assets, and short sighted strategy...all hallmarks of the current Russian Government. Imagine if you will that its two years ago, and instead of a Special Military Operation the Russians tried a Special Marketing Operation to bring Ukraine into their fold. Where would they be now?
It's not perfect, they sometimes seemed to just test stuff to see what would work. They do not have an infinite budget to do stuff.
considering that all this shit started whit a USA baked oligarch coup on ukraine in 2014 porbabli in the same place
Most likely looking at another Obamaesque coup in Ukraine?
They are probably just trying to see what they can get away with. We let them take Crimea, currently letting them take the whole country of Ukraine, who knows what else
whats funny is that they waste stuff coz they can waste stuff.
Joined the spare parts army. I’m broke but anyone willing to risk their life deserves support (his trip to Ukraine)
Except even Ukraine doesn't give that, it sucks. Have to pay for my own ticket.
The phrase "don't talk about it be about it" definitely comes to mind. I can only imagine how intense and horrifying that was.
Bro I am litterally in a trench in ukraine fighting. Just visiting isn't too dangerous. But being where we are. None of us expect to survive more than a few months here. Or a few weeks if you're unlucky
@@ayoutubecommenter1827 Are you Russian?
@@ayoutubecommenter1827sure you are buddy
The correct way to say GRU is to spell it,not as one word,just like SAS.(just a quick correction,nice informative video).
not really everybody from close knows
Yeah it's an acronym not a word
I think he just likes mispronouncing it
@@tacticalmobile1343 there's many acronyms that are used as words 😂
@Beaverdawigs lmao experts 😂
GRU has entered the comment section :p
Just to clarify, I don't have to work for the government to not want a hostile foreign power to interfere in my government. I didn't make any geopolitical decisions for the USA, that's always done by a handful of people wherever in the world you are.
Actually just citizens of countries that you have invaded/ launched coups of
@@Robertsmith001AND some Americans that aren't sped.
Ok glow in the dark Fed
@@Robertsmith001 Lol, Robert Smith is pretty anglophone, bro. IDK what Anglophone country the USA f'ed over. You wouldn't be a hired bot from another country, would you?
@@DennisMartinezCalifornia So the lefty thing to do is support Russian oligarchs plots against America? I hope you're a bot, otherwise IDK how you haven't had an accident with logic like that.
Greetings from Ukraine.
few coments
1. appreciate your detailed and accessible explanation for the Western audiences that don't speak Ukrainian or Russian.
2. this is not a "secretive" unit anymore because russian journalist broke stories on this ages ago. There's a really interesting point about how standard journalists managed to uncover and connect some of the links - russian military literally rents apartments for their top agents next to the building where they work. Journalists bought the official russian drivers database for like 10$, which contained all names, plates and so on. They connected the plate numbers to people, people to the building, building to the GRU unit, GRU unit connections by linking names+plates to vkontakte social network. Best part about russia, you can buy anything.
Another thing that's good about this video, it clearly shows that while US might want to isolate itself, the russians are actually waging a 24/7 war on US already. Assassinations, political interference, bribery, espionage, industrial sabotage, direct military action, attacks on allies, james bond like poisonings and testing of high end military tech. It's all happening today.
Russians basically behave like standard thugs, they will press you as far as they can. if you don't stop them, they're going to press harder and deeper. US behaves like a *itch for the past 20 years & russians are using this to the full extend. By the way, it got so bad that Microsoft and top US banks are begging Senate to take actions on russian sponsored cyber crime groups/threats, but the government is mostly drinking kool-aid here.
Finally, its showing that unlike EU/US, the russians never stopped their cold-war era operations. While EU/US have some sort of changes in political direction, the russian government operates pretty much as it did back in 1930s. Their chief intelligence agency hasn't moved from their original building for more than a 100 years now, it basically has the same principles, and still considers US its primary adversary.
I'm really clueless to how US is sleeping on this one, but I'm pretty sure that one of the next cyber attacks on US grid, oil, military, or banking sector will provide a solid wake-up call.
Cold War era operations never stopped on either side. The US isn't sleeping on Russia (or China) either. The US deploys a ton of honeypots to pull threat actor resources away from targets that matter and use a lot of subtlety in target hardening and attack surface reduction.
If an adversary believes they've taken down a system or disrupted it, when in reality it's only toggling power to a light bulb, they're less likely to expect that resource to be available and are more likely to become overconfident in their abilities which gives them two disadvantages for (essentially) free. Even better when the intent is known, and the effects can be replicated and controlled, so staging a believable reaction to the attempt to make sure that the watchers are satisfied.
Classic Solzhenitsyn's cry be like :D
Same was during cold war when main occupant on the Earth was still US
@BSGDiscerp this is how a US intel organization played the KGB like cheap puppets for years and did the final end run via Solidarity et al. Knowing how the CIA, MI6, politicians are compromised and allowing it to go along uninterrupted (mostly) blew up the KGB ego while they missed all the important stuff.
ahh we found the CIA operative...
Ukro nazi propaganda
I am pretty sure that the US, MI6 and a bunch more knows in general what these units do, but for sure not in detail
I'm just hearing Carrie and Yevgeny over and over again
I still don't know if the various people online claiming to be Americans who say things like "it's not our war" are genuine, or just paid trolls... As such, I appreciate videos like this one providing more clarity.
There is a small, but concerning chance we will actually lose the "hybrid war", if too many people are too misinformed about Russias capabilities and intentions, so all of us have some responsibility in informing other people.
Hhahahahaha tool. When has a democrat ever asked you if you live in america. With all the evidence on former federal administrations doing dirt. The cia killing and ruining lives to combat communism in the seventies? Anyone?
I'm American and not a bot. Can prove it too, as I'm on an old account and I say stuff it to Russia!!! I support Ukraine!
It's largely irrelevant. there are probably some bots but anyone who doubts that there are not millions of American who do believe that it is not our war, regardless of whether you agree with them or not, simply aren't paying attention. To say that opinions on the Ukraine conflict are polarized among the American population is an understatement.
It's not even a new phenomenon, per se. the largest anti-war movement in history was actually in the United States before its entry into World War ii, since even back then many Americans did not want to get involved in what they saw as a foreign conflict that did not concern them.
cause the only way it's OUR war is because the US helped to START IT
The US and England have USED it's VETO power TWICE when a deal to stop hostilities was on the table...but nope that wouldn't fund all the weapons... especially since the Pentagon failed it's 7th Audit.
Like others have said - Wow! good work mate!
For me there is no difference between Russia and the Taliban.
Then start funding Russia 😂
Dangerous to make compliments like this - we might feel unworthy of it and try harder to meet such a standard.
@@atanasvasilev3228that's your buddy's Putin plan, apparently. That's the best the kremlin gremlin can think of in 2024 😂.
They're pretty much the same thing these days
I really appreciate your forthcoming and open honesty, as well as you not sensationalizing the hell outta shit.
Nice report T&P staff!
Russia’s Unit 29155 likely has operatives from Vympel, which is their version of Delta Force. Those guys are some of the best, unfortunately, and they have tons of clandestine intelligence experience.
Thanks for the heads up about you being on PepperBox!! 🇺🇲
When someone accuses you of something they are doing , It's called projection , pot calling the kettle blck
Russians probably invented that lmao
In the intro I thought you’re talking about the CIA 😂😂😂.
You do a really good job of being as objective as humanly possible.
**That was an awesome transition though 😭😂😂
One second I was nodding my head In agreement, the next I was listening to an ad for Ground News 👌😂😂
That Montenegro attempted coup looks very familiar.
and what it reminds you?
@@besconstpakistan i think
@@ahadchaudry4451 Jan 6
@@jaredprather8060Russian bot confirmed
Jan 6 lmao
I just found you channel a few days ago and have been binging your videos while playing BO6. Great stuff 🫡
"By 2015' Russia closed access through their territory. That was TWELVE YEARS of war on their border. They were very patient and accommodating for over a decade..... Probably they were laughing at us the whole time, but they did make room for us to operate.
They've got a real life VladimirMakarov. 💀
Nice 😎😎 Thanks for your work.
I'm glad you kept using the 29155 through out the video so we didn't get confused with all the other GRU units.
All the best and most honest RUclipsrs seem to have ground news as a sponsor. Speaks highly of both.
"honest" 😂 pumping out fiction propaganda
@@ThugNasty1337 ok ORK
This guy obviously uses chat gpt or something then quasi edits around it.
Remember when a close friend deployed back in 2018... when he got back he mentioned having to track dudes down and connecting them back to russia for equipping and paying them.. wild to hear this video.
Thanks!
Well, this was a concerning episode.
How?
Tactical Putin in some sort of command post cracked me up.
Dude your maps look awesome! Great addition
CZECHIA MENTIONED
Stock footage of Old Town square used 😂
I would like to see a video about Russian influence in foreign countries elections. Moldova, Georgia etc
You can watch the US do it in real time..How do you think Zelensky got "elected"?
how about a video about western influence in foreign country elections?
@@interstellar618 russian troll
@@interstellar618can you give some proof? Ofc you can't.
@@Fil13Why don't you provide proof? Calling people "Russian troll" doesn't prove anything
DUDE that story has Be Debunked!
Russian bots out in full force today
Only because someone supports Russia in this war doesn't make them bots, it makes them informed and not influenced by western propaganda
"Everyone who criticizes my wholesome corrupt government is a russian bot!!!"
@squizzal4636 persist in 2024 listening to Russian propaganda is ill will
@tanjiro2507 grow a brain
They failed getting Zelesky
Ukranian Security Forces and Intelligence are not to be fucked with. They are very, very good.
The people who stopped them originated from the same Soviet-era unit. It's an even match and they lost fairly. Not to mention they already destabilized Ukraine in 4 separate events prior to the invasion.
They don't want to get the comedian. He's perfect
Yes, the gigantic low testosterone clown hecking soylensky is such a massive priority!
@@justinpaul163why are you calling US incompetent below than ukrn ? US cant stop it but ukrn can ,
Excellent review!
People need to stop sleeping on this.
Thanks for the update, Chris. Great work.
It’s interesting how so many of the conservative talking points seem to line up with what benefits russia and it’s also interesting how conservative PACs are receiving money from Russia and also funding conservative campaigns.
honestly sad to see how easily bought they all are
Then why did Putin not invade during Trump’s administration, but did invade during Clinton, Obama and Biden, all of whom Democrats. Trump’s administration helps bring peace and stability to both sides, while the other 3’s administrations have brought nothing but destabilized relations through political insults, sanctions, and refusal to discuss issues.
Conservative Christians in America have more in common with with Orthodox Christian Russia than they do with a secular US Government that has in recent years become openly hostile to people who hold traditional Christian values.
Yes, it is. And the new conservative talking point is how strange it is that Hunters pardon, which we would assume is for the crimes he was found guilty of, instead go all the way back to 2014. I mean....what are they trying to insinuate?
You act like China isn't funding the Democrat talking points.
This is a great segment. I can't say more.
So has the military-industrial complex just given up on the holy grail of Directed energy weapons, "the brown note"?
Directed Energy Weapons are used by the U.S. and Brits right now.
I've always wanted the superpower of making anyone shit their pants at any time. Cut off in traffic? Shit your pants, idiot. Boss is an asshole? Get poopy, dumbass.
I don't think they ever gave up, development continues a pace it's just a long and detailed process.
You can see many recent developments, I'll be at incremental ones especially in Naval surface weapons. I think the idea that we are going to be able to shoot down missiles and fighter jets with lasers by the year 2000 turned out not to be quite feasible, but we are getting there. right now their utility is mostly in terms of dazzling or in terms of disrupting and potentially destroying slower moving cruise missiles and small drones. the energy density to Simply zap something within a couple seconds and blow it up isn't quite there yet but you can do a lot of damage to sensors and you can start fires if you contract something slow moving enough
New Task & Purpose video dropped. BASED af. I'm in! o7
Love your content. From one vet to another.
2:05 - Russia funded the Taliban during our war, and now they're big mad that we're funding Ukraine in their war.
We lost 15,263 people over the course of 20 years of war when we add in DOD Civilians and Contractors. Russia loses that many bi-weekly.
Sucks to suck.
Funded the taliban ? That’s how I know your are some teen idiot . Russia actively helped us in our anti terror efforts after BESLAN ! & the Moscow theatre crisis .
Who give weapons to talibans in 80s when russians was in Afghanistan? 😂
Если прибегнуть к математике то можно понять либо в России не осталось людей либо вы врун 😂😂😂
except the part that Russians are fighting a conventional war against a regular army with arguably top weapons of NATO, while the US with air superiority still lost against insurgents
lol, the clown really compares counterinsurgency against taliban's guirella warfare to an all out conventional combined arms warfare. My brother, if all US military branches struggled that hard for 20 years against insurgents with small arms, IEDs and mortars only to leave the country eventually, then I wouldnt have been so patriotic about their might if I were you lmao
We could have a C I A street fighting team .
Sounds like fart club, first rule is always blame someone else..... 💨
The CIA has their SAD. Otherwise they seem to use layers of contractors.
Brother it’s amazing how you analyze this shit, you got my dream job
Well researched. Troubling.
Russia does hits in the middle of England. I haven't heard of anything that bold in America but I wonder if it was covered because of the embarrassment factor.
they assassinated a russian guy in washington hotel
They got a fascist idiot elected president, twice.
You are the man cappy.
who will gru be tonight that's the question
MINION 18+ ROLEPLAY (PLEASE NO MORE GRUS WE HAVE ENOUGH GRUS) coded
@@ringsystemmusic we don’t have enough guns! Our guns/100people is only 120/100!!
I bet they're not as successful as the CIA 😂😂😂
Not even close.
Russia: we'll pay you $10k per us soldier.
US: We'll pay you 100 Russian Rubels per Russian operative and a visit from our drone loitering above.
I mean this is probably true, but you can't deny that the US does the exact same thing.
Whataboutism reveals you inner Kremlin fascist.
Karma is like a boomerang. What you throw out will always come back to you. Look at Russia now 😅😅😅😅😅
this boomerang stuck US in Afganistan, yep.
Wow, finally a western journalist who gets his info not from Russia today.
Bruv, you somehow managed to fuck up every name of city and person, even the ones you almost certainly heard the pronunciation of many times in the news
Did he mention Letvinenko and Polinium?
No. He mentioned Shecky Goldberg & Adam Steinman.
Did you watch the video to find out? Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.
I'm a native russian speaker and I'm ready to give you free phonetics lessons. Been watching ya for a while and some russian words are so mangled, yet the content is great. Keep up ❤
nobody gives a fuck.
Uhuh... So secretive that a run of the mill youtuber knows everything about them and all operations attributed to them are colossal screw ups...
Washington Post eh? 😂😂😂
Honestly... hearing Chris mispronounce foreign names and locations (especially Russian ones) makes the videos doubly entertaining :)
I feel your struggle Chris. But don't ever change :D
I'm remember seeing on tv news, white talibans entry in the Kabul when Usa evacuated Afghanistan, they were Russian.
Uh…..most people in Afghanistan are “white”…..do a little research….good grief
Something has happened involving Russian men and Russian nerve agents.... Russia: "It wasn't us!".... Of course Russia, it wasn't you for the 10th time 😂
Well, Nordstream 2 wasn't them.
@@odinsrensen7460 it was tucker carlson
I mean, we blamed them for Nordstrom 2 and it turned out to be the Ukrainians.
Watched it on pepperbox, now watching it here to support our boy 🤘🏻
Cappy for Sec of Defense
✊🏼
He is probably more qualified than the fox weekend dude.
Absolutely better than the dude trump is planning to appoint.
@@ivanmedrano7882 I like how calling the person being appointed as some "fox news weekend dude" like it degrades his credibility. He is an Army national guard officer who founded Vets for freedom.
@@ivanmedrano7882
Cappy has definitely knocked up a fewer number of his production assistants than Pete.
@@LHedH16
He also knocked up his Fox News producer while he was married to someone else. He also paid off another woman who accused him of sexual assault.
I don’t question his military service, but I do question his character.
Really looking forward to finding out over the next few years that this form of media was too little too late.
It's amazing how we taught ourselves to forget simple truths, just out of exhaustion or prolonged indecision.
This feels like a CoD MW2 scenario...and that is somewhat concerning
And that’s why we have a NATO.
and they are expanding making threat to russia
Its because of a lack of discipline. They should clean their barracks.
Great upload, thank you & your team for keeping this topic in the public realm.
Damn bro. That saddest th8ng i kinda like some of their training tactics and gear. "Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends."
We shall be. Once this silly bollocks it put to bed.
Well the Kremlin is still stuck in the coldwar. Thinking they desderve to own half of Europe. Obama let them get away with invading Crimea to avoid "escalation" and look where that led us. Putins was fucking around and olny found out in 2022
Lol they tried even after the Soviet Union fell we where supporting terrorists in chechenia in the 2000s it makes Raytheon money even the president can't stop it look what they did to trump when he tried to get troops out of sryia
Your question has been answered-look up George Kennan The Long Telegram. While it was written on Soviet thought processes regarding its position in relation to the West, it is just as relevant to Russia under Putin.
Democrats won't get paid .
Supporting Ukraine is a bargain and the lowest cost way to check Putin.
Supporting Ukraine 😂 if you gave two shits about Ukrainians you would've never overthrown their democratically elected president!
But you said it yourself, it's about working against Russia!
Sick people always needing and enemy and simply cannot coexist! Shame on you! Release your traumas and stop putting them on the rest of the world!
Putin sucks! & probably does! 🤡😅
Would appear that it turned out to be the highest cost. And an exercise in futility.
@@albollinger5431 We are giving Ukraine expired equipment and vehicles that we would otherwise scrap. It's very low cost as far as funding war efforts go. Also not remotely futile. The Russians fail to move for nearly 2 years, and the Ukrainians have had a full fledged invasion of Russia's Kursk region for how many months now? ~ yet the Russians cannot even push the Ukrainians out.
That's not futile. That's beautifully successful.
@@albollinger5431highest cost for putin maybe. His economy is down the drain
Acronyms are not words.... it's "G.R.U.", not "Grew", just like it is "C.I.A." not "Sea-ah". Please do not phoneticize acronyms.